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Faye, your maturity, integrity, grace and sense of humor have been a gift to everyone that knows you.

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NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 MORE SPEED, MORE SUNLIGHT 9 DA hopefuls say they’d tweak controversial police shooting review system MIDWIVES’ WORK DURING COVID-19 11 Hospital restrictions, pandemic fears led women to home births COVER STORY 12 SUMMER TOURISM OUTLOOK With all the major crowded events in Santa Fe canceled for this summer, locals brace for a bummer and pivot to new strategies

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NEWS, MAY 20: “DEVOURED BY A DEFICIT”

WHERE’S THE LEADERSHIP I am beginning to think that [Mayor Alan] Webber couldn’t lead a pack of Boy Scouts through a paved nature trail…

“There is no plan because the budget is the plan…”

Dude.

YOU are in charge. Show some leadership, tell us what YOU think should be done instead of hiding behind a bullshit survey. A survey…

Well, obviously keep some of the libraries open and some of the rec centers.

Keep GCCC and Salvador (since it recently got remodeled), keep downtown library and Southside library open. Come out with something like that so that people know where you stand, and there’s someone leading the charge with some kind of idea with specifics.

But I think he wants to run for governor again and he doesn’t want to make anybody angry at all. Good luck with that.

And he just doesn’t have the eloquence of statesmanship. But I don’t think we’ve ever had a mayor like that.

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FOOD, MAY 20: “GHOST FARMS, GHOST KITCHENS, GHOST TOWNS”

NOT AN INNOVATION Erin Wade’s prediction is already taking hold in the very city that created the concept of technology-assisted delivery, San Francisco.

The cut from the restaurants’ margins by Uber Eats, Grubhub, etc. were made on the promise of higher volume to the restaurant owner. Instead it takes away the living wage of the employee and bankrupts the restaurants. The promise of higher volume is nothing more than “pie in the sky” salesmanship.

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ZOZOBRA TO BURN VIRTUALLY THIS YEAR Aw, rats—and this was the year it was gonna be pretty much the exact same thing as every other year, too!

LOCAL RESTAURANTS ADAPT TO COVID-19 AHEAD OF PROBABLE TOURISM DIP Three months ago we’d never have wanted to eat in a parking lot, now we’re just psyched to leave home.

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CITY HIRES A DOZEN NEW COPS Did anyone open the box to make sure none are cracked? Boom. More egg jokes.

TRUMP SAYS ECONOMY “WILL SOAR IN 2021” This dude won’t even wear a mask around people, though, so maybe it’s time we stop taking him seriously once and for all?

SOCIAL DISTANCING REPORTEDLY WENT OUT THE WINDOW OVER MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND This will be referred to as the “Aw, Fuck It” era in future history books.

UNM PRESIDENT SAYS HE DOESN’T KNOW IF SPORTS WILL RESUME IN THE FALL They should just start a Fortnite team and embrace the now already.

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DA hopefuls say they’d tweak controversial police shooting review system

BY J E F F P RO CTO R j e f f p r o c t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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early three years have passed since two Santa Fe police officers opened fire through a smashedout apartment window, killing 24-yearold Anthony Benavidez, who was living with paranoid schizophrenia inside.

The shooting sparked criticism and claims of excessive force when video emerged—and it raised questions about how the department responds to people in the midst of mental health crises.

It also led to a $400,000 settlement in a civil case brought by Benavidez’s family against the city.

But Santa Fe still hasn’t seen a final answer to a key question: Did the officers commit a crime when they pulled the trigger?

Instead, the case has sat essentially unresolved with First Judicial District Attorney Marco Serna—Exhibit A for a legally confusing, opaque set of reviews Serna and other prosecutors around the state have used to look at police shootings.

Now, the two longtime New Mexico lawyers looking to replace Serna as top prosecutor for Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos counties are promising change, albeit subtle.

Mary Carmack-Altwies, who runs the Special Victims and Violent Crimes units under Serna, and Scott Fuqua, a former prosecutor who now focuses on civil consumer cases from his Santa Fe base, are facing off in the Democratic primary on Tuesday.

There is no Republican in the race, and Serna is running for Congress. So, one of them will get the job—and they both say police shooting reviews need to be faster, more accountable and more transparent in the district.

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Serna’s system and a now abandoned fender, then a criminal defense lawyer in scheme used by his predecessors have private practice, in Albuquerque. created sore spots for victims’ families She moved her practice to focus on and civil rights advocates. the First Judicial District in 2016, then Citing the inherent conflict when received a call asking her to go to work prosecutors are asked to defor Serna two years later. cide on potential criminal “I thought about it for a behavior by the officers couple of days, and it really they rely on in court wasn’t that hard a decievery day, Serna promsion,” Carmack-Altwies ised on the campaign tells SFR. trail in 2016 to send She would stick the hot potato cases with the DA panels, she outside his office for an says, but with a twist: Mary Carmack-Altwies unbiased look.

Instead of three proseThe so-called “DA pancutors looking at the case els” were born. file, Carmack-Altwies favors The state District Attorneys a prosecutor, a retired judge and a Association and Administrative Office of public defender. the District Attorney got together and be“I think that way, it could be looked gan offering groups of three or four prose- at through a variety of perspectives in cutors to review police shootings outside the legal system,” she says. “I think that their jurisdictions. would be the fairest and most trustOne of those panels took about a worthy way to look at that kind of year to issue a letter, based on killing.” legally disputed underpinSo long as the panel pronings, saying the officers vides a detailed ratiowho shot Benavidez nale for its findings—a should not be charged. point of contention in That was last March. the Benavidez case— Since then, Serna has Carmack-Altwies says offered a variety of she “would take the answers as to whether recommendation, and it he would abide by the would be over.”

Scott Fuqua panel’s recommendations, In the so-far unprecepointing to an inherent flaw dented event that the panel with the system: The panel’s decirecommends charges against an ofsions aren’t binding. ficer, she would hire a special prosecutor So the case has languished. to move forward.

Fuqua and Carmack-Altwies took “I think somebody that’s of the caliabout 45 minutes each to discuss police ber of a Randi McGinn is needed to enshooting reviews with SFR last week. sure that we’re not sweeping something Carmack-Altwies, 42, earned her law under the rug if it’s deemed to be serious degree from the University of New Mexico and criminal,” Carmack-Altwies says, in 2005 and went to work as a public de- referring to the well-known lawyer who

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was brought on as special prosecutor in a criminal case against two Albuquerque officers who killed a homeless man.

