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OPINION 5 THE FIGHT FOR LIGHT 9 It’s Sunshine Week, and it’s still not clear what that means to Santa Fe leaders

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NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 WORST-CASE SCENARIO 11 Bills to fund and renew Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives Task Force stall in session COVER STORY 12 THE FOILIES Since 2015, The Foilies have served as an annual opportunity to name and shame government agencies and officials who have stood in the way of public access. We publish stories from around the country from journalists, activists and everyday folk who have filed public records requests and experienced retaliation, over-redactions and other transparency malpractice.

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task force’s first meeting. (An SFR article from Oct. 14, 2020, A Crack in the Shield, notes “… Rivera’s recent push for some task force meetings to be closed to the public.”)

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Note that the city resolution that orders city committees and task forces to comply with the state Open Meetings Act goes back to 1984 (Resolution 1984-56). So the exception in this task force’s resolution allowing for secret meetings goes against 37-yearold procedures for public openness and transparency.

In addition to Councilor Carol RomeroWirth’s proposed amendment to create ways for the task force, focusing on policing issues, to receive information or accounts from individuals who wish anonymity or privacy, other suggestions for this were made at the latest council meeting and prior committee meetings. But the council ultimately voted 8-1 to allow for closed meetings.

It’s strange that Councilors Renee Villarreal and Chris Rivera pushed so hard for secret meetings, despite other options being available. Rivera had apparently been seeking secrecy for months, even before the

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It’s Sunshine Week, and it’s still not clear what that means to Santa Fe leaders

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speck of light appeared last fall as I worked with SFR’s Katherine Lewin on a cover story documenting the city’s latest public-facing efforts to build trust in the police: the oddly named Community Health and Safety Task Force.

Its creation came amid a spike in complaints against Santa Fe Police Department officers for a host of alleged infractions, from sexual assault and excessive force to rude behavior and delayed response times. And more broadly, officials built the task force at the end of a long, hot summer of protest and renewed calls for police accountability nationwide.

Two Santa Fe city councilors and nine other residents would tackle the big issues as part of the task force’s work, then make recommendations for change, city leaders promised. It was all on the table: citizen oversight, a deep dive into policy, non-police responses to situations better suited for a softer touch— even increased transparency at the cop shop.

But last week, while editing an online dispatch from Lewin’s SFR colleague, Leah Cantor, the wee ray of light I’d seen last year was snuffed out, enveloped in the darkness of a near-unanimous City Council vote that cordoned off the work of the task force from the public it’s meant to serve.

Only Councilor Carol RomeroWirth thought Santa Feans should get to watch the business of a group ostensibly working to improve Santa Fe. “And just in time for Sunshine Week,” I hissed while reading Cantor’s story.

The reference is to the seven-day stretch each year when journalists celebrate victories for transparency, grouse about setbacks and launch efforts to intensify the spotlight in shrouded corners.

Sunshine Week exists because, at nearly all levels of government around the US, opacity is the rule, not the exception. Santa Fe and its cloaked police department are,

alas, in the mainstream—regardless of which political party is running things.

This national problem is once again hilariously and devastatingly chronicled on the cover of this week’s SFR, which features an annual syndicated piece shepherded by one of our infamous alums, Dave Maass, director of investigations for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (My favorites among the 2021 Foilies are “The Eric Cartman Respect My Authoritah Award” and “The Thin Crust, Wood-Fired Redactions Award.” Please read the EFF’s amazing piece.)

Had it taken its ill-advised vote but a bit sooner, the Santa Fe City Council could have added a Foilie to its impressive record of anti-transparency measures.

This time around, neither I nor SFR is asleep to the rationale for secrecy given

by Councilors Renee Villarreal and Chris Rivera, who co-chair the task force. Calling out the police for misconduct and worse is a sensitive, dangerous undertaking.

Members’ reluctance to do so in front of

Our hope is for some fortification of New Mexicans’ right to know about the inner workings of their police departments.

After all, Santa Fe isn’t the only city that considers facts to be opinions. hot cameras is understandable, as is their desire for a “safe space” to share traumas.

In a brave, lonely stand for sunshine, Romero-Wirth tried to salve those concerns by suggesting that less formal, information-gathering sessions could be conducted in private, while meetings of the task force itself should remain public. After all, although the group is not subject to the state Open Meetings Act, which mandates policymaking meetings be accessible to the public, a 2009 city ordinance says all meetings, including those of boards, commissions and task forces should be open.

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The idea: more transparency and, in turn, more trust.

But with the March 11 vote, the council has opened the city to more criticism and less trust from both ends. If the task force’s recommendations appear too soft to reformers, they’ll wonder how such decisions were made; same for supporters of the status quo if the suggestions push for real change.

There’s another irony, as well.

Among the task force’s self-described duties is the examination of SFPD’s transparency policies.

They are awful.

For a couple of years, SFR has been embroiled in litigation with the city over a basic question: When SFPD metes out discipline for a policy violation, should the public have the right to know what the punishment was for an employee whose salary we pay?

Like those of his predecessors, Mayor Alan Webber’s position is that the fact of officer discipline is a “matter of opinion” and therefore exempt from disclosure under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA).

SFR believes that facts are facts, not opinions, and we continue the fight. After a mixed bag of rulings from state District Court Judge Bryan Biedscheid, our dedicated legal team of Daniel Yohalem and Katherine Murray are now preparing to argue in front of the New Mexico Court of Appeals.

Our hope is for some fortification of New Mexicans’ right to know about the inner workings of their police departments. After all, Santa Fe isn’t the only

city that considers facts to be opinions, and we deserve an untangling of the case law.

By the way, if it seems like you’ve read a rant similar to this one under my byline before, it’s because you probably have. And if it seems like SFR is constantly in court, slugging it out with political leaders of both parties over access to government happenings, it’s because we kind of are.

A yearslong legal battle against the administration of former Republican Gov. Susana Martinez came to a (partial) close in December 2017, when then state District Court Judge Sarah Singleton ruled that Martinez and Co., had not violated the state constitution in freezing our newspaper out of the information flow, but had broken IPRA three times in refusing to give us records. (The state, by the way, kept fighting under Martinez’s successor, Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, to prevent our attorneys from being paid until finally relenting in mid-2019 and ultimately coughing up well-deserved fees and costs.)

I don’t especially enjoy being a listed party in a lawsuit. Neither do my colleagues. We just want to inform our readers about the functions of their governments, whether that be by coverage of public meetings, analysis of public records or some other means that ought to be accomplished with the lights on.

In a city with a police transparency problem, we hope leaders will reconsider their decision for darkness with the Community Health and Safety Task Force.

We are all part of this community, and our collective health depends on it.

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Bills to fund and renew Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives Task Force stall in session

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hrough countless generations in the Southwest, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been murdered at much higher rates than other races. It’s a crisis that a state-mandated task force composed of government and tribal appointees set out to tackle with a plan to spend a year compiling a comprehensive report of data.

