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n Feb. 9, during the weekly COVID-19 update, Acting Health Secretary Dr. David Scrase said New Mexico wasn’t quite ready to end its indoor mask mandate given the ongoing pressure on hospitals. “It’s just too soon today,” he said.

The following week, on the morning of Feb. 16, the health department canceled its regular Wednesday afternoon news briefing, citing conflicts with the Legislature. The following day, in a post-legislative briefing, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ended the mask mandate, effective immediately.

Scrase and state Epidemiologist Dr. Christine Ross then met with several news media members, including SFR, via Zoom, on the afternoon of Feb. 18 to discuss potential changes to the daily delivery of COVID-19 data points (for instance, as of this week, DOH is no longer including daily COVID-19 case totals from long-term care facilities, but says the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department continues to track that data).

And on Saturday morning, Scrase spoke one-on-one with SFR regarding all of the aforementioned events and the state’s forthcoming campaign to provide resources to immunocompromised residents. Scrase is expected to also discuss these topics at 1 pm today, Feb. 23, during a weekly COVID-19 update, which will stream live on the health department’s Facebook page..

The following interview has been edited for clarity, concision and style.

SFR: You’ve spoken recently about shifting COVID-19 data reporting to have less emphasis on case counts. What should the average person pay attention to in terms of data?

Dr. David Scrase: I have a spreadsheet that I’ve set up since the pandemic started that has in the left column different…outdoor temperature ranges like zero to 5; 5 to 10; all the way up to 65 to 70, and then I have this grid of all the different clothes that I wear. So, today was 25 to 30 [degrees]: I wore my regular gym shorts, gym shirt, socks, long pants, another long-sleeved shirt on top of it, my little puffy jacket and then heavy gloves and a hat. And so, I think what we all need to get used to do# 8

ing is dressing for the weather of COVID and being more aware of what’s going on in our vicinity. If I were going to pick one number, it would be the number of people in the hospital. There [also is] a weekly report from the [Medical Advisory Team]…with the self-scoring of the hospitals about their capacity. I think that would be a good thing to look at and give people a good sense of what hospitals are feeling. [viewable at https://cvmodeling. nmhealth.org/medical-advisory-team]

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You mentioned on Feb. 9 that one criteria for removing the mask mandate was having New Mexico hospitals less reliant on outside help. Has that happened?

We are currently winding those contracts down and not renewing them where they exist. We didn’t just pull people back immediately. We had some conversations this week… there is probably still going to be a need for some extra help, particularly in hospitals like [University of New Mexico Health], where they are still running 120% capacity.

Department of Health wants to do something in particular to reach out and make sure we connect the most vulnerable people with new resources we have that we didn’t have last summer.

Are there places you plan to still wear a mask?

Number one: I’m sure I’ll wear a mask the rest of my life on airplanes. I’m just not going to give that up now because I always used to get the flu or a cold or something. When I’m in a large place where there’s a lot of people indoors, I’ll still wear a mask and, of course, with patient care. I’m looking forward to going back and dining indoors, but I will probably be more selective about the places I go; if a restaurant says no one needs to wear a mask, servers don’t need to wear a mask, I might be more cautious. I’m always running to my nearest big box store, and I’ll probably wear a mask in there for quite a while longer.

Did you know before you canceled the weekly COVID update last week the governor would end the mask mandate the following day?

No, I did not. If you go online and review the video of the House floor on [Feb. 16] you’ll see me show up there a little after 1 pm [1:58 pm] to help [state Rep.] Daymon Ely [D-Corrales] get a bill [SB40] passed…for funding for nursing homes…The governor and I had been talking about removing the mask mandate… since November, but we were waiting for case counts to drop and things to ease up in the hospitals. I mean, I knew it was coming but it didn’t have anything to do with the presser last week, that’s for sure.

Several groups remain particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. Are we entering a time where some people will feel safe to live their lives without masks and some will feel less safe as a result?

I think that’s probably true. If I were an immunosuppressed person, I’d be more careful.

We’re going to do…a campaign for immunosuppressed individuals. There are special treatments for them, the [AstraZeneca’s Evusheld] treatment is a new one for immunosuppressed people. It’s sort of a long-acting monoclonal antibody type treatment. The

You’ve said a few times the jury is still out on long-COVID. But it seems indisputable some people who have had COVID are experiencing long-term health issues. What are your thoughts for those people?

I think we know somewhere between 10% and 20% of people experience symptoms of COVID beyond 30 days. When I’m talking about, ‘we don’t exactly know what longCOVID is,’ I’m speaking very specifically as a physician. I don’t have diagnostic criteria [such as with rheumatoid arthritis or lupus].

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New Mexico Acting Health Secretary Dr. David Scrase expects some turmoil in the immediate future from the repeal of the statewide mask mandate, but expects it will all work out over time.

COVID and, because we don’t have that, it’s hard to engineer a clinical trial…and that’s what I’m really hoping to see in the next few months. I have friends that treat people with long-COVID and they just describe a set of symptoms that are mainly related to fatigue… sometimes persistent respiratory symptoms like shortness of breath. The other thing about it that I think is particularly terrifying [is] even back in 2020, these reports came out…there was one where they took MRIs on 100 people with regular COVID-pneumonia and something like 50% of them…had lesions in their hearts. So, we shouldn’t be surprised that there’s longer recovery in people…like, at all.

How does learning to live with COVID and its aftermath translate at the Health and the Human Services departments?

We’ve had discussions at HSD and DOH in the past day about masking and how we’re going to do that, and people are going to have the right not to wear a mask. I think society will be in a little bit of turmoil probably for the next six weeks as really conservative school boards find out that half of the parents want everyone masked at school, and really liberal school boards find out half the parents want their kids unmasked. I think the state has provided air cover for a lot of employers and schools and departments in state governments, but I think those discussions are going to be really exciting, fruitful, contentious, eye-opening, and I think we’ll work through them and figure it out.

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ed a harsh approach to criminal justice and an ultimately ill-fated push to make New Mexico a “hub” for hydrogen energy production.

Here’s a look at how some of the bills SFR followed through the session fared. (Lujan Grisham has until March 9 to sign or veto approved bills.)

Mixed bag for governor, other Democrats as dust settles on Roundhouse session

New Mexico has one of the nation’s highest rates of child poverty, but a last-minute legislative package could alleviate some families’ financial burdens through a temporary child income tax credit that allows families to claim between $25 and $175.

House Bill 163 emerged in the final days of the session, combining several bills aimed at reforming taxation. A change to the Social Security income tax code will exempt individuals with a maximum income of $100,000, or married couples who earn less than $150,000.

The omnibus tax package also included a 0.25% reduction to the gross receipts tax.

Though “if all of a sudden things go the other direction,” which means GRT revenues fall below 95% of the previous year, “there is an automatic trigger that would reinstate” the current rate, Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, tells SFR. A tax credit for nurses and solar market development income, a deduction for femine hygiene products and an exemption for military retirement pay are among other elements in HB 163.

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nother 30-day legislative session concluded in Santa Fe last week with the sort of Richter scale-registering news, recriminations and maddash conclusions New Mexicans have come to expect from even-yeared Roundhouse extravaganzas.

House Speaker Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, stunned many in the chamber with his announcement that he won’t seek reelection, following several lengthy goodbyes to other departing lawmakers. Rep. Georgene Louis, an Albuquerque Democrat seen by many as an up-and-comer, sat in on debates after her arrest on suspicion of aggravated DWI and heated calls for her resignation. And Sen. William Sharer, R-Farmington, staggered through a finish-line filibuster that effectively killed a far-reaching voting rights bill favored by pretty much the entire majority party.

Sharer’s victory marked one in a series of blows to large swaths of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s pre-session agenda, which includ-

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Education

It seems the only thing legislators could agree on during this year’s session was education.

Pay raises for school employees were the biggest ticket items that passed through the Legislature, totalling $267 million. All teachers will see a $10,000 pay bump, New Mexico educators will receive a 7% raise and the minimum wage for school employees was increased to $15. The biggest raise will only go to teachers; counselors, school social workers and other professionals providing direct services won’t receive the pay increase. That is a priority for next year’s legislative session, says Rep. Debra Sariñana, D-Albuquerque, who signed on as a sponsor of Senate Bill 1.

The Opportunity Scholarship Act, Senate Bill 140, will pay the tuition of any New Mexico undergraduate enrolled in six or more credits at either a two- or four-year public post-secondary school or tribal college.

House Bill 60 increased the salary of educators holding a certification in Native American language and culture.