Carmack-Altwies says the panels should decide as quickly as possible—”I would say a year is OK-ish”—but the rest of the process needs to move faster.

“I would think that anyone who believes, just because you have a badge, you can’t commit a homicide?” she says. “That makes absolutely no sense. … When they do something that is wrong, we have to hold them accountable.”

Fuqua, 44, grew up in Portales and finished law school at the University of Chicago. He went to work for then-Attorney General Gary King in 2007, ultimately running the office’s litigation division before moving into private practice and focusing on predatory lenders.

He tells SFR he’s not wholly conversant in how decisions on police shootings are being made in the district.

“It’s been kind of an opaque process for me, and not even really the easiest to research,” Fuqua says, adding: “If these panels, with DAs or their representatives, are approaching this in good faith, and if it’s transparent, and the results of the recommendations are available to the public, it sounds like a reasonable process.”

Fuqua believes the public will always question whether a local DA is biased either in favor of or against an officer who shoots someone in his or her district.

That’s why he says it’s a good idea to have an outside set of eyes conduct the review.

“There has got to be a prosecutorial presence on that panel,” he says. “Should it be the only voice? I’d have to think about that.”

Fuqua criticizes the lengthy delays in reaching and announcing findings in police shooting cases, saying he might approach the DAs Association about establishing guidelines for at least an aspirational time table if he wins the office.

Whatever the panel decides, however, the final decision rests with the DA, Fuqua says.

“You can’t cede your prosecutorial discretion to a panel,” he says.

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Midwives’ Work During COVID-19

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Hospital restrictions, pandemic fears led women to home births

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hen the COVID-19 pandemic was already in full swing in most states, 37-weeks-pregnant Jordan Shannon packed up her two toddlers in her Nissan and drove from New Orleans to Taos.

The devastating spread of the pandemic had shut down the birthing center where Shannon had planned to have her baby, so she headed for the southwest.

“There’s really unfavorable birth outcomes in most of the southern states that were immediately nearby [and] there’s really high C-section rates,” Shannon tells SFR. “It was basically a combination of favorable non-traditional birth practices and also low virus rates.”

Shannon purportedly is one of many expectant mothers who have chosen to avoid hospitals during the pandemic. New Mexico midwives anecdotally report an increase in mothers altering their birth plans to have babies at home or at birthing centers to avoid the current dangers and inconveniences of hospitals.

State health officials do not have reports yet for 2020 about the number of home births versus hospital deliveries, so it’s too soon to identify a trend.

Midwives say they have also struggled to get personal protection equipment (PPE), such as masks, gloves and hand sanitizer, along with other supplies such as formula for infants.

Dorothy Kaeck, a licensed midwife in Taos and owner of Corazon Midwifery, tells SFR she initially had trouble pro-

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curing vitamin shots for infants as well as PPE for herself.

“It was a tight squeeze for a little bit there and now I feel like I mostly have what I need,” Kaeck says. “It was hard for probably about three weeks to get my hands on any sort of non-sterile gloves or rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer and masks.”

Like many health care workers, she has changed some of the ways she inter-

acts with the mothers under her care.

“Some clients are requesting Zoom or telehealth visits and other people are less worried…and then what also has changed is that if I need to transfer to the hospital, I can’t go with my client,” Kaeck says.

“That’s a big change because usually I would go and start to be in the doula role and be their advocate in the hospital and now it’s like, ‘OK, see you later.’”

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maternal and infant mortality. Nonwhite mothers in particular face higher C-section and maternal and infant mortality rates in comparison to white women. But she is not too worried about disparities in coverage in Taos and other places around New Mexico.

“I think that the town’s hospital is really set up to not have that disparity so much,” Kaeck says. “When 50% of the clientele at the Taos hospital is Hispanic, that’s almost the majority of the mommas going in so it’s harder to have that kind of bias in care here.”

Elena Stauss, owner of Santa Fe Midwifery, says the majority of her clients are white but she has had an increasing number of Latina and immigrant clients.

Stauss had planned to go on vacation to visit family members this spring but canceled her flights when the pandemic hit. Instead, she went back to work and quickly found clients. Although Strauss has also struggled to find PPE, she continues to meet with her clients in person and maintains strict stay-at-home requirements for herself and her assistants so that contact tracing is easy if someone gets sick.

Stauss also increased the time between appointments at her office so there is time to sanitize everything. She is currently working with 12 pregnant women and has helped with the birth of seven babies since stay-at-home orders started.

One of the babies was Jordan Shannon’s son. Stauss drove from Santa Fe to Taos to be with Shannon during the birth. When she can’t be with the woman during labor, Stauss makes sure to be available as soon as the hospital stay is over.

“I have a mama that she’s going to have a C-section in a couple of weeks and they already told her that I cannot go and she was so sad,” Stauss says. “And I said...

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It also matters how and when the city’s businesses reopen and what the overall state strategy becomes in the coming months. Officials don’t want to lure too many people here but, without them, a major economic driver is missing.

Local compliance with public health orders, and probably some measure of good luck, means Santa Fe has managed to keep the numbers of infections to a minimum.

As of Tuesday, Santa Fe accounted for only 133 of the 7,130 positive cases reported in the state. And luckily, COVID-19 can’t take away Santa Fe’s mountains, sunsets or history. The city’s tourism industry aims to leverage these attributes in a strategy that paints the city as a tranquil and safe retreat from the chaos of the COVID-stricken world. But for now, small local businesses are just trying to survive long enough to see what the new normal might be.

Keeping heads above water

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t feels like the reality of the pandemic for summer is just starting to sink in now that the weather is finally warm enough to wear a sundress and businesses have cautiously begun to reopen.

Life might be slowly starting back up again, but it will never be the summer we had planned.

There will be no family pool parties under the red and white mushroom caps of the Bicentennial Pool, no free concerts at the Railyard and no fancy nights out at the Santa Fe Opera. No stuffing our faces with fry bread at Indian Market or buying hats at the International Folk Art Market.

No Pride. No Fiestas. No soccer games on the Downs or movies in the park. Zozobra still wants to party, but he might be kind of lonely.

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It’s gonna be a bummer summer and a big economic hit, but Santa Fe aims to survive

COVID-19 has seen to all of that and more.