But, unfortunately, that year was 2020.

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives Task Force faced significant hurdles: first, unresponsive law enforcement agencies unwilling or unable to share data combined with a small budget and then, suddenly, the COVID-19 pandemic sent all of the task force’s meetings online, when they happened at all.

Despite the difficult undertaking, the group released a 64-page report at the

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end of 2020, a little over a month late, and cutting it very close to the start of the 2021 legislative session. The report found gaps in available data, and the task force did not recommend strong policy changes.

But the three original sponsors of the first measure that set up the task force promised to pursue renewed legislation in 2021 to continue the work.

House Bill 208, which would extend the existence of the task force until the end of FY 2022, expand and diversify the members of the group, bring in the New Mexico Department of Public Safety as a consultant and stakeholder, mandate the creation of policy recommendations, and give the Indian Affairs Department $50,000, was tabled in the House Appropriations and Finance Committee back in February and shows few signs of return in the final days of the session.

Supporters and lawmakers are preparing for the worst-case scenario: a year where the task force is not sanctioned by the Legislature. Even if the task force’s enabling legislation is not renewed, one senator from Indian Country has found a way to try to funnel cash for the cause. Sen. Benny Shendo, D-Jemez Springs, has offered to give the department $50,000 from his part of a supplemental, or “junior” spending bill, which allots money to each lawmaker for pet projects.

But that legislation is still awaiting Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s signature. Her office did not reply to a request for comment by presstime.

“Ultimately, we were placed in an awkward position in hoping that our legislation would make it all the way through, but once we were promised some continued funding, that seemed to be the safest route to go at that time to ensure that we at least have the funds to continue this work,” Stephanie Salazar, general counsel for Indian Affairs, tells

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SFR. “I think some of the structural changes that we wanted to make, we felt would be stronger had it been implemented through legislation.”

Those structural changes would include adding more state representatives and Indigenous community members to the task force, as well as continuing work with Harvard’s Nation Building course, which is helping the group with policy recommendations.

Some of the small amount of funding would go toward compensating members for their time and travel as well as administrative costs stemming from the task force and community meetings.

The meetings include multiple presenters from all over the state in areas where the MMIWR crisis is particularly prevalent.

Without the backing of HB 208, Salazar says the task force will be left without formality that is helpful when asking law enforcement agencies for their data on MMIWR cases. And more of the work will have to be done on a volunteer basis.

There is also the possibility that a task force could be created by an executive order.

But much of the potential state support is still bookended by question marks.

There is no question, according to lawmakers and state representatives, however, that the MMIWR work will continue. Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, one of the original sponsors of the legislation, says it is “critical” the task force continues, with or without funding or law.

“We just want to see the work continue and that’s what this will provide for,” Romero says of the pending funding. “It takes the constraint off of the department to figure out how to do it otherwise, because it is a priority for them regardless. But this really ensures that they can get it done.”

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he day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare: “Biden is making transparency cool again.”

This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates.

Freedom of Information—the concept that government documents belong to and must be accessible to the people—has never not been cool. Using federal and local public records laws, a single individual can uncover everything from war crimes to health code violations at the local taqueria. How awesome is that? If you need more proof: there was an Australian comic book series called The Southern Squadron: The Freedom of Information Act; the classic anime Evangelion has a Freedom of Information Act cameo; and the Leeds-based post-punk band Mush received 7.4 stars from Pitchfork for its latest album Lines Redacted.

OK, now that we’ve put that down in writing, we realize that the line between “cool” and “nerdy” might be a little blurry. But you know what definitely is not cool? Denying the public’s right to know.

In fact, it suuucks.

Since 2015, The Foilies have served as an annual opportunity to name and shame the uncoolest government agencies and officials who have stood in the way of public access. We collect the most outrageous and ridiculous stories from around the country from journalists, activists, academics and everyday folk who have filed public records requests and experienced retaliation, over-redactions, exorbitant fees and other transparency malpractice.

We publish this rogues gallery as a faux awards program during Sunshine Week (March 14-20, 2021), the annual celebration of open government organized by the News Leaders Association.

This year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is publishing The Foilies in partnership with MuckRock News, a nonprofit dedicated to building a community of cool kids that file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and local public records requests. For previous year’s dubious winners (many of whom are repeat offenders), check out our archive at eff.org/issues/foilies.

And without further ado…

Runner up: Reporter C.J. Ciaramella requested records from the Washington State Department of Corrections about Michael Forest Reinoehl, who was killed by a joint US Marshals task force. The Washington DOC apparently planned to produce the records—but before it could, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Department sued Ciaramella and the agency to stop the records from being disclosed.

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Forensic Examiner Colin Fagan In July 2020, surveillance researcher and Princeton Ph.D. student Shreyas Gandlur sued the Chicago Police Department to get copies of an electronic guide on police technology regularly received via email by law enforcement officers around the country. The author of the guide, Colin Fagan, a retired cop from Oregon, did not agree that the public has a right to know how cops are being trained, and he decided to make it personal. In a final message to his subscribers announcing he was discontinuing the “Law Enforcement Technology Investigations Resource Guide,” Fagan ranted about Gandlur for “attacking the best efforts of Federal, state, and local law enforcement to use effective legal processes to save innocent victims of horrible crimes and hold their perpetrators accountable.”

Fagan included a photo of Gandlur, his email addresses, and urged his readers to recruit crime victims to contact him “and let him know how he could better apply his talents”—one of the most blatant cases of retaliation we’ve seen in the history of the Foilies. Fagan has since rebounded, turning his email newsletter into a “law enforcement restricted site.”

THE GOVERNMENT RETRIBUTION AWARD City of Portland, Oregon

People seeking public records all too often have to sue the government to get a response to their records requests. But in an unusual turn-around, when attorney and activist Alan Kessler requested records from the City of Portland related to text messages on government phones, the government retaliated by suing him and demanding that he turn over copies of his own phone messages. Among other things, the city specifically demanded that Kessler hand over all Signal, WhatsApp, email and text messages having to do with Portland police violence, the Portland police in general, and the Portland protests.

THE MOST SECRETIVE DOG’S BOLLOCKS Conan the Belgian Malinois

Back in 2019, what should’ve been a fluff story (or scruff story) about Conan, the Delta Force K9 that was injured while assisting in the raid that took out an Islamic State leader, became yet another instance of the Trump administration tripping over itself with the facts. Was Conan a very good boy or a very good girl? Various White House and federal officials contradicted themselves, and the mystery remained.

Transparency advocate and journalist Freddy Martinez wouldn’t let the sleeping dog lie; he filed a FOIA request with the US Special Operations Command, aka SOCOM. But rather than release the records, officials claimed they could “neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records,” the much dreaded “Glomar response” usually reserved for sensitive national security secrets (the USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer was a secret CIA ship that the agency didn’t want to acknowledge existed). Never one to roll over, Martinez filed a lawsuit against SOCOM and the Defense Department in June 2020.

