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A&C, FEB. 5: “THE STRUGGLE”
ARABS ARE IMPERIALISTS Israeli Defense Forces assault Palestinians on the Old Pecos Trail. Navajo artist Remy says the mural represents the “indigenous struggle” of the Palestinians. However, Jews are indigenous to Judea, while Arabs are the imperialists in the Middle East. King David, the first Israelite King, ruled Jerusalem in 1009 BCE. The Jews would remain sovereign in Israel for most of next 1,000 years. Arab Muslims arrived as conquerors from the Umayyad Dynasty 1,700 years after King David’s reign [around 700 AD]. Israel is the only state on Earth that has the same name, same sovereign people and the same language as it did 3,500 years ago. There is no better documented indigenous history than that of the Jewish people in Israel. In contrast, there has never been a Palestinian state in the history of the world, and the concept of a distinct Palestinian Arab people developed in the 20th century. Denial of Jewish indigeneity to Israel is the face of modern anti-Semitism. What a tragedy to have this anti-indigenous narrative forwarded by a Native American artist. Hopefully instead of serving to erase Jewish history, Remy’s mural will generate discussion and better understanding of Jewish indigenous heritage in Israel.
[mural] on Old Pecos Trail. What I would do to live in a world that wasn’t suffering generational trauma from colonialism and apartheid, which continues today, not just in Palestine, but in pockets all over the Earth and right here in the USA. Please people, work to eradicate these injustices, no matter what occupiers claim. We have no right to destroy the lives of others or take what they’ve earned and/or inherited.
LENA GRIFFITH SANTA FE
KEEP IT SEEN Hope that if the mural is removed from these walls it is replaced elsewhere more prominently. The Palestinian struggle against apartheid is a noble and just one.
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ONLINE, FEB. 4: “HOTEL DRAWS CRITICISM”
NATIVE EXCLUSION
SAMARA ALPERN SANTA FE
One has to think for a minute to discern precisely what is offensive about the El Rey’s reference to “spirit animals,” and I get it, but there is so much more in Santa Fe that is blatantly offensive to a wide range of minority groups... Santa Fe is filled with expensive private homes, owned (mostly via bank loans), by whites who lack a single Native American friend or acquaintance. Yet, a vast majority of these homes are filled to teeming with Native American artifacts, rugs, souvenirs and artwork, intended ostensibly to show solidarity with the very same people who are being excluded. Few of them would hire a Native American were they in a position to do so, and allegiance to people who look almost exactly like us is getting worse, not better.
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SNOWSTORM CANCELS ARROYO CHAMISO ROAD MEETING FOR SECOND TIME A sign that Mother Earth does not favor the proposed crossing?
PELOSI TEARS UP COPY OF STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS But also approves Trump’s military budget, so…
TAIKA WAITITI BECOMES FIRST INDIGENOUS DIRECTOR TO WIN OSCAR FOR JOJO RABBIT SCREENPLAY; BONG JOON-HO’S PARASITE WINS BIG, TOO Oscars are still sooooo white, but it’s nice to have at least a little something we actually give a shit about.
EMINEM’S OSCAR PERFORMANCE OF “LOSE YOURSELF” IS A REAL HEAD-SCRATCHER Em probably would have fit in better at the Please, God, Don’t Forget Me awards.
CANNABIS LEGISLATURE SEEMS TO BE STALLING Because who wants jobs and revenue and people out of pain?
YOUR BROOM ISN’T AFFECTED BY SOME MAGICAL COSMIC GRAVITY WELL The real treasure was the floors we swept along the way.
SENATORS BOOT TV JOURNALIST FROM HEARING AND PLAN TO HAVE BUDGET TALKS IN SECRET Transparency isn’t just a river in Egypt.
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READ IT ON SFREPORTER.COM WATCHING US Are proposed changes to the state’s rules on probation and parole going anywhere in the session?
W E A R E WAY M O R E TH A N W E D N E S DAY H E R E A R E A CO UP LE O F O N LI N E E XC LUS I V E S :
DEAD AFTER LOCKUP The father of a woman who died after a stint in the Santa Fe County jail is circulating a petition to seek an investigation.
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EDUCATE YOURSELF Reading through these comments it seems many of the posters are happy wallowing in their ignorance, and making fun of those who point out the problem. People like this are one of the biggest threats in today’s quickly evolving world. Google is a quick and handy reference for people who might want to learn what micro-aggressions are, and to read some of the thousands of articles written about the entrenched issues around the continued violence and genocide of Native Americans that exists in this country. Isn’t it enough that it is offensive to a group other than our own to make us want to change it? Santa Fe sits on land stolen/colonized from the Tewa people. Jade Begay is correct in wanting a Native artist in residency at the El Rey program. We are a community, and the El Rey has an opportunity to cut through the white privilege and patriarchy to be inclusive, thus truly being a part of the community and not just paying lip service to it.
JULIE CLEAR VIA FACEBOOK
MICRO-GENTRIFICATION This is what happens when people (not from Santa Fe or even live in Santa Fe) buy local businesses and impose their “clever” hipster BS on what they think Santa Fe is... but really have zero clue about our community or culture. But, to be fair, El Rey isn’t isolated in this...look around the city. It’s a shadow of the real-life community it once was. Newbies wouldn’t know the difference, but lifers just shake their heads. It’s called gentrification.
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FOOD, FEB. 5: “THREE SISTERS ON A WEEKNIGHT”
KITCHEN CONTROL I wanted to let you know how great it was to see the...three sisters recipe. I
especially thought the way the recipe was written made you hold on so you still had control of your kitchen. You could also just abide by the recipe without thinking much. Also you could add to the recipe what your grandmas added and make it your traditional family recipe. I think you should follow through with Native recipes. A Native recipe a week would be great. That way you can make your own cookbook by collecting the recipes. You could also see what was different from the family recipe. If you were new to these foods, you could experiment. If you are not new to these, you may get the, ”Mom, why did you change this,” or “Mom, this is not authentic!” like I have with my children. Although they are now adults, I still get the “Mom, do I add this now or later?” call.
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NEWS, JAN. 7: “AFTER-WORK PLANS”
GIVE SENIORS A BREAK! Our Legislature currently has several bills before it that would reduce or eliminate the state tax on Social Security benefits. These bills all recognize that we are at present taxing money that was already raised by federal taxes, and money that in many cases is now the only income for retirees and those unable to work. Only 13 of the states do this and our tax rate on that money is the second highest. Why? I am tempted to suggest: “Because our legislators think nobody notices?” Write or phone or text message your representatives and the governor to urge that one of these bills be passed in this session. One such bill has already been tabled, that is: put off until some later session. We have large tax revenues from oil and natural gas, and we could more fairly raise the state income tax on all wage-earners if we need more money in the state coffers. Give older citizens, many of whom have very limited funds, a break.
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LETTERS Think New Mexico has provided a well-researched, comprehensive policy map to the citizens and Legislature of New Mexico on the topic of achieving retirement security with the express purpose, of at a minimum, repealing the full taxation of Social Security benefits to its senior citizens. Double taxation is bad enough, but on Social Security benefits? Please. If the current policy makes absolutely no sense to you either, please contact your legislative representative during this legislative session and let them know. It is more than time to make this change.
JORGE FONSECA SANTA FE
ONLINE, FEB. 7: “FATHER CALLS FOR CITIZENS’ GRAND JURY”
POOR JAIL CONDITIONS I got sick while in there 25 years ago. It was like kennel cough for humans. Good thing my immune system healed me or that coulda been me. Would love to help out...hope someone sees this and reaches out to my grumpy ass.
MICHAEL WEBB VIA FACEBOOK
MORNING WORD, JAN. 30: NEWS, JAN. 28: “ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF WATER EFFICIENCY”
CONSUMERS’ WASTE I applaud the city’s recently announced Restaurant Water Conservation pilot program. However, there is one simple step I think that would save enormous amounts of water: Simply enforce the current ordinance that requires eating establishments to ask patrons if they want a glass of water or not. Currently most establishments I think are automatically delivering large glasses of often unused water that helps drain our reserves. Enforcement or intensive education efforts would help I imagine. Let’s all remind restaurants we visit of the ordinance and importance of saving water at all levels.
DOUGLAS CONWELL SANTA FE
LAWNS IN THE DESERT?! Want to save a few hundred million gallons of water? Require the golf courses to be xeriscaped and conformed to the natural desert flora.
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“CITY OF SANTA FE SIGNS OFF ON RAILYARD BUILDING SALE”
WHAT A “DEAL...” I believe taxpayers are owed more information about the appraisal, as I can’t even remember a time when any piece of property in the heart of Santa Fe was listed for $175,000. Simply saying that it’s “a unique hybrid property that operates differently than other property in Santa Fe due to the arrangement between the City and SFRCC” does not seem like a valid explanation of why a property in the historic district appears to be so under-valued.
JUDE MOIR VIA FACEBOOK
ONLINE, JAN. 28: “THE MIDTOWN SHORT LIST”
LOCAL TEAM IS A WINNER Only Central Park Santa Fe shows promise of delivering what Santa Fe deserves and needs. I hope the other two are “straw men” that will not be seriously considered.
KRIS HERBST VIA FACEBOOK SFR will correct factual errors online and in print. Please let us know if we make a mistake: editor@sfreporter.com or 988-7530.
SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER “Don’t you just love brussels sprouts?” “We have a love/hate relationship.” —Overheard near vegetables at Sprouts
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The Art of Pole Santa Fe pole dancing classes make a stigmatized dance about empowerment, building community
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group of 10 of us, all women, stand two-to-a-pole in a small room lit with blue lights. One entire wall is a mirror, which forces me to stare at my completely sober self. I’m waiting for my first-ever pole dancing class to begin at Santa Fe’s RISE Barre (501 Franklin Ave; 690-2605). My casual idea to take a few pole dancing classes out of curiosity, a lifetime love of dance and a need for more variety in my fitness routine during the winter morphed into an assignment when I made the mistake of mentioning it to my editor. The first 20 minutes of the class, taught by Jessica Chavez, are a series of dance-inspired warm-up stretches and moves. We pretty quickly move into learning some very basic things—how to “strut” around the pole and the proper way to hold the arm high up on the bar with the shoulder down, so as not to look “scrunched.” Chavez, an energetic woman who grows about a foot taller when she puts on a pair of dangerously high heels to teach the rest of the class, also shows us how to pirouette around the pole. She does it a lot more gracefully than I manage to, but as the time wears on, the more relaxed and fun the laughter and chatter is among the students. While I do feel a hint of awkwardness throughout the class, it fades as the positive vibes of the instruction make it feel more fun and less of a competition, which is what almost everything turns into for me. Most of us are dressed in yoga pants, though one of the students already has a pair of heels to dance in. As I look around, I realize something else I didn’t take note of when I first walked in: The students range from women in their 50s and 60s down to their early 20s. It’s a variety of different people, not just the typ-
ical dancer people might think of at a strip club. Such diversity isn’t what Prisma Avery, 27, the owner and founder of RISE Barre, necessarily thought would manifest. But she’s thrilled it turned out that way. She started her business in 2018 in the sunroom attached to her house, spurred by a love of both barre workouts and pole dancing. RISE quickly grew until she moved into the space it occupies now on Franklin Avenue. Since then, it has expanded to “a lot” of students, seven instructors and nine front desk employees. Avery sees pole dancing in particular as something that can be healing for women who have experienced trauma or felt trapped by society’s patriarchal standards. (Raises hand!) “There’s a lot of trauma that we experience in life as women,” Avery tells me sitting cross-legged on the wooden floors of her studio. “There’s this box of what our sexuality is supposed to look like or just what we’re supposed to look like as humans. Moving in this way, we’re able to free ourselves and connect to ourselves even deeper.” Before taking pole dancing classes, I would have found the idea of it being healing or even spiritual in some way ridiculous since I equated it with being a stripper. But there is something truly empowering about taking something that comes with stigma, judgment and even a measure of danger (with most of the danger coming from predatory men) and instead making it something fun and using
Allison Holley, left, and Jessica Chavez, both experienced dancers, teach pole dancing.
it as a way to connect with other women. Avery, who was born and raised in Santa Fe, had the same experience in 2016 after moving to Las Vegas, Nevada, learning how to pole dance and working as a stripper. “I felt like being a woman was really dangerous,” she says. “I felt like being in touch with my feminine-ness overall was scary. So I started taking pole classes and stripping just as a way to be connected to my sensuality, but call the shots.” Although the poles take up a lot of space at RISE, Avery also offers barre, which is a ballet-inspired workout. Some of the other skills taught go along with pole dancing: Floorplay, which are dance moves best done with knee pads, and twerk classes, which I did not get the chance to try but want-Prisma Avery
There’s this box of what our sexuality is supposed to look like or just what we’re supposed to look like as humans. Moving in this way, we’re able to free ourselves and connect to ourselves even deeper.
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ed to as an addition to a pole routine. Overall, I had a great experience in the pole dancing classes and would love to take more. My one sticking point—the price is steep. For an unlimited recurring monthly membership of barre, yoga and introduction to pole classes, the cost is $110. A monthly membership that includes all of the classes including the upper level pole classes costs $170. For just 10 upper level pole classes, $180. The monthly membership is clearly incentivized but for many in Santa Fe, it might be too much to splurge on every month—but Valentine’s Day might be a good time to splurge. Avery hopes to change that in the near future by moving into a bigger space that allows room for more students in each class and potentially a drop in price. “I’ve also been playing with the idea of dropping that number significantly so then we can have more people in the studio,” Avery says. “If the community wants us, we’ll just keep going.”
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Get the Papers and Get Involved
Somos Un Pueblo Unido leads initiative to help permanent residents become US citizens—and community organizers
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or green card holders who have lived peacefully in the US for at least five years, the path to citizenship is direct and simple. Yet, as many as 4,000 people who are living in Santa Fe County have not taken that step. Citizenship Now, a program of the local workers advocacy and immigrants rights organization Somos Un Pueblo Unido, has guided five cohorts of about 25 people each through the naturalization process to successfully achieve citizenship, with a sixth group in process. This month, Somos plans to hold citizenship information meetings at Santa Fe’s public libraries to find participants for the seventh cohort. The members of this group will also have an important job beyond obtaining a US passport: In the spring, Citizenship Now participants will go door-to-door to help New Mexico achieve a complete count in the upcoming 2020 census as part of the program’s civic engagement element. By sharing their stories along the way, they may also inspire other permanent residents to become citizens.