Cannabis

Most notable for the cannabis industry at this year’s session was the death of Senate Bill 100, which would have increased the production limit for microbusinesses from 200 to 1,000 plants, among other changes to the Cannabis Regulation Act. “This is a big blow against us,” Bob Boylan, CEO of Roadrunner Manufacturing, tells SFR. Boylan says the company would have upped production if the bill had passed, but adds that he thinks some microbusinesses likely wouldn’t have had the funding to take advantage of the allotted increase.

SB 100 got held up after Sen. Cliff Pirtle, R-Roswell, made an amendment to no longer require prospective cannabis producers to verify they have legal access to water, which riled the New Mexico Acequia Association.

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Two other cannabis-related bills also died. One would’ve dedicated a portion of cannabis excise tax revenue to a substance use disorder treatment fund and the other would’ve made driving a vehicle while under the influence illegal. (It’s now illegal to drive while impaired due to the influence of drugs or alcohol.)

One victory at the session: The Legislature passed a bill to decriminalize the possession and use of test strips that can detect the presence of fentanyl, expanding the existing Harm Reduction Act.

Crime and Punishment

Lujan Grisham pushed a 1990s-flavored, tough-on-crime slate of bills in the runup to the session, all while facing reelection as New Mexico’s largest city suffers through record-setting violent crime spikes.

“Rebuttable presumptions” became an oft-repeated catchphrase for her signature piece of legislation, which would have rolled back cash-bail reforms and shifted the burden from the state to defendants in guiding judges’ decisions about who gets released before trial after being accused of certain violent crimes.

House Bill 5 was doomed from the start, and Democrats scrambled to reconstitute changes to the state’s pretrial detention system, ultimately agreeing that the most palatable way forward was to fund round-the-clock GPS monitoring of certain defendants.

That provision wound up in the socalled omnibus crime package, which passed both chambers and also included increased penalties for some crimes, eliminated the statute of limitations for second degree murder and created the crime of operating a chop-shop. Aqui aut odi offici

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he search for Santa Fe’s next police chief is in full swing—a citywide survey is ongoing, and closeddoor meetings with criminal justice professionals and community groups wrapped up last week.

Former Chief Andrew Padilla announced his retirement in late September, after three and a half years overseeing a department of 135 sworn officers with a $27.87 million budget, a 20% vacancy rate and a recent history of high-profile blunders that has one person helping with the search process calling for “cultural change” within SFPD. The city also has seen an increase the past couple years in some violent crimes, and police brass have remained allergic to transparency around the department’s internal workings, including how officers are disciplined for on-duty misconduct.

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idents who have praised the department’s decision to place “life over property” by stepping back when protesters tore down the Plaza obelisk in 2020, and for forays into alternative programs to divert those with addiction and other mental health issues from the criminal justice system.

City Manager John Blair and Community Health and Safety Department Director Kyra Ochoa are leading the search, which began in mid-November, two weeks before Padilla officially stepped down.

They received a relatively paltry 13 applications over two and a half months. No women applied.

Officials whittled the list to 10 who met the minimum requirements, then two, both from out of state, dropped out. Blair and Ochoa expect to announce their choice by the end of March.

Three of the eight who remain are locals, including SFPD’s interim chief and two other department higher-ups.

Two others are from Albuquerque—one of them has overseen APD’s troubled path toward resolving a long history of use of excessive force. The other, a former Aviation Police Department chief, has been suspended for abusing his position of authority and once called Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a dubious traffic stop, leading to the deportation of a young man who had spent nearly his whole life in the United States.

Blair says the city had not researched any candidate’s past troubles in law enforcement before SFR brought them up in an interview.

Here are the candidates, along with their current or most recent posts in law enforcement, for the job, which has an hourly pay range of $47 to $70.50: • Paul Joye, deputy chief of police operations and interim chief, SFPD • Benjamin Valdez, deputy chief of police administration, SFPD • Thomas Grundler, lieutenant of support operations, SFPD • Mizel Garcia, retired police commander/ deputy chief, Albuquerque Police Department • Marshall Katz, retired chief of aviation police, City of Albuquerque • Andrew Rodriguez, deputy chief of police, Rio Rancho Police Department • Scott Ebner, lieutenant colonel, New Jersey State Police

• Frank Rodriguez, deputy commissioner, North Carolina Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations The city advertised the position in seven places: its own website, LinkedIn.com, Indeed.com, New Mexico Municipal League, GoLawEnforcement.com, GovernmentJobs. com and the National Minority Update.

City officials didn’t know how many applications they received the last few times the chief position was open, but they say they’re pleased with the applicant pool.

“I think we have some very, very strong candidates and we’re happy with the result,” Ochoa tells SFR. “I think for us it’s about quality, not necessarily quantity.”

(For comparison, the Albuquerque Police Department, which is about six times larger than SFPD, has averaged about 40 applicants during its last three chief searches.)

Successes and failures

SFPD has garnered its share of support in recent years from some corners of a community that largely leans progressive.

The department’s decision to stand down as protesters yanked down the 150-year-old Plaza obelisk—a monument to Union Civil

I think we have some very, very strong candidates and we’re happy with the result.

I think for us it’s about quality, not necessarily quantity.

-Kyra Ochoa, Community Health and Safety Department director

THE POTENTIAL POLICE CHIEFS

The Locals

Out of 13 applicants for police chief, 10 met the city’s minimum qualifications.

(Two have since dropped out.)

Paul Joye:

Deputy chief of police operations and interim chief, SFPD

Benjamin Valdez: Deputy chief of police administration, SFPD

Thomas Grundler: Lieutenant of support operations, SFPD

of communication between SFPD and my office.”

The DA adds that the relationship has improved in the past few months—since Joye took over as interim chief and Blair assumed the city manager role.

Asked about problems in the department, Ochoa points to recruitment as one of the main “challenges” the new chief will face.

Asked the same question, Blair says that’s for the community to determine. “[We’re] asking everyone in Santa Fe to please let us know what they think are the priorities,” Blair says. “What are the concerns they have about the existing department? What characteristics and traits should the next police chief have? We’re even telling them to ask us what questions they think we should be asking.”

Problems in the past

Mizel Garcia: Retired police commander/deputy chief, Albuquerque Police Department Marshall Katz: Retired chief of aviation police, City of Albuquerque

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War heroes or a racist monument to the slaughter of Indigenous people and stolen land, depending on who you ask—marked a shift for local police.

They’d taken criticism for a heavy-handed approach to demonstrations against the now-vanished Entrada portion of Fiestas de Santa Fe. But as protests against racist, militarized policing roiled the nation in the wake of a Minneapolis cop’s murder of George Floyd, SFPD chose a different tack on Indigenous Peoples Day in 2020.

They placed “human life over property”—a decision Webber and then-Chief Padilla defended in the wake of the obelisk’s toppling.

Department support for the city leadership’s steps, however small, toward sending social workers and mental health professionals to certain calls instead of police has also earned some praise. The depth of the city’s commitment to such programs, however, remains in question.

There have been persistent problems at SFPD, too.

An audit conducted by a private firm and released in 2020 found dozens of deficiencies with the department’s collection, handling and storage of evidence. Last September, First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies’ office sent a letter to SFPD brass citing a shoddy investigation and laying out numerous missing elements from a high-profile 2020 homicide case that forced the DA to drop charges against the accused. And in October, SFR discovered that the department had been grossly underreporting crimes in annual reports submitted to the FBI for at least three years.

That’s all on top of SFPD’s persistent re-

Andrew Rodriguez: Deputy chief of police, Rio Rancho Police Department Scott Ebner:

Lieutenant colonel, New Jersey State Police

Frank Rodriguez: Deputy commissioner, North Carolina Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations

fusal to make public any information about its internal disciplinary system or even basic facts after an officer has been punished for policy violations and misconduct—information even the transparency-averse APD releases upon request. (SFR is suing the department over the practice, and the case is

pending in the state Court of Appeals.)

“The last four or five years, there have been issues with the evidence room, with the quality of investigations, with turning over discovery and police reports and testing reports,” Carmack-Altwies tells SFR. “I would say there’s been an organizational lack

When SFR contacted Blair and Ochoa for interviews about their candidates last week, the city had yet to vet any of them.

Valdez, SFPD’s deputy chief of administration and a candidate for the chief position, factored prominently in the run-up to one of the department’s most high-profile shootings in recent memory. He was the on-scene commander in 2017 when officers Luke Wakefield and Jeramie Bisagna shot and killed Anthony Benavidez, a 24-year-old man who was living with paranoid schizophrenia.

Benavidez’ family sued the city for wrongful death and, while Valdez wasn’t a named defendant, his failures as a supervisor were cited repeatedly in the lawsuit, which led to a $400,000 settlement.

