November 22, 2017 Santa Fe Reporter

Into the Next

Century NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART CELEBRATES ITS CENTENNIAL WITH NEW EXHIBITS, NEW SITES AND NEW POSSIBILITIES

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COVER STORY 12 INTO THE NEXT CENTURY As the New Mexico Museum of Art reaches its centennial, a look back at its roots and an insider forecast for at least some of the next 100 years THE INTERFACE 17 TOOLS OF ENGAGEMENT The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum spearheads a program to place art in the landscape from whence it came

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KERFLUFFLE Your article that denigrates the boundary process in SFPS, and at Wood Gormley specifically, is an appalling example of shoddy journalism based an interview with one person whose validity is specious, to be generous.

There are specific protocols for attending a a school outside your zone; it’s a lottery for schools that are outside the zoning. If you are in violation of the zoning and you lie about where you live, you need to own up to the fact that you may have to face consequences.

And if you lie or cheat? What lesson are you teaching your children? That it is expedient to be deceitful? There is much much more to this story than the SF Reporter has bothered to investigate. ...

In reality, this case is not about racism or prejudice … it is about a person who decided it is okay to fraudulently “cut the line” to get into a school that many people legally apply to. ...

BTW, your implication is that Chantal Tynes left the district because she was forced out. She actually retired, as she had planned to do well in advance of this kerfluffle.

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STEAMING Your article on how the school district is unfairly enforcing school zones is a pile of steaming crap. The writer could not produce a single example of a parent or family who was unfairly treated, or any other credible evidence that a problem exists with the enforcement of school zones. The takeaway of your article is that the Reporter fabricates imaginary news stories to make itself appear to be the defender of the downtrodden, which of course is nothing new.

The only parts of the article that were accurate were that former Wood Gormley parent Roseangela Rogers used a fake address to get her [kids] into Wood Gormley, that she disrupted a teacher’s classroom, harassed the PTC president, the PTC president obtained a

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SPACEPORT WANTS MORE MONEY Perhaps a sugary drink tax is the shot in the arm they need…

JUDGE RULES FORMER SANTA FE UNIVERSITY OF ART & DESIGN STUDENTS CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH LAWSUIT We’d have thought they’d want spend that energy finding other schools to attend, but this is also probably not a total waste of time.

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Griego’s Guilty A jury convicts the ex-senator on five of eight counts in his public corruption trial B Y M AT T G R U B S m a t t g r u b s @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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hil Griego kept his head up for the first two guilty counts.

When the jury convicted him of bribery, he lifted his hands to his forehead. At fraud, the heaviest charge, his head started to sag. His wife, Jane, gasped.

In just a single day of deliberation after a trial that lasted more than two weeks, a Santa Fe jury convicted the former senator and veteran of 19 legislative sessions of five crimes on the evening of Thursday Nov. 16. A judge could sentence him to more than a dozen years in prison early next year.

A story in SFR broke the news of the questionable sale of state-owned property (Cover: “Sold Out,” July 2014) and set in motion an ethics investigation that led to Griego’s resignation from the Senate and, ultimately, to the trial that ended with his conviction.

Griego didn’t speak as he left the courtroom.

His attorney, Tom Clark, said Griego will appeal the verdict. “Anytime there’s a conviction, there’s going to be an appeal, especially in a case with this kind of complication.”

In a statement, Attorney General Hector Balderas said, “Public officials are elected to do the work of the people, not to enrich themselves from their official duties while New Mexicans struggle just to get by. New Mexico families deserve the highest level of ethics and service from their elected officials.”

Balderas’ prosecutors have gone at Griego hard, asking Judge Brett Loveless to jail him until sentencing—that was denied—and asking the court to strip the ex-lawmaker of any benefit he gained from the time he committed the first instance of a crime until the verdict. That could include part of his pension and other legislative fringe benefits.

The convictions—four felonies and a misdemeanor, which also include violating the ethical principles of public service and having an unlawful interest in a pub-

Attorney Mike Jones comforts Jane Griego as the verdict is read in court in Santa Fe.

Phil Griego is set to to learn his sentence for the crimes in February.

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lic contract—are the latest turns in the saga of a real estate deal that netted him a commission check for $51,389.07. Griego brokered the sale of a state building to the owners of the Inn of the Five Graces and asked legislative staff to draft a resolution authorizing the sale.

Jurors found Griego not guilty on three charges—a second count of fraud for failing to inform his qualifying real estate broker of the deal, a count of perjury for filing a financial disclosure form that didn’t include his commission, and another misdemeanor related to the financial disclosure.

Griego also faces a second set of charges that are unrelated to the real estate deal and laid out by the AG’s office in a 22-count indictment filed June 16. The counts include 19 felonies—embezzlement and perjury chief among them—and three misdemeanors accusing the former state senator of using money he collected as campaign contributions for personal use, then lying about it.

Trial on those counts is set to be scheduled in 30 days. Clark told SFR, “Perhaps in light of the jury verdict in this case, the parties may be able to work something out and avoid the necessity for another very expensive and lengthy trial.”

Griego has been a fixture on the Santa Fe political scene for decades. He was appointed to the City Council in 1983 by then-mayor Louis Montaño. He was re-elected and served 12 years. In 1996, voters elected him to the state Senate, where he won re-election five times. He resigned as a legislative ethics investigation was nearing completion in March of 2015.

Several of Griego’s former colleagues testified in his trial, including Santa Fe Rep. Jim Trujillo. Trujillo changed his testimony, at first saying he would not have carried the resolution authorizing the sale of a state-owned building had he known Griego would profit. He later said he probably still would have.

Trujillo told SFR Thursday evening after the verdict that he wasn’t sure how Griego’s conviction would reflect on public servants in New Mexico, a state with a long history of public corruption.

“That could be a conclusion that some people would think bad about the Legislature. But then on the other hand, you know, while Phil was in office, he did a lot for the state and for the district, he did a lot for people. So, it kinda cancels out. At least I think so.”

Griego’s sentencing is expected in 90 days—potentially on Valentine’s Day and the penultimate day of the 2018 legislative session. By the legislative calendar, it will be four years to the day since the Senate passed House Joint Resolution 8, which authorized the sale and set in motion the real estate deal that would turn a senator into a felon.

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Not Over Yet New Mexicans have until Dec. 15 to sign up for health insurance through the state’s exchange program

BY AARON CANTÚ a a r o n @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m aaron_con_leche

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ose Jimenez says he and his family have basically given up on following changes to the nation’s health insurance system. Asked why, he says: “Because of Trump.”

Jimenez, 24, continues: “At the moment, health insurance, it really doesn’t interest me. I know it’s a necessity we all need as Americans.”

Nevertheless, Jimenez has signed up for individual health insurance through the New Mexico health exchange program every year since it has been available. It’s helped him, he says, and he still plans to sign up for coverage by the Dec. 15 deadline—over a month earlier than the deadline fell last year.

“It was important to sign up back then, but I don’t know now what to think,” he says with a shrug after a recent shopping trip in Santa Fe. While the reality show of Washington politics can be exhausting to follow, the state’s Office of the Superintendent of Insurance contends that New Mexicans have plenty of options for coverage through the state’s exchange market in the coming year. And because of politicking at the federal level, people in lower income brackets may inadvertently qualify for more subsidies than past years.

The challenge for the state will be how to enroll eligible people for coverage when the Trump administration has mostly muddied the process.

Even with a month and a half less time to sign up than previous years, people

eligible for the exchange and who don’t have other forms of insurance will still face a penalty if they don’t sign up for coverage (this is known as the “individual mandate” of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare). The feds have also cut money for outreach and marketing to get people enrolled, leaving that to the states.

Between 2010 and 2014, the federal government gave $123.3 million in planning grants to New Mexico to set up and run the state exchange, then that cash dried up. Individuals can enroll now on the healthcare.gov platform, while small business owners use shop.nmhix.com, the state exchange’s website, to buy plans for employees.

As of last February, 54,865 people were enrolled in private plans through the New Mexico marketplace, while another 800,000 were expected to enroll in Medicaid, according to a July 2016 report from the Con Alma Health Foundation.

Some state governments, including New Mexico’s, feared that the president’s decision last month to end subsidies for insurers would depress enrollment by making monthly premiums more expensive. In September, well before Trump announced the change, regulators in New Mexico approved record high increases to monthly premiums in anticipation of the subsidy cut.

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The office recently released a new tool, OSICompareHealthPlans.org, to connect people with health insurance plans. Visitors can make doctor and medicine preference choices, and search results yield some coverage plans that are unavailable at healthcare.gov. Widler says the tool will help people find better deals for plans, though they do still have to enroll at healthcare.gov or directly through the insurer.

The process of selecting insurance is the same as past years, requiring that people shop for plans fit both their medical needs and personal budgets. That’s how it’s supposed to work in theory, but anybody who has signed up through the exchange knows it can be more perilous than grocery shopping. And middle-income people, those who earn too much to receive an advanced premium tax credit, will almost certainly be hammered by higher premiums this year.

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CENTURY

BY ERIC KILLELEA a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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welve hundred people, give or take, bustled along the Santa Fe streets, braced against the coming winter chill, then filed into the magnificent hall at the corner of Lincoln and West Palace avenues.

The Saturday evening crowd was getting a first look at the newly constructed St. Francis Auditorium, a wonder in the new Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico that echoed the structural achievement of the mission church at Acoma Pueblo, and even tossed an elbow at the nearby St. Francis Cathedral for early-20th century Santa Fe grandeur.

The museum had just begun allowing artists to show their work unencumbered by the sensibilities of curators and juries,

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adding a populist beauty to the new auditorium.

With New Mexico not yet six years a state and the nation mired in World War I, the assembled sang “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

It was Nov. 25, 1917.

And now, a century later, nearly to the day, the New Mexico Museum of Art is on the verge of a growth spurt. Not only has it refreshed the historic space after a months-long closure, but it’s also taking on a satellite facility a few blocks away.

Mary Kershaw has recounted many times to friends and colleagues the story of “discovering” the Halpin Building. In September, the public finally heard it, too.

The structure stands on the corner of Montezuma and Guadalupe streets, a mere stone’s throw from the Jean Cocteau

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Cinema and the future home of the New Mexico School for the Arts. Emblazoned with the work of muralist Gilbert Guzman on one side, the building is an ode to two of Santa Fe’s many eras; the marriage of the old and the modern.

“This space said to me, ‘Mary, you might think I’m collective storage, but I’m a contemporary art space,’” Kershaw told a roomful of Santa Feans during a recent presentation in the run-up to the museum’s centennial celebrations on Saturday.

“I did not disagree.”

As director of the New Mexico Museum of Art, Kershaw said the museum’s new undertaking aims to add a 34,000-squarefoot satellite space in the Railyard to house contemporary art and serve as storage for its 23,000-piece collection. The overhaul is expected to be completed in 2020.

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“One museum in two locations,” she said of the new role of the Halpin Building, which formerly housed state archives.

Weeks later, in her office, Kershaw elaborates. “When founded, the museum was contemporary—we were the only game in town,” she says. “As we’ve gone through the past century, part of our mission has been to turn Santa Fe into a cultural destination, and now we are seeking to become both contemporary and historic.”

All of this leading up to day-long centennial celebrations taking place Saturday inside the newly renovated space on West Palace Avenue, and spilling out into the streets surrounding the Plaza.

