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TAKE TWO WHEELS AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING 8 E-bikes might be the remedy to car commuting that we’ve been looking for DEVOURED BY A DEFICIT 9 The largest budget deficit in city history forces authorities and residents to make tough choices THE INTERFACE 11 SO YOU WANNA BE A CONTACT TRACER? The basics are simple, but new technology and a massive need bring challenges for training COVER STORY 12 THE BAND-AID LOANS An unprecedented amount of federal aid was made available to small businesses through forgiveable loans—but who’s actually benefiting?

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One of the most adamant critics of the film is the director Josh Fox (Gasland 2010, an excellent anti-fracking documentary.) He claims the film is completely wrong... the film spent too much time on biomass power plants that only produce 1.4% of the power in the US. There are over 750 biomass power plants in the US burning trees, devastating our forest and adding to the problem of climate change. That is a tragedy of monumental proportions in my opinion...Thirtyfour states still have oil and grass fracking.

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t’s medicine,” read the text message.

“Say yes,” came another.

Both tires on my bike were flat from the long winter that still didn’t quite feel over. It was week three of social distancing thanks to COVID-19, and I found myself pedaling out of the SFR parking lot on an e-bike from our neighbor shop, Mellow Velo.

Normally this bike gets rented to tourists here on spring break, but I’ve been able to borrow it for more than a month after state health orders in mid-March ended sales and rentals at the shop.

Shop owner David Bell had made the offer earlier via those texts, and his two-minute tutorial included a prophecy: “You will have none of the chaos of driving, none of the bad habits that we do while driving, because you are just replacing that time that usually creates pockets of anxiety in everybody’s day with something where there is no opportunity to foster any of that.”

The contemporary e-bike is nothing like the smoking moped or the lurching hulk of earlier iterations. The one I borrowed has four power-assist settings plus a boost throttle for short bursts. The motor doesn’t just go when the power switch flips on; rather, it responds to the force applied to the pedals.

The first things I noticed were the smells, dough baking as I rode behind Back Road Pizza; corn frying and pork roasting at La Choza; fresh cut sheets of plywood and frames in Las Soleras; then more recently, all manner of blooming flowers.

The silent motor takes the pain out of riding. I get exercise, but that last killer 500 feet of hill to my friends’ driveway off the River Trail doesn’t take heavy breathing.

In fact, it was not hard to keep the bike hovering above 30 mph, surpassing

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the speed limit on roads such as Camino Carlos Rey. Then there was the long, exploratory, got-all-the-time-in-the-world ride I took on a sunny and windy Sunday afternoon where I covered 12 miles without really thinking about it. The world feels both bigger and smaller on this bike.

And using the bike to deliver weekly SFR print editions to the post office for subscribers barely felt like work.

Still, there are some puzzling and frustrating aspects to cycling that the

electric motor does not fix. I’m still wondering about the dude who flipped me off as I slowed for a stop sign and he turned right. And since this machine is equipped with a speedometer, I know that I’m already breaking the 25 mph posted speed limit when vehicles rip around to pass.

The roads, however, don’t seem quite as daunting when you know you’ve got extra help from the motor. Plus, the vehicular traffic has been lighter than normal thanks to the stay-at-home orders.

Mostly, my trips, even long ones, don’t use more than a quarter of the battery power. Most of the time I make several trips before I recharge. And just once, I let it run all the way down so I could see how hard it was to create some stored energy using the regeneration function.

Turns out I’m late to the party.

Dr. Stewart Anderson has been commuting from his home in the South Capitol to his job at a Southside emergency room since January 2019 on an e-bike. He has also launched a mobile

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Stylin’ with an e-bike to deliver the mailed weekly subscriptions to the post office.

medical practice and is biking to house calls.

“You’re still riding a bike but it’s 50% easier, and you can still show up within a reasonable amount of time and not be sweaty,” he says. “It just gets you out of your car and brings joy to the whole process of riding…and it’s good for the planet, your body and your mind.”

Bell says the most frequent argument he hears is that e-bikes are “cheating” or they aren’t “old school” enough for some.

“It’s so hard to receive that information because I really just don’t think American cyclists are older school than French people or Italian people or Spanish people or Japanese people that actually have incorporated bicycles into their culture in a very meaningful way,” he says. “Fifty-five to 60% of bicycles sold in those countries are now e-bikes. It’s not an accident. And they are not less old school and they are not less traditional.

They just understand that this is a really incredible piece of infrastructure.”

Mellow Vello is not the only game in town for e-bikes, of course. But for Sleeping Bear Electric Bikes, e-bikes are the only game.

Phil Lepak opened the store at La Tienda in Eldorado in 2018, his second store in a chain he started in Michigan six years earlier. Sales volume here has been similar so far to what it was like when he started there—steady at first, followed by rapid growth—and New Mexico looks to increase its interest in e-bikes.

Although his shop also has been limited to repairs rather than sales since the COVID-19 public health orders, Lepak has a list of appointments for what he hopes is a reopening later this month.

“When e-bikes first came out they were considered to be for older people, but people of all ages are buying them because they realize it’s a good way to get exercise and to use as basic transportation,” he says.

With a price range between $1,500 and $3,900, they’re not cheap. But cheaper than a car? You bet. And the medicine works.

Traditionally, Santa Fe celebrates Bike Week in the month of May. The group rides, workshops, games and more got canceled along with so much other fun stuff. But organizers are focusing on the whole month now. Solo and small groups of riders can still get inspired and stay connected with ideas at santafebikeweek. com. The May Masquerade, for example, asks bikers to wear costumes and masks and to pose for pictures in front of a red wall at the Violet Crown for use in a “virtual parade.”

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Devoured by a Deficit As Santa Fe eyes its largest predicted budget shortfall ever, city residents are asked what they’d be willing to give up to break even

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anta Fe is facing its largest ever budget shortfall, and it’s clear that city programs and services will take some drastic cuts in the COVID-19 pandemic’s aftermath. But without any signals from Mayor Alan Webber’s administration about where those cuts might come from, it seems that anything and everything is on the block.

On Monday, city officials announced an expected budget deficit of at least $100 million for fiscal year 2021, which begins July 1.

It’s “the worst budget shortfall in our history,” Finance Director Mary McCoy wrote in a memo sent to the governing body, telling city councilors and the mayor that economic fallout from stay-at-home orders has catapulted the city into an “unprecedented financial crisis.”

The shortfall represents a 30% drop in revenues into all funds, she said during a news conference earlier Monday. The general fund— expecting a gap of $31 million for fiscal year 2021—has been particularly hard hit by the drop in gross receipts taxes as business ground

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to a halt for much of the last two months.

Many businesses will reopen as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s orders are lifted, but revenues are expected to recover more slowly. The city’s estimates are based on a calculation of when, how and at what capacity businesses will reopen, said the mayor.

The drop in GRT could also impact the city’s AA+ bond rating, McCoy said, making it more expensive to take out loans.

New Mexico faces a $1.7 billion to $2.4 billion drop in revenues, which she expects will cause capital outlay funds and other funding from the state to dry up in the coming year.