Some of these highlights primarily benefit locals, but some also serve as star attractions for the estimated 1.2 million visitors who usually flock to Santa Fe between May and October whose dollars fuel the economy and provide stable jobs.

The list of canceled events is so long that many owners of hotels, restaurants and galleries anxiously await whether enough visitors will show up to keep them in the black this summer. It’s going to be a bummer, they all agree, but at the same time, the region is repositioning its marketing toward remoteness and relative safety, as well as a focus on visitors who are more local.

“Is it going to be like it’s been any other summer before? Heck, no,” says Jenny Kimball, the chairwoman of the board of the La Fonda hotel on the Plaza. “It’s going to be fewer people and there will not be big crowds. There won’t be big festivals and concerts. But, you know, there’s a lot of ways to still have art displays. People are going to be innovative in how they respond, and most importantly it’s still a beautiful place to be. I think Santa Fe hopefully will fare better than a lot of other places just because of our safety practices…and it being more of a drive destination than a plane destination. But, you know, only time’s going to tell. There is no playbook for this.”

Recovering the Santa Fe economy this summer will largely depend on how willing people are to venture out into the world and spend money on vacations.

In the absence of the crowds that usually clog the sidewalks and cars moving at a snail’s pace down the street, the quiet of the Sunday afternoon lends a fresh appreciation for the architecture of the historic adobe buildings that line Canyon Road. It’s easy to imagine this street as it was decades ago when it was still just a neighborhood with a general store and a hardware shop.

A bit later, artists began to take up residence here, living and working out of their studios before many of these, too, were replaced by galleries and art dealers in the area that gained acclaim as one of the most

iconic art markets in the Southwest.

For Brad Smith, one of a handful of artists who still operates his own gallery and studio on Canyon Road, the shutdown has been both financially harrowing and artistically productive.

Large canvases with works he has completed since the shutdown are spread across the floor and hang on the walls of the front room. Out back, a partially completed painting lies in the driveway surrounded by pots and tubes of paint. His front door still has a “by appointment only” sign attached to it, despite state rules that allowed retailers to open at 25% capacity last week.

Smith says it’s been hard to keep up with the frequent changes in national and state ordinances, and in the turmoil of trying to understand eligibility requirements and apply for government aid, he hasn’t had the bandwidth to reopen. He’s also struggled setting up an online store and virtual gallery tours like some of the larger galleries have done.

“I’m an artist, and so that’s kind of almost out of my area of expertise. The way I’ve been able to be successful is people come here and they see my work and they buy it,” he says. Yet, Smith is nervous about visitors who seem to ignore rules about face masks. The contradiction of relying on tourism and also being afraid of it makes this summer’s prospects particularly daunting.

He’s also felt discouraged watching his friends at El Farol restaurant next door go through several cycles of gearing up to re-

Local historian Charles Bennett walks with his wife along the portal outside of the Palace of the Governors, usually lined with Native jewelers selling their wares.

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Eagan and Smith employ themselves and just a few other people. But the loss of tourist dollars at small businesses like these is multiplied exponentially across the city, state and tribes.

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open and bring employees back, only to be stalled once again by an extended closure order. Now, the restaurant is preparing to open its patio and dining room to half capacity on June 1.

El Farol employs 35 people who are all still on payroll due to a federal payroll loan, says restaurant manager Monica Walsh.

She says the restaurant intends to keep all employees on board after it reopens, but that ultimately depends on the early days.

The restaurant will offer a pared down menu of customer favorites and is training employees on new health procedures such as a daily temperature check.

“Just to break even to get by is our goal for the first two weeks of June… We have a good feeling that people are wanting to get out and that people are wanting to dine again,” she says, noting that in the hours leading up to the interview with SFR, four people stopped by the restaurant to check when it would reopen. And while El Farol, like all the businesses on Canyon Road, relies heavily on tourists, it’s the restaurant’s base of Santa Fe regulars who Walsh is counting on to carry the business through, she says.

Dining and the arts are the city’s most popular attractions and will suffer the most obvious losses if tourists decide to stay home this summer. The city’s outdoor industry loses too.

Andrew Eagan, the owner of Santa Fe Jeep Tours, takes tourists out on adventures into places like Diablo Canyon and Elk Mountain.

At the height of a normal summer, he says, he gets about 20 customers a day, mostly retired couples who fly in from surrounding states. Since March, he’s had to refund almost all of his summer bookings and is scrambling to shift his marketing toward RV drivers who arrive towing offroad vehicles.

Eagan tells SFR he’s struggling to pay rent, utilities and the loans on his vehicles.

Though he, too, applied for federal aid, he hasn’t gotten any yet. Eagan says he knows of a couple other tour companies in town that don’t expect to reopen at all.

“It’s just really hard, you know, really emotional,” Eagan says. “You put everything you have into one small dream and you think you’re getting somewhere, and then out of nowhere that’s just all gone. It’s hard to wrap your head around it.”

ABOVE: Artist Brad Smith spreads out a recent painting on the floor of his Canyon Road gallery as he shows SFR the series of work he has completed during the state’s stay at home order.

LEFT: New Mexico Tourism Department Cabinet Secretary Jen Paul Schroer.

try. Partly that’s because the city’s robust tourism industry can support them, says Bridget Dixson, president and CEO of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce. It’s these small businesses that she’s most concerned about when it comes to recovery.

The chamber recently conducted a survey of 262 establishments and found that among all businesses, including those not related to tourism, 29% said it would take them over six months to recover from the economic losses of the shutdown, even if everything went back to normal immediately.

According to a report by the New Mexico Tourism Department, the tourism industry employs 10,514 people, or 17.2% of the workforce in Santa Fe County. Lodging and accommodations, including second homes, made up 41% of visitor spending in 2018. Food and beverage came in second at 24.1%, followed by retail, transportation and recreation. Even more people are employed in industries indirectly boosted by tourism.

That translates into a significant chunk of change for local and state governments in the form of gross receipts, lodgers’ and property taxes. Hotels and motels alone generated $10.5 million in lodgers’ tax last year, and short-term rentals, which are still not permitted to house out-ofstate residents as per the governor’s orders, added nearly $2 million more. Randy Randall, the director of the city’s tourism department, says he expects Santa Fe will lose $3 million in lodgers’ taxes in fiscal year 2021 due to COVID-19.

Santa Fe city leaders say the budget for the year that starts July 1 has as large

as a $100-million hole between planned spending and new revenue estimates—and that could affect services, road and building projects and workers.

