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NOVEMBER 3-9, 2021 | Volume 48, Issue 44

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OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS 8 An alleged pattern of quiet mismanagement left the recently revived Santa Fean, and other local businesses, in the dark NUCLEAR NERVES 11 Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she’s concerned about possible increase in radioactive shipments through Santa Fe County, but a bigger worry remains COVER STORY 12 ELECTION NIGHT SFR stayed up late to report on the City Council and mayoral races

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BUT WHO CARES How many people are shot by a gun every day, every month or every year in America?

How many in New Mexico, Santa Fe County or in Santa Fe? Who knows, who cares? But one unwitting movie actor accidentally shoots someone and the whole world goes crazy. A perfect example of what is so wrong with our gun crazy and celebrity besotted country.

I was disheartened to read the article. First, while JoAnne Vigil Coppler did indeed bring up the mayor’s “panties in a twist” comment at the debate, less than a month before the election, she has been trying to no avail...to get this investigated. Second, Vigil Coppler is not the only woman to be offended by Mayor Alan Webber. City Clerk Yolanda Vigil was constantly being called “Clerky, Clerky” in meetings by the mayor. She apparently voiced her unhappiness about this and was fired. Third, who would ever speak up against a mayor who fired the city clerk and the union president? These people, along with Vigil Coppler, are relatively impressive positions that felt the unchecked wrath of the mayor.

Fourth, the city attorney said they couldn’t pursue cases against elected officials, but what about the fact that the mayor is also a full-time paid city employee?

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CORRECTION A letter from forensic scientist Simon Mitchell was incorrectly attributed to Doug Dearden on last week’s Opinon page. SFR regrets the error.

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Turned Out the Lights An alleged pattern of quiet mismanagement left the recently revived Santa Fean, and other local businesses, in the dark

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or decades, Santa Fe’s art and tourism businesses filled the pages of two mainstay publications: Santa Fean magazine and The Essential Guide. But lately, both have been missing from the racks.

That’s because both publications stopped printing this summer.

Those who worked on the publications over the last year tell SFR that the glossies’ futures are murky—and they pin the uncertainty on a series of purchases, including the acquisition of the two publications, by a Santa Fe couple in 2020.

Before Kelly and Martin Haug took over, things had run smoothly and predictably with the magazines, workers tell SFR. But over time, a pattern emerged: bounced checks, missed deadlines, lack of communication and worse.

SFR interviewed a half dozen former contributors, reviewed several wage complaints filed against the couple’s businesses and other public records, plus a lawsuit filed in state District Court against the Haugs by one of the previous business owners alleging breach of contract.

The interviews and records paint a grim, frustrating picture from the perspective of those who worked under and with the couple.

“I’ve gotten so many calls and emails from people saying, ‘The Santa Fean was a regular thing,’ it was something everybody knew about,” Judith Fein, a contributor to both publications, tells SFR. “And it’s been run into the ground now so it is no more...It’s buried but there’s been no funeral service.”

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nesses they purchased. Both declined to be interviewed, though Kelly Haug responded to one email inquiry: “Does the [Santa Fe Reporter] report on all businesses that go out of business or didn’t survive the pandemic?”

She and her husband came to town with big plans. Along with their purchase of the two glossies, the Haugs also bought two other businesses: Santa Fe Print and Images and Eldorado QuickSend.

Records show that the Haugs secured two loans with the Small Business Administration in early 2020 through LLCs registered in their name, guaranteed for just under $670,000. According to the business brokerage Sam Goldenberg & Associates (SGA), the cost of the two magazines and the Eldorado QuickSend was $900,000. SGA did not facilitate the sale of Santa Fe Print and Images.

The firm, acting as a neutral agent between the buyer and seller, recognized that the acquisition of three new businesses at one time was ambitious.

“We strongly recommended that they slow down, that they take things one step at a time and that they be conscientious of not biting off more than they can chew,” Erika Munde, senior account manager with SGA, tells SFR. “Ultimately it is a buyer’s decision to make.”

Despite the warning, the Haugs pressed ahead. It is not clear whether the Haugs are paying off the loans; neither SBA nor the bank financing the loan would provide SFR with

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the status of the public’s borrowed money.

Janet Elder was The Essential Guide’s editor for 14 years—she practically never missed a deadline. When the longtime owners of the publication, Trish and Chip Byrd, sold the business to the Haugs in May 2020, Elder didn’t know what to expect.

But the Byrds had labeled Kelly Haug a “rising star in our business community” in the 2020/21 issue of The Essential Guide, leaving Elder hopeful of good things to come for the guidebook and another magazine she started picking up work for: the Santa Fean.

In May 2020, the year after Bella Media had called it quits for the magazine, with publisher Bruce Adams facing his own allegations of a fast shutdown, the Haugs assumed ownership of the publication. The 50th year of publication was just ahead.

“Kelly was talking about the big 50th edition and what some ideas might be for that,” Elder remembers. Other contributing authors add that Kelly always embraced story pitches and was open to ideas at first.

But over time, contributors struggled to get in contact with editors and others with the magazine for direction.

“There was an assistant there, I reached out to her, no one seemed to know what was going on,” Alana Grimstad, a freelance contributor to the Santa Fean, tells SFR. Eventually, “we just knew we weren’t getting

The Santa Fean relaunched in May 2020 under Kelly Haug’s ownership after Bella Media stopped publishing in November 2019.

paid for work we had completed, and we had signed the contract for.”

As for the 50th edition of the Santa Fean and the 2021/22 issue of The Essential Guide: “Of course that did not happen,” Elder says.

The last issue of the Santa Fean published in July; subscriber Kathy Donahue says she tried to get information about other issues she prepaid for, but she’s still waiting.

Records from the Department of Workforce Solutions show three employees and contributors have filed upwards of $20,000 worth of wage claims due to nonpayment against the Haugs. The Haugs disputed one complaint filed in December 2020, and the Labor Relations Division dismissed other complaints filed by freelance contributors in August 2021 because independent contractors are not covered by the New Mexico Wage Payment Act. Jeff Pollock was thrilled to have found a buyer for his business, Santa Fe Print and Images, an offshoot of a business he started in 1997, so he could finally retire. Pollock tells SFR the new buyers, the Haugs, “talked a great game.”

He handed the Haugs the keys after financing the $300,000 sale of his business over three years.

In short order, Pollock says, the Haugs began missing payments, eventually defaulting on the contract in August.

“That automatically gave me the company back,” Pollock says. “With that, I got all the debts, all the problems, all the tax issues that she didn’t take care of and pay.”

Pollock’s business relies on professional relationships with vendors and artists to produce logos and signs. Since regaining control of the company, Pollock says he’s learned many of these previously established contacts were not compensated under the Haugs’ leadership.

Pollock contends that just before the business defaulted back to him, the Haugs inexplicably took $40,000 from business bank accounts, along with removing financial documents that he says are necessary to run the business. So Pollock sued the couple in state District Court, alleging withholding some of the business’s property and seeking injunctive relief through the return of documents and technology.

Judge Maria Sanchez-Gagne granted a temporary restraining order on Oct. 12, meaning the Haugs must turn over financial documents to the printing business to allow COM

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Jeff Pollock and his daughter Anna North, who helps run Santa Fe Print and Images, regained ownership of the business in August after a year and a half under the Haugs.

That automatically gave me the company back. With that, I got all the debts, all the problems, all the tax issues that she didn’t take care of and pay.

-Jeff Pollock, business owner

Pollock to continue with operations.

The Haugs have not filed a response, according to court records, but a series of emails between the couple and Pollock’s lawyers shows that they don’t believe they owe the longtime owner of the business a dime.

Prior to moving to Santa Fe, the Haugs owned Enchantment Energy Inc, a land service business in Colorado. The business is listed as “delinquent” on the Colorado Secretary of State’s website, a designation that followed the company’s failure to supply a Periodic Report to the state in February 2019.

Many of those SFR spoke with describe a similar experience with the Haugs’ practices: an initial abundance of energy, then less and less communication and, in the end, dead silence.

Fein, the longtime Santa Fean contributor, wrote for the magazine over the course

of the Haugs’ ownership. Her husband, Paul Ross, a photographer, also contributed.

When one of Fein’s paychecks bounced, she says she picked up the phone.

“I said, ‘Kelly, we just did a lot of work for you,’” Fein tells SFR, adding that Kelly Haug apologized and immediately dropped off another check.

Over time, the checks stopped coming, Fein says. Communication with Kelly Haug became near impossible. Ross went to the magazine’s office to track down their payment.

By July all communication from the Haugs ceased, leaving Fein, Ross and other contributors in the dark, Fein says. She estimates that she and Ross contributed about 13 articles that were never published, and more than anything, they felt they had let down the restaurants and businesses featured in their work around Northern New Mexico.

“Everybody was excited to be featured,” Fein says. “And then they weren’t, because it wasn’t published. And we felt...very responsible to all the people.”

While some, like Pollock, are pursuing legal action against the Haugs, others say they’ve resigned themselves to forgoing payment for their work “for the simple reason that it would likely take more time and money to pursue than it would be worth,” Elder writes to SFR. For the contractors and employees who say they were stiffed, the option of small claims court doesn’t offer much reassurance.

“When she did finally shut down, and by that I mean, turn out the lights and lock the door in August, there was never any word of explanation to any of us,” Elder says. “Much less any kind of apology to the staff or the contractors.”

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Nuclear Nerves Her “biggest concern,” Nora Meyers Sackett, the spokeswoman, says, is that the US Department of Energy “continues to prioritize shipments from other states to...WIPP while failing to expedite cleanup of waste at Los Alamos” National Laboratory.

Lujan Grisham says the Energy Department’s position is “unacceptable,” Meyers Sackett tells SFR in a series of answers to emailed questions.

In February, the New Mexico Environment Department sued DOE over what it says is a “continuing pattern of delay and noncompliance” of legacy waste cleanup at Los Alamos, asking for a court-supervised process to resolve the issue. In its initial answer to the lawsuit, DOE “denies that [the state] is entitled to the relief it seeks.” Settlement negotiations in federal court are ongoing.