Just in time for Sunshine Week, Martinez got his records—a single page of a veterinary examination, almost completely redacted except for the dog’s name and the single letter “M” for gender. Conan’s breed and color were even

blacked out, despite the fact that photos of the dog had already been tweeted by Trump.

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mation. A court rejected both claims, and also forced the government to cough up more than $120,000 in fees to the news organizations’ lawyers.

Small Business Administration

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In the early weeks of the pandemic, the Small Business Administration (SBA) awarded millions of dollars to small businesses through new COVID-related relief programs—but didn’t make the names of recipients public. When major news organizations including ProPublica, The Washington Post, and The New York Times filed public records requests to learn exactly where that money had gone, the SBA dragged its feet, and then—after the news organizations sued—tried to withhold the information under FOIA Exemptions 4 and 6, for confidential and private infor-

Seeking a better understanding of the toll of COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, journalists in North Carolina requested copies of death certificates from local county health departments. Within days, officials from the state Department of Health and Human Services reached out to county offices with guidance not to provide the requested records—without citing any legal justification whatsoever. DHHS did not respond to reporters’ questions about why it issued that guid-

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ance or how it was justified.

Some local agencies followed the guidance and withheld records, some responded speedily, and some turned them over begrudgingly—emphasis on the grudge.

“I will be making everyone in Iredell County aware through various means available; that you are wanting all these death records with their loved ones private information!” one county official wrote to The News and Review reporters in an email. “As an elected official, it is relevant the public be aware of how you are trying to bully the county into just giving you info from private citizens because you think you deserve it.”

THE IT’S SO SECRET, EVEN THE BULLET POINTS ARE CLASSIFIED AWARD Minnesota Fusion Center

Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are always overzealous in claims that disclosing information will harm national security. But officials with the Minnesota Fusion Center took this paranoia to new heights when they claimed a state law protecting “security information” required them to redact everything—including bullet points—in documents they provided to journalist Ken Klippenstein.

And we quite literally mean the bullets themselves.

Fusion centers are part of a controversial program coordinated by the US Department of Security to facilitate the flow of homeland security intelligence among agencies. Each fusion center is maintained by a state or regional agency; in this case, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Klippenstein tweeted that the agency wouldn’t provide document titles or any other information, all the while adding the dreaded black redaction bars to bulleted lists throughout the records. But if officials redacted the bullet points in earnest, we wonder: what is the security risk if the public learns whether Minnesota homeland security officials use the default bullet points or some more exotic style or font? Will the terrorists win if we know they used Wingdings?

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The Minnesota Fusion Center redacted every character on the page, including the bullet points themselves. We’re dying to know if they used Wingdings.

The Wire, the classic HBO police drama, laid bare how police departments across the country manipulate data to present trends about crime being down. As ex-detective Roland Pryzbylewski put

it: “Juking the stats....Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear.

You juke the stats, and majors become colonels.”

The Centers for Disease Control seems to love to juke its FOIA stats. As the nonprofit advocacy organization American Oversight alleged in a lawsuit last year, the CDC has been systematically rejecting FOIA requests by claiming they are overly broad or burdensome, despite years of court decisions requiring agencies to work in good faith with requesters to try to help them find records or narrow their request. The CDC then categorizes those supposedly overbroad requests as “withdrawn” by the requester and closes the file without having to provide any records. So those FOIAs disappear, much like the violent crime reports in The Wire.

The CDC’s annual FOIA reports show that the agency’s two-step juke move is a favorite. According to American Oversight, between 2016 and 2019, the CDC closed between 21% and 31% of all FOIA requests it received as “withdrawn.”

The CDC’s closure rate during that period was roughly three times that of its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, which on average only closed 6% to 10% of its FOIAs as withdrawn. After American Oversight sued, the CDC began releasing documents.

THE CAT FACE FILTER AWARD Federal Bureau of Prisons

Kids these days—overlaying cat faces on their videos and showing the Federal Bureau of Prisons how it should redact media sought by FOIA requesters. That was the message from an incredulous federal appeals court in March 2020 after the BOP claimed it lacked the ability to blur out or otherwise redact faces (such as those of prisoners and guards) from surveillance videos sought through FOIA by an inmate who was stabbed with a screwdriver in a prison dining hall.

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THE SAVE THE CHILDREN (IN A HIDDEN FOLDER) AWARD Louisville Metropolitan Police Department, Kentucky

The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department’s Explorer Scouts program was supposed to give teenagers a chance to learn more about careers in law enforcement. For two LMPD officers, though, it became an opportunity for sexual abuse. When reporters asked for more information on the perpetrators, the city chose to respond with further absurdity— by destroying its records. The case against the city and the Boy Scouts of America is scheduled to begin in April.

The Courier-Journal in Louisville first asked LMPD in mid-2019 for all records regarding the two officers’ sexual abuse of minors. Louisville claimed it didn’t have any; they had been turned over to the FBI. Then the Courier-Journal appealed, and the city eventually determined that— well, what do you know—they’d found a “hidden folder” still containing the responsive records—738,000 of them, actually. Not for long, though. Less than a month later, they’d all been deleted, despite the ongoing request, a casualty of the city’s automated backup and deletion system, according to Louisville.

At the end of 2020, the CourierJournal was still fighting the city’s failure to comply with the Kentucky Public Records Act. “I have practiced open records law since the law was enacted 45 years ago,

and I have never seen anything so brazen,” said Courier-Journal attorney Jon Fleischaker told the paper. “I think it an outrage.”

and feeling like what I’m doing really is every bit a part of journalism.”

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Haskell Indian Nations University, Kansas When Jared Nally, editor-in-chief of The Indian Leader, the student newspaper at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, started putting questions to his school’s administration and sending records requests to the local police department, he got a lot more than he expected: a directive from his school’s president demanding he cease his requests in the name of the student paper and henceforth treat officials with proper respect, lest he face disciplinary action.

“Your behavior has discredited you and this university,” Haskell Indian Nations University President Ronald Graham wrote. “You have compromised your credibility within the community and, more importantly, you have brought yourself, The Indian Leader, Haskell, and me unwarranted attention.”

Graham’s aggressive tactics against the college junior quickly rallied support for the student journalist, with the Native American Journalists Association, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and Student Press Law Center all calling for the formal directive to be rescinded. The school ultimately did back down, but the efforts left Nally shocked.

“As a student journalist, I’d only been doing it for a year,” he told Poynter in an interview. “When somebody in authority says things like that about you, it really does take a hit.…I’d say I’m recovering from the gaslighting effects,

President Donald J. Trump

Secrecy nerds know that classification authority—the power to essentially mark some documents as secrets exempt from disclosure—resides with and is largely at the discretion of the president, who can then designate that authority as needed to agency personnel. So one expected upside of a loose-lipped president with an undisciplined social media habit was the ability to use the Tweeter in chief’s posts to target otherwise inaccessible FOIA requests.