The city’s dependence on tourism is higher than the state overall, though the industry’s impact on New Mexico is still significant. In 2018, 38.5 million visitors spent $7.1 billion in New Mexico. Officials say this spending sustains 8.5% of all jobs in the state.

“I’m greatly concerned about the economic impact of COVID-19,” says state Tourism Department Secretary Jen Paul Schroer. “Tourism is the second largest industry of an economic driver for the state of New Mexico. The majority of visitor spending happens during spring and summer months in New Mexico.”

Schroer, who has said it’s not likely New Mexico will allow mass gatherings for a year or 18 months, notes the state conservatively estimates $6 billion in total visitor spending will be lost in 2020.

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financial recovery from a major budget deficit. Public health policy, he says, plays a crucial role in restoring visitor confidence in the city. He’s supporting a measure, heading for a final vote before the City Council in June, to make masks mandatory in public as a way to keep residents safe and encourage a tourism rebound.

“Because [the situation we are in] derives initially from a public health emergency, that tells me that the right way to have a campaign that restores the economy is to demonstrate that we continue to do an excellent job of keeping a lid on the spread of COVID-19,” the mayor said at a news conference on May 18. “Those two pieces are inextricably connected and the more we produce confidence in our ability to provide safety, health and security for residents and visitors, the more I think we can see the return of the economy being more robust.”

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Modesto Molendrez, center right, sits along the obelisk at the center of the plaza with his wife Yuritzy, far right, his cousin Diego Becerra, center left, and Becerra’s wife, Jasmine, far left.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has said the state is on pace to reopen restaurants and hotels at 50% capacity on June 1. Spas, bars and casinos are also likely to open at that time, but no news has emerged yet about state museums.

Since mid-March, the state has also ordered anyone arriving by plane to isolate for 14 days. Tripp Stelnicki, a spokesman for the governor, tells SFR on Tuesday there’s no word on whether that rule would soon to be lifted. In addition, he says, “anyone arriving by car is strongly encouraged to self-isolate for 14 days; that hasn’t changed either.”

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The administration released industry-specific guidelines and rules that include requirements for all employees and customers at all businesses to wear masks and maintain proper social distancing.

Restaurants are required to keep logs of guests to aid in contact tracing if a patron tests positive for the virus. Hotels may only allow guests who live together to share rooms, and must shut down communal and spa areas. Guidelines for other businesses such as salons, theaters and casinos are supposed to be released later.

Mayor Alan Webber believes restoring visitor spending will be a key to the city’s

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Jennifer Madison and Dawne Lakey drove to New Mexico from Kansas City to pick up a bracelet they had commissioned from a local Navajo silversmith.

Originally, they’d planned to meet up with the artist at an annual powwow in Kansas.

When the event was canceled due to the pandemic, Madison and Lakey wanted to come to Santa Fe for Indian Market.

After Indian Market was canceled as well, they decided to take a road trip to pick up the bracelet directly from the artist and then swing by Santa Fe to see an old friend.

“We appreciate the safeguards the governor here has put in place. It seems like things are pretty responsive here and it feels pretty safe to be here,” Madison tells SFR as the pair walked downtown Sunday.

Despite the notable absence of Native jewelers who normally line the portal and the empty bandstand that has been roped off to the public, visitors say the Plaza feels tranquil rather than abandoned.

“It’s peaceful,” says Modesto Melendrez, who drove in from Phoenix with his wife Yuritzy to visit family in Albuquerque. “Sometimes it’s nice to have music and festivities, but sometimes you just want to come on a Sunday and walk around, sit down, eat an ice cream or something. It’s beautiful just being here.”

These words, “peaceful,” “beautiful,” “serene,” were uttered at least a dozen times by the visitors who spoke to SFR on the Plaza, all of whom were here to see family or friends.

The qualities are exactly what make local business leaders and officials hopeful that people will still show up.

However, Schroer says the state department is not focusing on attracting tourists at the moment, but is rather reminding people what the state has to offer through an online experience campaign, while weaving the message about safety into marketing materials.

“Currently we are looking at just normalizing the new social contract of wearing a mask, social distancing, focusing on the COVID-safe practices,” Schroer says. The department is busy making these things seem like a normal part of life and culture in New Mexico, taking photographs of people in various tourist destinations wearing masks and standing the required distance apart.

Randall, of the city tourism department, thinks this strategy will attract people who are looking to get away from crowded urban areas or who want a change of scenery without putting themselves at risk—the apparent juxtaposition between encouraging tourism and encouraging only essential travel notwithstanding.

“People have a lot of choices of where they’re going to go. I think right now, they clearly want it to be more enjoyable and different from where they are, but they also want to be sure that they’re not getting themselves into a dangerous situation from the viral standpoint,” says Randall.

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possibly can on the city side to ensure that someone’s visit here is not only enjoyable, but safe.”

Hotels report interest from visitors in returning to Santa Fe. Lutz Arnhold, managing director of the Inn of the Anasazi, tells SFR he’s optimistic people will respond positively to branding about the luxury of peace and open space.

“I think guests come here in large numbers simply to retreat and to relax and get away from the large cities,” he tells SFR. Shroer tells SFR that a recent study by Lockwood International suggests most of the visitors Santa Fe can expect will be other New Mexicans or will drive in from neighboring states.

Even before the pandemic, Randall says, 80% of visitors drove to Santa Fe. He says the department’s efforts are now entirely focused on regional drive markets which are dominated by Texas and Colorado but also include Arizona, Oklahoma and other nearby states.

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Dixson, who took over as Chamber of Commerce head in November, tells SFR she has received at least a dozen calls a day from people inquiring about coming to visit.

Like Kimball from La Fonda, who hopes the city will try things like closing off some small streets and allowing restaurant seating to spill out onto the sidewalks and into the street to give people more distance, Dixson sees a way through the pandemic by adapting to new circumstances.

“After this pandemic businesses are going to reemerge, but they’re going to reemerge in different ways. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Obviously, we unfortunately are going to see a lot of businesses that are going to fold, and some will be the businesses that have been lucrative in the community for decades,” Dixson tells SFR. “But I also think we have a lot of entrepreneurs that are strong and

versatile and they’ll find ways to adapt and we’ll find ways to adjust to a new market.”

