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NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 GOING LONG ON SHORT-TERM RENTALS 9 City’s short-term rental ordinance racks up lodger’s tax payments as downtown apartments disappear

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COVER, FEBRUARY 21: “POWER FAILURE”

SMILIN’ AT ME As a rate payer of PNM for the past 32 years, I have steadily seen my rates go up, while I have seen the pollution of gray skies from here in Santa Fe despite my (naive but well-meaning) extra $1 per month I paid to PNM in the late 1990’s for a “Blue Skies” program which was to help with the development of renewables; but saw very little evidence that PNM was doing anything but drag their feet and merely paying lip service to renewables. And I read about the largest methane plume [in the world] from the Four Corners region. You could see it from space, and methane is much more polluting than CO2 gas. And I have not read much about how our government has been dealing with it or what state it is in, or how it may decrease with the closure of the power plants, or is it a product of strip mining and will continue?

As for the citizens of Farmington, maybe this is a good time for you to think about moving.

And for all of us, perhaps we need to think about [how] it is not always about money. …

The bottom line is maybe we need to think about what has been bad for us has been bad for the planet, and maybe we still have a small window of opportunity of at least slowing the tide of climate change.

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AW HELL NO Steve Pearce is the scariest man in New Mexico; note the disasters of Republican gov-

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Gov. Martinez did only one good thing that Pearce would not do and would end: the institution of the Affordable Care Act for New Mexicans. Otherwise he is a wealthy oil baron who has never cast a vote for his constituents, and neither belongs in Washington nor Santa Fe. It mystifies me why Southern New Mexico elects him, but hopefully the entire state will restore a Democrat to the state house if it has any ability to learn anything from experience!

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COVER, FEBRUARY 28: “STAIRWAY TO NOWHERE”

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN Please, please, please do not let the City get into bed with another for-profit education company. The for-profit educational model is deeply flawed; it was a bad idea in 2009 and it’s an even worse idea now. I have been so disturbed by the reports of UNM considering some sort of public-private partnership with the same shady, foreign company whose purchase of SFUAD was already denied by its accreditors. Have we learned nothing? Did the misguided students who chose yet another for-profit institution that subsequently also closed learn nothing?

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7 DAYS ALBUQUERQUE CONSIDERS MARIJUANA DECRIM So the cops there can rely on state law to bust you anyway, just like here!

GOVERNOR AGREES TO TEACHER PAY INCREASE Note: It will still take three teacher salaries to equal what Santa Fe will pay its next mayor.

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NEW MEXICO REPUBLICANS CHALLENGE ARCHBISHOP OVER SUPPORTER’S ‘RACIST’ ACCUSATION AGAINST LAWMAKERS We may not hold our breath for their letter to President Trump.

MEANWHILE, UNM COACH BOB DAVIE’S SUSPENSION WON’T COST HIM AS MUCH AS WE THOUGHT— LESS THAN $33K FROM HIS $800K SALARY Yeah, because highly-paid sports dudes have had it bad enough in America thus far.

WE PROBABLY HAVE A NEW MAYOR BY NOW We still can’t afford to live here, though.

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LETTERS so many other nascent propositions—most recently, an amendment to expand early childhood education in our already poorly educated state. At least he’s consistent?

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Going Long on Short-Term Rentals

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ayor Pro Tem Signe Lindell was pleased.

“It’s not perfection, but it’s progress,” she told her fellow city councilors last month. “This report looks a lot better than other short-term rental reports I’ve seen.”

When the City Council voted in May 2016 to change the rules governing shortterm rentals (those less than 30 days in length), it asked city staff to track changes and report back in 18 months. In part, the council wanted to gauge the impact.

The changes to the ordinance raised the cap on shortterm rental permits from 350 to 1,000 and required owners to get one. The council eliminated the old limit on the number of stays per year, replacing 17 with what is effectively a maximum of 52. The goal was to legitimize what the city suspected was a largely illegal market for short-term rentals on websites like Airbnb and VRBO. The council also wanted to collect a lodger’s tax of 7 percent on those stays.

While compliance among owners has increased and the city’s take for the lodger’s tax has more than doubled to $1.3 million, a map of the permitted short-term rentals shows what the changes have done to the long-term leasing market close to the heart of Santa Fe: Every neighborhood from the Guadalupe District to South Capitol to Canyon Road is packed with red house icons. Many, if not most, represent a home that is no longer available to a local. This is the domain of the tourist.

With a 2,500-unit shortage well documented among the de-

velopers, realtors and advocates who pay attention to the city’s rental market, the effects of the booming short-term rental business are easy to work through. In addition to forcing Santa Fe residents out of the downtown area, it creates a crunch in other rental neighborhoods further from the center of the city. That scarcity drives up lease costs.

The city has successfully created a tax base among short-term renters, but that $1.3 million in lodger’s tax money comes at a cost.

“We’ve lost rental stock for our workforce,” Lindell tells SFR this week. “It’s a two-sided coin.”

Councilors have kicked around ideas for how to address the paucity of housing, and there are some solutions in the works, but 2,500 units is a huge gap. The city has tried to goose development by creating the Midtown LINC overlay district along St. Michael’s Drive, but has yet to see the kind of impact it wants.

Lindell is supportive, but also says it’s not time to give up on downtown housing. “We need development in every area of the city. I’m not trying to push it to Southside,” she says.

Councilors have talked about promoting developments that allow accessory dwelling units and Lindell has mulled the idea of restricting their use to longterm leases for the first 10 years if the owner chooses to rent them. But ADUs, as they’re known, aren’t cheap, and are often found in neighborhoods or developments where covenants among homeowners prohibit either their construction or rental.

“Personally, I’m glad I don’t have short-term rentals up and down my street,” Councilor Mike Harris tells SFR, acknowledging their impact on housing. “You’d have to say it takes housing stock off the market.”

Harris represents District 4, where he says he counted just five short-term

rentals using the city’s map. Not that he’s knocking property owners in and around downtown for maximizing their profit.

“If you have a few apartments in a desirable location,” he says, “you can make much more off of short-term rentals than you can with long-term leases.”

“My gut feeling is that people are going to start doing short-term rentals because it’s easier … and you make more money,” says Alexandra Ladd of the city’s affordable housing office, though Santa Fe hasn’t collected data on which properties have been converted from use as a long-term rental for residents.

The housing stock that’s disappearing is desirable, Ladd points out, but it wasn’t necessarily affordable. The city defines affordable housing as that which costs about 30 percent of the median income. That translates to roughly $625 a month.

On an individual basis, anything above the 30-percent threshold for housing is considered a cost burden.

“We know that we have a huge percentage of renters who are cost-burdened. And it’s called extremely cost-burdened if it’s about 50 percent,” Ladd tells SFR. As housing eats up income, it saps spending on clothing, dining and other goods and services that are taxed by the city. As city leaders are fond of saying, people who live in Santa Fe spend in Santa Fe. The city’s vacancy rate for rental housing, affordable or not, is what Ladd calls “functional zero.” Almost every unit that is vacant is empty because it’s transitioning from one renter to another. That’s bound to affect affordability across the spectrum of rentals.

Ladd says the answer has to be, at least in part, increasing inventory and putting a dent in the 2,500-unit deficit. Without more housing, prices will continue to rise, and the squeeze on Santa Feans looking for a place Downtown to live will push them further neighborhoods and further away from the place dominate the shortthey once called home. term rental market.

Short-Term Rentals in Downtown Santa Fe

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City’s short-term rental ordinance racks up lodger’s tax payments as downtown apartments disappear

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edical cannabis cannot be prescribed as medication, and is therefore subject to a state gross receipts tax levied on most other goods and services.

That apparent contradiction is what a hearing officer for New Mexico Tax and Revenue Department concluded on Feb. 26, after examining a claim that marijuana products grown and made under the purview of the state Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Program shouldn’t be taxed because they are more like a prescribed medicine than a regular ol’ commodity.

It was the latest milestone in Santa Fe dispensary Sacred Garden’s losing attempt to claim a tax refund for nearly $530,000 going back to 2011.

The gross receipts tax on cannabis is estimated to bring in about $7 million for the state this fiscal year, according to figures collected through records requests by the company Ultra Health, which operates a dispensary in Santa Fe and others across New Mexico.

Technically, Sacred Garden had already withdrawn its claims for the money, and this decision was about a more theoretical question: Whether the state is legally allowed to tax sales of medical marijuana. But Sacred Garden owner Zeke Shortes says he is undeterred. He’ll be taking his claims next to District Court.

Santa Fe dispensary says it will keep fighting medical marijuana gross receipts tax

“It was really disturbing to me that patients have to pay sales tax on medicine when they don’t have to on pharmaceuticals,” Shortes tells SFR. He says he’s willing to keep paying legal fees to prove his point.

He’ll likely have a hard time proving his case going forward, given the various statutes and laws lending medical cannabis a unique status at best and a criminal one at worst. A similar case in Washington state also came down on the side of its tax department.

Here in New Mexico, according to the tax department, the Legislature explicitly avoided the term “prescription” when they adopted the medical cannabis law in 2007. Instead, hearing examiner Chris Romero writes, it “established an alternate process for patients to acquire medical marijuana that was unlike methods generally associated with common prescription drugs.”

To obtain medical marijuana, patients have to obtain a written recommendation from a physician certifying that they suffer from one of the debilitating qualifying conditions listed by the state and that they’re aware of the risks and benefits of consuming cannabis. The tax department argues that’s different from a prescription, which is essentially an order from a physician to a pharmacist that includes specific directions for dispensing medicine.

Even if Sacred Garden could successfully argue that medical cannabis is a pre-

scription drug, it would still have to contend with marijuana prohibition by the feds. Weed isn’t just illegal under federal law, but was singled out by a 1972 law as having “no currently accepted medical use” and classified as a Schedule I drug.

As long as that is the federal law, the hearing examiner ruled, physicians in New Mexico and elsewhere cannot dispense marjiuana under prescription. It’s similar to a conclusion that an appeals court in Washington came to in August 2016.

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In that case, a dispensary called Compassionate Kitchen tried to obtain $19,312 it had paid to the state as part of a retail tax on cannabis. The court referenced marijuana’s Schedule I status and said that a physician who tried to prescribe it “would violate [federal law] and commit a crime.”

In Washington, patients can get medical marijuana through a written authorization from a physician, similar to New Mexico. The appeals court’s reasoning mirrored the tax department’s in New Mexico, and reversed a lower court’s decision in favor of Compassionate Kitchen.

“Medical marijuana authorizations do not require or direct anyone to dispense marijuana,” it wrote. “They do not specify or mandate treatment of services. They do not prescribe ingredients, proportions, or directions for compounding.”

Last year, Washington’s Supreme Court declined to hear the matter, deferring to the appeals court decision.

Advocates and users have long argued that federal limits on research into cannabis have stopped the medical establishment from studying how cannabis interacts with the human body, which would be a step toward regulating and prescribing it like other medications. Large opioid manufacturers who would then have to compete with the plant have bankrolled anti-pot legalization campaigns for years.

As with most questions about the plant’s legal status, it always comes back to federal prohibition—leaving little hope for Shortes’ appeal.

But there may be a reason to wait it out. A majority of Americans support legalizing cannabis outright, and if Congress can pass a bill altering the Schedule I status, all that would be needed is a president willing to sign it into law.

That’s unlikely to happen with the current administration, but we may only be three years away from a new one.

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WEBBER IS NO.1 Entrepreneur edges out Ronald Trujillo in fourth round of ranked-choice race

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he end was near, and there were people holding signs on street corners as testament.

After a campaign with its origins in the sugary-drink tax election last May, five anxious mayoral candidates waited until the final hour of election day to learn their fate. And it was a doozy.

Santa Fe’s first ranked-choice election went four rounds, with Alan Webber taking the victory over Ron Trujillo after the second-place choices from Kate Noble’s voters left him with 66 percent of the vote. Trujillo finished with just less than 34 percent. Peter Ives was eliminated in the first round, followed by Joe Maestas and then Noble.

“I feel like being elected mayor of Santa Fe is greatest honor of my life. I am incredibly grateful,” Webber told SFR just after midnight.

As a full-time mayor, Webber will earn $110,000 annually, plus health benefits and a public pension.

Trujillo spent election night with supporters at PC’s Lounge on the

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Southside. He will exit the governing body next week, and said after the results he was interested in taking a deep dive into the election statistics to determine how many voters actually ranked each candidate.

“I have no regrets,” Trujillo said.

“We ran a tough race on $60,000.”

Lines for election day voters weren’t apocalyptic, but turnout was brisk, blowing past the raw numbers in the May special election that pulled nearly 38 percent of registered voters. This time, 19,774 people voted, for an unofficial turnout of around 36.5 percent.

There are 54,155 registered voters in the city, according to the Santa Fe County Clerk’s Office, about 1,100 more than were registered for the special election.

All five candidates spent the day holding signs, making phone calls and taking care of the staff and volunteers who got them to election day.

Mayoral candidate Peter Ives made the rounds to each of the dozen voting convenience centers.

“I’m the water guy, the granola bar guy and the orange slice guy,” he laughed.