Locally, the limitation on shipment inspections eases some minds, including Commissioner Hank Hughes, who, along with Commissioner Anna Hamilton, hosted the first town hall in August. Commissioner Anna Hansen hosted a similar discussion in October.

“That’s maybe a little bit reassuring that the state has a little bit of control there,” Hughes tells SFR. “If the shipments are limit-

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A WIPP truck with waste containers labeled “empty” travels north on I-25.

ed to not much more than we have now, then I guess the chance of accidents would not be a whole lot more, either.”

Cynthia Weehler, an anti-nuclear activist with community group 285ALL, doesn’t feel the same sense of reassurance.

“It doesn’t address the issue of the new mission of WIPP,” Weehler says, referring to the current shipment cap. “They’re [the governor’s office] referring to the old mission.”

Activists’ concerns that WIPP is expanding are far from baseless.

Several permit modification requests from DOE—one to excavate a new shaft and another to build two new underground chambers that entomb containers of waste—and an operating permit renewal application for the facility are pending approval by the environment department.

An energy department spokeswoman told SFR the department doesn’t consider its applications “expansion,” but nuclear watchdogs like Don Hancock, director of nuclear waste safety for the Southwest Research and Information Center, say the requests are being used as a

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anta Fe-area activists and residents have been sounding the alarm that more nuclear waste shipments will soon be traveling through the county on their way to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant—the nation’s only long-term storage facility for transuranic radioactive waste, located near Carlsbad.

Equal parts questions and foreboding answers have dominated two recent town halls hosted by Santa Fe County officials and anti-nuclear activists. While the US Department of Energy is not exactly forthcoming about the future, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says such expansion would be limited to the capacity of state vehicle inspections.

The Energy Department must submit to inspections for all WIPP trucks and trucks that leave Los Alamos National Laboratory under an intergovernmental agreement. New Mexico State Police conducts those inspections— averaging about six or seven a week with the capacity for 20. The agency does not plan to hire additional staff to increase inspection capabilities, Lt. Mark Soriano writes in an email to SFR. The Department of Energy tells SFR the rate of shipments to WIPP is “expected to increase to 10-12 shipments per week” over the next few months, but it has also put in requests with the state to expand the facility’s underground capabilities and announced earlier this year that it was going to prepare an environmental impact statement to dispose of surplus plutonium at WIPP. A spokeswoman for Lujan Grisham says the governor is concerned about the possibility of future WIPP expansion and the notion of increased nuclear materials shipments through the state. But Lujan Grisham believes there’s a more pressing, immediate problem embedded in New Mexico’s long relationship with the nuclear industry and all that comes with it.

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A Santa Fe County Office of Emergency Management truck and radiation detection equipment on display at a station south of the city.

piecemeal way to expand the facility.

On top of those modification requests, the energy department issued a notice of intent in December to prepare an environmental impact statement for its plan to dilute and dispose of surplus plutonium transuranic waste from the Cold War. Under the “dilute and dispose” plan, surplus plutonium would be transported from the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, to LANL, where it would be turned into an oxide powder. The powder would then be shipped to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, where it would be further diluted before returning to New Mexico.

A draft environmental impact statement is expected to be released by the end of the year.

The dilute and dispose plan is part of what the governor’s office is referring to in claiming DOE is prioritizing shipments from other states to WIPP. Weehler worries about an accident, the odds of which would go up with increased shipments under WIPP’s plans for expansion, and that emergency responders wouldn’t be able to respond fast enough before people were exposed.

County Emergency Management Director Martin Vigil says the county is prepared to quickly respond to an accident and treat anyone who was exposed to radiation.

He adds that after the initial response, the county would have a low level of involvement because state and federal agencies would step in.

While the governor’s office is concerned about DOE’s priorities, the WIPP Transportation Safety Program—which provides training for first responders, hospitals and clinics along the shipping routes—is “very robust and touches all disciplines of response ensuring that communities are equipped with trained and capable responders and tools to ensure a rapid response to any transportation incident on the highway,” Meyers Sackett writes in an email.

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Frame Mayor Alan Webber rolls to a second term; he’ll have a different City Council to work with

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anta Fe Mayor Alan Webber will have a chance to do it all again after voters elected him to a second term Nov. 2.

Early unofficial results show Webber earned 55% of votes, winning the race outright without invoking the city’s ranked-choice voting runoff rules. The victory contrasted his first election in 2018, when ranked-choice voting among five candidates went into a fourth round before he was declared the winner.

City Councilor JoAnne Vigil Coppler, who chose not to run for re-election for her council seat in favor of seeking the top job, received about 35% of votes, according to returns updated around 11:45 pm on election night; Alexis Martinez Johnson got 10%.

“Elections are always about the future and Santa Fe’s future is bright and full of promise,” Webber said during a victory speech at Hotel Santa Fe. “We’ve heard on the doorsteps of our residents and phone calls...what our residents want: affordable housing and a sustainable environment, jobs and economic opportunity for our workers and their families, parks and recreation for our neighborhoods.”

Webber rolled to victory amid moderate voter turnout, with fewer than 20,000 people casting ballots in the mayor’s race, according to early, unofficial results.

Over in the South Capitol neighborhood, yellow “Vote Here” signs created an autumnal scene amidst the orange and white pumpkins spilling from every corner of St. John’s United Methodist Church. A steady stream of primarily District 2 voters filed into the polling place Tuesday morning as a supporter flapped an “Alan Webber for Mayor” sign on the corner urging passing motorists to come cast their ballot.

In the mayoral race, few of the voters SFR spoke with utilized the ranked choice voting system—the city’s third go at it. The decision not to select more than one candidate was best summed up

by District 2 voter Eileen Tenn, who tells SFR, “I didn’t want to elevate someone that I didn’t like.”

Martinez Johnson is the only mayoral candidate this year who has promoted voters to rank her in the number two position, while her two competitors have

remained mostly silent on the voting process—likely because both know their bases, as Tenn made clear, didn’t want anything to do with the other camp.

Tenn, who voted for Webber, tells SFR, “I like his forward thinking about business and I think we need to focus on those kinds of resources.” Tenn adds distracting issues marred the mayoral race. “I think the things that came up in the election, like the monument, were ridiculous,” she says, referring to the toppling of the obelisk on the Plaza last year on Indigenous Peoples Day. Webber came under fire after he first called for the monument’s removal, then chastised protesters who tore it down.

Doug McClellan, another District 2 voter, says he felt differently about the obelisk: “I disagree with the handling of the monument issue.” But that didn’t

As many mistakes as he has made, and he has made a lot, he still has, I think, the clearest, most logical way of looking at things.

-Patty Karlovitz, voter

sway McClellan to give a vote to Webber’s opponents. “I still think he’s more qualified than the other two.”

District 2 voters Josh and Mitra Devon also opted out of ranked choice voting. Both recently moved to Santa Fe from Denver, because “I love the culture here, the people here,” Mitra Devon says.

She adds that they both cast ballots for Vigil Coppler, “I don’t want it to change here into something it’s not.”

A lively party for Vigil Coppler was underway at the Santa Fe Country Club as results came in.

At 10 pm, after Webber had made his victory speech, Vigil Coppler told SFR “it’s not over until it’s over,” adding that final results weren’t yet in.

“I’m feeling good,” Vigil Coppler said. “We understand not all the votes are in so I’m not making a judgment either way. I feel like we ran a really good campaign and I think that we brought up the issues that are important to Santa Fe and Santa Feans. I don’t think

Alan Webber speaks to an audience of family, supporters and other New Mexico politicians after declaring victory on Tuesday night at Hotel Santa Fe as councilors Signe Lindell, Jamie Cassutt and Carol Romero-Wirth stand in the background.

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tify a problem. I can identify a problem, that’s easy.”

Of all the voters SFR chatted with on Tuesday, Michael Kaye comes the closest to kind words for Webber: “He’s really got a hard row to hoe. I think he’s doing his best.” Kaye, who is retired but volunteers with Habitat for Humanity, also opted out of ranked-choice voting, instead ranking his preferred candidates multiple times: Webber and Lindell. (This approach to “ranking” results produces the same outcome as voting for only one candidate.)

Brian O’Keefe waited outside Montezuma Lodge with Tilly, a dog he’s fostering until she finds a new home. But O’Keefe isn’t planning for any of the mayoral candidates to find shelter in City Hall.

“I’m not going to vote for mayor,” he tells SFR. “I don’t feel Mayor Webber has a grasp of how the city operates.” As for the other two candidates, he adds, “I don’t see real initiative, new ideas, new concepts” from them.

The candidates also took turns directly and indirectly hurling barbs at one another via the city’s Ethics and Campaign Review Board, which dismissed complaints filed both against and by Webber. Vigil Coppler also alleged Webber made inappropriate remarks to her in 2019 when she accused the mayor during a livestreamed debate of having told her not to get her “panties in a twist.” Webber has maintained he does not remember using the words, but also apologized for “something he said.”

Webber led the pack with private fundraising, breaking his own record for the most expensive Santa Fe mayor’s race in

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we’re going to know for a while tonight.”

Shortly after talking with SFR, Vigil Coppler addressed the crowd of about 50, saying, “There’s a heck of a lot more votes to count,” and thanked her supporters.

Mike Henderson saw a friend outside of Montezuma Lodge around lunchtime on Tuesday and asked for some last minute election advice. The friends wanted to choose a candidate who represented “something we were here to vote for, which was someone who would give us more freedoms and protect our sovereignty, we’re talking in relation to this whole mandate for vaccines and things.”

He says, based on this issue, there was only one clear choice, “That’s why we voted for Martinez [Johnson].”

Patty Karlovitz has never missed an election in the 25 years she has lived in Santa Fe. The publisher of the magazine Local Flavor tells SFR, “In both cases, the other candidates, I didn’t want them.” Rather than rank the other candidates, Karlovitz says, “For me there was a very clear line,” and a vote for the incumbent.

