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MAN OF THE HOUSE 11 Rep. Nate Gentry isn’t exactly following the GOP playbook COVER STORY 12 THE 2018 FOILIES Electronic Freedom Foundation toots the horns of government agencies with the dubious honor of being the most opaque in the country

Mexico’s Mint Field may have risen fast, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t one of the coolest effing bands in the rock world today. Catch ‘em at Second Street Brewery’s Rufina Taproom on Tuesday March 20.

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NICE JOB, BUT...

Kudos to the Reporter for getting the City election results from Tuesday night (March 6) into and on the cover of Wednesday’s (March 7) paper, an especially daunting task considering the late returns.

A couple of nits to pick: Alan Webber did not “edge out” Ron Trujillo to become mayor. Anyone who wins by more than 30 points is the runaway winner; in fact, Trujillo edged out (barely) Kate Noble by only .4 points. Speaking of Noble, keep an eye on her. She’s in a great position to run—and win—the mayoralty in four or eight years.

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FOOD, FEBRUARY 28: “THE NEW FACE OF COYOTE CAFE”

NO REALLY: NICE JOB, BUT...

Great article ... but why no mention of the beautifully done concrete floors that were artistically done to match the theme of the Coyote Cafe? That is the first thing you see when you enter the restaurant. Anyhow, just thought the contractor/artist should be recognized as well as Quinn [Stephenson] for that dramatic change to the entrance of the place.

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Santa Fe has become a cesspool for liberal bullies. Today marks the first day it has sold its soul to the highest bidder. We can ultimately thank Javier as the local will now be bullied. This looks like a millionaire wanting power similar to Trump. I think we got the liberal version of Trump. I think we have a huge problem on our hands.

A decision against Sacred Garden was issued by an administrative judge from the New Mexico Administrative Hearings Office. “Higher Authority” (News, March 7) incorrectly stated that the decision against Sacred Garden was issued by a hearing officer from the Tax and Revenue Department.

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JoAnne Vigil Coppler won the City Council race in the second round, after Eric Holmes was eliminated and his votes were redistributed. “Meet the New City Council” (cover, March 7) said she won in the first round.

What is [Webber’s] weird obsession with breakfast burritos? This isn’t the first interview where he mentions them in an awkward way, not to mention the bizarre photo he posted a couple months ago of how much he loves them.

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Pay Up Santa Fe Bar & Grill faces questions over worker wages

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urrent and former workers have filed multiple labor notices against uptown eatery Santa Fe Bar & Grill, and the restaurant could become the first test case for how Alan Webber’s mayoral administration will handle living wage complaints in Santa Fe. On March 9, two current and three former employees filed claims with the state’s Department of Workforce Solutions for unpaid overtime totaling $100,000. They filed the formal complaint the same day Judge David K Thomson of the First District Court ruled that the department must reopen investigations into wage theft complaints going back to 2009 that it shelved for claiming more than $10,000 or for minor administrative reasons.

“We filed them because we were never paid overtime,” says Yesenia Sanchez, an employee since 2007 who says she is owed over $10,000 from Santa Fe Bar & Grill. Sanchez is a member of a worker committee she and another current employee, Maria Siliczar, formed with three former employees to petition the state for unpaid overtime over several years.

The complaint with DWS comes in addition to a charge with the National Labor Relations Board that the workers’ committee filed Feb. 28 and that Sanchez signed as its representative. It alleges that the restaurant retaliated against Sanchez and others for attempting to organize, including by reducing her working hours and threatening to call the police on employees for unspecified reasons.

Robert Day, the restaurant’s owner, says the advocacy group Somos un Pueblo Unido, which helped the workers file the complaints, is unfairly targeting his business. He has not been contacted by DWS or reviewed the complaint, but says that the charge with the National Labor Relations Board was “without merit.” He believes he was helping employees by offering additional working hours at their

Some current and former workers at Santa Fe Bar & Grill allege they are owed wages for uncompensated overtime.

request, even if they didn’t earn more than their regular hourly wage, he says.

“Our position [is that] this is all revolving around a February 14 employee altercation between one of the women in this group [Sanchez] and another employee—it was sort of an aggressive dynamic conflict, and the other employee walked out and quit,” says Day, who also owned the San Francisco Street Bar & Grill until 2013. He claims the majority of his nearly 20 other employees are loyal to the restaurant’s management, and blames Sanchez’ claims on a personal vendetta.

But Iliana Garcia, a former employee who quit in 2017 after 11 years and who is part of the committee petitioning DWS for overtime pay, says that the environment can be uncomfortable for employees who raise alarms about unpaid wages.

“It’s not Yesenia who had a problem with the boss or her co-worker; what happened is that you can’t say what you want because they don’t listen,” says Garcia in Spanish. “They say, ‘This person is crazy,’ they say they’re a problem.”

DWS spokeswoman Erin Thompson

confirmed the department will next investigate the employer’s records to attempt to verify the claims.

Siliczar is also planning to file a complaint this week with the city over a violation of Santa Fe’s living wage ordinance, according to Marcela Díaz, executive director of Somos un Pueblo Unido. Since

Presently, I’m fine with the minimum wage, and we are complying.

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the start of this month, the city has mandated an hourly minimum wage of $11.40, an increase from $11.09 after factoring a rise in the federal Consumer Price Index for the Western United States.

Day says he is currently paying his employees at least $11.40, a fact confirmed

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by Díaz. She claims Day only began to abide by Santa Fe’s living wage mandate because his employees started organizing, though Day denies this was a motivating factor. He acknowledges, however, that his restaurant may have been out of compliance with federal overtime laws because some employees asked to work more than 40 hours per work and agreed to do so without receiving the extra wages that are legally required.

Sanchez and Siliczar, says Díaz, “recruited others to file complaints, past workers, but [they] also started to see changes in their workplace as a result of organizing,” including Siliczar seeing her pay rise to comply with Santa Fe’s living wage ordinance. Nevertheless, Díaz says, Siliczar is moving forward with her complaint to the city.

Day opposed the city’s efforts to set a wage in the past. In 2003, he was a plaintiff in a lawsuit brought against the city

by New Mexicans for Free Enterprise to toss the living wage ordinance. The New Mexico Court of Appeals upheld the living wage in 2005. That same year, Day warned SFR the ordinance would cause “a significant market depression.”

He strikes a different tone today.

“Presently, I’m fine with the minimum wage, and we are complying. I won’t say it’s a good or bad thing, but simply it’s part of our fiscal market these days.”

The ordinance has been updated several times since it was first passed in 2003. Filed claims are investigated by the city attorney’s office. Representatives from Somos un Pueblo Unido say that the city’s process for investigating violations isn’t up to par. A recent review by The Santa Fe New Mexican found that living wage complaints had increased each year since 2015. There were 16 filed last year, 14 of which were validated by the city.

In a conversation hours before his inauguration, Mayor Alan Webber said he hadn’t yet discussed the investigatory process with Assistant City Attorney Zach Shandler, but was committed to making it easier to file complaints for workers whose first language isn’t English.

“I think at the heart of matter is that, as the new administration, I should sit down with Somos leadership and get their suggestions,” Webber told SFR. The questions his administration would consider, he said, include: “Were wages illegally withheld from workers who earned money? Is there evidence? Is there a way to establish that they were victims of theft?”

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Ellenberg Out as State Dem Chair

Party official resigns after doubting sexual harassment claim against business partner

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anta Fe Democrat Richard Ellenberg quit his post as chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico on Tuesday after questioning the veracity of sexual harassment and assault claims against a business partner.

The news broke as another woman came forward with charges that the partner, former New Mexico Federation of Labor President Jon Hendry, said he’d improve her employment prospects and get her into the local film union if she had sex with him. The allegations say Hendry implied he could destroy her career if she denied his advances.

The new claims came in an amended complaint filed Monday by Trent Howell, an attorney for Madeleine Lauve.

Ellenberg made the comments to The Santa Fe New Mexican on Monday after a reporter contacted him regarding a lawsuit that had been filed against Hendry, who was ousted from his post as presi-

dent of the New Mexico Federation of Labor because of the claims.

Christa Valdez, a former public relations employee for Hendry at the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 480, filed the suit last week. In it, she claims Hendry sexually harassed her via text message, asking for nude photos. She also says he groped her buttocks. Valdez says that when she got another job, Hendry badmouthed her and convinced her new employer to cut ties with her.

Ellenberg acknowledged to the daily newspaper that he and Hendry co-own a rental property together. He told the reporter, “It’s not something I would expect anyone to accuse him of, let’s put it that way. … I think it needs to unfold more, and I have some information about the allegations in this case that I’m told would cast some of this in a very different light, but I’ll have to leave it to Mr. Hendry and his attorneys to decide how they want to deal with that.”

Sources at the Democratic Party of New Mexico tell SFR that backlash Tues-

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Ellenberg, pictured at a rally in Southern New Mexico, defended Hendry, below, in a daily newspaper article that published Tuesday.

Ellenberg resigned that afternoon.

day was broad and swift. By mid-day, Ellenberg was out. He sent a letter to State Central Committee members via email.

“I am submitting this as my letter of resignation as Chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico,” Ellenberg writes.

“It has been a great honor to serve Democrats across the state and jump start new programs within our party, but I feel it would be best if I step down at this time.

“I regret the way in which I have managed complaints of survivors who have come forward about sexual harassment, and take full responsibility to continue to learn and grow so that I can be an advocate and ally in the future.”

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Valdez’ lawsuit claims Hendry threatened a local casting agency with blacklisting if the business continued to employ Valdez through a PR contract. That allegedly took place last month.

Lauve’s allegations date back to 2013 and 2014, when she says Hendry promised to improve her standing at IATSE Local 480 if she engaged in sex with him.

When she eventually protested, the suit says, he cut her off in the midst of a job assignment.

The suit says Hendry often bragged of being able to destroy careers and it was common knowledge that he would undermine the hiring of women by questioning their character and calling them “sluts” in phone calls with industry employers.

Reached for comment by phone Tuesday afternoon, Hendry tells SFR that he “couldn’t talk about it while it was tied up in litigation,” and that “my lawyers would admonish me for even having a conversation this long.”

A spokeswoman for the Democratic Party tells SFR that Vice Chair Neomi Martinez-Parra will serve as acting head of the party until the central committee elects a new chair at an April 21 meeting.

“Our country and our state are in an incredible moment in which survivors of sexual harassment and sexual assault feel empowered to come forward, and the Democratic Party of New Mexico has taken upon itself to be a leader on this issue.

Chair Ellenberg has taken responsibility for the fact that he has more to learn and has stepped down,” reads a press release from the party.

“We encourage everyone to strive to end a culture of sexual harassment in our state. We will be moving forward to ensure our party is an ally for the countless women who have come forward and working to change our culture so everyone is treated with respect and professionalism in the workplace.”

Reaction from elected New Mexico Democrats also condemned Ellenberg’s statements. A joint release by US Sen. Martin Heinrich, US Reps. Ben Lujan and Michelle Lujan Grisham and Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver said, “As Democrats, we stand with the silence-breakers who have come forward to share their stories of sexual harassment and abuse. Questioning the credibility of sexual misconduct allegations is contrary to our values, and it is time for new leadership that better reflects them.”

Ellenberg was elected chairman in April 2017, replacing Deb Haaland.

SFR Culture Editor Alex De Vore contributed reporting.

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overnment transparency laws like the Freedom of Information Act exist to enforce the public’s right to inspect records so we can all figure out what the heck is being done in our name and with our tax dollars.

But when a public agency ignores, breaks or twists the law, your recourse varies by jurisdiction. In some states, when an official improperly responds to your public records request, you can appeal to a higher bureaucratic authority or seek help from an ombudsperson.

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In most states, such as New Mexico, you can take the dispute to court.

Public shaming and sarcasm, however, are tactics that can be applied anywhere.

The California-based news organiza organization Reveal tweets photos of chickpeas or coffee beans to represent each day a FOIA response is overdue, and asks followers to guess how many there are.