The District 2 city councilor has two years left in his term and will remain a member of the governing body, despite the fact that he was the first mayoral candidate to be exhausted and have his votes redistributed in the rankedchoice method. To him, ranked-choice voting kept things civil, though it didn’t make a difference in how he campaigned personally.

“I’m running against four people I consider to be my friends,” he explains.

That fact, rather than the new voting system, drove his campaign. “I think people deserve better than [vitriolic campaigning], quite frankly.”

Joseph Maestas, who gave up his District 2 seat to run for mayor, was having lunch with seniors at the Mary Esther Gonzales Senior Center on Alto Street after a morning of standing at polling places with volunteers.

“This is the hallmark of our democracy, when the voters speak. There’s no second-guessing how they speak with their votes,” Maestas told SFR. A onetime mayor of Española, Maestas tried to cut a pragmatic line across City Council districts as a path to victory. He was open about asking for a second-place ranking from voters and said he felt as though he was on a lot of Alan

I feel like being elected mayor of Santa Fe is the greatest honor of my life. I am incredibly grateful.

-Alan Webber

Webber and Kate Noble ballots as a second choice. The problem was, he needed one of them eliminated and a series of voting rounds, not just one, to have a chance.

“I’m almost banking on the Southside showing up,” he said, adding that he was disheartened by low turnout from District 3 in early voting numbers. “I really feel like the Southside represents me and Ron Trujillo well.”

That district has half the number of registered voters as districts on the north and east side. Even a strong finish there couldn’t propel Maestas forward as he became the second to go.

Candidates spent a lot of time and money trying to glean the best strategy as it became increasingly likely that it would take at least two rounds of voting to claim victory. Ives had lagged in campaign finance totals and seemed likely to be the first one out of the mix.

“I think it’ll at be least two, maybe three, and I haven’t ruled four out,” Noble told SFR while taking a break from a get-out-the-vote calling party at Rockin’ Rollers skating rink on Agua Fría.

Despite a pricey ante to enter the mayor’s race—public financing pegs the spending level at $60,000, and all but Ives raised at least that much—only Alan Webber did any internal voter polling.

There was no public poll, either. Most were guessing at what an effective strategy might be.

Webber, whose $311,000 in fundraising torched previous records, was also burdening himself for campaign volunteers.

“My daughter came in for the campaign,” he told SFR as the wind howled past his phone outside a polling place.

“We have a bag of breakfast burritos and a big box of hot coffee and we’re out sup-

porting sign-carriers. … Bacon and green or egg and red.”

Webber, too, felt voters were engaged throughout the campaign. In part, he thinks that’s because the discourse was civil and candidates were focused on listening.

“As an individual, what campaigns are all about are the people you met and the

Ronald Trujillo and his wife Amber made their yellow T-shirts an icon during the campaign season.

voices you heard on the campaign trail.

You keep those forever,” he said.

Like Maestas, he spent time thinking about the ranked-choice strategy, though he was less willing to share it: “I’d tell you, but I’d have to kill you.” In general, he says he tried not to make too many changes to his campaign and focused on running a race with which he felt comfortable.

Santa Fe’s first ranked-choice election was forced by a group of voters who sued the city, arguing that the caveats allowed by voters when they approved the new system in 2008 had been met last summer. The amendment to the city charter allowed the council to hold off on using ranked-choice voting until the software became available at an affordable price.

Santa Fe will pay between $30,000 and $40,000 for assistance from Dominion Voting Systems during this election.

“The best way I can put it,” state District Court Judge David Thomson told a courtroom when he announced his decision in November, “is that [the charter amendment] does not make room for anxiety.”

The city still tried to challenge the new system, however, as the city attorney’s office appealed Thomson’s decision to the state Supreme Court, arguing that ranked-choice voting was actually unconstitutional. The court refused to hear oral arguments and rejected the city’s petition.

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Meet the New City Council Four councilors will change the face of Santa Fe’s governing body

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veryone knew there would be at least three new faces on the Santa Fe City Council. They just weren’t sure what two of them would look like.

As the clock ticked toward 11 pm at City Hall, Carol Romero-Wirth paced nervously at the back of the council chambers with her husband, state Sen. Peter Wirth, who was trying to keep spirits up.

“I’m turning into a pumpkin before your very eyes,” Romero-Wirth deadpanned as she waited for results of her District 2 race against Joe Arellano and Nate Downey. She took the three-way race in the first round with about 53 percent of votes with Downey coming in second.

Nearby, District 4 candidate JoAnne Vigil Coppler sat down for an interview with KSFR radio, which was simulcasting on the city’s public access cable channel. She joked that she didn’t realize how much of her life the campaign against Eric Holmes and Greg Scargall would

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take. After months of forums and flyers and door-knocking, the city’s first-ever rankedchoice election wanted a little bit more from her. Coppler won the race handily, also earning 56 percent in the first round.

In the District 1 race, incumbent Signe Lindell won easily over challenger Marie Campos.

Lindell says she’ll spend her next term focusing on bridging divides in the community in areas like housing and economic development.

D1 - Signe Lindell

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“We need to come to a consensus on housing. Where and how do we want to build?” Lindell tells SFR. With the exceptions of Lindell, who raised more than $33,000, and the unopposed Roman Abeyta, every candidate for the city’s governing body took public financing for their campaign and focused on spending the $15,000 deeded to them by taxpayers. Most often, that went to signs, flyers and mailings, with the odd expenditure for

food and volunteer stipends.

At the Feb. 28 governing body meeting, councilors took turns thanking each other for serving respectfully despite sometimes glaring differences. It was a firstterm councilor, Renee Villarreal, who said aloud what many agreed with: She hoped the new councilors took a cue from the current council’s decorum.

Lindell says she expects that “with a new administration and three new councilors, it’ll take some time to set the compass.”

With Trujillo and Maestas gone from the council, the city loses two seasoned representatives. Trujillo was first elected by a two-vote margin in 2006 and served three terms as a vocal, at times unflinching advocate for the city’s Southside neighborhoods, which spill from his district across political lines into the neighboring District 3.

Trujillo made a name for himself by being the only councilor to oppose the sugary-drink tax championed by outgoing Mayor Javier Gonzales.

A pitched battle that many

D3 - Roman Abeyta

D4 - JoAnne Vigil Coppler

criticized for becoming too personal on either side, the election gave Trujillo the notoriety he needed to run for mayor. Doing so required him to give up his seat on the City Council.

Maestas had to make that choice, too, but once Gonzales shocked Santa Fe in September by announcing he wouldn’t seek reelection, the District 2 councilor was one of the first to announce he’d run to replace the mayor. An engineer with an eye for technical language, he openly clashed with Gonzales on several issues and formed a voting bloc, of sorts, with Trujillo on the end of the council dais.

The council also bids farewell to Carmichael Dominguez, who represented District 3 for 12 years and chairs the Finance Committee that will help craft a new budget this spring. Abeyta takes his seat.

Each of the eight city councilors will earn $34,008 annually for their service. They’ll be sworn in on March 12 and the new governing body’s first meeting will be Wednesday March 14.

MATT GRUBS

Voters wait in line to fill in ranked-choice ballots for the first time in the March 6 election.

Casting Away Voters expressed a variety of opinions on ranked-choice voting as they left the polls

BY JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl

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ome voters ranked all the candidates with pleasure; others with resignation. Some said they only ranked their top two choices and a few said they picked their sole top choice and that was it. As Santa Fe city voters left polling places March 6 for the municipality’s first foray into ranked-choice voting, their attitudes and actions at the polls were mixed.

Carolynn Roibal, a poll worker at Sweeney Elementary School, one of the city’s 12 voting convenience centers, said there had been more spoiled ballots than usual “but that’s to be expected”—and relatively benign, given the brisk activity.

She said poll workers were “just trying to keep it simple” and that the voter information provided by the city had helped explain the new system to voters. “It’s all about choices,” she said.

Out in Sweeney’s parking lot, Joe B, who declined to give his last name, said he chose to only rank his first and second choices in the five-way mayoral race between Peter Ives, Joe Maestas, Kate Noble, Ron Trujillo and Alan Webber. In Joe B’s case, those two candidates were Maestas and Trujillo. “I want to vote for the person I favor,” he said. “My vote should be just for the person I want in office.”

Fellow Sweeney voter George Schwartz, on the other hand, chose to rank all five candidates. “I like it because I could give a woman [Kate Noble] a chance, even though she’s not my first,” he said. Schwartz said he had cast his first-place vote for Webber largely because he’d liked the testimonials he’d heard from people in the campaign about Webber’s mentorship.

Some said they had found the process confusing. Rosina Romero, who voted at Nava Elementary, said she actually filled out her ballot incorrectly in terms of her first and second choices, but chose to just leave it rather than request a new one. “I just said OK and finished,” she said. Another voter leaving Kearney Elementary said it took her three tries to get it right.

Various voters said they were concerned turnout might be lowered by people confused by the new system. At Ke-

arney, Carmen Ortiz said voting “wasn’t bad,” but had “heard a lot of people saying they were afraid it was confusing.”

A supporter of Ron Trujillo’s, who was holding a sign for her candidate outside one of the polling places and asked not to be identified, said she ranked all the candidates, but thought “it should just be one choice. I ranked because it was something that was pushed, and anything that allows our voice is important, but something like this there should have been more education.”

On the same block, Ives supporters Corrine Lovato and Ambrogio Ossola said the process had been easy and the voters they’d talked to on the campaign trail were relatively sanguine about the shift. “There was only one person who said, ‘I liked the old system,’” Ossola noted.

SFR’s encounters with voters seemed to be in line with FairVote New Mexico’s—at least at Nava Elementary, where a FairVote volunteer was exit-polling responses to RCV with a two-page survey. That survey asked a variety of questions about voters’ attitudes toward the election itself and RCV in particular, including how many candidates voters had ranked in the mayoral race; whether or not they liked RCV; if they had found the RCV ballot confusing; and if they thought RCV should be used in future city elections. The survey also asked voters to gauge whether the election had been more civil than those in the past (often touted as a selling point for RCV elections

and a dynamic that has been repeatedly noted for this election).

FairVote New Mexico volunteer Mary Schruben, who was surveying voters at Nava Elementary (where she voted), said of the voters she’d connected with responses had been “half and half. … Some people really liked it. Some, because it’s the first time, people aren’t sure what to do.” FairVote was a party to the lawsuit that led to RCV this year, after voters approved it through a city charter amendment 10 years ago. Nationally, FairVote has compiled data for a variety of cities where RCV has been implemented.

Voters’ decisions about ranking did not seem connected to their comprehension of the process. Voter Lesley Mayfield said “it was a lot easier than I expected,” but chose only to vote for her top choice: Noble. Another voter said she’d only voted for Trujillo because she didn’t know anything about the other candidates. Retired corrections guard Bernie Uranga also thought voting “was pretty easy” but he too only voted “for one person because I don’t know that much about the other ones.” (Uranga voted for Trujillo.)

Former City Judge Tom Fiorina and Caryn Fiorina ranked the candidates dif-

There was only one person who said, ‘I liked the old system.’

Ambrogio Ossola

ferently, and stopped to speculate on how the election might turn out. “When we walked out, I thought, ‘I wonder what the results are going to be like,’” Caryn said.

As for Judge Fiorina, he said he too left some people off in his particular council race.

But for voter David Vigil, ranking all the candidates left him feeling like he’d fully participated in both the process and the outcome.

“I like it, because even if your first choice doesn’t win, at least you get more of a say,” Vigil said. “You voted for the person who won.”

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Women on the Line Women could leap to the front in some sports by being tougher, braver and mentally steadier

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t times, intuition offers up a much-needed note of caution about an endeavor, and a gut sense about a situation that steers away from disaster. It can mean abandoning hope of summiting a peak in the face of mostly immaterial clouds, and the happy ending of finding yourself back at the trailhead by the time the hail hits. Then there are the moments, particularly in extreme sports, when there’s a voice that screams “No, don’t go”—but its sole cause is a fear that has little bearing on physical abilities or conditions. There’s a faint line between the two.

That line is where Faith Dickey spends her time.

“I tend to really try to understand if my fear is a head fear—if it’s a mental fear that I’m creating—or if I feel it in my whole body,” Dickey says. That requires checking in with her heart rate and her gut, and whether it’s just her mind second-guessing.

Dickey is the rare professional female slackliner. Her job requires rigging flat ropes between points sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands, of feet from the ground, and stepping out into what looks and feels a lot like thin air. She holds the female world record for the longest such walk free solo, completed without backup safety rigging in place, at 28 meters (91.9 feet). She also set records (which

Faith Dickey holds the female world record for the longest free solo slackline walk.

have since been broken) for distance on highlines and longlines, 105 meters (344.5 feet) and 222 meters (728.3 feet), respectively. Length adds difficulty: Where a tightrope remains taut, a slackline undulates with wind and the motion of the person who steps atop it. She’s walked highlines between points in the Alps, above Rio de Janeiro and, in California, 2,900 feet above the Yosemite Valley floor.

For a while, the records she set kept pace with those set by men. There’s a point made in a short film about her, “Wild Women: Faith Dickey,” that because success in this sport hinges not on physical strength, but on balance and mental fortitude, women have a chance to keep pace with men.