In his 2012 book, New Mexico Art Through Time, Joseph Traugott, former curator of 20th-century art for the museum, writes that becoming the 47th state in 1912 “initiated efforts to promote economic development through cultural tourism.” The state began concerted efforts to draw visitors interested in Indigenous and Spanish art and significant historical events. The main crew responsible for this push included attorney Frank Springer, Harvard-educated archaeologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley, journalist and lawyer Paul AF Walter, archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett and his assistant Kenneth Chapman, a commercial artist.

In 1915, the New Mexico Legislature appropriated $30,000 to construct the building that would become the New Mexico Museum of Art. Springer scraped up the other half of the $60,000 total cost.

It would take two years to complete construction, culminating in that Saturday night in the St. Francis Auditorium.

Despite its obvious beauty, there were mixed reactions in town to its quasi-Pueblo facade that would ultimately become the blueprint for building codes in the downtown area that persist today.

“It is an architectural curiosity,” Oliver LaFarge, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who penned regular columns for

the Santa Fe New Mexican, wrote in his 1959 book, Santa Fe: The Autobiography of a Southwestern Town. “Made of cement, hollow tile and plaster, it attempts unsuccessfully to imitate true adobe. The total effect is staged and not particularly interesting. Nonetheless, this building was beneficially important in leading to the development of the Santa Fe style.”

The historic nod of the structure aside, what went inside at the start was progressive. Robert Henri, a New York artist who worked at the Palace of the Governors, convinced Hewett to allow artists to show their work at the museum at their own dis-

A BRIEF TIMELINE OF THE MUSEUM 1910s:

The Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico opens to the public in 1917.

1920s:

Artists Will Shuster (the father of Zozobra), Willard Nash, Walter Mruk, Fremont Ellis, and Jozef Bakos begin calling themselves Los Cinco Pintores and hold group exhibits at the museum.

1930s:

Shuster completes murals for the courtyard and Santa Fean James McNary donates a pipe organ for music classes and classical concerts.

1940s:

Edgar Lee Hewett dies and his ashes are interred in the courtyard, where they remain.

1950s:

The number of artists coming to New Mexico increases tremendously, forcing the museum to abandon its open-door policy.

1960s:

Then-director James Taylor Forrest changes the official name to the Museum of Fine Arts.

1970s:

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival debuts at the museum in 1973.

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As we’ve gone through the past century, part of our mission has been to turn Santa Fe into a cultural destination.

-Mary Kershaw, director of the New Mexico Museum of Art

ORIGINAL PHOTO BY DANIEL QUAT

1980s:

The museum completes construction of the New Wing galleries and sculpture gardens; renovates storage and office spaces.

1990s:

Collaborations begin with other local institutions such as SITE Santa Fe and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum; the museum commissions fresco artist Frederico Vigil to paint “Exodus: Influencias Positivas Y Compadrazgo” for its courtyard.

2000s:

State Senate Bill 276 passes and legally changes the name to the New Mexico Museum of Art “to better reflect the diversity of art in the state” in 2007.

TODAY:

New Mexico Museum of Art turns 100.

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LEFT: Work from wood sculptor Luis Tapia from curator Christian Waguespack’s exhibit, Horizons: People and Place in New Mexican Art. ABOVE: A worker installs pieces for an upcoming exhibit.

cretion, without curators and jurors.

“This open-door policy appealed to other modernist and academic artists in New York and Chicago who had been systematically excluded from established institutions,” Traugott wrote.

The model, though abandoned for more traditional curation by the 1950s, attracted local artists, too.

“Looking back on our origins, we started as a very special place for all artists living and working in New Mexico,” Kershaw says. “We brought premier American and European artists out to the Southwest as well.”

The New Mexico Museum of Art stands just northwest of the Plaza. In October, SFR met Kershaw and Head of Registration and Collections Michelle Gallagher-Roberts to see ongoing renovations.

Over the past five years, the museum has restored the courtyard garden visible from the entrance, repaired the museum foun-

dation and west wall, re-roofed the interior space to prevent water damage and improved security and fire detection systems.

“It’s not sexy,” Kershaw says, “but it’s seriously important.”

The evidence is everywhere.

In the lobby, we stand on hand-poured concrete comprising the 13,200 square feet of floors and 360 square feet of stair treads and risers. Kershaw directs my attention to various points around the room and we visualize how a new desk, once repositioned, will create extra visitor space; how removing the track lighting and adding new, dimmable LED fixtures to conform with the slanted latillas will improve the quality and spread of light; how replacing scratched Plexiglas on doors with a quarter-inch of clear tempered glass will improve visibility into the courtyard.

Roberts espouses the importance of preserving history while addressing sustainability by cleaning and waxing wood-

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en furniture, window jambs and pillars; replacing stationary window covers with roller-screen shades and replacing deteriorating UV window film.

“The light and weather in New Mexico is intense, and the sun burns even in January,” Roberts explains. “Artists love the quality and intensity of the light, but it poses a challenge to us in the museum, because it’s damaging to the art and the building.”

Kershaw adds: “In many ways, the building itself is our most precious artifact.”

The New Wing Gallery upstairs now features newly crafted tin wall sconces from local lighting company Alchemy Lights, the mention of which is important for Kershaw, who prides the museum on sourcing materials from Santa Fe. “We live in a state of artists, and we have commissioned makers to replace our gates and loading docks, just as they did when the museum originally opened,” she says.

New coats of paint cover ceilings and walls, track lighting is relocated for bet-

ter wall coverage and new exhibits and resource areas have opened up. Workers have also replaced skylights as well as reestablished historic doors between the Clarke and Goodwin galleries downstairs.

Back in the lobby, Roberts takes a deep breath. “We’re not even close,” she says with a laugh, “but we’ll make it and be on time and on budget.”

Kershaw has faith in funding. Just as half the money for the original musuem came from private hands, a fundraising campaign for the new capital drive has been underway since late 2015 when members of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation approved a $10 million Centennial Campaign, the majority of which ($8.7 million) would be used to convert the Halpin Building. This July, Kershaw announced that Albuquerque-based architecture firms dnca (which also designed Second Street Brewery’s Rufina Taproom) and StudioGP would lead the Halpin’s transformation.

The New Mexico Museum of Art receives $1.6 million in annual state operating funds, which pays the salaries of 26 employees, including 10 cashiers and guards. As the Halpin building becomes the contemporary space, according to Kershaw, the museum plans to request another $1 million from the state for additional building operations and wages beginning in 2020.

There is comfort in finding a working artist like Santa Fe sculptor Susan York in the original museum’s New Wing Gallery. As she helps install the late Sol LeWitt’s 1971 “Wall Drawing #73” for the upcoming exhibit Contact: Local to Global, York’s dressed in a loose-fitting black shirt and pants with charcoal-colored running shoes—a very mellow vibe. She recalls visiting the museum in her 20s while studying art at the University of New Mexico, and has since shown her work here on numerous occasions, eventually joining several committees involved in

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THE CURATORS The curators at the New Mexico Museum of Art have encyclopedic knowledge of the state’s art and history and, as they lead up to the big day, preparations are underway for three exciting exhibits that are part of the centennial celebration.

MERRY SCULLY Head of Curatorial Affairs and Contemporary Art Contact: Local to Global On Display: Through April 29, 2018 She says: “The exhibition focuses on the contact of artists with New Mexico and its contact with national artists. Artists came here to foster a creative environment, and that’s still the case.”

CHRISTIAN WAGUESPACK Curator of 20th-Century Art Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art On Display: Through Nov. 25, 2018 He says: “The challenge of historical art is suggesting why they’re still relevant today. I want to honor cultures and styles of New Mexico’s history by including Native art and work voted on by visitors.”

KATE WARE Curator of Photography Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives On Display: Through Oct. 7, 2018 She says: “For this exhibition, I’m thinking about the importance of landscape, identity and creative practices in the 21st century.”

THE CELEBRATION From 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday Nov. 25, the New Mexico Museum of Art celebrates its 100th birthday in style with numerous events in and around the museum. Some overlap, but we’ve distilled a number of the highlights here for your easy perusal. Note that parking at the PERA Building (1120 Paseo de Peralta) is free all day, with shuttles leaving every 15 minutes.

Things kick off at 10 am, when the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi bell rings in celebration of the centennial.

Curator talks are scheduled for 11:30 am, 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm. The museum lobby hosts a photo booth with historical props as well. At 11 am, dance students from the New Mexico School for the Arts perform in the St. Francis Auditorium while the Shiners Club Jazz Band performs in the courtyard.

At 3:30 pm there will be cake.

An early look at curator Kate Ware’s upcoming exhibit, Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives.

renovating the Halpin Building. She’ll also show part of one of her sculptures, “Floating Column,” a 14-foot graphite column that hangs at eye level, in addition to a related 46-by-46-inch graphite pencil drawing.

More than 125 artists are involved in three separate exhibitions that are part of the centennial reopening, and York says they’re markers of the future: “I’m grateful that we have an inspiring museum here, with great potential in showing cutting-edge new paintings and drawings and media.”

Albuquerque conceptual artist Jami Porter Lara, whose clay pottery also appears in the Contact exhibit, says by phone that she has savored museum shows in recent years.

In 2016, Porter Lara introduced her pit-fired clay pottery in the exhibition 108 Repetitions at the museum.

“The New Mexico Museum of Art, in particular, is where my work has dialogue with the work of other artists like Maria Martinez and Rick Billingham,” she says. “I don’t think my work would be legible without that historical context.”

For Stuart Arends, another artist in the Contact show, who lives in a rural area south of Albuquerque and creates found sculpture, lithographs and three-dimensional paintings among other works, this is “a great museum to have my work in, but I’m on the far reach of what they normally do, since it seems like more of a historical museum.”

Asked about Kershaw’s goal of showing historical and contemporary works in upcoming exhibitions at the Halpin Building, he replies: “There seems to be a place between the Museum of Art and SITE Santa Fe, in terms of forging a contemporary path in the art world.”

When author and historian Carmella Padilla was a student at Santa Fe High School in the 1980s, she took field trips to the museum and sang in the choir for annual Christmas events at the St. Francis Auditorium. “This

was a place where community came first,” Padilla tells SFR. “I appreciate that Mary Kershaw and her staff are taking it back to an inviting, informal feeling of a common gathering place.”

Padilla reflects on her childhood and adult experiences at the museum, which she dubs the “historical flagship of our community.”

“It can’t just rely on the past and stay static,” she says. “The anniversary is causing people to refocus on its strengths and look to how it can stay relevant. I think they’re in a great position to find relevancy.”

At the museum, Rebecca Aubin, the head of education and visitor experience, reviews the centennial celebration schedule.

Promptly at 10 am, the cathedral will ring its bell to kick off events that include lowriders and classic cars on the Plaza, as well as mobile art spaces Axle Contemporary and Wonders on Wheels showing off their works on West Palace Avenue.

Aubin says the museum and auditorium were originally built as “secular meeting grounds,” with concerts, lectures, and memorials on a regular basis. The centennial activities are an indicator of the community coming first.

“Museums can’t just put art on the wall and expect people to come,” Aubin says.

“You have to give them reasons to come visit, and I’d like us to be a community-driven museum, a dynamic place.”

As a state institution, the museum belongs to the people. The land here has always produced artists, rich in culture and traditions. For the new two-site museum to become and remain worthy of the people, its staff must look to the talents of the old artists and embrace the bravery of the new.

“We will be a museum that celebrates both its history and new-mindedness,” Mary Kershaw says. “That’s who we will be.

World-class, community-focused.”