Lawmakers are planning a special session to remake the state budget this summer.

Webber said the city will begin looking for cuts department by department, and will also look at spending reductions across departments to make city programs more efficient and eliminate redundancies while still providing essential services to residents. This cross-departmental discussion will be overseen by three committees in June—Public Works and Utilities, Finance and the newly created Quality of Life Committee—before a final list of recommendations is presented in budget hearings in July.

The city is still hoping to receive assistance from the federal government as well. On Friday, the US House of Representatives passed the HEROES Act, an aid package that includes relief money for small cities. If passed by the Senate, Santa Fe could receive between $14 and $20 million. But even that would hardly be enough to stall the major changes that will be necessary.

In April, the city furloughed workers as one of several strategies to close the anticipated $46 million gap in the 2020 budget.

Those furloughs resulted in less than $2 million in savings. Webber did not say how

many of the staff changes will become permanent layoffs in order to meet the 2021 budget deficit or what other strategies the city is planning to employ in order to deal with the sudden shortfall.

“There is no plan right now because the budget is a plan,” Webber said. “And we’re going to create the plan collaboratively with the entire governing body and the participation of the department heads and with the input of residents on what they believe are the priorities that the city ought to use our resources to address.”

The city was quick to begin seeking input from residents with a survey released online Tuesday asking Santa Feans to help “re-imagine how we do business and where we focus priorities after COVID-19 and moving forward.”

The survey asks respondents to rank the importance of city spending within categories such as infrastructure, community services and economic development.

Some questions ask for respondents to pick between equally grim alternatives that paint a picture of what could be in store for the city in the coming months and years.

If the city had to close some facilities, one question asks, would you prefer to close all libraries and keep recreation facilities open or close all recreation facilities in order to keep the libraries up and running? Or just keep some rec centers and some libraries open?

McCoy said she expects full recovery from the economic downturn caused by COVID-19 to take five to six years. In the short term, Webber said the speed with which the city is able to recover economically will depend on how the public health crisis continues to unfold and Santa Fe’s own ability to keep the virus at bay and attract visitors back to the city.

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So You Wanna Be a Contact Tracer?

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BY JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl

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ast week brought good news and bad news when it comes to New Mexico’s COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. On the bright side, the state will be receiving more than $77 million in federal funds for testing and contact tracing. On the other hand, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says the state remains very short on actual contact tracers: it needs at least 670 people and currently has approximately 100. For now, the state is waiting on federal guidance on how to proceed.

In a nutshell, contact tracers identify and communicate with people who have been infected and those with whom they were in contact. The practice has been used for decades by health departments for a variety of illnesses, including tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections and HIV, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention characterizes contact tracing as a key element in controlling the COVID-19 outbreak.

I wrote last month about digital contact tracing—apps to monitor and notify patients and contacts—and the challeng-

es they face. These continue to unfold. As Politico reported last weekend, numerous states are now trying to develop their own apps with little success: North Dakota encountered spotty cell service with its rollout and Utah had to delay its app due to a technical mishap with GPS. New Mexico has yet to fully reveal its plans, although the governor previously said the state would be rolling out a pilot program with software company Accenture.

Privacy issues remain. A late April poll by the Washington Post and the University of Maryland reported close to three in five Americans would be either unwilling or unable to use the COVID-19 system Google

and Apple are developing. And of the 82% of Americans who have smartphones, only half said they would use such an app.

Just as mask-wearing has become political, so were responses to the survey, with Republicans more resistant to the apps and Democrats more willing to use them.

However digital tracing efforts ultimately fare, the need for actual humans to conduct contact tracing remains pressing. To respond to the need for more contact tracers, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health epidemiologists recently created a free online training course through Coursera. I learned of it from a WIRED magazine article by Megan Molteni, who notes that the US only has 2,200 contact tracers and potentially needs 100,000 to 200,000. Curious about what the job entails, she enrolled in the course. Equally curious, I followed suit.

Although I’m not looking for a new job, I had imagined one that requires calling up strangers and asking nosy questions might be in my wheelhouse.

The course begins with a basic primer on COVID-19 by Johns Hopkins Associate Scientist Emily Gurley on the virus’ origins, clinical signs and risk factors, followed by quick quizzes on signs and symptoms; diagnostic and antibody tests; intubation and infection periods. Having done little

Coursera’s new COVID-19 Contact Tracing course includes explanations for calculating incubation and infection times, along with examples of contact phone calls.

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else but read and write about COVID-19 for the last six weeks, I sped through the introduction and, at the risk of sounding boastful about something sort of weird, did quite well on Module 1.

I started fading a bit, though, when I reached the nitty gritty of actual contact tracing, which involves calculating intubation and infection periods with specific people in order to calculate isolation periods for sick people and quarantine durations for healthy but exposed people, and following up with all of them. This essentially turns into a very grim version of a grade-school math question. As detailed

by Gurley: “Let’s assume that you identify a case, and you call them on May 10th. During the conversation with them, they tell you that they became ill on May 9th. So now you know that they were infectious for two days before they became ill, and they will be infectious for at least 10 days after their onset. So that means May 9th plus 10 days equals May 19th…”

I skipped ahead to watch examples of both basic case and contact calls. In the first instance, a nice young woman named Amy Jones from the Hillside Health Department contacts Larry Murray, 73, recently diagnosed with COVID-19 and checks in with him as Murray, coughing, pleasantly cooperates. In the next video, Drew Evans contacts the impatient Annette Peterson to let her know she had spent time the previous Saturday with someone who was later diagnosed. “Oh my God!” she replies. “Are you sure? No! This can’t be happening.”

It occurred to me then I was much more likely to be the impatient hysterical person receiving such a call than the calm calendar-wielding person making it. Nonetheless, I’m determined to complete the course and hopefully others will as well. While Annette’s hysteria wasn’t that pleasant, it was understandable. But the more people like Drew and Amy—informed and calm—the better.

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he familiar wooden figure of a voluptuous woman decked out in Western wear swings in the wind over an empty patio while, inside, an abandoned pool hall abuts a deserted dining room.

It’s Friday night at Cowgirl BBQ, and there are other signs that things are seriously amiss: No servers hustle from the floor back to the kitchen, no bartenders holler your drink order over the din of music and laughter, no friends find the weak spots in your jokes.

Instead, a lone employee wearing a facemask waits at the front by the phone, handling to-go orders.

For the last two months, takeout is the downtown restaurant’s only form of income. And it’s not enough to support the business. In fact, each day the 27-year-old Santa Fe fixture stays open for takeout is another day it’s losing money.

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and head chef Patrick Lambert applied for a loan through the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The money—which is to be used mostly on payroll for eight weeks, though a quarter of it can be spent on utilities and rent—is meant to keep Cowgirl afloat through the pandemic as COVID-19 continues to claim lives and economic fortunes.

“We’re doing what we can to save [the restaurant] but we don’t know, the future is so uncertain,” Lambert tells SFR. “Even when we do reopen, no kiddie corral, no dancing, won’t be able to be served while you’re standing up, no pool hall… It’s gonna be a different Cowgirl. We’re a friendly, fun-loving place where people come to hang out with their buds, have a beer and chat, walk around and see their friends around the tables. That’s all gone.”