“It’s much more about how you move your body than how strong your muscles are,” Dickey tells SFR during a recent trip to Utah for a filming project.

Burgeoning research in sports psychology shows that in some areas, women may outstrip men when it comes to shouldering competitive pressure. Researchers at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, analyzed 8,200 Grand Slam tennis match-

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A previous study shows that cortisol levels increase more rapidly in men than in women, and as higher levels can affect performance, men may outperform women in the first round of mathematics competitions, but their edge doesn’t last.

Physically, the first decade after Title IX passed in 1972 saw female record holders’ times improving at a rate that had researchers predicting they’d soon exceed male records. That hasn’t come to pass, except for a few outliers, but the research and conversation continues. Female athletes’ performance could spill over to changing long-held views that question women’s presence in the workplace and in leadership roles.

When Dickey started slacklining a decade ago, there weren’t a lot of other women participating in the sport, so it was easy to spring to the front of a small pack, she says. But that’s the opposite of what she

wants for the next generation. Seeing other women out there doing this sport, she says, is a key to unlocking the female potential here.

“I think the greatest factor in women not reaching or surpassing men is simply not believing that they can,” she says.

What it’ll take to round that corner is to see more women involved in the sport: “When you approach any activity and you only see people different from you doing it, it’s hard to visualize yourself doing it.”

To that end, she organizes the Girls Only Slackline Festival in the Czech Republic, her personal “base camp,” each fall. And she highlines in dresses and high heels, just to poke fun at ideals by mixing those feminine flagship pieces with an extreme sport.

“It’s a such a powerful feeling for me to get past my self-doubt, get past the fear, and be able to do something I didn’t initially think I was capable of,” she says.

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ART OPENING FRI/9 AND VERY GOOD BOYS ALL The rez dog may be the supreme symbol of reservation life; the dogs, through no fault of their own, are abandoned, ignored and maligned—but not in the hands of artist Chaz John (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska/Mississippi Band of Choctaw). The Institute of American Indian Arts student celebrates completion of a month-long artist residency at Ellsworth Gallery in which he created intricate paintings in dog-friendly hues; Rez Dogs are tender but raw renderings of the canines of the reservation in a celebratory spirit, hung at a level at which dogs can best enjoy them. And, yes, dogs are welcome at the reception (there will be snacks). John aims to create art for the curs of the world, every bit glorious but never properly exalted. (CJ) Chaz John: Rez Dogs: 5 pm Friday March 9. Free.

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MUSIC SUN/11 YO, ALBERT! Once upon a time, The Strokes practically ruled the indie rock world with their glammy throwback NYC rock stylings. These days, however, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. is really all about doing his own thing (not that that’s news). Take Francis Trouble, his fourth solo record, which drops this very week. It’s familiar enough for Strokes fans to feel right at home, but with a more riffy and mature take on good old-fashioned guitar-rock tunes laden with Hammond’s unmistakable signature sound. He’ll be at Meow Wolf this week in support of the album, so good news for fans of bands with guitars. (Alex De Vore) Albert Hammond Jr.: 7 pm Sunday March 11. $15.

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The Great Outdoors Banff Mountain Film Festival returns to Santa Fe Santa Feans love the outdoors and movies, so when the Banff Mountain Film Festival brings these worlds together for two nights at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, we take notice.

The Alberta, Canada-based Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity holds the world-renowned film festival annually with a tour that travels to 40 countries and 550 communities and, for 22 years, the Mountain Film Festival has found its way to Santa Fe through the help and organization of the Santa Fe Conservation Trust.

Out of over 400 total submissions, 16 were chosen to play at the local version of the event. “Some of them are high-adrenaline,” says the Santa Fe Conservation Trust’s Joanne Smogor, who oversees the fest. “Some of them are environmental with animals, some of them are ‘solo journeys’ out into the wilderness—it’s a real mix.” This includes anything from three-minute shorts about surfing to hour-long pieces about travelers in the Ecuadorian

Amazon. The Banff Centre and the Conservation Trust choose movies based on feedback from other locations that hold the fest and what they believe is suitable for a Santa Fe audience.

“What makes this film festival really different,” Smogor continues, “is the quality of the show, the diversity of the films and the energy.” The fest always sells out, so don’t procrastinate getting your tickets.

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NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CULINARY CHALLENGE AND AUCTION New Mexico School for the Deaf 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6300 Support NMSD's study-abroad programming in Peru by eating as much soup as you possibly can. We saw you at the Souper Bowl, folks, we know you can do it! Also enjoy a silent auction; it’s all in the Connor Gym on the school's campus.

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5:30 pm, free FRIENDS OF HISTORY LECTURE SERIES: CHARLES CARRILLO New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Well-known santero Carrillo creates images of saints that are playful and contemporary, with a solid base in traditional craftsmanship.

Noon, free GARDEN CONVERSATIONS Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Listen, talk, share, and engage in a conversation around gardening, horticulture or whatever issue is presented that day.

Noon-1:30 pm, free LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE: WOMEN IN THE ARTS New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 An informal opportunity to browse over 7,500 books and files, with a focus on female artists in the American West.

1-4 pm, free NANCY MacLEAN WITH GREG GRANDIN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 You want politics? We got your politics right here. A conversation with MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.

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PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Get out of the house! Have fun!

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EVENTS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE OPEN STUDIOS Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Join artists-in-residence Christa Cassano, Wayne Nez Gaussoin and Orlando Dugi for tours and conversation.

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8 pm, free NAMASTE Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Get a yoga class and a beer for a ten and a fiver. No one minds if you’re sweaty after.

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SANTA FE MEGABAND REHEARSAL Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join an open community band for acoustic string music.

7 pm, free SISTER SPIT: QTPOC CRUISING THE WEST Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 The poetry roadshow swings through Santa Fe on tour; seven artists offer intersectional perspectives on race, size, class, gender and sexuality.

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FOOD DIGEST THIS!: INVASIVE PARAKEETS AND THE PUEBLO FOOD EXPERIENCE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Roxanne Swentzell, author of The Pueblo Food Experience, speaks about her community experiment and the irrefutable benefits of returning to the pre-contact foodways of Pueblo peoples. Plus: samplings of pre-contact Pueblo foods. Aw yiss.

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CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Fine flamenco guitar playing.

7 pm, free DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

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7:30 pm, free MARTIN SEXTON Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Sexton is alternately at home crooning on a subway platform and selling out Carnegie Hall with his blues-influenced soulful singer-songwriter style.

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THEATER WAITING IN THE WINGS Studio Center of Santa Fe 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Catch a staged reading of Noel Coward's play for a gala fundraiser on behalf of Theatre Santa Fe. The story is set in a retirement home for actresses; be sure that personal drama does not fade along with youth. In addition to the reading, there’s also be a silent auction and awards for three local women who have contributed to social justice and theatrical causes, so this is an evening not to be missed.

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6 pm, free POLLEN AND OUR LOCAL POLLINATORS St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Ken Bower explains the structure and function of pollen, what makes up a grain, how grains differ from one another and how pollen is transferred from one plant to another.

1 pm, $10 PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Pick up some new books and maybe some new friends.

11 am, free SANTA FE'S COLONIAL REVIVAL: THE GARDEN AT EL ZAGUÁN Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Susan Williams explores the many Santa Fe styles of plants, gardens and architecture. Learn about the history of the lush Canyon Road landmark.

3 pm, $5-$10 TEA AND TOUR SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Take a 30-minute tour of the exhibition Future Shock and have a discussion with SITE guides over a cup of tea.

Today's tour is led by artist Alexis Rockman.

3 pm, $8-$13

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Be smart, win drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free

MUSIC BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 The local singer-songwriter plays songs from the heart to go with your brekkie burrito.

10 am, free CUCO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Cuco began releasing his Chicano-rooted songs at age 16—as in, three years ago— and already has millions of listens online. He is joined by pop artists August Eve and Jasper Jones.

7 pm, $15-$17

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DJ INKY The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Punk, funk, soul, rock 'n' roll, old-school country and modern alternative.

9 pm, free DAVE MENSCH Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Acoustic rock and country.

8 pm, free GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Irish sounds from Gerry Carthy meld with Latin tunes by Chris Abeyta when these two longtime friends play together.

7:30 pm, free GOT SOUL El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Check out the house jazz band on Thursday nights with Jim Casey (guitar), Justin Bransford (bass), Brad Smith (drums), Glenn Kostur (sax 'n' keys) and Chris Ishi (also keys).

7 pm, free JOHN RANGEL'S DUET SERIES El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Versatile jazz pianist John Rangel plays with a special guest.

7 pm, free LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 You know the drill.

10 pm, free MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, pop and opera on piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free MORRIS & COLE The Burger Stand 207 W San Francisco St., 989-3360 Observe the meeting of two Denver rock 'n' blues ‘n’ roots songwriting powerhouses in a sultry show with two guitars and two raspy voices.

7 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar in some of our favorite classy environs.

6 pm, free PHYLLIS LOVE Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free TOM WILLIAMS BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country swing.

8 pm, free VINCENT COPIA Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Americana and solo guitar originals.

7 pm, free

THEATER BOEING BOEING Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Smarmy Bernard has Italian, German, and American fiancées—that is, until unexpected events bring all three to Bernard’s apartment at the same time. Ruh roh.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE IN HD: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A simulcast of Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece, which follows a Southern couple and their families; they all dance around secrets and tensions that jeopardize their future.

7 pm, $22 THE ROOMMATE Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A new play from New York playwright Jen Silverman tells the story of Sharon, a divorcee in Iowa, whose new roommate Robyn has a mysterious past. Starring Lisa Foster and Danielle Louise Reddick. Thursdays are only $5 if you’re under age 25, so hop to it!

7:30 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP HEALINGS HAPPEN Deep Roots Studio Via Alegria and Agua Fria St., 927-5407 Stop by the studio for tea, snacks and a spiritual healing, a tune-up for body and mind.

Proprietress Lisa P guides you.

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6 pm, free CHAZ JOHN: REZ DOGS Ellsworth Gallery 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900 The IAIA student presents his series of paintings of rez dogs—the stray animals that have come to be emblems of reservation life (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, free ELIZA TWICHELL: ASK THE HONEST ORACLE Axle Contemporary 670-5854 At the Farmers Market shade structure in the Railyard, check out Twichell's 3-D moving mechanical devices and interact with them to become part of the art. It will appear wherever the mobile gallery does through April 8.

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INTRODUCTIONS 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 Work from Darrell Wilks, Gary Denmark, ZB Armstrong and Philadelphia Wireman.

5 pm, free NATALIE ARNOLDI: THIS HAPPENED HERE Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 New paintings based on scenes from concentration camps. Through March 31 (see AC, page 27).

5 pm, free NATURE & ART: SOURCE, SUBJECT AND SPIRIT Community Gallery 201 W Marcy St., 982-0436 Explore the evolving relationship between humans and plants. Through May 31.

5 pm, free SCULPTURE UNION Molecule Design 1226 Flagman Way, 989-9806 The Sculpture Union, a collective group of 3-D artists working at the Santa Fe Community College, presents work from its members.

Through April 30.

4-8 pm, free

at the

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APRIL 25

AT THE VIOLET CROWN 1606 ALCALDESA ST.

FROM 6 TO 8 PM

EVENTS LA MODA Eloisa Restaurant 228 E Palace Ave., 982-0883 Catch a lunchtime fashion show produced by Natasha Nargis, weaver and proprietor of shop/gallery natasha Santa Fe (on Guadalupe Street).

Fifteen designers participate.

The show is free, but make a reservation for a meal that you buy like a normal person.

Noon, free

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– W.R. Brown – Norman Doggett – Bobby Gutierrez – Paul Horpedahl – Ralph LaForge – Bernie Lieving – Eugenie Johnson – Emil Pfeiffer – Mark L Watson – Max Wotlman

MUSIC BOK CHOY Evangelo's 200 W San Francisco St. Simmerin' soul with Mark Clark, Peter Williams and Craig Small. Cash bar, folks, so you know what to do.

9 pm, $5 BROOMDUST CARAVAN Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Cosmic country.

7 pm, free CHANGO Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Covers of every song known to man.

10 pm, $5 DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Smooth crooning and gypsy jazz guitar.

7 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Broadway tunes and piano standards.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway tunes on piano: Doug starts, Mike takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Traditional and original Irish folk tunes.

7 pm, free

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JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free KYLE MARTIN BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 What if honky-tonk and rock ‘n’ roll had a baby?

8:30 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Party-time rock 'n' roll.

8 pm, free MARC SANDERS Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free NELSON DENMAN Chez Mamou French Bakery & Cafe 217 E Palace Ave., 216-1845 Classical, folk and jazz on cello and guitar.

6 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free RYAN HUTCHENS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana, folk, bluegrass, gospel 'n' rock on the deck.

5 pm, free SWING SOLEIL Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Gypsy swing.

6 pm, free THE BUSY MCCARROLL BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Trippy-drippy surf sounds.

8 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 The swinging jazz trio features a special guest every Friday night.

7:30 pm, free YOUR BOY RE-FLEX Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Dance 'n' party 'n' shit with DJs Your Boy Re-Flex, John Edwards and other special guests.