“As many mistakes as he has made, and he has made a lot, he still has, I think, the clearest, most logical way of looking at things,” Karlovitz says.

But Karlovitz didn’t hold back criticism of Webber. “I can’t wait to see him... to tell him how disgusted I am at how this city looks,” she says. Even though Vigil Coppler made basic city services, including park maintenance, a frequent talking point throughout the campaign, Karlovitz explains that the councilor failed to provide specific solutions: “It’s not enough to iden-

City Councilor JoAnne Vigil Coppler addresses a crowd of about 50 supporters on election night, saying she wasn’t yet conceding the mayoral race because there were still more votes to count.

history by amassing a war chest of over $461,000 from donors near and far as of a Nov. 1 report. Vigil Coppler raised less than half that amount, reporting $153,378 this week. Martinez Johnson trailed with just over $21,000.

City voter turnout appeared to hover around 30%, according to early unofficial returns posted on the secretary of state’s website. Of 60,633 voters, 18,098 cast ballots for mayor. About 9,333 of those votes came before Election Day from both mailed ballots and early in-person voters, the county clerk reported. The turnout is significantly lower than the city’s 2018 municipal contests, when 38% of registered voters pulled the lever.

Councilor Signe Lindell—the incumbent in District 1 who won her bid for a third term—spent most of the day with a campaign sign on the sidewalk in front of Gonzales Community School.

She says this year’s voter turnout— which she considers impressive—is a sign of the times.

“I think any year there’s a mayoral [race], we get a bigger turnout but I also think there are issues people care about and I think the mood of the country is voting,” Lindell tells SFR. “It’s easy to vote in Santa Fe, and we’re seeing, all over the country, measures to stop people from being able to vote easily, so I think we cherish that.”

Lindell was outside for one of the few Election Day snafus in Santa Fe, when the power went out for about 20 minutes at Gonzales Community School around midday.

Carmela Winneberger, a Southside resident, voted for Vigil Coppler. The destruc-

tion of the obelisk last summer and the city’s response weighed heavily for her.

“I think the city is in pretty sad shape,” Winneberger says. “I wasn’t too happy with what happened on the Plaza with the obelisk. It was pretty sad and I don’t think it’s right to take down statues.”

SFR spoke with several other voters at Gonzales a few hours before the polls closed.

Judith Benkendorf, a resident of District 1, voted for Lindell and Webber. She considered a host of issues, including housing, abortion and the environment.

“Those are all very important to me and things that Mayor Webber has already stuck his foot into very successfully and he needs to be able to lead,” Benkendorf says.

She opted not to rank candidates, but her husband, Norman Marks, chose to for the mayoral race, with Webber first.

“My sense is that it can be more powerful with either more candidates or more intense competition around issues perhaps, but I’m proud to be a citizen where we have access to ranked choice,” Marks says. “In the long run, I think it’s something positive for the city.”

The voters chose Webber to push toward that positive future.

In his first remarks to supporters after the results came in on Tuesday night, Webber said: “Our challenges are many, but our resources are unlimited. They are the resources of the people of Santa Fe, the courage, the resilience, creativity, energy and love of an entire community.”

Julia Goldberg and Bella Davis contributed reporting.

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Council Split

An upset, an easy victory and a new face mark Santa Fe City Council races

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oters offered a mixed bag in the Santa Fe City Council races Tuesday night, choosing one candidate for a third term in a landslide, rejecting a popular incumbent in another race and adding newcomer Amanda Chavez to the dais.

Chavez—a teacher, principal and now school administrator—will assume her first public office with a vote of confidence from her district, where she picked up 75% of early, unofficial returns. That was good enough to handily dispatch Rebecca Romero and replace JoAnne Vigil Coppler to represent the Southside District 4.

“I’m excited,” Chavez tells SFR after the results came in. She received the highest percentage of votes among all Santa Fe candidates on the ballot.

“We felt very confident the whole time. We really emphasized the importance of hearing from the community and as their public servant that is going to be my priority in setting up systems to truly hear what they think our city needs to be.”

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Election night turned out significantly more grim for District 3’s Roman “Tiger” Abeyta, an executive with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Fe and close ally of Mayor Alan Webber, who fell to tire shop owner Lee Garcia by 53% to 47% in his bid for a second term.

Garcia tells SFR late Tuesday he was on the edge of his seat as election returns trickled in late, with returns showing him ahead by about 100 votes as of press time in his first run for office.

“It’s looking promising,” he says.

“My initial reaction is just about showing everyone that anybody can run.

There is public campaign financing out there. We need more people to take up the challenge and I think that sets a great example.”

The race with Abeyta was “clean,” he says, noting both candidates avoided mudslinging. “In a democracy we don’t need to do that…We talked about the community and what the needs are and we let the people go out and voice their opinion and that is with their vote.”

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There was no upset in the crowded, four-candidate race in District 1.

Voters chose incumbent Signe Lindell for a third term with 61% of unofficial results. Brian Gutierrez got the next highest number with 20% followed

by Joe Hoback with 13% and Roger Carson with 6%.

Several voters who chatted with SFR outside Montezuma Lodge on the idyllic Election Day say they knew who they wanted in office and didn’t bother ranking the other candidates. District 1 was the only City Council race in which the city’s ranked-choice system could have been a factor, but with Lindell’s big lead, the instant runoff wasn’t needed.

Micah Sulich, another District 1 voter who recently graduated from New Mexico Tech, says his primary concern this election cycle was the overabundance of short-term rentals in the city.

“Half our neighborhood is Airbnbs,” Sulich tells SFR. “Everyone’s throwing parties, it was noisy, it was not fun to live nearby. I mean, it just ruined the neighborhood.”

But none of the candidates spoke to Sulich’s concerns, he laments.

“Honestly, of all the candidates, it was choosing the least worst for me,” Sulich says, adding that he cast one vote in the mayor and councilor races and didn’t bother ranking any others.

In District 2, in the north and east regions of the city, Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth sailed to a second term with no opposition.

Around 5:30 pm, a line of about 100 people meant a 40-minute wait to vote at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds.

District 4 resident Mariquita Baca voted there for Chavez for City Council.

The winners of 2021’s contested City Council races: Signe Lindell in District 1, Lee Garcia in District 3 and Amanda Chavez in District 4.

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Other Elections Also on the ballot in Santa Fe: a general obligation bond to cover remodeling and construction costs for schools and a mill levy, which pays for upkeep and maintenance in school buildings.

Voters overwhelmingly supported the measures, with 79% and 73% in favor, repectively; neither the bond nor the mill levy changes the current tax rate.

Lee Garcia’s parents and family campaigned outside El Camino Real Academy just before polls closed Tuesday.

Baca says her background in education—Chavez is the director of special education for Santa Fe Public Schools and former principal of César Chávez Elementary School—was the biggest factor for her.

“I like that she’s putting kids first,” Baca says.

The campaign for Romero, the state government management analyst who ran against Chavez, likely took a hit in mid-October, when her 2006 guilty pleas to felony counts of embezzlement, forgery and credit card fraud came to light.

Education factored heavily for District 3 resident Adam Werber, too.

Werber voted for Abeyta. Along with education, an open space on South Meadows Road that’s been the subject of recent controversy was a major issue for him. The county earlier this year entered a sale agreement with affordable housing developer Homewise, upsetting many Southside residents.

Werber, who says he talked with Abeyta about the open space and the councilor “seemed open to listening to our situation,” didn’t vote in the last city election, but chose to do so this cycle “to make a difference.”

The pandemic weighed heavily in Angel Avila’s mayoral choice and that rippled into her choice for councilor.

Avila is an Air Force veteran and social worker who now works with veterans.

“I like how he handled the pandemic,” Avila says of Webber. A District 3 voter, Avila had intended to vote for Lee Garcia, she says, until she received a flyer showing him pictured with Vigil Coppler.

“That turned it for me,” she says.

Her opposition to Vigil Coppler, Avila

said, stemmed from learning that she had voted against the city’s mask mandate and had referred to rental properties as “not real homes” (the latter refers to comments Vigil Coppler made during a discussion on affordable housing). “I’m a social worker,” Avila says. “Home is home.”

Half an hour from the close of polls, a few dozen people were still in line at Christian Life Church on Siringo Road.

Tony Lopez, a District 3 resident, tells SFR he voted for Garcia because public safety is the most important issue for him.

“We don’t have enough police,” Lopez says. “I think that’s a terrible thing and I think that people have to be protected.”

As the sun cast its last rays across El Camino Real Academy, poll worker Siiri Sanchez tells SFR Election Day at the District 3 polling place has been steady, but calm. She says this is her first time serving as a poll worker, which she took on to “see how the bones of [the voting system] are working...and to see the particular checks and balances we have here.”

She points to the need for accountability in election systems, explaining that each ballot goes through three points of checking.

“We should be open to be checked,” Sanchez says, adding that election transparency helps improve voters’ confidence.

In Albuquerque, Mayor Tim Keller easily rode to reelection, earning 56% of the vote and avoiding a runoff with Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales or right-wing radio host Eddy Aragon, according to early, unofficial results.

Gonzales finished a distant second, with 26%; and Aragon barely got a sniff, with just 18% of the more than 117,000 voters who cast ballots in New Mexico’s largest city.

Like in Santa Fe, a seemingly endless flood of ethics complaints and allegations of misconduct marred the race for the top government job in Albuquerque. Gonzales, whose time as sheriff has been marked by an oldschool Drug War approach to the job, was found to have forged signatures in an attempt to qualify for public financing. Then, he accused Keller, with no evidence, of having an extramarital affair with a subordinate and covering up corruption at City Hall during a televised, 11th-hour debate.

Albuquerque voters also rejected a $50 million bond proposal for a new soccer stadium, where the wildly popular New Mexico United would have played. Keller supported the bond, but it drew the ire of neighborhood groups and plenty of voters—the proposal failed with 65% giving it the thumbsdown. But they approved a dozen other bonds, including one for $25 million for public safety.

Julia Goldberg and Bella Davis contributed reporting.