People don’t often know all the positive outcomes associated with citizenship, says Zulema Chavero, a community organizer with Somos who leads the Citizenship Now campaign. Previous census data shows naturalized citizens earn 50 to 70% more than non-citizens, and are 30% more likely to be homeowners. They also get full access to public programs such as Medicaid. Citizens can live abroad and travel without fear of losing their immigration status, can more easily gain favorable immigration status for family members, and cannot be deported for breaking the law. According to a report by the National Partnership for New Americans, naturalized citizens also increase local spending and tax revenue. Yet, without knowing someone who’s gone through it, the naturalization process can seem intimidating enough to stop people from applying, Chavero tells SFR. Some people may not even realize they are eligible, especially in light of big hurdles for people who come to the US without obtaining green cards. For many others, a language barrier stands between them and a US passport. “There is a very real lack of information in our community and a lot of misinformation that makes achieving citizenship
seem more difficult than it is, or makes people afraid to apply. That’s really why we decided to do this outreach,” Chavero tells SFR at the organization’s headquarters in Midtown. Somos started the program in Santa Fe in 2018 with funding from the National Partnership for New Americans. Working in collaboration with the City of Santa Fe and half a dozen other organizations, Somos helps applicants correctly fill out applications and prepare for the exam and interview, find legal advice and English language tutors, and get financial assistance with application fees. Chavero says Somos’ program distinguishes itself from others across the country in its focus on local civic engagement. The goal is not simply to help participants attain citizenship, but to teach them how to be active participants in their communities and in the democratic process. “The really exciting part is that we have so many new leaders coming out of this project, we have a lot of new leaders in our community,” says Chavero, adding later, “it’s really important as citizens that they vote and invite other people to participate too.” Last year, Citizenship Now says participants reached 3,200 low-propensity voters to get out the vote, and knocked on
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5,800 doors to make sure residents had accurate information about the 2020 census. They participated in a City Council candidate forum during the local election, helped organize with the United Workers Center to support raising minimum wage and advocated at the Legislature. Maria Elizabeth Lara, Somos Un Pueblo Unido’s 2020 census campaign coordinator, can personally attest to the success of Somos’ approach to citizenship. The 23-year-old began working with Somos as a summer intern and then participated in the program’s first citizenship cohort with her mother and her sister last year. Within just a few months of signing up for Citizenship Now, she traded in her green card for a US passport. For Lara, who has gone to school in the US since kindergarten, the naturalization process was a breeze. But she says her mother had a much more difficult time and might not have followed through with the application if she hadn’t had the support from Somos. For her part, Lara says she gained the most from the program’s emphasis on community engagement. “I’m definitely much more invested in actually voting than I think I would have been,” she tells SFR. “None of us had ever voted before and we didn’t understand how it worked. Then we all went to vote together for the first time as a group, and that was a super powerful experience for me.” Somos partners with the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center to help potential participants determine their eligibility and deal with any legal issues. For most green card holders, eligibility is straightforward, but it can be complicated for people who fit into some specific categories or have had run-ins with the law. “The most important thing is never to lie on your application and always try to tell 100% the truth,” says Chavero. Somos also partners with the Guadalupe Credit Union to help participants pay the application fee, and with the Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe to help participants study American history and culture questions for the exam and provide language tutoring to prepare for the interview. English proficiency is necessary to pass. Other partners of the program are the Adelante; Northern New Mexico Central Labor Council; Santa Fe Area Homebuilders Association and Santa Fe Neighborhood Law Center.
CITIZENSHIP NOW FORUM 5 pm Thursday, Feb. 13. Free. Santa Fe Public Library, Southside Branch 6599 Jaguar Dr., 424-7832
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THE KING HOW RAASHAN AHMAD TOOK ON HIP-HOP, JAZZ, SANTA FE AND GRATITUDE
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aashan Ahmad is excited he’s been able to keep his houseplants alive this year. Previously, he says, his green thumb has been MIA, but when we meet on a blustery, snowy day in his office on Otero Street at Vital Spaces—a nonprofit that provides affordable studio space for artist-types in otherwise vacant buildings—he’s pretty sure something is different this time. He can feel it. But then, Ahmad has never shied away from failure or from trying new things. “It’s how you learn,” he says. And learn he has. The multi-faceted musician, MC, lyricist, activist, artist, father and allaround force for goodwill on Earth has seen much of the world, lived on both coasts of America and, as of about seven years ago, moved full time to Santa Fe. Ahmad still travels often; he tours regularly, but Santa Fe has become his home base, a hub where he can spend more time with his kids, experiment musically and be a part of a closeknit community. “I used to tour through here. I think I played Corazón, Evangelo’s, The Santa Fe Brewing Company,” he says of years spent with his band Crown City Rockers, “but it would always be on tour. We’d do the show and keep on moving; but snow was falling, there were rabbits, the sky was crazy, and I thought, ‘what is this magic?!’” His office is freezing, which kind of makes the plant thing all the more impressive. A space heater hums in the corner behind one of those electronic drum kits, unable to compete with the icy weather, and a nylon
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The Beginning Ahmad was born in Trenton, New Jersey, but his family moved to Los Angeles before he was old enough to form early memories (weird side note: Ahmad and I hail from the same LA suburb, Altadena). Still, he says, they would visit Jersey most summers to see the extended clan. “I have a real East Coast/West Coast mentality,” Ahmad explains. “I had both worlds ingrained, and it was easy for me to see the beauty of it all.” During the Jersey summers, he’d learn about new music from his aunts and older cousins. His father was a DJ, and his DJ friends from nearby would give him mixtapes; the faraway friends mailed them. And though Ahmad’s upbringing helped him develop an appreciation for funk and soul, for Motown and for jazz, for Aretha and Nina and Sun Ra and all the greats, his discovery of rap and hip-hop in the 1980s was the real game changer. “Suddenly I was growing up with NWA and Ice Cube, living in LA, witnessing my neighbors and police brutality,” he says, “and when [Public Enemy’s] Fight the Power was happening, it was the most conscious music ever.” Ahmad recalls how learning about black history in school often amounted to stories of slavery and little else, but somewhere during the birth of hip-hop, he finally found something that felt like his own, a new form of education. “KRS-One starts talking about ‘you must learn,’ and it was the first time the whole movement of red, black, green— all this music was happening with people calling black people ‘beautiful’ and talking about black civilization before slavery—this was a revolution,” he says, eyes widening. “Just imagine what that would do for a young black kid—to have all your heroes talking about how beautiful black people are, talking about the things they’ve invented…saying, ‘if we can’t dance, we don’t want to be part of the revolution.’” He’s quick to point out that this was in the days before the record labels got ahold of hip-hop and compartmentalized it into easily sold and overly genrefied packages. Divisions pay higher dividends, he maintains, but in those early days, hip-
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string guitar stands propped against his desk. Ahmad is still learning to strum it, he says, as part of a challenge he’s set for himself in 2020: “To try and do things that scare me.” In this case, it’s performing a particular guitar run to one of his songs personally. “How do you hold a pick, again?” he asks with a laugh.
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was the most conscious music ever. -Raashan Ahmad hop was hip-hop, and it seemed each new song deepened his connection. “Conscious rap, hardcore rap, gangster rap, I was like, I like to dance and party and I like to think and go to the club, and all those things can exist,” Ahmad says. “That really shaped how I wanted to create my own music and, more importantly, think about myself.” Dancing came soon after, and Ahmad joined up with a crew. By the late ’90s, he’d gotten pretty good, but a sojourn to
Raashan Ahmad does a little bit of everything, from MCing and DJing to storytelling, activism and community service.
audition for an opening slot at a House of Pain show wound up shifting his focus. “We drove so far, and when we got there, they were like, ‘Oh, we don’t want dancers—we want a rap group,’” Ahmad recalls. “And we’d driven so far that we just said ‘Oh—we rap.’” He straight up stole a rhyme from his brother that day, he remembers (there are reportedly no hard feelings), but nevertheless realized he had a knack for MCing. A diagnosis of bursitis of the knee a year later sidelined his dancing dreams, but his hip-hop trio The Nappy Heads was born. Later, they’d learn the name was already taken and change it to Extra Terrestrial Elohim—“or Extra Elos for short,” he says. “It became three of us, and we had this whole shtick of going to thrift stores and getting these big butterfly collared shirts—we were into the ’70s—and we’d just sit in a room together, my one friend making the beats,” Ahmad tells SFR. “He had a little MS-1 [sampler] and a tape deck, and we’d rap into headphones over the tape. If you messed up, you had to do it again. You had to do it in one take.” The Middle By the early aughts, Ahmad moved to Boston, where he was introduced to
rave culture. He began regularly attending DIY parties and absorbing as much electronic music as he could. There was almost an ancient spirituality to the droning beats, he says, and the scene awakened something in him. “I had never experienced spirituality,” Ahmad recalls, “but that whole world entered my consciousness.” He was sharpening his MC skills in parallel and making friends at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. With those students—arguably some of the best in nation, maybe even the world—Ahmad learned to rap with a live band for the first time. In Boston, he says, he developed the MC style he carries to this day, and he did so alongside jam bands and techno-heads and an evolving hip-hop world. Ahmad and his Berklee friends would form Crown City Rockers, his biggest and most far-reaching project to date. Think a smooth and soulful hip-hop sound with elements of funk and rock bubbling up beneath Ahmad’s frontman MC skills. Simply dial up “Crown City Rockers live at the Independent” on YouTube for an idea of what they were all about. By the mid-2000s, the band would move to Oakland together. Tours followed, wild applause, fans on fans on fans and numerous full-length albums CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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and EPs released; Ahmad had kids, life changed—Crown City Rockers released its final album in 2009, the sexy and synthy The Day After Forever. Today, Ahmad says the band never officially broke up, joking that a reunion is possible so long as a promoter flies them out to wherever that would take place. Ahmad and his family moved to Santa Fe in 2013, but those early days were spent in relative seclusion. It wasn’t until a few short years ago that he happened upon the building that once housed Warehouse 21. “I saw the graffiti, and as a hip-hop person was like, ‘that’s where my people are,’” he says. “I remember I went in and was like, ‘I’m an MC/artist, can I get involved?’” Ahmad would meet former W21 executive director Ana Gallegos y Reinhardt through the Santa Fe VIP’s Victor Romero. “When I met her, I fell completely in love with the work she does, and just wanted to be there in any way they would have me,” he says. “But since I’m not
youth, no one really knew what to do with me, so I think I was just hanging out, taking out trash, picking up chairs at first. It’s hard for me to self-promote, but I think one day somebody Googled me and was like, ‘Oh, we should use you to do hip-hop classes.’” Gallegos y Reinhardt tells SFR her connection with Ahmad was immediate. “It was obvious Santa Fe was going to embrace him,” she says. And it has. It started with mentorships, including with under-known (but absolutely incredible) local MC Jasper Rodriguez-Watts, aka Jasper Rumi. “This was before I started rapping,” Rodriguez-Watts says. “Seeing someone who was so proficient was cool. It was a push to figure it out, and you’re seeing somebody who is so involved in their craft—it’s maybe more inspiring than anything.”
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Ahmad recently assmebled a number of local black men to shoot a music video. Unplanned, the group wound up spending a large chunk of time talking and healing together.
Video/Storytelling “Initially, I had this idea for a video for the song ‘Pain Away,’ and it was to gather a bunch of black men and have a therapy session, where my song is like my testimonial,” Ahmad says of a recent project that didn’t quite go how he thought it would. “The biggest impetus to that is having the visual of a bunch of black men supporting each other emotionally. I don’t feel like that’s imagery we see enough, and it seems like the black man with feelings, who cries, who reaches out to the community for emotional support isn’t something we really see.” Ahmad says that as he was setting up to shoot the video at Vital Spaces, the men he assembled, Mustiqirr Muhammad, Landon Wordswell, Clemente McFarlane Jr., Jamal Allen, Loveless Johnson III, Sol Bentley and Bradley Babb got
to talking. The next thing he knew, hours had passed, and the concept for the video had phased into reality. “It was really beautiful and healing,” Ahmad recalls. “I think all of us need to figure out how to do that more often. The African American community in Santa Fe isn’t too big—a couple heads have been here for a long time, since there were even less. But more and more, we’re out here, and it’s so good to be seen and talk to each other.” “Raashan is one of those amazing people who wears his heart on his sleeve,” Bentley tells SFR. “The guy you meet at shows or at public events is the guy he is—he’s a truly amazing human being. ” Ahmad also runs the monthly I Got a Story to Tell event wherein notable locals gather in front of an audience to tell their personal stories. Previous
versions have included Bentley, as well as former SFR intern Tintawi Kaigziabiher, Quinn Alexander Fontaine and many others. “The event was inspired because of a conversation Sol and I had,” Ahmad explains. “I look to him for a lot of support and advice, to cosign in a way. For some reason when we get together, the walls come down.” The next event in the series finds Ahmad conducting hosting duties, and will feature stories from Shontez Morris, Faridah Ndiaye, Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz and others. “It takes somebody like Raashan to put something like that together,” Bentley adds. “The place he created...to be able to be vulnerable and supported and repsected...you never know whose life might change.”
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Ahmad took a position with the Warehouse 21 board and lent a hand in whatever ways needed. “I kind of squirmed my way into Ana’s life,” he says. “All the things she is are so beautiful to me—that genuine, selfless love. I’m really inspired by that woman.” Ahmad’s relationship with Gallegos y Reinhardt continues in numerous ways. She recently secured a small grant for Ahmad to conduct video interviews with notable Santa Feans alongside local drummer and sound engineer Isaac Scarlott. He’s keeping the spirit of Warehouse 21 alive, he says, in whatever ways he can, though the ideals of the teen arts organization are hardly new to him. “There are a lot of community spaces in the Bay Area, so this wasn’t something I hadn’t seen before,” Ahmad points out. “This is something I know is needed. That’s just how I believe. The reason I fell
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The video for the song “Sea,” written by T.I.E., was shot in Dakar, Senegal. Senegalese designers Selly Raby Kane and Bull Doff provided the outfits.