10 pm, free ZAY SANTOS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' blues (see Music, page 23).

8:30 pm, $5 ESSO First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Selections by JS Bach, Paul Hindemith and Felix Mendelssohn.

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Oh hi, Zay Santos

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

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y father is from Española, but I grew up in Los Lunas and I got out at 17 and landed in Austin for the last 11 years,” musician Zay Santos says. “I don’t want to say I was spinning my wheels out there, but you can definitely get trapped in the whole Austin runaround.”

Santos has been living back in New Mexico for a year this month, which might explain why not a lot of people know him just yet. But you probably will soon, because I promise he does the kind of stuff this town likes—bluesy rock in the vein of Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, but maybe a little dirtier than either—and, at 31, he’s young, too.

Santos is one of those self-taught kind of guitarists, developing his own methods by studying a chord chart when he was just out of high school and, he says, by playing along with the radio (a time-honored tradition for guitar newbies). “If I could play that same chord I was hearing, I knew I was doing alright,” he says with a laugh. “I just put my ear to any style out there I could.”

From there, it was a matter of transferring his already-present love of the written word into lyric form, a move that he says was easy since he already wrote a lot of poetry. Musically, however, he gravitated toward the rock side of blues. “I always liked the more soulful stuff, musically,” Santos says. “I mean, I jammed out to Green Day, and I still do, but I always liked the influence of older people showing me what they liked, and that meant guitar stuff from the ’70s.”

By the time he got to Austin in 2006, Santos was a different person. He’d hone his skills by grinding often, and by sitting in as a session musician or booking and producing other artists to establish himself as a member of the community. And to learn. “You start to gain this maturity, which was lacking for me early on,” he says. “My biggest advice for people when they ask how they might get better? You listen.”

Of course, before he got better or matured, Santos would record an EP in 2009. “It was not good. It was very amateur and I just wasn’t ready,” he says. “It

My biggest advice for people when they ask how they might get better?

You listen.

-Zay Santos

was back to the drawing board, writing better songs, feeling comfortable with what I’m putting out, which was professionally tough for me at first—I’m writing from the depths of myself—but now I’m feeling comfortable and gaining confidence.”

This meant putting a band together featuring members like Albuquerque drummer Mo Roberts and young Santa Fe blues rock shredder Jake Montiel, but also enlisting seasoned musician-producer Jono Manson and his Kitchen Sink Studios for help with Santos’ upcoming full-length debut. There’s no title yet, and no specific release window; they’re really only recording two songs at a time, Santos says, because this is an era of singles. “When was the last time you went to a store, not a concert, and bought an album?” he asks—and rightly so.

Next steps would obviously include making a name for himself in Santa Fe, a trick that’s not always easy to accomplish for a newcomer. “I’m a firm believer that I won’t get anywhere if I’m not a part of the community,” Santos says, “but at the same time, I’m totally cool with people just showing up to my shows so long as I get out there and grind and enjoy what I’m doing.”

And he’s worth it. Lord knows I’ve trashed my fair share of wanky blues rock bands before (and definitely will again), but Santos has a certain something that not only sounds tight as hell, but somehow bridges a gap between the roots of blues rock and a younger slant without resorting to endlessly masturbatory guitar solo tomfoolery. If you don’t believe me, that’s fine—just pop by his El Farol show this Friday night. And then, someone please throw him on an opening slot for something (I’m looking at you, Jamie Lenfestey and AMP Concerts). If nothing else, I just kinda want to see how this plays out.

ZAY SANTOS 8:30 pm Friday March 9. $5.

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with my boyfriend, so we can add it the bedroom excitement, but I’m embarrassed to share this as a straight female. How do I go about sharing a fetish I have? Do I tell him over a candlelit dinner?

Do I just turn some deepthroating porn on and see what happens? Help!

-Deepthroat Queen I’m an 18-year-old cis hetero girl from Australia and I’ve been listening to your podcast and reading your column since I was 13. Thanks to you I’m pretty open minded about my sexuality and body. Having said that, I do have a few questions.

I started watching porn from a youngish age with no real shame attached but I have some concerns.

1. I get off really quickly to lesbian porn but it never feels like a “good” orgasm. My guess is that subconsciously I think it’s inauthentic and therefore degrading.

2. I really enjoy and have the best orgasms to vintage gay male porn and trans FTM porn, which seems odd to me because I’m so far removed from the sexual acts that these kind of porn movies portray but I always feel satisfied after getting off to them.

3. I get off to tit slapping videos but it screws with me morally. I understand why I like these kinds of videos. I have quite large breasts and I feel resentment towards them. It seems both morally wrong towards the progress I’ve made towards accepting my body and also to the message being sent about violence towards women.

Care to weigh in?

Concerned About Porn Preferences 1. There are gay men who watch straight porn, lesbians who watch gay porn, and 18-year-old hetero girls in Australia who watch lesbian porn and vintage gay porn and trans FTM porn. So many people get off watching porn that isn’t supposed to be for them—so many people fantasize about, watch, and sometimes do things that aren’t supposed to be for them—that we have to view these quote/ unquote transgressions as a feature of human sexuality, not a bug.

2. Lesbian porn gets you off, vintage gay porn and trans FTM gets you off, but you feel conflicted after watching lesbian porn because it seems inauthentic. That’s understandable—a lot of so-called lesbian porn is inauthentic, in that it’s made by and for straight men and features non-lesbian women going through the lesbian motions (often with long and triggering-for-actual-lesbian fingernails).

Some gay porn features gay-for-pay straight male actors, of course, but most gay porn features gay actors doing what they love; the same goes for most trans FTM porn, which is a small and mostly indie niche. I suspect your orgasms are just as good when you watch lesbian porn, CAPP, but the sense—suppressed when you were turned on, surfacing once you’re not—that the performers weren’t really enjoying themselves taints your lesbian-porn-enhanced orgasms in retrospect. The solution? Seek out lesbian porn featuring actual lesbians—authentic lesbian porn is out there. (I found a bunch with a quick Google search.)

3. Sometimes we overcome the negative messaging our culture sends us about our identities or bodies only after our erotic imaginations have seized on the fears or self-loathing induced by those messages and turned them into kinks. Take small-penis humiliation (SPH). Before a guy can ask a partner to indulge him in SPH, CAPP, he has to accept (and kind of dig) his small cock. So the acceptance is there, but the kink—a turn-on rooted in a resolved conflict—remains. It can be freeing to regard a kink like SPH or your thing for tit slapping as a reward—as the only good thing to come out of the shitty zap the culture put on the head of a guy with a small cock or, in your case, a young woman with large breasts. So long as we seek out other consenting adults who respect us and our bodies, we can have our kinks—even those that took root in the manure of negative cultural messaging—and our self-acceptance and self-esteem, too.

I have a deepthroating fetish. All the porn I watch is nothing but rough, sloppy blowjobs. I would love nothing more than to watch this kind of porn

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There’s never really a bad time to tell someone they won the lottery, DQ. Over a candlelit dinner, pop in some porn, send him a singing telegram—however you decide to tell him, DQ, the odds that he’ll react negatively are pretty low. Of course, watching someone deep throat and doing it yourself are two different things, DQ. You won’t be able to go from disclosing your kink to realizing it during that candlelit dinner. Take it slow, maybe watch a few how-to videos in addition to the porn, find the positions and angles that work for you, etc., and work your way up to taking him all the way down.

I’m a 32-year-old male. I recently met a hot older woman, age 46, who has told me she finds me equally hot. I’ve always preferred older women.

I just love their confidence and their comfort in their own skin. They’re just so much sexier than my age cohorts. The problem is that I take a serious interest in feminism. I think I do pretty well with the overt stuff: I don’t mansplain, I call out peers who ignore sexism, and I don’t objectify women, even when I do find them attractive.

(Small steps, but steps nonetheless.) But when I see this woman and we flirt like mad, my brain just shuts off and all I can think about is her hot bod and the many hours I want to spend with it.

However, I worry that she’s spent her whole life relying on her looks to gain validation from men, and that my brain-dead, loins-alive attraction is only perpetuating her objectification. Is that so?

Or am I just overthinking things?

-Man, I Love Feminism At the risk of dansplaining…

There’s nothing feminist about slagging off younger women to justify your attraction to older women. You like what you like and you can own that without implying that younger women lack confidence and aren’t comfortable in their own skins. The same culture that put the zap on CAPP’s head for having large breasts—her breasts attracted unwanted attention and she resented her breasts and now gets off on erotic images of breasts being punished (even though she now knows her breasts weren’t the problem)—put the zap on your head. Men, young and old, are supposed to be attracted to younger women. You’re not attracted to younger women, you’re attracted to older women; instead of accepting that, you feel compelled to justify it by comparing younger women to older women and declaring—again, by implication—that there’s something wrong with younger women. You sound like one of those gay men who can’t tell you why he’s attracted to dudes without also (or only) telling you what he dislikes about women.

As for objectification, MILF, the problem with objectification is when the person doing the objectifying isn’t capable of simultaneously seeing the object of their affections as a three-dimensional human being with desires, fears, and agency of their own. Technically, MILF, we are all objects—“a material thing that can be seen and touched”—but unlike, say, Fleshlights or vibrators, we feel joy and pain and have wants and needs. You can’t help being drawn to this woman’s externals; there’s a huge visual component to human attraction and, as your thing for older women demonstrates, there isn’t one universal standard of beauty. So long as you’re can objectify someone while at the same time appreciating their full humanity—so long as you can walk that walk and chew that gum—you don’t have to feel like a bad feminist for objectifying someone. (Particularly when that someone is clearly objectifying you!)

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THEATER BOEING BOEING Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Bernard, a self-styled Parisian lothario, has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess—until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Bernard’s apartment at the same time.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE ROOMMATE Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Sharon, living in Iowa after a bitter divorce, advertises for a roommate, but she doesn't exactly get what she expected in Robyn.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SAT/10 ART OPENINGS GARLIC: CLOSING RECEPTION AND RECIPE SWAP NO LAND 54 E San Francisco St., Ste. 7, 216-973-3367 How else would you choose to close a solo exhibition all about garlic? Join artist Liz Brindley for one last viewing of her drawings, prints, a wall mural and installations of garlic skins, and bring a favorite recipe to exchange with other attendees.

6 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES DANIEL GIBSON: SKIING NEW MEXICO op.cit Books 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Gibson presents the definitive guide to everything winter sports in New Mexico, including shuttle service and cross-country trails.

2 pm, free LAURIE GUNST: WANDERING THROUGH THE JEWISH PAST OF SPAIN Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Santa Fe author Laurie Gunst traveled to Spain last summer, where she found the traces of her 15th-century Castilian ancestor and their forced exile to the Netherlands. She speaks about her exploration of this history and her genealogical quest.

5 pm, free NATALIE ARNOLDI: ARTIST TALK Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 Arnoldi, a painter who creates evocative works of ambiguous narrative scenes, is joined by Bruce Guenther, former chief curator of the Portland Art Museum, to discuss her new show, This Happened Here (see AC, page 27).

3 pm, free

THE MOCNA READER: KIDS' DAY IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Kids deserve awesome Native book clubs too! This month the museum highlights Native children's book author Emmett Shkeme Garcia (Santa Ana/Jemez).

Enjoy a reading from Sister Rabbit's Tricks, a sing-a-long, book signing and snacks.

11 am, free

DANCE CONTRA DANCE Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join the New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society for a contra dance with music from Flagpole Salad and caller Will McDonald. Arrive at 7 pm for a dance lesson; the dance begins at 7:30 pm.

7 pm, $8-$9 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A performance by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25 NOCHE DE FLAMENCO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 EmiArte Flamenco includes dancer La Emi; singer, Veronica Medina; and Joaquin Gallegos on guitar.

Make reservations to be safe.

7 pm, $15

EVENTS BIRD WALK Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road, 983-4609 Head to the hills for a guided birding hike.

8:30-10 am, free NEW MEXICO STATE ARM WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Are you strong? Do you think you can prove it? All genders are invited to participate or watch. Support New Mexico Armsports (apparently that's a thing?)—plus there are custom-made trophies for winners. If you want to try your hand (see what we did there?), weigh-ins are 6-9 pm Friday March 9.

Noon, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more from a juried group of local artists. It's just north of the water tower.

8 am-2 pm, free

SANTA FE PEN FAIR DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., 983-4671 Writing is more fun when your implement is fancy.

Join Santa Fe Pens for the 23rd annual Santa Fe Pen Fair, with free calligraphy sessions (call 989-4742 to reserve your spot).

10 am-6 pm, free WALL OF LOVE La Tienda Performance Space 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 465-9214 Paint your own 12-by-12-inch addition to the Wall of Love and enjoy food, drinks and the community’s statement of how positivity, compassion and connection overcomes fear and hate.

11 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC THE BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Reggae, hip-hop and Jamaican funk with New Mexican soul.

9 pm, $5 CHATTER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 The Albuquerque institution brings its slightly weird, really interesting and comfortably informal contemporary music north for a series of concerts at SITE. This installment features pianist Conor Hanick performing Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated," plus a reading by poet/speaker Barbara Rockman.