Case in point: Trump’s Oct. 6, 2020 tweet: “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!”

Hard to argue there’s ambiguity there.

But when BuzzFeed News’ Jason Leopold flagged that order in his ongoing lawsuit for the materials, that’s exactly what the Department of Justice did. Based on their investigations, DOJ lawyers told the court, the posts “were not self-executing declassification orders and do not require the declassification of any particular documents.”

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The court wrote: “The same teenagers who regale each other with screenshots are commonly known to revise those missives by such techniques as inserting cat faces over the visages of humans.” The judge made clear that although “we do not necessarily advocate that specific technique,” the BOP’s learned helplessness to redact video footage is completely .

The court ultimately bought the argument that you can’t take what the then-president tweets too seriously, but Trump declassified other materials related to the FBI’s investigation...on his last day in office.

THE PHARAOH PRIZE FOR DEADLINE EXTENSIONS Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Illinois

With COVID-19 affecting all levels of government operations, many transparency advocates and journalists were willing to accept some delays in responding to public records requests. However, some government officials were quick to use the pandemic as an excuse to ignore transparency laws altogether. Taking the prize this year is Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, who invoked the Old Testament in an effort to lobby the Illinois Attorney General to suspend FOIA deadlines altogether.

“I want to ask the average Chicagoan: Would you like them to do their job or would you like them to be pulled off to do FOIA requests?” Lightfoot said in April 2020, according to the Chicago Tribune, implying that epidemiologists and physicians are also

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THE 30 DAYS OF NIGHT AWARD Hamilton County, Tennessee

It’s hard to imagine a more benign request than asking for copies of other public records requests, but that’s exactly what got Hamilton County officials in Tennessee so spooked they started a mass purge of documents. The shred-a-thon started after Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter Sarah Grace Taylor requested to examine the requests to see if the county’s policies for releasing materials were arbitrary.

Originally, the county asked for $717 for about 1,500 pages of records, which Taylor declined to pay in favor of inspecting the records herself.

But as negotiations to view the records commenced, records coordinator Dana Beltramo requested and received permission to update their retention policy to just 30 days for records requests. After Taylor’s continued reporting on the issue sparked an outcry, the county revised its policy once again and promised to do better. “What we did today was basically try to prevent the confusion of mistakes that have happened from happening again,” said Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger. In other words, it’s all just a big misunderstanding.

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Chicago Police Department and City of Chicago, Illinois In February 2019, a swarm of Chicago police officers raided the wrong apartment with their guns drawn. They handcuffed the resident, Anjanette Young, who was completely undressed, and they refused to let her put on clothes as she pleaded with them dozens of times that they had the

wrong house. Young sued the city in federal court and filed a request for body camera footage of the officers who invaded her home. The local CBS affiliate, CBS 2, also requested the body camera footage.

The Chicago Police Department denied both requests, despite a binding ruling just months earlier that CPD was required to turn over body camera footage to people like Young who were involved in the recorded events. Young ultimately got the footage as part of her lawsuit, and her attorney provided them to the media. The city’s lawyers then took the extraordinary step of asking the court to order CBS 2 not to air the video, a demand to censor speech before it occurs called a “prior restraint.”

The judge denied the city’s request.

The city also sought sanctions against Young’s attorney, but the city withdrew its motion and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the request “ill-advised” in a letter to the court. The judge decided not to sanction Young’s attorney.

THE THIN CRUST, WOOD-FIRED REDACTIONS AWARD US State Department

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hosted plenty of controversial meals during his three-year tenure. There was the indoor holiday party last December and those bizarre, lavish “Madison Dinners” that cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars, including more than $10K for embossed pens alone. And while we know the full menu of Pompeo’s high-class North Korea summit in 2018 in Manhattan—filet mignon with corn purée was the centerpiece—the public may never find out two searing culinary questions about Mikey: What are his pizza toppings of choice, and what’s his go-to sandwich?

On the pizza angle, the State Department let slip that Pompeo likes it thin and wood-fired, in emails released to NBC correspondent Josh Lederman.

But the list of toppings was far too saucy for public consumption, apparently, and redacted on privacy grounds. Same for Pompeo’s sandwich of choice, which the State Department redacted from emails released to American Oversight. But we still know “plenty of dry snacks and Diet Coke” were on offer.

THE REDACTION MOST LIKELY TO MAKE YOUR BUBBE WEEP Federal Aviation Administration

When General Atomics proposed flying a new class of drone over the San Diego region to demonstrate its domestic sur-

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the same people processing public records (they’re not).

She continued: “I think for those people who are scared to death about this virus, who are worried every single day that it’s going to come to their doorstep, and I’m mindful of the fact that we’re in the Pesach season, the angel of death that we all talk about is the Passover story, that angel of death is right here in our midst every single day.”

We’d just note that transparency is crucial to ensuring that the government’s response to COVID is both effective and equitable. And if ancient Egyptians had the power to FOIA the Pharaoh for communications with Moses and Aaron, perhaps they probably would have avoided all 10 plagues—blood, frogs and all.

The Federal Aviation Administration left just the greeting behind in this document, dubbed “The Redaction Most Likely to Make Your Bubbe Weep.”

veillance capabilities, Voice of San Diego Reporter Jesse Marx obviously wanted to learn how it possibly could have been approved. So he filed a FOIA request with the Federal Aviation Administration, and ultimately a lawsuit to liberate documentation. Among the records he received was an email containing a “little vent” from an FAA worker that began with “Oy vey” and then virtually everything else, including the employee’s four bullet-pointed “genuinely constructive thoughts,” were redacted.

THE SELF-SERVING SECRECY AWARD Niagara County, New York

Money talks. The New York legislature knew this when it passed the Ethics in Government Act in 1987, which required, among other public transparency measures, elected officials in 50,000 person-plus municipalities to complete financial disclosure forms each year. The public should be allowed to know who our leaders may be particularly keen to hear.

Sixty-one of NY’s 62 counties generally accepted that the disclosure forms, created for public use in the first place, were meant to be disclosed, according to the New York Coalition for Open Government. Back in 1996, though, while everyone was presumably distracted watching the Yankees or Independence

Day, Niagara County found a quick trick to keep from sharing its officials’ finances: They made it illegal. By local ordinance, the records were made secret, and the county proceeded to reject any requests for access by claiming that releasing the information would be a violation of the law.

This local law prohibiting access was itself, of course, a violation of the law, but Niagara County managed to keep it on the books for more than two decades, and it may have gotten away with it had it not been for the work of the NY Coalition for Open Government.

In February 2020, the NYCOG, represented by the University of Buffalo School of Law Civil Rights & Transparency Clinic, sued Niagara County, alleging its ordinance was unlawful (because it was).

This past fall, a court agreed. Five months later, in January 2021, the county began releasing records, ones that should have been available for the last 30+ years.