Virtual events may become a trend that lasts beyond the closures. Performing artists and musicians, for example, will be some of the last to go back to their old routines and will need to find new ways to engage audiences via technology. There’s no word, for example, about when entertainment venues will be permitted again.

“Losing Meow Wolf [this summer] is going to be a problem. It’s going to hurt.

We have all become very happy with the effect that Meow Wolf has had on our community,” says Randall, naming the arts corporation that has drawn droves of visitors to its House of Eternal Return exhibition since it opened in 2016.

The dining room at El Farol has been reconfigured to accommodate social distancing regulations.

But Eagan, who owns Santa Fe Jeep Tours, is one person who is determined to make some money and give Santa Feans a new way to entertain themselves while he’s at it, even if it’s just in one small way. He tells SFR he’s working on opening up a new drive-in movie theater at Santa Fe Place Mall.

At SITE Santa Fe, the plan is to reopen by the end of the fiscal year with the Displaced exhibition about immigration, forced migration and refugees that it began installing just before COVID-19 hit.

Phillips Director and Chief Curator Irene Hofmann tells SFR the museum has also learned something new from

this period about how to engage patrons who live further afield. Most attendees of its virtual events are subscribers to the museum newsletter, but may live all over the country and can now participate in the activities of the museum in a new way.

The crisis has also made the museum cognizant of the footprint left by its national and international resume of artists who have held exhibitions or events in the space. This year, she says, the museum will refocus its efforts toward the artists and art lovers who already call New Mexico home. “This year,” she says, “I think, is really for the locals.”

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Switching to a non-live version, though, presented its challenges.

“It is weird,” Rubin says, “although I dare say much of the weird is for the best in some ways—but it is very difficult and a lot more time required and work and focus.”

Luckily, Rubin’s team includes such illustrious local tastemakers as musician Gregg Turner, poet Melanie Lamb Faithful, celebrated weirdo Andy Kirkpatrick, theater champ Argos McCallum, puppet master Devon Ludlow and many more.

“Sharing a little bit of personal expression, belief, and beauty feels like adding a bit of needed flavor, color and light to the world,” Rubin adds. “No matter how far it glows, at any level, it feels valid, needed and worth the time to add, even the tiniest amount, of positive ripples—for the sake of it.”

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JULESWORKS FOLLIES #63 7 pm Sunday May 31. Free. jeancocteaucinema.com

If you’re tapped in to our state’s Department of Cultural Affairs, you surely know that it (and its many offshoot institutions like, oh, I dunno—the freaking coolest museums around) have been working hard to provide artists with opportunities and New Mexicans with things to do. Of all the things, though, one of the easiest with which to engage is the Our Fair New Mexico concert series, wherein notable New Mexico musicians play a free show from a local institution for your streaming enjoyment. So far we’ve seen acts like Norteño duo Lone Piñon and Mariachi/comedy champ Carlos Medina, and this week finds country/ Americana legend Joe West joining forces with Archie West at the Museum of International Folk Art for a taste of why the town’s loved him since the dawn of time. It’s free, it’s online, what the hell else are you doing? (ADV) Our Fair New Mexico Concert Series: Joe and Archie West: 7 pm Friday May 29. Free. newmexicoculture.org/virtualconcerts.

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The variety show was once as ubiquitous to viewing habits as the reality show has become today. Bits of high art (whatever that means) mingled with vaudeville, comedy, performance art and music, and one nebulous ball of entertainment was born. In Santa Fe, our version of this is known as Julesworks Follies, and from its home at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, it’s been hosting shows at a regular clip as far back as anyone can remember (or wants to remember); the COVID-19 pandemic, it turns out, is no match for the creation of one Stephen Jules Rubin.

“As I wound up commenting in a thread on [Facebook] involving some notable artists in our community…I just feel like every little bit counts right now,” Rubin tells SFR. “More than worrying about numbers is just ensuring people get any forum and outlet for their honest voice in whatever form artistically appeals.”

In other words, Rubin and company phased from live performance to a taped version of the show, and for the upcoming 63rd iteration of Julesworks Follies, they’re offering viewers the show for free.

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SOME RANDOS We’ve been all about Axle Contemporary—the mobile gallery built within a retrofitted bread delivery truck—since way back, and we’re double down with the new project from founders Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman. In the ongoing Random Inspirations, Axle’s top brass pick a random word from a book on a Monday, then puts out the call for works based on that word. By the end of the week, a secret cabal of arts folks have chosen a winner from the submissions, and that creator strolls off into the sunset with $25 and a book from Axle’s press. This is not only fun and clever, it’s a great way to pass the time while folks are still unable to gather—we’ve got a word, too: Cool. Visit the Axle site for more info. (ADV) Random Inspirations: All Day Monday June 1.

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Reading in the Arroyo: An Occasional Column About Books There’s always something: Getting back into Santa Fe bookstores

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ou like Gilda Radner?” asks Peggy Frank from behind a black mask. Her glittering eyes peer up at me from her perch at Book Mountain’s checkout counter.

“Sure,” I say, a little bewildered.

“Here, you can have this for free,” Frank replies, expertly dislodging a hardcover copy of Radner’s 1989 It’s Always Something from a stack.

“Oh wow, thanks,” I murmur, flipping through the book. “When did she write this?”

“Before she died,” Frank says.

I grin wildly behind my own floral-print mask. This type of human interaction—a random freebie, a tart crack—just doesn’t happen when you’re buying books on Bookshop.org, the new-ish online shop we’re all supposed to frequent now since it supports local independents with 75% of profits.

Later, I look over the seven paperbacks I bought at Book Mountain (1302-A Osage Ave., 471-2625) for less than $32 and realize her gift wasn’t so haphazard.

Five are memoirs: a 1967 mass-market of Elizabeth Taylor; Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman; Lit by Mary Karr; Barbarian Days

by William Finnegan; Personal History by Katharine Graham. Frank doesn’t know me, but she guessed better than any algorithm what else I might want to read.

More importantly, in the tentatively reopening world of retail, she offers the kind of therapy I crave—the socially distant embrace of bookstore browsing.

Last weekend, I checked into a few other favorite haunts to see how bookslingers were faring. On Saturday, I made a mandatory appointment to shop at Big Star Books & Music (329 Garfield St., 8207827). That meant for half an hour, I had the converted cottage to myself. I felt both crazily free and pressed for time, like I was in a nerd episode of Supermarket Sweep.