The reason I fell in love with hip-hop was because of the reaching out to youth from the elders, and the community interaction feeds me. -Raashan Ahmad
in love with hip-hop was because of the reaching out to youth from the elders, and the community interaction feeds me.” The community service goes deeper, too. Ahmad recently conducted a zine-making workshop with writer Hannah Yohalem and local teens through Vital Spaces, and for the third year running, he’ll be collecting backpacks to be stuffed with school supplies to donate to local kids in need. For the second time, Ahmad has secured quality backpack donations from Albuquerque tech company 2NDGEAR. “A guy who has been listening to my music forever worked for this company, and he shipped me a palette of 150, 200 backpacks,” Ahmad says. “I drop my son [at
school] and see other kids walking around with these backpacks, and it…feels so good. I grew up not having school supplies, so I just kind of relate, I know what a bummer it is to be in class and not have what you need, and it’s so basic.” The Now In January, Ahmad released the video for the song “Sea” with collaborator T.I.E., who penned the lyrics in Wolof, the language of Senegal and Gambia. It is, in a word, phenomenal. Shot in Dakar, “Sea” addresses the concepts of water and fluidity as they pertain to a certain spirituality with a free jazzy backbone that is somehow haunting and calming at once. In the video, Ahmad and T.I.E. stand or sit motionlessly, eyes
Reading about the music is one thing, but for those looking to get familiar with the music of Raashan Ahmad in a hurry, here are his personal favorites from throughout his career.
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“It’s just me talking about my love for hip-hop culture. Simple.”
“Cancer on It” “This would be the first song…the shift from me being like, ‘I’m dope! I’m a rapper!’ to my mom dying from cancer. It was the start of so much for me, not even knowing I was trying to write feelings, not knowing I was even writing a song. It’s one verse of me screaming about being with my mom for the last year of her life. Writing it wasn’t hard—recording it was hard, and it’s hard being asked to perform it.”
“Pain on Black” “I wrote this, once again, with one verse, no chorus. It’s about how hard it was being a father and not having money, being a rapper living in George W Bush’s America, being a black man. You know Gilles Peterson from the BBC? He picked it up, and he brought me to London. There I am next to Thom Yorke from Radiohead, and it…was the song that catapulted me. I toured a lot off of that song.”
“Falling” “That’s just a beautiful song. The main thing is, somehow I became a conscious rapper without realizing it. I was like, ‘I’m never gonna be a conscious rapper!’ but somehow I became that dude.”
“No” “This is the closest I’ve gotten to trying to bridge my old love of free jazz like Sun Ra. The song’s about police brutality and the fear in America. To me, that’s a lovely song.”
“Sea”
“Since I travel and perform a lot, I want to travel to different places and infiltrate different scenes. And I’ve been exposed to so much world music that it’s intriguing to me to dive into those worlds. It’s a metaphor for water. It’s a song my friend wrote, and she’s from a small village that’s almost like an island.”
“The culture I embody is hip-hop,” Ahmad says.
fixed on the viewer, in various Senegalese environs; the beach, a port, an alleyway, a taxi and some sort of shop. Each scene finds the artists in a different couture outfit created by Senegalese designers Selly Raby Kane and Bull Doff, friends of T.I.E.’s. The costuming is, frankly, hot as hell. Ahmad had traveled to Africa before, but something about this specific trip spurred something within him. “You have this vision of Africa,” he says, “and it’s not like that. Almost immediately I was like, ‘You know we’re shooting a video here, right?’” Ahmad met T.I.E. a decade earlier at a Paris house party. “There was something about her, I just watched her the entire night,” he says. “Toward the end of the night, I asked her ‘What’s your deal?’ y’know? And she said ‘Oh—I rap.’ I started beatboxing, and she started rhyming and it was just…insane, her flow.” “Sea” appears on 2019’s The Sun, Ahmad’s most recent self-released solo album and a veritable tour of his myriad influences and interests. As a whole, the album is a stunner—a wildly positive yet realistic and refreshing culmination of a lifetime of experiences. “I sing praise to the universe for the breath,” he spits on the track “Body Heat,” setting the tone for everything else and revealing at least a little bit of his secret weapon: gratitude. Full disclosure: I met Ahmad years ago while working for Warehouse 21, and
if there were one word I would use to describe him, it’s grateful. See, Raashan Ahmad is an infectiously positive presence, the kind of person everyone wants to be liked by, but he never acts phony or saccharine-sweet, nor does it seem like he takes his super powers for granted—or is even aware they exist. He’s faced more than his fair share of adversity; his Los Angeles apartment burned down and cancer took his mother too soon. And yet, he stays grateful. He transfers the lessons learned into his music with an indescribable ease, even when discussing difficult topics like race and death. “There’s this movie, I forget the name, but it talks to all these indie rappers, they aren’t even 20 yet, and the first few minutes, it starts off with them saying, ‘I’m a vocalist,’ or ‘I’m a manager’ or ‘I’m a writer,’” Ahmad says. “No one wants to say ‘I’m a rapper’ because of the stigma around it. Me? I say I’m a vocalist and leave it alone. That’s what I am. It’s my base. My foundation. KRS-One said that rap is something you do, hip-hop is something you live. The culture I embody is hip-hop.” He’ll probably nail that guitar part, too.
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t took me a few beats to get my bearings as I wandered through various pulsating rooms where dozens of strangers—faster on the uptake—jumped and ran, threw balls at projected lights, stood in front of walls dripping with fluorescent colors or danced on a floor shimmering with morphing geometric shapes. I was not dreaming. I was also not in Santa Fe. I was attending the Feb. 1 grand opening for Albuquerque’s Electric Playhouse, a new multi-use recreation center featuring a gamified interactive environment and immersive dining experiences. Games first. Electric Playhouse has kept the digital aspect of games but ditched the accessories. There are no screens or headsets. There also were no instructions. This was by design. I spoke with Co-founder and CEO John-Mark Collins after my visit, who told me the games were constructed by the playhouse creative staff for simple engagement. “You either figure it out by playing or by watching someone else play in front of you,” he says. The point is to engage with other people, part of the mission Collins brought to the entire endeavor as he asked the questions: “How do we get people to start playing all together in the same space having a shared experience? How can we use technology to come back together?” The quest was formed by both personal and professional observations. As a father of two young daughters, he has watched them drawn solitarily to iPad screens. During several years working for the Corrales-based interactive design
company Ideum—in roles that included chief experience officer and executive producer—Collins saw a common problem with technology deployment. “As much as I like the work they’re doing, every time there was a project that could have other solutions, touch screen was the solution.” Collins wanted to evolve away from screens, noting that even in the best-case collaborative experience “you have to all be looking at the screen and not be looking at each other.” After his time at Ideum, Collins founded Storylab, an interactive experience company. While he had studied art, architecture, business and computer science, his experience in the hospitality industry paved the way for the project that would eventually set the Electric Playhouse in motion: immersive dinners merging fine dining with digital animations and other interactive elements. Storylab launched with a successful prototype in partnership with Savoy Bar & Grill. The long dinner table accommodating a large group had been designed to accommodate the technology but, in so doing, a happy accident had occurred. “It became a social event,” Collins says. “You put a bunch of strangers together and you give them this great conversation piece…the chef comes out and talks, and it really becomes an experience.” After expanding beyond that first dinner, and hosting similar dinners in San Francisco, New York and Washington, DC, the team began considering “how we might take that concept and build it into our own space.” Collins, along with other founders and early investors, started brainstorming. The idea morphed from a catered dinner in a small art gallery to what is now a 24,000-square-foot recreation center, with the social aspect of those immersive dinners carrying through to the game experience throughout. “We have one game that has 60 players at a time,” he says. “One or two games might be single player, but when we’re designing them, we’re aiming for multiple people.” Electric Playhouse, of course, has just opened, but Collins tells me it also plans to develop educational programs. While it has a nighttime component, DJs and a bar, it’s definitely billed as family-friend-
Albuquerque’s Electric Playhouse uses technology to bring people together for games and dining.
ly, with the games intended for ages 3 and up. The business also has provisional B Corp status, according to its press information, with plans for economic and environmental stewardship, and was built out in a former big box store in one of Albuquerque’s Opportunity Zones, areas where investors in development get tax incentives. I will admit that at various Technicolor moments during my visit, I grocked a distinct Meow Wolfian vibe (that’s a word, right?). Calling Meow Wolf “friends and partners of ours,” Collins says while both businesses feature immersive experiences, “we see ourselves as the smaller, more
nimble gamified version.” His center is more focused on the digital than the physical space, he notes, and the food aspect is unique. Still, “we’d love to see a Meow Wolf location and Electric Playhouse right next to each other. We don’t want to compete with a direct offering— it’s not one or the other; it could be both.”
ELECTRIC PLAYHOUSE 5201 Ouray Road NW, Albuquerque weekday tickets: $11-$16 weekend tickets: $13-$18 21+ after 9 pm; closed Mondays Electricplayhouse.com
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EVENT SAT/15 FROM SEA TO SEA, TURTLE ISLAND WILL BE FREE Too many of y’all in this town claim to love Indigenous art, yet the art that’s most revered often reinforces colonial narratives about Indigenous people, and that’s real shitty. When Diné artist Remy painted a mural depicting violence against Palestinians, your first reaction could have been, “What a great opportunity to practice empathy and solidarity with Indigenous folks and anti-colonial struggles worldwide,” but instead, you called the cops at the H-Board. Yeah… that’s not gonna fly. There’s a rally at the mural location this Saturday to show community support for the artist and for Indigenous self-determination. If you took issue with the first mural, lemme just say… there’s a ton more art coming. (Cole Rehbein) Resist, My People, Resist Them: 1 pm Saturday, Feb. 15. Free. Corner of Old Pecos Trail and Camino Lejo; therednation.org
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Born Twins plus surf punkers The Batrays. Plus, at 8 pm, Albuquerque rock quartet Red Light Cameras takes over Meow Wolf (1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369; $16) for the bazzillionth time—we just mean they’re popular, so relax. You can even get pretty sexy with Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery’s Valentine’s Day Foreplay (8:30 pm. Free. 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 9830134), an evening of burlesque that’s bound to be super-hot. If DJs are more your thing, DJ D-Monic takes over the boom-baps and duncedunce-dunce at Boxcar (10 pm. Free. 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222) and VDJ Dany and DJ 12 Tribe bring Latin hip-hop, Top 40, reggaeton, EDM and more to the fine dancers of Buffalo Thunder (20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 455-5555). And that’s no counting the restaurants, drink specials, private parties and allaround not-some-dumb-movie-version of romance events and happenings going down. Take some damn pressure off. Have a drink (if you want). Look deep into their eyes and be like, “I bet I love you.” (Alex De Vore) VALENTINE’S DAY IN SANTA FE: Various locations, visit sfreporter.com/cal for more info
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FILM SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL Multiple Venues Santa Fe, 216-6063 The 20th anniversary of the film festival brings a new emphasis on our city's multicultural heritage, with over 170 films and 40 programs taking place this week in multiple venues. More info online at santafefilmfestival.com 10 am, free
MUSIC BOXCAR KARAOKE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Perform a love ballad for your sweetheart. 10 pm, free BRING YOUR OWN VINYL NIGHT Santa Fe Brewing Company Brakeroom 510 Galisteo St., 780-8648 Bring your favorite records and spin 'em in public. Or, if you're like us and own records but no turntable, maybe finally listen to them, huh? 6 pm, free JIM ALMAND El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Rock, blues and folk on guitar, harmonica and vocals. 7 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rhythmic covers and originals of a folky bent on guitalele. 6-9 pm, free MUSICA BUENA CONCERT: CIPRIANO VIGIL Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 The renowned folk musician plays a selection of New Mexican tunes on traditional instruments. Free with museum admission. 2-3 pm, $6-$12 NACHA MENDEZ La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Latin music from a local favorite. 8 pm, free PAT MALONE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazz guitar. 6-8 pm, free TROY KRUSZ Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana. 7 pm, free
WORKSHOP PAINT NIGHT AT THE LODGE AT SANTA FE The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Guided painting with fun and friends. This event is for ages 18+. Please arrive early to check in with your artist. Seats are first-come firstserved. 7-9 pm, $36
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THU/13 SPRING EXHIBITIONS IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Three exhibitions open tonight: G. Peter Jemison, Iroquois Creation Story; Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/ Present/Future; and Charlene Teters, Way of Sorrows. Meet the artists behind the work and hear them speak. 4:30-7 pm, free
INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S DAY State Capitol Roundhouse 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, 986-4589 This year’s theme is “The Future Is Indigenous,” with speeches and dances featuring politicians, activists and community organizers. Wear red in honor of missing and murdered Indigenous women. 7 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Pub trivia with prizes. 7 pm, free