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SEARCH PROCESS TIMELINE

Sept. 27, 2021

Andrew Padilla announces he will retire at the end of the year

Nov. 15, 2021

December 2021

Paul Joye begins serving as interim chief

Applications opened

Jan. 28, 2022

Applications closed

Feb. 4, 2022

Shortlist announced

Feb. 14-18, 2022

End of March 2022

Feb. 25, 2022

Community survey closes at 5 pm

“Public safety” and “community partner” panels that are closed to the public

City Manager John Blair’s target date for hiring

Date to be determined

The city initially said it intended to begin community question-and-answer sessions with Mayor Alan Webber, city councilors and the public on Feb. 28.

Officials had no plan for the events as of presstime.

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says. Dorado spent years in Mexico, tried unsuccessfully to reenter the US legally but was unable. He eventually returned to the US, earned a college degree and remains here today. It is not clear what became of his father.

Katz is seeking a job as police chief in a city whose residents and leaders have for years overwhelmingly supported immigrant-friendly policies.

In 2015, Katz’ last year as aviation chief, he was suspended for 90 days—the maximum punishment short of termination, which Katz successfully appealed, in part—for “misusing aviation department resources for personal gain,” the Albuquerque Journal reported. Among the allegations: Katz ordered subordinates to respond to calls outside their jurisdiction at the airport for his friends and demanded that a female subordinate pluck his eyebrows. Katz created a hostile

I would have liked to have seen some female applicants applying. I was sorry we didn’t see that.

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sor, have faced lawsuits for alleged civil rights violations.

Garcia, the retired Albuquerque police commander, also was targeted in a federal civil rights case in which he allegedly omitted information in court records that led to the plaintiff spending weeks in jail after an illegal arrest.

Further, Garcia indicated in the resume he submitted to Santa Fe officials that his time at APD included ensuring that all mid-level supervisors had been trained on the department’s use of force and use-offorce-reporting policies. The independent monitor overseeing a yearslong, federally mandated reform effort at APD has asserted in court documents that the department has failed time and again to meet standards related to officers’ use of force.

Katz, the former Aviation Police Department chief in Albuquerque, has perhaps the most checkered history of any of the SFPD chief candidates.

In 2010, Katz, who worked 22 years for APD before taking the top spot with the aviation department, pulled over a truck on northbound Interstate 25 near Downtown Albuquerque, according to a source with knowledge of the encounter who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation. Inside were then-19-year-old Ramón Dorado Jr., and a teenaged passenger. Katz refused to provide a reason for the stop and immediately began asking questions about the pair’s immigration status.

They were undocumented, though both had spent nearly their entire lives in the United States. Katz became suspicious, the source says, called another officer, then summoned ICE. An immigration agent handcuffed Dorado, and the passenger called his father, who rushed to the scene and asked what was happening. “We are deporting him,” the agent said, then his father said: “Then deport me, too.”

That’s exactly what happened, the source

City Manager John Blair, appointed to the job last month, says he is relying on public input as he makes the hire for Santa Fe’s next police chief.

work environment for those who refused such orders, employees told investigators.

And a KRQE-TV investigation published in 2016 found that Katz oversaw an ongoing program in which aviation cops, working on the city’s dime, provided security for jewelers who transported large shipments of diamonds and other precious stones from the airport to stores in and around Albuquerque.

Katz declined to be interviewed for this story. He issued a statement through counsel in which he said he stopped the car in 2010 for speeding and swerving and did not inquire about the pair’s immigration status (but another officer did). He acknowledged contacting immigration authorities, claiming that he was “required to.”

Katz noted that he believes he had an “all but spotless 38-year career” and wrote “there were some lessons learned on my part with respect to supervising civilians and sworn personnel but I did not abuse my authority.”

Blair, the Santa Fe city manager, says the city had not yet thoroughly conducted background checks on the candidates.

“I can tell you that we are doing that research now,” Blair says. “And again, it was important for us that we not prejudge any of the candidates, and by [SFR] asking those questions about these candidates, by us hearing from residents of Santa Fe about the backgrounds of these candidates, that’s the system working. That is the public telling us either they have concerns about the things you’ve mentioned, or they don’t.”

When the application deadline hit, Blair says, the Human Resources Department sent over a list of the candidates who met the minimum qualifications: 10 years experience in police administration and law enforcement, at least five of them in a management or supervisory position, no felony convictions and other conditions.

No applicants were women

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who’s on it—and who’s not. (Two candidates withdrew their applications, one from New York and another from Illinois.)

“We feel like we have a good diversity of candidates, at least in terms of where they’re from,” Blair says, adding that the candidates are white, Hispanic and African American. “I would have liked to have seen some female applicants applying. I was sorry we didn’t see that.”

A city news release announcing the qualifying candidates issued on Feb. 4 noted that no women applied for the position.

“I wanted us to flag that because my suspicion was that, had we not clarified, Santa Feans would have been upset if they thought women had applied but had not qualified,” Blair says in an interview.

Multiple studies over the last 40 years have found that female officers are less likely to use force and are better at communicating and defusing potentially violent encounters than male officers.

Those findings line up with the experiences of Beth Paiz, who retired from the Albuquerque Police Department in 2012 as the first woman to rise to the rank of deputy chief.

“I can’t speak for any other women but what I saw in my own years in the police department and what I experienced, I think I did have a greater level of empathy going into a call than my male counterparts,” Paiz tells SFR. “I saw a lot of my female peers, when we would go into a call, a lot of it was just listening…and really trying to problem-solve. It’s not always about slapping on the handcuffs and taking the bad guy to jail.”

Paiz, who spent much of her career as a detective investigating sexual assaults and crimes against children, says those skills carried over when she stepped into an administrative role.

“You can walk into a meeting and you can just dictate how things are going to be done or you can take the time to listen,” Paiz says.

Ochoa—while noting that “it’s not a hard and fast rule”—agrees that women have in some cases brought unique skill sets to the city’s police force, which, she says, she’s discussed with leaders in the department. (The police chief reports to Ochoa, as part of a larger reorganization the city undertook in fall 2020.)

“When I did a ride-along with a detective who’s female, one of the things she said was, ‘Well, because some of the people I encounter in the field might be physically stronger than me, I have to have a very well-developed set of skills around deescalation,’” Ochoa says. “After she said it, it seemed obvious.”

Of SFPD’s 135 officers, 22 are women— none ranks higher than sergeant. That’s a rate of about 16%. Nationally, women make

Two SFPD officers respond to a call in December. Of the department’s 135 officers, 22 are women—none ranks higher than sergeant.

up less than 13% of full-time officers, according to 2018 data from the FBI. “I think there’s an opportunity for us, as we engage in this process, to ask the candidates what can be done in Santa Fe to both recruit qualified women and how to make sure that there’s a career path for them to work their way up to positions of leadership,” Blair says.

Unlike most American police departments, SFPD has had a woman at the helm.

Bev Lennen served as chief from 2003 to 2006 before retiring. Particularly during the period two decades ago when even fewer women worked in law enforcement, she was seen as a trailblazer.

Lennen moved out of state and has been largely gone from the public eye for years, but she turned up in 2021, casting what could be seen as a critical eye on how Mayor Alan Webber and other city officials are running things. Lennen appeared in campaign materials for then-City Councilor JoAnne Vigil Coppler, Webber’s opponent in the mayoral election.

Lennen declined to be interviewed for this story.

Another prominent local woman in law enforcement sat in last week on a series of closed-door meetings with candidates for the SFPD chief position, peppering the candidates with questions.

Carmack-Altwies tells SFR she was “disappointed” no women applied for the job.

“I don’t know exactly how recruiting for candidates actually went out, and I do wonder if that could have been improved to diversify the candidate pool,” she says.

Community weighs in

Blair and Ochoa hosted “public safety and community partner dialogue sessions”—

panels that were closed to the public—last week with each of the candidates.

Tony Trujillo, one of the panelists and president of the Santa Fe Police Officers Association, says Padilla, the former chief, maintained a good relationship with the union, and he’d like someone who can keep that up to get the position.

“Being that the next chief is going to be our boss, obviously we would like to have a chief that we can work well with and respect, have confidence,” Trujillo tells SFR. DA Carmack-Altwies points out that she will be among those who work most closely with the new chief and says she hopes the city hires someone with solid management skills.

“Santa Fe PD needs someone with really strong leadership to come in and change the culture, such that there’s less worrying about whose job it is to get a certain task done and more focus on, ‘I am going to make sure that job gets done,’” she says, adding that she doesn’t have a preference for whether the city hires from inside SFPD. Tomás Rivera, another panelist and executive director of local organization Chainbreaker Collective, tells SFR he’s glad that the city is prioritizing public input.