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BY JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl

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ast February, The New York Times took the pulse of the art world’s growing relationship with immersive technology.

“Virtual Reality Has Arrived in the Art World,” the headline proclaimed, followed by: “Now What?”

The story surveyed museums and contemporary artists using technology to create both au courant works and experiences. The story also expressed caution about the overhyped promises of new technologies, and even the limits the most successful may have in the art world, noting, “… it would be a pity if wonder was all we got.”

I’m personally always happy to geek out and can’t quite tell when I’m experiencing mere wonder versus having a more complex response. Case in point, the San Francisco Museum of Art unveiled last summer an artbot that responds to text message queries by accessing the museum’s online archive and sending a captioned image from the museum’s collection. “Send me SFMOMA” proved popular, sparking 12,000 text messages in four days during the service’s beta run.

Ever the simpleton with an unlimited data

plan, I thought it was cool. I also thought it was engaging, showing me art I hadn’t seen before and making connections— albeit via an Application Program Interface—that were thought-provoking.

A nascent initiative from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum seems likely to one day have similarly robust user engagement. The museum recently received a $30,000 grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, which funds projects that use technology and innovation for cultural and historic preservation.

For the O’Keeffe, the money will kick off a multi-year undertaking to create a custom database of key landscapes from O’Keeffe’s works. These areas, known as “viewsheds,” are geographical terrains visible from specific locations. Conceivably, the database could then be used to create augmented and virtual reality experiences via a mobile app and website.

Project Manager Ben Finberg, the museum’s director of IT and operations, says the project particularly fits O’Keeffe’s legacy. A modernist painter whose work explores nature through abstraction, O’Keeffe also maintained “photorealistic loyalty” to her sub-

© GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM. [2006.05.235]

O’Keeffe Museum looks to expand the art experience beyond the canvas

siderable. The fieldwork will require making sure the viewsheds (Finberg says a few dozen have been identified with an eye toward geographic and geologic diversity) are accessible to visitors without negatively impacting existing residents or stakeholders in the region. The project also will require coordinating and triangulating locations via GPS at a three-dimensional level to truly replicate what would have been O’Keeffe’s vantage points.

The museum hopes to extend the database beyond New Mexico and even beyond O’Keeffe by making the project open-source to “create a model that can be used by a wide array of other organizations.”

Then comes the user experience. In theory, participants in New Mexico could visit the viewsheds and, using a mobile app, overlay the original artwork onto the site. Finberg envisions doing so would create an “aha moment,” one “that is a really enriching and educational” experience, allowing users “to understand the artistic process and the beauty of ABOVE: Georgia O’Keeffe. Mesa and Road East II, 1952. Oil Northern New Mexico and on canvas, 26 x 36 1/8 in. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of New Mexico in general.”

The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. BELOW: Georgia O’Keeffe.

Outside New Mexico, an Untitled (Road from Abiquiu), ca. 1964. Black and white photoeven bigger audience could graph. Gift of The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. “pull up the app at home and experience virtual reality: immersive photographs, 360 panoramas, juxtaposed against their artwork … and take people to the viewsheds virtually.”

Finberg acknowledged that the question of how to best vet using technology in the context of fine arts is a big one.

From his role, he says, “technology is a set of tools and a toolbox, and I think it has the ability to really enrich the visitor experience, to enrich the educational experience and enrich the interpretation.”

So wonder, yes—and then some. © GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM. [2006.06.1372]

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jects. So whether viewing “skyscrapers in New York or specific barns around Lake George or certainly anywhere in New Mexico,” Finberg says, one can pinpoint where the artist was seeing the shapes that emerged on the canvas. “If you look at the painting of the Pedernal, you can find the exact location she was sitting or standing,” he continues. “As a single-artist museum, that was the genesis of the project: We realized we could build up a database of every single viewshed and tie it to a specific geographical or geological site.”

The logistics for the project’s first phase—building the database—are con-

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READINGS & CONVERSATIONS

brings to Santa Fe a wide range of writers from the literary world of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to read from and discuss their work.

VALERIA LUISELLI with

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WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and has lived in Africa, Asia, Central America, and Europe. She now lives in New York City. Her works have been widely translated and include the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth, as well as the essay collection Sidewalks, which begins and ends in a cemetery in Venice.

She wrote Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions after working as a volunteer interpreter for Central American immigrant children detained in the United States. In the book she writes, “Children leave their homes with a coyote. They cross Mexico in the hands of this coyote, riding La Bestia. They try not to fall into the hands of rapists, corrupt policemen, murderous soldiers, and drug gangs who might enslave them in poppy or marijuana fields, if they don’t shoot them in the head and mass-bury them.” Luiselli was named one of the 20 best Mexican writers under age 40 by Mexico’s Arts and Culture Council and is completing a PhD in comparative literature at Columbia University.

Journalist Sonia Nazario writes extensively on Latin America and is the author of Enrique’s Journey, the story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the United States.

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“It’s a Black Friday alternative,” Zircus Erotique’s Mena Domina says of the troupe’s upcoming variety show at the Palace. “It’s an opportunity for people to do something different with their post-holiday weekend.” Zircus Erotique has, of course, been a Santa Fe mainstay since basically forever, but Domina says that there are still plenty of people out there who aren’t familiar with the art form just yet. “Our shows tend to be a mix of classic burlesque—feathers and boas and glamorous gowns and beautiful women strutting their stuff onstage.” It’s classy, all right, and incorporates elements of striptease, Vaudeville, bellydance and comedy—it’s probably not quite what you think it is. Either way, she had us at feathers. (ADV) Zircus Erotique Burlesque and Variety Show: 9:30 pm Friday Nov. 24. $15-$25. The Palace Saloon, 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690.

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LECTURE SUN/26 EVENT FRI/24 HYPERCAFFIUM SPAZZINATE We’ll go ahead and skip the requisite jokes about how people love coffee and drink just, like, so much of it in favor of posing a question: Why are we so willing to drink subpar brews? Good coffee is, after all, a luxury at this point (read: often pricey), so why shouldn’t we educate ourselves a bit with those who’ve made the heady elixir their life’s work? We’re talkin’ Coffee 101 from the fine folks at Iconik Coffee Roasters. This handy class is about everyday coffee preparation, and is a great way to make your mornings that much more worth it—a primer course in how to brew effectively at home.

This oughta save you a few bucks in the long run, too, and take the first step to ditching garbage coffee. Like Folgers. Folgers is terrible. (ADV) Coffee 101: Brewing Essentials: 3 pm Sunday Nov. 26. Free. Iconik Coffee Roasters, 1600 Lena St., 428-0996.

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MUSIC TUE/28 VINYL VICTORIES This one’s for the rest of us. The people who live here full-time whose family members just whirled through town, destroyed our homes and ate all our food. That was tough. But it’s over now, and before we get to cleaning we’ll need a drink. Obviously it’s time for The Matador. They pour ’em strong, they avoid all frills (including credit cards) and they host sweet DJs like Prairiedog and Mama Goose.

If the ultra-loud tones of punk, surf, rock and rockabilly in a subterranean watering hole with the stiffest drinks in town can’t provide at least some soothing effects, what are you even doing with yourself? (ADV) Vintage Vinyl Night: 9 pm Tuesday Nov. 28.

Free. The Matador, 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050.

There’s No Place Like Home You’re home, you’re erotic, you’re ready to get caffeinated This one’s for all you people who moved away to make something of yourselves and prove to everyone that you’ve got what it takes to live in the big city— you’re home for Thanksgiving now and a terrifying thought just occurred to you: You’ve grown sick of your family and there aren’t eight bazillion things to do every night.

Breathe. You’ll get through this and we’re here to help. We’ll start things slow with the annual Lighting of the Plaza (6 pm Friday Nov. 24. Free. Santa Fe Plaza, 100 Old Santa Fe Trail). It’s pretty, it’s free and you can practically feel the holiday spirit wafting out of the colored lights. We’ve seen ice sculptures there, too.

Later, head up Canyon Road to El Farol where rock cover band JJ and the Hooligans performs (9 pm. $5. 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912). The place is newly renovated, has a full bar and, luckily, cover songs aren’t particularly emotionally taxing. Score.

At 10 am on Saturday Nov 25 and Sunday Nov. 26, the Santa Fe Woman’s

Club hosts its 11th annual Holiday Gift Fair (10 am-5 pm. Free. 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455), which is not just a great way to stock up for Christmas but an excuse to be on your own a few hours. Say something like, “I’ve just gotta run some errands, mom.”

Also on Sunday afternoon, find the high-flying antics of local circus troupe Wise Fool as its teachers and students present the annual Circus Luminous event (2 pm. $12-$45. Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234). This thing is a Thanksgiving-time tradition and should probably keep you warm for a couple hours.

If you’re a bit of a nerd, The Game Thing’s weekly Monday night gathering at Second Street Brewery’s Rufina Taproom (6:15 pm. Free. 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068) is a good chance to hang with your peers while you interface with some beers—just don’t drive anywhere since holidays should never be about DWIs. Of course, more options can be found on this very page, or on SFR’s website: sfreporter.com/cal. (Alex De Vore)

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SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION Third Annual Winter Watershed Benefit Thursday, November 30th 5:30~8:00pm Amaya Restaurant at Hotel Santa Fe

Guest Speaker:

Hilario Romero Northern New Mexico College Professor, Writer Activist Former State Historian

Silent Auction, Raffle, Hors d’oeuvres and Cash Bar Buy Tickets at: www.santafewatershed.org ~Tickets sold at the door on the day of event ~ ~$50 for Event and Raffle ~ $30 Raffle Only ~ Thank you to our Sponsors ~ Agua Fria Village Association ~ Hotel Santa Fe ~ US Eagle Federal Credit Union ~ Santa Fe Prep ~ County Commissioner Anna Hansen and Planning Commissioner Charlie Gonzales

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Let’s have a look at patriarchy, shall we? Thais Mather’s installation, Reckless Abandon, opens at form & concept Gallery on Friday, features a reading on Saturday, and explores the cultural, political and environmental upheaval we’re all living through right now. Also, check out 3 Questions with Mather on page 27.

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DHARMA TALK BY NATALIE GOLDBERG Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Zen practitioner and local author Natalie Goldberg presents "Going Up the Mountain and Going Down the Mountain is the Same Thing." It begins with a 15-minute meditation, so arrive by 5:20 pm.

5:30 pm, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Do you basically know everything about everything? Put it to good use. Quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free

TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Happy hour and board games!

Bring your own or play one of the cinema's. All the kids will be home from college so maybe they’ll bring their new Cards Against Humanity bonus packs.

6 pm, free

MUSIC AMERICAN JEM Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 955-0765 Thanksgiving Eve is the new New Year's Eve, so catch some Americana. Make dinner reservations if you want to have a meal to give you energy for your next meal. Aw yiss.

6:30 pm, $20 BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Get your '60s and '70s pop on piano and vocals to boot.

6:30 pm, free

BOK CHOY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Simmerin' soul featuring Jose Romero back on bass, Mark Clark on drums and Craig Small on guitar.

8:30 pm, free DJ ELVIS KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Is it a DJ? Is it Elvis? Is it karaoke? Is it some amalgam of all three? Only one way to find out.

10 pm, free DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, electronica, hip-hop and reggaeton.

10 pm, free DANIEL MURPHY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues and rock, yo. Treat the bartenders nice tonight—it’s gonna be a crazy weekend.