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CHACO LANDSCAPES New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Archaeologist Ruth Van Dyke explores how archaeologists can work together with Native peoples to influence the public understanding of contemporary economic/extractive projects, including those in northwest New Mexico. 6:30-7:30 pm, $10 CHALICE GUILD Dragonstone Studios 317 Camino Alire, 466-3137 A group dedicated to the alchemy of the heart through work with the breath, the essence of Sufi teachings and prayer. Call ahead to learn what room they’re meeting in this week. 7 pm, free MARK TIARKS ON M. BUTTERFLY Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail., 983-9455 M. Butterfly world premieres at the Santa Fe Opera this summer. From novel to Broadway to Opera House, Tiarks explores the work's complex genesis. 5:30-7 pm, $10 PARALLEL LIVES: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 University professors Martha and Ken Simonsen discuss two advocates of freedom and democracy in the 18th century. 1-3 pm, $15 THE PROBLEM OF IRAN Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail., 983-9455 The Council on International Relations presents a luncheon discussion with Middle East experts Nader Hashemi of the University of Denver and Emile Nakhleh of UNM. 11:30 am, $30-$55
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW FEAT. SAINTS BALL Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A special Valentine's screening of the RHPS, complete with call-outs and lots of camp from ABQ’s favorite drag artists (see SFR Picks, page 21). 8 pm, $17 SANTA FE NATIVE CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 462-2635 A screening of 20 Native American films from the US and Canada, with special celebrity guests and an after-party at Hotel St. Francis. 12 pm-9 pm, $15-$25
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FOOD CASK & CURRY Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Each month on the second Thursday, Second Street taps a special cask of aged ale and pairs it with an Indian curry-inspired menu. 11 am, free DIGEST THIS! SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 This monthly interdisciplinary program engages audiences in important cultural conversations by offering “bite-sized” talks followed by a tasting prepared by a local chef. This month, Tamara van der Does, computational sociologist, discusses how changes in large-scale policy and cultural beliefs impact the day-to-day experience of migration, followed by a tasting from chef Hue-Chan Karels, who prepares a meal her family enjoyed immediately before they left Vietnam due to the fall of Saigon. 6 pm, $5-$10
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JESSE LAZCANO Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Masterful keyboard across a variety of genres. 7-10 pm, free JESUS BAS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Spanish and flamenco guitar. 6-9 pm, free
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FOOLS James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Students from the New Mexico School for the Arts perform Neil Simon's hilarious classic play. Leon Tolchinsky's landed a teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet, but the town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for 200 years. No one tells him that if he stays over 24 hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But, he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid that she has only recently learned how to sit down. 7-9 pm, $5-$10
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HUMMINGBIRD Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A play by Alix Hudson. After her parents are deported for being undocumented, successful high school student Nadia falls into a coma-like state of apathy. Her friends try to take care of her and use her illness to bring back her parents (see Theater, page 33). 7:30 pm, $5-$20
WORKSHOP COLUMBINES, COLOR, AND CO-EVOLUTION Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Santa Fe Botanical Garden horticulture director, Scott Canning, celebrates the ecology of color through the story of the co-evolution of columbines (genus Aquilegia) and their pollinators. 3-4:30 pm, $10-$15
FRI/14 ART OPENINGS DIMENSIONS II-III Plan B Arts Studio & Gallery 1807 Second Street Two artists from Galisteo and two from Santa Fe create abstractions through glass blowing and object photography. 4-7 pm, free ENVISION New Mexico School for the Arts 500 Montezuma Ave., Suite 200, 310-4194 A juniors’ self-proposed exhibition in connection with Junior Conceptual Concerns coursework. After reception, the gallery is not open to the public, but please schedule a private tour. 5-7 pm, free TANGENT/TRAJECTORY Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 The SFCC Visual Arts Gallery presents the work of sculptor Don Redman and painter Christina Hall-Strauss. 4-6:30 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES GARDEN SPROUTS: PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Listen to a book and participate in interactive nature and garden related activities. This program is designed for children aged 3-5, but all ages are welcome with an adult. When you arrive, please make your way to the Ojos y Manos: Eyes and Hands Garden across the red bridge. 10-11 am, free MUSH! STORIES FROM THE IDITAROD WITH KAREN LAND Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Land and her sled dog, Noggin, tell a story about endurance and partnership in the long, cold Iditarod race. For all ages. 3:30 pm, free
POETRY OF THE PEOPLE OPEN MIC Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 An open mic featuring the fierce poetry of Fatima (see SFR Picks, page 21). 5-8 pm, free
DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco. 6:30-9 pm, $30
EVENTS COMMUNITY DAY Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Celebrate Valentine’s Day with free admission to the Garden for New Mexico residents and students. 10 am-4 pm, free VALENTINES ON ICE Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 Rodeo Road, 955-4000 Two-for-one admisison and skate rentals for you and your beloved. 4:45-6:30 pm, $6 MAGIC: THE GATHERING TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store play with the Theros Beyond Death booster. 7-11 pm, $15 VALENTINE'S VALEDICTORY VICTORY PARTY City of Mud 1114A Hickox St., 954-1705 This is the last event for City of Mud in this space. The arts collective looks back at exhibitions from the past five years, kicks off their new art/activism platform, and passes the torch to Oasis Theatre Company, the building's new occupants (see A&C, page 29). 6-9 pm, free
FILM SANTA FE NATIVE CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 462-2635 A screening of 20 Native American films from the US and Canada, with special celebrity guests and an awards ceremony. 12 pm-9 pm, $15-$25
MUSIC ALPHA CATS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Blues, jazz and Western swing. 6-9 pm, free BLACKHEARTS SOCIAL CLUB The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, 557-6182 A rock lineup with The Illegal Aliens, The Blackout Pictures and tribute band Sabbath. 21+ (see SFR Picks, page 21). 7 pm, free
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Chasing Phases For Vonnie Kyle, reinvention makes everything just a bit sweeter BY AEDRA BURKE a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
E
ven if you’re not really a fan of the singer-songwriter genre, it would be difficult to deny that local Vonnie Kyle is a woman with talent. Kyle’s previous efforts with her full band Ten Ten Division (described on their Bandcamp as “a playful blend of ’90s rock, theatrical swirling vocals and pop melodies”) didn’t find her trying to needlessly reinvent the rock genre, but contributing something to the dialogue not heard in every corner of a saturated market. Ten Ten Division hasn’t been active for a few years—members wound up tackling other projects more full-time— but Kyle pressed on, refashioning herself as a folksy singer with a powerful voice and something to say. Her eponymous EP, released in May 2019, is a collection of just four songs, but has enough swagger and down-to-earth familiarity to be worthy of repeat listens; Kyle, however, didn’t box herself in. The act of reinvention isn’t new to her. “When I was a teenager, I got started playing a lot of solo shows when I was just learning the guitar,” she says. “For the last year or so, I’ve been mainly focused on these solo acoustic shows and a lot of touring.” Which isn’t to suggest touring solo is easier; rather that, for Kyle, it affords a freedom that’s worth the trade-off. “Playing solo has allowed me to tour because I’m only in charge of myself,”
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she says. “The disadvantage to touring myself is that I have to do all the driving.” If this was a piece about a girl playing a guitar, we could probably stop there, say that she’s playing a show on Thursday, Feb. 13 at Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery with touring acts Jillian Rae and Lydia Liza, and call it a day. But there’s more to Kyle than yet another Santa Fe folk singer with a guitar and a decent voice. “About a year ago, I was diagnosed with type II bipolar disorder, and that was a condition I left undiagnosed for a very long time,” Kyle explains. “It feels weird to call it a diagnosis when it was me saying ‘I bet I know what this is.’” That intuition proved right, and dealing with her mental health has found a way into her music. The second track on her EP, a punk-rock influenced piece named “The Brink Of Breaking Down,” puts a face to her struggles as she sings, “You’re pulling every trigger, every word plays on a loop.” Throughout her EP, such lyrics are commonplace, even when Kyle addresses simpler topics. When juxtaposed with the simplicity of the major key chords, it highlights an internal emotional tension, not unlike how Morrissey and The Smiths use major keys to convey a specific type of contemplation (side note: fuck Morrissey and his alt right edgeyqueen bullshit). “At the time I wrote that song, it was kind of getting to where I knew something was up, but I wasn’t doing anything about it,” Kyle says of “The Brink of Breaking Down.” “It’s sort of related to those manic phases where your thoughts are just racing,” she says, “and those racing thoughts are very easily triggered by something or someone.”
Going solo has been good for songwriter Vonnie Kyle.
In some ways, those manic phases can be productive, even at her dayjob. “I would be walking around Meow Wolf with a clipboard, and I was writing three or four songs during an eight-hour shift,” she says. Zeroing in on a diagnosis and the proper meds altered those lyrical sessions further. Now, she says, “instead of writing all of these lyrics while frantically trying to put them to power chords, I’ll actually sit down and be patient with it. I don’t think it’s bad that it’s changed. The pacing is different, but it all evens out when you consider the depressive phases, where you don’t get that much done.” Those with depression know those phases can hit hard, and Kyle says she even struggled with things she enjoyed, like seeing live music. It is, she says, “hard to get out and do things like that when you’re depressed.”
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Music, of course, doesn’t have an obligation to explore depression and sadness to have value. There’s a joy in hearing or writing a pop tune filled with expressions of admiration towards a lover or about the good things in life. Kyle does touch on those very topics, though rather than a revisionist take with lovey-dovey imagery and hearts shooting out of one’s eyes, she imbues music with delicate sincerity and honesty. It’s easy to forget everything can be complicated, be it love, loss, mental illness or even getting out of bed and picking up the guitar. “There’s going to be balance,” she says.
VONNIE KYLE: 7 pm Thursday, Feb. 13. Free. Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fria St., 780-5730.
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COOKER JOHN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country and folk guitar with harmonica. 5:30-8 pm, free DJ D-MONIC Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Chill with some friends or lovers and enjoy a live mix (see SFR Picks, page 21). 10 pm-1:30 am, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals, too. 6 pm, free EVANSTON TONY Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Coast-spanning jazz duo. 7-9 pm, free FROM GREGORIAN CHANT TO RAP: MUSIC IS ALWAYS THE BRIDGE Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 By viewing rap as contemporary liturgical music, Jungian analyst Pamela Power helps deepen an understanding of these turbulent times. 7-9 pm, $10-$30 HOLY GARDEN DISTRICT, BORN TWINS, THE BATRAYS Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Indie punk rockers plus an artisan pop-up market (see SFR Picks, page 21). 7-11 pm, free JUBAL Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk singer-songwriter. 5 pm, free KARAOKE NIGHT Cities of Gold Casino 10 Cities of Gold Road, 455-0515 Sing your heart out. 9-1 pm, free MARIO FEBRES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco guitar. 6-8 pm, free MEDIEVAL BALLADS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 TGIF presents a selection of European ballads from the Medieval period sung by Scott and Johanna Hongell-Darsee. 5:30-6:15 pm, free NATHANIEL KRANTZ BAND Turquoise Trail Bar at Buffalo Thunder 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 877-848-6337 Dance to some country music. 21+ after 10 pm. 9:30 pm-1:30 am, free PETE AMAHL Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Jazz and a special V-Day menu. 8 pm, free CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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It’s been just a whirl of wind for Tennessee-based comedian Nate Bargatze. Following an appearance on Netflix’s comedy series The Standups and a special of his own called The Tennessee Kid, Bargatze’s touring on the reg and winning hearts with his pretentiousness-free Southern charm. The man’s so funny, honestly, that we were willing to overlook how his show’s in Albuquerque (a city we rarely cover) at the Kiva Auditorium (7 pm Saturday Feb. 15. $20-$49. 401 2nd Street, Albuquerque, 505-768-4575). But trust us, y’all—he’s worth the drive. (Alex De Vore) In The Tennessee Kid, you mention how things changed in your career for you following your set on Netflix’s The Standups. Is that still in full swing? Are you getting mobbed? Has it gotten better or worse or neither since the newer special? It’s funny to talk about it onstage. I do get recognized. It’s not a problem—I can go everywhere. I get recognized where it’s...it happens every week now, but sometimes, you can be thinking it’s happening, but it’s not. At all. It’s embarrassing, but I’ll get people who come up and get excited, and they’ll take pictures, but once they leave I have to then explain who I am to 10 other people. People see it and they’re like “What was that?!” And I have to go tell them. It’s definitely changed everything. Before it was here and there, and it’s now definitely more than it used to be.