“It’s kind of refreshing to be able to have this level of community participation in something that’s such a key role for the city,” Rivera says. “This is more than I’m aware of ever happening for a position like this.”

Rivera is concerned about officers who work in Santa Fe but don’t live in the city and “how that affects the dynamic.” Padilla, like many of the department’s officers, did not live in Santa Fe. One of the department’s biggest challenges, Ochoa says, is Santa Fe’s rising unaffordability.

“The commute times that a lot of folks

have to do and the strain that can put on folks makes it challenging,” Ochoa says.

While Rivera thinks the input the city is collecting is “a step in the right direction,” he says there’s still work to be done to build community trust with the police.

“It’s not just about the police chief, it’s about larger, systemic issues,” Rivera says.

“It’s much broader and healing the city from all of these divisions and trying to bring trust…It took decades to get us here and it’s going to take time to get us back out.”

Ochoa’s department, which oversees police, fire, community services, recreation and emergency management, was created in September 2020, months after the murder of George Floyd ignited nationwide protests.

“The mayor really had that vision that one of the ways Santa Fe could respond to the national moment and the deep questioning about policing and how policing needed to be working was to think about the continuum from prevention to intervention,” Ochoa says.

Ochoa speaks with the police cheif nearly every day “about various issues that arise,” she says, and the pair has weekly meetings with other department heads.

With about a month left before their target hiring date, city officials say they hope all Santa Feans will weigh in.

The clock is ticking. The city’s community survey closes at 5 pm on Friday.

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“It’s a teeny-tiny, farming and ranching community of about 600 people,” Todd tells SFR of her hometown. “I’m going to talk about growing up there, and my parents of course, but then it vacillates into a fairy tale world. I always loved art, but I just kept putting it aside.”

Put aside no longer, her project is a testament to how it’s never too late to pursue art, regardless of any previous life path.

A relative newcomer to full-time artistry, Todd taught at the university level for nearly two decades before asking herself that ever-sacred question: Is this really what I want out of life?

As Todd delivers personal monologues at the upcoming event, visitors can also examine new body prints, a process through which she paints her body and presses against canvas to create form, inviting the

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Be warned, though, that whatever meaning you assign the pieces might not hold up post-show. Beyond the body prints, find detailed fairy tale masks constructed of mesh wire and copper sheets, plus sculptures and more, all of which are symbolic representations of her journey.

“I really believe in the ‘divine muse concept’ whispering in your ear,” Todd continues. “One of my themes is always flowers and vines, climbing throughout. It’s an expression of self-growth, transformation and blooming. My hope with the show is that people who like to write, build things or work with others can find inspiration and their own divine muse.”

A portion of the proceeds go to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association, for that extra do-good feeling. (Riley Gardner)

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ONGOING ART AWAKENINGS ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 Are you ever just walking down the street, minding your own biz when suddenly there’s a meeting of the conscious and the unconscious and you’ve got this big desire to paint stuff?

ViVO understands. See contemporary media, oil, acrylic, glass, sculpture and more, all which embody inspiration.

10 am-5 pm, free BETH MOON: BAOBAB Online tinyurl.com/2p9dap6w View Moon’s shockingly beautiful images of critically endangered baobab trees, all in black and white.

All day, free COME SEE THE CATS Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Bobbie Ferrell’s paintings are inspired by her cats, because Jellicles can and Jellicles do.

10 am-6 pm, Tues-Sat, free FREQUENCY AND ARCHETYPE, SPIRIT AND MATTER El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Artist Bella Marie recreates her visions of the inner spirit and formless world revealed to her in meditation.

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

“Firm Grip on his Side Arm “ by B. Shawn Cox, from Medium Rare: Art Created from the Unexpected, opening Friday at Evoke Contemporary.

HELEN PASHGIAN: PRESENCES SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Light and space? In this economy? Pashigan’s works prove both light and space are physical presences in our lives.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

HOPE DIES LAST: A TRIBUTE TO STUDS TERKEL Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596 This public artwork pays homage to the late, great oral historian and the everyday people he turned into inspirational legacies.

All day, free

KATE JOYCE: METAPHYSICS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Joyce sees a plane’s window seat as its own destination and builds art around it.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

MARIETTA PATRICIA LEIS: SENSE MEMORIES Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 Informed by her journeys and imbued with a sense of place, the work of Leis is situated in the vortex of light, color, minimalism and expression.

Fri-Sun, noon-5 pm, $10

NEVADA WIER: INVISIBLE LIGHT Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 Or, “how to make the invisible visible” as some you may see it. And how does one see it?

Through infrared photography.

11 am-5 pm, free THE POWER OF PRINT: FEATURING MASTER WORKS FROM THE LANDFALL PRESS Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800 Prints, prints and more prints, both from the Landfall archive and Turner Carroll’s own collection.

10–6 pm, free TRANSFORMING THE DESERT Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915 Check out Christa Stephens’ peculiar vision for the Southwestern sky and all its geometrical madness.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri Noon-5 pm, Sat and Sun, free VIBRANT POOL Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 With sound installation, experimental photography and light sculpture, the three artists making up Vibrant Pool prove art never stopped being cool.

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Thurs, 9 am-5 pm Fri and Sat, noon-6 pm Sun, 11 am-5 pm, free THIS IS THE SHAPE OF ME Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888 Sewn fabric wall sculptures and framed works on synthetic vellum, exploring light, color and space? Sounds like our college days—sign us up.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free GLIMPSES OF THE PAST: HISTORIC NEW MEXICO PRINTS 1880-1950 Couse-Sharp Historic Site 138 Kit Carson Road, Taos (575) 751-0369 A presentation of more than 50 works in graphic media with a distinct focus on Northern New Mexico. If you haven’t noticed, that’s where we’re all living and there is so much cool old stuff around here. Plus, seeing some 1880s prints is something that will always be pretty cool. In your face, prints of the 1900s!

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CIRCUS STORYTIME AND CRAFT Oliver LaFarge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4862 Cute lil circus-inspired stories for the kiddos, plus an inspired arts and craft session post-reading.

10:30 am, free FALSTAFF: PORTRAITS OF A SCOUNDREL OR OF A SAINT, IF YOU ASKED HIS OPINION Online tinyurl.com/muasmpfp In this presentation, explore the key scenes from Falstaf, Verdi’s and Boito’s masterpiece of comedy and, at times, pathos.

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3-4 pm, free LIABILITY ISSUES FOR EQUESTRIANS Pecos Trail Café 2239 Old Pecos Trail contact@nnmha.org Learn important liability information regarding horse ownership and participation in equestrian activities. Email the above address to RSVP. 7 pm, free

EVENTS CHILDREN'S CHESS CLUB Online mark@galassi.org They’re meeting virtually for the time being, but chess for Santa Fe's youth is hopefully still just as fun on a screen. Contact the above email for deets.

5:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278 Quick, how many copies did Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera sell in its original publication run?! Don’t tell us, you fool, save it for trivia night!

8 pm, free TAX HELP NEW MEXICO Downtown Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 465-9776 A free service for people whose income is $57,000 or less, or those who are 65 or older. By appointment! (See SFR Picks, page 15) 10 am-4 pm, free HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Classic bingo, $2 buy-in per round. Prizes too.

7 pm, $2-$10

MUSIC DEAFHEAVEN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 A hybrid sound of black metal, shoegaze and post-rock. Special guests include Holy Fawn and Midwife. Basically, if you’re gonna gaze at your shoes...

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7:30 pm, $25-$39 JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Don’t worry, the Clares are actually fine. Drinks plus tunes.

8 pm, free (no cover) KIDS SING ALONG Southside Library 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Bring the kiddos out and get them distracted by musical joys.

3 pm, free REVOZO DUO El Nido 1577 Bishops Lodge Road (505) 954-1272 Vicente Griego and Gabriel Osuna playing, plus some pretty sweet wine discounts.

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6-8 pm, free (no cover) SIERRA FERRELL PLUS NICK SHOULDERS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 With her spellbinding voice and time-bending sensibilities, Ferrell makes music that's as vagabond as the artist herself, while Shoulders is a living link to country music’s roots.

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THU/24 BOOKS/LECTURES THIS LAND OF SNOW Online tinyurl.com/3p5h5arv Author and adventurer Anders Morley discusses the background of his book This Land of Snow.

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DANCE ADVANCED SALSA Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. (505) 989-9788 If you know basics and timing, get your salsa on here.

7:30 pm, $20

FOOD WARM MEAL DISTRIBUTION DeVargas Park 302 W DeVargas St. Food distribution for those in need. Volunteers welcome.

5-6:30 pm, free

MUSIC AL ROGERS Vanessie Piano Bar 427 W Water St. (505) 984-1193 Piano tunes at the wine bar.