The alt weekly DigBoston has sent multiple birthday cakes and edible arrange arrangements to local agencies on the one-year anniversary of delayed public records requests. And here, at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we give out The Foilies during Sunshine Week, an an annual celebration of open-government advocacy.

In its fourth year, The Foilies recognizes the worst responses to records requests, outrageous efforts to stymie transparency and the most absurd redactions. These tongue-in-cheek pseudo-awards are hand-chosen by EFF’s team based on nominations from fellow transparency advocates, participants in #FOIAFriday on Twitter, and, in some cases, our own personal experience.

If you haven’t heard of us before, EFF is a nonnon Franprofit based in San Fran cisco that works on the local, national and global level to defend liband advance civil lib erties as technology develops. As part of this work, we file scores of public records requests and take agencies like the US Department of Justice, the De Department of Homeland Security, and the Los Angeles Police Department to court to liberate information that belongs to the public.

Because shining a spotlight is sometimes the best litigation

strategy, we are pleased to announce the 2018 winners of The Foilies.

The Mulligan Award President Donald J Trump Since assuming the presidency, Donald Trump has skipped town more than 55 days to visit his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to sites like trumpgolfcount.com and NBC. He calls it his “Winter White House,” where he wines and dines and openly strategizes how to respond to North Korean ballistic missile tests with the Japanese prime minister for all his paid guests to see and post on Facebook. The fact that Trump’s properties have become secondary offices and remain a source of income for his family raises significant questions about transparency, particularly if club membership comes with special access to the president. To hold the administration accountable, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a FOIA request for the visitor logs, but received little in response. CREW sued and, after taking another look, the Secret Service provided details about the Japanese leader’s entourage. As Politico and others reported, the Secret Service ultimately admitted they’re not actually keeping track. The same can’t be said about Trump’s golf score.

FOIA Fee of the Year Texas Department of Criminal Justice Sexual assault in prison is notoriously difficult to measure due to stigma, intimidation, and apathetic bureaucracy. Nevertheless, MuckRock reporter Nathanael King made a valiant effort to find out whatever he could about these investigations in Texas, a state once described by the Dallas Voice as the “Prison Rape Capital of the US.”

RECOGNIZING THE YEAR’S IN GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY However, the numbers that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice came back with weren’t quite was he was expecting.

TDCJ demanded he fork over a whopping $1,132,024.30 before the agency would release 260,000 pages of records that it said would take 61,000 hours of staff time to process. That in itself may be an indicator of the scope of the problem. However, to the agency’s credit, they pointed the reporter in the direction of other statistical records compiled to comply with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, which TDCJ provided for free.

Best Set Design in a Transparency Theater Production Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed “Transparency theater” is the term we use to describe an empty gesture meant to look like an agency is embracing open government, when really it’s meant to obfuscate. For example, an agency may dump an overwhelming number of documents and put them on display for cameras. But because there are so many records, the practice actually subverts transparency by making it extremely difficult to find the most relevant records in the haystack.

Such was the case with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, who released 1.476 million documents about a corruption probe to show his office was supporting public accountability.

“The documents filled hundreds of white cardboard boxes, many stacked up waist high against walls and spread out over rows of tables in the cavernous old City Council chamber,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution re-

porter Leon Stafford wrote. “Reed used some of the boxes as the backdrop for his remarks, creating a six-foot wall behind him.”

Journalists began to dig through the documents and quickly discovered that many were blank pages or fully redacted, and in some cases the type was too small for anyone to read. AJC reporter J Scott Trubey’s hands became covered in papercut gore. Ultimately, the whole spectacle was a waste of trees: The records already existed in a digital format. It’s just that a couple of hard drives on a desk don’t make for a great photo op.

Special Achievement for Analog Conversion Former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray In the increasingly digital age, more and more routine office communication is occurring over mobile devices. With that in mind, transparency activist Phil Mocek filed a request for text messages (and other app communications) sent or received by now-former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and many of his aides.

The good news is the city at least partially complied.

The weird news is that rather than seek the help of an IT professional to export the text messages, some staff simply plopped a cell phone onto a photocopier.

Mocek tells EFF he’s frustrated that the mayor’s office refused to search their personal devices for relevant text messages. They argued that city policy forbids using personal phones for city business—and of course, no one would violate those rules. However, we’ll

concede that thwarting transparency is probably the least of the allegations against Murray, who resigned in September 2017 amid a child sex-abuse scandal.

The Winger Award for FOIA Feet Dragging FBI Thirty years ago, the hairrock band Winger released “Seventeen”—a song about young love that really hasn’t withstood the test of time. Similarly, the FBI’s claim that it would take 17 years to produce a series of records about civil rights-era surveillance also didn’t withstand the judicial test of time.

As Politico reported, George Washington University professor and documentary filmmaker Nina Seavey asked for records about how the FBI spied on antiwar and civil rights activists in the 1960s and 1970s. The FBI claimed they would only process 500 pages a month, which would mean the full set of 110,000 pages wouldn’t be complete until 2034.

Just as Winger’s girlfriend’s dad disapproved in the song, so did a federal judge, writing in her opinion: “The agency’s desire for administrative convenience is simply not a valid justification for telling Professor Seavey that she must wait decades for the documents she needs to complete her work.”

The Prime Example Award Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority (Maine) When Amazon announced last year it was seeking a home for its second headquarters, municipalities around the country rushed to put together proposals to lure the tech giant to their region. Knowing

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that in Seattle Amazon left a substantial footprint on a community (particularly around housing), transparency organizations like MuckRock and the Lucy Parsons Labs followed up with records requests for these cities’ sales pitches.

More than 20 cities, such as Chula Vista, California, and Toledo, Ohio, produced the records—but other agencies, including Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Jacksonville, Florida, refused to turn over the documents. The excuses varied, but perhaps the worst response came from Maine’s Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority. The agency did provide the records, but claimed that by opening an email containing 37 pages of documents, MuckRock had automatically agreed to pay an exorbitant $750 in “administrative and legal fees.” Remind us to disable one-click ordering.

El Premio del Desayuno Más Redactado CIA Buzzfeed reporter Jason Leopold has filed thousands of records requests over his career, but one redaction has become his all-time favorite. Leopold was curious whether CIA staff are assailed by the same stream of office announcements as every other workplace. So, he filed a FOIA request—and holy Hillenkoetter, do they. Deep in the document set was an announcement that “the breakfast burritos are back by popular demand,” with a gigantic redaction covering half the page citing a personal privacy exemption. What are they hiding? Is Anthony Bourdain secretly a covert agent? Did CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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The Courthouse Bully Award Every Agency Suing a Requester As director of the privacy advocacy group We See You Watching Lexington, Michael Maharrey filed a public records request to find out how his city was spending money on surveillance cameras. After the Lexington Police Department denied the request, he appealed to the Kentucky Attorney General’s office—and won.

Rather than listen to the state’s top law enforcement official, Lexington Police hauled Maharrey into court.

As the Associated Press reported last year, lawsuits like these are reaching epidemic proportions. The Louisiana Department of Education sued a retired educator who was seeking school enrollment data for his blog. Portland Public Schools in Oregon sued a parent who was curious about employees paid while on leave for alleged misconduct. Michigan State University sued ESPN after it requested police reports on football players allegedly involved in a sexual assault.

Meanwhile, the University of Kentucky and Western Kentucky University have each sued their own student newspapers whose reporters were investigating sexual misconduct by school staff.

These lawsuits are despicable. At their most charitable, they expose huge gaps in public records laws that put requesters on the hook for defending lawsuits they never anticipated. At their worst, they are part of a systematic effort to discourage reporters and concerned citizens from even thinking of filing a public records request in the first place.

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The Lawless Agency Award US Customs and Border Protection In the chaos of President Trump’s immigration ban in early 2017, the actions of US Customs and Border Protection agents and higher-ups verged on unlawful. And if CBP officials already had their minds set on violating all sorts of laws and the Constitution, flouting FOIA seems like small potatoes.

Yet that’s precisely what CBP did when the ACLU filed a series of FOIA requests to understand local CBP agents’ actions as they implemented Trump’s immigration order. ACLU affiliates throughout the country filed 18 separate FOIA requests with CBP, each of which targeted records documenting how specific field offices, often located at airports or at physical border crossings, were managing and implementing the ban. The requests made clear that they were not seeking agency-wide documents but rather wanted information about each specific location’s activities.

CBP ignored the requests and, when several ACLU affiliates filed 13 different lawsuits, CBP sought to further delay responding by asking a federal court panel to consolidate all the cases into a single lawsuit. To use this procedure—which is usually reserved for class actions or other complex national cases—CBP essentially misled courts about each of the FOIA requests and claimed each was seeking the exact same set of records.

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the cases. But CBP basically ignored the panel’s decision, acting as though it had won. First, it behaved as though all the requests came from a single lawsuit by processing and batching all the documents from the various requests into a single production given to the ACLU. Second, it selectively released records to particular ACLU attorneys, even when those records weren’t related to their lawsuits about activities at local CBP offices.

Laughably, CBP blames the ACLU for its self-created mess, calling their requests and lawsuits “haphazard” and arguing that the ACLU and other FOIA requesters have strained the agency’s resources in seeking records about the immigration ban. None of that would be a problem if CBP had responded to the FOIA requests in the first place. Of course, the whole mess could also have been avoided if CBP never implemented an unconstitutional immigration order.

The Franz Kafka Award for Most Secrets About Secretive Secrecy CIA The CIA’s aversion to FOIA is legendary, but this year the agency doubled down on its mission of thwarting transparency.

As Emma Best detailed for MuckRock, the intelligence agency had compiled a 20-page report that laid out at least 126 reasons why it could deny FOIA requests that officials believed would disclose the agency’s “sources and methods.”

But that report? Yeah, it’s totally clas-

sified. Which is what the agency told Best when they withheld the report in response to her request. So not only do you not get to know what the CIA’s up to, but its reasons for rejecting your FOIA request are also a state secret.

Special Recognition for Congressional Overreach US House of Representatives Because Congress wrote the Freedom of Information Act, it had the awesome and not-at-all-a-conflict-of-interest power to determine which parts of the federal government must obey it. That’s why it may not shock you that since passing FOIA more than 50 years ago, Congress has never made itself subject to the law.

So far, requesters have been able to fill in the gaps by requesting records from federal agencies that correspond with Congress. For example, maybe a lawmaker writes to the US Department of Puppies asking for statistics on labradoodles.

That adorable email chain wouldn’t be available through Congress, but you could get it from the Puppies Department’s FOIA office. (Just to be clear: This isn’t a real federal agency. We just wish it was.)

In 2017 it’s become increasingly clear that some members of Congress believe that FOIA can never reach anything they do, even when they or their staffs share documents or correspond with federal agencies. The House Committee on Financial Services sent a threatening letter to the Treasury Department telling them to not comply with FOIA. After the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Management and Budget released records that came from the House Ways and Means Committee, the House intervened in litigation to argue that their records cannot be obtained under FOIA. In many cases, congressional correspondence with agencies is automatically

The Foilies covered by FOIA, and the fact that a document originated with Congress isn’t by itself enough to shield it from disclosure.

The Constitution says Congress gets to write laws; it’s just too bad it doesn’t require Congress to actually read them.

The Data Disappearance Award Trump Administration Last year, we gave the “Make America Opaque Again Award” award to newly inaugurated President Trump for failing to follow tradition and release his tax returns during the campaign. His talent for refusing to make information available to the public has snowballed into an administration that deletes public records from government websites. From the National Park Service’s climate action plans for national parks, to the USDA animal welfare datasets, to nonpartisan research on the corporate income tax, the Trump Administration has decided to make facts that don’t support its positions disappear. The best example of this vanishing game is the Environmental Protection Agency’s removal of the climate change website in April 2017, which only went back online after being scrubbed of climate change references, studies and information to educate the public.

The Danger in the Dark Award The Army Corps of Engineers When reporters researching the Dakota Access Pipeline on contested tribal lands asked for the US Army Corps of Engineers’ environmental impact statement, they were told nope, you can’t have it. Officials cited public safety concerns as reason to deny the request: “The referenced document contains information related to sensitive infrastructure that if misused could endanger peoples’ lives and property.”