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Thursday, November 4 4 PM: Film | Poetry in Paint: Bea Mandelman in Taos 5 PM: Talk | Mandelman and Modernism in New Mexico with Michael Kamins 5 – 7 PM: Opening Reception and Auction Preview

Friday, November 5 10 AM – 3 PM: Open House and Auction Preview 3 – 5 PM: Session I | (Lots 1-119) 5 PM: Talk | The Galleon Trade Route: Spanish Colonial Trade Between Manila and Acapulco with Samuel Saunders 5 – 7 PM: Open House and Session II Preview Saturday, November 6 9 AM: Session II Preview 10 AM: Session II | (Lots 120 – 219) 1:30 PM: Session II | (Lots 220 – 437) 16

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Lot 388: KIM DOUGLAS WIGGINS (b. 1960), Village of San Jose Landscape - New Mexico, 1992, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in. (76.20 x 101.60 cm.), Estimate: $6,000 – $9,000

Register to bid and attend at santafeartauction.com Exhibition of all lots available online and at our Baca Railyard showroom 932 Railfan Road, Santa Fe 505.954.5858 info@santafeartauction.com

“WHO RISETH FROM A FEAST?” If you’re wishing for a world wherein you can participate in the Thanksgiving origins discourse without having your day ruined by Twitter, you’re in luck— such a world exists at the Santa Fe Playhouse. The Thanksgiving Play follows four white-passing adults with a noble goal: to put on a politically-correct play for elementary school students about the first Thanksgiving. Despite good intentions (and accompanying grant money) things go from hilariously bad to hilariously worse. Larissa FastHorse’s (Sicangu Lakota Nation) satirical comedy looks at “wokeness” in educational culture and how not listening to Native voices is kind of a bad thing, actually. (RG) The Thanksgiving Play: 7:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 4-Saturday, Nov. 6 and 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 7 $15-$25. Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262

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STRING THEORY Maybe you’ve been looking out at the dying leaves of fall and wondering why on Earth you haven’t been able to hear a live rendition of Haydn’s Violin Concerto in C Major or Tchaikovsky’s Serenade in C Major.

Maybe the YouTube playlists aren’t cutting it any more? Wasn’t classical music made for autumn, anyway? Well, give thanks to Santa Fe Pro Musica and its members who are currently saving our autumnal desires from destruction. Sit back for a few hours at the Lensic and let yourself feel a little sweater-weather fancy. Bonus points if the power of classical music takes you over an emotional edge and tears start to form. We won’t blame you. (RG) Fall Orchestra Concert: 7 pm Saturday, Nov. 6 and 3 pm Sunday, Nov. 7. $12-$85 Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

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WE LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT We know the feeling: the body is just begging for expressive movement, but you’re stuck in a psychological rigidity. You feel this, right? Well, the MOVE Lab knows these feels, too, and has your back.

Explore your own individual or group movements in a dance workshop, like a pre-performance dance party—and if you don’t wanna move and just wanna see the dancers do their thing, you can attend the New Mexico Dance Project’s show at 6:30 pm. If all this sounds a little hippy-esqe, don’t fret: Project promises a space with any and all kinds of expressions. In other words, it’s called fun—that thing you used to have. (RG) THE MOVE LAB: A Community Movement Experience: 6 pm, Sunday, Nov. 7. $18-$24.

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Night at the Museum IAIA’s BFA senior show is back, and whoa boy is it good stuff Every spring and every fall, a handful of students from the Institute of American Indian Arts put on a senior showcase at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art (kind a big deal, considering MoCNA was recently ranked as one of the best museums in the country—take that, fancy East coasters). This means twice every year, we’re reminded about the absurd talent IAIA pushes out on the regular, and this fall’s BFA show, We Went Wild, reflects artists’ urge to get back into the swing of normal creation.

“This is a show of the expression of genuine feelings and emotions,” student curator Jaime Herrell tells SFR. “It’s about overcoming [the past 18 months] and producing, getting to make the viewer feel something new. They are working wildly, together.”

Herrell explains she titled the show We Went Wild to encapsulate interconnected artists covering pandemic challenges in their lives, especially the emotional and spiritual aspects.

“Students vary from around the country’s Indigenous communities, from the

pueblos here in the Southwest to the Great Northern Plains, while two students hail from Japan and Peru. The Peruvian artist, Suni Sonqo Vizcarra Wood (Quechua Nation) has a bronze statue that’s almost eight feet tall: a phoenix-like piece of a woman emerging out of her former self,” Herrell says.

The show also includes work from Chelsea Bighorn (Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux/Shoshone-Paiute), who hand cuts paper and mounts it between sheets of plexiglass, where light and shadow become a major aspect, as well as Jazmin Novick (Diné), who presents bronze animal sculptures—and that’s just to name a few.

“It’s a show you shouldn’t miss if you want to familiarize yourself in contemporary work,” Herrell concludes. “You can come see the new blood in these Indigenous arts.” (Riley Gardner)

WE WENT WILD All day Friday, Nov. 5. $5-$10 IAIA MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, (505) 988-6211

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ONGOING ART AMANDA BANKER | SATURDAY MORNING STILL LIFE Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie A combination of traditional Venetian oil painting techniques with surreal portrayals of animated female characters.

All day, free CHAMOY Smoke the Moon 101 Marcy St. Ste. 23 These paintings by Javi Ramirez hold a particular focus on the relationship between the natural and supernatural world. Here you can get some artistic renderings of distorted flora and funny creatures.

All day, free EXPOSURE: NATIVE ART AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 A number of Native artists show how nuclear weapons affect Native populations.

10 am-4 pm, $5-$10 GIVING VOICE TO IMAGE ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 A collaboration from a multitude of artists, where a picture is truly worth a thousand words. This unique and exciting show celebrates the beauty of words and images.

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GO WEST SAID A SMALL VOICE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Landscape works and marionettes from Gustave Baumann, inspired by his 1918 relocation to New Mexico from some other old place.

10 am-5 pm, $0-$12 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 MONO CIEZA AND MAYA FUJI Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Argentine sculptor Cieza’s Archeology of Future is in various materials and combinations such as resin, ceramic and bronze. Fuji’s painting series Humid Nostalgia offers a blend of Japanese mythology and her experience as a first generation American.

All day, free MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART EXHIBITION Museum of Encaustic Art 18 County Road 55A, Cerrillos (505) 424-6487 A showcase of over 100 of the magazine’s featured artist’s work from the past decade of Encaustic’s publications. Artists span America, Canada and parts of Europe.

All day, $10 PARALLEL TRAJECTORIES Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 Organic patterns that evoke landscape, architecture and speculative weaving.

All day, free PAST PERFECT FUTURE form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Erin Mickelson’s work includes printmaking, bookbinding, new and mixed media, artist books and micro-press publishing. The piece resembles a library card catalog, but Mickelson places mirrors where the author’s name would normally appear.

Also, expect deep questions about data collection.

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PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF NEW MEXICO Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555 The 13th National Juried Members Show of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico. The exhibition includes up to 100 works created within the last two years from award winners and other participants, all “en plein air“ artworks.

All day, 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, MT).

All day, free LAND CRAFT THEATRE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Celebrating the legacy of adobera and enjarradora— women who are masters at constructing and preserving earthen buildings.

All day, free STILLNESS AND COLOR Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Lin Medlin’s first show in Santa Fe, featuring the region’s colorful landscapes.

10 am-5 pm, free THERE’S NO OTHER LIKE YOUR MOTHER Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 From artist Brandy Triguero, who examines the complexities of womanhood alongside the societal and familial constructs as she tries to decide the kind of woman she wants to be.

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CARE AND CONSERVATION OF GUSTAVE BAUMANN'S MARIONETTES New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 A gallery talk with New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs conservator Maureen Russell.

Learn how she used her time and talent to revive the dozens of 70-year-old Baumann marionettes that are currently on view in Go West Said a Small Voice.

12:30-1:30 pm, free HISTORY AND CULTURE TALKS 35˚ North Coffee 60 E San Francisco St. (505) 983-6138 Nice light chats with local historian Christian Saiia, ranging over any and all subjects, no matter their historical chaos and neverending tentacles that affect us centuries later into the present.

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SANTA FE MODERN: CONTEMPORARY DESIGN IN THE HIGH DESERT Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 With a connoisseur’s eye, author Helen Thompson has collected 20 residences in her new published work.

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6 pm, free REAL ESTATE INVESTING FOR ENTREPRENEURS Online bit.ly/3bCMA8y Learn how to build long term security via real estate.

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EVENTS DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 32 Bisbee Ct. (505) 303-3808 Tumbleroot brewers and distillers lead tours of the production facility, followed by personalized tastings in the adjoining Bisbee Taproom.

4:30 pm, $7 HOTLINE BINGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Serious bingo for the serious player. Come in costume and get a free round. Win stuff and try not to be a competitive jerk. We know how high-strung some of you bingo players are.

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MUSIC THE OLIVIA O’BRIEN SHOW Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle tickets.meowwolf.com “i hate u, i love u“ was a smash hit on the viral internet circles, now check out O’Brien’s other pop vibes live. With special guests Upsahl and Drumaq.

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7 pm, $20 VINYL NIGHT WITH DJ PRARIE DOG La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road elreycourt.com/la-reina As the title suggests—sweet and punk-rock tunes, fresh beats and even fresher drinks.

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6:30 pm, free DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 32 Bisbee Ct. (505) 393-5135 Tumbleroot brewers and distillers lead tours of the production facility, followed by personalized tastings in the adjoining Bisbee Taproom.

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FILM AMERICAN EXILE Online bit.ly/3CAXKX9 Join NMPBS and Santa Fe Public Library for a screening and discussion of the PBS documentary American Exile with filmmaker John Valadez and Rebecca Sheff, senior staff attorney for ACLU of New Mexico, moderated by Russell Contreras, justice and race reporter at Axios.

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The man, the myth, the shredder, the legend:. Musician Steve Anthony has been known as a guitar hero to many as well as a local metal mainstay. These days, in addition to his band TKTWA, Anthony has been promoting a series of Monday night metal shows aptly titled Metal Monday.