6:30 pm, $10

JANIS IAN Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 This acclaimed songwriter is embracing a new milestone: The art of the farewell. Join Ian for a kick-off of her Celebrating Our Years Together Tour. (See SFR Picks, page 15) 7-10 pm, $45-$60 THEO KUTSKO Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Kutsko’s piano tunes are a warm blend of joy on these wintry nights.

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THEATER SHINE HAPPY SHINE! A 1-WOMAN SHOW The Lab Theater 1213 Parkway Drive tinyurl.com/rdr2bpk2 A spirited one-woman show from artist/playwright Vicki Todd inviting you on a journey to her hometown of Happy, Texas. Yes, it’s a real place. (see SFR picks, page 15) 7:30 pm, $25

FRI/25 ART 2022 ANNUAL FOTO FORUM JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION: (CLOSING RECEPTION) Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 This exhibition includes over 50 original photographic works.

5-7 pm, free CROSSROADS (OPENING) Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 A nod to the distinct regions and artistic styles of three Indigenous artists.

5-7 pm, free FREQUENCY AND ARCHETYPE, SPIRIT AND MATTER (CLOSING RECEPTION) El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Last chance to see artist Bella Marie's show on resilience.

5-7 pm, free MEDIUM RARE: ART CREATED FROM THE UNEXPECTED (OPENING) Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 A showcase of artists who flourish in the playground of unexpected mixed media.

5-7 pm, free SITE SCHOLARS EXHIBITION SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Work from current SITE Scholars on display. It’s, umm, scholarly.

5-7 pm, free

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BOOKS/LECTURES NEVADA WIER: GALLERY TALK Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 Wier presents a gallery walk through of her exhibition Invisible World at Obscura Gallery.

5:30-6:30 pm, free

EVENTS HUNKS: THE SHOW El Campanario 3136 Cerrillos Road tinyurl.com/eh6tefkw Yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like. Think of it being a Magic Mike touring cast. 21+.

10 pm, $20-$70

MUSIC JANIS IAN Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Songwriter Ian kicks off her farewell tour. (See SFR Picks, page 15) 7-10 pm, $45-$60 JOE WEST ACOUSTIC JAM Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14 (505) 471-9271 A delightfully acoustic jam, courtesy of West.

5-8 pm, free PAUL OAKENFOLD Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Electronic music king Oakenfold arrives at Meow Wolf to save us all from the terror of dull music.

10 pm, $22 (See SFR Picks, page 15) AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL The Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 A celebration of all there is to love about our nation.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER SHINE HAPPY SHINE! A 1-WOMAN SHOW The Lab Theater 1213 Parkway Drive tinyurl.com/rdr2bpk2 Well-written monologues, plus awesome body prints and other forms of art? We’re in. (see SFR picks, page 15) 7:30 pm, $25

SAT/26 ART MARDI GRAS ON THE PLAZA Parts Unknown 123 W San Francisco St. (505) 983-9298 Photography presentation from New Orleans transplant Michael McGrane. Plus art masks, paintings and digital art.

Noon, free BLOOMING (OPENING) Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 alasdeagua.com A showcase from artist Samantha Chavez—a visual representation of internal healing and growth as a woman.

2:30-6 pm, free THE NIGHT FALLS AND THE DAY BREAKS (OPENING) 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Sumi ink on paper and stoneware by Utako Shindo.

Noon-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Stories and songs in English and Spanish.

10 am, free

DANCE SWING, BLUES AND FUSION DANCE Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. (505) 989-9788 Vaccinated and masked event— and don't worry, dancing in a mask isn't as hard as it seems.

Get yourself a blues lesson in at 7 pm, then dominate the dance floor (respectfully).

7 pm, $5

DJ JOHN SHERDON AND FRIENDS Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475 (505) 982-4429 Those boom-chicka-booms aren’t an evil fracking machine, but rather the beats for Ski Santa Fe's DJ show.

11 am-3 pm, free EILEEN IVERS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Foot stompin’ Irish riverdance.

7:30 pm, $25-$49 SPACEMOB SC Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Spacemob SC is coming to Boxcar Santa Fe to that DJ thing they do. Like, you know, fun.

10 pm, $5 TZU-FENG LIU St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-5397 Pianist Tzu-Feng Liu performs Schubert, Berg, Ravel and Kapustin.

4 pm, $5-$20

THEATER JULESWORKS FOLLIES Online tinyurl.com/4865zdfe Local variety show—the spice of life, as the kids say.

5 pm, free SHINE HAPPY SHINE! A 1-WOMAN SHOW The Lab Theater 1213 Parkway Drive tinyurl.com/rdr2bpk2 Part theater and part magical, evolving art exhibit that urges you to follow your heart’s whispers. (see SFR picks, page 15) 7:30 pm, $25

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FAMILY MORNING Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Celebrate and learn about the Lunar New Year. Storytime, art activities and explorations in the galleries.

11 am-noon, free

LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 Draw a life model. Bring your own supplies and easels. Dry materials only.

Noon, $10-$20

MUSIC 8TH ANNUAL JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE NIGHT The Matador 116 W San Francisco St. (505) 984-5050 This tribute night includes vinyl records, a vintage poster giveaway and drink specials.

8:30 pm-2 am, free (no cover) CHATTER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Lee Hyla reads Howl, plus David Felberg and Emily Cole on violin.

10:30 am, $5-$16

FILM YERUSALEM Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail www.santafejff.org The incredible story of Ethiopian Jewry.

3-5 pm, $10

MUSIC GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 An anarcho-punk show really is the spice of life.

8 pm, $42-$44

SPOOLIUS La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Dynamic DJ duo.

4 pm, free (no cover) MASTER CLASS: JANIS IAN Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Rock. (see SFR picks, page 15) 1 pm, $25

THEATER SHINE HAPPY SHINE! A 1-WOMAN SHOW The Lab Theater 1213 Parkway Drive tinyurl.com/rdr2bpk2 Teatro. (see SFR picks, page 15) 2 pm, $25

WORKSHOP MODERN BUDDHIST MEDITATION: LEARNING TO BE CONTENT/FEEL SATISFIED Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 292-5293 Find inner peace and contentment and satisfaction within your mind. It’s not in the people, places or things around us. Only by training in meditation on Buddha’s profound wisdom can we find the inner space and clarity that gives us the kind of life we really want. Proof of vaccination required.

10-11:30 am, $10

TUE/1 ART SHELTER IN PLACE Downtown Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 A photo series from artist and writer Carla Nagler.

Tues-Sat, 10 am-6 pm, free

MUSIC WESTIN MCDOWELL AND FELIX Y LOS GATOS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Fat Tuesday music jam.

5 pm, free (no cover)

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SIXTIES ABSTRACTIONS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 Check out Warren Davis’ contributions to the American abstraction movement.

10 am-6 pm, free SUSAN STEPHENSON: INSIDE-OUTSIDE (OPENING) Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Stephenson transforms scenery from everyday life through an exploration of color and light.

10 am-5 pm, free

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Part of the exhibit Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy at the New Mexico History Museum.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Experimental exPRESSion: Printmaking at IAIA, 1963– 1980. Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Painted Reflections: Isomeric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery. A Place in Clay.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5052 Storytellers: Narrative Art and the West. Poetic Justice: Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard and Jaune Quick-To SeeSmith. Ansel Adams: Pure Photography.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St. (505) 946-1000 Spotlight on Spring.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon $20 NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 In Search of Domínguez and Escalante. The Palace Seen and Unseen. The First World War. Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month.

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Portraits: Peoples, Places, and Perspectives.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8 EL MUSEO CULTURAL DE SANTA FE 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591 Permanent Collection: Local Generational, Native Contemporary, Latin America, Latino Urban, Slide Collection.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8

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COURTESY JONATHON JUAREZ

With Youth United for Climate Crisis Action organizer Jonathon Juarez

Coming from a family of activists, some of whom are from the Laguna Pueblo, Jonathon Juarez has always been keenly aware of the importance of environmental stewardship. The 19-year-old caravanned with five generations of his family to assist water protectors at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in 2016. Three years later, he helped organize several school climate strikes in Albuquerque, which saw hundreds of students walk out of class. In October, he joined Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA), a local organization founded by youth activists in Santa Fe and elsewhere in Northern New Mexico and coordinated by nonprofit Earth Care. One of the group’s focuses is pushing for legislative action to address climate change. (Bella Davis) This year’s legislative session saw few wins for environmental initiatives. The Green Amendment, which would have allowed voters to decide if the state Constitution should be amended to include environmental rights, and a bill that would’ve banned the storage of high-level nuclear waste in New Mexico died. Was that surprising to you?