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HUMMINGBIRD Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A play by Alix Hudson. After her parents are deported for being undocumented, successful high school student Nadia falls into a coma-like state of apathy. Her friends try to take care of her and use her illness to bring back her parents. 7:30 pm, $5-$20 VALENTINE'S DAY FOREPLAY Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 A burlesque and variety show featuring some of Santa Fe's sexiest talent from across the gender spectrum (see SFR Picks, page 21). 8:30-11 pm, free
WORKSHOP YOGA FOR SELF-LOVE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Come celebrate the most important relationship: the one with your highest self. Open your heart, move your body to soulful music and be inspired by selected passages from the Radiance Sutras. Suitable for all levels; please register at resonancewoman.com. 6:30-7:45 pm, free
SAT/15 BOOKS/LECTURES CHARLIE CHRISTMANN: THE DARK SKY Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas, 867-3355 Placitas resident and amateur astronomer Christmann discusses what's going on in the sky, and what New Mexico is doing to protect our skies from light pollution. 2 pm, free JHANE MYERS: A PLAINS WOMAN'S JOURNEY Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts 1590 Pacheco St., 983-6372 Artist, filmmaker and producer Myers (Comanche and Blackfeet) discusses her mini-residency at the Coe Center which involved her making art side-by-side with the center's collection of Indigenous art. 2-4 pm, free MUSH! STORIES FROM THE IDITAROD Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Karen Land and her sled dog, Noggin, tell a story about endurance and partnership in the long, cold Iditarod race. For all ages. 1:30 pm, free
DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco. 6:30-9 pm, $30
MADRID'S ANNUAL PROM Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 DJ Zak brings back the 80s for a special night of dress-up and nostalgia. 7 pm, free UNPAVED: IMPRESSIONS OF A HOME LOST SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 New Mexico Dance Project presents a program that seeks to bring awareness to the topic of displacement by identifying the commonalities we all share in our search for home and belonging. A second performance at 7pm features a panel discussion with local organizations fighting to develop awareness on the topic of displacement faced by Santa Fe residents. 2 pm, $15-$20
EVENTS EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world. 8 am-4 pm, free LOVE YOUR RIVER DAY Frenchy's Field Osage Avenue and Agua Fría Street Six miles. Two hours. A lot of litter. Before the snow melts, help get trash out of the river, with refreshments and trash bags provided. Bring gloves and love for the river. Hosted by the Santa Fe Watershed Association. 10 am, free MAGIC: THE GATHERING TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store Modern Tournament play. 7-11 pm, $5 NEW MEXICO ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 Nearly 100 New Mexicobased artisans representing 40 communities and pueblos show their handcrafted goods, apparel, jewelry, accessories, home decor and more. 11 am-5 pm, $15 RESIST, MY PEOPLE, RESIST THEM Corner of Old Pecos Trail and Camino Lejo A rally with The Red Nation to reclaim Tewa land and replace murals in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and with Dine artist/activist Remy, who painted a controversial mural that the city has decided to take down. An appeals hearing is scheduled for Feb. 25. (see SFR Picks, page 21). 1 pm, free
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Santa Fe and other parts of the world we’re culturally inspired by.” Since 2015, City of Mud has done a bang-up job of just that. Between Pyle’s vision and that of her partner Jamie Chase, an illustrator, painter and graphic novel creator (and many others), the gallery eschewed things like landscapes and big New Mexico skies in favor of stranger events, for lack of a better word. Chase’s 2017 show Illustrated, for example, sought to demonstrate the link between graphic novels and comic books and fine art. Even the gallery name drew lines between Santa Fe and a wider, more global viewpoint. “It was meant to connote kinship with other places of the world where people have indigenous architecture,” Pyle explains, “and long traditions merging with modern movements. There was a hint of subversion there—we were trying to expand the dialogue about what a gallery can
look like and what it can do with a community of creative people; the Southwestern thing…all of us love good Southwestern art, there’s no doubt, but it’s been overrepresented and a cliché to the point that not all of it is good.” That foundation of covert subversion continues with City of Mud’s new webbased platform. Artists who’ve long worked with the gallery and newcomers can sell originals and high-quality reproductions— plus other various and sundry merch items such as posters, T-shirts, mugs and who-even-knows-what-else-yet—all while raising money for causes of their choice. In simpler terms, a percentage of each sale will go to a cause or charity championed by each artist. “We have an opportunity to launch something we’ve envisioned for a while,” Pyle continues. “A nationally marketed business that really goes into artist representation in a fresh way. Our goal is to create opportunity and, hopefully, sales and money, but that offers a more democratic way to approach buying art. Each artist is supporting a cause, and who knows—it could be anything.” Of course, this doesn’t mean the end of City of Mud as we know it in the physical realm. “We’re more interested in finding spaces and doing pop-up shows,” Chase tells SFR. “We wanted to do some curated shows where, if we find the right venue, we might do a month or two.” The rollout for the new and improved site (cityofmud.com) will be gradual, anyway, according to Pyle. As far as she knows, she says, there is no other web business with a similar model. Further, while the artist roster won’t (or can’t, let’s just be real here) possibly be 100% local, that’s still an important factor for Pyle and Chase. “There’s still going to be a preponderance of local talent,” Pyle points out, “although we’re hoping to get out more nationally.” As for the Oasis Theater Company, the timing couldn’t have been better.
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According to artistic director Brenda Bynum, the troupe had been looking for a dedicated space for well over a year, and the day before City of Mud went on the market, the seller of another space had backed out. Bynum’s idea is to create a for-profit partner as a sort of extension of the nonprofit theater. In addition to live theater productions, the space can also house pop-up events, visual arts shows, live music, corporate events and more. “It’s a combination of good old Santa Fe neighborhood and up-and-coming,” she tells SFR. “I think it’s the hot new neighborhood, and we want to be at the center of that transformation, but we still want to be part of the community, much like Aranda’s Plumbing.” It’s early in the transition (City of Mud still has the rest of February in the space), but Bynum is already awash in ideas. “One of the things I’d really like to do is have a week where it’s like a summer camp for children, where they can try photography, music, theater, and then maybe the people repping those art forms have a full week camp in their own space; we’re introducing that to the kids, and they can decide what art form they want to do.” Bynum also envisions pop-ups with local artists and/or craftspeople, as well as a broader scope than just Santa Fe. “What’s happening here is important, and by that I also mean the surrounding areas of Northern New Mexico,” she says. As for Pyle, Chase and City of Mud, they’ll close things out with a last hurrah party on Valentine’s Day. “I know I’m going to miss the building, but I really wanted someone else to have a turn,” Pyle says, only the faintest trace of wistfulness in her tone. “Yes, we’re nervous because no one has really done this before, but we feel extremely positive it can succeed. We’ve done our homework.” VALENTINE’S VALEDICTORY VICTORY PARTY 6 pm Friday Feb. 14. Free. City of Mud Gallery, 1114A Hickox St., 954-1705
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MUSIC BLUE RHAPSODY Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 R&B, jazz and soul tunes. 7-9 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Enjoy first-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic. 6 pm, free CHRISTINE FAWSON: VALENTINE'S FOREVER Legal Tender Saloon & Eating House 151 Old Lamy Trail, Lamy, 466-1650 Love songs from Northern New Mexico's own jazz chanteuse. Tickets include a $30 voucher for food and drinks. Reservations required at 946-7934. 5 pm, $60 CRAWFISH BOYZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 New Orleans-flavored jazz. 7:30-10:30 pm, free
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DK AND THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Southwestern Rock n' Roll 8 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs. 6 pm, free DAVID NUNEZ & DIMI DISANTI Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock 'n' soul 'n' such. 6 pm, free DOCTOR BOP Tonic 103 E Water St., 87501, 982-1189 Bop and more bop from Lee Steck (drums), Casey Andersen (bass) and Robert Muller (piano). 9:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too. 6 pm, free GARY BARTEN: SOUND PAINTINGS Paradiso 903 Early St., 87501 Earwaves presents Barten for two sets of music for synthesizers, electric mandolin and lap steel guitar. The first set is titled "Door at Cuenca" and is inspired by Ecuadorian filmmaker Cristian Lopez. The second set is "Winter Poems," a suite of five pieces punctuated by readings of poetry by Yosa Buson and Wallace Stevens. 7:30 pm, $10-$20 HOTH BROTHERS WITH SARAH FERRELL Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Contemporary country-folk. 5-7 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Country and Americana. 8 pm, free HOTBOI SHOWCASE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Independent, communal-driven emerging record label HotBOi Records presents a lineup of breakout electronic and dance music, with J Worra, Option 4, Porky and Steve Darko. 8 pm, $19 JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS Totemoff’s at Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475, 982-4429 Sassy rock, blues and Americana. 11 am-3 pm, free
JOHNNY LLOYD AND CACTUS SLIM Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive, 471-1111 Country and Americana. 6-9 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluegrass. 1 pm, free LANDON WORDSWELL Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 The hip-hop artists is kicking off a new tour. 8 pm, free MICHAEL BLACK AND EAMONN FLYNN GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. Music from Ireland. 7:30 pm, $22 NORTHERN 505 Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, Santa Fe, 87506, 455-5555 Rancheras, cumbias, country, rock and oldies. 21+ after 10pm. 9:30 pm-1 am, free ROBERT GONZALES Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Classical, jazz, flamenco and latin guitar. 7-10 pm, free ROBERT MARCUM AND BRIAN DEAR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Folk 'n' rock with solid Americana roots. 8-11 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic songs from the '60s, '70s and beyond. 5:30 pm, free STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Blues 'n' rock. 6 pm, free THE HIGH DESERT PLAYBOYS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country western on the deck. 3 pm, free THE HOLLYHOCKS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Alt.country and desert rock. 9-11 pm, $5
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THE CALENDAR THEATER FOOLS James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Students from the New Mexico School for the Arts perform Neil Simon's hilarious classic play. Leon Tolchinsky's landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet, but the town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for 200 years, and Leon's job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over 24 hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But, he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid that she has only recently learned how to sit down. 2 pm, $5-$10 HUMMINGBIRD Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A play by Alix Hudson. After her parents are deported for being undocumented, successful high school student Nadia falls into a coma-like state of apathy. Her friends try to take care of her and use her illness to bring back her parents. 7:30 pm, $5-$20
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GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road, La Cienega, 471-9103 Spend a morning in the unique wetland habitat and learn about the diversity of birds from Rocky Tucker, volunteer bird guide. Arrive promptly on time; the gate will be closed at 9:10 am. 9-11:30 am, free NEW VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 This orientation provides all of the resources for potential volunteers to get into the garden with basic skills and knowledge with one of our various volunteer opportunities. This orientation is required of all volunteers before they start volunteering with the Santa Fe Botanical Garden. 1-3 pm, free THE ALCHEMY OF THE SELF, WITH MUSIC Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 Jungian analyst Pamela Power utilizes samples of music to present different ways of experiencing self. 9 am-1:15 pm, $55
SUN/16 BOOKS/LECTURES BUTTERMILK Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Natachee Momaday Gray performs poetry as her alias Tatja Lucia alongside GS Brandson and Kyle Thomas Perkins. 7 pm, free
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ELECTRIC UTILITY REGULATION FOR SOCIETAL BENEFIT Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 George Weston leads a discussion with the UU Humanist Discussion Group. 8:30 am, free JEWISH IDENTITY, LOYALTY & TRIBALISM Congregation Beit Tikva 2230 Old Pecos Trail, 982-4931 Israeli scholar and activist Tomer Perisco speaks on the changes in Jewish identity and its impact on elections and religious communities. 4-5:30 pm, $10 MUSH! STORIES FROM THE IDITAROD Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Karen Land and her sled dog, Noggin, tell a story about endurance and partnership in the long, cold Iditarod race. For all ages. 1:30 pm, free RECAPPING THE 2020 LEGISLATIVE SESSION Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 JourneySantaFe presents Andrea Romero, representative for NM House District 46, to discuss the process of becoming and serving as an elected official. 11 am, free VERONICA GOLOS: GIRL op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Golos, a Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize winner, launches her latest collection of poetry that invoke a frisson of daughter/motherhood, loss and reunion. 2 pm, free WHY ARE PEOPLE ATTRACTED TO DOGMATIC BELIEF SYSTEMS? Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 The Secular Alliance of Santa Fe, a new group, hosts a discussion on the topic of dogmatic religion. 12 pm, free
EVENTS EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world. 10 am-4 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 Pub trivia with prizes. 7 pm, free
HEART CENTERED LABYRINTH WALK Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road, 316-3596 Walk the labyrinth, uncover the secrets of your heart, get solutions to your troubles (see SFR Picks, page 21). 2 pm, free MAGIC: THE GATHERING TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store Commander play. 12-9 pm, $5 MAGIC: THE GATHERING TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store play with the Theros Beyond Death League cards. 2-7 pm, $30 NEW MEXICO ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 Nearly 100 New Mexicobased artisans representing 40 communities and pueblos show their handcrafted goods, apparel, jewelry, accessories, home decor and more. 10 am-5 pm, $15
MUSIC BILL HEARNE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana from a Santa Fe legend. 6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too. 6:30-9:30 pm, free DVORÁK, WILLIAMS AND DEL AGUILA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Guest conductor Nir Kabaretti leads the Santa Fe Symphony, with special guests Richard White on tuba and Guillermo Figueroa on violin. 4 pm, $22-$80 GERRY CARTHY Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Irish traditional music, folk and more. From the West of Ireland to Santa Fe, Carthy plays the tradition wild and sweet on tin whistles, fiddle, banjo, concertina, saxophone and guitars—plus a bit of Spanish guitar and jazz. 7-9 pm, free HIGH DESERT WINDS James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 The winds ensemble performs their winter concert, with a highlight on a performance of Concerto for Clarinet by Artie Shaw featuring clarinetist Henry Johnson. 2 pm, free
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ACTING OUT Sweetness child is doing well in school. They’re bright, talkative, socially apt and well-adjusted. They play sports, they’re at the top of their class, their friends adore them. But then they receive a letter that their parents, or maybe their whole family, is being deported. They go up to their bedroom, lie down in bed, and fall asleep. They don’t wake up. They’re still alive—vitals are good, eyelids flutter, breathing is steady. It’s like they’re asleep. But they just don’t wake up. Such is the trajectory of resignation syndrome, or uppgivenhetssyndrom (a real word), a phenomenon seen in Sweden in the second decade of this century. Hundreds of immigrant children, many the sons and daughters of refugees, would enter into coma-like states upon receiving the traumatic news of deportation, leaving their families baffled and terrified. This is also the plot trajectory of local playwright Alix Hudson’s Hummingbird, which has made its world premiere at Teatro Paraguas and runs through Feb. 23, directed by Malcom Morgan. It tackles issues of adolescence, immigration and family ties mostly with grace, featuring three successful actors and a lengthy script. The story follows siblings Nadia (Iza Konings) and Sam (Devin Zamora) and Nadia’s best friend Miriam (Christine Amenion)—the children of immigrant parents from the same unspecified country. Nadia and Miriam are seniors in high school and Sam is in his early 20s. Nadia and Sam’s parents have recently been deported. In the play’s first scene, Sam finds Nadia unresponsive in her bed, and we meet Nadia through flashbacks and through the spirited conversation of Sam and Miriam.
Speaking of “spirited,” that is certainly a word that can be used to describe Amenion’s Miriam, impossibly bubbly as she flits around the room with seemingly unfailing optimism. When Nadia falls asleep, she’s transported back to the house in a hospital bed on wheels, and Miriam spends nearly every waking moment with her best friend. She takes the “talk to her” advice of the doctors to heart, gossiping and updating Nadia on goings-on at their school while painting her nails. JACKIE JADRNAK
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In the hands of another actress, Miriam would probably have read as weary and shrill—but with Amenion, she’s nothing but kind and lovable. She practically bounces as she walks, and while she never comes across as annoying to the audience, it still translates that Zamora’s Sam would soon grow tired of her pep. Zamora, who we last saw onstage in October in The Happiest Song Plays Last at the Santa Fe Playhouse, is a believable Sam, the protective older brother trying to keep his small household together in the face of incredible odds. He’s your typical (stereotypical?) hard worker who passed up a chance at academia to take a factory job to bring in some extra money for a bit, but he’s clearly glad he has the income coming in once his parents are gone and he has a sibling confined to a gurney. In flashbacks, he’s ever rolling his eyes at his little sister’s political antics, declining to accompany her to prorefugee rallies and demurring from actively supporting her progressive agenda. In the real-time action, he visibly struggles with Nadia’s condition, convinced that she is consciously pretending to have resignation syndrome in order to get their parents back from exile. His performance does occasionally feel forced, particularly in the first few scenes, but I attribute this not to Zamora’s chops but rather to some stumbles in the script.