You’ll find them several times a month at Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, including this coming Monday, Nov. 8 with metal acts Desmadre, Dysphotic and Night Soil (6 pm. $10. 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135).

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Why do you think Santa Fe just can’t quit metal?

That’s a funny question, but I would say that back in the day, when punk rock was still alive and well, it was hard for metalheads to get people to come out—especially when there weren’t shows at bars and restaurants and places you could drink. When it was all ages, you’d only see kids out at shows, but a lot of those people have grown up, gotten a little older.

I’d like to think the people before me, especially Augustine Ortiz, spent time cultivating the scene. Without all the work he’s done, we wouldn’t be where we are today. What’s great about the scene is that everybody in a band cares about the scene, so whether they’re working together or working for somebody else, everyone is working for the good of the scene.

I wouldn’t say Santa Fe can’t quit metal, I’d just say it’s prevalent anywhere you go, especially in a small town with religious roots—it’s an outlet for people to blow some steam off, have fun and be surrounded by people who are like-minded in safe space.

As a musician yourself, would you say promoting shows is as simple as doing what you’d like promoters to do?

Absolutely not. No way. I think that part of the reason our shows have gone so well is because Tumbleroot is very

supportive of what we do and have been great to work with. Another reason is because of my experience in the industry and the things I’ve done working for a record label in promotion, especially with acts like Skeletonwitch and Marty Friedman. I learned a lot about metal marketing, and I try to do as much as I can in that vein without making it a real job for myself.

When you put these shows together, you have to cater to the entire scene. Sometimes mixed-genre shows do better than people would expect. Sometimes it’s fun to have The Blackout Pictures up against my band...

You have to make it worth everybody’s time, not just the musicians, but the people who are going to these concerts. If you don’t really understand basic music marketing, you could skip some of the basics and fall flat on your face. Luckily, all our shows have done well, and I get to pay the bands and sound guys. I’m not in it to make money, but if I were in a situation where I had a huge rental fee and big guarantees, I’d step back a little bit. If I can’t pay the talent, I’m not going to keep doing it. With promotion in general, knowing your market is one thing, but having the experience and having failures and successes in the past—I’ve been doing this 20 years now—well, I’m really only doing it because nobody else is available to do it. Catering to the scene for the musicians and the concert-goers is a big part of the success.

What have crowds been like in a pandemic world? Are people thrilled to be in back in your estimation?

It’s interesting, because the first show I threw in July was super-well attended, and I wanted to kind of have a vaccination required policy, but a lot of people didn’t think it was necessary. In my opinion, the metal community takes the pandemic very seriously. There was a lot of hesitation leading up to it, but people were starved for live music, and we’re careful to make sure nothing happens. Like, we have face masks available when you come in and pay your cover.

When Delta showed up, that’s when it started to get scary again a little, but we didn’t see attendance drop—we saw people being more careful. We’ve had a really great response, and it’s all because of the community. The pandemic is always in the back of your mind, but if people are washing their hands, wearing masks, being as respectful as possible...Not to get too political about it, but I have zero interest in working with someone who isn’t willing to do whatever they can to help the community. My wife worked in the ER through the first 18 months of the pandemic, and she saw more than most people. It’s real, it’s scary, it’s there all the time. Luckily the scene is really understanding of that. If they weren’t, we wouldn’t be doing these shows.

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MUSIC HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817 Two-steppin’ music.

7-10 pm, free LORI OTTINO AND ERIK SAWYER The Mineshaft Tavern and Cantina 2846 NM-14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Live Americana music.

7-9 pm, free AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Piano tunes plus wine, to help heal your weekly blues.

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THEATER OTHER DESERT CITIES NM Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 An old-guard family has secrets revealed on Christmas.

7:30 pm, $25 THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 A play following four white presenting adults making a politically correct first Thanksgiving play. (see SFR picks, page 17) 7:30-9 pm, $15-$25

KYLE MAIER: ELECTRIC POLAROID Historic Santa Fe Foundation 545 Canyon Road Ste. 2 (505) 983-2567 Filmmaker Kyle Maier's visual storytelling skills bridge a gap between artist interpretations and American history. This exhibition features the wild collection of Polaroids that Maier captured around Santa Fe and Canyon Road.

All day, free WE WENT WILD IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 An exhibition of emerging students in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ (IAIA) BFA programs. Participating artists are from the American Southwest, Peru, Northern Great Plains and Japan. This exhibition of recent work comprises various media, including sculpture, painting and jewelry, which move as conduits for complex emotions. (see SFR picks, page 17) All day, $5-$10

DANCE MEMORIES OF DOÑA TULES: A FLAMENCO TRIBUTE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Companía Chuscales y Mina Fajardo, Santa Fe’s premiere flamenco dance troupe, joins with Teatro Paraguas to present live performances of Memories of Doña Tules, a tribute in dance, poetry and music to one of Santa Fe’s most notorious and influential women of the 19th century, Doña Maria Gertrudis Barceló, aka Doña Tules.

7 pm, $20-$25

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8 pm, free (no cover) AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Will be play your favorite 1950s-era movie theme? You’ll have to come to find out.

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CREATIVE RESIDENCIES: MONIQUE CARR SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Carr is a long-time forager and fermented-syrup maker. These memory-eliciting processes are the heart of her exhibition.

All day, free

OTHER DESERT CITIES NM Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Family secrets coming loose— like your great aunt’s Facebook page finally getting the mid-budget dramaticization it deserves.

7:30 pm, $25

THE CALENDAR THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Seems the holiday-themed shows pointing out how weird society is are really picking up. (see SFR picks, page 17) 7:30-9 pm, $15-$25 THE FACULTY LOUNGE: LIVE COMEDY IMPROV Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Do you like shows like Whose Line is It Anyway? Expect to love The Faculty Lounge—a 90-minute, fully improvised experience that includes improv games, original characters and scenes that might have rolling over in the aisles (but behave as you do so).

7-8:30 pm, $15

WORKSHOP MODERN BUDDHIST MEDITATIONS: REMAINING CONFIDENT IN THE FACE OF CRITICISM Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey (505) 282-5293 For everyone! All levels of experience and background are welcome. Meet like-minded people and enjoy these teachings. Yes we can use difficult, painful and frustrating situations to be become more compassionate and more confident. And so we discover solutions that we’d otherwise overlook. Grow spiritually with Buddha’s wisdom and meditation techniques.

10-11:30 am, $10

SAT/6 ART ANIMAL PORTRAITS: THE OTHER WORLD AND BOOK SIGNING photo-eye Gallery 1300 Rufina Circle, Ste. A3 (505) 988-5152 x202 Featuring images from represented artist Brad Wilson and celebrating the release of his book by the same name.

4 pm, free DIXON STUDIO TOUR Town of Dixon A fall tradition from our friends up in Dixon—go see all the fine arts and crafts on display in the chilled air. Heck, make a whole weekend out of it.

All day, free EX-VOTO SUSCEPTO: FROM THE VOW MADE: CLOSING SHOW Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St. (928) 308-0319 Last chance to see this show before it’s gone! The artist will be in attendance. Expect treats, fun and wicked cool art. The work plays on popular styles.

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GRAND REVEAL: LIFE DRAWING AT CCA Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 Life drawing class. Please bring your own materials (dry materials only—no paints for this session).

5-9 pm, $10-20

BOOKS/LECTURES SANTA’S DRAGON: LAUNCH PARTY AND BOOK SIGNING Beastly Books 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628 Join author Douglas Preston and illustrator Raya Golden.

When a bad dragon steals gifts from the children of Santa Fe, what’s a good dragon to do?

Hopefully nothing with fire, though that’d be kind of cool.

There’ll be holiday cookies warm beverages!

5-9 pm, $10-20

DANCE MEMORIES OF DOÑA TULES: A FLAMENCO TRIBUTE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 If it wasn’t obvious, we here at SFR are a little obsessed with flamenco and we think you should be, too.

7 pm, $20-$25 DANCE & PLAY Alto Park 1121 Alto St. allaboardearth.com Silent DJ with a rotating selection, sound healing, some yoga, movement games and a live. Come move your bodies in the glorious outdoors.

4:30-6 pm, $5-$10

EVENTS CARMEN BRADFORD Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 Grammy nominee Carmen Bradford and the John Rangel Trio come to play Dave's Jazz Bistro. Enjoy a three course meal in addition to the excellent music.

6:30-9:30 pm, $250 RALLY FOR JUSTICE: CARMELA & REX Santa Fe Country Jail 28 Camino Justica Rally in support of restarting a petition for a grand jury investigation into the cases of two people’s medical neglect while in custody.

2 pm, free FRIENDS OF FOLK ART FALL DONATION DAY Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Ready for some fall cleaning and clearing? We know there’s dust-coverted pandemic projects in all your houses.

Donate, and all the resulting proceeds go to the Museum of International Folk Art. 11 am-2 pm, free

EMINENT DOMAIN: RELEASE PARTY Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. bit.ly/3GEd1ZL Launch of a new New Mexico audio-drama. This is a listening party, so the lights will be turned down and your ears will rule the night. (see A&C, page 25) 8 am-2 pm, 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, plus photographs, sculptures and more. Your Thanksgiving meals probably need some cool clay serving dishes, FYI. As always, find the market north of the water tower.

8 am-2 pm, free CASA MILAGRO SOLARIZATION CELEBRATION Casa Milagro 49 Camino Bajo bit.ly/3mDQbcF Come see the magic of solar energy yourself! Food, live music and some talk about how solar energy is a very good thing. Get food, get inspired.

12:30-2:30 pm, free (but RSVP) MEDITATION WITH THAIS MATHER form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 780-8312 Sit with Mather in her candle installation for a refreshing guided meditation exercise.

Breathing plus aesthetic—you know how it makes you feel all cozy and put together.

5-6 pm, free (but donate)

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 The colder months are upon us and the offerings at the market are beginning to shrink. The food is still killer, but you might wanna get your fix in for some produce before you’ve got to wait again until spring.