8 pm, free

DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Mediterranean gypsy jazz and singing in English and Italian.

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

7:30 pm, free IMPERIAL ROOSTER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Gonzo roots rock from these Española-based faves. (Last year we went to the Tavern's pre-Thanksgiving kickoff party, and while we almost died about 10 times, it will also go down as one of the most fun nights of our lives. So, go.)

7 pm, free

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

6 pm, free SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Swing, jazz and standards.

6:30 pm, free

THU/23 FOOD THANKSLIVING VEGAN POTLUCK Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Whip up an eight-serving dish to share that has no animal products, bring the recipe and get ready to socialize.

(There's no oven there, so get creative to keep it warm.)

BYOPC (place setting) and enjoy music, kids' activities, costumes and good company.

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Rawk Lessons

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

LIVE Out of the last gasps before the Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s upcoming closure come relative success stories from students who’ll manage to get out with degrees intact. Take Niels Hansen, a contemporary music student at the school and bassist for doom/stoner/metal act Devil’s Throne (and yet-to-he-heard Atrophic Wound), whose senior project for his music business class wraps up on Monday night during a show he’s booked and promoted.

“Anybody majoring in contemporary music has to do a senior show,” he says, “and I’m one of the few remaining contemporary music students who’ll have a show around town. And for me, it’s been surprisingly easy—The Underground’s Johnny Pink has been very supportive.”

Pink is a beacon unto the harder music styles that live in or visit town. Hansen, however, is more than just that. Born in Denmark (one of the most metal of all regions), he’s called Santa Fe home for 17 years, and though he definitely looks how you’d imagine a metal dude (long hair, band shirt with unintelligible logo), his background includes marimba, African drumming, kit drumming, jazz (think upright bass) and others. But, he says, the raw emotion of metal is a major selling point for it being his favorite style.

“But I wanted to be a bassist,” Hansen says. “I think it was an evolution of start-

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ing out from drums; I’ve been a percussionist my whole life and it seemed a natural evolution.”

Which is actually a bigger deal than you might think.

Musicians know how songs live and die in the rhythm section, but as a genre, metal is littered with bizarre cases wherein its importance was overlooked. It’s an old example but apt—we dare you to find noticeable bass on Metallica’s Black Album.

As for the show itself, other local metal acts Cripple, Desmadre and True Born round out the night. Each brings its own flavor (Cripple is so effing good) and really, it’s about doing it for the kids … or at least the grown-ass men trying to finish school.

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See? Metal as all get out.

RAGNAROK: NIELS HANSEN’S SENIOR SHOW WITH DEVIL’S THRONE, CRIPPLE, DESMADRE AND TRUE BORN 9 pm Monday Nov. 27. $5.

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The good news just keeps on coming with two new releases from local label Matron Records: & The Concrete Dragonfly from Santa Fe’s ppoacher ppoacher and Let’s Paint This Town in Craters from Albuqerque quartet Chicharra.

This is the album we’ve been waiting for from ppoacher ppoacher’s Caitlin Brothers—a strong reminder that her obscene levels of vocal talent can reach heart-wrenching levels of restrained emotion. Brothers goes the borderline Americana/country route here, though with dreamy and reverb-heavy production, she takes these styles into shoegaze territory with an almost stream-of-consciousness structure to everything and simple, yet elegant, banjo strumming. Make no mistake, though—this isn’t Kimya Dawson, oh-so-cute ridiculousness. Brothers has feelings, and though it’s disappointing that it isn’t always easy to make out her lyrics, Dragonfly seems to be more about evoking an ambiance, the kind of album to fall asleep with or lick wounds to.

Chicharra, meanwhile, exceeds all expectations with their sophomore release and kicks all the asses while they’re at it.

Ditching guitars for three basses and two drummers, these songs are beyond intricate, both musically and vocally. It’s not often that something can reach into the heavy while being simultaneously beautiful, at least not so cohesively, but the melodies created between singers Marisa and Monica Demarco and Mauro Woody are straight haunting. Like an intersection of Big Business-like proggy post-metal with a musical theater reminiscent emphasis on melodrama, Craters hits so many highs that it’s almost hard to believe it’s just one album from one band. One moment you’re staring into space feeling the bass rattle through your bones, the next you’re bobbing your head unintentionally with beats and rhythms so brilliantly crafted we wouldn’t be surprised if this band really gets out there and makes a name for themselves.

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MUSIC GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Irish sounds meld with Latin tunes.

7:30 pm, free MARC SANDERS Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free

FRI/24 ART OPENINGS FOTO FORUM SANTA FE LAUNCH PARTY Foto Forum Santa Fe 1716 Paseo de Peralta, 470-2582 To celebrate the connections between photography, storytelling, science and technology, this new nonprofit offers Santa Fe workshops, visiting artist lectures, research and community outreach. Founder and executive director Sage Paisner exhibits his work (including gelatin silver mural prints, platinum palladium, and wet plate photos) at the space's grand opening.

5 pm, free MICROCOSM: SMALL WORKS INVITATIONAL form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 It seems to always come around during the shopping season: small works shows. form & concept jumps into the fray with a holiday exhibition of small works by contributors to the gallery’s previous exhibitions. Over 20 artists and designers return with diminutive and dynamic offerings that measure 8-by10 inches or smaller.

5 pm, free SMITTEN FORUM EXHIBITION form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St.,982-8111 For this annual gathering of visionary makers from the metals and jewelry field comes the Smitten Forum exhibition, including artwork by all of this year’s forum participants.

5 pm, free

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THAIS MATHER: RECKLESS ABANDON form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Through an art installation and an interconnected series of performances and events, Mather challenges viewers to abandon patriarchal structures. More events to follow, so keep an eye out; for example: a reading tomorrow, on Saturday (see 3 Questions, page 27).

5 pm, free VOICES OTA Contemporary 203 Canyon Road, 930-7800 A diverse collection of eight artists have a visual conversation through monoprints, stone sculptures, paintings and holograms.

5 pm, free

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

6:30 pm, $25 NIA GLOW-IN-THE-DARK FREE DANCE Sneha Blue Yoga & Energy Boutique 112 W. San Francisco St., Suite 104, 702-373-1146 Soul-stirring music and eclectic sonic landscapes help unleash movement creativity and promote healing—and body paint’s available upon request. Burn off some of that Thanksgiving sloth.

8:30 pm, free

EVENTS CIRCUS LUMINOUS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Every Thanksgiving weekend since 2003, Santa Feans have been heading to the Lensic to see the students, teachers and pros of Wise Fool show off the best of our town's dance, performance and acrobatics acts. It tends to sell out, so get your tix early.

7 pm, $12-$45 COMMUNITY DAY AT THE GARDEN Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 The garden is free today for New Mexico residents and students (be sure to provide ID, natch). Enjoy!

9 am-5 pm, free HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 A bazaar for all your holiday gifting needs. That also includes your treat yo'self needs.

10 am-5 pm, free LIGHTING OF THE PLAZA Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Bundle up and head to the Plaza to cheer when the holiday lights get turned on promptly at 6 pm.

6 pm, free

ZIRCUS EROTIQUE BURLESQUE & VARIETY SHOW Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Oh, there is so very much to be thankful for this weekend.

Catch lovely ladies perform as beasts and babes as they shake, shimmy, tease and tantalize in this show filled with burlesque, bellydance, sideshow and variety (see SFR Picks, page 19).

9:30 pm, $15-$25

MUSIC ALEX MARYOL Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Rock, jazz, blues, funk, folk— all kinds of stuff.

6 pm, free BILL HEARNE TRIO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Honky-tonk and Americana from the king of the genre.

6 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Acoustic jazz, swing, Latin and Italian classics singing in Italian, English and Spanish.

7 pm, free DAVID SOLEM First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Today's TGIF Organ Recital features Solem playing works

by Bernstein and Beethoven.

All our favorite organists are also Jungian psychoanalysts— Solem included.

5:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. Doug starts, Bill takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 Country and Americana.

6 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock, blues, Americana and shenanigans.

9 pm, $5 JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Amorous and romantic Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free JIM ALMAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Singer-songwritery jams on the deck.

5 pm, free KARAOKE WITH McLAIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 It's that time again, folks.

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

7 pm, free SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana covers and originals from our go-to all-star Santa Femous lineup.

8:30 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

8 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 This musical institution often welcomes a fourth guest, so the number is negotiable, but it's always jazzy piano music.

7:30 pm, free

SAT/25 ART OPENINGS THAIS MATHER: RECKLESS ABANDON READING form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 In conjunction with her new patriarchy-crushing installation, Mather gives a reading to accompany the visuals (see 3 Questions, page 27).

2 pm, free DE ST. CROIX LENORMAND Axle Contemporary 670-5854 Artist Lisa de St. Croix presents 36 small watercolors that make up an oracle deck based on a 200-year-old divination system originating in Europe.

She also offers readings, and prints from the paintings and the divination decks will be available for purchase. Find the mobile gallery outside the New Mexico Museum of Art (107 W Palace Ave.).

Noon-4 pm, free

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LATIN HOUSE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 DJ Dany is in the SkyLounge, y'all.

9 pm, free LIQUID VINYL Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Drink a record and dance with DJ Poetics.

9 pm, free MELT SHAKE WITH DESERT DWELLERS AND PARTYWAVE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 The dance party returns with downtempo, psy-bass and tribal trance from Desert Dwellers (that’s Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe.)

8 pm, $20-$25 ROBIN HOLLOWAY Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano standards.

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He is the master of light—he is the Cloudman. Lisa de St. Croix’s de St. Croix Lenormand (36 watercolors and divination cards) is on display Saturday and Sunday at Axle Contemporary.

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BY ALICIA INEZ GUZMÁN a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ust last week, I sat in the courtyard of Santa Fe Art Institute where one of the artists-in-residence, Eva Rocha, cast my left foot in plaster gauze. I waited as the cold white sculpture slowly dried on my skin until she wiggled the whole thing off. Rocha also cast the feet of other residents, who are contributing to this year’s Equal Justice theme. One by one, the feet multiplied. Small, large, bunyoned, narrow, crooked, clawed—it looked as if Rocha was slowly developing an almanac dedicated to feet.

But it wasn’t just about the feet unto themselves. On Friday night, when the institute held its signature event, SFAI 140, which presents 20 artists or cultural workers speaking for 140 seconds, Rocha installed the casts on a barbed wire fence she had built just outside the entrance of the building, designed by Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta. The feet—our feet—were covered in the grit of flesh-colored stucco and eerily hung from the lowest rung of the fence. She later changed the arrangement, stringing the feet up as if they were attempting to scale the fence.

The installation, titled Severed, was stunning and sinister, with evocations of crossings and cuttings, of the border wall and those who attempt to make it to the other side, of lost identities and milagros, of land separated and the violence of that separation. Other dark histories surfaced as well, such as when Juan de Oñate cut off the right foot of 25 Acoma men just over 400 years ago. Severed also related to much of Rocha’s other work, which speaks

of sex trafficking. The installation elicited so many interpretations, which all shared a sense of loss, of place, identity, maybe even innocence, all felt deeply on a bodily level.

Other SFAI artists-in-residence, who also spoke at the event, installed mixed-media artworks throughout the building and on the grounds that spoke to the theme of Equal Justice.

E “Oscar” Maynard’s striped yellow tent, with figures handling snakes sewn into the fabric, was staked into the sod outside. Inside the building, a 4-by-6-and-ahalf-foot hand-cut paper, titled Medicina Venenum, hung from the wall, a delicately cut patterning of a snake seen from above.