Not necessarily. I think that this really speaks to the bigger picture. We’ve been a strong supporter of the Green Amendment in particular, and it’s just very sad to see that it didn’t make it this year. It’s frustrating. We have one of the most progressive state legislatures in the country. We have a Democratic-controlled House, Senate and the governor’s office, so the fact that we can’t see progressive policies around climate passed is really disheartening because if we can’t do it here, what are they going to do in rural, conservative parts of the country that also need to be joining this transition to a green economy and a green future because it affects everybody?

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Now that the session is over, what are YUCCA’s top priorities?

First and foremost, we’re going to take, not necessarily a break because we have so much we do outside of session, but we’re definitely, at least on the policy front, going to take a breather. We’ve been talking about this, how we don’t see this process as the only way to achieve the changes that we want to see. So, building relationships with representatives who have proven themselves to be allies and looking at the ways in which we can harness those relationships and actually propose meaningful legislation, but also leaning into the fact that we don’t rely on this legislative process to provide the solutions we need, so looking into other forms of direct action and ways we can still be making a difference.

We’re focused on Santa Fe, but we have, I want to say, three to five steering committee members—the committee makes all the decisions about what the organization does and events and all of that—that are based in Albuquerque, so part of it is building capacity to support, whether we want to have a Santa Fe committee and an Albuquerque committee operating kind of separate from each other but also connected, or if we want to continue what we’ve been doing, operating primarily in Santa Fe but, when things come up in Albuquerque, seeing how we can support.

Looking at climate change and the lack of radical political action in the US thus far to address it, shit feels pretty bleak.

How do you keep at this work and stop yourself from falling into doomerism?

The thing that comes to mind for me is, I really lean into my Indigenous identity when I start to think like that and just recognizing, particularly as a Pueblo person, this is where my people have always been—through drought and famine and things that the Spanish were never prepared for, and that’s why the Pueblo Revolt was so successful is because we have the knowledge of these lands and we’ve been able to use that to our benefit to sustain us through times of questionable climate conditions in the past. I fully believe that we still have these Indigenous-based climate solutions that really lean into that wisdom of land-based knowledge systems that have existed in these areas for generations.

That’s primarily what keeps me out of a climate doom mindset but it is definitely hard. Working in policy now is a whole other ball game. YUCCA has been at the forefront of this since 2019, so we’re going on almost three years since our demands—that are less meaningful now because we’ve waited so long—were delivered to the governor’s office.

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n Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour (Feb. 15, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), God is an artist preparing to destroy the first draft of creation. In the present moment, which could be an aeon or a zeptosecond, God is standing back from the canvas and wondering what to do differently next time.

In aid of this, God has split into the form of a trinity. No, not the Father, Son and Holy Ghost—this trinity is three critics: One is a bird who critiques from above, one is a fish who critiques from the middle and one is a bear who critiques, “while cradling creation in its arms.” In Heti’s cosmology, each person falls into one of those three archetypes, and is born from the corresponding “egg.” This invites an enneagrammatic quiz: From what kind of egg were you born?

A) Do you look at nature from on high, in an abstracted way, and take an interest in beauty, order, harmony and meaning?

B) Do you appear in a flotation of jelly containing hundreds of thousands of eggs, and care more for the collective wellbeing than the good of any particular egg?

C) Are you like a child holding on to their very best doll?

According to Heti, if you selected A, you were born from a bird egg; if B, a fish egg; and, if C, from a bear egg.

It’s impossible for anyone to understand the worldview of someone who was born from a different type of egg than their own, and therein lies the conflict and fundamental tragedy of the book. But, Heti says, each type of person is necessary to the existence of the others.

Pure Colour is Heti’s third novel, depending on how you categorize her previous works, which tend to expand beyond genre boundaries.

“Novel” doesn’t seem the best way to describe this book, either. It’s more like geometry, or an epic during which nothing and everything happens. Heti’s newest work is an impressionistic swath of a book, bewildering in its kaleidoscopic shifts from one perspective to another and from one plane of existence to another. Or, it’s like metaphysical Jeopardy!. What is the most important thing in life? Life is knowing the correct distance from everything. What is immortality? Immortality is Googling yourself forever. What

is fatigue? “You know the gods consider you dangerous if you are tired all the time,” she writes.

As much as it’s difficult to pin down a genre, it’s perhaps more difficult to describe what the book is about. We follow Mira, a person born from the bird egg.

Mira works in a lamp store. She attends a prestigious school for critics. Her father dies. She and her father’s spirit converse from inside a leaf. Time turns slowly or not at all, and now Mira works in a jewelry store. Her favorite lamp gets smashed.

Pure Colour has a stasis-like quality, like being at the center of an orb and watching everything on the surface at the same

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distance. But what sticks with the reader are small, pungent and precise deployments of language and experience—Heti describes “the color of a father dying;” the way some lives are the size of a leaf, not the size of a shore; how everyone’s apartment has a different smell, like everyone’s own armpit. Pure Colour also has aspects of climate change allegory, an atmosphere of the end-times. There’s anxiety about asteroids and the Oort Cloud. In the first chapter, we learn that “the earth is heating up in advance of its destruction by God, who has decided that the first draft of existence contained too many flaws.”

Climate grief is woven throughout, but with it comes reverent attention for those things that we no longer have the privilege of calling eternal. There’s reverence for the other-than-human: plants, lamps, leaves and damp socks.

Everything presents an opportunity for faith. Heti suggests there are three aspects of self at war with one another—a killing part, a critiquing part (closely related to the killing part), and a loving part. The killing and critiquing parts tend to overpower the part that only loves, and there’s an implication that the more destructive parts are what’s valued in this capitalist, imperialist society.

“Winning,” then, means having the killing and critiquing parts win out over the loving part, and so, Heti says, we shouldn’t feel bad when we are not winning.

There’s a certain absurd, fatalistic comfort in living in the end-times. A coziness in insignificance. Until the Oort Cloud or the fossil fuel industry snuffs us out, a person can be found “eating cheese crisps and mildly playing cards or sitting on chairs, waiting for the soul’s one chance at a human life on earth, where they will find their truest love.”

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The theme of the 2022 SFR Poetry contest is historical trauma: poems that study the past and illuminate the present.

We’re looking for poems about conflict, crisis, hope, and history from poets of all backgrounds dealing with a traumatic event that has a deeper history, so that the poem deals both with the present manifestation and the historical background. The traumatic crisis may be cultural, racial, sexual, gender-based, geographical, environmental, or anything else.

Powerful examples of such poems are “The Right Foot of Juan de Onate” by Martin Espada, “The Colonel” by Carolyn Forche, “Middle Passage” by Robert Hayden, and any poetry by Frank X Walker.

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There is no minimum or maximum word count. Entries must be typed and previously unpublished. Paid contributors to SFR in the last year are not eligible. There is no limit on the number of entries per poet, but each entry should be a single poem. $5 entry fee supports our journalism mission

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An Embarrassment of Riches

Ranier Wood (left) and Jim Trudell make the fanciest of drinks at Crash Murder Business.

Crash Murder Business makes fancy drink dreams come true

BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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’d already visited newly-minted Montezuma Avenue coffee shop Crash Murder Business a few weeks earlier by the time I convinced owner Ranier Wood I wasn’t out to do harm through the printed word. I will fully admit that my first thought was something about how CMB would never last with such a complicated name (these are the words for a group of rhinos, crows and ferrets, respectively) and such a complicated menu (more on that in a minute), but now that I’ve visited a couple times, I’ve completely changed my tune. Perhaps that’s more about hoping a business lasts just because I like it, but I can see Santa Fe embracing this new downtown spot, and I hope it does.

Wood is a Santa Fe native, though it’s been some time since she lived here year-round.

She’s a movement teacher and yoga fan, a multi-media artist and a potions maker; she likes building up women and believes in pussy power. (God, though, who doesn’t?) At the risk of sounding like some dumb hippie, she oozes good vibes. Still, when COVID-19 reared its ugly head in 2020, Wood was in the midst of a privately funded artist residency in New York City, a far cry from her new Santa Fe digs. Nervous about high transmis-

sion rates and so much death, she says, Wood grabbed her son and returned home.

“In New York, there were refrigerated trucks for extra bodies,” she says of those startling early-COVID times. “It was a good time to leave, and besides—I came back and thought, ‘Oh, I love it here! There’s parking and fresh air and friends I’ve known my whole life!’ I do think it’s really important to leave Santa Fe, though.”

Agreed. If nothing else, Santa Feans can sometimes lack perspective, and I say that as someone who loves this city as much as

anyone can love a civilization. Wood’s vision upon returning was to create an amalgam of services under one roof with a special bent toward women—but don’t worry, dudes, you can also patronize Crash Murder Business.