7 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC FALL ORCHESTRA CONCERT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Program includes Reena Esmail's Teen Murti, Haydn's Violin Concerto in C Majo and Tchaikovsky Serenade in C Major, Op. 48. (see SFR picks, page 17) 7 pm, $20-$85 NOSOTROS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Santa Fe fave Nosotros is one of the most recognizable Latin bands in the Southwest United States. But remember, rest of the world: we built them.

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10 pm-1 am, $20 MADERA WINDS St. John’s United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail bit.ly/3pZmlvH Wind instrument trio that’ll sweeten your afternoon.

4 pm, $15-$20 AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Rogers is the piano master.

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THEATER OTHER DESERT CITIES NM Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Family trauma theater, but in a fun kind of way that will limit any sour memories coming back. That’s the kind we like.

7:30 pm, $25 THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Maybe see this play before giving your kids any kind of Thanksgiving talk. (see SFR picks, page 17) 7:30-9 pm, $15-$25

SUN/7 ART DIXON STUDIO TOUR Town of Dixon A fall tradition from our friends up in Dixon—see all the fine arts and crafts on display in the chilled air. You can meet a handful of artists who've been doing the tour for four decades and learn their tools of the trade.

All day, free

PUB QUIZ Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Via Geeks Who Drink! Come test your trivia knowledge to determine whether that useless knowledge may actually be worth something. Add a drink or two to the mix.

7 pm, free (minus drinks)

FILM FILMS MADE IN NEW MEXICO AND THE HARVEY GIRLS New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 Author and film historian Jeff Berg presents cinematic stories of movies made and set here, good and bad ones alike.

Special screening of The Harvey Girls featuring Judy Garland to follow.

1 pm, $7-$12

MUSIC FALL ORCHESTRA CONCERT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Classical feels for your classical self. Music of the night and all that stuff. (see SFR picks, page 17) 3 pm, $20-$85 A EVENING WITH TWIDDLE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle tickets.meowwolf.com Vermont-based band Twiddle is a big mix of classic rock, electronic, soul and all sorts of Dad-like genres, but for the young folk, you know?

7 pm-11 pm, $22.75

THEATER OTHER DESERT CITIES The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Check out this rendition of a Pulitzer-nominated play, where the weird aunt comes to town and causes drama to unfold in every room she enters.

2 pm, $25 THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 We suspect it will have the vibes of Bob’s Burgers Thanksgiving specials, but maybe some deeper lessons.

2 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Online bit.ly/3w77zcZ Researchers, scientists, engineers and scholarly students will exchange and share experiences, ideas and research about all aspects of the Aerospace Engineering and Technology Conference.

9 am-6 pm, $699

THE MOVE LAB: A COMMUNITY MOVEMENT EXPERIENCE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 An immersive series that allows audience members to explore the ideas and concepts around personal movement improvisation, Plus a performance from the New Mexico Dance Project (see SFR picks, page 17).

6 pm, $18-$24

MON/8 BOOKS/LECTURES VIRTUAL VIVACE BOOK GROUP Online guildsofsfo.org Santa Fe Opera presents the November Virtual Vivace Book Group studying The Toughest Show on Earth by Joseph Volpe.

6 pm, free

DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Classic swing dancing. Classes start at 7 pm, open dance at 8 pm. Vaccinated folks only, please. Bring your CDC card as proof on your first visit.

7 pm, $3-$8

EVENTS QUEER NIGHT La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road bit.ly/3wmlAnn For queer-identifiers and allies alike, helping to build a stronger community. Meet peeps and raise some money for the Transgender Resource Center of NM. 5-11 pm, free (minus the drinks)

MUSIC METAL MONDAYS: THE RETURN OF DYSPHOTIC Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 303-3808 Santa Fe’s own Dysphotic plays alongside TKTWA, Desmadre and Night Soil. All ages (with guardian if you’re a little one).

Doors open at 6 pm. (see 3Q’s, page 20) 7 pm, $10 SUMMER SALT Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle tickets.meowwolf.com Indie dudes playing trop-pop.

But, like, they’re actually pretty dang good.

7 pm, $20 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Good wine and good tunes. For those feeling the desire to feel like a lounge singer, your time is

THE CALENDAR now. Please do not try to sing or get on top of the piano.

6:30 pm, free ERYN BENT La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511 Country sounds in a fancy lounge, so you can feel cultured and yet down-to-earth. We all need to feel touristy every once in a while anyways.

7:30-9:30 pm, free (no cover)

TUE/9 EVENTS LOTERIA Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Lotería is a traditional game of chance from Mexico, similar to bingo, but using images on a deck of cards instead of numbered balls. The iconic imagery and the shared experience it fosters across people of any generation has become a source of pride and celebration for Mexican culture.

Masks are required while inside the Jean Cocteau Cinema.

7-9 pm, $5

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 If you’ve got the Tuesday blues, have you considered healing it with some artisan cheeses, oils and breads? Random people online say that’s helpful.

7 am-1 pm, free SANTA FE CONNECTIONS Capitol Grill 3462 Zafarano Dr. (505) 471-6800 Santa Fe Business Connection networking lunch. Join and share your business goals for the rest of the year, make some connections and gather some good-spirited intel.

Noon, free (minus your food)

MUSIC AN EVENING WITH OTTMAR LIEBERT AND LUNA NEGRA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Grammy-nominated Spanish guitar. This duo broke records at the New Mexico Philharmonic, just FYI. They are, indeed, that good.

7:30 pm, $39 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 More good piano tunes from a local pianist master. Let delightful notes bring a lightness to the Tuesday blues and bring you some peace. We really hate Tuesdays.

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Imminently on Main room with longtime friend Michael Martinez.

They delved deep into world-building together, spending days nerding out about scientific specifics and the intricacies of the evolving narrative, right down to the fictional vehicle’s sound engineering; the entire project was mapped out in a week.

“A couple of months after that he took his own life,” Langford tells SFR. “He was dealing with a lot, so the project was put on hold. But one of the last things he told me was how much he loved the story, and how much he loved working on it. He brought so much brilliance that I couldn’t abandon it.”

And what better to get a project moving again than a pandemic? As with many of us, 2020 offered a bit of extra time, particularly for Langford, who was laid off from his senior producer of narrative audio job at Meow Wolf. About a year earlier, he’d discovered Cárdenas online and hired him to help flesh out Eminent Domain, and together they set about making it as New Mexico-centric as possible. But don’t expect long monologues

New Mexico-based audio drama Eminent Domain picked up by Audible because it’s *really* that good

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magine you’re minding your own business, working late nights at your futuristic car company when, suddenly, you’re thrust into a world of ghosts and conspiracies and hostile ranch owners. That’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Eminent Domain, a new chapter-based audio drama produced entirely within Northern New Mexico and culled from state lore. It also might just be your next obsessive listening binge.

Eminent Domain follows Loretta Pacheco (voiced by Ama Zathura), a brilliant sound engineer for a fictional Tesla-like car company pumping out smart cars—like, really smart cars—that talk to drivers. She is working late hours at a mysterious subterranean facility someplace within Santa Fe County when a near-fatal car crash pulls Loretta into a decades-old missing teenagers mystery for which the answers hit closer to home than she, or the listener, might expect.

“I always wanted to write something ‘New Mexican’ my whole life,” says co-writer Victoriano “Tori” Cárdenas. “Breaking Bad didn’t have a lot of the quirky things that are a part of our culture, it’s just set here. We wanted to produce something more representative of the people living in the region.

I wanted to reach out to New Mexico kids like me.”

For creator, co-writer, director and coexecutive producer Warren Langford, a self-described “man of every hat” and native New Mexican, the project has been more than a decade and a half in the making.

“In 2005, I had this dream of three young boys playing on the side of a highway. Under a tree, they found a weird device sticking out of the ground, and that’s all the dream was,” Langford says. “So, when I moved back to Santa Fe [in 2017], I was working for Meow Wolf. That’s when I started thinking about this a little more.”

As the idea for Eminent Domain’s otherworldly sci-fi and horror experience began to come together, Langford locked himself in a

about adobe, green chile or other surface level New Mexico ephemera. Instead, Langford and Cárdenas were drawn to deeper ideas, like folklore and localized sayings. They pulled from their own personal experiences, too, including Cárdenas’ life growing up in Taos and Albuquerque. “[Warren and I] were both on the same page of wanting the characters to be New Mexican, and not just actors pretending,” Cárdenas says. “You can tell in the final product, too. When I moved from Taos to Albuquerque for the creative writing and history program [at UNM], I’d raise my hand and answer with that Norteño accent—and I’d feel

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so differentiated by that. That’s a reality we really wanted to portray.”

Such steps are no more evident than in Zathura’s performance as Loretta, one intricate enough to connote different speaking styles between, say, friends or more professional relationships—or a budding relationship portrayed by lovable voice actor Antonio Marquez. Elsewhere, notable New Mexicans like comedian Carlos Medina, performer Rod Harrison and Shit Burqueños Say creator Lauren Poole add depth and authenticity; outside of its genre elements, Eminent Domain sounds like we’re eavesdropping on any given Northern New Mexico conversation.

The production itself went well beyond casting locals, too, with Langford choosing to record on location and in binaural audio—a first for an audio drama as far as he knows.

Foley and sound effects were done live on location by the actors, and the production adopted a stringent no-script policy during recording sessions.

“There’s always this thing [in audio dramas] where the actors are disjointed because they walk into the studio and act on the spot.

It’s a disconnect, and it really comes across,” Langford explains. “Ama memorized over 200 pages of this script, like memorizing an entire season of a TV show.”

Production for Eminent Domain also included everything you might imagine on a movie set (minus, you know, the visual stuff ), including adherence to Screen Actors Guild guidelines, rigidly enforced COVID-19 safety protocols and minimal on-set personnel.

Langford also enlisted his brother Evan for help with recording and mixing duties, as well as recordist Georgina Hahn—and there’s a reason they suggest listening to Eminent Domain with headphones for a stronger audio experience: Even those uninitiated in the alchemy of audio will find themselves impressed by its level of auditory immersion and innovation.