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Overall, the script is quite powerful, flowing easily and aptly depicting realistic conversation about heavy topics. It is rare that it trips—though it occasionally does, usually in the sections about politics that playwright Hudson perhaps had more trouble approaching through casual conversation. I felt a little beat over the head during the first act (which clocked in at 90 minutes, by the way; the second act is shorter), when Sam and Miriam engage in some conversation with a clear political agenda. Those kinds of conversations are hard to write, and Hudson very nearly gets there. The character of Nadia comes through loud and clear, and actress Konings, a 17-year-old junior at Desert Academy, handles her with a steady hand. She’s feisty and passionate, unfailingly supportive of her best friend Miriam and close with her brother Sam, but clearly has a deep inner life that we glimpse through her flashback interactions with Miriam and pages of poetry she wrote before she fell asleep. Occasionally Nadia seems like “a bit much,” if you will—how can one human contain so much kinetic energy?—but rather than a mere case of overacting, this is how the character is written, and Konings depicted her deftly. Portraying a slightly exhausting character accurately is a triumph. Overall, then, the script knows what it’s doing. (A particularly nice touch was how Hudson keeps sending characters out of the room, leaving a comatose Nadia alone onstage; I kept finding myself waiting for her to wake up or twitch, proving Sam’s theory of artifice true. Spoiler alert: It never happened.) Through descriptions of hummingbirds at the botanical gardens to readings from Nadia’s biology textbook, every aspect of this script has been clearly orchestrated and planned— unsurprising from the hand of Hudson, whose work we’ve come to respect here at SFR. Overall, a story of familial ties, friendship, love, and the impact of global politics on local families comes through crystalline in Hudson’s script, with only a few hiccups to pull us out. At one point, as Miriam puts lip gloss on Nadia’s unresponsive mouth, she coos gently: “It’s so sweet, right?” Everything Miriam does is indeed so sweet, driving home the need for human connection in inhumane times. HUMMINGBIRD
Miriam (Christine Amenion, left) and Nadia (Iza Konings) take a clandestine trip to a vibrant garden that folds out of a wall in Teatro Paraguas.
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MON/17 BOOKS/LECTURES A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SWASTIKA SYMBOL AND ITS USE IN NAVAJO WEAVING Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Dennis J Aigner speaks on the historical significance of a Navajo sacred symbol which is more commonly known for its insidious use by Nazi Germany. 6 pm, $15
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PAUL WEIDERMAN: ARCHITECTURE SANTA FE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The author, in conversation with Gayla Bechtol, discusses his book on the history and design language behind the "Santa Fe Style." 6 pm, free
DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too. 6:30-9:30 pm, free LITTLE LEROY DUO Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock 'n' roll. 6-9 pm, free
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LA TIERRA TOASTMASTERS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Discover where one can advance their public speaking skills in a lively and rewarding group. 12-1 pm, free
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LEE AUSTIN THOMPSON: HOMER'S ODYSSEY Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The Santa Fe-based author of a new translation of the Odyssey speaks about his work and his love for the story of a man of many wiles. 6 pm, free
GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Pub trivia with prizes. 7 pm, free NEW MEXICO ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 Nearly 100 New Mexicobased artisans representing 40 communities and pueblos show their handcrafted goods, apparel, jewelry, accessories, home decor and more. 10 am-5 pm, $15 THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 471-0997 The barbershop chorus is looking for men and women who can carry a tune; join in on any of the four-part harmony parts (tenor, lead, baritone or bass). Directed by Maurice Sheppard. For more information, call Marv (699-6922) or Bill (424-9042). 6:30 pm, free
FOOD DUMPLING POP-UP Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Brent Jung serves up Korean dumplings and more. 4 pm, $10
MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana from a Santa Fe legend. 7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke. 9 pm, free
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EVENTS FREE FEDERAL AND STATE TAX PREPARATION Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 417 Agua Fría St., 983-8868 Come and get your taxes prepared and filed for free. IRScertified tax volunteers will prepare and e-file federal and state taxes. Certain income and complexity restrictions apply. 9 am-4:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Pub trivia with prizes. 7 pm, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group. Divide and conquer! Newcomers are always welcome, so go fight the good fight. 9 am, free
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Master Food Truck All hail the mini food truck park at Paseo de Peralta and Old Santa Fe Trail—host to a gathering of new and familiar trucks that’s practically perfect for people who live or work downtown and want to get out of waiting in long lunchtime lines. Master Food Truck is one such eatery, and its lineup of burgers, tortas, gorditas and sopas (all $9.50) pretty much
nails it. Add in a special breakfast that comes in either burrito or sandwich form, and you may have just found a quick to-go option for those mornings you’re running late but your stomach gets to rumbling. Also find other specials in the bright red truck that might actually not even be a truck … 502 Old Santa Fe Trail, 522-9472
Tacqueria Gracias Madre This one deserves a spot on any food truck fanatic’s list, and is friendly to the gluten-free and vegetarians alike. On the day we visited the small truck in the Meow Wolf parking lot, things hadn’t quite popped off yet, and a mere few minute wait yielded delectable barbacoa tacos (four for $10) and an absolutely bonkers order of X-mas chile cheese fries with calabacitas in place of meat ($9), though all the usual meat suspects are there for the choosing. Gracias Madre even accepts debit and credit cards,
something not all food trucks can handle, and the service came with a smile and friendliness we really enjoyed. Elsewhere on the menu, items like burritos ($7) and a green chile cheeseburger with coleslaw or fries ($9) soothe eaters who want what they know, and the veggies among you will be glad to know there are calabacitas and avocado tacos (three for $9).
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CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Sign up to sing or play if you desire, but be forewarned— this ain't amateur hour. 8-11 pm, $5 DRAFT PUNX: UNINVITED GUEST Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 A monthly showcase curated by New Mexico bands and featuring all things heavy and experimental. For this edition, Santa Fe's Carlos Santistevan and Albuquerque's Marisa Demarco team up to curate a
night of experimental/noise that bridges the two cities, featuring Uninvited Guest with Marshall Trammell, Big Hen, Tahnnz and Nintendo For Windows. 8-11 pm, free HIP POCKET Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock n' roll. 6-10 pm, free IZAAK OPATZ; AUSTIN LEONARD JONES; JUBAL Ghost 2899 Trades West Road Indie singer-songwriters. 8-11 pm, $5-$10
OSCAR BUTLER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Solo acoustic guitar. 7 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar. 6 pm, free PINEGROVE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Genre-bending alt-country and indie rock mixed with a cerebral humanism. 7 pm, $20
MUSEUMS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Contemporary Voices: Jo Whaley. Through Feb. 24. HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Dean Pulver: Elemental Resonance. Through April 26, 2020. Beatrice Mandelman: Overflowing with Color. Through April 26, 2020. IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Wayne Nez Gaussoin: Adobobot. Through Nov. 30. Reconciliation. Through Jan. 19. Sámi Intervention/Dáidda Gázada. Through Feb. 16. MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Artworks in wax. MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Diego Romero vs The End of Art. Through April 2020. MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Gallery of Conscience: Community Through Making from Peru to New Mexico. Through Jan. 5. Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico. Through March 7, 2021. Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Through Jan. 2021. From Combat to Carpet: The Art of Afghan War Rugs. Through Aug. 30. MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Working on the Railroad. Through 2021. The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur. Through
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EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history. SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Human Nature: Explorations in Bronze. Through May 10, 2020. SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 SITE’s Buildboard Project. Through Feb. 1, 2021. WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art. Through Oct. 4, 2020.
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ithin two minutes of arriving back at SFR HQ with a bag of Jacob Brenner’s bread, folks were shook. I brought out a beautiful sourdough baby boule ($6) and a square of focaccia topped with green olives and preserved lemon ($4) which were quickly devoured with smiles and compliments. The focaccia was the star: Briney olive danced on the tongue with acidic lemon before giving way to a hint of sweetness and the hearty bread base. Everyone was excited and generally in a much better mood than before the bread arrived. It’s hard to add on to their shining review, but I’ll do my best. I had just finished chatting with bread artisan Brenner that morning at his new bakery, the simply and aptly named Bread Shop (1708 Lena St. Ste. 101; 231-7426; breadshopsf.com), which had been in business a total of four days prior to our interview. Brenner’s been passionate about bread for much longer than that, though. He was raised here in Santa Fe but just returned from a 10-year stint in Portland, Oregon, cooking at Italian restaurant Ava Gene’s. Upon his return, he took a job at Paloma before transitioning into his own bread bakery full-time. The small shop on Lena Street, formerly the home of ice cream shop La Lecheria,
Bread artisan Jacob Brenner slices a pan of focaccia.
is the perfect scale for a one-person bread operation. The space is airy, facing the east and full of light, with a small bar and seats lining the walls. “I want it to be, as small as it is, a place where people could come hang out, a mini community space,” Brenner says. His bread ovens are electric and the whole building runs on solar, so it’s also sustainable. Brenner makes his breads from mostly organic grains milled in southern Colorado, Arizona and Utah. Pointing to the shelf of boules, he explains, “I think what sets this apart from other bread in town is that I bake it a little darker, a little more caramelized than other bakeries. I like super crusty bread to get as much flavor as I can, and super moist on the inside.” His description
is spot on—the crust is a bit crunchy and slightly sweet, which complements the mild sourness of the inside. He uses natural, ambient yeasts and longer fermentation times, which produces a local sour flavor that isn’t as strong as other sourdoughs. On its own, it’s a whole flavor experience, but it also lends itself perfectly to being dipped in a light oil or used in a sandwich. On top of the boules, Bread Shop also offers baguettes ($4) and a hearty rye and spelt loaf that’s packed with seeds ($11), besides a plain ($3.50), tomato, and olive lemon focaccia ($4). Since he uses local yeast, I ask Brenner about using local grains from New Mexican farmers, which spawned a whole conversation about his values around local agriculture, human connection and climate change. “I’d really like to support New Mexican agriculture as much as I can,” he says. “When you’re working with a small farmer, it’s hard to find people who are… also milling [grain], or have a connection to a mill. I’m talking to this guy who’s growing it and can mill a bit for me, but I’m trying to find that missing link—the mill.” A farmer in Los Luceros grows a “delicious and fan-
tastic” grain, according to Brenner, and he can grind a bit of it on his own, but the supply chain in other places is more reliable than what exists in New Mexico just now. “In southern Colorado, the grain economy there is a little more established and the infrastructure is there…but I’ll pay the price if I find someone growing cool stuff and being able to mill it here,” he adds. If you could be Brenner’s dream miller, hit him up because he’d love to make bread with your product. One major draw he’s already seen is from vegan customers following a post in the Santa Fe Vegan Facebook group. “This style of bread doesn’t usually have any animal products to begin with,” Brenner says. Within minutes of the shop opening for the day, I meet Stephanie Ariel, who found out about it through the Facebook group and now, having visited twice, is soon to be a regular. “My mom is a huge bread fanatic, and we had the baguette last week and she had the tomato focaccia,” Ariel says, “so she sent me by after yoga to grab some more for dinner tonight.” So, in case my word and that of the SFR office isn’t good enough for you, take it from Ariel: “It’s definitely a winner.”
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Though he’s been more of a writer up to now, Israeli filmmaker Yaron Zilberman tackles directing duties with Incitement, a stark yet powerful drama that portrays the lead-up to prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s 1995 assassination from the point of view of the killer. Yehuda Nahari Halevi is Yigal Amir, a young nationalist and law student who, in the time of the ’90s Oslo Accords, which were meant to bring peace between Israel and Palestine, heeds numerous right-wing rabbis who advise him that Jewish law states anyone willing to give up Israeli land be sentenced to death. We’ve seen assassination films before, though Zilberman’s take is refreshing if startling. Rather than paint in broad strokes that define a killer as a one-dimensional evil, we instead observe the slow burn factors that radicalize but humanize him. Failed relationships, political friends, hateful rhetoric and even deeply religious men lead Amir along his path, and Halevi’s performance manages to bring a more
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nuanced understanding of the real world events together without forcing us to hate anyone. He’s wonderful, by the way—quiet when necessary, but imposing in his rigid beliefs and actions. Same goes for the rabbis who advise him, though the better term might be scary; Zilberman points out in a post-film text crawl that none were ever arrested or charged for their roles in Rabin’s death. It’s a shame the supporting cast feels so inconsequential, particularly a stalled thread that reveals an Amir collaborator as an Israeli Secret Service informant. Same goes for Amir’s family, who try to reach him but fail, as well as a potential love interest whose rabbi uncle, we’re told, had some part, though it’s never made clear what that was. Still, we somehow sympathize with Zilberman’s Amir even as we know what
he’s planning. He feels more lost and manipulated than he does hateful, even as he clings steadfast to his convictions. Incitement even picked up Best Film honors from Israel’s Ophir Awards (and, reportedly, was short-listed for America’s Oscars), and should go a long way toward educating folks about the situation over there. Obviously there are no good answers, and assassination is the action of the desperate. But even so, if we can try to understand the motivations of the man behind the slaying, we might better understand the tragedy.