10:30 am, $5-$15 CONNIE LONG AND FAST PATSY Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rockabilly, country and Western.

3 pm, free DAVID GEIST AND JULIE TRUJILLO Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano standards and Broadway favorites.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway tunes on piano: Doug starts, Mike takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free DUO RASMINKO Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Bohemian pop.

7 pm, free ERNESTINE ROMERO Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 Rancheras and Northern New Mexico tunes.

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FRITZ AND THE BLUE JAYS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Party-time rock 'n' roll.

8 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana and honky-tonk.

1 pm, free LEFT BANK Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Ragtime jazz.

6 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Live rock ‘n’ roll party-time tunes on the deck at Totemoff’s, for when you grab a beer between turns on that sweet, sweet snow.

11 am-3 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Didn’t get enough at the ski basin this afternoon? Here’s even more.

8 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free NELSON DENMAN Chez Mamou French Bakery & Cafe 217 E Palace Ave., 216-1845 Classical, folk and jazz on cello and guitar.

6 pm, free PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free RAY MATTHEW Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 All kinds of singery-songwritery tunes, from folk to jazz to country.

7 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free RYAN HUTCHENS Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Folksy bluesy singer-songwriter tunes.

6 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Nanci and Cyndy host a night of karaoke. We think it's the only karaoke on a weekend night in Santa Fe, so you know where to party tonight.

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Do you feel the shift? Everything seems to have changed after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. For the first time in a long time, rational steps toward safer gun laws seem to be on the table, and the charge led by America’s youths is nothing short of awe-inspiring. Thus, we reached out to New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence co-founder Miranda Viscoli to get her take on the issue. Founded in 2013 (spurred by the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012), the organization seeks safe and sane gun legislation, combats false narratives perpetrated by the NRA and works within schools with young people to address the widespread gun violence epidemic in America today. An extended version of this interview appears on SFReporter.com.

(Alex De Vore) First of all, are there any myths or misconceptions about gun violence or your work that you’d like to dispel?

I think the biggest messaging we have to fight is this idea that gun violence prevention laws don’t work, that we have to make sure laws already on the books are working. ... [Gun violence] prevention laws do work! The other thing we need to go after is to leave the people suffering from mental illness alone. All that does is stigmatize people suffering. Another myth we have to dispel is that assault weapons do exist.

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Probably 70 percent of the work New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence does is with young people— giving them a voice. ... We do a student pledge against gun violence so students can start to figure out ways to combat violence. We are really excited that people are finally saying ‘Hey, listen to the kids!’ I’m not tooting our own horn here, but we’ve been saying that since 2013. The kids are scared, they’re heartbroken.

I know one kid who has lost five family members to gun violence. Why does a kid know five family members shot and killed? The young people, their voice is so important, but my concern is with adults putting this more on the young people when we need to take responsibility.

Are you seeing a lot of Second Amendment proponents changing their mindsets right now?

We do this Guns to Gardens buyback program where people bring in weapons [author’s note: the program repurposes firearms as gardening tools], and we do this anonymous survey that asks why people are bringing in their weapons. Ninety-seven percent, according to our survey, are giving these weapons up because of safety. I think the buyback is the way of the future. We have to change our laws, especially in New Mexico—the Giffords Law Center gives us an F—and we have to educate people. Responsible gun owners do get a bad rap. But if you’re a member of the NRA, you’re also a member of a racist organization. Do we really want to be in the business of supporting that?

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THE MET LIVE IN HD: SEMIRAMIDE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 In Rossini's masterpiece based on Voltaire's tragedy, get a load of romance, power and intrigue.

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JAMES McGRATH AND CATHERINE FERGUSON Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 McGrath's book of poems, A Festival of Birds, draw from his time in Japan and Okinawa, where he lived for 12 years.

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6:30 pm, free JOURNEYSANTAFE: PAM ROY Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The executive director of Farm to Table New Mexico explores why Santa Fe needs a food plan.

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BEAT THE DEVIL!: FAUST, THE WHOLE STORY James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Through drama and masterful storytelling, actor Glen Williamson transforms Goethe's 24-hour-long, 200-year-old classic drama into a 90-minute, sometimes humorous, always exhilarating battle for the soul of a man searching for truth, satisfaction—and a goddess.

7 pm, $15-$35 BOEING BOEING Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Bernard is a smarmy jerk with three girlfriends, and they all end up at his apartment at the same time. Okay, so it sounds heavy when we put it that way, but actually it’s a farce full of stereotypes and bratwurst.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE ROOMMATE Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Sharon, living in Iowa after a bitter divorce, advertises for a roommate, but she doesn’t exactly get what she expected in Robyn. Starring Lisa Foster and Danielle Louise Reddick.

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COMMUNITY DAY: SOUNDS OF MEOW WOLF Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Get reduced-price admission and a day of special programming including a family-friendly dance party, musical craft activities, singing bowls and more.

10 am-8 pm, $8-$12 DHARMA DISCUSSION GROUP Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Share thoughts, feelings and experiences related to our Buddhist practice.

7 pm, free MODERN BUDDHISM: BLUE SKY MIND Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Thoughts and feelings are like clouds arising and dissolving, so we can control them by meditating on the mind itself and experience a deep sense peace and contentment and lasting happiness.

10:30 am-noon, $10 POETRY OUT LOUD St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Did you know New Mexico is one of our national meccas for slam poetry? For the state championships in poetry recitation, 11 high school finalists compete for poetic justice.

1-3 pm, free SANTA FE PEN FAIR DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., 983-4671 Free calligraphy sessions (call 989-4742 to reserve your spot) and the unveiling of Santa Fe Pens' Santa Fe Edition XX. Ooh la la!

Noon-5 pm, free STARGAZER Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 In honor of the National Day of Planetaria, help launch the museum's new mobile plantarium with shows, art projects and storytelling in both English and Spanish. Free with museum admission.

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2 pm, free IN AWE OF NATURE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Join Western Slopes Poet Laureate Emeritus Art Goodtimes, along with Santa Fe poets Robyn Hunt and Debbi Brody, for a reading in honor of Mother Earth.

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7 pm, $15 ALEXANDER PALEY First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Renowned Moldovan pianist Alexander Paley makes his first appearance in Santa Fe. People under 18 are free, so get the young'uns out to what is sure to be a fiery performance.

3 pm, $30 GARY GORENCE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluesy folk.

8 pm, free MARIO REYNOLDS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Norteño tunes and folk songs.

6 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted takes on Latin music.

7 pm, free NATE HINOJOSA Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Flamenco guitar on the deck.

3 pm, free OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Bring your listenin' ears and your playin' fingers.

3-7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Guitarist Malone and bassist Gagan play some jazz on Civilized Sunday.

7 pm, free SUGAR MOUNTAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Like Neil Young? So do these guys. They're a tribute band. We hope they play "Powderfinger."

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THEATER BOEING BOEING Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Bernard, a self-styled Parisian lothario, has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess— until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Bernard’s apartment at the same time. We thought it was pretty funny.

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New work from California’s Natalie Arnoldi may leave you more shaken than stirred

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atalie Arnoldi is a scientist first, then a painter. Or maybe it’s the other way around.

“I don’t like to prioritize one over the other, actually,” Arnoldi, who lives in Venice, California, tells SFR. “I’ve mostly been a full-time artist for the past four years, but I’ve also been working as a lab assistant, and now I’m applying for a PhD in marine biology.” In This Happened Here, on view at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art for just three weeks, Arnoldi trades in themes of earlier paintings—gas stations, fireworks and airplanes, invariably surrounded by dense, foggy mist—for interiors of Holocaust concentration camps; it’s a striking departure, visually and emotionally.

There are only four paintings in the show, but most are 8-by-8-feet or bigger, engulfing the viewer. When asked about the odd man out, a 2012 work of misty railroad tracks, Arnoldi says she feels like it provides an entry point to the other three paintings, which were inspired by recent visits to Nazi camps, but are actually based on historical photographs. In one, the word BRAUSEBAD (German for shower) appears over an opened door, through which an inner chamber is murkily visible, beckoning us into its darkening grey depths. It is deeply unpleasant, which is at least partially the point—it would be disturbing if we weren’t disturbed by gas chambers. Nevertheless, it’s so bluntly, intrinsically horrific, that for some it may be acutely distressing. In another image, which measures over 16 feet across, a dimly lit, hazy tableau of Auschwitz showers is similarly jarring. [Author’s note: Jackson refrained from releasing the three concen-

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tration camp images for publication prior to the opening. At the time of publication, SFR has only the image of the railroad tracks, reproduced here.]

It may come as a surprise, given the work, that neither the artist nor the gallery owner is Jewish. Arnoldi’s dad Charles, or Chuck, is a celebrated California-based abstract painter who has shown in major museums and galleries both stateside and abroad, and has been represented by Charlotte Jackson for many years. “I know I’ve been lucky— hugely lucky,” Arnoldi says of her art-star father, “but I believe my work speaks for itself.”

Now 27, she was just 19 at the time of her first exhibition, at New York City gallery Nyehaus. “I went to college to study science,” says Arnoldi, who has de-

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in fact, most take minimalism to its very outer limits, painting in a single color. Arnoldi’s work categorically doesn’t fit in, so why exhibit it?

“I would never have shown Natalie if it wasn’t for Chuck,” Jackson acknowledges, who, like that Nyehaus show curator, stumbled across Natalie’s paintings because she saw them hanging in her dad’s studio. “They haunted me,” she tells SFR. “Natalie told me she felt like she needed to make them, and I decided someone needed to show them.”

In the show’s press release, readers are reminded that without witnesses, history can become “obscured;” the unshakable truth of this is important, now as ever. Arnoldi’s previous paintings are mysteriously commanding, with ghosty fog partially obscuring an intriguing range of subjects, from exploding fireworks to shark fins. Where Arnoldi’s technique of creating gauzy mist works beautifully, even strangely movingly, in a painting of an abandoned gas station, that same mist is of a shockingly, horrifyingly different nature in an 8-foot-tall oil painting of an abandoned gas chamber. “I’ve had positive feedback in the sense that people have seen them and reacted to them in a very emotional way,” Arnoldi says of her new body.

The thing is, of course we have an emotional response to finding out we’re looking at scenes from Dachau; we’re compelled to respond emotionally—and that feels somewhat ruthless. Arnoldi, though, is prepared for a range of reactions. “This is a spiritual, political and emotional journey for me,” she muses. “I have no idea how it’s going to go over.”

grees in earth systems and marine biology from Stanford. “Being a painter wasn’t on my agenda.” That changed when a curator visited her dad’s studio. The curator was there for Chuck, but happened upon a painting of Natalie’s and invited her to participate in the Nyehaus event. “After that first show it snowballed,” Arnoldi recalls; she now has more than 25 exhibitions under her belt.

Jackson has no plans to sell the works in This Happened Here. “The show is about NATALIE ARNOLDI: THIS HAPPENED HERE Opening Reception: 5 pm Friday March 9. telling a story, not about selling paintings,” Free. Through April 2. she explains. And whether her gallery is up Gallery Talk with Arnoldi your alley or not, Jackson runs one of the and Bruce Guenther: 3 pm Saturday most tightly cohesive, reliably abstract art March 10. Free. programs in the city. At press time, nary Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, an artist on the gallery’s website makes 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 anything that could be called figurative;

Boeing Boeing • 2008 Tony Award! at Santa Fe Playhouse: 142 East De Vargas Street March 8–11 • Thurs. Fri. Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m.

The Good Doctor • by Neil Simon Oasis Theatre Company at Teatro Paraguas March 8–25 • Thurs. Fri. Sat: 7:30 p.m., Sun: 2 p.m.

The Roommate • by Jen Silverman at Adobe Rose Theatre: 1213 Parkway Drive March 8–11 • Thurs. Fri. Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 3 p.m.

Waiting in the Wings • by Noel Coward staged reading • Blue Raven Theatre at Studio Center

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NEW MEXICANS FOR MONEY OUT OF POLITICS GENERAL MEETING Higher Education Building 1950 Siringo Road, 428-1725 For this meeting, NM MOP hosts a speaker from Wolf PAC, a non-partisan political action committee dedicated to campaign finance reform.

6 pm, free SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: TEWA MALE POTTERS: 1880-1920 Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Bruce Bernstein, whose sizeable CV includes tribal historic preservation officer at Pojoaque Pueblo and former director of Southwestern Association of Indian Arts (SWAIA) and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, speaks as part of Southwest Seminars' Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories lecture series.

6 pm, $15 TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS: HEALING AND NATURE James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Author and activist Terry Tempest Williams joins with young members of our community for a discussion about, well, everything. We guarantee this puppy will sell out—if it hasn’t already—so get those tix at 467-6426.

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THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 699-6922 Singing sure feels good, doesn’t it? Anyone who can carry a tune is invited to join in on a rehearsal. Directed by Maurice Shepard, join in on any of the four-part harmony parts (tenor, lead, baritone or bass).

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FILM BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 For two nights, the Banff Center hosts its renowned and beloved touring festival of action, environmental and adventure films from around the world (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, $18-$32

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 CARS & TRAINS Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 A one-man band that mixes electronic and dark sounds with the folk instruments we all know and enjoy. He's joined by hip-hop circuit artist Curta and local hip-hoppers K.Dutch & the Fat Sweet and iNK oN pAPER. 8 pm, $7 COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke.