The protocols, the cold winter months and the unknown variables paid off—Eminent Domain caught Audible’s attention early in its production, and the online audio mega-brand will release the full project to the public on Thursday, Nov. 4. Perhaps even better, Langford and crew will debut a special preview at the Jean Cocteau Cinema this Saturday, much of which will play out in darkness.

“It’ll be the first 40 minutes, sort of an experimental thing,” says Langford. “From that point on it’ll be all about getting the word out.”

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Best. Brunch. Ever. was attentive but never hovered. For an oldschool Santa Fean such as myself, dining in the location of the former Aztec Café coffee shop might have felt weird. Here, instead, Rodriguez has crafted Xanadu. In other words, you’d never know a bunch of teens who smoked too much and were constantly in search of weed hung around this location a million years ago. Instead, it’s a nicely appointed dining room that rates someplace near the feel of fine dining but without the pomp and circumstance; it’s comfortable and welcoming, but clean and professional.

Once inside, we perused the weekend brunch menu, phasing from disappointment over what seemed like a scant, few offerings at first to excitement over a lack of clutter. Some brunch places I won’t name cram so many

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aving not seen my dear friend Benji for some time, I texted him Saturday evening: “Available for a brunchy/lunchy thing tomorrow?”

“Mondo!” he texted back. “Devil’s morning.”

Indeed, with the power of the devil behind us, by noon Sunday, we were scouring downtown for parking near Aztec Street, where relatively new (I said “relatively”) eatery Zacatlán (317 Aztec St., (505) 780-5174; Brunch, lunch and diner Thursday-Sunday) has been, according to my friends, kicking ass and brunching for real. Yes, Zacatlán’s owner/chef Eduardo Rodriguez has non-brunch menus inspired by the Southwest as well as his homeland of Zacatlán, Mexico, too (I’m particularly enamored by, but have yet to try, items like the fish tacos)—but this was Sunday, dammit, when eggs are practically the law.

In fact, we even felt a little off ordering chips and guacamole ($10) as a starter, especially as the first bite of the day, but upon receiving hot chips so fresh they seemed to have been made right when we ordered them and guacamole so wonderfully textured between creamy and chunky, the decision paid for itself a hundred times over.

That’s not even getting into the white tablecloth dining room and friendly staff that

variations of bread and eggs onto a menu that it feels overwhelming and under-focused. At Rodriguez’s Zacatlán, you’ll find a couple starters, a handful of main dishes and just three desserts (including churros that we tragically had no room to consume)—it’s a testament to the idea of value aligning not with overabundance, but with quality. I could just kick myself for not having gone sooner.

Ever the good sport, Benji allowed me to select his dish—the Southwestern Surf and Turf Eggs Benedict ($18) with both ham and salmon. Looking for an old standby, I selected the huevos rancheros ($12.50); eggs over easy, no meat, salsa on the side and served atop house-made corn tortillas with just the right-sized dollop of guac on top. As I’ve established, Rodriguez’s guacamole is a revelation and added both texture and flavor to the expertly cooked eggs. The tortillas were revelatory as well and straddled a combination of crispy at the edges but absorbent

Eggs Benedict with salmon and ham. ABOVE: Huevos rancheros on house made corn tortillas with salsa, guacamole and some of the best-cooked rice of all time.

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enough to soak up the yolk. Beneath it all, I discovered a bed of flavorful rice that carried a complementary hint of herb. In a nutshell?

Best huevos rancheros I’ve had in Santa Fe in years.

Benji, meanwhile, opined that you wouldn’t think salmon and ham would work together so harmoniously in the same bite— but somehow did. The poached eggs atop the English muffin were firm and runny in the right ratio, he said; the hollandaise never congealed like it has been known to do elsewhere. Peppering in guacamole-laden chips throughout the meal worked, too, and is a must for any fan of the crispier textures. In fact, let me just ask if you’ve ever crumbled fresh tortilla chips into your egg dishes? You can and most definitely should.

Zacatlán serves up a damn fine cup of coffee, too, and all for a fairly affordable price point.

For some (including this guy), it is perhaps a bit of splurge. This is downtown Santa Fe dining, after all.

But it’s oh-so-worth it.

We’ve even discussed returning as soon as possible to sample other menu items— the chicken and waffles alone is almost enough to make me go back to eating meat...just once to get the idea of it. Even better, at noon on a Sunday (being the brunchiest day and hour of the week), we had no trouble securing a nice table.

So I’m just going to say it: Add Zacatlán to your must-try list immediately. Even outside my own experience, I’ve never heard a bad thing about the place. In Santa Fe, where the dining business runs a tad competitive and the options are seemingly endless, that’s saying something. Now if you’ll excuse me, I must get back to Aztec Street for some more chips and guac, and it’s probably time to assemble a party for dinner. Those Zacatlán churros are mine.

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As The French Dispatch, a publication dedicated to the happenings of the fictional town of Ennui, France, shuts its doors for the final time, the staff highlight three memorable stories for their lastever edition. The resulting anthologies follow an imprisoned artist (Benicio del Toro) exploited for one last hurrah, a French student (Timothée Chalamet) concocting a student revolution and a food writer (Jeffrey Wright) in the midst of a hostage negotiation.

Within Wes Anderson’s familiar pastel whimsy, a sense of melancholy lurks under the surface that makes his other films work—a kind of nostalgia that’s hard to peg. One might also question whether something as superlative as Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel can ever be topped. The French Dispatch answers such a question: Not just yet.

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It seems like only yesterday that Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright released the über-fun doc The Sparks Brothers about lesser-known Los Angeles proto-rockers Sparks, and he’s already back on his bullshit with the decidedly darker (and fiction-forward) Last Night in Soho.

Here we follow Eloise (or Ellie; Thomasin McKenzie of Jojo Rabbit fame), a young art student with a sad past and a ’60s obsession who seemingly has the power to see dead people as she prepares for fashion school at a prestigious London university. Ellie’s a bit of a hayseed, and leaves the womblike countryside of Cornwall for the tragically disconnected big city that her mother—who killed herself ages ago, mind you—coveted as well.

Once there, Ellie can’t fit in, but nightly visions (or dreams, maybe) paint a picture of the glitz and glamor of London’s 1960s club scene and the magnetic Sandy (Anya Taylor-Joy).

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come from one of the last regularly funded auteurs in Hollywood. But The French Dispatch only proves there’s a little life behind the camera; it’ll likely (and rightfully) go down as one of Anderson’s lesser works (see Darjeeling Limited).

Ennui doesn’t feel like the place-as-character locale it ought to be, whereas Anderson’s settings usually become characters unto themselves. By the end, you likely won’t know Ennui any better than when you were first introduced. If these tales hold any particular meaning, it’s so subtle as to be easily missed. That isn’t to say you can’t have fun with empty whimsy—just note there’s a feeling like a once hidden museum now packed with tourist types who make it harder for the longtime visitors to enjoy.

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other times being forced to observe from a dreamlike mirror world from which she can’t help. It’s gorgeous then it’s sad—then a bit of both as our heroine fears she’ll be taken for insane should she try and find justice for Sandy in the here-and-now.

Wright has certainly grown as a filmmaker to tackle such unfunny material, but Soho stumbles in its pacing, reveals and final moments of payoff.

Right up until the third act, find a gritty vision of the seedy underbelly of stardom doled out across the colorful palette of someone’s idealized version of ’60s-era London. As the color literally drains from the world and from Eloise herself, creepy dealings unearth themselves in a sordid remembrance of horrors all too real. Pity, then, that Wright hedges his bets with an ill-advised morethan-one-side-to-the story moment. Oh, sure, the best cinematic villains of late seem to convince audiences their deeds aren’t so unreasonable, but the other side in this case is abusive men who, frankly, often deserve what’s coming to them.

Cinema darling Taylor-Joy is just fine as both the upbeat and lifeless versions of Sandy, but this is McKenzie’s movie and she does not disappoint in any version of her character, be it the sheltered bumpkin, the confident designer or the terrified kid in over her head.

If there’s a message to be found, though, it’s muddied, and the twist toward the end is telegraphed so early on that cinephiles might feel deflated. Nevertheless, Last Night in Soho is

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the screenplay from Anderson, like a trés-expensive impersonation of an old man recalling a foggy version of his teenage years. The usual check marks are there, though, from the same Anderson-y cast members like Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Adrian Brody and Tilda Swinton, to the symmetry of a subject and the snippy dialogue. That’s just what it is, though—a checklist of expectations so we can, presumably, move along to the actual passion project (fingers crossed for the next one).

Calling the town Ennui was right on the money.

compelling—a twisted reminder that idealism and reality are only ever at odds, sometimes to terrifying results. Oh, and, as always, Wright’s soundtrack, here replete with ’60s gems, is absolutely spot-on. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, R, 116 min

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Perhaps we ought to advance with caution when it comes to the cinematic version of a real-life figure like Diana Spencer—someone whose life has evolved into a kind of international mythology. But if you’ve seen any of director Pablo Larraín’s other works (Jackie, No, Neruda) you’ll know advancing with caution isn’t really an option.

At Christmas in 1991, Princess Diana’s marriage to Prince Charles has collapsed. As the family outcast, she was haunted (literally and metaphorically) by the then-future’s uncertainty and the violence faced by royal women in the past. Over the course of the holiday weekend, Diana’s psychological state becomes a threat in and of itself. It may also have been her only way out.

There’s little about Spencer that isn’t astonishing.

It follows in the shadow of Larraín’s Jackie to become similar in craft and scope, and is all but guaranteed to leave audiences dumbfounded by the time its credits

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roll. Kristen Stewart’s performance as the titular former Princess of Wales is either a one-off fluke, or she’s been catapulted into one of the most transformative portrayals we’ve seen in years that didn’t require suffocating the lead actor in hours of makeup (looking at you, Vice); this could be a turning point for her ability as a performer.