During their 140 seconds at the podium, Maynard spoke of the Christian tent revival movement and the handling of serpents as an affirmation of one’s faith. Their artworks subsumed this history and alchemized it, making it a jumping-off point for asking in the middle of the presentation: “What poisons do you hold near?”

Israel Francisco Haros Lopez’ sprawling pre-Columbian-inspired codices took from his growing lexicon of forms—flora, fauna and people—all of which seem to morph from one thing to the next: thick black lines cutting across purples, yellows, fuchsias and blues.

Race—its constructions and implications—was at the center of at least four artworks on display: Jay Critchley’s Whiteness House – Tarred and Feathered, installed in the Lumpkins Gallery; Veronica Jackson’s series titled The Language of Invisibility; Peggy Diggs’ White on White; and Tamara Ann Burgh’s The Enculturated White Man. Tarred and Feathered was a model of a white house covered in white feath-

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Artists-in-residence at SFAI reroute criticism through creativity

Cast feet hang from a barbed wire fence in Eva Rocha’s installation, Severed.

ers. Its construction was motivated by the question, “What does the White House look like after a Black president?”

Jackson’s black felt bulletin boards, two diptychs paired side by side, bore messages spelled out with black letters. The result was a black-on-black field, interrupted by single letters and words in white. The messages spoke of her experiences of feeling invisible as a black woman.

Diggs’ work had a similar, but opposing, approach—a white ground populated by white letters. The words, at first hard to discern, spelled out the message: “I am afraid of Black people.” The phrase, I suspect, was gleaned from Diggs’ interviews of white people about their whiteness, conducted as part of her residency.

Burgh’s altar screen-like structures, crafted with obsessive detail, reference her own half-Inupiat father’s struggle with his Native identity.

Elsewhere were Farrah Miranda’s tongue-in-cheek installations, Cleanse and Detox. Cleanse featured a lineup of nearly empty glass jars, in what the artist called a “dystopian juice bar that serves empty elixirs” based upon New Mexico’s greatest “cash groups and livestock products.” Detox, alternately, poked fun at Santa Fe’s spa culture and the rise of healing industries geared toward the elite. A massage bed built of red and green crates were filled like a sarcophagus with long green cucumbers. Nearby, if you put on headphones, you could hear the words of a migrant cucumber grower.

Equal Justice took many forms in this exhibition, all of which were biting and evocative. (Those who didn’t catch the one-night-only Nov. 17 show are out of luck.) In many instances, artists did the work of reflecting on how deeply troubling pasts are felt in the present. In other instances, our troubling present was the subject. Rerouting either shores up the capacity for art to become a field for engaging in other kinds of social criticism.

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I’m a twentysomething straight woman.

About a month ago, I had a really vivid dream in which I was at a party and engaging with a guy I had just met. We were seriously flirting. Then my fiancé showed up—my real, flesh-and-blood, sleeping-next-to-me fiancé—who we’ll call G. In the dream, I proceeded to shower G with attention and PDA; I was all over him in a way we typically aren’t in public. I was clearly doing it to get a reaction from the guy I’d just spent the last dream-hour seducing. It was as if it had been my plan all along. Last night, I had a similar dream. This time, the guy was an old highschool boyfriend, but otherwise it was the same: flirty baiting, followed by the use of G to reject and humiliate the other guy. I was really turned on by these dreams. In real life, whenever another woman has flirted with G, I get aroused—conscious of some feelings of jealousy but drawing pleasure from them.

And when other men have flirted with me, I get similarly aroused for G. There is definitely a component in that arousal that wants to tease and mock these other men with what they can’t have, even though the teasing is just in my head. I would NEVER use another person like I do in these dreams/fantasies, because it’s cruel. But could this become a healthy role-playing outlet for me and G? Are there ethical implications to hurting strangers (albeit imaginary ones) for sexual pleasure? From what little I know of degradation/humiliation kinks, it’s important that the person being degraded is experiencing pleasure and satisfaction. Is it healthy to make someone’s (again, an imaginary someone’s) unwilling pain a part of our pleasure?

If G is into it, this would be our first foray into fantasy/role-playing/whatever. But I worry that I might be poisoning the well by pursuing something so mean-spirited.

-My Extra-Arousing Meanness We watch imaginary people being harmed— much more grievously harmed—in movies and on television and read about imaginary people being harmed in novels. Think of poor Barb in Stranger Things or poor Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones or poor Christian in Fifty Shades of Grey. If it’s okay for the Duffer brothers and HBO and E.L. James to do horrible things to these imaginary people to entertain us, MEAN, it’s okay for you and your boyfriend (if he’s game) to do much less horrible things to an imaginary third person to entertain yourselves.

But why limit this to fantasy? Why not fuck your fiancé’s brains out after flirting with and subsequently humiliating a living, breathing, willing third?

But first, MEAN, give some thought to what exactly turns you on about this and then discuss it with your fiancé. It turns you on to see your partner through another’s eyes for obvious reasons—when someone else wants to fuck him, you see him with fresh eyes and want to fuck him that much more. As for the power-play aspects of your fantasy, does your turn-on evaporate if your victim is a willing participant? And how do you feel about threesomes? Threesomes don’t have to involve intercourse or outercourse or any other sort of ’course, of course.

Bringing someone else in—someone who gets off on the idea of being humiliated— counts as a threesome, even if all your third “gets” to do is be ditched in a bar. You could even work up to letting your willing third watch and/or listen while your fiancé gets to do what he will never get to do—fuck your amazing brains out—which would allow for the humiliation games to continue all night long.

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Once G is on board, MEAN, you can start with a little role-playing about this scenario.

Then, once you’ve established that this is as exciting for G as it is for you, advertise for your willing third. The internet is for porn, first and foremost, but it’s also pretty good at bringing like-minded kinksters together.

As long as your third consents to the play and gets off on it, you aren’t poisoning the well or doing harm. And if you’re worried it won’t be as much fun if your victim is a willing participant, MEAN, remember there will be witnesses, i.e., other people in the bar who won’t know it was a setup, and in their eyes you will be cruelly humiliating this poor schmuck.

Not into threesomes of any sort? Well, flirting is just flirting—it’s not a binding contract—and there’s no law that requires all flirtations to be strictly sincere and/or immediately actionable. A little casual flirtation with someone else before your fiancé rolls into a bar is permissible—but you’ll have to let the other person know right away that you have a fiancé and that this flirtation isn’t going anywhere, and then you can’t go too crazy with the PDA once your fiancé arrives.

My husband and I have been together for 15 years, married for five. He is more sexually adventurous than I am, but I try to keep up. At his request, we have gone to a few sex clubs in our area to have “public sex.”

That’s his main interest. He promised that it would be a one-time thing but insisted we keep going back. He told me that if I ever got uncomfortable, we didn’t have to go back. I told him I did not want to go to any more sex clubs, and he found a loophole: sex booths at porn shops. If I have to do sex in public, booths are best because they aren’t very popular and there is some privacy. This wasn’t good enough for him. He wants an audience, he wants to see me with others, etc. I hate this. I hate how it makes me feel.

I hate it. He says all the right things—he respects me, he knows a relationship is a two-way street, etc.—but he is constantly furious with me about this, he tells me I don’t contribute anything to our relationship and that we don’t have a true partnership—all because I don’t want to have sex in public with him or with strangers. Right now, he’s storming around the house in a rage about this and I am tired of it. I react to his “public requests” with nausea and panic because I know he will be enraged for a week if we don’t go. I have even suggested that he go outside the marriage, but he wants me to be a part of it. Everything else in our relationship is great. We have a house, a child, and pets. I’m not sure if all that needs to be broken over this.

-Denial Enrages Selfish Partner And I’m Reeling I’m running out of column here, DESPAIR, so I’m going to have to be blunt: Your husband is a selfish, emotionally abusive, manipulative asshole, and you should leave him. You gave his kink a try, and not only was it not for you, it makes you fucking miserable. You gave him the okay to find other sex partners to explore this with, and that wasn’t good enough for him. He has responded not with the gratitude you deserve—for the effort you made, for the permission you gave him— but with emotionally abusive behavior. And what’s his goal? To make your life a living hell until you consent under duress? That wouldn’t be genuine consent, DESPAIR, and therefore not consent at all. Being served with divorce papers may open his eyes. If so, perhaps your marriage can be saved. If not, go through with the divorce.

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BOOKS/LECTURES KIDS! A MORNING OF CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Three children's book creators come together for a fun morning of book siginings, literature and stories.

Joel Nakamura wrote and illustrated I Dreamed I Was A Dog, El Moisés illustrated the Rudolfo Anya’s Owl in a Straw Hat, and Sandi Wright’s story The Adventures of Santa Fe Sam teaches the region’s history through the adventures of a prairie dog.

11 am, free BOOK SIGNING: WORKING WITH LAURA GILPIN, PHOTOGRAPHER Aaron Payne Fine Art 213 E Marcy St., 995-9779 Learn more about Gilpin, considered by some to be New Mexico's leading—but most overlooked—platinum print photographer.

Photographer JB Smith, along with author (and friend/collaborator of Gilpin's) Sina Brush, sign copies of their book and answer questions.

1-4 pm, free

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

6:30 pm, $25 YOGA-DANCE-GLOW Sneha Blue Yoga & Energy Boutique 112 W. San Francisco St. Suite 104, 702-373-1146 Yoga poses and guided movement with upbeat music might just help release negative energy.

8:30 pm, free

EVENTS CIRCUS LUMINOUS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Every Thanksgiving weekend since 2003, Santa Feans have been heading to the Lensic to see the students, teachers and pros of Wise Fool show off the best of our town's dance, performance and acrobatics acts. It tends to sell out, so get your tix early and bring the whole family.

2 and 7 pm, $12-$45 DANDELION GUILD HOLIDAY MARKET Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Celebrate local makers and artists by picking up some gifts and treasures. They've got everything from prints and cards to jewelry and vintage vinyl.

11 am-5 pm, free

GREYHOUND MEET 'N' GREET Teca Tu DeVargas Center, 165 Paseo de Peralta, 982-9374 The Greyhound Adoption League of Texas has expanded into New Mexico and hosts a Meet 'n' Greet with the hounds (also known in internet-speak as Long Bois).

Meet some dogs, look into adoption and maybe sign up to foster.

11 am-1 pm, free HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 For the 11th year running, the Woman's Club presents a bazaar for all your holiday gifting needs. It is never too early to check everyone off your gifting list.

10 am-5 pm, free NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART'S 100TH BIRTHDAY New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 The NMMA opened 100 dang years ago, and the whole Plaza area turns into a block party to celebrate with costumed interpreters, a photo booth, art workshops, chatty curators, theatrical performances and classic cars and lowriders—also, if you come dressed in a period costume from 1917 through the 1920s, you win a prize (see cover, page 12).

10 am-5 pm, free PINTS FOR PUPS Back Road Pizza 1807 Second St., 955-9055 Eat pizza, drink beer, pet some adoptable dogs and feel good about where your money's going. The Santa Fe Animal Shelter has available canines until 3 pm, and 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of Great Divide and Upslope Breweries pints and merch goes to to the shelter.

Noon-7 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street, north of the water tower, 310-8766 A large group of juried local artists sell their wares every Saturday at the Railyard.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC B BALDWIN BAND AND FADED Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Reggae 'n' rock, mon.

8 pm, free BROTHERHOOD SOUND SYSTEM Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Modern and classic roots and dancehall reggae.