Funny thing is, the Army Corps had already published the same document on its website a year earlier. What changed in that year? Politics. The Standing Rock Sioux, other tribal leaders and “Water Protector” allies had since staged a multimonth peaceful protest and sit-in to halt

construction of the pipeline.

The need for public scrutiny of the document became clear in June when a US federal judge found that the environmental impact statement omitted key considerations, such as the impact of an oil spill on the Standing Rock Sioux’s hunting and fishing rights as well as the impact on environmental justice.

The Business Protection Agency Award The Food and Drug Administration The FDA’s mission is to protect the public from harmful pharmaceuticals, but they’ve recently fallen into the habit of protecting powerful drug companies rather than informing people about potential drug risks.

This past year, Charles Seife at the Scientific American requested documents about the drug approval process for a controversial drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The agency cited business exemptions and obscured listed side effects as well as testing methodology for the drug, despite claims that the drug company manipulated results during product trials and pressured the FDA to push an ineffective drug onto the market.

The agency even redacted portions of a Bloomberg Businessweek article about the drug because the story provided names and pictures of teenagers living with DMD.

The Exhausted Mailman Award Bureau of Indian Affairs Requesting information that has already been made public should be quick and fairly simple—but not when you’re dealing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A nomination sent into EFF requested all logs of previously released FOIA information by the BIA. The requester even stated that he’d prefer links to the information, which agencies typically provide for records they have already put on their website. Instead, the BIA printed 1,390 pages of those logs, stuffed them into 10 separate envelopes, and sent them via

registered mail for a grand total cost to taxpayers of $179.

Crime & Punishment Award Martin County Commissioners (Florida) Generally The Foilies skew cynical, because in many states, open records laws are toothless and treated as recommendations rather than mandates. One major exception to the rule is Florida, where violations of its “Sunshine Law” can result in criminal prosecution.

That brings us to Martin County Commissioners Ed Fielding and Sarah Heard and former Commissioner Anne Scott, each of whom were booked into jail in November on multiple charges related to violations of the state’s public records law.

As Jose Lambiet of GossipExtra and the Miami Herald reported, the case emerges from a dispute between the county and a mining company that already resulted in taxpayers footing a $500,000 settlement in a public records lawsuit. Among the allegations, the officials were accused of destroying, delaying and altering records.

The cases are set to go to trial in December 2018, Lambiet told EFF. Of course, people are innocent until proven guilty, but that doesn’t make public officials immune to The Foilies.

The Square Footage Award Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office (Florida) When a government mistake results in a death, it’s important for the community to get all the facts. In the case of 63-year-old Blane Land, who was fatally hit by a Jacksonville Sheriff patrol car, those facts include dozens of internal investigations against the officer behind the wheel. The officer, Tim James, has since been arrested on allegations that he beat a handcuffed youth, raising the question of why he was still on duty after the vehicular fatality.

Land’s family hired an attorney, and the attorney filed a request for records.

Rather than having a complete airing of the cop’s alleged misdeeds, the sheriff came back with a demand for $314,687.91 to produce the records, almost all of which was for processing and search-

ing by the internal affairs division. Amid public outcry over the prohibitive fee, the sheriff took to social media to complain about how much work it would take to go through all the records in the 1,600-foot cubic storage room filled with old-school filing cabinets.

The family is not responsible for the sheriff’s filing system or feng shui, nor is it the family’s fault that the sheriff kept an officer on the force as the complaints— and the accompanying disciplinary records—stacked up.

These Aren’t the Records You’re Looking For Award San Diego City Councilmember Chris Cate Shortly after last year’s San Diego Comic-Con and shortly before the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the city of San Diego held a ceremony to name a street after former resident and actor Mark Hamill. A private citizen (whose day job involves writing The Foilies) wanted to know: How does a Hollywood star get his own roadway?

The city produced hundreds of pages related to his request that showed how an effort to change the name of Chargers Boulevard after the football team abandoned the city led to the creation of Mark Hamill Drive. The document set even included Twitter direct messages between City Councilmember Chris Cate and the actor. However, Cate used an ineffective black marker to redact, accidentally releasing Hamill’s cell phone number and other personal contact details.

As tempting as it was to put Luke Skywalker (and the voice of the Joker) on speed dial, the requester did not want to be responsible for doxxing one of the world’s most beloved actors. He alerted Cate’s office of the error, which then re-uploaded properly redacted documents.

The Foilies were compiled by Electronic Frontier Foundation Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass, Staff Attorney Aaron Mackey, and Frank Stanton Fellow Camille Fischer. Illustrations by EFF Art Director Hugh D’Andrade.

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cientists’ exploration of life in the universe takes many forms and reaches across disciplines. As a pursuit, understanding how life emerges, survives and goes extinct can help inform any number of fields of study—biology, ecology and evolution, to name a few— here on Earth.

Santa Fe Institute Professor Chris Kempes discusses this topic in a public lecture this week. A physical biologist, Kempes says many in his field are naturally interested in astrobiology because of the need to understand the “basic mechanisms of life, the underlying axioms or concepts of life” in order to apply what is learned to a variety of frameworks.

In addition to his own work, which often focuses on studying how biological processes can be applied mathematically, Kempes is part of the Santa Fe Institute’s Exploring Life’s Origins project, in which scientists across fields collaborate in the pursuit of understanding life in its myriad forms. Scientists have been interested in understanding how life began for at least 200 years, Kempes says, with intensive interest for the last 50.

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Discovery of hydrothermal vents in the Galápagos Rift in 1977 is considered a seminal point in the study of the origins of life. Those hydrothermal vent systems, or “black smokers,” contributed greatly to the study of microbial life, as they are hospitable places for life to form (expect a few photos of bacteria and othSanta Fe Institute Professor Chris Kempes focuses er relevant images with the on biological architecture in his work. lecture).

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As for the broader universe, he says, “there are lots of different candidates for existing or past signs of life,” as well as emergent discoveries about exoplanets (planets beyond Earth’s solar system) that could lead to more as the study of these planets’ atmospheres becomes more sophisticated and detailed.

“If you can start to tell in a very detailed way what exists in the atmosphere of these other planets, it opens up a huge range of possibilities of detecting potential signs of life,” he says.

Kempes joined SFI as a professor in February, following a fellowship at the institute. A native New Mexican, Kempes finds particular synergy in studying these issues here.

“Both the daytime and nighttime sky is ever present,” he says. “It’s almost a platitude, but it’s inspired people for a long time.” Moreover, the landscape itself “with rich fossils coming out of different parts of the state, also inspires a different sort of big thinking about deep time.”

SFI is notable for its public programming on its research, but I wondered if there was actual scientific value for Kempes in discussing his work with non-scientists. He says yes.

“When you give a talk to the five other people who do exactly what you do … there’s a lot of shorthand that’s taken for granted,” he says. “There’s a benefit to that in that it’s easy to make progress, … but it’s sometimes easy to lose perspective.” He continues, “Stepping back and doing a very broad lecture like this does force one to remember all the different things the field thinks about: all the different problems, what the history has been, what the motivation has been. I actually in general think it’s a very effective way of doing science.”

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THEATER THU/15-SAT/17 STARS Constellations, the critically acclaimed and immensely intelligent two-person play by British playwright Nick Payne, explores through quantum mechanics and theories of multiverses everything that could have happened when two nerds (a beekeeper and a cosmologist) fall in love. “It’s an insanely magical ride that punches you in the gut,” actress Alexandra Renzo says. “It’s beautifully sophisticated and smart and witty and heartfelt and gut-wrenching. … It’s a rollercoaster. You don’t realize the ride that you’re on until the end, and you have a chance to take a breath, and you’re unbelievably impacted.” We’d even venture to say the show, in which Renzo is joined by actor Scott Harrison, could well be The Show To See this spring in Santa Fe. (CJ) Constellations: 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday March 15-17; 3 pm Sunday March 18.

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May the wind be always at your back Depending on how you slice it, this Saturday will probably be either a day of cultural pride—a time to feel as Irish as possible and enjoy it—or the white person’s Cinco de Mayo—a slightly arbitrary date on the calendar used as an excuse to get wasted. Here are some ideas for both camps.

For those of the former class, who want to enjoy some of the more traditional stuff that Ireland has to offer, on Friday March 16, head straight over to the TGIF Organ Recital (5:30 pm. Free.

First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544). Jan Worden-Lackey plays traditional arrangements and variations on Celtic tunes.

Saturday March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day itself, and you can continue the cultural classiness with Schola Cantorum’s St. Patrick’s Day concert, in which the etherial choir performs traditional songs you know (“Danny Boy”—don’t mind us while we openly weep) and ones you may not (“Síuil a Rúin,” anyone?). Anyway, it goes down at the Loretto Chapel (6 pm. $15-$20. 207 Old Santa Fe Trail; tickets at schola-sf.org). Schola’s concerts sell out, so get on it fast. You can also catch a performance by Belisama Irish Dance (5 pm. $15-$20. James A Little Theatre, 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429).

We can be thankful we don’t live somewhere like Boston or New York City, where drunkards in green take over entire city blocks—but, that being said, if you

want to be festive, ain’t nobody stopping you as long as you’re not a jerk about it (don’t drive, and tip your bartenders well). Here’s a few places to find themed music and occasional green beer: In a Second Street Brewery tradition, the Albuquerque and Four Corners Pipe and Drum Band hits up the original location (5 pm. Free. 1814 Second St., 982-3030) complete with bagpipes. At Duel Brewing, catch Billy Miles Brooke‘s Irish drinking songs followed by the jaunty Celtic-influenced stylings of Edmund Gorman & Two Left Shoes (5:30 pm. Free. 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301). Santa Fe’s favorite Broadway star, David Geist, celebrates his birthday at the Geist Cabaret at Pranzo (6 pm. $2. 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645), and we’re willing to wager he’ll whip out some Irish-inspired tunes. There’s a wear-your-greens edition of Trash Disco with DJ Oona at the Mine Shaft (8 pm.

Free. 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743), and Boxcar’s got all the green beer you could ever want along with tunes from DJ D-Monic and with special appearances by the Order of the Thistle Pipes & Drums (10 pm. Free. 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222).

In conclusion: Be safe and have fun.

And if you’re more into staying home with a good book, SFR’s Picks for literature this week are Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland. Éireannach go brách, y’all.

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WED/14 BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK BY SENSEI HOZAN ALAN SENAUKE Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Sensei Hozan Alan Senauke, vice abbot of Berkeley Zen Center in California, presents a talk entitled "Defying Gravity."

5:30 pm, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free NAMASTE Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Get a yoga class and a beer for a ten and a fiver.

6 pm, $15 PUEBLO POTTERY DEMO SERIES: JOSEPH NARANJO Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Joseph Naranjo (Santa Clara) specializes in pinched and coiled pottery.

Noon, $7-$12 RESPIRATORY CARE DEPARTMENT MEET 'N' GREET Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 If you're down for good job prospects, attend a meetand-greet session with SFCC Respiratory Care Program Director Rebecca Jeffs in the Health and Sciences Center, room 442.

3-6 pm, free

MUSIC BARAK HILL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana singer-songwriter.

8 pm, free DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, acid lounge ‘n’ half-time.

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

6 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Soulful flamenco guitar from a Santa Fean native son.

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

6:30 pm, free

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SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Golden Age standards.

6:30-9:30 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Folk and Americana.

5:30 pm, free

THU/15 BOOKS/LECTURES ARTIST TALK: LUKE DUBOIS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Along with a solo exhibition from DuBois in the SITElab space, A More Perfect Union (which features works that explore democracy, elections, politics and demographics), DuBois discusses his exploration into the murky waters of politics through interactive art.

6 pm, $5-$10

CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN PHOTOGRAPHERS East of West 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 600, 570-7708 Gallery owner LE Brown discusses various contemporary photographers from the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporas. Examples included in the lecture come from gallery artists and prominent photographers, plus lesser-known artists. A Q&A follows (see SFR Picks, page 19).