9 pm, free JAMIE RUSSELL Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Americana, pop and rock originals and covers.

7 pm, free MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 DJ Sato spins some jams to calm you down.

10 pm, free

OPERA OPERA BOOK CLUB: VOLTAIRE’S CANDIDE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The opera version of Candide, a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, is part of this season's opera lineup, so get a head start on knowing what the hell is going on when you go see it.

6:30 pm, free

TUE/13 BOOKS/LECTURES BOTANICAL BOOK CLUB: GARDENING FOR LOVE: THE MARKET BULLETINS Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Join other botanical book enthusiasts over tea and great conversation about Gardening for Love: The Market Bulletins

by Elizabeth Lawrence, which explores the world of the rural women of the South and their advertisements for herbs and ornamental perennials in several market bulletins.

1 pm, free PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Get your kids learnt.

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EVENTS ALIENATED GRANDPARENTS ANONYMOUS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Check out this support group if you fit the bill.

3 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This quiz can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A gathering for people who are struggling with illness and loss in a variety of its forms.

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FILM BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 It’s night two of two of this festival of environmental and adventure films (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, $18-$32

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f you know Sarah Boisvert, you undoubtedly know her lime-green earrings. The translucent 3-D-printed cubes dangle from her ears daily, on double duty as a conversation piece and a fashion statement. She describes the several attempts it took to get the thickness of the plastic just right so the earrings weren’t opaque, creating models on a computer and then printing prototypes until they were perfect. However, these earrings hardly betray the depth of Boisvert’s 30plus years of experience in digital fabrication and design, which culminates most recently in the opening of Fab Lab Santa Fe at the Santa Fe Community College.

What is a Fab Lab? Essentially, it’s a workshop and training space where virtually anything can be manufactured with the aid of computer-controlled machines. The concept was developed and piloted at MIT early this century, and Boisvert has been involved since that beginning. She started Fab Lab Hub (fablabhub.org) in 1999 as a part of the MIT Fab Lab network to promote entrepreneurship, workforce training, and support the development of such facilities. Fab Lab Hub currently operates two in Santa Fe: One at the Santa Fe Business Incubator is called Archimedes, and the one at the community college is known simply as Fab Lab Santa Fe. All Fab Labs must have at least five requisite pieces of fabrication technology, including a 3-D printer, computernumerical controlled machines with computer-aided design software, and a digital electronics design station. The network estimates about 1,200 such labs are open to communities worldwide, bringing skills and technology to areas that would otherwise not have them. “It’s a real democratization of technology,” Boisvert says.

Fab Lab Santa Fe is distinct from a makerspace, however. The primary role is technical education and community engagement, meaning not anyone can

just walk in and start using the laser cutter. Rather, people can sign up for public courses on particular machines and techniques, at the end receiving a credential called a “digital badge” which is stored online as a proof of competency that can be taken to other Fab Labs. Further, after completing training, students can apply for paid internships with the Fab Lab to work on manufacturing projects for local businesses.

While on my tour of Santa Fe’s newest version (at the Santa Fe Community College, 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1676) with Boisvert, I had the pleasure of meeting gemologist Andrew Harris at work with

We still find 3-D printing and laser cutting to be like some kind of sorcerer’s magic.

Gemologists working in traditional wax cast molding might take weeks on a single piece, zeroing in on the measurements and decoration, and Harris has tread in both waters. “Digital fabrication has huge advantages over traditional methods,” he tells SFR. There is little chance of making a mistake in transferring the idea from the mind to material reality, because a precise representation of the object to be printed is first created on the computer. I asked Harris and Boisvert if anything was lost in this process compared to manual techniques. Undoubtedly, the experience of the craftsperson is changed. But digital fabrication, in Boisvert’s opinion, can actually amplify the creative process.

“Creativity is in the heart and brain,” she says. “How it manifests itself, whether from the hands or the computer, it comes from the same place.”

-Andrew Harris, Fab Labs enable almost Fab Lab participant immediate implementation of life-changing technologies in response to local needs. A microfluidic processor is an intricate electronic device that releases very small amounts of fluid a 3-D printer, designing ring casts that into a system, used in medical treatments would later be turned into metal and set and chemistry research. When a local orwith a jewel. The ease and speed of producing prototypes on a 3-D printer en- ganization required working prototypes ables the high refinement of a process of these devices for a project, they didn’t called iterative design; Harris is able to have to search far: Fab Lab Santa Fe made produce several molds of different designs it happen. But the Fab Lab also produces over the course of a few hours, making things that aren’t so technologically adminor adjustments or major style chang- vanced, such as furniture and musical ines with each new iteration of the design. struments, simply because it is quick and

Digital fabrication has huge advantages over traditional methods.

easy to produce the exact design intended when workers are equipped with the proper skills.

The importance of the Fab Lab extends much farther than the potential opportunities for creatives as well. The bulk of Boisvert’s recent work has been poured into a book of research on the economic importance of these new manufacturing technologies. Titled The New Collar Workforce, the book surveys the skill sets needed most by more than 200 national and local corporations in order to stay competitive in the emerging digital economy and notes a desperate need for workers who are competent in using the exact technologies that the Fab Lab trains people to use.

“Santa Fe is perfect for this kind of thing—it’s a creative hub,” Camilla Bustamante, dean of the School of Trades, Technology, Sustainability, Professional Studies and Business and Education at the college, says. Her department has enthusiastically welcomed the partnership with Fab Lab Hub to expand its manufacturing education. Bustamante is already able to boast of strong solar energy, welding and automotive mechanics programs under her purview, with students often able to land jobs immediately after completing their degree or certificate.

To Bustamante, the Fab Lab complements SFCC’s strength in technical education by emphasizing the role of entrepreneurship, innovation and teamwork in creating a successful future–not just for individual students, but for Northern New Mexico as a whole. “Nobody else around is really doing training like this,” she says.

“The future breed of manufacturers is being educated right here.”

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8:30 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar from a dude whose family descended from the inventors of the genre. He knows his stuff.

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PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Dextrous and soothing solo jazz guitar in a classy, warm space that we’re kind of enamored with.

6 pm, free VINTAGE VINYL NIGHT The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 DJ Prairiedog and DJ Mamagoose spin the best in garage, surf, country and rockabilly.

8:30 pm, free

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DOUG MONTGOMERY AND MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Mike takes over from him at 8 pm.

6 pm, free JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluesy rock and rockin' blues.

8 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Journey to Center: New Mexico Watercolors by Sam Expires 3/31/2018 Scott. Through Nov. 1.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Work By Women. Erin Currier: La Frontera. Jolene Nenibah Yazzie: Sisters of Mon-Sat 6 am to 9 pm War. All through May 13.

Mon-Sat 6 am to 8 pm Sunday 7 am to 8 pm MUSEUM OF Sunday 7 am to 6 pm CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 IAIA 2018 BFA Exhibition: Breaking Ground. Through New Mexico’s #1 Tamale Makers May 12. Art & Activism: Since 1955.

Selections from The Harjo Posa’s Tamales Are Still Made Family Collection. Through The Original Way... By Hand.

May 13. The Abundant North: Alaska Native Films of Influence. Through June 3. Action Abstraction Redefined. Through July 27.

Without Boundaries: Visual Conversations. Through July 29. Rolande Souliere: Form and Content. Through Jan. 27, 2019.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 623 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 American and international New Mexico’s #1 Tamale Makers encaustic art.

Since 1955.

Posa’s Tamales Are Still Made MUSEUM OF INDIAN The Original Way... By Hand.

ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture. Through April 30. Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West.

Through Sept. 3. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans.

Through Dec. 31.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate. Through July 16.

Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. Through March 10, 2019.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 1050 Old Pecos Trail www.santafechildrensmuseum.org 505.989.8359 982-2226

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Chatter, Albuquerque’s weirdo classical music organization (and we consider “weirdo” a good thing), continues its series of concerts at SITE Santa Fe on Saturday morning with a performance by pianist Conor Hanick.

Time Travelers: and the Saints Go Marching On. Through April 20.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 A Mexican Mirror: Prints from the Taller de Gráfica Popular. Through March 25.

The Land That Enchants Me So: Picturing Popular Songs of New Mexico. Through Feb. 2019.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Contact: Local to Global.

Through April 29. Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives. Through Oct. 8. Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art. Through Nov. 25.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave.,

476-5100 Tesoros de Devoción.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 In T’owa Vi Sae’we.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Dan Namingha: Conception, Abstraction, Reduction.

Through May 18.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo De Peralta, 989-1199 Luke DuBois: A More Perfect Union. Through April 4.

Future Shock. Through May 1.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Beads: A Universe of Meaning.

Through April 15.

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Noodle House Explosion

BY MARY FRANCIS CHEESEMAN |

Panang curry with tofu

Spring rolls

How many noodle joints do we got around here, anyway?

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e are at the dawn of a new age of noodle joints in Santa Fe. I know I mention this every time I go to one of these places, but the closing of Mu Du Noodles really messed us all up inside (much the same way the closing of Raaga left a hole in the city’s Indian food-loving heart that hasn’t even come close to healing yet.) There still hasn’t been a restaurant that really lights that fire for me in the same way, but I’m appreciating the myriad places springing up to try.

Winter in Santa Fe is a rough time for restaurants to open, especially a snowless, dry season like this one that cockblocks any kind of tourist presence. But it’s a strangely perfect time for a place that offers craveable, cold-weather comfort food like a big plate of spicy curry and noodles or a bowl of tom kha soup. Between Cuba Fe’s pop-up ramen shop, Cerrillos Road Vietnamese restaurant Pho Ava and new kid on the block, J&N Thai Bistro, our options for spicy, Asian-inspired cuisines are more diverse than ever.

J&N took over the old Five Star Burger location adjacent to the DeVargas Center, across from Albertsons. The decor isn’t gaudy or tacky mall styling, though. Quite the opposite, it’s all soft shades of brown and green; pots of bromeliads rest in room dividers, and the original Five Star lights provide a soft glow. (There’s no alcohol served on the premises just yet, but according to employees I spoke with, they plan to have beer and wine available sometime this month.)

The menu represents the hugely diverse spectrum of traditional Thai dishes—from the pad ki mao, or drunken noodles, which were originally created by Chinese immigrants in northern Thailand, to the various southern Thai coconut-based curries that bear evidence of India’s influence on Thai cuisine. For maximum impact, make sure to get your food “Thai hot”—but if you want to actually taste things in the heat, maybe stick to “hot.” Hey, if you aren’t at least partially trying to melt your face off, what are you even doing eating Thai food in the first place?

I got the spring rolls ($9) to start: small wrapped portions of lettuce, carrots, cilantro, and rice noodles served alongside a sweet and sour dipping sauce that I wished had just a little bit more vinegar kick to it. I contemplated getting the fruit rolls for the same price, but I got what I want-

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ed out of the appetizer. It was a clean, crisp and slightly herbal palate cleanser for the heat to come.

Dinner was vegetable-based drunken noodles ($13), which are flat egg noodles wider than those used for pad Thai, mixed with egg, yellow onion, red bell pepper, tomatoes, Chinese broccoli and jalapeño, then flavored with cooked Thai basil, lime leaves and garlic. It was fragrant and spicy and quite filling; a friend and I ate the whole thing between the two of us.

Also on the table was the panang curry with tofu ($13 at din dinner) and jasmine rice (brown rice and noodles are also available, but I personally like the way a neutral-flavored rice cuts the heat.) The thick, slightly nutty-tasting panang red curry sauce would go fabulous with the $15 beef option as well, but I was a little disappointed the other vegetables listed in the dish were not as prominent. There was very little in the way of jalapeño, basil or bell pepper in my tofu, but it was spicy and satisfying, a lovely counterpoint to our noodle dish.

It was a lovely experience and just what I’d expect from co-owners Joseph and Ratchanida (Nam) Lovato, whose other eatery, Thai Cusine Restaurant, opened in Los Alamos in 2015. I do look forward to enjoying some cold beer on the table once J&N is able to provide me one, and I otherwise hope that Nam, who also acts as the head chef, can evolve the menu to lean into the expansiveness of Thai food a little more. It’s wonderful to see such dishes represented in all their diversi diversity, but I’d love options that go beyond chicken, beef, shrimp or tofu as main courses.

Part of what I miss about Mu Du Noodles was that it always created unexpected flavors that worked together insanely well; it always tasted like something you felt you couldn’t get anywhere else. But I know it’s hard to think outside the box when the perceived value of “ethnic food” is so low in Santa Fe. To that effect, I read a lot of yelp reviews about J&N complaining about small portion size, which is ludicrous to me— but then again, I was actually able to finish a plate of vegetable noodles. Still, it’s a welcome addition to an expanding noodle house scene in Santa Fe, and I hope to be back soon.