A wave of focused calm swept over me during the 20 minutes I spent poking through one of Big Star’s best sections— local literature. My fingers danced over Mylar-covered and reasonably priced signed first editions of Fray Angélico Chávez, Stanley Crawford and Oliver La Farge. I mentally filed away other authors for future visits: E.A. Mares, Ruth Laughlin, Sharyn Udall. As I scanned the shelves, the whole diseased world receded into a blurry, distorted roar. I left with one vintage treasure: A 1966 first edition of The Man with the Calabash Pipe by La Farge, a collection of columns written for The New Mexican between 1950 and 1963.

The next morning, I wanted one of Ken Kordich’s impeccably made cappuccinos maybe even more than I wanted to lose myself in his well-curated, clean and organized selection of used, remaindered and new books at The Good Stuff (410 W. San Francisco St., 795-1939). But he said he was only on his second day open again and wasn’t doing coffee for the time being. I was cool with it (he was playing Donovan’s “Season of the Witch,” which felt personal) and it just seemed so long since I’d been in his mellow store, which now features newly labeled book sections and more used records, including a bunch

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of 45s. He said that, like Book Mountain, he’d managed to secure a small-business loan and has very modest expectations for the tough tourist season ahead. He’s just happy to be there to see what happens.

So am I. On a quick perusal of the music section—I stop by The Good Stuff once every few weeks and am pretty familiar with what Kordich has—my eye snagged a Nick Tosches spine. Could it be? It was! Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story, an out-of-print book I’d been seeking for five years since my old well-loved copy fell apart. Even better, the cover on this 1982 Dell paperback was way cooler than the clip-art nightmare 1998 edition I used to have. I paid Kordich, who said he’d put Hellfire on the shelf a few weeks ago, roughly four cappuccinos worth of dollars for it and practically skipped out down the sidewalk.

I headed for op.cit. books (157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321), the used and remainder emporium where I worked

several years ago, gaining the equivalent of a graduate education in bookselling. I resolved not to buy anything there, especially since op.cit. is the kind of place you need to have willpower to shop. It may not have the book you want, but you’ll literally stumble over tons of better ones you just realized you needed.

I wound my way around the teetering stacks of books to be shelved or priced, once again feeling strangely intrepid: A Lone Shopper in the Pandemic-era Bookstore. Another weird, almost emotional bout of acquisitiveness gripped me in op.cit.’s world-class cookbook section, organized by cuisine and then author. I flirted with a pristine hardcover of John T. Edge’s The Potlikker Papers, caressed a pretty paperback of Elizabeth David’s Summer Cooking. It took all my willpower to walk back into the lonely mall empty-handed.

On Memorial Day, I looked at TMZ photos of shoppers lined up at Ross Dress for Less stores around the country and felt not disgust, but a cousin-like kinship.

We just wanna buy. We’ve been melancholy for that moment of attraction to a useful, beautiful, enrapturing thing, a glittering token you alight upon and pick up by design or by chance, feeling it is your destiny to buy it and allow it to enrich your existence.

It’s easier to pull out your wallet when it’s a book, handed back to you by a kindeyed, masked fellow Santa Fean who understands just what you need to fill the void—whether silent or chaotic or blissfully ignorant or just Gilda Radner-less— in your soul.

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‘TIS THE SEASON Wedding season is upon us, although right now it’s mostly Zoom weddings, drive-by weddings and postponed weddings. I feel for you if you are currently reimagining your ceremony in a coronavirus world. These are some trying times.

My wife and I got gay married four years ago in front of 50 friends and family at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden. It’s funny to think how foreign the word “wife” sounded to us then, and how not entirely adequate it felt—at least for me. “Wife” connotes women in a way that doesn’t quite fit either of our genderqueer selves. But “spouse” felt differently awkward (too clinical? Too beige?), so we decided to embrace “wife.” Now it rolls automatically off my tongue.

Putting together the event itself was an interesting clash of queer imagination and borrowing from tradition. After much debate over the genders we felt like manifesting at the wedding and the associated clothing choices (tux? Skirt? Suspenders?

Something different altogether?), I settled on a $39 mermaid dress made of glittering turquoise spandex, and my wife wore a handsome cream-colored button-down with a rhinestone belt buckle and a turquoise watch she borrowed from Target. I picked our bouquets from neighborhood flowers. My aunt ran the ceremony and my best friend/ ex presented us with our rings. We had our reception at a circus studio; one of the joys of being queer is that it’s much easier to circumvent norms and craft your own rituals—there’s so little that is scripted for us, and we felt blissfully free from the opinions of churches or intrusive relatives.

But this still begs the question: Why have a wedding at all?

Marriage does not have the most shining history, and it’s certainly not the pinnacle of achievement for gay liberation movements. It’s a conventional and conservative institution. So much of its origin in Western culture has to do with passing down property and maintaining patriarchy. But I came of age with a bunch of anarchists and radicals and we were supposed to be creating polyamorous constellations of revolutionary love, not getting hitched.

My engagement definitely met with some disapproval from old friends and, at the other end of the spectrum, elicited uncomfortable

questions from clueless straight people. Ironically, we never even ended up filing the legal marriage paperwork with the state because we realized our combined income would put us into that unfortunate economic purgatory where we would be screwed by increased student loan payments we couldn’t afford and by lost eligibility for health insurance subsidies. We are better off legally “single.”

But the desire to get married was never about being recognized by the government anyway. It was about making a sacred commitment to each other, witnessed by friends and loved ones who could hold us accountable, to become family and stick things out.

I feel like this commitment has served us so well over the last four years. It would have been so much easier to turn tail and run when shit got hard if we weren’t married. As someone with a lot of trauma and a turbulent relationship history, and as someone who has been part of so much transience in radical communities, the commitment of marriage has been deeply stabilizing for me. I feel like I have a loving and lasting home for the first time in my life. It’s a giant exhale for my entire nervous system.

Don’t get me wrong—I know I’m lucky. I know a lot of marriages are train wrecks. Depending how you read the figures, and what population you’re looking at, something like 45% of marriages end in divorce. But those stats get a lot better for folks who wait to marry later in life, until they’ve grown up a bit and have established careers, like we did. I also picked an amazing partner. She is smart, warm, generous, hilarious, hot and always in my corner. We’ve had real struggles, but the bedrock of our relationship is deep love, support, and the ability to spend tons of time together and still want to hang out. That last part is really coming in handy during this whole pandemic marathon-in-place.