6:30 pm, $5-$10

VOTING PARADOXES AND ANOMALIES St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Richard Molnar brings a mathematician’s analyses to a discussion of a variety of different methods used in determining an election winner and offers an explanation of the types of anomalies and paradoxes that can occur with all commonly used election procedures and methods, and gives insight into the mathematics of how it all works.

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EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free

MUSIC ADWELA AND THE UPRISING Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Soulful and funky reggae.

10 pm, free BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Songs from the heart.

10 am, free CACTUS SLIM & THE GOATHEADS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rockin' blues.

7 pm, free DJ INKY The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Punk, funk, soul, rock 'n' roll, old-school country y más.

9 pm, free GLOBALFEST ON THE ROAD: THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF LATIN MUSIC Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Alternative Chicano band Las Cafeteras (Los Angeles) recreates traditional AfroCaribbean Son Jarocho music; they're joined by all-female Flor de Toloache and New Mexico’s own Nosotros.

7:30 pm, $22-$46 GOT SOUL El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazz (not soul).

7 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country and honky-tonk.

8 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 and pop on piano.

6:30 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Live solo jazz guitar.

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

6 pm, free RIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Bossa nova jazz.

7 pm, free

SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free THOM CHACON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Solo tunes in the vein of Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earle and Townes Van Zandt.

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

7 pm, free

HUNG LIU: WOMEN WHO WORK Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road, 986-9800 A survey of tapestries and works on paper presented in concurrence with the Hung Liu in Print exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Through April 4 (see AC, page 25).

5 pm, free NEW DISCOVERIES FOR SPRING Patina Gallery 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 New jewelry artists and their works.

5 pm, free

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CONSTELLATIONS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A love story played out in more than one universe.

Tickets for folks under 25 are $5 (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE GOOD DOCTOR Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An evening of humorous and poignant vignettes. For tix, call 917-439-7708 (see Acting Out, page 29).

7:30 pm, $15-$25

EMILY JOHNSON: ARTIST TALK VIA SKYPE IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Choreographer and dancer Emily Johnson (Yup'ik), featured in the exhibition Without Boundaries, beams in via Skype to discuss her work.

10:30 am, free

WORKSHOP HOW TO QUALIFY AS A BUSINESS Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 Want to learn how to (legally) make gazillions of dollars by selling your own books?

Therese Francis, an accountant and publisher, clues us in.

Let 'em know you're coming at admin@nmbook.org.

6 pm, $30-$35

FRI/16 ART OPENINGS COLLAGE WARS Keep Contemporary 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 102, 307-9824 Traditional versus digital— whose side are you on? Check out the work of various collage artists and decide.

5 pm, free EQUILATERAL ATTRACTION Winterowd Fine Art 701 Canyon Road, 992-8878 New geometric paintings by Annell Livingston and complex glass sculptures by Karen Bexfield. Through March 29.

5 pm, free GIVING VOICE TO IMAGE ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road, 982-1320 For the sixth installment of this show that merges words and visuals, ViVO artists collaborate with poets. Through May 15 (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, free

EVENTS DIANE THE MAGICIENNE Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Magic tricks and sleight-ofhand maneuvers captivate audiences of all ages.

3:30 pm, free GALACTIC GODDESS CABARET Paradiso 903 Early St. An Ascension Space pays tribute to goddesses who have been honored throughout the ages. Stick around for a dance party afterward (see 3 Questions, page 27).

7 pm, $10-$20 YOGA CONCERT WITH JOE WEST AND EMILY BRANDEN Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 Join Americana musician Joe West and artist-yogi Emily Branden for a yoga concert.

Folks 18 or younger are free, so bring the young'uns.

12:15-1:15 pm, $25

MUSIC A-TRAK Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Electro-house and hip-hop remixes.

9 pm, $30-$35 THE BLUES REVUE Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Blues and rock and more, this time for a special St. Paddy’s Day party and with special guest Johnny Benoit on drums.

6 pm, free CHANGO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Every cover song ever.

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Tijuana’s Mint Field:”We were born into the classics.”

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“It was crazy and we didn’t know how to handle it,” drummer Amor Amezcua tells SFR. “We got confirmed three weeks before the festival, so we needed to be prepared in three weeks—we rehearsed all day, we tried to be professionals, but we didn’t know how.”

Amezcua is underselling her band and its ability. With a healthy dose of dreamy guitar effects and mid-tempo throwback psych underpinnings merged with subtle nods to garage punk, it doesn’t much matter that she and bandmate Estrella Sánchez were relative newbies to

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EP—though, without overproduction, undeniably still nails the sound. Everything is bigger, like a swirling cacophony that starts soft and gradually expands into a focused chaos or blissful soundscape.

Songs like “Ojos en el Carro” sound almost like a hymn with reverb-laden vocal moans filling out the background and the guitar delay looping back around to fuzzy psych-rock excellence, while tracks like “Club de Chicas” kick up the tempo and begin to border dance rock. You’d hardly know they don’t have a permanent bassist, or that they’re not seasoned vets.

All vocals are in Spanish, which isn’t as common for an international indie band as you might think—there are pressures to write and sing in English to appeal to more fans, though Sánchez says it was just easier to write in her native tongue. “You hear so much music in English that when you’re starting, you think maybe you’re supposed to sing in English; most of what I’ve heard is in English, but it was very hard for me to write like that,” she says.

“There’s one song on the record that is in English, but it’s just because we thought it sounded better, but I like how Spanish sounds. It’s my language.”

Mint Field’s next stop is Santa Fe for an all-ages appearance at Second Street Brewery’s Rufina Taproom alongside looping weirdo P S I R E N S (whom we also love) and Albuquerque glam-metal quartet Chicharra. Can we all agree Second Street has been hosting a veritable nonstop stream of kickass shows? Yes we can. Regardless, Mint Field is a serious coup for music lovers of all stripes and at the top of their game.

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playing and writing music when they put out their EP, Primeras Salidas, in 2015— they’ve captured something special. Call it beginner’s luck, call it innate talent, call it a musical upbringing (Amezcua’s father is Bostich from the wildly popular Mexican band Nortec Collective), call it whatever— Mint Field has struck a sublime balance between deceptively simple and ethereal guitar tones and a soothing-yet-rocking body of work that’s carved a niche someplace between shoegaze, dream-pop and indie rock, though Amezcua says she’s not entirely sure why the shoegaze moniker stuck so prevalently. “I think it’s not fair to say ‘Oh, they are a shoegaze band,’” she says, “when I think we’re a strange mix of genres.”

Perhaps it’s due to easy comparisons to bands like Mazzy Star, though that band seems like another lifetime, and anyway, Amezcua says, “We were born into the

classics … like Pink Floyd.” A love of older rock is apparent in Mint Field’s sound, though rather than calling back and regurgitating, their style is really more like a reboot. And goddamn, it’s a perfect soundtrack for feeling feelings.

Amezcua and Sánchez grew up in Tijuana, often crossing the border for rock, punk and indie shows in San Diego and Los Angeles. “In Mexico, it’s a really small scene for psych or rock,” Amezcua recalls. “We weren’t really connected to that scene, more to San Diego or LA.” Meanwhile, Sánchez had only dabbled in guitar and Amezcua had never played drums; somehow, though, they made it work.

“I think we’re lucky,” Sanchez says of the Coachella appearance, and all that’s come after. “Sometimes after something like that, a band just disappears, but we have a team now who supports us, and it’s … still pretty weird that people listen to our music; we were just in Europe touring for the first time, and it was so weird to us that people actually came to our shows.”

But they have. In droves. This caught the attention of Los Angeles label Innovative Leisure (which also boasts Crystal Antlers and Holy Fuck, among others) which, in turn, allowed Mint Field to record their debut LP, Pasar de las Luces, with Detroit-based producer Chris Koltay. Amezcua and Sánchez say they lived and breathed the record for two solid weeks, and that the label allowed them to do whatever they pleased. Koltay, of course, had input, though both Amezcua and Sánchez say that they were firmly in the driver’s seat.

“At the end we were like a family just making a record,” Sánchez explains, “and we got the chance to record with [equipment] we had dreamed about—and were able to wake up and say, ‘I think right now I’m going to record vocals because I feel it.’”

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CONTROLLED BURN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' blues.

8:30 pm, $5 DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, funk, reggaeton and hip-hop.

10 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Smooth crooning in Italian, English and Spanish 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 ESCAPING PAVEMENT Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana and bluegrass on the deck.

5 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.

8 pm, free HELLA BELLA Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Rock 'n' roll led by drag queen Bella Gigante.

10 pm, $5 JAN WORDEN-LACKEY First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Get in the spirit with Celtic tunes on organ.

5:30 pm, free JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free KARAOKE WITH McLAIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Sing your favorite tunes.

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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 THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz trio that features a special guest every Friday night.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER CONSTELLATIONS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A love story played out in more than one universe (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE GOOD DOCTOR Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An evening of vignettes originally written by Anton Chekhov and adapted by Neil Simon. Call 917-439-7708 for tickets (see Acting Out, page 29).

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SAT/17 ART OPENINGS LYN FEAKES: CLOUD GIRL AND THE LITTLE LUSHIES The ART.i.factory 930 Baca St., Ste. C, 982-5000 Feakes presents narrative and abstract paintings that playfully ask questions about belonging, yearning and identity through small works on Plexiglas.

4-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES VERTIGO: WHY THE SPIN? Natural Grocers 3328 Cerrillos Road, 474-0111 A program addresses vertigo and dizziness, which often affect those with hearing loss or deafness. Learn more from Rachel Ershoff, a doctor of audiology.

10 am, free

DANCE BELISAMA IRISH DANCE James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 A fun, energetic show performed by dancers of all ages features new choreography and a few old favorites. Éire go Brách, everyone!

5 pm, $15-$20

EVENTS BIRD WALK Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road, 983-4609 Every Saturday from February through mid-December, head to the hills for a guided birding hike with experienced bird nerds.

8:30-10 am, free LA FARGE LIBRARY 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Even just one year with books is awesome—but 40?!

Celebrate the library's birthday with Pen La Farge as well as a special exhibit of Oliver La Farge memorabilia.

1-4 pm, free MIRROR BOX: CURATOR & ARTIST TALK form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Strangers Collective‘s Mirror Box exhibition curators Kyle Farrell, Alex Gill and Jordan Eddy convene a number of the show’s contributors for an interactive walkthrough.

2-3 pm, free NEW MOON WATER WHEEL CEREMONY Frenchy's Field Osage Ave. and Agua Fría St. Pray for moisture, bless the waters and offer up items for blessings and in hopes of heavy rains.

6 pm, 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.

8 am-2 pm, free

FILM GIRLS NIGHT OUT FILM SERIES: JAWBREAKER Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 The 1999 classic replete with murder and candy-painted outfits on Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart and Julie Benz. Boys are totally invited, by the way; good taste does not discriminate by gender.

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5 pm, free BANDWIDTH NO NAME Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Funk, hip-hop and soul.

10 pm, $5 BERT DALTON TRIO Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 A mixture of regular ol’ jazz and spicy Latin jazz.

9:30 pm, free BILLY MILES BROOKE AND EDMUND GORMAN & TWO LEFT SHOES Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Billy Miles Brooke's classic Irish drinking songs set the stage for Two Left Shoes' progressive rock with blues, folk and Celtic influences.

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DJ D-MONIC Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 A St. Patrick's Day edition setlist and pecial appearances by the Order of the Thistle Pipes & Drums.

10 pm, free DAVID GEIST'S BIRTHDAY BASH Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano standards with the birthday boy in the cabaret named after him!

6 pm, $2 DESERT HEARTS TAKEOVER Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 To celebrate two years of the House of the Eternal Return exhibit, a list of DJs perform back-to-back. The special guests include Marbs, Porkchop, RYBO, Feathericci, Spoolius and Pleasure Corporation. It's 21+, so bring that ID. 9 pm, $18-$20

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

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Alex Eckman-Lawn’s ”Untitled #13” was created by cutting and pasting; how does it compare to digital collage? Judge the differences at KEEP Contemporary’s Collage Wars, opening Friday.