The Foilies were compiled by Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Investigations Dave Maass, Senior Staff Attorney Aaron Mackey, Frank Stanton Fellow Naomi Gilens, MuckRock News Co-Founder Michael Morisy, and Senior Reporter and Projects Editor Beryl Lipton, with further writing and editing by Shawn Musgrave. Illustrations are by EFF Designer Caitlyn Crites. Creative Commons Attribution - EFF/Muckrock News.

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OK, so we’re biased when it comes to press freedom, but we’d also point out that even in a country where a former president openly declared war on journalists, it’s much easier to do the job here than in countless countries around the world. In an upcoming panel hosted by the Human Rights Foundation, meet activist, blogger, and close friend of slain Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz; documentarian Bryan Fogel; Al Jazeera journalist Ghada Oueiss; and the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Senior Africa Researcher Jonathan Rozen. Learn why taking journalism for granted is never the answer, and why you should probably send cookies to the people in your community doing the work. (ADV) An Invisible Threat: Press Freedom the Dangers of Spyware: Noon Thursday, March 18. Free. crowdcast.io/e/an-invisible-threat/register

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ONLINE WORKSHOP SAT/20 HOT STUFF Yeah, yeah, yeah—we’ve all picked up new skills during the pandemic, because what the hell else were we doing? Still, when it comes to something like cooking up that good New Mexcian food, there’s never enough knowledge. Enter the Santa Fe School of Cooking, which continues its slate of online classes in, well, all kinds of things.

This week, the goal is traditional New Mexican food, and the class covers flour tortillas, carne adovada chile rellenos, calabacitas refritos and sopaipillas. At $82 a person, it might sound a little steep, but it’s a three-hour class. Besides, can you put a price tag on learning how to make the best stuff from the best regional cuisine anyplace? We think you can’t. (ADV) Traditional New Mexican Cooking with Santa Fe School of Cooking: 10 am Saturday, March 20. $82. santafeschoolofcooking.com

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ONLINE EVENT SUN/21 SNEAK PEEK While the Santa Fe summer market season barrels toward what’s looking more and more like an in-person series of events, the International Folk Art Market is still keeping its online offerings robust. This weekend, that comes in the form of a bid-free preview of its upcoming Spring Auction.

We want to be clear this is a virtual thing and that the actual bidding doesn’t open until next week, but for those who’d like to earmark some amazing painting or learn more about the scads of artists scheduled to appear in one form or another this year, it’ll work like some kind of visual arts amuse bouche. Remember to be patient and cool and that if you do end up buying something next week, you’re directly supporting people who rely on markets just like IFAM. (ADV) IFAM Spring Auction Preview: 10 am-7 pm Sunday, March 21. Free. folkartmarket.org

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Over the Borderline Wheelwright looks at the borderlands through the eyes of contemporary women artists The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian’s Chief Curator Andrea Hanley has had her eye on artists Makaye Lewis (Tohono O’odham), Daisy Quezada Ureña (Mexican-American), M. Jenea Sanchez (Latinx), and Gabriela Muñoz (Latinx) for some time.

“These are artists I’ve been watching since some were in school,” Hanley tells SFR. “They’re all powerhouses.”

It’s why she jumped at a chance to feature all four in the upcoming exhibit Indigenous Women: Border Matters, a show built around them specifically, that simply couldn’t be derailed by COVID-19, and that examines issues faced by women of color who live, work and exist near the US/Mexico border.

“They’ve thoughtfully addressed, I think, ways that are both very personal and very far-reaching,” Hanley explains.

“They’re connecting and inspiring people who maybe don’t understand or don’t witness the uncertainties faced by a lot of women of color today.”

This, of course, comes in many forms.

Quezada Ureña’s porcelain garments, for example, reach a level of stunning detail while illustrating the histories of bodies on the move. When applied to the concept of crossing borders—be it the folks who do it regularly, or those in search of something better or different—the tone feels somber, even chilling.

Lewis’ linocut prints wow as well with bright yellows that subtly conceal more intense themes, some of which emerge within an instant. Others take a longer look.

Elsewhere in the show, portraits by Muñoz eschew photo-realism for overall feel (you’ll be shocked by the emotion she conveys without erring into the overwrought), and a collaboration between Muñoz and Sanchez—similar portraits created on stacked adobe bricks—conjures reminders of building and tradition, but also impermanence, fragility and power.

“These women are looking at ways to talk about equity and human rights for women of color,” Hanley adds. “It just shows how many women around the world try to contribute to the well-being of their communities, their sisters, their friends. That’s a really great thing.”

Border Matters opens with a virtual event this Friday, which includes pre-­recorded remarks from newly minted Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) and US Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez. The show opens for in-­person visits this Saturday.

(Alex De Vore) INDIGENOUS WOMEN: BORDER MATTERS OPENING 6 pm Friday, March 19. Free. wheelwright.org

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While basic Zoom limitations abound, remote learning lets teachers hear their students better

Choir director Marilyn Barnes warms up her students, in-person and virtual, through humming exercises.

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hree weeks ago, Marilyn Barnes invited a student to the choir room and received a response that would have been shocking in the prepandemic world.

“I don’t know where the choir room is,” the student told Barnes, director of choir and musical theater at Santa Fe High School.

For new students, late February marked the first time they set foot in the building. “It’s like, wow, she’s been in choir for seven months but she doesn’t know the choir room,” Barnes tells SFR. “Most students who come into that program spend hours there every day.”

The state expects schools to return to in-person learning in just over two weeks, and the partial return of music programming has teachers exuberant to perform with students again. With full reentry on the horizon, the end of online learning—a difficult proposition for all students and teachers, but especially so in music—nears.

The Public Education Department issued guidance on resuming music programming last week, requiring coverings for wind instruments, masks for singers and outdoor-only practices.

“We’re a little set back that they require it to be outside,” Maurice Howard, band director at El Dorado Community School, tells SFR. But “we’re appreciative that they’ve included us.”

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Before limited in-person music instruction resumed, the past year of online voice and instrument lessons faced challenges given the basic constraints of video conferencing. Despite poor sound quality and the dreaded Zoom lag, art educators discovered notes of clarity in their interactions with students.

“It helps develop empathy in the teacher,” explains Bo Rogers, an elementary music teacher from Aspen Community School. “I know there’s some teachers who are like, ‘Argh that kid, I can’t stand that kid.’ But then you look in their house…”

Having a greater understanding of students’ lives outside the classroom allows school staff to make more informed decisions when working with vulnerable young people, Rogers says.

During normal times, music educators open doors to creative opportunities for their students—a crucial service. With the restrictions of online learning imposed on Barnes and her colleagues across the district, they were forced to substitute virtual performances for the real deal.

“We did Disney Movie Magic this year and it’s going to be presented on March 27.

And that was just hell,” Barnes says, laughing with exasperation over the amount of work it took to arrange solos and medleys, let alone corral the students to record their parts.