Plus, I imagine a relationship commitment like marriage might feel way less desirable or necessary if we lived in different social configurations, for example, in small clans where a bunch of folks were committed to raising each other’s kids, being connected to land, and building lasting intergenerational community.

Unfortunately, however, I have not found a functional version of that dream here in the US. In this version of history, marriage has ended up being a surprisingly healing and powerful choice. I have no regrets.

Necessary Magic is a semi-regular column wherein writer and artist Jacks McNamara explores queer issues, liberatory politics, magical creatures and other relevant topics.

Learn more at jacksmcnamara.net.

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Discontinue allowing pets, excluding service animals, inside the establishment, onto patios, into stores or other such areas.

A breakdown of what’s to come for Santa Fe restaurants and diners

f all the businesses affected by COVID-19 (which is most of ’em), restaurants seem to have somehow become the de facto poster biz for industries hit hard. This could have something to do with Santa Fe’s proud reputation as a food destination (New Mexican food is the greatest and it’s practically impossible to find it done well anyplace outside of the state), or it could be because it’s one of the oldest business models known to humankind.

Restaurants did receive some measured good news this week: New public health orders allow for a soft reopening situation, and eateries with patios and/or outdoor seating can start serving again right away—with special provisions that also apply for a broader June 1 reopening.

In the May 15 “All Together New Mexico” guidelines, state officials and a team of industry folks issued a detailed plan for how to act in the next phase, including a small but challenging list for restaurant operations in the time of COVID-19. Read them all at bit.ly/2M21uIG. Here’s quick a look:

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Remember when we didn’t even have plastic bags at grocery stores here? That was, like, three weeks ago.

feet of distance and hand sanitizer and stuff, nothing too weird there. In fact, much of this is already done by restaurants—like employees washing their hands before returning to work.

Adhere to required “COVID-Safe Practices for Retail Establishments.”

This list focuses on cleaning schedules and a reminder about state occupancy limits that at presstime remain at 25%.

Discontinue service stations that require customers to congregate in certain areas or use common utensils/dispensers, including salad bars, buffets and beverage and coffee stations.

Can’t lie, folks—this one hurts, especially for people who like to get down with a Chinese buffet or claim to love salad bars because they often end in soft serve. Knowing this, some places will continue to face tough realities.

Comply with state public health order limitations on bar and counter

seating and non-seated service; and, if otherwise permitted, ensure that 6 feet or more distance is maintained between customers.

You’re not going to be sitting on a barstool next to someone anytime soon.

This has never been anyone’s favorite thing anyway, but at least with rules changing you can act like it was your plan all along, right? Lower occupancies probably won’t hurt this one, either.

Discontinue gaming areas and other such areas of the restaurant where customers may congregate for extended periods of time and/or surfaces that are repeatedly touched and cannot be cleaned and disinfected between each use.

So long, sit-down Ms. Pac-Man machine.

Employees who handle items used or provided by customers must properly wash their hands or change gloves before serving another customer.

If you just bussed a table, it’s time for

Clean and sanitize reusable items such as menus and condiment containers left on tables after each use.

If items cannot be cleaned and sanitized after each use, offer single-use items.

Good news for laminated menu joints, bad news for upper-tier restaurants that now have to figure out a larger print job. Also good news for those little ketchup packets.

To support contact tracing, retain a daily log for at least four weeks including the date, name and phone number or email address of all customers and employees who enter the establishment.

If you haven’t come across this at your local haunts yet, it’s almost understandable to be like “Why do you need that?” to some poor nerd manning a coffee shop counter. But just do it. This isn’t like when Radio Shack wanted your address—we all saw who lasted longer on that one—these places are just trying to stay as open as they can.

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Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani are both national treasures, HBO series alums and very funny people—but knowing that makes the wildly unfunny new film from Michael Showalter (The State, Wet Hot American Summer) all the more disappointing.

Rae and Nanjiani are Leilani and Jibran, a couple nearly half a decade into a stalling relationship. She wants spontaneity, he wants…I dunno, for her to be more careful about spouting facts (it’s dumb). Together, they wind up hitting some dude with their car in the middle of their breakup and then they witness his murder at the hands of some mysterious baddie. This kicks off a series of events that should be familiar to anyone who saw 2010’s also not-that-good Date Night with Steve Carrell and Tina Fey and/or Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (though The Lovebirds‘ lampooning of the latter film is neither topical nor sensical nor funny)—and it’s pretty much boring from then on out.

Convinced they’ll be accused of a crime they didn’t commit, the pair sets out to solve the crime on their own, never knowing the po-

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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 gross misogynist things or engage in

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lice don’t actually blame them. They wind up at weird cult orgies, interrogating frat boys, making semi-humorous observations about the world around them and bringing up plot points that never get resolved. Even worse, the film approaches themes of institutional racism only to back off before its points land, leaving pretty much no thing outside of the opportunity for film critics to note how similar The Lovebirds feels to Nanjiani’s last film, Stuber (about a neurotic guy who gets swept up in crime stuff and says “funny” things).

Flashes of chemistry make way for half-baked physical comedy routines that simply aren’t that

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 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? (ADV)

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funny and, despite a running time under 90 minutes, the story grows stale before it concludes with something about how bad relationships might just need the jumpstart of crime.

It’s honestly pretty lucky this movie hit Netflix amid the pandemic as opposed to its planned theatrical release. This way people might actually see it when they’re done with Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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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, surviving tribal members have built up a small but relatively safe shelter, but with zombified white people shambling and sprinting across the bridge, it’s only a matter of time before they’ll have

THE LOVEBIRDS Directed by Showalter With Rae and Nanjiani Netflix, R, 86 min.

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. .

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 some middling support performances. Its core cast, however, finds common ground between action thrills and emotional nuance. Goodluck in particular brings a noteworthy turn, and Gordon similarly impresses with calculated evil dressed up as concern. 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 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)

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Week of May 27th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred,” wrote the feisty Aries author Karen Blixen, who sometimes used the pen name Isak Dinesen. The attitude described in that statement helps illuminate the meaning of another one of her famous quotations: “I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.” In my interpretation of this humorous remark, Blixen referred to the fact that she had a strong preference for witchy women with rascally magical ways. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because I’m inviting you to cultivate a Blixen-like streak of sacred play and sly magic in the coming days.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to seek out, seduce, and attract luck. To inspire you in this holy task, I’ll provide a prayer written by Hoodoo conjurer Stephanie Rose Bird: “O sweet luck, I call your name. Luck with force and power to make change, walk with me and talk through me. With your help, all that can and should be will be!” If there are further invocations you’d like to add to hers, Libra, please do. The best way to ensure that good fortune will stream into your life is to have fun as you draw it to you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus music legend Willie Nelson has played the same guitar since 1969.