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Almost universally, Liu overlays her work with floating rings, whose borders drip downward, gently obscuring the composition. These circles have their roots in ancient calligraphy, but the simple visual marker of a closed ring is immediately pleasing for its simplicity and gentle physicality. Do Liu’s painted drips mimic tears? Sweat? Do they reference history’s liquid, ever-fluid nature? Maybe they act as a veil, providing privacy not just to the subject, but to the artist as well.

In “Winter Blossom,” the solemn face of a girl (gallery-provided text tells us it’s 19th-century Imperial concubine Zhen Fei) is partially hidden by bright pink flowers which sprout from a ropy, knotted tree branch. It’s a print, but its brilliant color and surface-spanning drips imbue it with enough texture and intrigue to rival the impact of an oil-oncanvas.

Liu doesn’t always depict Chinese people or themes. In “Cotton Field,” a black woman with gold hoops in her ears is posed facing us, a bundled scarf on her head and a large, pale lavender loop positioned above her right shoulder, its droplets overlaying her brown arm. Her mouth is opened slightly, and she looks thoughtful, serene.

No matter her subject, Liu approaches it with contagious respect and curiosity, ranging from the almost photojournalistic to the ephemeral. In a way, her obvious admiration for her homeland and its people makes it feel like even though she crossed oceans to arrive here, China is with her at every turn.

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n the late 1940s, Chinese leader Mao Zedong created a society which ostensibly had room for artists—but only to a certain extent. The most talented young painters fine-tuned their skills in Beijing, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts; but art-making there was never a means of personal expression, rather a vehicle for communist propaganda. Students were instructed to glorify laborers with heroic, optimistic imagery.

This is the China into which artist Hung Liu was born. Growing up in central Changchun, she worked both in the fields as an agricultural laborer and was also trained as a muralist in the Socialist Realist style at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Though she was highly regarded there, Liu’s art world wasn’t glitzy, not even remotely. And her paintings—of farmers, concubines and rural life in China—continue to reflect that, even though they’re oftentimes sublimely beautiful, embellished with objectively pretty colors and lush detail.

When Liu emigrated to the United States in 1984, she headed for the University of California, San Diego, where she received an MFA in painting. A professor of art at Mills College in Oakland since 1990, Liu’s recognizable style largely hinges on re-imagining historic Chinese photographs into hyper-realistic paintings and mixed-media works.

Canyon Road’s Turner Carroll Gallery, which has shown Liu for a decade, displays a range of works in the show Hung Liu: Women Who Work, to celebrate the artist’s solo exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. The museum, which is the largest of its kind dedicated exclusively to advancing women’s artworks, is displaying prints and tapestries by the septuagenarian artist through July of this year.

When Liu left China, she also left behind rules that dictated not just her subject matter, but also her technique. It feels

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especially intriguing, then, that in some ways Liu’s artistic focus on the proletariat never stopped: in China or stateside, the emphasis on humanity in both cases acts as a sort of visual advocate for laboring classes. She conveys workers, often women, with earnest straightforwardness, but

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their lives don’t appear grim or bleak, not the way Liu reverentially depicts them; elsewhere, lavishly pretty portraits of young brides, embellished with faded flowers or gold-leafed details, are dazzlingly romantic—not obviously critical of Mao’s agenda.

HUNG LIU: WOMEN WHO WORK 5 pm Friday March 16. Free.

Turner Carroll Gallery, 725 Canyon Road, 986-9800

Constellations • by Nick Payne Just Say It Theatre Company at Adobe Rose Theatre:  Parkway Drive

Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

March –April  • Thurs. Fri. Sat: : p.m. • Sun.  p.m.

Mon. March  & Mon. March ,  p.m.

Copenhagen • by Michael Frayne, play reading New Mexico Actors Lab at Teatro Paraguas:  Calle Marie

lecture with Stephen Bellon • Renesan.org

St. John’s Methodist Church:  Old Pecos Trail

The Good Doctor • by Neil Simon Oasis Theatre Company at Teatro Paraguas

March – • Thurs. Fri. Sat: : p.m., Sun.  p.m.

Sun. March ,  p.m. • FREE

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I’m a 33-year-old woman from Melbourne, Australia, dating a 24-year-old man. We’ve been dating for about eight months; it is exclusive and official. He’s kind and sweet, caring and giving, and his penis is divine. The thing is, he confessed to me recently that he doesn’t really “feel.” The way he explained it is, the only emotions he feels are fear and anxiousness that he’ll disappoint the people he cares about. He says he’s never been in love. He said his dad is the same way. The only time I see him really “feel” are when he’s high, which he is semi-frequently.

He uses MDMA and he comes alive. He seems the way a “normal” person does when they’re in love, but when he’s sober, it’s like he’s trying to mimic the things a person in love would say or do. I confessed I am falling in love with him recently and told him I wasn’t saying this with any expectation of him feeling the same; I just wanted him to know. He responded that he cares for me a lot—but that’s it. I’m now worried that he’ll never love me. I don’t want kids, so time isn’t critical for me, but I don’t want to be with someone who won’t ever love me.

-Lacking One Vaunted Emotion You didn’t use the P-word (psychopath) or the S-word (sociopath), LOVE, but both came to mind as I was reading your letter. Someone who isn’t capable of feeling? Isn’t that textbook P-word/S-word stuff?

“The fear with someone who doesn’t ‘feel’ is that they may be a psychopath or a sociopath, terms that are used interchangeably,” said Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry. “And lots of the items on the psychopath checklist relate to an inability to experience deep emotions—like Shallow Affect, Lack of Empathy and Lack of Remorse. However, I have good news for LOVE! This line: ‘The only emotions he really feels are fear and anxiousness that he’ll disappoint the people he cares about’ is the critical one. Psychopaths do not feel anxiety. In fact, my favorite thing a psychologist said to me about this was: ‘If you’re worried you may be psychopath, that means you aren’t one.’ Also, psychopaths don’t care about disappointing loved-ones! All those emotions that relate to an overactive amygdala— fear, remorse, guilt, regret, empathy—psychopaths don’t feel them.”

So your boyfriend’s not a psychopath. Not that you asked. But, you know, just in case you were worried. Anyway…

My hunch is that your boyfriend’s problem isn’t an inability to feel love, LOVE, but an inability to recognize the feelings he’s having as love. (Or potentially love, as it’s only been eight months.)

What is romantic love but a strong desire to be with someone? The urge to be sweet to them, to take care of them, to do for them? Maybe he’s just going through the motions with you—a conscious mimic-it-till-you-make it strategy—or maybe the double whammy of a damaged dad and that toxic masculinity stuff sloshing around out there left him blocked, LOVE, or emotionally constipated. And while MDMA can definitely be abused—moderation in all things, kids, including moderation—the effect it has on him is a hopeful sign. MDMA is not an emotional hallucinogen; the drug has been used in couples counseling and to treat PTSD, not because it makes us feel things that aren’t there (in the way a hallucinogen makes us see things that aren’t there), but because it allows genuine feelings to surface and, for a few hours, to be felt intensely. So he can feel love—he just has to learn how to tap into those feelings and/or recognize them without an assist from MDMA. Jon Ronson had one last bit of advice for you, LOVE: “Marry him and his divine penis!”

I agree with Jon, of course, but a long, leisurely engagement is definitely in order. You’ve only been seeing this guy and his divinity dick for eight months—don’t propose to him for at least another year, LOVE, and make marriage conditional upon him seeing a shrink four times as often as he sees his MDMA dealer.

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My boyfriend of 1.5 years shared (several months into dating) that he has a fantasy of having a threesome. I shared that I had also fantasized about this but I never took my fantasies seriously. Right away, he started sending me Craigslist posts from women and couples looking for casual sex partners. I told him I wasn’t interested in doing anything for real. A few months later, we went on vacation and I said I wanted to get a massage. He found a place that did “sensual” couples massage. I wanted nothing to do with this. During sex, he talks about the idea of someone else being around.

This does turn me on and I like thinking about it when we are messing around. But I don’t want to have any other partners. I’m like a mashup of Jessica Day, Leslie Knope, and Liz Lemon if that gives you an idea of how not-for-me this all is. When I say no to one idea, he comes up with another one. I would truly appreciate some advice.

-Boyfriend Into Group Sex I’m Not Short answer: Sexual compatibility is important.

It’s particularly important in a sexually-exclusive relationship. You want a sexually-exclusive relationship; your boyfriend doesn’t want a sexually-exclusive relationship—so you two aren’t sexually compatible, BIGSIN, and you should break up.

Slightly longer answer: Your boyfriend did the right thing by laying his kink cards on the table early in the relationship—he’s into threesomes, group sex, and public sex—and you copped to having fantasies about threesomes, BIGSIN, but not a desire to experience one. He took that as an opening: maybe if he could find the right person/couple/scenario/club, you would change your mind. Further fueling his false hopes: you get turned on when he talks about having “someone else around” when you two have sex. Now lots of people who very much enjoy threesomes and/or group sex were unsure or hesitant at first, but gave in to please (or shut up) a partner, and wound up being glad they did. If you’re certain you could never be one of those people—reluctant at first but happy your partner pressed the issue—you need to shut this shit down, Liz Lemon style. Tell him no more dirty talking about this shit during sex, no more entertaining the idea at all. Being with you means giving up this fantasy, BIGSIN, and if he’s not willing to give it up—and to shut up about it—then you’ll have to break up.

I’m an 18-year-old woman who has been with my current boyfriend for a year, but this has been an issue across all of my sexual relationships. In order to reach climax, I have to fantasize about kinky role-play-type situations. I don’t think I want to actually act out the situations/roles because of the degrading/shameful feelings they dredge up, but the idea of other people doing them is so hot. This frustrates me because it takes me out of the moment with my partner. I’m literally thinking about other people during sex when I should be thinking about him! What can I do to be more in the moment?

-Distracted Earnest Girlfriend Requires A Different Excitement Actually, doing the kinky role-play-type things you “have to” fantasize about in order to come would help you feel more connected to your boyfriend—but to do that, DEGRADE, you need to stop kink-shaming yourself. So instead of thinking of those kinky role-play-type things as degrading or shameful, think of them as exciting and playful. Exciting because they excite you (duh), and playful because that’s literally what kinky roleplay-type things are: play. It’s cops and robbers for grownups with your pants off, DEGRADE, but this game doesn’t end when mom calls you in for dinner, it ends when you come. So long as you suppress your kinks—so long as you’re in flight from the stuff that really arouses you—your boyfriend will never truly know you and you’ll never feel truly connected to him.

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JOHN RANGEL TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 The versatile pianist is joined by two friends to play a few jazz classics along with some originals.

7:30 pm, free LORI OTTINO, ERIK SAWYER AND FRIENDS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Head to the deck for a jaunty time with folk, Americana and bluegrass.

3 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 Live solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free PETER VIGIL Y LOS HERMANOS Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 Norteño and ranchera tunes.

8:30 pm, free PIGMENT Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Head to Totemoff’s for live jammy-noodley music.

11 am-3 pm, free PIGMENT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Didn’t get enough at the ski basin earlier today? Here’s more.

8:30 pm, free PRISM BITCH AND GERUNDING Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Desert soul punk and eclectic pop, all hailing from Albuquerque.

8:30 pm, free RAY MATTHEW Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 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 SCHOLA ST. PATRICK’S DAY CONCERT Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The ever-etherial Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe, for its sixth annual St. Paddy's concert, performs ancient Irish monastic chants, ballads and choral music.

6:30 pm, $15-$20

SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 We think this is the only karaoke on a weekend night in Santa Fe, so you know where to party tonight.

8:30 pm, free SISTER MARY El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

9 pm, $5 THE SANTA FE REVUE Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Psychedelic country and Americana.

6 pm, free TRASH DISCO WITH DJ OONA Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 It’s a St. Patrick’s Day dance party! Wear your greens—or your oranges if you wanna protest.

8 pm, free VINCENT COPIA Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Americana and solo guitar originals.

6 pm, free

OPERA DAS LIEBESVERBOT The Screen 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6494 The Wagner Society of Santa Fe presents a screening of the composer's early opera.