Drunken noodles

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Humor Me Review Dad jokes: the movie

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

Not since Albert Brooks moved back in with his mom Debbie Reynolds in the 1996 comedy Mother has the idea of re-nesting been so simultaneously funny and painful as it is in Humor Me, the directorial debut from writer-producer-humorist Sam Hoffman. Hoffman also founded the website oldjewstellingjokes.com, which is exactly what you’d think it would be, and here he brings a dash of that dad-like humor to the story of Nate (Flight of the Conchords alum Jemaine Clement), a playwright grappling with a series of events so shitty it might have taken him into suicide territory if he weren’t so hysterically clueless.

Nate’s new magnum opus isn’t going well, his wife (Maria Dizzia of TV’s Red Oaks) leaves him for a billionaire (“You say that like it’s a bad thing,” she tells Nate of her new beau’s net worth), taking their young son, and our hero is forced to move in with his dad (a brilliantly charming

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Elliott Gould) in his nightmarish retirement community, Cranberry Bog. Yes, this is actually what the community is called. Obviously these are dire straits, and between sexually charged octogenarians, his constantly joking father and the bizarre yet awkwardly fitting choice to mount a performance for the community of a scene from The Mikado with a cast of difficult residents, Nate is obviously depressed.

Clement revels in the absurd sadness he must embody, churning out a believable sad bastard whose denial shields him from his own shortcomings. Nate’s a little less tragic than he is ridiculous, though—and, billionaires aside, we’ve lived his story, or damn near close to it. And though Humor Me may hit a series of predictable

beats and avoids really digging in to the material, its extended cast (Bebe Neuwirth and Annie Potts to highlight the best) lends authenticity, even if it feels exaggerated and distorted.

Ah, but it’s a comedy—even if it does delve into the outskirts of heart-wrenching—and we develop real feelings for its characters. This makes it a solid first effort from a new director and a clever showcase for lesser-known actors to prove what they can do. Take your mom, take your dad.

They’ll love it.

HUMOR ME Directed by Hoffman With Clement, Gould, Potts and Neuwirth Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 93 min.

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Dosvidaniya, J-Law—you’re just a little too serious.

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Setting aside how much we don’t buy Jennifer Lawrence (Mother!) as the Bolshoi’s prima ballerina, it becomes even more absurd when an accident onstage somehow forces her into the spy-packed world of international espionage in Red Sparrow.

Lawrence is Dominika, a young woman whose uncle is the minister of, like, shadowy operations or something for Russia. He tricks her into the spycraft game of them vs. America and the search for a mole they believe has infiltrated their government. But why would she just do this? So she can care for her mother, who ails from some nameless sickness, obviously. Apparently in Russia, if you can’t make the big bucks as a ballerina, you have to become a seductive spy. Chyort!

What follows is a series of confusing double-crosses, brutal torture scenes and wildly un-sexy sex rendezvous. Pointless characters pop up regularly and scenes wherein somebody does a sneaky spy thing only for it to be discovered moments later render said spy thing moot.

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Not to worry, though, because lukewarm performances are everywhere, from Joel Edgerton (from the Netflix original movie Bright, which we still say should have been called Lieutenant Goblin) as the forgettable CIA agent, Matthias Schoenaerts (The Danish Girl) as the cruel uncle, Charlotte Rampling (Assassin’s Creed) as the heartless spy school headmistress, and Jeremy Irons as … well, he really only ever does Jeremy Irons. All the while, Lawrence’s silly stab at a Russian accent undermines what was an already painfully too-serious performance, and Mary-Louise Parker’s brief turn as an unscrupulous chief of staff for a US senator feels like one of the most low-stakes and overblown setups in the history of spy film.

Still, Red Sparrow does manage to not overstay its welcome (even with a running time in excess of two hours) so long as one understands that it should by no means be taken seriously or assumed to be anything other than an escapist means of killing a couple hours. If nothing else, scenes of Moscow, Budapest and Vienna remind us that Europe is pretty beautiful, Russia is pretty bleak and that we can always fall back on John le Carré in a pinch.

(Alex De Vore) Regal, Violet Crown, R, 139 min.

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+ LOOKS SO COOL; ACTION BITS ARE TRULY THRILLING

- SO WAIT, WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

When one is deciding whether or not a film is any good, a wise rule is to ask if the filmmakers answered the questions they posed. Sure, it might feel interesting when a movie has an open ending, and you’ve almost positively got those people in your life who extoll the virtues of a story that leaves it up to the viewer to suss out a meaning.

For us, though, it always feels sort of like a cop-out. Annihilation lands someplace in there, a beautiful movie adapted from the 2014 novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer that sadly leaves a few too many questions unanswered and falters despite stunning CGI and interesting ideas.

Natalie Portman is Lena, a soldier-turned-scientist whose husband (Oscar Isaac, who really seems to be in just about everything these days), still a soldier, shows up talking nonsense after being MIA for a full year. Portman is thus pulled into the black-op world of government intrigue whereupon she learns a meteor from outer space crash-landed near the coast and has resulted in a bizarre biological phenomenon known as “the shimmer,” which threatens to overtake the globe with … they don’t know what. Turns out her husband went into this thing with a squad of soldiers and that’s why he’s been missing, so, wouldn’t you know it, Lena and some other scientist-types volunteer to get in there and solve the mystery.

It’s beyond riveting for the first hour or so, but as we grasp wildly for answers alongside Lena and her crew, we eventually learn they’re not really coming. Oh, we get surface information and potential theories about what’s causing the blight and what it’s doing to the area’s biology, but rather than identifying what’s really going on, we instead struggle through a bunch of weird flora and fauna with some serviceable surface information that might have been OK had the setup not been so juicy.

Writer-director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later) joins forces with VanderMeer to mixed results—do we care about Lena’s guilt or dying husband? Did we get enough of a feel from the others in the crew to care about their fates? We’re hard-pressed to say for sure, even as some seriously spooky shit goes down, but by the time Lena reaches the meteor’s epicenter and we reach the payoff, it’s a pretty big letdown. Still, Jennifer Jason Leigh is a welcome addition as a heartless psychologist who repeatedly sends folks to their deaths, and the overall aesthetic is fantastic, even if the story fizzles out under the weight of the premise. (Alex De Vore) Regal, Violet Crown, R, 115 min.

“You guys, I think some kind of bear zombie just ate one of our friends!” says Natalie Portman in Annihilation, a movie with an ending that makes you wonder where the rest of it went.

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As the name implies, The Young Karl Marx follows the earlier years of the famed philosopher and godfather of communism, Karl Marx (August Diehl, Inglourious Basterds, Salt), as he meets German philosopher and colleague, Friedrich Engels (Stefan Konarske, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), in Cologne, Germany, in 1844. This buddy movie shows us how their interests aligned and how they raged against the capitalist movement in Europe, a spark that would birth the Communist movement a few years later.

With a lot of political dialogue, as expected, it’s still easy to become attracted to the bromance as the two men journey to critique the capitalist and socioeconomic politics of Brussels and Paris. They challenged the rhetoric of politics and ethics that branched into the Marxist theory, which is far from what we see in today’s capitalist society.

The acting is tightly knit, as are the filmmaking skills of Oscar-nominated Haitian director and screenwriter Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro, Lumumba). The sets and locations are finely complimented with the 19th-century casual and formal dress as well, but if the film is trying to be thought-provoking or make us consider Marxism on a deeper level, it misses the mark with a lack of good storytelling.

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The stakes don’t seem high enough, and the climax isn’t much. Visually speaking, however, The Young Karl Marx excels, and the evolving relationship between Marx and Engels could pass as a good history lesson for anyone interested in their teachings. If anything, it’s a good introduction to the political and philosophical criticism of the era—just don’t be surprised to find it’s boring. (Juan Mendoza) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 118 min.

EARLY MAN

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What Aardman Studios does well, it does extremely well. The claymation, stop-motion achievements from the creators of Wallace and Gromit, as well as the venerable Chicken Run, are marvelous throwbacks in an age of unreal (or too-real) CGI, wild animation and dizzying special effects.

Its latest offering, Early Man, is an artistic achievement. Set at the dawn of the Bronze Age, it captures the idyllic life of a small band of Stone Age holdouts who are blissfully unaware that the rest of mankind has moved on. They’re also blissfully unaware that their ancestors invented soccer. But when a marauding tribe of Bronze Age Frenchmen move into the neighborhood in search of ore, things go amiss. Only soccer can save them.

While hardcore Aardman fans aren’t likely to be wowed by the dulled-down wit of Early Man, it’s a far more accessible movie than

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Someplace between the joyous celebration of all things African culture and the tremendous principal cast of all black actors in Black Panther lies a fairly run-of-the-mill comic book movie narrative, but it almost seems at this point that if we’re hitting any Marvel Studios movie in search of the non-formulaic, we’re going to be sorely disappointed.

We enter the fictional African nation of Wakanda as its prince, the mighty T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman, 42), is set to take the throne following his father’s murder (which you may have seen in Captain America: Civil War).

For hundreds of years Wakanda has thrived thanks to the also-fictional vibranium, a metal so precious and powerful that it can make any far-fetched sci-fi dreams come true; a metal that just so happens to exist only there. Up until now, pretty much no outsiders have entered Wakanda, but when a mysterious former US soldier (Michael B Jordan, Creed) starts poking around and trying to find his way in for nefarious reasons, T’Challa must confront heavy truths about his country, his people and the heartbreaking past of African Americans. Fill things out with utterly badass women like Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Okoye (Danai Gurira), and we’re really getting somewhere.

From a purely aesthetic standpoint, Black Panther is a complete triumph. The costuming and hair, the production design and, frankly, the

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even Chicken Run. Parents with younger kids or budding soccer fanatics will be charmed by the storyline. There’s a positive message and an easy-to-follow, if predictable, plot.

Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager) is terrific as the villainous Frenchman Lord Nooth, dropping an over-the-top accent that matches the on-screen swagger of the character. Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) does well as the title character, Dug, and Rob Brydon (The Trip) is typically on point as a pair of soccer announcers as well as a message bird. Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) has an important role as the girls-can-play-too Goona, who rises to the challenge of the game as player-coach of the Stone Age squad.

There’s a lot of Disney-esque camp here that ultimately can’t be saved for real fans by the occasional snickering wit of the Aardman crew, and Early Man doesn’t seem to be sure what it wants to be, which is unfortunate. It’s enjoyable, but it could have been so, so good.

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Stop motion is still super-cool, even when Disney gets its tentacles into it.

6:30 LIKE ME hot-as-fire score and soundtrack (thanks for the hit jams, Kendrick Lamar!) are all glorious.

Where it falters, however, is in its attempts at a deep story. At the very edges of the action lies surface information about colonization and racism, but we never dive deep enough into these concepts in any meaningful way. Rather, they’re mentioned briefly between kickass fight scenes which, yes, are kickass, but how refreshing and potentially valuable it might be to see a comic book film dissect something real.

Still, the requisite explosions and shaky morality plays are there, along with the always-fantastic character actor Andy Serkis.

Perhaps director-writer Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) is simply dipping his toes into the concept of a heavier (or more grounded) direction, and we really hope he gets there with a sequel.

For now, though, Black Panther is still a gorgeous film and the most culturally significant Marvel outing to date—that’s something all on its own. (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 134 min.

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COMEDY HISTORY RIGHT

- WE STILL DON’T LIKE CHEVY CHASE

Art had Warhol, jazz had Davis, rock had The Beatles and comedy had National Lampoon magazine. It is, in fact, so very possible to trace the roots of much seminal modern comedy back to the brainchild of Douglas Kenney and Henry Beard, two Harvard students turned utterly brilliant satirist-comedians, that it’s about a great a debt as can be owed.

Murrays, Belushis, Chases, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Ghost Busters; Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, John Hughes, Caddyshack, Animal House—the list could and does go on and on—all began with the magazine and its outlying projects.

Director David Wain (The State, Wet Hot American Summer), arguably one of the funniest people in comedy today, understands this probably better than most and tells the eye-opening tale in the new Netflix original film, A Stupid and Futile Gesture. A sort of hybrid comedy-drama, Gesture examines the founding, rise and ultimate fall of the comedic empire, delving into its print product, its stage shows, radio programming and beyond. Wain somehow encapsulates the era in a completely accessible way, forming a subtle biopic of Kenney (SNL alum Will Forte) along the way and proving that the very funny and too-smartfor-their-own-good are often haunted and tragic, hiding from their demons behind a thin wall of jokes.

National Lampoon is obviously a name known to many, perhaps depressingly so by this point (thanks for nothing, Van Wilder), but

how many comedy titans started formidable careers there—and even how Saturday Night Live owes much, if not all, of its iconic status to poaching Kenney’s staff—is both fascinating and heartbreaking.

Forte makes a perfectly fine Kenney, though the legendary Martin Mull as the could-havebeen narrative device steals much of his thunder. Star Wars’ Domhnall Gleeson may be the most surprising performance, however, slowly gaining traction as Henry Beard, a wonderfully hysterical straight-guy counterpoint to Kenney’s absurdities and a charming example of how deadpan sells satire so much better than off-the-wall does.

Other famous faces show up as well, from Joel McHale’s not-quite-right Chevy Chase and Natasha Lyonne’s boundary-breaking Anne Beatts to Thomas Lennon’s pitch-perfect asshole performance as the explosively dark and outrageous writer Michael O’Donoghue.