He calls it “my horse,” and named it after Trigger, a famous horse in Hollywood films. Although Nelson still loves the tones that come from his instrument, it’s neither sleek nor elegant. It’s bruised with multiple stains and has a jagged gash near its sound hole.

Some Tauruses want their useful things to be fine and beautiful, but not Willie. Having said that, I wonder if maybe he will finally change guitars sometime soon. For you Bulls, the coming months will be time to consider trading in an old horse for a new one.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’ve got a message for you, courtesy of poet Lisel Mueller. I think her wisdom can help you thrive in the coming weeks. She writes, “The past pushed away, the future left unimagined, for the sake of the glorious, difficult, passionate present.” Of course, it’s always helpful for us to liberate ourselves from the oppressive thoughts of what once was in the past and what might be in the future. But it’ll be especially valuable for you to claim that superpower in the coming weeks. To the degree that you do, the present will be more glorious and passionate and not so difficult.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When Lewis Carroll’s fictional heroine Alice visits the exotic underground realm known as Wonderland, she encounters two odd men named Tweedledee and Tweedledum. The latter tells her, “You know very well you’re not real.” He’s implying that Alice is merely a character in the dream of a man who’s sleeping nearby. This upsets her. “I am real!” she protests, and breaks into tears. Tweedledum presses on, insisting she’s just a phantom. Alice summons her courageous wisdom and thinks to herself, “I know they’re talking nonsense, and it’s foolish to cry about it.” I suspect you Cancerians may have to deal with people and influences that give you messages akin to those of Tweedledum. If that happens, be like Alice.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio comedian John Cleese does solo work, but many of his successful films, albums, stage shows, and TV programs have arisen from joining forces with other comedians.

“When you collaborate with someone else on something creative,” he testifies, “you get to places that you would never get to on your own.” I propose you make this your temporary motto, Scorpio. Whatever line of work or play you’re in, the coming weeks will offer opportunities to start getting involved in sterling synergies and symbioses. To overcome the potential limitations of social distancing, make creative use of Zoom and other online video conferencing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Writing some Chinese characters can be quite demanding. To make “biáng,” for example, which is used in the name for a certain kind of noodle, you must draw 58 separate strokes.

This is a good metaphor for exactly what you should avoid in the coming weeks: spending too much time and devoting too much thought and getting wrapped up in too much complexity about trivial matters. Your focus should instead be on simple, bold approaches that encourage you to be crisp and decisive.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need,” vows author Barbara Kingsolver. “Let me be a good animal,” she adds. That would be a stirring prayer to keep simmering at the forefront of your awareness in the next six weeks. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you’ll be getting clear signals about the differences between your wants and needs. You will also discover effective strategies about how to satisfy them both in the post-pandemic world, and fine intuitions about which one to prioritize at any particular time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Singer-songwriter Jill Scott is strongly committed to her creative process.

She tells us, “I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend’s house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “The less you fear, the more it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it power you will have,” says the rapper known as 50 Cent. I agree with him. If you can dissolve even, say, for a song.” My perspective: Scott’s level of devotion to the muse is too intense for my tastes. Personally, I 25 percent of your fear, your ability to do what you want will rise significantly, as will your influence and would have taken the burger off the stove before fleeing the scene to record my good idea. What about you, clout. But here’s the major riddle: How exactly can you dissolve your fear? My answers to that question Aquarius? According to my analysis, you’re in a phase when creative ideas should flow even better than would require far more room than I have in this usual. Pay close attention. Be prepared to capture as horoscope. But here’s the really good news, Leo: In much of that potentially life-altering stuff as possible. the coming weeks, you will naturally have an abundance of good insights about to dissolve your own PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): To protect ourselves and fear. Trust what your intuition tells you. And be others from the pandemic, most of us have been spendreceptive to clues that serendipity brings you. ing more time than usual at home—often engaged in what amounts to enforced relaxation. For some of us, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): For his film Parasite, Virgo filmmaker Bong Joon-ho received Academy Awards for that has been a problem. But I’m going to propose that it Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. will be the opposite of a problem for you in the next three weeks. In my astrological opinion, your words to In his natal horoscope, Joon-ho has Pluto conjunct his sun in Virgo, and during the time Parasite began to score live by will be this counsel from author and philosopher major success, Saturn and Pluto were making a favorable Mike Dooley: “What if it was your downtime, your lounging-in-bed-too-long time, that made possible your transit to that powerful point in his chart. I’m expecting greatest achievements? Would they still make you feel the next six months to be a time when you can make sigguilty? Or would you allow yourself to enjoy them?” nificant progress toward your own version of a Joon-ho Homework: What’s the story or song that provides you style achievement. In what part of your life is that most with your greatest consolation? FreeWillAstrology.com likely to happen? Focus on it. Feed it. Love it.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE A. HAYES, Deceased.

No. D-101-PB-2020-00040 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF WAYNE A. HAYES, DECEASED, AND ALL 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 COVID19. Parties and members of the public may contact Judge Biedscheid’s office at 505-4558215 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 FIRM, 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

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, DECEASED NOTICE TO CREDITORS Robin Naffziger has been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Lorenzo L. Barrone, deceased.

All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the Personal Representatives Attorney, Philip J. Dabney, Esq. at 3500 Trinity Drive, Suite B-4, Los Alamos, NM, 87544 or filed with the First District Court Clerk at 225 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Date: 5/18/20 /s/ Philip Dabney PHILIP J. DABNEY, Esq. STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUANITA ELIZABETH TRUJILLO, Deceased.

No. D-101-PB-2020-00080 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate.

All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned Personal Representative in care of Karen Aubrey, Esq., Aubrey Law Firm, LLC, 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 875042268.

Dated: May 8 2020.

Beatrice C. Trujillo AUBREY LAW FIRM, LLC By: /s/ KAREN AUBREY P. O. Box 8435 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435 (505) 982-4287; facsimile (505) 986-8349 ka@karenaubreylaw.com

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