If you're so inclined, head over to a dutch lunch at Midtown Bistro afterward with fellow operaphiles to discuss.

11 am, free

THEATER CONSTELLATIONS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Explore everything that ever could have happened when nerds fall in love. String theory has never been dreamier (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE GOOD DOCTOR Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An evening of humorous and poignant vignettes. For tix, call 917-439-7708 (see SFR Picks, page 29).

7:30 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP LENTEN ALL-CHURCH RETREAT Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat and Conference Center 50 Mount Carmel Road, 988-1975 Find peace in a chaotic world at a Lenten retreat.

Facilitated by Linda Rush, a pastoral care leader, and Linda Larkin, renowned harp player and teacher.

9 am-2 pm, $25

SUN/18 BOOKS/LECTURES GRANMARY’S WINTER STORYTELLING SERIES: BIRDIAN ROGERS Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Rogers (Jicarilla Apache) performs; to illuminate the stories even further, check out the museum’s newest exhibition, Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans. Free with museum admission (and kids under 16 get free admission anyway).

2 and 3 pm, $7-$12 JAMES LECESNE: THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The immensely talented Lecesne performs an excerpt of his one man show, Absolute Brightness, talks about how his writings fuel his activism and current work, and signs books.

6:30 pm, free JOURNEYSANTAFE: ELAINE HAUSMAN AND ROGER MONTOYA Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The board members of Moving Arts Española discuss the organization’s 10th anniversary celebration, set to occur through 2018.

11 am, free

EVENTS DIANE THE MAGICIENNE Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Magic tricks, sleight-ofhand and magical illusions captivate audiences of all ages—and we really can’t lie, we here at SFR kind of love magic. Like, LOVE magic.

Okay, it’s not “we.” It’s the calendar editor. The calendar editor loves magic. So much.

1:30 pm, free THE GATE OF SWEET NECTAR LITURGY Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Chant the Gate of Sweet Nectar Liturgy, which calls out to all those who are lost and left behind. Please arrive by 5:20 pm to be polite.

5:30 pm, free MODERN BUDDHISM: BLUE SKY MIND Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Experience the vast clarity of your mind with meditation. 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

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SANTA FE FREE THINKERS’ FORUM Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 This weekend, the humanist discussion group holds "A Continued Conversation about Gender, Power, Equality, and the #MeToo Explosion."

8:30 am, free VERNAL EQUINOX LABYRINTH WALK Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Take part in a labyrinth walk celebrating the vernal equinox. Children, families and folks in wheelchairs are welcome.

1 pm, free

FILM NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST FILM TOUR Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 An evening of Oregon artist Vanessa Renwick’s visionary videos, featuring a wide range of formal approaches and subjects that include wildness, hitchhiking, death, nuclear power, gentrification and migration. Renwick’s films share a restless spirit, an interest in outlaw art-making and a sense of wanderlust.

Without fail, the work is intense, hard to pin down, and even harder to forget.

7 pm, $5-$10

MUSIC JORDYN PEPPER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana from Nashville.

8 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Get a load of some bluegrass on the deck.

3 pm, free LOSTBOYCROW Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Pop, R&B and electronica; he’s joined by hip-hop duo Prelow and pop artist DYSN. 7 pm, $15 MATTHEW ANDRAE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Authentic and heartfelt tunes on guitalele (which is precisely what it sounds like).

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

7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A jazz duet with guitarist Malone and bassist Gagan on “Civilized Sunday.”

7 pm, free

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Saturday 8 - 3 pm Sunday 9 - 4 pm COURTESY HANNAH RAPP

Hannah Rapp is a 28-year-old Kentuckian who manages the Love Yourself Café at the DeVargas Center and, in her free time, she enjoys dancing as a form of self-expression. Along with local nonprofit An Ascension Space, Rapp presents the Galactic Goddess Cabaret at Paradiso Santa Fe (7 pm Friday March 16. $15. 903 Early St.). This is Rapp’s inaugural cabaret performance wherein she plays Venus and the Cacao Mother alongside seven other women. The event features an array of performances as well, including aerial dancing, storytelling, spoken-word and bellydancing, just to name a few. (Juan Mendoza)

Art, Antiques, Folk & Tribal Art, Books, Jewelry, Beads, Glass, Hides, Rugs and much much more!!

555 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (In the Railyard )

Info call: Steve at 505-250-8969 or Lesley at 760-727-8511

How long have you been a dancer, and how has that evolved through the years?

I started when I was really young, and I did performances when I was little; but I’m 28 now, so I haven’t performed since then. It’s more just been like self-care, therapeutic and an alternative expression for me—and exercise as well. It’s a way to get community, a way of understanding my internal progress and process as well as how to relate to other people in that process. And it’s just playful. Part of my work is wanting to bring playfulness and remind people of their playfulness and their childlike essence into everyday life.

What should people understand from cabaret?

Well, when anyone has heard the term ‘cabaret,’ at least for me, it’s culturized as sexual. When I think of dance, there is an intimate sexual and sensual aspect to any sort of movement that we offer or express. Along with the message that we’re bringing ... is that it’s sort of desexualizing and more representing sensuality as an [important thing] for all people to feel and to express, as opposed to putting so much emphasis on sexuality and sexualizing women. So, it’s bringing it out in a playful, sacred way. In a sensual expression through dance, it can be erotic and sensual. View the experience of the dance in a way that’s sacred as opposed to, ‘Oh, they’re doing this for me.’ It’s more of, ‘How can I relate to this and how does this tell a story over time and … what does it bring up in me?’ as opposed to this drooly sort of outlook on it.

What are you trying to give to the Santa Fe audience with this performance?

I would like to bring the full potential—the full spectrum, actually—of what the goddess represents, and that is storytelling. We’ve lost a lot of storytelling in our culture. So, storytelling, sensuality, nurturing, powerful unconditional love, and trust that can vary from woman to woman. Those are the essential foundations that we’re representing as the goddess and that I want to bring to the audience.

Over 35 interactive indoor and outdoor exhibits, including , our . portable planetarium

COME PLAY WITH US! 1050 Old Pecos Trail

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SANTA FE SYMPHONY: MOZART, ROSSINI & BEETHOVEN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Guest conductor and Grammy-nominated violinist Andrés Cárdenes serenades Santa Fe into spring with Mozart’s melodic and carefree second violin concerto.

From Rossini’s La gazza ladra, The Symphony performs the overture famously (allegedly) composed while the opera’s producer had Rossini locked in a room to aid his concentration. To conclude, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 is a work so elegant and graceful that Berlioz claimed it must be the work of the Archangel Michael rather than any mortal. Zang!

4 pm, free SUGAR MOUNTAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 A Neil Young tribute band.

We secretly hope they play the depressing, trancey stuff from Dead Man. Noon, free VINCENT COPIA Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Americana originals.

6 pm, free

THEATER CONSTELLATIONS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A love story played out in more than one universe (see SFR Picks, page 19).

3 pm, $15-$25 COPENHAGEN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A staged reading of the 1998 play in which the spirits of physicists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr trade ideas and theories.

6 pm, free THE GOOD DOCTOR Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An evening of humorous and poignant vignettes originally written by Anton Chekhov.

For tix, call 917-439-7708 (see SFR Picks, page 29).

2 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP FOR THE LOVE OF PLAY Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 This class is part of a graduate thesis project exploring the healthy benefits of play.

1-2:15 pm, free

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MON/19 DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Put on your best tango shoes and join in (or just watch).

7:30 pm, $5

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EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free SANTA FE YOUTH RUGBY FAMILY TAG RUGBY Wood Gormley Elementary School 141 E. Booth St., 690-2761 SFYR hosts family tag rugby sessions for the whole family to participate and learn. Ages 7 and up, kids and adults, are welcome. If you like it enough, Youth Rugby Tag League will be starting the last week of March, so get info if you have fun!

5 pm, free THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 699-6922 The local choral group invites anyone who can carry a tune to its weekly rehearsals. Join in on tenor, baritone, bass or lead vocals.

6:30-8 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana from the man/myth/legend.

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 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 SANTA FE GREAT BIG JAZZ BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Huge sounds from this 16-piece jazz ensemble.

7 pm, free

TUE/20 BOOKS/LECTURES CHERIE BURNS: DIVING FOR STARFISH Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Journalist Burns reads from her intimate chronicle of three legendary ruby starfish brooches.

6:30 pm, free

CHRIS KEMPES: LIFE ON EARTH AND BEYOND Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The Santa Fe Institute presents Kempes, of its resident faculty, and a discussion of how scientists search for life (see The Interface, page 17).

7:30 pm, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This quiz can win you drink tickets for next time. Kevin is your host, and we like Kevin.

Kevin is our friend. Tell Kevin we said hello. Hello, Kevin!

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.

10:30 am, free

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 CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A legendary evening of music and camraderie. Sign up if you want to join in, but be forewarned: This ain't amateur hour.

8:30 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free 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 ERYN BENT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country, folk and Americana.

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

6 pm, free MINT FIELD Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Noise pop, shoegaze and twee-pop; New Mexico artists Chicharra and PSIRENS join (see Music, page 22).

8:30 pm, $7 OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Play ur toonz.

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ACTING OUT The Good Doctor Cures What Ails You

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ometimes the best way to be is blunt: You should go see The Good Doctor. Don’t argue. Just do it.

But, if you are going to be ornery and need reasons, we can oblige.

The Oasis Theatre Company, established in New York City in 1988 and relative newcomers to Santa Fe, has staged its third production here; its Marriage by the Masters last summer and The Water Engine last month were both plenty impressive, sure. But The Good Doctor, up now at Paraguas, is in a class by itself.

The play, a 1974 adaption of nine short plays by 19th-century writer Anton Chekhov, is tied together by the narrator “The Writer” (ostensibly Chekhov himself, played by the ever-luminous Vaughn Irving—whose lobby head shot, by the way, is hung next to one of Chekhov, and it was definitely a good aesthetic casting too). The evening’s 24 roles are portrayed here by a tight cast of five, including the play’s director and Oasis Artistic Director Brenda Lynn Bynum and Oasis founding member and Managing Director James Jenner.

Bynum has previously told SFR that Oasis aims to bring classical theater to life—to aptly capture and portray the relatability of plays written perhaps a century ago, if not more. A noble goal; but, of course, it’s easy for companies to rest on the laurels of their scripts and ignore the humanity necessary to deeply communicate an old show’s genius to an audience (a mostly dry performance of Mary Stuart in Albuquerque the day after I enjoyed The Good Doctor drove this point home even further).

From what I’ve seen, though, Oasis never rests. Through deft casting, energetic interpretation and a deep under-

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ern English. Once you understand it, it’s famously remarkable, of course; but there’s a cognitive wall there. What makes Chekhov’s works such a delight is the lack of translation needed. To children, it is hilarious. To simpletons, it’s hilarious. To drunks, it’s hilarious. To everyone, it’s hilarious. It’s just really exceptionally funny stuff. People wheezed.

I snorted. No matter who you are, Irving’s delivery of the line, “You actually expect me to pay for an underwater pig squeal?” is going to get you going.

But, like in any intelligent production, the vast dynamics here were spoton. The deepest intensity was brought by Tallis Rose, who once again impresses— though here, she’s more one-note than we’ve seen her play before. It’s a fantastic note, and we’d listen to it all day, but it’s pretty much only one. She’s a solemn and skilled straight character, and three

We trust Vaughn Irving as an actor, but perhaps not as a medical student with sinister pliers.

James Jenner, as a priest with an abscessed tooth, seems to feel the same way as we do.

standing of the lines, this cast shines brilliantly.

This show is often billed as hilarious and uplifting, which is ultimately true here. Chekhov’s works are regarded as some of the best fiction in history, and the direct translations to modern life are uncanny, despite that they were written more than 130 years ago.

Of course, much classical literature continues to inspire—but take Shakespeare, for example. You really have to pay attention to know what’s going on if you’re not comfy with Early Mod-

of the four women she plays openly weep. And we’re not talking trite devices or heartstring-tuggers; this is heavy stuff, here. Lives are ruined, dreams are crushed, souls are eviscerated. Yikes.