For the school’s production of Schoolhouse Rock!, Barnes had each student visit the theater individually. Reed Meschefske, head of theater at SFHS, recorded each child’s part while Barnes sang

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all the other accompanying vocals—all while socially distanced.

Their hard work is paying off.

“I was very, very pleased with the performing arts program we have here because the theater still put on every show,” Joseph Romero-Kleve, a senior at Santa Fe High School, tells SFR. “Although it’s not traditional and not favorable, it’s still something.”

Administrators also recognize the effort.

“I feel like the teachers are being super hard on themselves,” says April Pickrell, the district’s music coordinator. “But they are reaching the students. I keep reminding them that there’s been kids that don’t go to any other classes, but they come to their music class.”

By providing students technology at the onset of virtual learning, teachers say the district avoided a catastrophe. Online curricula adopted by elementary music teachers prior to the pandemic also helped soften the blow, Rogers tells SFR. But the Chromebooks every student received, while suitable for watching videos and joining virtual lessons, limit students’ capabilities to perform together.

“The bandwidth does not yet exist to have that kind of situation happening with multiple users,” explains Rogers.

Teaching proper embouchure and positioning remains one of the biggest challenges for music educators, Pickrell explains.“The camera angle has to be just right in order to see if they have the wrong hand position or if they have improper

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posture,” she says. “It’s very detailed to make the kids successful and it’s harder to see online and to correct.”

Student performances aired during the biweekly virtual school board meetings gave the public a glimpse into music teachers’ challenging work. The seemingly impossible task of manipulating a pupil’s posture through a computer screen means these emerging musicians are largely learning independently.

And though there are challenges that come with the heightened visibility of students’ home environments, it has helped teachers develop a deeper understanding.

“You see more, you know more,” Rogers says. One result will be a stronger teaching force that went through hell and back with their students. “I really appreciate teaching now,” he adds.

As schools continue to shift toward something more recognizable, they must now make decisions about what to prioritize.

“It makes perfect sense when we look at at-risk kids, when we look at poverty, when we look at lost learning, the arts is the perfect way to excite learning again, to engage,” Rep. Roger Montoya, D-Española, says of arts education.

Montoya hopes to welcome students back and support arts education with House Bill 138.

His work as an arts educator began in 1998 with Velarde Elementary School and grew into founding Moving Arts Española, which provided fine arts programming for 13 schools. The nationally recognized nonprofit received funding from the 2003 Fine Arts Education Act to reach students, convincing Montoya of the importance of supporting arts education.

HB 138 would allocate almost $3 million for fine arts programming by giving fine arts a slightly larger share of schools’ programming budget. The money would restore funding lost in an unintended consequence of 2018 legislation, which defunded schools’ K-6 fine arts programs by the same amount.

Santa Fe schools lost out on about $127,000. This funding could be coming to music and art classrooms next year if the Senate follows the House’s lead by passing HB 138 in the final days of the Legislature. At presstime, it was assigned to the Senate Finance Committee.

For students returning to school in just over two weeks, teachers expect an emotional reunion. Rogers knows students will need support to process their feelings from the past year and music educators are ready to welcome their pupils back.

“We deal with matters of the heart,” Rogers says, “so often it’s easier for kids to let that show.”

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“I was getting to a point in my music career when I didn’t see a whole lot of savings in my future,” Thom tells SFR. “When I first said I wanted to open [a barbecue business], my wife must’ve thought

BY RILEY GARDNER I was crazy.” a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m Uncle DT’s is a hole in the wall if et’s start with a caveat: When you there ever was one. A former industrial come of age in the South, as I did, space turned mom-and-pop, it’s where you wind up spoiled by barbecue. you’ll find a cooler outside where you Very quickly one can determine whether pick up your food (not on ice—merely to something was smoked using charcoal or keep things insulated and contact-free) mesquite or oak. Outside of barbecue and a charming, down-to-Earth feel. country (which, I feel inclined to say, does Right off the bat, the space and locanot include your dad’s backyard), little tion nail it. Food-wise, things were more else compares. It’s a difficult culinary skill hit-and-miss. to do well, let alone master.

We ordered the Big Boy ($10.99), an Back here in Santa Fe, Uncle affordable sandwich for one that holds a DT’s Smokehouse ­­ (3134 Rufina St., half-pound of rib meat. Fair warning— ­707-337-5641; uncledt.com) is self-­ here’s where the snobbery begins. The described as “Texas-style beef and rib meat was perhaps a little overcooked.

Carolina-style pork,” and in addition Though generous in size, it to plates, entrees, sandwiches and could’ve used a touch more sides, there’s an option to buy meat in smokiness and a bit more simmer-ready bags that can stay fro- of a zing. Rib meat is a ­ zen up to two years. Originally working killer challenge, and out of a commercial kitchen starting in even barbecue 2018, owner David Thom expanded to chefs in the know Rufina Street in January of 2020—just in are known to time for COVID-19! But he’s been able to ­struggle. A touch stay strong and develop a rotating selec- more of the tion of specials, holiday briskets, turkeys sweet, a bit more and even pies. of the smoke, and Thom might be better known to some the sandwich would’ve as a bluegrass musician who swung later kicked ass. But then, this in life to the barbecue pit. He still plays is a preference thing, and with Kitty Joe Creek alongside local leg- Thom doesn’t use sugars in end Bill Hearne, but while he was laying his rubs. His f­ avorite option? down those sweet acoustic melodies, he “The brisket is what we’re

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I prefer the sweeter types of barbecue myself. Flavors like smoked maple and brown sugar really work for me, so there is a good chance my palate didn’t mesh well with DT’s particular brand. But that’s not to say it won’t work for others. If there is anything to outright criticize, it would be that some of the food was a mite too dry, from the cornbread ($3.99 a slice, somewhat high for the small-ish serving) to the spare ribs ($6.98). But hey, the atmosphere, ease of ordering and casual feel makes up for most shortcomings. Besides, barbecue is a fickle beast and can change from day to day and dish to dish.

At the very least, you know you’ll get a big enough portion when you visit Uncle DT’s Smokehouse.

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If you lean more into the tangier side of barbecue, DT’s would make a wonderful take-out or picnic option as we head into spring. Kids will certainly ­appreciate the sandwiches, and adults can get into the more sophisticated items, like the Pojoaque Pork Spare Ribs ($18.99 half rack, $28.99 full rack) or the smoked brisket plate ($18.99).

Regardless, there is evident potential, and I can’t say enough good things about Uncle DT’s downhome feel. Food wrapped in foil, good serving sides and potato chips shoved into the corner of the container? Those are all pure summer vibes available four days a week (11 am-2 pm and 5-8pm, Wednesday-Saturday).

For the barbecue snobs—­be aware. It can be hard to satisfy us, but one can’t ignore DT’s unpretentious vibe and killer location in a flourishing part of town.