Many businesses have hazy futures.

While federal officials aren’t tracking exactly how many businesses have applied for the $2 trillion national loan program, 19,842 have been approved so far in New Mexico. Those approvals brought over $2 billion into the state in early April and May. And the government won’t say which business are receiving money as opposed to those that applied and were denied, clouding the picture of whether the loan program is working as intended.

There are so many other unknowns: the path the COVID-19 pandemic will take and ever-changing regulations around how to use the PPP loans. It appears more federal money is going to Republican-led states that moved quicker to reopen their economies.

Congress intended the money to be a bridge between the pandemic and whatever the other side of this looks like. But businesses in the state wonder whether this money will be enough to keep them open past the summer and, beyond that, whether the cash meant as a lifeline will leave owners saddled with debt.

The loans and ensuing regulations don’t work for every type of small business—particularly in a place with an eclectic economic environment such as Santa Fe, with its reliance on everything from tiny restaurants to large art galleries to shops on the Plaza. PPP cash has been granted to nonprofits such as Homewise and Somos un Pueblo Unido as well as bigger operations like the Meow Wolf arts corporation, for example, which told workers it received over $6 million and still cut 201 jobs.

To plug the gaps in the federal program, the state of New Mexico is considering its own scheme for small business owners. That depends on how much money comes from the feds and the state’s own shaky finances as oil and gas revenues continue to scrape around the bottom of the barrel.

What the numbers say The US Small Business Administration, which oversees the PPP, doesn’t track how many loans have been approved versus denied, making it impossible to know how many businesses that say they’re in need are not getting help. The administration tells SFR there have been denials of PPP applications, just not how many.

In a state like New Mexico, where the SBA says there are about 154,257 small businesses, the number of approved loans so far represents only about 12% of those that are eligible.

An analysis by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting found that of the 1.6 million loans doled out for small businesses in the first round of allotted federal money, states without strict and early stay-at-home orders got business loans at a higher rate.

Businesses in states that President Donald Trump won in 2016 received a greater share of the PPP funds than those won by Hillary Clinton. Trump won eight of the top 10 recipient states in 2016.

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New Mexico is in the bottom 13 states in terms of the percentage of businesses that got loans.

Eleven of the bottom 15 states, ranked according to the percentage of businesses that received loans, voted for Clinton in 2016, the data shows.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham addressed the disparity in an April 24 public address.

“There is a sense that states with either the same population or lower population or maybe just a bit more population, like Nebraska, that they got seven times the amount of money with that PPP…than New Mexico did,” she said. “There’s some real questions we have as well about how this money is being allocated.”

In the first phase of the PPP, 8,277 loans were approved for a total of $1.4 billion coming into New Mexico’s small businesses.

The second round of PPP money brought more loans for New Mexico but less money. Lenders across the state approved 11,565 loans for a total of $818 million going to businesses from April 27 through May 8, according to the SBA.

Only helping some Cash is pouring into the state as banks and credit unions distribute money from approved loans to businesses. But the money works better for some than others. And the precise guidelines are still unclear on exactly what will be forgiven.

Because of that, Lambert remains cautious about spending the loan that he says amounts to less than $2 million.

“What we have is our loyal staff that haven’t been laid off are working at 30% less,” Lambert says. “There’s all kinds of questions about this PPP loan, like, can I make those people whole again during that time? Can I give people hazard pay?

Because, in fact, it is hazardous. There’s a lot of things associated with the loan that we don’t have guidance on and so I can’t spend it that way until I know that it will be forgiven. Otherwise I’m stuck with six figures of debt.”

On top of ambiguous federal guidelines, the loans are not designed for businesses like restaurants that are either closed completely or operating in a very limited way, such as takeout only.

Legislators and lobbyist groups in both Washington, DC and New Mexico realized that unique and locally-owned restaurants, a major attraction in Santa Fe, are going to need extra help to get to the other side.

In the nation’s capital, the National Restaurant Association is pushing for a change in future stimulus packages

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for a total of $818 million going to businesses from April 27 through May 8, according to the SBA.

Cowgirl co-owner and head chef Patrick Lambert says the restaurant is losing money every day it is open only for to-go orders.

for restaurants. The association wants restaurants to be allowed to start spending the PPP money when they are allowed to fully reopen, versus the clock starting as soon as they receive the money. Another possibility for restaurants is extending the length of the PPP loan so that it could be used after July 31.

New Mexico, too, is in the throes of speculation, although Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said at a news conference on May 13 that restaurants might be allowed to open at limited capacity in early June.

State House Speaker Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, tells SFR he thinks program does not work as well for restaurants and hotels because employees often make more money on unemployment than they do working full time. The $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief law enacted in March also added an extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits through July 31.

“It’s not because of a failure in the PPP, it’s not because we shouldn’t have done the extra money for unemployment,” Egolf says. “I think it was just an unintended consequence of provisions in a bill that was, dollar-wise, the largest bill ever passed in the history of Congress, and they did it in a week. We’re looking CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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The Band-Aid Loans Homewise refinanced 41 homeowners in April, compared to four in a typical month. Loftin isn’t too worried—he thinks people will continue to buy and sell their homes.

SFR, which has kept up its print edition and daily web reports amid the shutdowns, obtained a joint PPP loan with its sister paper in Oregon, Willamette Week, last week. The Santa Fe portion of the loan was about $127,054, and restored partial layoffs for 12 full-time employees in the newsroom, advertising, production and circulation departments, as well as other workers. It also covers rent on the newspaper office on Marcy Street for two months.

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We were able to keep everybody working even though we know our revenue is way down. [The PPP loan] buys you that kind of time and then it gives you time to look at what else we can be doing to improve our situation longer term.

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The federal program appears unable to help businesses owned by noncitizens or permanent residents.

According to John Garcia, New Mexico district director for the US Small Business Administration, business owners applying for PPP must certify they are both a US citizen and have a permanent residence as well as submit their Employer Identification Number (EIN) in the application.

Chevo Serna, owner of the Santa Fe Tree Farm, tells SFR he would like to apply for a PPP loan to keep his employees working full-time during the company’s busy season but isn’t sure if he can. He is still in the process of getting his U-nonimmigrant status (U-visa), which can take three to five years during non-pandemic times.

The U-visa is for victims of crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement in the investigation or prosecution of a crime.

Serna tells SFR he has an EIN in order to pay taxes and that all of his employees have Social Security numbers. But he still doesn’t think

he can apply for a loan. For now, he hopes his savings from last year will carry over and that he will have a busy spring and summer.

“I have to use whatever money I saved from the previous year to buy new products and pay my guys to go harvest trees,” Serna says. “Social Security, workers comp, I pay all of those things.”

Still, Serna might not be able to get a PPP loan, despite being one of many thousands of immigrants who pay upwards of a billion dollars in taxes each year to New Mexico.