Ah, yet, don’t despair entirely: There’s always a buoy. In a scene in which she is opposite Irving, you could have heard a pin drop in the audience as Rose delivered a heartbreaking monologue. I actually held my breath. A cavernous world of a single character in a 10-minute play opened up to us. It was beautiful and rending. The universe stopped.

And then! Silently, with only a turn of his head, Irving sent us back into peals of laughter, and the swift pace of a show sometimes nearing farce picked right up again and plugged along jauntily.

Jenner and Bynum, as well, are effortlessly relatable. In the sweet a cappella musical interlude “Too Late for Happiness,” they play a couple of gone-toseed park-strollers wondering whether it might be—you guessed it—too late to find happiness with one another. It was a soothing, touching moment amidst rollicking bookending scenes. Jenner, in “Surgery,” opposite Irving, plays a priest with an abscessed tooth, full of smartly done slapstick and impossibly endearing childish mannerisms (no one likes the dentist, right?). Toward the end, “The Defenseless Creature” finds Jenner once again red in the face and rolling around on the floor in pain, and we only wish Bynum’s character of “the woman” could have been obnoxious enough to meet his craziness. (It was a tall order.)

Rounding out the cast is Matthew Montoya, whose individual dynamics also bring great joy to the stage. Within a single character, particularly in the opening scene, “The Sneeze,” he is snarling and obsequious, sometimes in the same sentence. He’s a not-terribly-slick con man in “The Drowned Man,” and a hopelessly adorable 19-year-old whose father is setting him up with a prostitute in “The Arrangement.” He’s often goofy as hell without being childish, and a pencil-thin mustache (perhaps left over from his portrayal of Charles Lang in The Water Engine) lends an almost cartooney emphasis to his bright smile.

Staging nine plays on one stage in quick succession is no small feat, and elaborate costumes, a spare but deliberate set and downright narrative lighting design from Jeff Tarnoff make the multi-setting piece in a small theater utterly understandable.

All in all, Oasis Theatre Company is proving an exquisite addition to the Santa Fe performing arts scene, and I, for one, am thankful to New Mexico for being beautiful enough to have lured these folks out of Manhattan.

This fall promises a production of Uncle Vanya, another Chekhov piece, from Oasis—and if I could buy advance tickets today, I would.

THE GOOD DOCTOR 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday March 15-17; 2 pm Sunday March 18.

Through March 25. $15-$25. Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie; tickets: 917-439-7708

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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Journey to Center: New Mexico Watercolors by Sam 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 War. All through May 13.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 IAIA 2018 BFA Exhibition: Breaking Ground. Through May 12. Art & Activism: Selections from The Harjo Family Collection. Through 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.

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MUSEUM OF INDIAN 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.

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

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et another cafe has opened up on the northern side of the Railyard, but it’s a happy side effect to the explosion of growth and development that is taking place on this side of town.

The burgeoning art, entertainment and business district is now home to a multitude of exciting projects. New Mexico School for the Arts, an arts charter school taking over the former Sanbusco Center, broke ground on its new dorm project not five days after Lion & Honey, a colorful café that serves up boba tea, nitro coffee from Illy and bubble waffles, opened its doors.

Owner Grant Kosh converted his arts space, formerly Gerard Vachez Gallery, to a coffee shop that still displays his artwork— black and white airbrush paintings and prints of celebrity portraits—on the walls. This adds cultural stimulation to consuming the fun munchies and treats he offers behind the bar. The decor is a trippy, multicolored rainbow of candy jars, pops of neon and spoof cereal boxes with names like “Frosted Fat Explosion” designed by artist Ron English.

When it comes to cereal, Kosh tells me that after his official opening (only the soft opening had taken place when we spoke)

Gallery-turned-coffee shop Lion & Honey offers bubble waffles and boba tea for a nice, sugary pick-me up.

he plans to offer bowls of cereal for $2.50 on Saturday mornings while he plays vintage cartoons on the TV. Bags of gummy bears and little vials of CBD are also for sale, alongside a spectrum of merch and house-branded CBD infused-products.

CBD, or cannabidiol, is a cannabis-derived product that relieves anxiety and pain by targeting the brain and central nervous system, but doesn’t contain any psychoactive ingredients, and thus doesn’t get you high. Its presence in the wares of Lion & Honey reinforces the notion that this is not your typical coffee shop. There’s definitely an added edge to the color and light-heartedness that teasingly calls to mind other substances besides coffee, but none of it is over-the-top or in-your-face.

Pastries on offer are from Clafoutis ($2), along with house-made bubble waffles—a style of Hong Kong street food, also known as egg cakes, which have lacy edges and soft, chewy bubbles of dough instead of the traditional lattice-shaped style of waffle. They range in price from $6.50 to $8.50, depending on your choice of toppings, which have Willy Wonka-inspired names like “Augustus Gloop.” You can get them with blueberries, lemon curd, or Nutella and banana. They are also gluten-free, and all of the dairy used in-house is organic.

Kosh also went for a soft-serve machine that offers vanilla, chocolate or a swirl ($3 for a small, $5 for a large), or you can get an orange cream, a root beer float, or an affogato made with the Illy-based

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nitro coffee on tap (all for $5). The nitro coffee comes in two flavors, Vader (dark roast) and Storm Trooper (medium roast) and, in keeping with the candy-colored aesthetic, you can also get it topped with toasted marshmallows. You can even try a “fizzy lifting drink,” the house-made version of an Italian cream soda, which comes in a variety of more conventional flavors, made with organic cream ($2.75).

Boba tea ($6) comes in flavors like PG tips, matcha and Thai tea, any of which can come with a shot of CBD for an extra $3.

I picked up a light purple “Talia’s Taro” boba tea and the “Veruca’s Schnozberry,” a blueberry and lemon curd bubble waffle. The waffle was the right mix of crispy edges and half-hollow, fluffy honeycombs, and the tea was a light purple, semi-sweet confection. Together, they called to mind indulgent street food but didn’t push me over the edge. I tried a shot of nitrogen-infused cold brew that poured like Guinness and tasted cool and creamy.

I’d have to be in the right mood to hang out in the space for a long period of time, though, with its declarative decor and rock ‘n’ roll-themed artwork, but it was easy enough to spend an hour picking over the art-themed coffee table books littering the tables and chairs. The cafe is still new, and obviously small in scale, but considering the aim of the food is to conjure up Hong Kong street offerings (in that it’s almost junk food-themed), and street food in general tends to hinge on the efforts of one person, it doesn’t feel out of place.

Once school is in session for New Mexico School for the Arts, the place will probably take off, but, in the meantime, Lion & Honey is a fairly exciting little café for pretty much anyone.

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Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 children’s novel, A Wrinkle in Time, was rejected by more than 25 publishers before becoming an award-winning classic story about quantum physics, the danger of conformity and the power of love. Though geared at young readers, the story’s nuanced mesh of science, female heroism and, yes, Christian ideology nudged its appeal to adults as well.

The story’s protagonist, 13-year-old Meg Murry (Storm Reid, 12 Years a Slave), is an angry outcast suffering from the loss of her father (Chris Pine of Star Trek fame), a scientist who, along with his fellow scientist wife (Beauty and the Beast’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw), has learned to “wrinkle” time and travel the universe and has been captured by the pervasive evil that seeks to turn all beings away from the light. Meg, her prodigy little brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) and new friend Calvin O’Keefe (Levi Miller, Pan) set out to rescue him.

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Director Ava DuVernay’s adaptation falls unsurprisingly short in capturing the nuance of L’Engle’s novel, relying frequently on baffling amounts of glitter and eyeshadow to convey magic and angry trees to connote evil. The trio of magical beings, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which (Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling and Oprah Winfrey, respectively) appear here with particular Disney theme-park camp, although Winfrey’s bone-deep ability to convey empathy makes for some of the film’s most touching moments.

That empathy is primarily directed to Meg, played by Reid with hints of the fierceness and

nuance that emblematized the original book.

The young characters’ rescue mission takes them to Camazotz, a place where evil, fear and conformity have enslaved inhabitants. The film’s greatest adaptive decision was its diverse casting, which reinforces L’Engle’s original message about the importance of individual spirit and experience in the fight between good and evil.

A WRINKLE IN TIME Directed by DuVernay With Reid, Mbatha-Raw, Kaling, Witherspoon, Oprah, Miller, McCabe and Pine Violet Crown, Regal, PG, 109 minutes

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Writer-director David Freyne must be commended for a fresh take on the almosttired-at-this-point zombie genre with The Cured, an Ellen Page-led ensemble story set in a small village in Ireland. Two years earlier, a deadly virus swept through the town, transforming the denizens into what basically amounts to zombies. But a talented doctor actually developed a cure, and the inflicted who survived are finally getting out of a long quarantine, and now they’ll be placed in housing, given jobs and reintegrated into regular society.

The catch? The cure is ineffective for 25 percent of the populace, who are locked up to rot, and even those for whom it works can remember every single thing they did while zombi-fied. Everybody hates them for the acts they committed, which leads to equally tragic levels of PTSD and horrific nightmares, but also to a life as second-class citizens.

One such cured is Senan (Sam Keeley), a young man with a story perhaps more tragic than most. He’s given a home with his photojournalist sister-in-law (Ellen Page), though this may be because she’s only truly aware of

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what he’s done from a theoretical standpoint.

Meanwhile, Senan’s pal from quarantine, Conor (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, The Inflitrator), was once a lawyer and strongly dislikes his new station in life; he hatches a plan to free those who are still sick to sow the seeds of chaos. Mayhem ensues, everyone’s worst fears are realized.

Keeley brings a palpable sadness to a man grappling with horrible events beyond his control, and Vaughan-Lawlor carries much of

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the weight as a silver-tongued monster who may even be worse post-cure. But while scenes between them are generally emotionally charged and riveting, Page’s nosy Abbie, an American, they say, who can’t get home—though we imagine it’s because the Irish brogue was probably beyond her ability—is beyond boring.

We begin to dread her scenes and long for Keeley’s understated trauma, and it’s really his film anyway.

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The pacing and editing begin to undercut the interesting tale, however, and the passage of time becomes unclear. Tense moments are overpunctuated with slogging scenes about family, and the payoff we get isn’t really what such an interesting idea deserved. Still, in a sea of zombie movies that boil down to little more than sheer violence, The Cured enters an exclusive pantheon beside other notable genre-definers such as 28 Days Later and ultimately proves a capable and refreshing movie. (Alex De Vore) Jean Cocteau Cinema, R, 95 min.

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- NOTHING TOO IMPACTFUL OR DEEP

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 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Old folks tackle The Mikado in Humor Me. 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 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. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 93 min.

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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 discov-

ered moments later render said spy thing moot.

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.

(ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, R, 139 min.

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- 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,

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We thought Red Sparrow would be about the ballet, but it’s really about wrecking fools.

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.

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

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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.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The British science fiction TV show Dr. Who has appeared on BBC in 40 of the last 54 years. Over that span, the titular character has been played by 13 different actors. From 2005 until 2010, Aries actor David Tennant was the magic, immortal, time-traveling Dr. Who. His ascendance to the role fulfilled a hopeful prophecy he had made about himself when he was 13 years old. Now is an excellent time for you, too, to predict a glorious, satisfying, or successful occurrence in your own future. Think big and beautiful!

stroll through groves of very old trees. Catch my drift, Libra? Surround yourself with soulful beauty—or else! Or else what? Or else I’ll be sad. Or else you might be susceptible to buying into the demoralizing thoughts that people around you are propagating. Or else you may become blind to the subtle miracles that are unfolding, and fail to love them well enough to coax them into their fullest ripening. Now get out there and hunt for soulful beauty that awakens your deepest reverence for life.