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You can delve into any culture on the planet and find a rich canon of ghost and demon lore, but there’s something that hits deeper about the ancient ones. In director Keith Thomas’ debut The Vigil, we catch a glimpse into the Jewish concept of mazzikim—what we might call a mid-tier ghost or demon that, within the confines of the film, feeds off the pain of mortals. There’s more to unpack there as far as the real-world lore goes, but here we just know the entity is malevolent.

We join Yakov (Dave Davis), a young Jewish man who left a more devout lifestyle and ­community following tragic events. He struggles with money and mental health, so when someone from his old life shows up with $500 and asks him to perform shomer duties (a Jewish tradition whereupon someone must sit with a newly dead body through the first night following the death to protect a departing soul from evil forces).

Yakov reluctantly agrees, but creepy stuff ensues as something begins stalking him, toying with his mental illness and forcing him to question his own sanity and beliefs.

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By the time we join Breaking News in Yuba County’s Sue Buttons (Allison Janney), she’s having a pretty rough day. It’s her birthday, her coworkers forgot, the cake she was forced to buy herself reads “Happy Birthday Suc!” and her husband Karl (Matthew Modine), a banker, is on the phone with some mysterious woman who asks if he’s stroking his cock right now. He isn’t—not in that moment­­ —­but he’s still a scumbag. Sue feels overlooked, unappreciated, unimportant. Those feelings fester.

Elsewhere, Karl’s brother Petey (Westworld’s Jimmi Simpson) attempts to leave a life of crime behind following news that his live-in girlfriend (Samira Wiley) is pregnant with twins. The bored but funny business owner who hired him (Wanda Sykes) needles Petey about forming a crime partnership, while the mobbed-up Mina (Akwafina) pressures him to get Karl to launder money.

Still with us? OK. It’s complicated, but director Tate Taylor (The Help) so masterfully and gradually sets up the powder keg that when the disparate storylines and characters clash together in a violent but hilarious ballet of misconceptions, misunderstandings and missed opportunities, it’s almost perfect. Karl suddenly disappears, which thrusts Sue into the high-profile world of press conferences and local news appearances courtesy of some twee human interest reporter (Juliette Lewis) and Sue’s own sister (Mila Kunis), a lesser journo.

Janney nails it as the put-upon wife finally getting some attention—even if it’s bad attention. She knows what really happened to Karl, but isn’t spilling so long as the camera crews keep turning up. Eventually, she starts to believe her own lies just as the peripheral mad20

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The Vigil scores major points in the lighting, pacing and atmosphere departments. Much of the film takes place in one living room. The house, where the deceased Rubin Litvak (Ronald Cohen) lived with his wife (Lynn Cohen), is ­oppressively dark and unsettling, and numerous lamps fail to cast light beyond their own immediate vicinity. It seems Rubin may have brought something with him back from the Buchenwald concentration camp following WWII, and Mrs. Litvak roaming the halls and popping up now and again doesn’t help. Somehow worse, the being begins assuming the voice or appearance of those Yakov trusts and tries to reach by phone for help.

No, thanks.

Davis is a wonder in the darkness, all pins and needles and pained expressions driven not only by the imminent ghost peril, but haunted by the tragedy which shook his faith (no spoilers). Carrying a film on one’s own is hard work, doing it with minimal dialogue seems even harder. And so it goes,

ness topples in on all the central players.

From there, Yuba County starts to lose its momentum. Regina King sings as the dogged detective convinced Sue is hiding something, though her screen time is sadly limited. Ellen Barkin’s in the mix, too, but barely—and, in the end, one wonders why Janney or Akwafina aren’t in every single scene even if Simpson has often proved a capable and funny performer and doesn’t disappoint here.

Still, the ending feels rushed and shoehorned with a lot of dark ideas that didn’t quite fit elsewhere in the complex plot. From a relatively new writer like Amanda Idoko, though, Yuba County feels like a big breakthrough. Surely her next film’s narrative will feel even more refined, and this one is so fun to watch, its shortcomings feel far less important than its many strengths. (Alex De Vore) Amazon, R, 96 min.

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It’s a bumpy road until Lucky finds its groove. When it does, though, there’s far more to admire in what it wants to be rather than what it actually becomes.

Like a mash-up of Get Out and Promising Young Woman, Lucky plants a flag in a gray area where passion drives the writing, but nothing seems to guide everything else.

May (Brea Grant, who also penned the script) is a self-help author who encourages women to go it alone on their paths to success. Her days are filled with book signings and publishing meetings, but her nights are ripped from nightmares.

When darkness falls, a masked man enters her home and tries to kill her. Every time, she takes him down—only to have him vanish moments later. Her

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with Yakov jumping at each new discovery that appears throughout the longest night ever and Davis’ masterful performance keeping us rapt.

As debuts go, Thomas excels in most areas.

There’s a high bar of entry here for those unfamiliar with Jewish traditions or stories—and even for those with a passing knowledge. It would have been nice to dig deeper into those ideas, though perhaps there’s something to be said about the thing you don’t know being the scariest thing of all. Still, the language of scares is fairly universal, and The Vigil’s most intense moments are almost always its most unique. Here’s hoping Thomas keeps going with horror and here’s hoping any fans of the genre don’t skip this one, even if it’s not the scariest movie ever.

circle of friends describe her as “lucky” to survive, acknowledging her terror but always brushing it off like brunch gossip.

Lucky isn’t so much about the home invasions as it is about how others react. Such films are some of the best within horror genre nowadays; evolving from torture porn (sorry, Saw fans) to metaphors about the terrors that already exist in our society.

Lucky isn’t technically impressive, but it never feels like a gimmick, despite the repetitiveness of May’s nightly battles.

Grant’s script is heavy with the critiques about society’s responses to male violence against women, while director Natasha Kermani (Imitation Girl) leans too heavily on the screenplay’s content. Lucky‘s pacing is grating, the blocking dull—the actors often stand in the frame and don’t budge. Grant’s performance is also deadly serious while the other performers go for camp. Could that have created an effective contrast? Yes, but it’s hard to detect any noticeable tone that would’ve made that aspect worthwhile.

Outside of the technicalities, Lucky‘s smartest plays are the metaphors. Preachy? Sure, but an audience needs a brimstone sermon every now and again. Too bad it feels so cheap. (Riley Gardner) Shudder, NR, 83 min.

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I laughed twice during the 101 minute runtime of Tom and Jerry: Once in disbelief over the ­rapping pigeons who open the film with a version of A Tribe Called Quest’s “Can I Kick It?” in ­borderline racist Dumbo crow fashion, and the other when a character admitted to committing white collar crime. Ugh. But then, this isn’t the first time we’ve been

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burned by the angry animated cat and his outrageously violent mouse frenemy. In 1992, Tom and Jerry: The Movie released. It broke the cardinal sins of having the two speak and relegating them to the background—this iteration repeats the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea of giving r­ eal-life humans Chloë Grace Moretz and Michael Peña (neither of whom are bad a­ ctors, but who have the charisma of sandpaper here) the main story and pushing the animated stars to the side. How, Kevin Costello, did you write this? And why? You can try to hide behind writing creds for William Hanna and Joseph Barbera on IMDb, but we still know what you did. It’s especially alarming given that your 2017 film Brigsby Bear at least had a cool central idea (look it up).