Marcela Díaz, executive director of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, a nonprofit that also received a PPP loan but did not disclose for how much, tells SFR she thinks a lot of immigrant-owned businesses are not getting loans because of a lack of help from banks and information in Spanish.

“A lot of it centers not around eligibility, but around information not getting to them and not having good relationships with local credit unions or their banks,” Díaz says.

Loans to the big guys Meow Wolf, a large Santa Fe corporation with workers in other states, however, got a hand up from the government.

Meow Wolf is not necessarily Shake Shack or the Los Angeles Lakers, which faced public backlash after taking millions of dollars in PPP loans. But Meow Wolf reportedly received $6.6 million from the federal government—and still laid off hundreds of employees anyway.

Leadership at the company knew it would hit a “financial wall” in June—pandemic or none. A presentation from its three CEOs during a meeting on April 13 with employees, audio of which was obtained by SFR, gives a look into Meow Wolf’s dire financial situation.

“I think that one of the things we have all learned about this and we’ve talked about is, the company grew too big too fast,” Jim Ward, a chief executive officer

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The team at Homewise found other ways to help customers besides buying or selling a home. Interest rates are low right now, so the employees help existing customers get lower mortgage payments.

Loftin tells SFR the nonprofit also used the loan to retrain employees to help with refinancing as well as accessing unemployment benefits.

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at a way to do a similar program to PPP at the state government level if we get clarification that we can use some of the $1.25 billion from the CARES Act for economic recovery and stimulus.”

That’s a big “if” for an unknown time in the future. New Mexico legislators are waiting to see what the next federal stimulus packages look like before exploring ways to use state permanent funds for economic development and recovery.

Accessing the general fund at all is off the table, according to Egolf, because there is likely to be a $1.7 to $2.4 billion shortfall in the state budget. More decisions are likely to be made in a special legislative session that’s not yet scheduled.

“We’ve got to see the full range of funding options and that includes potential federal support,” the speaker says. “If we do end up with a state-based PPP program, I’ve said that it needs to give an opportunity to participate first to those businesses that did not have a chance to participate in the federal PPP for whatever reason… And I think we’d need to design it to take into account what we’ve learned about how it helps or doesn’t help restaurants.”

For businesses that can continue to operate even during a pandemic, the PPP loan is more effective. Egolf’s law firm received a $248,000 loan from the PPP and has used it to keep 100% benefits coverage and full-time work for its 12 workers. Homewise, which helps buy and sell homes, used its loan of about $1.5 million to keep all of its 97 employees working—albeit from home as much as possible.

“We were able to keep everybody working even though we know our revenue is way down,” says Homewise CEO Mike Loftin.

The PPP loan “buys you that kind of time and then it gives you time to look at what else we can be doing to improve our situation longer term.”

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at Meow Wolf, said during the meeting.

The CEOs declined an interview for this story. They issued a statement that read in part, “our actions this past month in terms of the depth of our restructuring were, unfortunately, entirely related to the necessity of withstanding the financial impact due to COVID-19.”

Entertainment venues are not permitted to reopen under current state orders.

The community banks Even Meow Wolf’s millions are just a slice of the more than $2 billion in federal PPP funds that have come into New Mexico through the program’s two rounds.

Jerry Walker, president and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers Association of New Mexico, says most of the money moved out quickly, especially in the first round of funding, because it came through New Mexico’s community banks. These locally owned banks can offer more personalized service, as well as financial services in rural areas of the state where national and regional chains won’t put a branch.

New Mexico has just 33 community banks. But they were major players in the disbursement of the 8,277 first-round loans.

“I did an internal survey of our community banks here and found that our banks had done over 5,000 of those loans and of that $1.4 billion that was lent during that first round… I could account for about $966 million in loan authorizations for community banks,” Walker tells SFR. “We truly are a small business state, not only for retail businesses, but also for banking. And people need to realize and remember that community banks really are just small businesses, too.”

Bankers also tell SFR the second round of funding has seen loan amounts plummet—from 30% to 60% lower.

Walker thinks it could be because very small businesses are finally able to apply and get approved.

Colin Keegan and the team at Santa Fe Spirits created “Welcome Back” packs for reopening businesses that need hand sanitizers and disinfectants.

Gary Lutz, regional president of Century Bank, another community institution that served several of the Santa Fe businesses SFR interviewed, says he and his employees have been working overtime to process the “overwhelming” number of applications that have rolled in over the last month.

The bank has processed loan applications and money for about 600 New Mexico businesses so far with $100 million in funding, while preserving about 13,500 jobs, Lutz says.

“How do you funnel the Rio Grande River into a garden hose?” he says. “It’s just a matter of… recognizing the most important piece of this is, at the end of every one of these applications is a business owner trying to save their business and trying to help their employees get paid. So that gives us a real strong sense of duty and obligation to do it fast and do it right.”

Despite banks seeming to move quickly and efficiently in dumping as much money as possible into New Mexico, the

PPP is narrowly focused on a window of time and only for certain needs that do not work well for every business.

In the meantime, while COVID-19 nestles into New Mexicans’ lives and the rest of the world, Santa Fe’s businesses are getting creative as they look for ways to stay open and make it to the other side.

At Santa Fe Spirits, a distillery and collection of taprooms owned by Colin Keegan, the team has turned to making hand sanitizer where it once made craft vodka. Keegan also applied for and received an $84,000 PPP loan, which he says is equal to two months of payroll.

As businesses prepare to open up and people return to work, Santa Fe Spirits put together a “Welcome Back Pack” complete with disinfectant and hand sanitizer. It also now sells premade cocktails in addition to the company’s well known small-batch liquors.

But these are just small steps the company can take to make it through the stay-at-home orders and deepening economic downturn.

While Keegan had to lay off the taproom staff, he still has five employees on site, running curbside deliveries and bottling hand sanitizer.

“We have to spend that money to keep it forgivable so we know we’re good ‘til the middle of June,” Keegan tells SFR in the upstairs office at the distillery. “It came in the middle of March and we started really spending it in April.”

The loan gave Keegan breathing space.

He hopes his two main streams of income will be up and running again by then—his taprooms and regional distribution. Not only to pay his employees but to pay the other mounting bills for which he can’t use the PPP loan.

“We’re waiting for some golden nugget to come out of something, which is very nerve racking as a business owner,” Keegan says. “The PPP loan gave us some time to breathe and plan, the sanitizers gave us a bit more time… But we can’t survive on hand sanitizer.”

This story was completed with information from Reveal’s reporting networks.

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Now, however, he’s compiled some of his favorite pieces into the new book Santa Fe Different: 22 Years and All I Got Was a Cheeseburger, and folks who live and love in this state should take notice.

Vigil reads from his new tome and gets together with fans via Zoom chat presented by Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse this week, and for people who love this state, it’s sure to be all bad. (ADV) Arnold Vigil: Santa Fe Columns: 6 pm Thursday, May 21. Free. collectedworksbookstore.com

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Though Brisk is known for chillout, he’s often been fairly danceable—this time out, though, his music feels more like a guided meditation piece.

“Honestly, it was surprisingly egoless,” Brisk explains. “I was really blanking. I was really removing myself from the process as much as a I could, if that makes sense—working slowly, slicing it up and arranging the various sounds. It naturally evolved.”