The takeaway, though, may be in A Stupid and Futile Gesture’s willingness to never take itself too seriously, even as it calls out drug abuse, toxic work environments and the inherent pressures of extreme popularity. Still, it’s a riveting watch for comedy fans who fall anywhere on the spectrum and a loving portrayal of the men and women who forever changed the game. (ADV) Netflix, TV-MA, 111 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The men who work on offshore oil rigs perform demanding, dangerous tasks on a regular basis. If they make mistakes, they may get injured or befoul the sea with petroleum. As you might guess, the culture on these rigs has traditionally been macho, stoic, and hard-driving. But in recent years, that has changed at one company. Shell Oil’s workers in the U.S. were trained by Holocaust survivor Claire Nuer to talk about their feelings, be willing to admit errors, and soften their attitudes. As a result, the company’s safety record has improved dramatically. If macho dudes toiling on oil rigs can become more vulnerable and open and tenderly expressive, so can you, Aries. And now would be a propitious time to do it.

Parker, makes a miraculous save. He jumps up from his chair and catches Mary Jane before she falls. Meanwhile, he grabs her tray and uses it to gracefully capture her apple, sandwich, carton of milk, and bowl of jello before they hit the floor. The filmmakers say they didn’t use CGI to render this scene. The lead actor, Tobey Maguire, allegedly accomplished it in real life—although it took 156 takes before he finally mastered it. I hope you have that level of patient determination in the coming weeks, Libra.

You, too, can perform a small miracle if you do.

met feast, and spectacular sex? However you choose to mark this transition from one chapter of your life story to the next chapter, I suggest that you include an action that will help the next chapter get off to a rousing start.

In your ritual of completion, plant seeds for the future.

into view. Be alert for surprising hints of coherence.

DR. JOANNA CORTI, DOM, Powerful Medicine, Powerful Results. Homeopathy, SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio mathematician Acupuncture. Micro-current Benoît Mandelbrot was a connoisseur of “the art of (Acupuncture without neeroughness” and “the uncontrolled element in life.” He dles.). Parasite, Liver/cleanses. liked to locate and study the hidden order in seemingly TAURUS (April 20-May 20): How will you celebrate chaotic and messy things. “My life seemed to be a series Nitric Oxide. Pain Relief. your upcoming climax and culmination, Taurus? With a of events and accidents,” he said. “Yet when I look back I Transmedium Energy Healing. howl of triumph, a fist pump, and three cartwheels? see a pattern.” I bring his perspective to your attention, Worker’s Compensation and With a humble speech thanking everyone who helped Scorpio, because you are entering a phase when the hid- Auto Accidents Insurance you along the way? With a bottle of champagne, a gour- den order and secret meanings of your life will emerge accepted 505-501-0439 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I suspect that in July and August you will be invited to commune with rousing opportunities and exciting escapades. But right now I’m advising you to channel your intelligence into wellGEMINI (May 21-June 20): On April 23, 1516, the contained opportunities and sensible adventures. In Germanic duchy of Bavaria issued a decree. From that fact, my projections suggest that your ability to capitalday forward, all beer produced had to use just three ingre- ize fully on the future’s rousing opportunities and excitdients: water, barley, and hops. Ever since then, for the ing escapades will depend on how well you master the last 500+ years, this edict has had an enduring influence current crop of well-contained opportunities and sension how German beer is manufactured. In accordance with ble adventures. Making the most of today’s small pleaastrological factors, I suggest that you proclaim three sures will qualify you to harvest bigger pleasures later. equally potent and systemic directives of your own. It’s an CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you saw the animated opportune time to be clear and forceful about how you film The Lion King, you may have been impressed with want your story to unfold in the coming years. the authenticity of the lions’ roars and snarls. Did the CANCER (June 21-July 22): What’s your most frustratproducers place microphones in the vicinity of actual ing flaw? During the next seven weeks, you will have lions? No. Voice actor Frank Welker produced the enhanced power to diminish its grip on you. It’s even sounds by growling and yelling into a metal garbage can. possible you will partially correct it or outgrow it. To I propose this as a useful metaphor for you in the comtake maximum advantage of this opportunity, rise ing days. First, I hope it inspires you to generate a comabove any covert tendency you might have to cling to pelling and creative illusion of your own—an illusion that your familiar pain. Rebel against the attitude described serves a good purpose. Second, I hope it alerts you to by novelist Stephen King: “It’s hard to let go. Even the possibility that other people will be offering you when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s compelling and creative illusions—illusions that you hard to let go. Maybe especially then.” should engage with only if they serve a good purpose.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his book Whistling in the Dark, AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I do a lot of self-editing author Frederick Buechner writes that the ancient Druids took “a special interest in in-between things like before I publish what I write. My horoscopes go through mistletoe, which is neither quite a plant nor quite a tree, at least three drafts before I unleash them on the world.

While polishing the manuscript of my first novel, I threw and mist, which is neither quite rain nor quite air, and dreams, which are neither quite waking nor quite sleep.” away over a thousand pages of stuff that I had worked on very hard. In contrast to my approach, science fiction According to my reading of the astrological omens, inwriter Harlan Ellison dashed off one of his award-winning between phenomena will be your specialty in the coming weeks. You will also thrive in relationship to anything stories in a single night, and published it without making that lives in two worlds or that has paradoxical qualities. any changes to the first draft. As you work in your own I hope you’ll exult in the educational delights that come chosen field, Aquarius, I suspect that for the next three weeks you will produce the best results by being more from your willingness to be teased and mystified. like me than Ellison. Beginning about three weeks from VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The English word “velleity” now, an Ellison-style strategy might be more warranted. refers to an empty wish that has no power behind it. If PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to my assessment you feel a longing to make a pilgrimage to a holy site, but can’t summon the motivation to actually do so, you of the astrological omens, you’re in a favorable phase to are under the spell of velleity. Your fantasy of commu- gain more power over your fears. You can reduce your susceptibility to chronic anxieties. You can draw on the nicating with more flair and candor is a velleity if you help and insight necessary to dissipate insidious doubts never initiate the practical steps to accomplish that goal. Most of us suffer from this weakness at one time that are rooted in habit but not based on objective evidence. I don’t want to sound too melodramatic, my dear or another. But the good news, Virgo, is that you are Pisces, but THIS IS AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY! YOU primed to overcome your version of it during the next six weeks. Life will conspire to assist you if you resolve ARE POTENTIALLY ON THE VERGE OF AN UNPRECEDENTED BREAKTHROUGH! In my opinion, to turn your wishy-washy wishes into potent action nothing is more important for you to accomplish in the plans—and then actually carry out those plans. coming weeks than this inner conquest.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the 2002 film Spiderman, there’s a scene where the character Mary Jane slips on a Homework: What would the people who love you spilled drink as she carries a tray full of food through a best say is the most important thing for you to learn? cafeteria. Spiderman, disguised as his alter ego Peter Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT No. D-101-PB-2018-00032 IN THE MATTER OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO ESTATE OF WILLIAM M. COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIELD, III, Deceased.

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT NOTICE TO CREDITORS COURT IN THE MATTER OF NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THE PETITION OF BRIAN that the undersigned has ADAM SALAZAR FOR THE been appointed Personal CHANGE OF NAME OF Representative of this estate.

JACOB ELWOOD IVERSON All persons having claims SALAZAR Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-00566 against this estate are required to present their claims within NOTICE OF PETITION FOR four (4) months after the CHANGE OF NAME OF A date of the first publication MINOR CHILD (A PERSON of this notice, or the claims UNDER 14 YEARS OF AGE) will be forever barred. Claims TAKE NOTICE that in accormust be presented either to dance with the provisions the undersigned personal of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. representative in care of 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, the Petitioner Brian Adam Salazar Karen Aubrey, Esq., Law Office of Karen Aubrey, Post will apply to the Honorable Office Box 8435, Santa Fe, Gregory S. Shaffer, District New Mexico 87504-8435, Judge of the First Judicial or filed with the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Courthouse in SANTA FE, New District Court, Santa Fe County Judicial Complex, Post Mexico at 10:00 a.m. on the Office Box 2268, Santa Fe, 27th day of March, 2018 for New Mexico 87504-2268. a FINAL ORDER CHANGING Dated: February 26, 2018 NAME OF A MINOR CHILD MAUREEN CORNING FIELD from JACOB ELWOOD IVERSON SALAZAR to JACOB LAW OFFICE OF KAREN AUBREY By: KAREN AUBREY ELWOOD SALAZAR. P.O. Box 8435 STEPHEN T. PACHECO, Santa Fe, New Mexico District Court Clerk 87504-8435 By: Victoria Martinez (505) 982-4287; facsimile Court Clerk (505) 986-8349 Submitted by: ka@karenaubreylaw.com Brian Adam Salazar Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST FE COUNTY JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. 2017-0205 IN THE MATTER OF THE IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF MANUEL DE ESTATE OF JANINE TWOHILL JESUS DERAS GALDAMEZ GOMEZ, DECEASED. Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-00478 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE OF PETITION FOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN CHANGE OF NAME that the undersigned has TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions been appointed personal of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. representative of this estate.

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All persons having claims the Petitioner, Manuel de Jesus against this estate are required Deras Galdamez will apply to to present their claims within the Honorable Judge Francis two (2) months after the J. Mathew, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the date of the first publication Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 of this notice, or the claims Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, will be forever barred. Claims New Mexico, at 11:15 a.m. on must be presented either to the 30th day of March, 2018 for the undersigned personal a FINAL ORDER FOR CHANGE representative at the address OF NAME from MANUEL DE listed below, or filed with the JESUS DERAS GALDAMEZ to Probate Court of Santa Fe, ELIAS KILIAN DIAZ. County, New Mexico, located STEPHEN T. PACHECO at the following address: Clerk of the District Court By: Corinne Onate 102 Grant Ave., Court Clerk Santa Fe, NM 87501.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either by delivery or mail to the undersigned in care of Tracy E. Conner, P.C., Post Office Box 23434, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502, or by filing with the Probate Court for the county of Santa Fe, personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe, 102 Grant Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501, with a copy to the undersigned.

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Patricia Steindler Personal Representative c/o Tracy E. Conner Post Office Box 23434 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502 Phone: (505) 982-8201

and approximately 30 miles of water transmission and distribution pipelines ranging in size from 6-30 inches. Phases 2 and 3 of the project will be procured and constructed under separate contracts.

CDM Constructors Inc. is currently prequalifying construction subcontractors for the project and all major subcontractor packages will be competitively bid and will require prequalification. We are seeking qualified Native American, Small Business, Small Disadvantaged, Women-Owned, HUBZone, Veteran, and ServiceDisabled Veteran Owned firms to participate throughout the project. Major packages are estimated to rangein size from $50,000 to $15 million and include the following: Excavation/Grading AC Paving Concrete Slope Stabilization / Soil Anchoring Site Utility Piping Installation Fencing Landscaping and Revegetation Pre-engineered Metal Buildings Doors & Windows Drywall Bolted Steel Tanks HVAC Plumbing Painting & Specialty Coatings Fire Sprinkler/Alarm Systems Water Pipeline Installation QC Testing Services & Laboratory Analysis LEGAL NOTICES - Additional opportunities for smaller subcontractors and ALL OTHERS material supply packages NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR are anticipated, but will PREQUALIFICATION FOR not bid at this time. Those CONSTRUCTION SERVICES subcontractors who are CDM Constructors Inc., a prequalified will be provided wholly-owned subsidiary of bid packages on May 10, 2018 CDM Smith Inc., has been with lump sum proposals due awarded a contract by the June 10, 2018. The anticipated U.S. Department of the notice to proceed date for Interior, Bureau of Reclamation construction is July 2018 with to design, construct and project completion in 2021. commission Phase 1 of the Interested contractors and Pojoaque Basin Regional Water suppliers should visit the CDM System (PBRWS) project. The Smith Subcontracting page project will deliver potable at www.cdmsmith.com/en/ water to Pueblo and County Subcontracting to register residents in the Pojoaque in the vendor database and Basin by collecting and specific project information, treating water from the Rio including the required preGrande. The water will then qualification package will be be transmitted, stored, and under the Pojoaque Basin delivered to local residents, Regional Water System as authorized by the Aamodt solicitation page. Completed Litigation Settlement Act prequalification questionnaire Phase 1 of the PBRWS project packages must be completed is being delivered under

by March 31, 2018. For a design-build contract additional information please consisting of subsurface raw contact Ram Palaniyappan at water intake facilities from the (720) 264-1183 Rio Grande, a new 6.3 million palaniyappanr@cdmsmith.com gallon per day drinking water or Ben Hamann at treatment plant, treated water (303) 383-2414 storage tanks, a pump station hamannbl@cdmsmith.com .

As part of our contractual obligations with the Bureau of Reclamation, the following subcontracting goals have been identified for the PBRWS project, contract no.

R17PC00023 and includes Indian Preference Clauses I-27 1452.227-81 and I.28 1452.226-71.

Small Business: 20% of subcontracted dollars Small Disadvantaged: 10% of subcontracted dollars Women-Owned: 5% of subcontracted dollars Service-Disabled-Veteran-Owned: 3% of subcontracted dollars HUB Zone: 3% of subcontracted dollars

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