In Tom and Jerry, though, there’s a “how do you do, fellow kids?” tone throughout, especially in its constant and painful rap jamz. See also an electric scooter chase, Tom and Jerry drinking booze, thinking in emojis and setting up an Instagram page together; dialogue is mainly complaints about millennials; Colin Jost’s prehistoric jawline is present.

We might argue kids are easily entertained, but here’s the thing—we can’t say Tom and Jerry is actually for kids. It requires knowledge of economic angst, Gen-Z humor, media criticism and even Bollywood to grasp the basic movements of the plot.

In the end, Tom and Jerry isn’t bad because it’s a derivative property. It’s bad because it’s disingenuous and has no interest in entertaining kids.

It feels like a dad trying to hang out with his kid’s college-aged friends. Your children will hate you if you try to pass this off on them, and they should.

Oh, and don’t think we don’t see you, director Tim Story. You made Barbershop, man…shouldn’t you know better? Maybe cinema should die after all.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Poet Ocean Vuong speaks of the Hawaiian word kipuka. It refers to a patch of earth that doesn’t get covered with lava when an active volcano exudes its molten material.

“Before the lava descended,” Vuong writes, “that piece of land was insignificant, just another scrap in an endless mass of green.” But now that piece of land is special, having endured. I encourage you to identify your metaphorical equivalent of kipuka, Aries. It’s an excellent time to celebrate the power and luck and resilience that have enabled you to persevere.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A balance that does not tremble cannot weigh. A person who does not oscillate cannot live.” So wrote biochemist Erwin Chargaff, who did crucial research leading to the discovery of DNA’s double helix structure. Since you’re the zodiac’s expert on balance and oscillation, and because these themes will be especially meaningful for you in the coming days, I’ll ask you to meditate on them with extra focus.

Here’s my advice: To be healthy and resilient, you need to be aware of other possibilities besides those that seem obvious and simple and absolutely true. You need to consider the likelihood that the most correct answers are almost certainly those that are paradoxical and complicated and full of nuance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look,” writes Taurus author Jodi Picoult. Luckily for you, Taurus, in the near future you’ll be prone to look in exactly those places—where no one else has thought to look. That means you’ll be extra likely to find useful, interesting, even extraordinary things that have mostly been hidden and unused. You may also discover some boring and worthless things, but the trade-off will be worth your effort. Congratulations in advance on summoning such brave curiosity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice,” said Gemini author Saul Bellow. So if you have come here today to read my horoscopes, it’s possible that you’re seeking an accomplice to approve of you making a decision or a move that you have already decided to do. OK. I’ll be your accomplice. But as your accomplice, the first thing I’ll do is try to influence you to make sure your upcoming actions serve not only your own selfish interests (although there’s nothing wrong with that), but also serve the interests of people you care for. The weeks ahead will be a favorable time to blend self-interest and noble idealism.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A character in Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Lacuna is told to “go rub his soul against life.” Now I’ll advise you to do the same. Why? While it’s true that you have a beautiful soul, you sometimes get in the habit of hiding it away or keeping it secret. You feed it a wealth of dreams and emotions and longings, but may not go far enough in providing it with raw experience out in the messy, chaotic world. In my judgment, now is one of those times when you would benefit from rubbing your soul against life. Please note: I DON’T mean you should go in search of rough, tough downers. Not at all. In fact, there are plenty of pleasurable, safe, educational ways to rub your soul against life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her poem “Sandra,” Scorpio poet Ariana Reines testifies that she has too many feelings—and that’s not a problem. On the contrary. They are her wealth, she says, her “invisible splendor.” I invite you to regard your own “too many feelings” in the same way, especially in the coming weeks. You will have opportunities to harness your flood of feelings in behalf of transformative insights and holistic decision-making. Your motto: Feelings are healing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Historian and author Thomas Berry described “wildness” as the source of our “authentic spontaneities.” He said it’s “the wellspring of creativity” at the root of our lust for life. That’s a different definition from the idea that wildness is about being unruly, rough, and primitive.

And Berry’s definition happens to be the one that should be central to your work and play in the coming weeks. Your assignment is to be wild: that is, to cultivate your authentic spontaneities; to home in on and nourish the creative wellspring of your lust for life.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some of the great discoveries in the history of physics have been made while the trailblazing physicists are lolling in bed or in the bathtub. They have done the research and carried out the rigorous thinking, and are rewarded with breakthroughs while relaxing. I think that will be your best formula for success in the coming weeks. Important discoveries are looming. Interesting innovations are about to hatch. You’re most likely to gather them in if you work intensely on preparing the way for them, then go off and do something fun and rejuvenating.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My typical horoscope is an average of 108 words long. In that limited space, I can’t possibly tell you all the themes and threads that will be active for you during the upcoming phase of your LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you love the work of selfcycle. I have to make choices about what to include and help author Paulo Coelho, you might be inclined to adopt his motto as your own: “Being vulnerable is the what not to include. This time I’ll focus on the fact that best way to allow my heart to feel true pleasure.” But you now have an opportunity to deepen your relationship with your sense of smell—and to purposefully maybe you wouldn’t want to adopt his motto. After nourish your sense of smell. Your homework: Decide on all, what he’s suggesting requires a great deal of courage and daring. Who among us finds it easy and at least five scents with which you will cultivate an intinatural to be soft and receptive and inviting? And yet mate, playful, delightful connection in the coming days.

(PS: You may be surprised at how this practice will according to my analysis of the astrological omens, deepen your emotional connection with the world.) this is exactly what your assignment should be for the next two weeks. To help motivate yourself, PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): No one had ever proven remember the payoff described by Coelho: the possi- that there was such a thing as electromagnetic waves bility that your heart will feel true pleasure. until Piscean physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894) did so in 1886. He was the innovator who first transmitted VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo author Michael and received controlled radio waves. Alas, he didn’t Ondaatje celebrates “the hidden presence of others think his breakthrough was useful. In 1890, he conin us—even those we have known briefly. We contain fessed, “I do not think that the wireless waves I have them for the rest of our lives, at every border we discovered will have any practical application.” But cross.” As you approach your own upcoming borderother scientists were soon capitalizing on his work to crossing, dear Virgo, I encourage you to tune into communicate long distances. Radio broadcasts were memories about seven specific people who over the born. I will encourage you not to make a Hertzian-type course of your life have provided you with the most mistake in the coming months. Always follow through joy and the most interesting lessons. Close your eyes on your initial labors. Have faith that the novelties you for 20 minutes and imagine they are all gathered dream up will eventually have practical value. together with you in your favorite sanctuary.

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