INCITEMENT Directed by Zilberman With Halevi Center for Contemporary Arts, 123 min., NR
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One recalls a time when we longed for comic book movies that took the medium seriously, though one also recalls that we’ve since been smothered by such films. It just…won’t…stop. Lucky, then, that the character Harleen Quinzel, aka Harley Quinn, is based on a cartoon character created by the inimitable Paul Dini for the ’90s Batman animated series, and lucky, then, that Margot Robbie feels some sort of affinity for her—she’s fucking fun. Yes, 2016’s Suicide Squad was a disaster of a movie, but there was one shining light hidden within the garbage—Robbie. Her take on the Joker’s girlfriend was so fun and charming that we longed for more. Of course, nobody wanted to make the standalone film (some bullshit in Hollywood about how nobody wants to see women-led movies), so Robbie stepped up to produce herself (along with a woman-heavy creative team including director Cathy Yan and writer Christina Hodson), and it’s a good thing she did—Birds of Prey is some of the most fun you can have at the movies. Now, that doesn’t mean it’s good, per se. Or,
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actually, that it’s bad. But we don’t really need to assign those descriptors here, because it’s really more about the journey or something, right? Right. Point is, this is about the most high-action, popcorn-chomping, bone-breaking, crossbow-shooting good time one can have in theaters right now, so just leave the good/bad dichotomy out of this, K? Robbie reprises the role of Harley Quinn in the weeks after splitting with the Crown Prince of Crime. Turns out she’d been a bit of a jerk during their relationship, though, and now everyone who was too scared of Joker to do anything about it has come to collect their pound of flesh. It’s mainly rank and file baddies, low-level henchmen and goons and such. But for Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor), there are much higher stakes and much more violent means to explore. Quinn must form a posse of badass women (played by Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jurnee Smollett-Bell) to handle the situation, and so she does—and they’re badass, indeed. Birds of Prey winds up a far more violent film than other DC properties (Superman and Batman don’t kill people), and certainly a less gritty take on Gotham City. It’s dark, yes, but never loses the humorous threads that make it so enjoyable. Robbie in particular shines as a wronged woman reclaiming her power, and CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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out deus ex machina; Stephanie spends a lot of time looking sick and leaning on walls dramatically or falling to the floor and looking sickly. Props to director Reed Morano (The Handmaid’s Tale) for at least trying to execute some level of artistry, but when that comes in the form of shaky cam and just the most excruciatingly drawn-out scenes of nothingness, it’s hard to suss out the good from the bad. Or rather, it feels like only the bad remains. Lively is to be commended as well, maybe, for taking a stab at something decidedly more mature than previous roles, but her character’s motivations are murky at best, and things just kind of happen to or for her. Who did Jude Law piss off to have to be in this movie? The world may never know, just as we’ll never know this film existed in a couple years from now. That’s not a bad thing. (ADV)
Violet Crown, Regal (both locations), R, 109 min. This is what we looked like while watching The Rhythm Section: a little unkempt and a whole lotta confused and irritated. And it made us start smoking again. Also, it was exhausting. the support that women show other women even under the worst circumstances is a breath of fresh air in a medium where they’re often portrayed as catty, jealous and dimensionless vessels for male reactionary bullshit. It makes McGregor all the more nefarious and worthy of hate, it makes Rosie Perez look like the champion she is. Oh, there are missteps, like Chris Messina’s wildly boring Victor Zsasz and a wooden young pickpocket played by Ella Jay Basco. But it’s Robbie’s show, and we never forget it—from the kick-ass fight under fire sprinklers to her legitimately hilarious mannerisms and off-thewall weirdness. Perhaps the best course of action is to look at the things they’re not overtly saying—that teamwork works, that women aren’t defined by their partners, that Ewan McGregor is a pretty fun villain. Think of it more like a summer thing and try to enjoy yourself. What else is there, even? (ADV)
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Blake Lively enters the globe-traipsing action-esque genre a la The Bourne Identity in The Rhythm Section, a mind-numbingly bad take on novelist Mark Burnell’s book of the
same name (Burnell also penned the script). Lively plays Stephanie, a young British woman reeling some years after a plane crash claimed her family. But when a freelance journalist finds her with information about how the plane was actually bombed in a terrorist attack, she stops feeling self-pity and starts feeling revenge-y— this time, it’s personal. Enter Jude Law, the journalist’s source from MI6, or at least, he was in MI6. He’s prepared to train Stephanie for…no apparent reason, and with a few months of jogging up Scottish hills and swimming through frozen Scottish lochs under her belt, our heroine sets out to uncover the truth and, as she says, solve any lingering issues “violently.” Sojourns to exciting locations like Scotland, Tangier, Madrid and New York City follow, and despite Stephanie’s baffling inability to actually kill most of the people she set out to kill, the people involved in the bomb plot start dropping like flies somehow. No, they don’t examine her morality beyond a line about how she just couldn’t go through with it. In fact, The Rhythm Section does such a horrible job explaining who is who and how they were involved (except for the radical Muslim guy—they mention him A LOT) that it’s hard to know what’s happening. When they do manage to identify someone, say, This is Us star Sterling K Brown as an information broker who might know more than he’s letting on—and who is now on our radar for this and the last Predator movie—it still feels inconsequential. Law, meanwhile, hangs around to dole
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“It’s a Guy Ritchie movie,” I said over the phone, “so it’ll probably be a convoluted if mildly intriguing story set against a laundry list of gangster types and played out over a super-hip soundtrack of throwback bangers.” “Word,” my friend said. “That sounds fine.” And fine it was, because The Gentlemen is exactly what you’d expect from the venerable British director as he returns to the organized crime genre—a steady stream of UK-based businesspeople who work in the business of drugs and shooting people and stuff. It’s…fine. Yeah, it’s fine. We follow the quiet yet violent Mickey (Matthew McConaughey who seemingly treats this role with the same lifeless energy he affords his Lincoln commercials), a Londonbased, American-born crime boss—presumably because nobody wanted him to even take a crack at a British accent—who, after building a massive weed empire over a few decades, is ready to leave the game and spend more time with his wife (Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery). He’s even lined up a buyer in the form of American bazillionaire Matthew (Jeremy Strong of HBO’s Succession, who seems to be trying out some kind of Truman Capote vibe but mostly fails and is awful), but when a ruthless Chinese up-and-comer who goes by Dry Eyes (Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding) pops in to try and buy the farm(s) at a lower price at the same time a tabloid boss decides to ruin
Mickey for a perceived social snub, everything starts falling apart and people gots to get got. Cue soulful bassline. So, setting aside the needless premise that much of the story is related in flashbacks and didn’t-really-happen vignettes as told by a smarmy PI (Hugh Grant) to Mickey’s number one guy (Charlie Hunnam), The Gentlemen does find time to interject some mini-mystery and humor into its otherwise glum tale of drugs and crime and stuff. Colin Farrell practically saves the movie as a boxing coach mentor to a gaggle of social media-obsessed roustabouts who run afoul of Mickey, and Hunnam’s buttoned-down murderer vibe definitely works. It’s just that McConaughey really phones it in, and we can’t say much more for Strong. Actually, at least McConaughey has a few brief moments of badass or charming; Strong just flounders among the more experienced and/or talented cast members. Golding, for example, makes for a fairly enjoyable villain—right up until the utterly needless sexual assault scene (can we just get these out of movies, already?) bookended with a bullet or two, and Dockery, who is criminally underutilized here, cuts out a notably interesting performance. Still, much of The Gentlemen feels like a pubescent male power fantasy wherein badasses gleefully kill and make up weird business rules and the women around them grab their junk before disappearing until their next big plot device moment. Blah, blah, blah. But if you can shut off your brain and go into it knowing you’ll see some guns and weed—and laugh at Farrell’s honestly wonderful supporting role—you should be fine. Yeah, fine. (ADV)
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World War I went down at such a strange cusp in human history—the politics, the evolving technology, the rapidly changing world—that it wound up trapped between modernist experimental ideas and the tail end of aging battlefield tactics. The weaponry, for example, was the most lethal and advanced ever conceived at the time, and those who used it were so new to the equipment that the violence borne down from all sides was some new kind of horrific. Director Sam Mendes (Skyfall) knows this intimately, because his newest, the harrowing 1917, turns out to be based on a true story related by his grandfather Alfred, who was really there in the trenches of France when the German army enacted a strategic retreat to sow CONTINUED ON PAGE 43
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Little Women: They’d rather take coffee than compliments just now. discord, false confidence and confusion among the British troops. We’re thrown into the fray immediately as Lance Corporals Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) are ordered by a high-ranking general to carry a ceasefire letter across enemy lines to a hubristic colonel hellbent on pushing the perceived advantage and dug in with 1,600 men some miles away. If they fail, Chapman and Schofield are told, it’ll be a massacre; they’ll need to go on foot, and the stakes are even higher as Blake’s older brother is meant to lead a garrison into battle at the new front line. Much has been made of Mendes’ seemingly cut-free film, and one really must see it to believe it. 1917 is a technical marvel both in terms of immersion and pacing, but this is no meathead, glory of war nonsense crammed with action scenes and bulging muscles. The violence plays out more on a macro scale, and the conditions facing our heroes are actually few and rather muted; the tone is one of quiet desperation more than it is of fearless heroes meting out righteous bullets at a faceless enemy. In fact, 1917 does not glorify or try to justify war, it simply tells a story contained therein. It’s not all grand. Sometimes a massive scene crammed with extras wears thin, seemingly drawn out to justify the large scope. Nobody listens to anyone, either, and a scene with a mudbound truck just feels pointless. Of course, it’s possible Mendes was trying to honor his grandfather by including smaller events, and they even sort of humanize some of the nameless soldiers. But the true surprise of the film are the moments of beauty that sneak up on us: cherry blossoms sailing through the wind, a bucket of milk discovered undisturbed, new life growing from the rubble of a destroyed country town—hope, above all else. (ADV)
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that women in the 19th century didn’t have a plethora of options (nor did they in the 18th century, which is when another famous novel about sisters was written from which this review’s opening lines are cribbed). Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women tells the story of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth March (Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen), growing up poor in New England during the Civil War. Despite having little, the sisters have spunk and dreams. Particularly Jo who, like Alcott, is the writer in the family. Little Women was a huge hit when it was published in 1868-69, and it has never been
out of print since then. And yet, at the same time, it’s a problematic text if you don’t like stories about women getting married. Director Greta Gerwig is not the first filmmaker to grapple with contemporary readers’ dissatisfaction with the marriage plot of Little Women. But she is the first to navigate it in a satisfying way. While the film captures cinematically the domestic warmth of the story—the March home is cozy and the sisters bedecked in costumes for the plays they put on for one another and the frocks they wear to parties—it also breaks a domestic story wide open. Gerwig accomplishes this with a narrative sliceand-dice of the original story’s timeline, and an imagined amplification of Jo’s career as a writer. Ronan acts winningly as Jo, a surrogate for Alcott, who hoped her heroine could end up a literary spinster. “I’m sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for,” Jo says to her mother Marmee (Laura Dern). Alcott also was sick of it. She was involved in the women’s suffrage movement, and the first women to register to vote in Concord, Massachusetts. Little Women doesn’t just pass the Bechdel test; it pays tribute to a woman writer who pushed at the constraints of her time. (Julia Goldberg)
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now that she’s in her late forties, Aries comedian and actress Tig Notaro is wiser about love. Her increased capacity for romantic happiness has developed in part because she’s been willing to change her attitudes. She says, “Instead of being someone who expects people to have all the strengths I think I need them to have, I resolved to try to become someone who focuses on the strengths they do have.” In accordance with this Valentine’s season’s astrological omens, Aries, I invite you to meditate on how you might cultivate more of that aptitude yourself.top worrying, let it alone, and allow it to solve itself.