As for live performance, Brisk is set to kick off a series of Wednesday livestreamed AudioBuddha events on platform giant Twitch this week. He says these online events will generally stick to darkwave, ’80s and ’90s electro remixes and “a nice gothy edge.” But with experiments in new methodology and a renewed emphasis on creation, the shows really could be anything. (Alex De Vore)

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Get all your “It reminds me of Van Gogh!” ya-yas out and really take a closer look at Scottish painter Angus Wilson’s still life works. Wilson opens the digital exhibit New Life in Still Life at Ventana Fine Art this week, and though we’ve definitely been humming Don McLean in our heads while perusing the images, we’re also catching bold color choices and a dreamlike number of floral and tree pieces we swear we could almost smell. Before going into painting full time, Wilson worked in the entertainment business. Since 2004, he’s turned a part-time painting hobby into a full-on practice. Yes, there are throwback elements to the work, but there’s a decidedly contemporary edge, too. You know these pieces, but only kind of—and that familiarity feels nice, particularly as Wilson surprises and impresses on a more subtle and nuanced level than expected from the timehonored still life. (ADV) Angus Wilson: New Life in Still Life: 5 pm Friday, May 22. Free. ventanafineart.com/angus

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After decades in the DJ trenches, AudioBuddha (aka Steve Brisk) knows how to soothe the soul. He’s long been a fan of chill-out jams, a purveyor of everything from techno to house to ambient soundscapes—and with a new piece of music called Commodity Ocean available at audiobuddha.bandcamp.com, Brisk has entered more experimental territory.

“I’ve been sheltered in place since mid-March, and this is a result of me staying at home and meditating,” he says. “I decided to do something with an oceanic theme. I wanted to play on the intersection between oceans and commerce.”

If your mind snaps to visions of environmentalism and politics, you’re not so far off, according to Brisk. With a combination of his own audio libraries and found sound pieces like grocery store background noise, shopping bag instrumentation and a rhythm track created with Coke cans, he’s definitely making a statement. But rather than a fingerwagging how-dare-you opus, Commodity Ocean is more about reflection and possibly stirring change within oneself.

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AW, HELL YEAH, DAWGS! We couldn’t even imagine living through this point in time without our pets. No offense to the pet-less, but when we’re having a tough day and one of those four-legged bastards wanders in all wide-eyed and cute, everything else seems to melt away. The fine folks at Back Road Pizza have similar feelings, and that’s why they’re hosting the special Pints for Pups fundraising event to benefit the Santa Fe Animal Shelter—which has provided free food to laid-off or furloughed employees of late and which does all kinds of great stuff all the time. On Saturday, May 23, Back Road offers up special custom pint glasses, a raffle, prizes and pizza, and proceeds go to the shelter. Eat pizza and help adorable animals? This might be a flawless plan. (ADV) Pints for Pups: All Day Saturday, May 23. backroadpizza.com

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ast month, I wrote an open letter to Grubhub CEO, Matt Maloney, taking him to task for peddling a homespun vision of supporting local restaurants while running a predatory platform that has driven many to the brink.

That created a stir. Many people wrote to say they didn’t realize how these delivery platforms are threatening to kill the restaurant, an institution that survived centuries of tumult but may not make it through the COVID-19 crisis.

This is my open letter to the rest of you, a democratic nation of eaters. The decisions you make have the power to reshape American food and life for a generation.

You should be worried. We are headed from the Ghost Farm to the Ghost Kitchen.

In the Information Age, dear diner, you are the commodity. Every taco you tap is tracked and cultivated in a digital data field and stored in one of the server farms as ubiquitous as grain elevators in the Corn Belt. Who we are and what we do have become the digital equivalent of industrial corn, processed, packaged and sold as convenience. Like a Twinkie.

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only food factories, a restaurant without a front door. The Ghost Kitchen is technology’s dream for restaurants—not ours. The founder of Uber has invested in them. Meanwhile, the company he was ousted from is trying to purchase Grubhub.

If Uber and Grubhub merge, it will create a network that could gobble up local hubs and become as omnipotent in food as Amazon is in retail. Independent restaurants will go the way of cabbies and canal boats. The era of the Ghost Kitchen will have arrived.

Third-party delivery revenues are growing five times faster than restaurants.

As I explained in my letter, billions that might have supported local food and food workers instead go to publicly traded or venture capital-backed technology platforms. Tiny sandwich shops run lean and let paint peel so Silicon Valley can get thicker around the middle.

The last time technology disrupted food in exchange for a fat slice of profit was right after World War II, in the spuriously named Green Revolution. Farming was modernized when technologies used to kill people found peacetime purpose in agriculture courtesy of agritech companies like DuPont and Monsanto.

Farmers were encouraged to treat their land like factories—to grow monocrops propped up with expensive fertilizers (made from the technology to create explosives) and pesticides (which had been nerve gas). The tenets of farming became old-fashioned overnight. There was no

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every cuisine on the planet battle for your attention and promise delivery right to your door. But quality and creativity suffer even as the pictures get prettier, like the beautiful-but-flavorless melons of industrial agriculture.

Our menus are big and our food is good because of our dining rooms. Our layered staff exists because we’ve had them fill and empty reliably, like lungs. As takeout replaces in-house dining, we’ll have to cut staff and simplify J menus. The changes forced upon us during COVID-19 will become permanent. We won’t be able to afford as many ingredients or make as many things. Like the dusty wasteland of industrial agriculture, we’ll be featureless and flat. Or, we’ll be bought by conglomerates—chains that run us like machines. Talented people who care about food will leave.

Absent change, the restaurant of the future becomes an app. Any physical presence will be as the fake-humble front of uber-rich technology companies. An independent restaurant will be as pointless and antiquated as a roadside fruit stand. You may feel a pang of remorse as you speed by, but you aren’t stopping.

The industrial farmer became a wraithe, a pass-through for corporations.

He was stripped of his topsoil, his pigs and chickens and customers; his farm’s diversity and autonomy.

I’ve thought about that lone farmer from “expo,” the place in a restaurant where dishes come together in a riot of colors and smells before we send them to your table. It’s where the food goes from being ours to yours. You couldn’t see what went into the meal, a journey that might have begun at my farm, where lettuce grows from a seed smaller than salt.

We couldn’t see all the life that happened to you before you walked in the door. But the meal was our mother tongue.

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need for crop and species diversity, livestock as fertilizer, rotation and spacing of crops. Farming was innovated. The Ghost Farm had arrived.

Farmers thought their vastly increased yields would be a boon to the bottom line.

At least that’s what the big companies selling all the new-fangled inputs said. More corn! More money! Much like Grubhub promises—more customers! More money!

But when you trade your profit for a bump in sales, you lose your freedom. You get hooked. Soon, you can’t afford to make better choices.

Restaurants are in the same vice grip.