And you’ll want to do that. Up front, find the coffees, elixirs and rigorously-developed concoctions served alongside drip coffee and espresso. You’ll also find manager Jim Trudell, formerly of Montezuma Coffee Co., which once served a hot cup just up the street from Wood’s new operation.

“Jim is a fucking miracle,” Wood says, beaming. “He’s been in coffee for 20 years, whereas I’ve never done coffee, I’ve never done foodservice. Jim saved my butt, because I tend to like really bougie shit, really fancy coffee, and he comes from the more fast, economical—but flavorful—thing that keeps me from going bankrupt.”

So what does a woman who loves fancy drinks but knows nothing of the coffee business do? The first thing was to learn.

Wood enlisted Iconik Coffee Roaster’s Chase Stafford for CMB’s eespresso beans. They’re a type Iconik roasts but doesn’t serve in any of its shops; Trudell handles the drip, and Wood devises bizarre (excellently absurd?) potions that sound daunting at first, but are brilliantly delicious if a little complex.

Take the Streak of Tigers, a $6 single origin espresso served with milk and curry, black pepper, cacao and maple syrup. What are all those things doing in a cup of coffee? Kicking ass. It’s a deeply flavorful and earthy delight,

Yeah, plain old coffee slaps, but the Streak of Tigers and Glory of Unicorns are worth sampling and they’ve got plenty of room for espresso.

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none of which one would expect, but about which I’ve been haunted for days. Wood even represents tiger stripes across the coffee’s surface with spices. It’s delicious, frankly. For the more sweet-minded drinkers out there who want a nice quaff but aren’t looking for caffeine, Wood’s Glory of Unicorns ($4) is indeed glorious, from the frothy milk with vanilla and subtle maple syrup flavor (Wood likes to add maple syrup to drinks, and this is not a complaint) to the edible multi-color glitter topper and whipped cream. It is, frankly, a miracle elixir, and it hit me right in the sweet tooth and in the belly. Want that with coffee? You can totally make it happen for an extra $1.75.

“Jim was like, ‘these drinks...you’re insane!’” Wood notes with a laugh, “but I don’t know that there are many women-owned coffee shops, and there aren’t a lot of places to hang out in that are beautiful or aesthetically interesting to hang out in, especially with high quality coffee.”

Wood does want folks to hang out, by the way. Sit there all day, really—nothing would please her more. You’re also more likely to learn about what’s going on toward the back of the building—studio space for women artists, including multimedia creator Margaret R Thompson, (@margaret_r_thompson on insta), whose work I’m hopeful to see in more public settings soon. Wood has her own little visual arts studio space back there, too, but is perhaps most excited about the fitness and movement space. It’s everything you’d think it would be: wood floors, floor-length mirrors and other non-floor related elements. For now, Wood will teach classes in there, though she might alter it down the road. Same goes for an outdoor space on the side of the building where a peach tree reportedly offers up two or three perfect pieces of fruit per year, but keeps things shady in the summertime. It would make an ideal sit ’n’ sip spot, as would a narrow patch out front where, assuming measures taken by the city during COVID to allow outdoor dining remain, Crash Murder Business could finagle a couple extra outdoor seats.

For now you’ll have to make do with the aforementioned drinks and numerous others, like the Parliament of Owls with Earl Grey tea, orange blossom honey, cardamom and charred cedar bitters or the Skull of Foxes with turmeric, chai and ginger ($5.50 each). You’ll also find a new pastry menu ($3.50-$4) with croissants and danish and such. Wood’s project is an ambitious one, and it could become a lot of things. Good, I say. Let it. But let us also visit, my fellow citizens. If we don’t pop by the places that name drinks for owls and such, we’ll be a nation of Starbucks—and they don’t even offer studio space. Who wants that?

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RATINGS BEST MOVIE EVER

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MOVIES of Vengeance

Like your least favorite YouTube bro had half-a-million dollars to blow

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What a wonderful world it would be if Fistful of Vengeance’s plot made sense, but in the time it takes to piece it together, we’ll have figured out teleportation. Best to just watch the fists fly.

The bits graspable to sentient beings are few and far between: Tommy (Lawrence Kao) and his magical fighting buddy Kai (Iko Uwais) join an alsomagical piece of meat Lu Xin (Lewis Tan) to travel to Bangkok and avenge Tommy’s sister’s death. She died mysteriously and, in their quest to discover the whys and hows, Tommy and company are hunted by bad guys and visited by hot girls, for they themselves are hot guys. Whatever plot happens in the middle is anyone’s guess, but the good guys do beat up the bad guys. Yes they do.

Campy martial arts movies are almost always a joy, but with Fistful of Vengeance, there’s a distinct feeling of being dropped mid-season into a canceled

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Excuse me, but when did Antlers from producer Guillermo Del Toro and Hostiles director Scott Cooper come out, even?!

Suddenly it was there on the HBO Max app’s new releases row like it was nothing, but I don’t remember it coming to theaters. And I would have known, too, because Cooper’s horror flick based on a short story by writer Nick Antosca stars Kerri Russell (from the phenomenal show The Americans) and Breaking Bad alum Jesse Plemons (who just got an Oscar nom for Power of the Dog, btw). I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time in that I enjoy mediocre horror sometimes, no joke, but now that I’ve seen Antlers? Meh. It’s fine. A little less than fine, honestly—more problematic than fine, really, and the type of horror movie that would have been a lot more popular in the early aughts.

In Antlers, we join 12-year-old Lucas (Jeremy T. Thomas), a super-weird super-weirdo living in rural Oregon whose teacher (Russell) notices he does scary illustrations and looks sad all the time and probably has a creepy secret. She, too, has a creepy secret, and decides she’ll help the lad.

Good thing her brother (Plemons) is the sheriff, then, though he, like most other characters in the film, mostly stands around talking about the things he can’t do rather than the things he can.

He also might have an opiate addiction in a clumsy parallel to the Russell character’s alcoholism.

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low-budget television series. In this case the comparison is beyond apt, as Fistful of Vengeance is the standalone continuation of the equally perplexing Wu Assassins TV series. This is the kind of stuff one might find in a Blockbuster Video storage closet circa-2002, and no amount of hot actors, explosions and shiny stuff can change those things.

Vengeance could have benefitted from leaning into its own absurdity, but it seems far more invested in the cool factor, the never-ending franchise references and a new C-tier pop song every four minutes. OK, the fight scenes aren’t half-bad, even if the shaky handicam footage makes following along a challenge and the editing feels like it must have been accomplished by loose rats. Whatevs,

demons. Everything is dark.

Turns out Lucas’ dad and brother are sick in a way the film leads us to believe might be based in Indigenous folklore. I shan’t name the creature elicited here (it starts with a W if you absolutely must know, but I’ve learned that it’s not a word one should use), just know that it’s not good news for Lucas, his family or anyone else hanging around their crummy little town. Ruh-roh.

Cooper seems to be going for an “addiction is rough,” allegory here, which is of course very true, but he doesn’t touch on the actual implications or fallout of such issues in any noticeable way. And that’s at-best. At worst, he’s saying what? That people struggling with addiction are monsters? Or that addiction itself makes addicts do monstrous things? So can the stone-cold sober. So what?

Additionally, and similarly to his 2017 Western Hostiles, Cooper brings in a talented Native actor (Graham Greene in this case) to drop a couple lines that educate the white folks, then it’s back to not really being a part of anything. This seems to have become a pattern for the writer/director (Wes Studi’s relegation to silent background guy for most of Hostiles felt really unfortunate), and Greene does what he can with very little. Russell and Plemons, meanwhile, deliver ham-fisted lines about how it was hard to be kids and how Lucas mostly just makes people uncomfortable—but they should probably help him anyway.

You, the viewer, see everything coming from a mile away, right up to the non-ending whereupon Cooper fails not only to address his unfortunate erasure and appropriation of Native mythology, it’s just really damn hard to care. (Alex De Vore) HBO Max, R, 99 min.

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though. It goes boom, right? In the strangest of ways Vengeance, despite being astonishingly shallow, does grow on you as it lets itself breathe more during the second half. These are staggered breaths, sure, but there’s a hint of oxygen flow.

Consider, then, that Vengeance is a decent I’vebeen-drinking-and-need-background-noise movie, but alas, this Dragon Ball Z cosplay feels like dollar -store quality.

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J-Lo is Kat Valdez, a pop sensation about to marry her former producer/current songwriting and performance partner Bastian (Colombian superstar Maluma) in the most public of ways (while also releasing the hot jam “Marry Me”) when she learns he cheated, and with her assistant, no less.