10 pm, $5 THE BUS TAPES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Rock ‘n’ rolley good times.

6 pm, free

CHANGO Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Russian bots say: party-time rock 'n' roll covers.

10 pm, free CORDS AND STRINGS: A HOLIDAY CONCERT ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road, 982-1320 Mezzo-soprano Lisa Keating and classical guitarist Jesse Vernier bring holiday music to a novel venue. Beyond just a performance of traditional Christmas music, they dig up some forgotten verses for a deeper look at the stories behind the music.

7 pm, $25 DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 It's usually all piano standards all the time up in yeah, but tonight, Santa Fe's hardest-working gypsy jazz guitarist shakes it up a bit.

6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano. Doug starts, Bill takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free FRITZ AND THE BLUEJAYS Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Infectious rock, blues and R&B that you just might wanna dance to.

6 pm, free GENE CORBIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Corbin belts his brand of soulful Americana on the deck to bring you out of that turkey-induced coma.

2 pm, free THE GRUVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Soul and R&B. 9 pm, $5 HARTLESS Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 Rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Music made for dancin', in the vein of rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluegrass.

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PHYLLIS LOVE Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards. And Italian food. Are you somehow still hungry? Tap this.

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

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

8 pm, free STILETTO SATURDAYS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 It's a dance party with DJ 12 Tribe. We’re talkin’ hip-hop, R&B, neo-soul, party rock—all the good shit. Mmhmm.

9 pm, free TAKE THE RIDE TOUR Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Desert Hearts Recording Studio and Santa Fe record label Mesa Recordings host a showcase of house, techno, downtempo and electronica DJs with Erin E, Spoolius Melange, Mi aka Bacon and Feathericci.

8 pm, $23-$26 VAIVÉN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz-infused flamenco with Calvin Hazen on guitar, Jon Gagan on bass and Robbie Rothschild on percussion.

7:30 pm, free WINTER SOLSTICE CONCERT Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road, 988-1975 The New Mexico Bach Society plays the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and carols from Eastern Europe.

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It’s not every day that a gallery as spacious as the Railyard’s form & concept opens up an entire floor to just one artist, but Santa Fe’s Thais Mather has a massive body of multi-disciplinary work and a whole hell of a lot to say. With Reckless Abandon, Mather examines the ideas of humanity, feminism, activism, the end of days and so much more through visual works, collaborative performance pieces and readings. It is, to our knowledge, one of the largest single-exhibit undertakings from a single artist in Santa Fe history. She explores the notion of woman as “other;” she was first interested in octopuses, snakes and spiders, vilified for their strangeness, and that brought her to the origins of misogyny. (Alex De Vore) When you take on a show this huge, what’s the timeline like?

The show is really the culmination of my interests from the last five years, so I’d say it’s been in the works that long—but the work itself is two years in the making.

You don’t often see so many mediums from one artist. Has that been challenging?

I’m a learner. I’ve been so lucky in this community that there’s just such an incredible number of artists and thinkers, and I think it’s the synthesis of being surrounded by very talented people and being interested in what they’re doing all the time. I’ve always looked for venues that would allow me to be myself, and I think in some ways that’s challenging, but I think that form & concept is really pivotal right now. I don’t want to be hard on SITE [Santa Fe], but I think the show that’s up right now is an example of institutions that are rooted in New Mexico but are always looking at New York or Los Angeles in terms of culture and I appreciate ... [that] form & concept is interested in a global conversation, but it’s always grounded in artists here.

Given the shape of things right now, is it easier to create work that is, for lack of a better term, more punk rock?

I think there’s a collective feeling in our consciousness as privileged Americans that we’re not immune, and I think that’s a good place to be—especially if you’ve had white privilege and haven’t understood what the threat can be. We’re such a young species and I think we get caught up in minutiae, but I try to remain hopeful. As an atheist, I feel very hopeful in the thought that maybe humanity doesn’t go on forever, and if it does, we can think of different ways to function as a society. As an artist within my community, it’s important to think about what our goals are as individuals and also as activists. What do we really want in the next 20 years? If the constructs of gender or race as hierarchy were to disappear, that would be a goal. And there’s a lot of ways that you can work to achieve that goal, whether you’re an artist or activist. But, personally, I don’t get caught up other than in how I can help people and how I can not let someone like Donald Trump control my life. I don’t pretend to be an authority on anything, but one thing I’ve studied for a long time is feminism, and it’s really working right now.

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11AM - 2PM Located in the Ballroom at the Drury Plaza Hotel, ELOISA is hosting its first ever Thanksgiving buffet. Featuring exciting food stations that marry traditional Mexican and Thanksgiving cuisines. $75 per person ($65 for Seniors & $35 for Children up to 12)

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SUN/26 ART OPENINGS DE ST. CROIX LENORMAND Axle Contemporary 670-5854 Artist Lisa de St. Croix presents 36 small watercolors that make up an oracle deck based on a 200-year-old divination system originating in Europe. She also offers readings, plus prints from the paintings and the divination decks will be available for purchase. Find the mobile gallery parked outside the New Mexico Museum of Art (107 W Palace Ave.).

Noon-4 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES CA CONRAD, OISÍN McOGG, ISRAEL FRANCISCO HAROS LOPEZ AND ANASTASIO WROBEL Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Poet Conrad, the author of nine books of poetry and essays, celebrates his latest release, While Standing In Line For Death. He's joined by local writing superheroes McOgg, Lopez and Wrobel.

6 pm, free MODERN BUDDHISM: IMPROVING RELATIONSHIPS Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Meditate on the wisdom of gratitude, patient acceptance and how kindness is key to attaining harmony and fulfillment with others.

10:30 am, $10

DANCE MUSIC OF THE OPPRESSED: FINAL CONCERT Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 To conclude the lecture series, which was illustrative of the complex history of flamenco culture, a concert of flamenco dance and music sums it all up pretty well.

6:30 pm, $20

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CIRCUS LUMINOUS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The students, teachers and pros of Wise Fool show off the best of our town's dance, performance and acrobatics acts. It tends to sell out, so get your tix early.

2 pm, $12-$45 DHARMA DISCUSSION GROUP Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A chance to meet fellow practitioners and share thoughts, feelings and experiences related to Buddhist practice. Get there at 5:30 pm to sit zazen for an hour.

7 pm, free

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HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 For the 11th year running, the Woman's Club presents a bazaar for all your holiday gifting needs. That also includes your treat yo'self needs.

10 am-5 pm, free NOT YOUR AVERAGE HOLIDAY SHOPPING EVENT Fitness Plus for Women 1119 Calle Del Cielo, 473-7315 Support local women who run their own businesses. Door prizes are provided by all vendors, too, so get on it.

11 am-2 pm, free

MUSIC BOB CHEEVERS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 This Austin-based singer-songwriter finds rootsrock and bluesy inspiration in Texas life and the rich Southern heritage of growing up in Memphis.

8 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano.

6:30 pm, free DUO RASMINKO Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Covers from everywhere on guitar, bass, accordion and percussion—you might call it Bohemian pop.

4-7 pm, free GERRY CARTHY La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Back to work tomorrow, folks.

Or, if you're in hospitality, maybe you're actually finally off work on Monday. Either way, wind down and chill out with traditional and original Irish tunes.

6 pm, free GLORIFIED ROAD TRIP TOUR Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Matthew Logan Vasquez, Kelsey Wilson and Cameron Neal perform acoustic and share stories of music and collaboration with each other on songs old and new.

7 pm, $15-$18 THE KEY FRANCES BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluesy blues on the deck.

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

6 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted takes on Latin music from around the world from Santa Fe's most buttery-voiced cantadora.

7 pm, free

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PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Live jazz on guitar and bass.

7 pm, free SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana covers and originals from our go-to all-star Santa Femous lineup.

Noon, free

WORKSHOP COFFEE 101: BREWING ESSENTIALS Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 If you are anything like us, you're hooked up to an IV bag of coffee at all times. For the everyday coffee drinker who would like to learn about the fundamentals of making the perfect cup of coffee at home, catch a free intro to home brewing methods from Santa Fe's pourover experts (see SFR Picks, page 19).

3 pm, free

MON/27 BOOKS/LECTURES SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: AMERICAN SERENGETI AND COYOTE AMERICA Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Environmental historian Dan Flores lectures on what our geographic location used to look like—you know, before Europeans came and made it all (comparatively) homogenous. Flores is also the author of the wildly popular book, Coyote America: A Natural & Supernatural History.

6 pm, $15

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INDIVISIBLE SANTA FE MONDAY NIGHT MEETINGS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join in with the grassroots progressive political movement to coordinate local efforts across the country with a national strategy. Fight against Trump and for a progressive agenda!

7 pm, free THE GAME THING Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 So many games, so little time, yet so much room to play at Second Street. Get together at the spacious Rufina Taproom for strategy, card and party games. Bring a game you want to teach or jump in with the vast library and learn a game that someone else is excited to play.

6:15 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana from the Santa Fe legend who pretty much invented the genre.

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke. This week’s suggestion: anything by Ani DiFranco, but keep it light.

Think “31 Flavors,” not “Joyful Girl.” Shoutout to locals the Bus Tapes for turning “Both Hands” into a jaunty romp, by the way.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano.

6:30 pm, free KISHI BASHI Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi (aka Kishi Bashi) whips out the violin and the effects pedals and absolutely takes the house down. Trust us, we’ve seen him do it. This guy creates musical miracles as a one-man electronically enhanced composer, layering musical loops. With support from local bearded psychedelic folkers Tall Tall Trees.

7:30 pm, $15-$17 MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 You partied all weekend and worked all day. Or maybe you didn't do a damn thing and want to continue the chill. DJ Sato can help with that.

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

6 pm, free

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RAGNAROK: NIELS HANSEN’S SENIOR SHOW The Underground 200 W San Francisco St. Thrashy, sludgey metal from all around New Mexico heralds the armageddon.

Featuring the musical stylings of DevilsThrone, Cripple, Desmadre and True Born. It’s the senior project of SFUAD student Hansen, so show some university love (see Music, page 22).

9 pm, $5

WORKSHOP THE HONORING CONNECTEDNESS WORKSHOP Montezuma Lodge 431 Paseo de Peralta, 670-3068 Presented by The Transition Network and intended for professional women 50 and forward. Restore engagement, enthusiasm and creative possibility, and maybe even get sense of meaning and purpose.

5:45 pm, $5

TUE/28 BOOKS/LECTURES PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Have the in-laws left yet?

Need a break from the craziness? No matter your reason, let someone else entertain your child for a little bit.

10:30 am, free RICHARD KADREY Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Kadrey, the author of dozens of stories and 13 novels, has written and spoken about art, culture and technology for all kinds of publications—and today presents his new book in the Sandman Slim sci-fi series.

7 pm, $10-$28 SFUAD SENIOR READINGS: CHANTELLE MITCHELL, MADELEINE SARDINA, BRANTLEE REID AND KYLIE YOCKEY Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 December's graduating seniors from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design's writing department present their final readings of original poetry and prose based on work that will be published in book form in December.

6 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Show off your best tango moves.

7:30 pm, $5

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Now what? Put them into action on Action Tuesday.

8:30 am, free METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Those struggling with illness and loss in a variety of its forms can gather to share life experiences in a setting of compassion and confidentiality.

10:30 am, free

MUSIC BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Get your '60s and '70s pop on piano and vocals to boot.

6:30 pm, free BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana.