We’re hooked on Grubhub, Postmates, Seamless, Caviar, DoorDash, Fetch—or all of them—because that’s where the customers are. Modern diners are in love with convenience, just like our grandparents in the age of “better living through chemicals.” Back then, eaters traded the bunch of carrots bought straight from the farmer for the vacuum-wrapped microwavable dinner glittering in the aisles of the new supermarkets.

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Former Santa Fean and singer Tara Khozein sees exciting changes to the future of opera and singing post-COVID-19.

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lassically trained singer Tara Khozein moved to Budapest some time ago, but before she did, she left an indelible mark on Santa Fe’s avant-garde theater and music scenes.

Like pretty much everyone right now, though, she’s taking a beat and sheltering during the pandemic, pausing her singing career in the name of health (and the law or whatever). Meanwhile think pieces and op-eds rage around the web, describing a world wherein we’ll always need to be a few feet apart from one another, where restaurants seat you next to mannequins

to make you feel like you’re near people; where live music is only piped into your home via livestream.

No small fuss has been made over how the cancellations and postponements of music events will affect culture seekers, but for purveyors of arts—specifically music—the pandemic has and will have devastating ramifications. The most cursory internet search for terms like “COVID, singing” easily shows what we probably already knew but were too afraid to say out loud: Singing can spread the virus like almost nothing else. And while that’s certainly bad news for an audience, it’s almost unbearable for someone who had made a living singing, like

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Khozein. Painters and poets can hole up someplace with a laptop or a quill, whereas singers and music folk rely heavily on being together and with an audience.

Perhaps most famously, a Washington state choir that observed social distancing during a recent rehersal wound up decimated by the coronavirus and, as we’ve seen on a local level, opera seasons, bandstand seasons and even small-scale live shows have been canceled indefinitely.

“Honestly, my first reaction was ‘Oh… shit,’” Khozein tells SFR. “It makes me worried about my field and about all of the freelancers that depend on work from large institutions like the Santa Fe Opera—not just singers, but the hundreds of designers, instrumentalists, technical theater, house managers, ushers, parking teens, etc.”

But, she says, it’s also made her reassess how opera might play a role in the future cultural lexicon.

“It also makes me excited to see how a largely conservative body of institutions might be forced to make some drastic changes to embrace new forms of opera,” Khozein explains, “and a completely different audience.”

Internationally-renowned opera singer Matthew Anchel has similar feelings. Having worked for companies like the Santa Fe Opera, The Metropolitan Opera in New York and Germany’s Staatstheater Stuttgart; he’s been in opera since he was 7. And while Anchel readily admits articles about COVID-19’s impact on live and group singing terrify him, he also says he’s long considered the pros and cons of the field. In recent years, for example, he’s added online vocal teaching to his repertoire.

“There are always uncertainties when you’re trying to be a performer, but all these years I thought I was being responsible and realistic by exploring teaching and discovering that it’s something I love to do,” Anchel tells SFR, noting that already having embraced an online

model for lessons has provided certain advantages during the pandemic. Still, he says, it’s an imperfect model.

“While I am lucky that I have been teaching lessons online for years, the realist in me is constantly asking myself, “how long are people going to keep taking lessons if no one is putting on shows?’”

Anchel says. “Then what am I going to do?”

He and Khozein agree the swift pivot to streaming musical performances has been an interesting one to watch, but as it applies to the future of opera or large scale performance specifically, it probably won’t be a long-term solution—if it could even happen at all.

“I think specifically for opera the logistics at the theater will be so complicated that a digital model may not be possible,” Anchel says. “There are sometimes 100 players in the orchestra, 100 people onstage and maybe 100 more people backstage who make what happens on a big opera stage possible.”

Khozein agreees.

“I won’t pretend that opera can just suddenly become a digital art form. I think it can, but it will take some actual radical thinking about its form,” she says.

“A digital opera might have more in common with everyone watching the same football game and hearing fans of opposing teams cheering from different bars and restaurants and living rooms. Or it might have more in common with [massively multiplayer online video games].

This of course would attract the kind of musician who is into that kind of thing, and repel others.”

For local singer and vocal educator Angela Gabriel, that same uncertainty is present, but so is the possibility for new ways of collaboration.

“It’s hard coming to grips with a potential reality without group singing,” Gabriel says. “In the meantime, we’re all scrambling to stay with the learning curve of distance singing. I can only

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assume and hope that there are brilliant programmers working on software that will allow us to make music together in real time.”

Gabriel’s singing group, The Joy Crew (thejoycrew.com), which she hosts with vocalist Amy Elizah Lindquist, is about bringing the act of singing to the masses. For them, isn’t about professional know-how (though they surely know what they’re doing), it’s about healing and togetherness. In an overly simplified nutshell, Gabriel and Lindquist believe that while humanity stopped singing regularly out of self-consciousness or being too busy or whatever else, it’s still something deeply ingrained within us that anyone and everyone can and should do. Much of their model, however, relies on gathering, but while they’ve been unable to meet up in person, Gabriel says The Joy Crew has taken things to Zoom. With a number of online gatherings per week available by donation (including the Parkinsingers, an offshoot dedicated to folks with Parkinson’s and other movement disorders), Gabriel and Lindquist are able to keep their cohort singing.

At least for now. We’re really only a few months into this pandemic, and while our screens have provided a window into arts and music, it’s surely just a matter of time before we burn out. On the topic of thinkpieces, you’ll certainly

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find plenty that advise a sort of return to the land; a quiet life of gardening wherein we limit screentime. How long before terms like “stream fatigue” hit the mainstream? How long before we have to admit that while we’ve all leaned so heavily into books and film and music, we’re just not very good at wanting to pay for them?

“The things I’m worried about are money, singing as a way of connecting and usefulness/creativity,” Khozein says. “I think it’s a good idea to get a super practical non-singing job, like teaching languages online, copy editing, grant writing, developing workshops, structuring curriculums. There are also a fair amount of resources for financial support for artists.”

Money concerns will no doubt continue, but Gabriel points out her Zoom sessions have been delightfully unexpected. That takes out some of the sting.

“I…think that people need this more than ever right now. There are a lot of people who were not able to go to singing events or join choirs for a variety of reasons, including health, mental health, logistics, transportation, etc,” she says.

“Now those people are able to sing.

Last week we had mostly people from Santa Fe, but there was a woman from Australia singing with us! The possibilities are inspiring! There are so many people wanting to sing right now and I’m determined to help as many as I can.”

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Being Adam Sandler’s buddy must feel a little like winning the lottery. All folks like David Spade, Rob Schneider and Nick Swardson have to do is show up, spout wildly unfunny lines from whatever hastily written script satisfies Sandler’s end of his Netflix deal and boom—still famous.

In Sandler’s newest foray, The Wrong Missy, we find Spade as Tim, a Portland corporate guy on the receiving end of a horrible date with a free-spirit-type called Missy (Lauren Lapkus).

She’s weird, y’know? Which is hard for assholes.

Months later, though, Tim meets the woman of his dreams with the same name, but a case of mistaken text identity becomes a disastrous corporate retreat when he invites the wrong Missy to Hawaii with him for the most important business something-something of his life.