love, and how you felt as you received their caring attention. Then send out a beam of gratitude to each of them. Honor them with sublime appreciation for having treasured your unique beauty. Amazingly enough, Libra, doing this exercise will magnetize you to further outpourings of love in the coming weeks.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): [Warning: Poetry alert! If you prefer your horoscopes to be exclusively composed of practical, hyper-rational advice, stop reading now!] Happy Valentine Daze, Scorpio! I invite you to copy the following passage and offer it to a person who is receptive to deepening their connection with you. “Your healing eyes bless the winter jasmine flowers that the breeze TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus artist Joan Miró blew into the misty creek. Your welcoming prayers celeloved to daub colored paint on canvases. He said he approached his work in the same way he made love: “a brate the rhythmic light of the mud-loving cypress trees. total embrace, without caution, prudence thrown to the Your fresh dreams replenish the eternal salt that nourwinds, nothing held back.” In accordance with astrolog- ishes our beloved song of songs. With your melodic ical omens, I invite you to invoke a similar attitude with breath, you pour all these not-yet-remembered joys into my body.” (This lyrical message is a blend of my words all the important things you do in the coming weeks. with those of Scorpio poet Odysseus Elytis.) Summon the ardor and artistry of a creative lover for all-purpose use. Happy Valentine Daze, Taurus! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The poet Virgil, a renowned author in ancient Rome, wrote three epic GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini businessman Irving Seery was 20 years old. One evening he traveled poems that are still in print today. His second was a masterpiece called the Georgics. It took him seven to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to see an years to write, even though it was only 2,740 lines opera starring the gorgeous and electrifying soprano long. So on average he wrote a little over one line per singer Maria Jeritza. He fell in love instantly. For the day. I hope you’ll use him as inspiration as you toil over next thirty-eight years he remained a bachelor as he nursed his desire to marry her. His devotion finally paid your own labors of love in the coming weeks and months. There’ll be no need to rush. In fact, the final off. Jeritza married Seery in 1948. Dear Gemini, in 2020, I think you will be capable of a heroic feat of love outcomes will be better if you do them slowly. Be especially diligent and deliberate in all matters involvthat resembles Seery’s. Which of your yearnings ing intimacy and collaboration and togetherness. CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’ve been married twice, both times to the same woman. Our first time around, CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): [Warning: Poetry we were less than perfectly wise in the arts of relation- alert! If you prefer your horoscopes to be exclusively composed of practical, hyper-rational advice, stop ship. After our divorce and during the few years we reading now!] Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn! I weren’t together, we each ripened into more graceful invite you to copy the following passage and offer it versions of ourselves; we developed greater intimacy to a person who is ready to explore a more deeply lyrskills. Our second marriage has been far more sucical connection with you. “I yearn to earn the right to cessful. Is there a comparable possibility in your life, your whispered laugh, your confident caress, your Cancerian? A chance to enhance your ability to build satisfying togetherness? An opening to learn practical inscrutable dance. Amused and curious, I wander where moon meets dawn, inhaling the sweet mist in lessons from past romantic mistakes? Now is a favorquest of your questions. I study the joy that my imagable time to capitalize. Happy Valentine Daze!. ination of you has awakened. All the maps are useLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1911, the famous Russian less, and I like them that way. I’m guided by my nerpoet Anna Akhmatova and the famous Italian painter vous excitement to know you deeper. Onward toward Amedeo Modigliani were in love with each other. Both the ever-fresh truth of your mysterious rhythms!” were quite poor, though. They didn’t have much to spend on luxuries. In her memoir, Akhmatova recalled AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Derek Walcott had a perspective on love that I suspect the time they went on a date in the rain at the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. Barely protected under might come in handy for you during this Valentine a rickety umbrella, they amused each other by reciting season. “Break a vase,” he wrote, “and the love that the verse of Paul Verlaine, a poet they both loved. Isn’t reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love that romantic? In the coming weeks, I recommend you which took its symmetry for granted when it was experiment with comparable approaches to cultivating whole.” I urge you to meditate on how you could apply his counsel to your own love story, Aquarius. love. Get back to raw basics. Happy Valentine Daze! How might you remake your closest alliances into VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): [Warning: Poetry alert! If even better and brighter versions of themselves? you prefer your horoscopes to be exclusively composed PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean poet Saul Williams of practical, hyper-rational advice, stop reading now!] Happy Valentine Daze, Virgo! I hope there’s someone in wrote a meditation I hope you’ll consider experimenting with this Valentine season. It involves transforming mere your life to whom you can give a note like the one I’ll kisses into SUBLIME KISSES. If you choose to be inspired offer at the end of this oracle. If there’s not, I trust you by his thoughts, you’ll explore new sensations and will locate that person in the next six months. Feel free meanings available through the act of joining your mouth to alter the note as you see fit. Here it is. “When you to another’s. Ready? Here’s Saul: “Have you ever lost and I are together, it’s as if we have been reborn into luckier lives; as if we can breathe deeper breaths that fill yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphoour bodies with richer sunlight; as if we see all of the sis, when you became aware that the greatness of this world’s beauty that alone we were blind to; as if the other being is breathing into you. 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LEGALS LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS/NAME CHANGE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO No. D-101-PB-2019-00245 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF REX J. GIVENS, DECEASED NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of REX J. GIVENS, Deceased. All persons having claims against this Estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned Personal Representative at P.O. Box 1575, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87504, or filed with the First Judicial District Court, P.O. Box 2268, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87504. DATED: January 16, 2020. Gregory A. Geurin Personal Representative THE CULLEN LAW FIRM, P.C. Attorneys for the Personal Representative 2006 Botulph Road P.O. Box 1575 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-1575 (505) 988-7114 (office) (505) 995-8694 (facsimile) lawfirm@cullen.cc FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO NO. D101-PB- 2020 - 0021 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DONA J MILLER, DECEASED NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Dona J Miller, Deceased. All persons having claims against this Estate are required to present their claims within four(4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at 5 Bisbee Ct, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87508, or filed with the First Judicial Court, PO Box 2268, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87504. Dated February 4, 2020. William Adams Jr Personal Representative STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF
NAME OF ELOY VIGIL NO.: D-101-CV-2020-00055 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 Eloy Vigil will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:10 a.m. on the 2nd day of March, 2020 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Eloy Vigil to Anthony Eloy Vigil. KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Francine Lobato Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Eloy Vigil 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 MARIA VIOLA CARMELITA BENAVIDEZ CASE NO.: D101CV202000322 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 Maria Viola Carmelita Benavidez 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 9:30 a.m. on the 4th day of March, 2020 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME STATE OF NEW MEXICO from Maria Viola Carmelita COUNTY OF SANTA FE Benavidez to Carmen Maria FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Viola Benavidez. COURT KATHLEEN VIGIL, IN THE MATTER OF A District Court Clerk PETITION FOR CHANGE OF By: Francine Lobato, NAME OF BIANCA ANGEL Deputy Court Clerk JOSHIBET GONZALES LOPEZ Submitted by: CASE NO.: D-101-CV-2019-03395 Carmen Baca NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME Petitioner, Pro Se TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions STATE OF NEW MEXICO of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. COUNTY OF SANTA FE 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT the Petitioner Bianca Angel COURT Joshibet Gonzales Lopez will NO. D-101-CV-2019-03389 apply to the Honorable Bryan NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Biedscheid, District Judge of that Ciara Monet Sharif has the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 filed with the Court a Petition for a change of name. A hearMontezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, ing on the Petition is scheduled New Mexico, at 10:05 a.m. on for 9 AM on March 9, 2020 the 2nd day of March, 2020 before the Honorable Maria for an ORDER FOR CHANGE Sanchez Gagne at the Santa Fe OF NAME from Bianca Angel County Judicial Complex, 225 Joshibet Gonzales Lopez to Angel Mae Gonzales Kingsbury. Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM for an Order For Change of KATHLEEN VIGIL, Name from Ciara Monet Sharif District Court Clerk to Ciara Monet Sharif-Bowman. By: Leah Baldonado Jay Goodman and Associates Deputy Court Clerk Law Firm, PC Submitted by: By: Peter L. Bruso, Esq. Darlene Gonzales (Guardian) 2019 Galisteo, Suite C3 Petitioner, Pro Se Santa Fe, NM 87505 LEGAL #_____ (505)989-8117 STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY LEGAL NOTICES CASE NO. 2020-0026 ALL OTHERS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBIN M. LEGAL # __________________ LACKEY, DECEASED STATE OF NEW MEXICO NOTICE TO CREDITORS COUNTY OF SANTA FE Notice is hereby given that FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Brent Willoughby, whose COURT address is care of Timothy V. DONALD GARCIA Daniel, PC, has been appointed AND DAVIDA GARCIA, Personal Representative of PLAINTIFFS, Robin M. Lackey, Deceased. V. Creditors of decedent must ANGELO JIMENEZ A/K/A present their claims within four ANGELO R. JIMENEZ, DAVID months after the date of the HUTSON, ELIZABETH first publication of this notice HUTSON, JACQUELINE or be forever barred. Dated B. JIMENEZ, RONALD G. this 12th of February, 2020. JIMENEZ A/K/A RONALD Timothy V. Daniel, P.C. JIMENEZ, AND SHARON Attorney for Personal JIMENEZ, IF LIVING, Representative AND IF DECEASED THEIR 1411 Montana Ave., El Paso, TX 79902 (915) 487-0072 by UNKNOWN HEIRS AND UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS OF Timothy V. Daniel Pub.
INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS, DEFENDANTS. Case No. D-101-CV-2019-03310 NOTICE OF SUIT State of New Mexico to the above-named Defendants; GREETINGS: You are hereby notified that the above-named Plaintiffs have filed a civil action against you in the above-entitled court and cause, the general object thereof being to quiet title to certain real property located in Santa Fe County, New Mexico and described as follows: TRACTS D-1 and E-1, AS THE SAME IS SHOWN AND DESIGNATED ON THE PLAT ENTITLED ‘’LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT & FAMILY TRANSFER LAND DIVISION FOR RONALD G. JIMENEZ OF TRACTS D&E, RIO EN MEDIO, NEW MEXICO’’, RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK OF SANTA FE NEW MEXICO ON AUGUST 25, 2006 IN BOOK 633, PAGE 026, AS DOCUMENT NO. 1448050; TRACT M, AS THE SAME IS SHOWN AND DESIGNATED ON THE PLAT ENTITLED ‘’PLAT OF SURVEY FOR ANGELO JIMENEZ ET. AL.’’, RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK OF SANTA FE NEW MEXICO ON DECEMBER 7, 1994 IN BOOK 292, PAGE 003, AS DOCUMENT NO. 887184, Unless you serve a pleading or motion in response to the complaint in said cause on or before 30 days after the last publication date, judgment by default will be entered against you. Respectfully Submitted, Christopher L. Graeser Attorney for the Plaintiffs PO Box 220 Santa Fe, NM 87504 (505) 982-9074 Pub.: ______________________
Plaintiffs have filed a civil action against you in the above-entitled court and cause, the general object thereof being to quiet title and declare a fee simple interest to certain tracts of land situate within the Village of Galisteo, within projected Section 36, T. 14 N., R. 9 E., N.M.P.M., as projected into the E.W. Eaton Grant, Santa Fe County, New Mexico and being more particularly described as follows: Parcel 1: Beginning 220.5’ S 00∞43’53” W from the NE corner of the tract of land shown on the plat of survey entitled “Boundary Survey Plat Prepared for Bonnie Lynch” recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of Santa Fe County on the 8th day of July, 2016, at Book 805, Page 002, Instrument No. 1798356; thence continuing S 00∞43’53” W for approximately 169.4’; thence bearing S 11∞27’ approximately 100’ in a curve concave to the NE and coterminous with the NE boundary of the tract of land described in a Warranty Deed from ITT Financial Services to Nathaniel Presley Jr. and Modesta M. Presley recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of Santa Fe County on the 4th day of November, 1987, at Book 595, Page 879, until the boundary merges with the N boundary of Tract 3 of that tract of land shown on the plat of survey entitled “Boundary Survey Plat prepared for David A. Snyder, Vicki G. Snyder, Stephen Clearman and Renee Iacone” recorded in the Office of the County Clerk on the 20th day of May, 2008, at Book 682, Page 009, Instrument No. 1526392, at approximately 12’ ENE of the NW corner of said property the plat for which is found at Book 682, Page 009; thence N 75∞48’16” E for approximately 237.16’ to the point at which the NE corner of said property the plat for which is found at Book 682, Page 009, LEGAL # __________________ the NW corner of Tract 2A and STATE OF NEW MEXICO the SW corner of Tract 1a of that COUNTY OF SANTA FE tract of land shown on the plat of FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT survey entitled “Boundary Survey COURT Plat for Kelli Bailey” recorded in THE GALISTEO COMMUNITY the Office of the County Clerk CORPORATION, on the 20th day of February, A NEW MEXICO NOT FOR 2018, at Book 829, Page 49, all PROFIT CORPORATION, meet; thence N 52∞55’11” W for ALSO KNOWN AS GALISTEO 189.23’; thence N 35∞19’11” W COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, for 222.38”; thence S 09∞51’49” AND DEIRDRE AFRICA, W for approximately 220.5’ to PLAINTIFFS the point of commencement, v. and Parcel 2: Beginning at the UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS OF NE corner of that tract of land INTEREST IN THE PREMISES known as Tract E of the parcel ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS, of land described in the “Plat UNKNOWN HEIRS OF of Survey for Jose and Yolanda E.W. EATON, UNKNOWN Ortiz Y Pino” recorded in the CLAIMANTS OF THE E.W. Office of County Clerk for EATON GRANT, UNKNOWN Santa Fe County on the 28th HEIRS OF HENRY E. day of June, 1991, at Book 226, SINGLETON, UNKNOWN HEIRS Page 16, Instrument Number OF CAROLINE W. SINGLETON, 744,351; thence S 00∞02’02” DEFENDANTS. W for 315.68’; thence from the Case No. D-101-CV-2019-02484 NE corner of that tract of land NOTICE OF SUIT described in the “Plat of Survey State of New Mexico to the for Christine Griscom” recorded above-named Defendants; in the Office of the County Clerk GREETINGS: You are hereby for Santa Fe County on the 9th notified that the above-named day of November, 2000, at Book SFREPORTER.COM
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459, Page 41, Instrument Number 1135613; thence S 23∞15’00” W for 371.87’ to the far NE corner of that tract of land described in the “Boundary Survey Plat for Phillip J. and Judith A. Tuwaletstiwa” recorded in the Office of the County Clerk for Santa Fe County on the 17th day of December, 2003, Instrument Number 1306027; thence S 30∞09’16’ W to the SE corner of the tract of land described in the above boundary survey for Phillip J. and Judith A. Tuwaletstiwa, thence to the NW corner of Santa Fe County Assessor Parcel No. 104611072, as described in the Deed of Personal Representative from Janice F. Griscom to Janice F. Griscom (the “Janice Griscom Parcel”), recorded at the Santa Fe County Clerk’s Office on the 14th day of September 2011, Instrument Number 1645222; thence along the northern boundary of the Janice Griscom Parcel to the northeasternmost corner of the Janice Griscom Parcel at approximately the point where it meets Via la Puenta, thence to the NW corner of that certain parcel described in a Quitclaim Deed from William D. Huckaby and Barbara Strand to Barbara Strand, recorded in the Office of the County Clerk for Santa Fe County on the 17th day of May, 2010, Instrument Number 1598863; thence S 83∞00’42” E for 87.77’; thence S 89∞10’42”E 39.13’; thence to the NW corner of that tract of land described in a Personal Representative’s Deed from Paul Louis Chavez to Anthony A. Chavez recorded in the Office of the County Clerk for Santa Fe County on the 18th day of February, 2008, as Instrument Number 1515752; thence S 89∞44’23” E 179.35’ to a Ω inch iron pipe; thence to the SE corner of Parcel 3, described below; thence S 68∞49’33” E 18.12’; thence S 87∞52’20”E 80.06’; thence to the SE corner of that tract of land shown on the Boundary Survey Plat for Richard B. Fleming, recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of Santa Fe County on April 21, 2004 at Book 557, Page 038; thence S 88∞55’for 73.07’; thence N 88∞32’52” W for 606.04’; thence N 23∞13’02” E for 255.60’; thence N 89∞04’31” E for 110.4’ to the SW corner of that tract of land described in a Warranty Deed from Joe C. Chavez to Diana Armijo recorded in the Office of the County Clerk for Santa Fe County on the 21st day of September, 2007, Instrument Number 1500294; thence N 15∞38’30” E for 218.77’; thence S 85∞34’35” E for 118.17’; thence N 05∞16’48” W for 196.33’; thence N 00∞02’51” W for 644.11’; thence S 82∞45’12” W for approximately 70.1’ back to the point of commencement, and Parcel 3: Beginning at the northernmost point of the parcel, S 04∞52’54” E for 298.37’; thence S 04∞53’28” E for 215.94’; thence S 04∞51’04” E for 347.02’; thence S 39∞44’51” W for 49 FEBRUARY 12-18, 2020
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