Feeling awe is a necessity for you right now, not a luxury.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): New York City is the most densely populated city in North America. Its land is among the most expensive on earth; one estimate says the average price per acre is $16 million. Yet there are two uninhabited islands less than a mile off shore in the East River: North Brother Island and South Brother Island. Their combined 16 acres are theoretically worth $256 million. But no one goes there or enjoys it; it’s not even parkland. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I suspect it’s an apt metaphor for a certain situation in your life: a potentially rich resource or influence that you’re not using. Now is a good time to update your relationship with it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the Sikh religion, devotees are urged to attack weakness and sin with five “spiritual weapons”: contentment, charity, kindness, positive energy, and humility. Even if you’re not a Sikh, I think you’ll be wise to employ this strategy in the next two weeks. Why? Because your instinctual nature will be overflowing with martial force, and you’ll have to work hard to channel it constructively rather than destructively. The best way to do that is to be a vehement perpetrator of benevolence and healing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1970, a biologist was hiking through a Brazilian forest when a small monkey landed on his head, having jumped from a tree GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The iconic 1942 movie branch. Adelmar Coimbra-Filho was ecstatic. He realized Casablanca won three Academy Awards and has often that his visitor was a member of the species known as appeared on critics’ lists of the greatest films ever made. the golden-rumped lion tamarin, which had been regardThat’s amazing considering the fact that the production ed as extinct for 65 years. His lucky accident led to a was so hectic. When shooting started, the script was renewed search for the elusive creatures, and soon more incomplete. The writing team frequently presented the were discovered. I foresee a metaphorically comparable finished version of each new scene on the day it was to experience coming your way, Sagittarius. A resource or be filmed. Neither the director nor the actors knew how influence or marvel you assumed was gone will reappear. the plot would resolve until the end of the process. I How will you respond? With alacrity, I hope! bring this to your attention, Gemini, because it reminds me of a project you have been working on. I suggest you CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Velcro fastener is a handy invention that came into the world thanks to a start improvising less and planning more. How do you Swiss engineer named George de Mestral. While wanwant this phase of your life to climax? dering around the Alps with his dog, he got curious CANCER (June 21-July 22): If all goes well in the coming about the bristly seeds of the burdock plants that weeks, you will hone your wisdom about how and when adhered to his pants and his dog. After examining them and why to give your abundant gifts to deserving recipiunder a microscope, he got the idea to create a clothing ents—as well as how and when and why to not give your fastener that imitated their sticking mechanism. In abundant gifts to deserving recipients. If my hopes come accordance with the astrological omens, Capricorn, I to pass, you will refine your ability to share your tender invite you to be alert for comparable breakthroughs. Be depths with worthy allies—and you will refine your understanding of when to not share your tender depths receptive to help that comes in unexpected ways. Study with worthy allies. Finally, Cancerian, if you are as smart your environment for potentially useful clues and tips. as I think you are, you will have a sixth sense about how Turn the whole world into your classroom and laboratory. It’s impossible to predict where and when you may to receive as many blessings as you disseminate. receive a solution to a long-running dilemma!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How adept are you at playing AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On May 29, 1953, along the boundaries between the dark and the light, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed to the top between confounding dreams and liberated joy, of Mount Everest. They were celebrated as intrepid between “Is it real?” and “Do I need it?”? You now heroes. But they couldn’t have done it without massive have an excellent opportunity to find out more about support. Their expedition was powered by 20 Sherpa your capacity to thrive on delightful complexity. But I guides, 13 other mountaineers, and 362 porters who should warn you. The temptation to prematurely simplify things might be hard to resist. There may be cau- lugged 10,000 pounds of baggage. I bring this to your tious pressure coming from a timid voice in your head attention, Aquarius, in the hope that it will inspire you. that’s not fierce enough to want you to grow into your The coming weeks will be an excellent time to gather best and biggest self. But here’s what I predict: You will more of the human resources and raw materials you will bravely explore the possibilities for self-transformation need for your rousing expedition later this year. that are available outside the predictable niches.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Although her work is VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Cultivating a robust sense of humor makes you more attractive to people you want to be attractive to. An inclination to be fun-loving is another endearing quality that’s worthy of being part of your intimate repertoire. There’s a third virtue related to these two: playfulness. Many humans of all genders are drawn to those who display joking, lighthearted behavior. I hope you will make maximum use of these qualities during the coming weeks, Virgo. You have a cosmic mandate to be as alluring and inviting as you dare.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I suggest you gaze at exquisitely wrought Japanese woodcuts… and listen to jazz trumpeter Miles Davis collaborating with saxophonist John Coltrane… and inhale the aroma of the earth as you

among the best Russian literature of the twentieth century, poet Marina Tsvetayeva lived in poverty. When fellow poet Rainer Maria Rilke asked her to describe the kingdom of heaven, she said, “Never again to sweep floors.” I can relate. To earn a living in my early adulthood, I washed tens of thousands of dishes in restaurant kitchens. Now that I’m grown up, one of my great joys is to avoid washing dishes. I invite you to think along these lines, Pisces. What seemingly minor improvements in your life are actually huge triumphs that evoke profound satisfaction? Take inventory of small pleasures that are really quite miraculous.

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Petitioner Nicanora Armijo will apply to the Honorable Francis J. Mathew, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN New Mexico, at 11:15 a.m. on THE PROBATE COURT the 30th day of March 2018 for COUNTY OF SANTA FE an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF No. PB-2018-0020 NAME from Nicanora Armijo to IN THE MATTER OF THE Nikki A. Boone.

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Post Office Box 23434 STEPHEN T. PACHECO, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502 District Court Clerk Phone: (505) 982-8201 By: Corinne Onate Deputy Court Clerk STATE OF NEW MEXICO Submitted by: Ruby Ronquillo COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST Petitioner, Pro Se JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO PETITION OF MANUEL DE IN THE PROBATE COURT JESUS DERAS GALDAMEZ Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-00478 SANTA FE COUNTY No. 2018-0010 NOTICE OF PETITION FOR IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance OF Billy Spillers, DECEASED. with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been et seq. the Petitioner, Manuel appointed personal representade Jesus Deras Galdamez will tive of this estate. All persons apply to the Honorable Judge Francis J. Mathew, District Judge having claims against this estate of the First Judicial District at the are required to present their claims within four (4) months Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 after the date of the first publicaMontezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 11:15 a.m. on the tion of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims 30th day of March, 2018 for a FINAL ORDER FOR CHANGE OF must be presented either to the NAME from MANUEL DE JESUS undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, DERAS GALDAMEZ to ELIAS or filed with the Probate Court of KILIAN DIAZ. Santa Fe, County, New Mexico, STEPHEN T. PACHECO located at the following address: Clerk of the District Court 102 Grant Ave., By: Corinne Onate Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Court Clerk Dated: March 13, 2018.

Respectfully submitted, Jeffrey Spillers Kaitlin A. Alley, 2300 Antonio Lane Attorney for Petitioner Santa Fe, NM 87507 4470 Rodeo Rd 505-690-7619 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507 (505) 476-5600 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRCIT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Case No. D-101-PB-2018-00039 IN THE MATTER OF THE IN THE MATTER OF A ESTATE OF JOANNE L. ELLIS PETITION FOR THE CHANGE OF NAME OF Nicanora Armijo. (a/k/a Jody Ellis), DECEASED. Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-00457 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that AMENDED NOTICE OF Peter Wirth, whose address is CHANGE OF NAME c/o Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid, TAKE NOTICE that in accorP.C., 708 Paseo de Peralta, Santa dance with the provisions Fe, New Mexico 87501, has been of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the appointed personal representative

procured and constructed under bid packages on May 10, 2018 separate contracts. with lump sum proposals due CDM Constructors Inc. June 10, 2018. The anticipated is currently prequalifying notice to proceed date for construction subcontractors construction is July 2018 with for the project and all major project completion in 2021.

LEGAL NOTICES - subcontractor packages will Interested contractors and be competitively bid and will suppliers should visit the CDM ALL OTHERS require prequalification. We Smith Subcontracting page are seeking qualified Native at www.cdmsmith.com/en/ NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR American, Small Business, Small Subcontracting to register in the PREQUALIFICATION FOR Disadvantaged, Women-Owned, vendor database and specific CONSTRUCTION SERVICES project information, including the CDM Constructors Inc., a wholly- HUBZone, Veteran, and ServiceDisabled Veteran Owned firms to required pre-qualification package owned subsidiary of CDM Smith Inc., has been awarded a contract participate throughout the project. will be under the Pojoaque Major packages are estimated to Basin Regional Water System by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation to rangein size from $50,000 to $15 solicitation page. Completed design, construct and commission million and include the following: prequalification questionnaire Excavation/Grading packages must be completed by Phase 1 of the Pojoaque Basin March 31, 2018. For additional Regional Water System (PBRWS) AC Paving Concrete information please contact Ram project. The project will deliver Slope Stabilization / Soil Anchoring Palaniyappan at (720) 264-1183 potable water to Pueblo and palaniyappanr@cdmsmith.com County residents in the Pojoaque Site Utility Piping Installation Fencing or Ben Hamann at (303) 383-2414 Basin by collecting and treating hamannbl@cdmsmith.com .

Landscaping and Revegetation water from the Rio Grande. The As part of our contractual Pre-engineered Metal Buildings water will then be transmitted, obligations with the Bureau Doors & Windows stored, and delivered to local STATE OF NEW MEXICO of Reclamation, the following Drywall residents, as authorized by the COUNTY OF SANTA FE subcontracting goals have been Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act Bolted Steel Tanks FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT identified for the PBRWS project, HVAC Phase 1 of the PBRWS project is No. D-101-PB-2018-00032 contract no. R17PC00023 and Plumbing being delivered under a designIN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE build contract consisting of includes Indian Preference Painting & Specialty Coatings OF WILLIAM M. FIELD, III, Deceased. subsurface raw water intake Clauses I-27 1452.227-81 and Fire Sprinkler/Alarm Systems NOTICE TO CREDITORS I.28 1452.226-71. Small Business: Water Pipeline Installation facilities from the Rio Grande, a NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 20% of subcontracted dollars QC Testing Services & new 6.3 million gallon per day that the undersigned has Small Disadvantaged: 10% of Laboratory Analysis drinking water treatment plant, been appointed Personal subcontracted dollars WomenAdditional opportunities for treated water storage tanks, a Representative of this estate. All pump station and approximately Owned: 5% of subcontracted smaller subcontractors and persons having claims against dollars Service-Disabled-Veteranmaterial supply packages are 30 miles of water transmission this estate are required to and distribution pipelines ranging anticipated, but will not bid at this Owned: 3% of subcontracted present their claims within four in size from 6-30 inches. Phases dollars HUB Zone: 3% of time. Those subcontractors who (4) months after the date of the 2 and 3 of the project will be subcontracted dollars are prequalified will be provided first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative in care of Karen Aubrey, Esq., Law Office of Karen Aubrey, Post Office Box 8435, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435, or filed with the First Judicial District Court, Santa Fe County Judicial Complex, Post Office Box 2268, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2268.

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In addition to our weekly flagship newspaper STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN product, we publish five glossy magazines each THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY year, four digital newsletters each week and daily No. 2017-0205 web content.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JANINE TWOHILL Compensation includes a base salary for the first GOMEZ, DECEASED. to increase our month and aggressive commission on new clients NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN for the first three months. market share that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative by building This is a full-time position with benefits, including of this estate. All persons having health and dental insurance, a 401(K) retirement relationships and claims against this estate are plan. Successful entry level executives in this required to present their claims providing diverse, within two (2) months after the market can earn $45,000 or more per year. date of the first publication of this new sales strategies notice, or the claims will be forever Candidate must possess own vehicle and valid for our current barred. Claims must be presented driver’s license and insurance. Send letters of either to the undersigned personal clients. interest to advertising@sfreporter.com. representative at the address listed below, or filed with the No phone calls.

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132 E. Marcy St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 Dated: February 9, 2018. of the Estate of Joanne L. Ellis, deceased. Creditors of the estate must present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or within (60) days after mailing or other delivery, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the Personal Representative, Peter Wirth, in care of Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid, P.C., 708 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, or filed with the First Judicial District Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

Dated: March 12, 2018.

Respectfully submitted, SAWTELL, WIRTH & BIEDSCHEID, P.C. Attorneys for the Estate of Joanne L. Ellis 708 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 988-1668 By: Peter Wirth

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