Panicking, Kat spies math teacher Charlie (Wilson) in the crowd with a sign reading “Marry Me” that was foisted upon him by his totally super-fun best bud Parker (Sarah “This Character Only Drives Plot and Serves No Other Purpose” Silverman), who also dragged him to the show. “OK,” Kat says. “I’ll marry you.”

And so she does, thrusting the mild-mannered Charlie into a world of attention for which he was ill-prepared. Pulled from the romantic comedy trope file, Charlie’s a handsome-esque single dad with a super-smart kid and has just been too darned focused on dadding and being a totally awesome math teacher to go looking for love. All kinds of other boring things happen, but suffice it to say what Kat

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thinks might be a pretty sweet media stunt, despite objections from her manager Colin (Game of Thrones’ John Bradley for some reason), turns into a real relationship. Then they’re briefly ripped apart. Then they get back together because of grand romantic gesture.

Setting aside Wilson’s absolutely wooden phone-it-in-performance (who did he piss off to be sentenced to this movie?), it’s understandable why Lopez would star in such dreck: She at least gets a couple of toothless pop songs (read, income streams) out of the deal. They’re forgettable songs, but people will download them. Marry Me is otherwise borderline glib about celebrity obsession, social media addiction, co-dependence and personal space. For every moment it creeps up to a semi-insightful moment about the unhealthy cult of the famous or misogyny or bullying, it pulls back to Wilson or J-Lo doing something “adorable.”

Charlie’s kid, of course, is sassy and wise beyond her years; there’s a cute dog for comedic moments so banal it probably hurt Utkarsh Ambudkar (Brittany Runs a Marathon), an actual comic talent who gets shoehorned into the final act for reasons unknown. Sorry, bud, you’re too good for this.

And so are we, discerning audiences. Or we should be. Romantic comedies can be glorious escapes with actual intelligence, messaging or value. Marry Me is a commercial for J-Lo songs that now bears the dubious distinction of least chemistry between a couple in a movie since Dwayne Johnson starred opposite a CGI ape in Rampage. Please don’t let your kids watch this.

Please don’t watch it yourself. Boo! Filth! Slime!

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Week of February 23rd

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it,” wrote author G. K. Chesterton. Amen to that! Please regard his observation as the first part of your horoscope. Here’s the second part: It’s sometimes the right approach to move in harmony with the flow, to allow the momentum of elemental forces to carry you along. But now is not one of those times. I suggest you experiment with journeys against the flow. Go in quest of what the followers of easy options will never experience. Do it humbly, of course, and with your curiosity fully deployed.

to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “You’re never allowed to step on people to get ahead,” said TV personality and author Star Jones, “but you can step over them if they’re in your way.” I suspect the coming months will be a time when you really should step over people who are in your way. There’s no need to be mad at them, criticize them, or gossip about them. That would sap your energy to follow your increasingly clear dreams. Your main task is to free yourself from influences that obstruct your ability to be the Royal Sovereign of Your Own Destiny.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later,” wrote author Mignon McLaughlin. I’m pleased to inform you, Libra, that you will soon receive your rewards for generous actions you accomplished in the past. On behalf of the cosmic rhythms, I apologize for how long it has taken. But at least it’s finally here. Don’t underestimate how big this is. And don’t allow sadness about your earlier deprivation to inhibit your enthusiastic embrace of compensation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): No matter how reasonable and analytical you are, Scorpio, you possess a robust attraction to magic. You yearn for the refreshing invigoration of non-rational mysteries. You nurture urges to be delighted by outbreaks of the raw, primal lust for life.

According to my astrological assessment, you are especially inclined to want and need these feelings in the GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini-born Gina Rowlands next few weeks. And that’s good and healthy and holy! is retired now, but she had an award-winning six-decade At the same time, don’t abandon your powers of discernment. Keep them running in the background as you career as an actor. At age 20, she decided what she enjoy your rejuvenating communions with the enigmatic wanted to do with her life, and her parents offered her their blessings. She testified: “I went home and I told my pleasures of the Great Unknown. mom that I wanted to quit college and be an actress, SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Diane and she said, ‘Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonder- Ackerman tells us, “In the absence of touching and ful!’ And I told my father, and he literally said, ‘I don’t being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you touch starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunhappy.’” Dear Gemini, in the coming months, I would light.” This is always important to remember, but it will love for you to receive similar encouragement for your be extra crucial for you to keep in mind during the combudding ideas and plans. What can you do to ensure ing weeks. I advise you to be ingenious and humble and you’re surrounded by influences like Rowlands’ parents? frank as you collect as much physical contact as you I hope you embark on a long-term project to get all the can. Be polite and respectful, of course. Never force yourself on anyone. Always seek permission. With those support you need. as your guidelines, be greedy for hugs and cuddling and CANCER (June 21-July 22): As you enter an astrological caresses. phase when vast, expansive ruminations will be fun and CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Education, fundamenhealthy for you, I will offer you some vast, expansive thoughts. Hopefully, they will inspire your own spacious tally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious musings. First, here’s artist M. C. Escher: “Wonder is the in relation to the unconscious.” Author and educator salt of the earth.” Next, author Salman Rushdie: “What’s Sylvia Ashton-Warner said that, and now I’m telling real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.” Here’s you—just in time for one of the most lesson-rich times poet Allen Ginsberg: “When you notice something clear- of a year that will be full of rich lessons. In the next nine months, dear Capricorn, the proportion of your conly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.” A proverb from the Omaha people: “Ask questions from your heart, sciousness in relation to your unconsciousness should markedly increase. And the coming weeks will be a and you will be answered from the heart.” G. K. favorable phase to upgrade your educational ambitions.

Chesterton: “Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” Finally, playwright Tony Kushner: “I’m not religious, but I like God, and he likes me.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Out of love, you can speak with straight fury,” wrote author Eudora Welty. Here’s how I interpret that in light of the current chapter of your life story: You have an opportunity to recalibrate some misaligned energy. You have the necessary insight to fix an imbalance or dissolve an illusion or correct a flow that has gone off-course. And by far the best way to do that is by wielding the power of love. It will need to be expressed with vehemence and intense clarity, however.

It will require you to be both compassionate and firm.

Your homework: Figure out how to express transformative truths with kindness.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re entering a phase of your cycle when your ability to boost your finances will be stronger than usual. You’ll be more likely to attract good luck with money and more apt to discover useful tips on how to generate greater abundance. To inspire your efforts, I offer you this observation by author Katharine Butler Hathaway: “To me, money is alive. It is almost human. If you treat it with real sympathy and kindness and consideration, it will be a good servant and work hard for you, and stay with you and take care of you.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Deb Caletti made the following observation: “You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo political science prohave past and future colliding in the present, your own perfessor Tatah Mentan was born and raised in the African sonal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.” In my country of Cameroon, which has never fully recovered vision of your destiny in 2022, Pisces, there could be several from its grueling colonization by Germany, France, and of these personal Big Bangs, and one of them seems to be England. The democratic tradition there is tenuous. When imminent. To prepare—that is, to ensure that the changes Mentan first taught at a university in the Cameroonian are primarily uplifting and enjoyable—I suggest you chant capital, authorities found his ideas too controversial. For the following mantra at least five times every day: “I love the next 16 years, he attempted to be true to himself and expect good changes.” while avoiding governmental censorship, but the strain Homework: Give yourself a blessing. Say why you’re proved too stressful. Fearing for his safety, he fled to the wonderful and name a marvelous event that’s ahead for US. I’m turning to him for advice that will serve you well you. Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com in the coming weeks. He tells us, “Peace does not mean

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FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO No. D-101-PB-2021-00280 Now Hiring Rental Techs and IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE Softgood Sales- in Santa Fe! OF LUCY DIPONZIO, DECEASED NOTICE OF HEARING ON starting pay $15/hour plus PETITION FOR SALE OF ESTATE incentives. Free Ski Pass + PROPERTY Free Rentals + time to ride.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate.

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Dated: January 24, 2022 Sarah Grant Personal Representative c/o Tracy E. Conner Post Office Box 23434 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502 Phone: (505) 982-8201 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF MARTHA JACKSON DEUTSCH Case No. D-101-CV-2022-00219 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Martha Jackson Deutsch will apply to the Honorable Francis J. Mathew, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, remotely in accordance with the sixth Amended Notice, at 11:00 a.m. on March 15th, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Martha Jackson Deutsch to Martha Deutsch Jackson.

Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Jill Nohl Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Martha Jackson Deutsch Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF ELIZABETH ANNE MADSEN Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-00136 NOTICE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Elizabeth Anne Madsen will apply to the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 11:15 a.m. on the 11th day of March, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Elizabeth Anne Madsen to Beck Aeon Madsen.

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