7:30 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Santa Fe's favorite night of music and camaraderie. Bring your instrument to join in, but make sure your skills are up to snuff.

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

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Admit it: The first time you looked at the menu for this greens-slinging palace, you said to yourself, “There’s no way I’m paying that much for a salad.” But you did, didn’t you? Maybe you opted out of an add-on like lemon-herb chicken breast ($6), grilled flank steak ($7.50) or roasted seasonal vegetables ($5.25), but you ordered—if only to see what the fuss was about. And then you knew. Owner Erin Wade gambled on the concept in 2008 and it has since paid off in a big way. Many greens and veggies come from her farm in Nambé. The salads, as you should expect, are huge and satisfying. They’re innovative, too. The Cherry Tart ($10.95) combines the sweetness of dried cherries with

the tang of crumbled feta and warmth of chilied pecans. It’s chewy and crunchy and tossed with a Champagne vinaigrette.

The Nutty Pear-fessor ($12.25) heaps balsamic-roasted pears onto fresh greens, adding bacon crumbles, pecans and blue cheese to the mix. A port vinaigrette brings it all together and the diver scallops ($8) we chose to spruce it up were perfectly cooked. If you find yourself craving a salad, there’s a good chance Vinaigrette is the reason why. (Matt Grubs)

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ears of working in the Santa Fe service industry have given me a restless palate. I’m serving and selling food all the time, constantly examining it and describing it. So when I go out—to use a decidedly problematic term we’ll talk about later—I like to eat “ethnic” food. I wonder why there isn’t more of it in Santa Fe, and why there isn’t a more creative approach to drink pairings when I find it. Why can’t I drink Alsace pinot gris with my North Indian curry? Why not Mosel Valley riesling with my enchiladas? Why doesn’t anyone sling vermentino alongside spring rolls?

Why not a shot of Oban with my unagi?

And what’s wrong with the word “ethnic?” Well, it lumps all other cultures outside the dominant white majority into one impenetrable, inferior “other.” Maria Godoy (paraphrasing Krishnendu Ray) writes for NPR: “When we seek authenticity from a star chef—say, Thomas Keller of the Michelin-starred restaurants The French Laundry and Per Se—what we really want is his signature, his individual creativity evinced through food, and we’re willing to shell out big bucks to get it. … That’s very different from the authenticity we demand from ‘ethnic’ cuisine. One of the big constraints, say, for Indian food or Chinese food is that, if it is expensive, it cannot be authentic. … Immigrant chefs are trapped for that

kind of demand for authenticity—cheap authenticity.”

Thus, the term “ethnic” actually warps our perspective on how much food should cost and how authentic it can be. By extension, it also dictates what kind of dining can be associated with it and, perhaps most damning and demonstrable, what we’re told we should drink with it—and that has more to do with our prejudices surrounding the people making the food and how they are allowed to make it rather than anything inherent in the cuisine. It’s interesting how so-called fusion cuisine doesn’t have this problem, so a restaurant like Sazón can encourage people to drink Spanish or South American wine alongside Mexican dishes,

perhaps because they are made with a Spanish twist. Spanish food, like French and Italian and arguably Japanese food, has gained status and respect in a way that precludes it from being lumped into the same category as Chinese or Mexican. It all boils down to our racial preconceptions, wordlessly telling us where to go for take-out versus where to find a white-tablecloth experience.

If an “ethnic” restaurant is pigeonholed into stylistic constraints, how can you convince people to buy wine or spirits when the perceived value of the food is always cheap? Wine is seen as a drink of status and rarity. For this reason it isn’t often associated with food that is unfairly perceived as inferior.

For example, Canyon Road’s Milad Persian Bistro serves the wines of Iranian-born Darioush Khaledi as a nod to the restaurant’s Persian roots. It’s not a bad idea at all in terms of food pairing, but will people pay $120 for a wine when the average bill per person is around $30? Izanami and Shohko Café can sell fine and rare sake on their menu, but could they ever sell scotch too?

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It’s fine to quote national publications, but why in Santa Fe specifically do we have this problem? We’re a sanctuary city.

We’re progressive and diverse—at least outwardly so. Why haven’t we done better for ourselves?

Maybe it’s because we are decidedly landlocked. While immigration in the United States blossomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Santa Fe saved itself from economic decline by doubling down on a stylistic interpretation of its history, preserving the past in an effort to increase tourism and provide some kind of sustainable, permanent industry.

Tourists are our bread and butter, but they come from Texas, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. It’s no secret that most of the people who can afford to travel with leisure from these places are middle-class to affluent white people on a quest for some version of authenticity in New Mexican food (confining it within the same narrow constraints of “ethnic” food). They’re not coming to Santa Fe looking for the best banh bao like you’d get in Hanoi. Our permanent population is only 80,000 strong.

Even if a couple thousand of us craved injera and doro wot, would that be a great enough number to sustain a decent Ethiopian restaurant yearround, never mind one with a wine list to die for? (The recent closure of Café Roja seems to indicate it is not.)

I don’t wish to alienate the people who support this city, but I do want to see Santa Fe create a new culi culinary culture for itself by questioning how much food should cost and what makes it authentic or good, because that is still relative to how we market our heritage to outside forces. And maybe that needs to change. Despite the toxic national con conversation about the role of immigrants in America that dominates our news, now is the time for the food scene in Santa Fe to rise above.

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THE CALENDAR COMBSY, BODIES AND TONE RANGER Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Lush sonic experiences born of electronic jazz, hip-hop and rock. He's joined by local experimental rockers.

7:30 pm, free LATE FOR THE TRAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Joyful fiddle tunes, bluegrass riffs and melancholic folk songs, full of stories and authenticity.

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PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Live solo jazz guitar.

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

6 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 2nd floor, 209-1302 Native flute and Spanish-style classical guitar.

7:30 pm, $20

VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St. DJs Prairiedog and Mama Goose spin the best in garage, surf, rockabilly and old-school country (see SFR Picks, page 19).

9 pm, free

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Did you read the cover story about the New Mexico Museum of Art on page 12? Jenna Kuiper’s “Daggers, Stones” is part of Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives, one of a few new exhibits opening on Saturday.

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Closed for the season; reopens June 1, 2018.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 A Great American Artist.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Divergent/Works. Through Jan. 14, 2018.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Daniel McCoy: The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia; New Acquisitions; Desert ArtLAB: Ecologies of Resistance; Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art. All through Jan. 2018.

Action Abstraction Redefined.

Through July 27, 2018.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 623 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Silent auction benefit exhibit. Through Dec. 17.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Jody Naranjo: Revealing Joy. Through Dec. 31. Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture. Through Jan. 7, 2018. Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West.

Through Sept. 3, 2018.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Sacred Realm; The Morris Miniature Circus; Under Pressure. Through Dec. 2017. Quilts of Southwest China. Through Jan. 21, 2018. Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate. Through July 16, 2018.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Time Travelers: and the Saints Go Marching On. Through April 20, 2018.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 A Mexican Century: Prints from the Taller de Gráfica Popular and Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest. Both through Feb. 11, 2018.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 It’s re-opening weekend, y’all! (See Cover, page 12.)

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Tesoros de Devoción.

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

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

Through May 18, 2018.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo De Peralta, 989-1199 Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art. Through Jan. 10, 2018.

Future Shock. Through May 1, 2018.

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

Through April 15, 2018.

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Justice League Review

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You know that feeling you get when you’re pretty sure a movie is going to be just awful, but you have nostalgic feelings about its characters, so you suck it up and go anyway? Ignore that feeling as it applies to Justice League—this thing is just sloppily executed expositional garbage layered over an awful screenplay, hollow heroes and villains and a complete mess of a plot that probably won’t even excite the most naive of moviegoing children.

It’s some time after the death of Superman from that also-awful movie, Batman v. Superman, and Bruce Wayne/Batman (Ben Affleck) is all freaked out about how something extra-evil might go down soon since the evil forces of the universe are aware Earth has no real guardian. Cue mildly humorous team-building with reluctant other heroes like Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot, who does, in fairness, rule), The Flash (Ezra Miller and his painful stabs at comedic relief ), Aquaman (Game of Thrones’ Jason Momoa, whom we can tell tries his damnedest) and The Cyborg (the brooding

and all-too-emotional Ray Fisher). Turns out li’l Brucey was right, and some amalgam of pure evil and jagged metal helmets called Steppenwolf— who was surely born to be wild—shows up to claim powers and take over the planet and kill everyone and stuff.

Between the first hour of said team-building, wherein we’re reminded for the umpteenth time what these characters are all about, and the second hour, wherein we are force-fed barely digestible fight scenes shot on blue screen and crammed with shaky cam, it may occur to some that they’re seeing this film out of a misguided sense of duty to their childhoods. Others will attend simply to see Momoa’s glistening pecs; there may even be fans of that Wonder Woman film onboard (there should be—it was awesome), but that doesn’t mean Justice League deserves such throngs. See, the Marvel universe has been smart and calculating, doling out movies like breadcrumbs in a metered fashion that are often (not always) worth being

excited about. DC, however, seems to subscribe to a throw-in-everything-we-can-and-see-whatsticks plan, and it’s obvious. Hell, it often seems like the people behind this thing don’t even know what they’re doing. Furthermore, if director Zac Snyder doesn’t ditch his love of slow-mo played out at every possible second, we’re gonna lose it.

So, we stop caring. And early. Formulaic doesn’t even begin to describe the deflated feel of Justice League—“insulting” actually might be the better term. So thanks bunches, DC, for thinking we’re all too stupid for something with any depth whatsoever. Thanks for the underdeveloped characters and terrible one-liners from actors who seem as if they barely want to be there themselves. We’re begging you here—make better movies.

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We have been to Sacramento. And like the Joan Didion quote that kicks off filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, we agree that Christmas there would surely be horrible. But then again we wonder, as does the film: Why would we think we’re too good for such a place? What are we rushing toward—or from? And when did we start to believe that the next step, next place, next milestone was the last piece of a puzzle that could finally make us happy? And do we even know how to be anymore?

We follow Christine (or Lady Bird, depending on whom you ask—Saoirse Ronan of The Grand Budapest Hotel) in her final year at a Catholic girl’s high school in the Northern California town circa 2002. It’s one of many facets shared with scriptwriter Gerwig, who also hails from Sacramento and attended Catholic school.

Lady Bird is fairly mundane as characters go; a misfit weirdo longing for more than her hometown for typical teenaged reasons, but never quite anything enough to belong to any of the

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laughably perfect subcultures: closeted theater kids and super-serious rock band dorks; queenbee mean girls in short skirts, and those best friends we hurt and left behind for reasons we still don’t fully comprehend. In the end, the moral might be about being true to oneself, sure—but it’s also important to find comfort where one can.

Ronan is utterly brilliant as an average teen convinced she’s anything but; ditto for her mother Marion, played so flawlessly by Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne) that we can’t help but think of our own collective mothers and their innate ability to transcend passive aggression into an art form.

We believe Ronan and Metcalf are related in ways that most films never begin to approach—a matter of onscreen chemistry, but also a testament to the ability of each actress and Gerwig’s spot-on script.

Lady Bird could have been ripped from any of our lives and will no doubt feel painfully familiar to some, but it also comes with catharsis and gently suggested lessons rather than underestimation of its audience. A simple story told well shouldn’t be so surprisingly refreshing and moving, and yet here we are. Brava. (Alex De Vore) Center for Contemporary Arts, R, 93 min.