Spade does what he can (people forget he’s not a half bad actor) as Lapkus’ “eccentric” Missy gives out psychic readings, hypnotizes bosses and throws herself from a cliff into the sea. The usual cadre of Sandler homies (the aforementioned Schneider and Swardson) pop up to say

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Every so often an original take hits the zombie genre, but it’s important to never get one’s hopes up. 2017’s The Cured, for example, found zombies getting cured but living with the memories of their zombie actions—a fantastic idea that wound up producing a tragically boring movie. In the newly released Blood Quantum, however, writer/director Jeff Barnaby’s vision of a world wherein Indigenous Canadians are immune to a zombie virus ravaging white folks, we get something we’ve never seen before, plus some of the coolest practical and gore effects in a movie ever—and an almost entirely Indigenous cast.

On the Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, sheriff Traylor (Michael Greyeyes) finds himself in the midst of a very bad day. His sons are arrested and his ex (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) is none too pleased; dead salmon are flopping back to life and his cousin’s wife just ate her newborn. Within six months, the surviving tribal members have built up a small but relatively safe shelter of shipping containers on a small island, but with zombified white people shambling and sprinting across the bridge, it’s only

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gross misogynist things or engage in the faint hint of physical comedy. Sadly, though, the bulk of The Wrong Missy feels like the most formulaic extended ’90s sitcom episode ever: “But if you’re here…and I’m here—who’s watching my drunk boss?!”

Even worse, the delightful Sarah Chalke (Scrubs) is trotted out as Tim’s ex-wife, given a couple jerk-ish lines and then relegated to the background. We could’ve lost Swardson in exchange for Chalke’s spot-on comic timing and sensibilities easily; her simply farting on a snare drum would’ve been better. And funnier.

Of course, it’s hard to blame Sandler and crew for setting the film in Hawaii. The Sandman’s affinity for the state has been clear since 50 First Dates, and if we had Netflix sending

a matter of time before they’ll have to leave in search of something more tenable. To make matters worse, his teenage son Joseph (Indian Horse star Forrest Goodluck) has an impregnated girlfriend (Olivia Scriven of Degrassi) and his other son Lysol (Kiowa Gordon) has some controversial ideas about who gets to live or die.

Cue bloody horror and Santa Fean Gary Farmer manning a super-cool piece of farming equipment that chews up zombies and spits them out in a glorious shower of blood and guts.

Outside of the totally bitchin’ premise and the totally bitchin’ grandpa (Stonehorse Lone Goeman) who fights with a sword instead of guns, Blood Quantum does suffer from a number of middling support performances. Its core cast, however, finds common ground between action thrills and emotional nuance. Goodluck in particular brings a noteworthy turn as a youngster who seemingly finds his purpose just in time for the world to end. Gordon similarly impresses with calculated evil dressed up as concern, and did we mention the sword fighting grandpa? Greyeyes wows as well, sometimes hysterically funny amidst so much carnage and death, sometimes a caring father faced with tough decisions.

As for the not-so-subtle subtext, it’s notable that characters still try to do right by the very colonizers destroying their lives with illness. We all know (or should know) at least

us to pretty places for work, we’d probably feel differently. Still, it plays no real purpose outside of a very weird shark sequence that pretty much seems like it was added to justify the location.

But then, it’s not supposed to be good, is it?

It just is. The Wrong Missy isn’t really supposed to be anything, in fact. As far as mid-quarantine programming goes, it’s a wonderful time killer and can boast a few chuckles. And Spade really does try—you can tell. Lapkus, however, is exhausting. The Vanilla Ice cameo is…wait, who is that for?

THE WRONG MISSY Directed by Tyler Spindel With Spade, Lapkus, Swardson, Chalke and Schneider Netflix, TV-MA, 90 min.

some of the history surrounding the awful ways Native folks in this country have been treated.

So we root steadfast for the non-zombies right up to the harrowing final moments of this exciting film. (ADV)

Shudder, NR, 96 min.

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Beanie Feldstein proved quite the capable actor in last year’s Book Smart, but maintains only some of that magic in How to Build a Girl, the film version of Caitlin Moran’s novel of the same name.

Moran tackles the screenplay here as well and, like the book, bases the events of the film loosely on her own life as a 1990-something teenage rock critic for some alt.weekly rag in England.

Feldstein is Johanna, a precocious if painfully shy 16-year-old who longs to be cool, have sex, write for a living. Using a combination of moxie, hallucinations and sheer force of will, Johanna lands her dream job and must navigate snobby culture journos, a never-been musician father hellbent on her helping him make it, up-andcoming bands and a brief but tempestuous crush on some superstar singer (Game of Thrones alum Alfie Allen) who’s far too old for her, but that’s

OK, maybe? Definitely not, but the film wants us to believe it will be one day in the not-too-distant future.

Girl starts strong with minor character turns from the likes of Michael Sheen and Sue Perkins, but quickly changes course to a dark-adjacent tale about staying true to oneself. Feldstein, meanwhile, transforms from lovably dorky into snarkily cruel so quickly; speeches are made about meaning what one writes, but someplace along the way she loses the thread. This hurts her family and her new friends, but she’s all about making that paper (both news and money wise) and boning as many dudes as possible (which we have no problem with except she describes it in great detail to her irritated gay brother, played by Laurie Kynaston, about the only character here who approaches anything close to authentic).

Conflict arises, Johanna learns lessons, a surprisingly kickass soundtrack plays in the background and everything winds up right where you assumed it might. Where things get confusing is in whether this film was attended for the YA set or people who’ve lived long enough to find the whole thing silly. Either way, it’s not going down as one of Feldstein’s greatest hits. In fact, we’ll probably forget it (and her atrocious stab at a British accent) right around the end of…this sentence. (ADV)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Excellence does not require perfection,” wrote Aries author Henry James.

Now I’m conveying this brilliant counsel to you—just in time for the season when it will make good sense to strive for shining excellence without getting bogged down in a debilitating quest for perfection. Have fun recommitting yourself to doing the best you can, Aries, even as you refuse to be tempted by the unprofitable lure of absolute purity and juvenile forms of idealism.

According to my astrological analysis, you now have more power than usual to accomplish this magic trick: to create something permanent in the midst of the transitory; to make an indelible mark on a process that has previously been characterized by restless permutations; to initiate a bold move that you will forever remember and be remembered for.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the course of his 73 years on the planet, Scorpio author Paul Valéry (1871– TAURUS (April 20-May 20): To generate an ounce of 1945) wrote more than 20 books. But between the pure cocaine, you must collect 52 pounds of raw coca leaf ages of 25 and 45, he passed through a phase he and work hard to transform it. But please don’t do that. called the “great silence.” During that time, he quit Fate won’t be on your side if you do. However, I will sugwriting and published nothing. Afterwards, he returned gest that you consider undertaking a metaphorically com- to his life’s work and was nominated 12 times for a parable process—by gathering a sizable amount of raw Nobel Prize. Although your own version of a great material or basic stuff that will be necessary to produce silence is less extreme than his, I’m happy to announce the small treasure or precious resource that you require. that you will emerge from it sooner than you imagine.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The very least you can do SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m sad that my two in your life is to figure out what you hope for,” writes favorite 19th-century poets were unfamiliar with each author Barbara Kingsolver. “And the most you can do is other’s poetry. Walt Whitman was 11 years older than live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but Emily Dickinson, but didn’t know her work. Dickinson live right in it, under its roof.” According to my analysis had heard of Whitman, but didn’t read his stuff. Their of the astrological omens, that is exactly the work you styles were indeed very different: hers intimate, ellipshould be doing right now, Gemini. Everything good that tical, psychologically acute; his expansive, gregarious, can and should happen for you in the coming months earthy. But they were alike in being the most innovadepends on you defining what you hope for, and then tive American poets of their time, and equally transdoing whatever’s necessary to live inside that hope. gressive in their disregard for standard poetic forms. If CANCER (June 21-July 22): The periodic arrivals of “natural disruption” in our everyday routines has a divine purpose, writes Yoruba priest Awó Falokun Fatunmbi. It is “to shake consciousness loose from complacency and rigid thinking.” To be vital, he says, our perception of truth must be constantly evolving, and never stagnant.