Where perhaps we run into trouble is in the film’s limited understanding of how Diana’s actual deeds shone, such as her work de-stigmatizing AIDS patients or campaigning for the removal of land mines in Southern Africa. But Spencer isn’t a biopic, nor is it pretending to be one. It is, perhaps, a response to a sort of shared imaginative vision of who we think Diana was behind the curtain. Here Larraín helms more of a psychological thriller, and it seems almost as if Diana herself, with a shaking hand, were painting the images before us to express something that can’t quite be expressed in words—a loneliness and hostility toward the real world.

Spencer is far too hyper-realistic to be entirely believable, and yet all too-real in its brutalities.

Still, where it lands is far more human than one might expect. The sympathy behind the camera is apparent, just don’t expect any love for British royalty as a larger concept here. Spencer is, fully, a unique kind of horror film that serves only to deliver a message about Diana we already know.

But how can one not be gobsmacked by a delivery like this? (RG) Opens Nov 5 at Violet Crown, NR, 111 min

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you still hoping to heal from psychological wounds that you rarely speak about?

May I suggest that you consider speaking about them in the coming weeks? Not to just anyone and everyone, of course, but rather to allies who might be able to help you generate at least a partial remedy. The moment is ripe, in my opinion. Now is a favorable time for you to become actively involved in seeking cures, fixes, and solace. Life will be more responsive than usual to such efforts.

sel in the coming weeks, you will succeed in doing what needs to be done. There is only one potential downfall you could be susceptible to, in my view, and that is talking and thinking too much about the matter you want to accomplish before you actually take action to accomplish it. All the power you need will arise as you resolutely wield the lightning in your hands.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To encourage young people to come to its shows, the English National Opera has offered a lot of cheap tickets. Here’s another incentive: TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The delights of self-disActors sing in English, not Italian or French or German. covery are always available,” writes author Gail Sheehy. I Maybe most enticing for audiences is that they are will add that those delights will be extra accessible for encouraged to boo the villains. The intention is to make you in the coming weeks. In my view, you’re in a phase of attendees feel relaxed and free to express themselves. super-learning about yourself. You will attract help and I’m pleased to give you Scorpios permission to boo the support if you passionately explore mysteries and riddles bad guys in your life during the coming weeks. In fact, I that have eluded your understanding. Have fun surprising will love it if you are extra eloquent and energetic about and entertaining yourself, Taurus. Make it your goal to articulating all your true feelings. In my view, now is catch a new glimpse of your hidden depths every day. prime time for you to show the world exactly who you are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini novelist and philosopher Muriel Barbery says, “I find this a fascinating phe- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If we’re not careful, nomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves we are apt to grant ultimate value to something we’ve so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.” In just made up in our heads,” said Zen priest Kosho the coming weeks, I hope you will overcome any tenden- Uchiyama. In my view, that’s a problem all of us should cy you might have to manipulate yourself in such a way. always be alert for. As I survey my own past, I’m embarIn my view, it’s crucial for your mental and spiritual rassed and amused as I remember the countless times I health that you at least question your belief system‚ and committed this faux pas. For instance, during one eightperhaps even risk shaking its foundation. Don’t worry: month period, I inexplicably devoted myself to courting Even if doing so ushers in a period of uncertainty, you’ll a woman who had zero interest in a romantic relationbe much stronger for it in the long run. More robust and ship with me. I bring this to your attention, Sagittarius, complete beliefs will be available for you to embrace. because I’m concerned that right now, you’re more susceptible than usual to making this mistake. But since I’ve CANCER (June 21-July 22): In her book Mathilda, novelwarned you, maybe you’ll avoid it. I hope so! ist Mary Shelley (1797-1851) has the main character ask, “What had I to love?” And the answer? “Oh, many CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Asha things: there was the moonshine, and the bright stars; Sanaker writes, “There is a running joke about us the breezes and the refreshing rains; there was the Capricorns that we age backwards. Having been born as whole earth and the sky that covers it.” I bring this to burdened, cranky old people, we become lighter and your attention in the hope of inspiring you to make your more joyful as we age because we have gained so much own tally of all the wonders you love. I trust your inven- practice in wielding responsibility. And in this way we tory will be at least ten times as long as Mathilda’s. Now learn, over time, about what are our proper burdens to is a favorable time for you to gather all the healing that carry and what are not. We develop clear boundaries can come from feeling waves of gratitude, even adoraaround how to hold our obligations with grace.” tion, for the people, animals, experiences, situations, and Sanaker’s thoughts will serve as an excellent meditation places that rouse your interest and affection for you in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you and devotion. can make dramatic progress in embodying the skills LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Our memories are always chang- she articulates. ing. Whenever we call up a specific remembrance, it’s different from the last time we visited that same remembrance‚ colored by all the new memories we have accumulated in the meantime. Over time, an event we recall from when we were nine years old has gone through a great deal of shape-shifting in our memory so much so that it may have little resemblance to the first time we remembered it. Is this a thing to be mourned or celebrated? Maybe some of both. Right now, though, it’s to be celebrated. You have extra power to declare your independence from any memories that don’t make you feel good. Why hold onto them if you can’t even be sure they’re accurate?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As author Denise Linn reminded us, “The way you treat yourself sends a very clear message to others about how they should treat you.” With that advice as your inspiration, I will ask you to deepen your devotion to self-care in the coming weeks. I will encourage you to shower yourself with more tenderness and generosity than you have ever done in your life. I will also urge you to make sure these efforts are apparent to everyone in your life. I am hoping for you to accomplish a permanent upgrade in your love for yourself, which should lead to a similar upgrade in the kindness you receive from others.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in a spacecraft. His flight marked the first time that NASA, the agency in charge of spaceflight, had ever used electronic computers. Glenn, who was also an engineer, wanted the very best person to verify the calculations, and that was Virgo mathematician Katherine Johnson. In fact, Glenn said he wouldn’t fly without her involvement. I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because I believe the coming months will be a favorable time for you to garner the kind of respect and recognition that Katherine Johnson got from John Glenn. Make sure everyone who needs to know does indeed know about your aptitudes and skills.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have at your disposal a prodigiously potent creative tool: your imagination. If there’s a specific experience or object you want to bring into your world, the first thing you do is visualize it. The practical actions you take to live the life you want to live always refer back to the scenes in your mind’s eye. And so every goal you fulfill, every quest you carry out, every liberation you achieve, begins as an inner vision. Your imagination is the engine of your destiny. It’s the catalyst with which you design your future. I bring these ideas to your attention, dear Pisces, because November is Celebrate Your Imagination Month.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to an Apache proverb, “It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.” If you act on that coun-

Homework: Describe what actions you’ll take in the next six months to make your world a funner, holier place.

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A-1 Self Storage New Mexico Auction Ad Notice of Public Sale Pursuant to NEW MEXICO STATUTES – 48-11-1-48-11-9: Notice is hereby given that on the 11th day of November, 2021 At that time open Bids will be accepted, and the Entirety of the Following Storage Units will be sold to satisfy storage liens claimed by A-1 Self Storage.

The terms at the time of the sales will be Cash only, and all goods must be removed from the facility within 48 hours. A-1 Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any and all bids or cancel sale without notice. Owners of the units may pay lien amounts by 5:00 pm November 10, 2021 to avoid sale. The following units are scheduled for auction.

Sale will be beginning at 09:00 am November 11, 2021 at 3902 Rodeo Road Unit#D050 David Lozano #11Casa Rufina, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Suitcases, totes, STATE OF NEW MEXICO clothes, tv’s, shoes, backpacks.

IN THE PROBATE COURT Unit#A068 Angelica Acosta PO SANTA FE COUNTY Box 924, Santa Fe, NM 87504; IN THE MATTER OF THE Furniture, skateboard, microwave, ESTATE OF MELINDA ROMERO STATE OF NEW MEXICO bags, rug. Followed By A-1 Self PIKE, DECEASED. COUNTY OF SANTA FE Storage 2000 Pinon Unit#422 No. 2021-0181 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Jeffrey Hatt 2800 Cerrillos NOTICE TO CREDITORS COURT Rd#161, Santa Fe, NM 87507; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN No. D-101-CV-2021-02195 Boxes, furniture. Unit#237 Steven that the undersigned has been IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION Dean 2801 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, appointed personal representaFOR CHANGE OF NAME OF tive of the estate of the decedent. LAURA ANASTASIA HERNM 87507; Bags, shopping cart, All persons having claims against NANDEZ AMENDED NOTICE hockey stick, blankets. Unit#319 the estate of the decedent are Claudio Martinez 525 Galisteo OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE required to present their claims NOTICE that in accordance with St, Santa Fe, NM 87501; Drum, within four (4) months after the mirror, shopping carts, guitar casthe provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 date of the first publication of through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, es, boxes, blankets. Followed by any published notice to creditors the Petitioner, LAURA ANASA-1 Self Storage 1591 San Mateo or sixty (60) days after the date TASIA HERNANDEZ, will apply Lane Unit#3112 Raymond Ortega of mailing or other delivery of to the Honorable Judge Francis 106 Bob St, Santa Fe, NM 87501; this notice, whichever is later, or J. Mathew, District Judge of the Furniture, rugs, vacuum, mirror, the claims will be forever barred. First Judicial District at the Santa boxes, bags. Unit#4030 Joaquin Claims must be presented either Fe Judicial Complex; appearing Montano 229 Fiesta St, Santa Fe, to the undersigned personal rep- remotely at 1:15 p.m. on the 29 NM 87505; Furniture, microwave, resentative at the address listed day of November, 2021, for an bags, clothes, barbells. Unit#1831 below, or filed with the Probate ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME Carmella Casados 122 Kearney Court of Santa Fe County, New from LAURA ANASTASIA HERAve, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Boxes, Mexico, located at the following NANDEZ to LAURA ANASTASIA bags, chairs, coolers, furniture. address: NESMITH. Auction Sale Date, 11/11/2021 P.O. BOX 1985, Santa Fe, N.M. Kathleen Vigil, District Court Santa Fe Reporter 10/27/2021 & 87504 Clerk 11/3/2021 Dated: October 18, 2021.

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