“Truth is a way of looking at self and World,” Fatunmbi declares. “It is a state of being rather than an act of knowing.” Many Westerners find this hard to understand because they regard truth as a “fixed set of rules or dogma,” or as a body of “objective facts.” But here’s the good news: Right now, you Cancerians are especially receptive to Fatunmbi’s alternative understanding of truth—and likely to thrive by adopting it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Novelist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn departed this life in 1998, but she articulated a message that’s important for you to hear right now. She wrote, “People often say, with pride, ‘I’m not interested in politics.’ They might as well say, ‘I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.’” Gelhorn added, “If we mean to keep control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.” In my opinion, her advice is always applicable to all of us, but it’s especially crucial for you to meditate on right now. You’ll be wise to upgrade your interest and involvement in the big cultural and political developments that are impacting your personal destiny.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional character Sherlock Holmes (born January 6, and thus a Capricorn) is a brilliant logician and acute observer who has astonishing crime-solving skills. On the other hand, according to his friend Dr. Watson, he “knows next to nothing” about “contemporary literature, philosophy, and politics.” So he’s not a well-rounded person. He’s smart in some ways, dumb in others. Most of us fit that description. We are both brilliant and ignorant; talented and inept; interesting and boring.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to hone and cultivate the less mature aspects of your own nature. I bet you’ll reap rich rewards by doing so.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “People become like what they love,” observed theologian St. Catherine of Siena.

That’ll be an interesting truth for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. I suspect you will attract experiences that are clear reflections of the kind of love you have cultivated and expressed for quite some time. You’ll be blessed in ways similar to the ways you have blessed.

You’ll be challenged to face questions about love that you have not been dealing with. And here’s a promise for the future: You’ll have the opportunity to refine and VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to author and deepen your approach to love so as to transform yourteacher Marianne Williamson, “Ego says, ‘Once every- self into more of the person you’d like to become. thing falls into place, I’ll feel peace.’ Spirit says, ‘Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.’” I PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Humanity is a mystery,” think the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you wrote author Fyodor Dostoevsky. “The mystery needs to take Williamson’s advice seriously, Virgo. How? By to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, you haven’t wasted your time. I am giving control of your life to Spirit as you find your studying that mystery because I want to be a complete peace. In saying this, I’m not implying that Ego is bad human being.” I love this tender perspective on the or wrong. In fact, I think Ego is a crucial asset for you, preciousness of the Great Riddle we’re all immersed in. and I’m hoping that in recent months you have been It’s especially useful and apropos for you to adopt right lifting your Ego to a higher, finer state of confidence and competence than ever before. But right now I think now, Pisces, because you are undergoing an unusually you should authorize Spirit to run the show for a while. deep and intense communion with the mystery. As you marinate, you shouldn’t measure your success and If you do, it will bless you with good surprises. good fortune by how much new understanding you LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Snatching the eternal out have attained, but rather by how much reverence and of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of gratitude you feel and how stirring your questions are. human existence.” Playwright Tennessee Williams said that, and now I’m conveying his insight to you— Homework: Is there anything about your experience of just in time for you to dramatically embody it. the global pandemic that you enjoy? RealAstrology.com

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT SANTA FE COUNTY NO. D-101-PB-2019-00208 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LORENZO L. BARRONE, STATE OF NEW MEXICO DECEASED NOTICE TO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE CREDITORS FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Robin Naffziger has been appointed IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUANITA ELIZABETH Personal Representative of the Estate of Lorenzo L. Barrone, TRUJILLO, Deceased. deceased. All persons having No. D-101-PB-2020-00080 claims against this estate are NOTICE TO CREDITORS required to present their claims NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN within four months after the date of that the undersigned has the first publication of this Notice been appointed Personal Representative of this estate. All or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either persons having claims against to the Personal Representatives this estate are required to presAttorney, Philip J. Dabney, Esq. at ent their claims within four months after the date of the first 3500 Trinity Drive, Suite B-4, Los Alamos, NM, 87544 or filed with publication of this notice or the the First District Court Clerk at claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either 225 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501. to the undersigned Personal Date: 5/18/20 Representative in care of Karen /s/ Philip Dabney Aubrey, Esq., Aubrey Law Firm, LLC, Post Office Box 8435, Santa PHILIP J. DABNEY, Esq. 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 STATE OF NEW MEXICO 87504-2268.

COUNTY OF SANTA FE Dated: May 8 2020.

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Beatrice C. Trujillo IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE AUBREY LAW FIRM, LLC OF WAYNE A. HAYES, Deceased.

By: /s/ No. D-101-PB-2020-00040 KAREN AUBREY NOTICE OF HEARING BY P. O. Box 8435 PUBLICATION Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435 THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: (505) 982-4287; TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF WAYNE facsimile (505) 986-8349 A. HAYES, DECEASED, AND ALL ka@karenaubreylaw.com

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UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO HAVE OR CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF WAYNE A. HAYES, DECEASED, OR IN THE MATTER BEING LITIGATED IN THE HEREINAFTER MENTIONED HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of a hearing on David. P. Hayes’ Petition of an Heir for Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirship and Appointment of Personal Representative. Said hearing will be held before the Honorable Brian Biedscheid on the 23rd day of June, 2020, at the hour of 2:00 p.m., at the First Judicial District Courthouse, Santa Fe, New Mexico, with 30 minutes being allocated for the hearing.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that in the event that New Mexico Supreme Court Order No. 20-8500-013 is in effect at the date of the hearing, all hearings will take place telephonically to help protect public health and control the spread of COVID-19.

Parties and members of the public may contact Judge Biedscheid’s office at 505-455-8215 for instructions on telephone appearances.

Pursuant to 1978 NMSA Section 45-1-401 (2016), notice of the time and place of the hearing on said Petition is hereby given you by publication, once each week for three consecutive weeks.

AUBREY LAW FORM, LLC By: /s/ KAREN AUBREY KAREN AUBREY P.O. Box 8435 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435 (505) 982-4287; ka@karenaubreylaw.com Attorney for Petitioner

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