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Blockbuster cinema hasn’t focused on the whodunnit genre nearly as much as it has on others in recent decades, so the snowy sojourn of the Orient Express this fall is nothing if not different. But it’d be untrue to say that contemporary moviegoers aren’t intimately familiar with—and always half expecting—the plot twist that comes with the classic murder mystery. In that respect, this adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express fits within the standards of the day.

Based on a 1934 novel that was part of Agatha Christie’s prolific library of titles, the script—tackled by writer Michael Green, who we can blame for the 2011 Green Lantern trainwreck—is smart. We were expecting boredom at the hands of England’s English from 80 years ago, so the crisp exchanges between globetrotting characters keep the plot chugging along at a unexpected clip. Even under that amazing mustache, director and starring actor Kenneth Branagh’s diction as the best detective on the planet, Hercule Poirot, didn’t waver. Johnny Depp’s mouthful of East Coast gangster is a little mushy, but we don’t linger on him long enough; there’s too much else to look at, and listen to.

Cowabunga! Michelle Pfieffer had it going on in a sexed-up role in Mother earlier this year, but her portrait of longing lady Caroline Hubbard is a standout in the loaded cast. Beside them, Judi Dench as a Russian princess feels almost as unnecessary as Willem Defoe as a German professor. Or is he? Is she?

The setting is remarkably lovely. From the cerulean shores of Malta through mountainous terrain somewhere between Paris and Istanbul, audiences are no doubt loving the escapism of this retelling the way we did. But, like every other movie made from a book, readers who want a movie version of the tome will be

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disappointed. Come on, though—how many of us actually read the thing or remember how it ends? We’ve gone out of our way here to not so much hint at the conclusion. Let us know if you figured it out before the big reveal.

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Before we go any further, it’s important to know one thing about Loving Vincent: It is gorgeous— like, GORGEOUS. But it’s just not quite where you’d want it to be in terms of narrative content, and it becomes increasingly difficult to stay engaged.

See, Loving Vincent is touted as “the world’s first fully painted feature film” by its filmmakers, and this is true; famous Van Gogh subjects (such as the postman Joseph Roulin and his son Armand, or Dr. Paul Gachet) become characters who inhabit a world that is brought to life by over 60,000 actual oil paintings from 125 artists done in Van Gogh’s postimpressionist style. It’s all at once jaw-dropping from both aesthetic and technical standpoints, and it seems like another iconic piece finds its way into the film every few seconds. Outside of this feat, however, lies a fairly middling story about the famed painter’s pros and cons as told through those who met or knew him in the small village of Auvers. Did you already know Van Gogh was tortured? Of course you did.

Quite well-known was brothers Vincent and Theo Van Goghs’ affinity for correspondence, so when the postman Roulin discovers a final undelivered letter written by Vincent, with whom he shared a friendly relationship, he sends his son to Auvers to deliver it. The son, unhappy with the assessment that his father’s friend committed suicide, becomes fixated on getting to the bottom of his untimely death.

This is all well and good, and again— gorgeous. But it’s really just that the son presses the villagers in a completely unnatural manner, and the way everyone he meets has numerous in-depth memories of Van Gogh’s time in their town feels like a stretch. The story begins to unravel and stall, and the main performance from Douglas Booth (Noah) falls flat under a run-of-the-mill screenplay that could have really stretched out and done something wonderful, but didn’t appear to have been given enough time. The most exciting actor to appear is Chris O’Dowd, who plays the postman himself, but even he disappears almost immediately.

Bummer.

Still, it’s fun to wonder which paintings are which and, if nothing else, it truly is an astounding creation. It’s worth seeing for the visuals alone, just don’t expect it to grab you beyond its reminder that Van Gogh was a genius unappreciated in his own time. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, PG-13, 94 min.

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Loving Vincent: So beautiful, so mostly just OK. popular series Guardians of the Galaxy.

We rejoin the titular Norse god (Chris Hemsworth) in the events after the previous Avengers film. He’s struck out on his own to get answers for these horrible visions he keeps having, but it seems like the only real thing he’s picked up is a pithy sense of humor. One could say this is about character growth, but really it seems like the filmmakers saw Hemsworth in the Ghostbusters reboot, realized he can be kinda funny, and chose to focus on that. It’s light at first and even borderline enjoyable, but before long he just starts to feel like a cheap Starlord clone sans Chris Pratt’s everyman charm.

Still, when a heretofore unheard of sister of Thor’s named Hela (the goddess of death, played cooly and enjoyably by Cate Blanchett) shows up with a bunch of hurt feelings and violent ambitions, Thor and his adoptive brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) are swept up into crazy galaxy-spanning antics and lessons about what’s actually important in life. Spoiler alert: It’s family or something.

Along the way, of course, other Marvel characters appear to lend a hand or comic relief, like the dickish Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) or the Incredible Hulk—who would have been a nice surprise if the trailers hadn’t insisted on spoiling it. Thanks, internet— for nothing. Jeff Goldlbum is fine, also, as … himself, actually; he always just plays himself, though his unhinged intergalactic slave master character does squeeze out a few chuckles.

Everything else shakes out just like you thought it would, but if it weren’t for a seriously hysterical one-liners from an alien voiced by director Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows), we might have already forgotten about this in favor of better Marvel films.

Seriously, guys, don’t start pigeon-holing yourselves now. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 130 min.

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If your Anglophile history archive is missing the story of Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim, there’s nothing like a spicy historical drama to change that.

Based on a 2010 book of the same name by Shrabani Basu, the story is billed as the mostly true, somewhat rom-com version of an unlikely relationship. It starts off funny enough (watching Her Majesty—portrayed by Judi Dench—shovel food into her mouth, then fall asleep before the main course) and moves to laugh-out-loud quips between the pair of men from India as they

make their way to the presence of the Queen.

The odd couple of tall, thin Karim (Ali Fazal, Furious 7) and the shorter, wider Mohammed (Adeel Akhtar, The Dictator) are referred to in the palace as “the Hindus” despite that they’re of the Muslim faith, and this is comical at first, then a depressing indicator of the moral danger of imperialism. The whole of the plot soon enough turns darker, as Victoria’s household, including her dickish son Bertie, the Prince of Wales (spot-on by an almost unrecognizable Eddie Izzard), turn against Abdul, and ultimately her.

Dame Dench’s queen is a wonder to behold, her face and body taking on the deep reality of all her 82 years as she portrays the long-serving monarch in the final years before her death at nearly the same age, 81. Dench’s delivery and poise feel regal, except for a few scenes at the outset where there seems a too-abrupt change between her stiff-lipped disinterest and her weteyed admiration of a handsome newcomer.

We can’t help but drop into memories of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel when we see the sparkling interaction between her character and the young Indian man she befriends. Both movies touch on the same themes, and this one’s ring of true life events increases its value.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In alignment with the current astrological omens, I have prepared your horoscope using five hand-plucked aphorisms by Aries poet Charles Bernstein. 1. “You never know what invention will look like or else it wouldn’t be invention.” 2. “So much depends on what you are expecting.” 3. “What’s missing from the bird’s eye view is plain to see on the ground.” 4. “The questioning of the beautiful is always at least as important as the establishment of the beautiful.” 5. “Show me a man with two feet planted firmly on the ground and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants on.”

might be at a peak. Luckily, a big bolt of meaningfulness is right around the corner. Be alert for it. In a metaphorical sense, it will arrive from the depths. It will strengthen your center of gravity as it reveals lucid answers to the questions I posed in the beginning of this horoscope.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It may seem absurd for a dreamy oracle like me to give economic advice to Tauruses, who are renowned as being among the zodiac’s top cash attractors. Is there anything I can reveal to you that you don’t already know? Well, maybe you’re not aware that the next four weeks will be prime time to revise and refine your long-term financial plans. It’s possible you haven’t guessed the time is right to plant seeds that will produce lucrative yields by 2019. And maybe you don’t realize that you can now lay the foundation for bringing more wealth into your life by raising your generosity levels.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I used to have a girlfriend whose mother hated Christmas. The poor woman had been raised in a fanatical fundamentalist Christian sect, and she drew profound solace and pleasure from rebelling against that religion’s main holiday. One of her annual traditions was to buy a small Christmas tree and hang it upside-down from the ceiling. She decorated it with ornamental dildos she had made out of clay.

While I understood her drive for revenge and appreciated the entertaining way she did it, I felt pity for the enduring ferocity of her rage. Rather than mocking the old ways, wouldn’t her energy have been much better spent inventing new ways? If there is any comparable situation in your own life, Gemini, now would be a perfect time to heed my tip. Give up your attachment to the negative emotions that arose in response to past frustrations and failures. Focus on the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): We all need teachers. We all need guides and instructors and sources of inspiration from the day we’re born until the day we die. In a perfect world, each of us would always have a personal mentor who’d help us fill the gaps in our learning and keep us focused on the potentials that are crying out to be nurtured in us. But since most of us don’t have that personal mentor, we have to fend for ourselves. We’ve got to be proactive as we push on to the next educational frontier. The next four weeks will be an excellent time for you to do just that, Libra.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is your last warning!

If you don’t stop fending off the happiness and freedom that are trying to worm their way into your life, I’m going to lose my cool. Damn it! Why can’t you just accept good luck and sweet strokes of fate at face value?! Why do you have to be so suspicious and mistrustful?! Listen to me: The abundance that’s lurking in your vicinity is not the set-up for a cruel cosmic joke.

It’s not some wicked game designed to raise your expectations and then dash them to pieces. Please, Scorpio, give in and let the good times wash over you.

blind to. They might help you catch the attention of familiar strangers or shrink one of your dangerous angers. When you call on 55 or 88 for inspiration, you may be motivated to seek a more dynamic accomplishment beyond your comfortable success. You could reactivate an important desire that has been dormant.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A snail can slowly crawl over the edge of a razor blade without hurting itself. A few highly trained experts, specialists in the art of mind over matter, are able to walk barefoot over beds of hot coals without getting burned. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Pisces, you now have the metaphorical equivalent of powers like these.

To ensure they’ll operate at peak efficiency, you must believe in yourself more than you ever have before.

Luckily, life is now conspiring to help you do just that.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What exactly is the epic, overarching goal that you live for? What is the higher purpose that lies beneath every one of your daily activities? What is the heroic identity you were born to create but have not yet fully embodied? You may not be close Homework: What’s the most important question you’d to knowing the answers to those questions right now, like to find an answer for in the next five years? Tell all: Virgo. In fact, I’m guessing your fear of meaninglessness Freewillastrology.com

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Journalist James A. Fussell defined “thrashing” as “the act of tapping helterskelter over a computer keyboard in an attempt to find ‘hidden’ keys that trigger previously undiscovered actions in a computer program.” I suggest we use this as a metaphor for your life in the next two weeks. Without becoming rude or irresponsible, thrash around to see what interesting surprises you can drum up. Play with various possibilities in a lighthearted effort to stimulate options you have not been able to discover through logic and reason.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s observe a moment of silence for the illusion that is in the process of disintegrating. It has been a pretty illusion, hasn’t it?

Filled with hope and gusto, it has fueled you with motiCANCER (June 21-July 22): So begins the “I Love To vation. But then again—on second thought—its prettiWorry” season for you Cancerians. Even now, bewilness was more the result of clever packaging than dering self-doubts are working their way up toward inner beauty. The hope was somewhat misleading, the your conscious awareness from your unconscious gusto contained more than a little bluster, and the fuel depths. You may already be overreacting in anticipawas an inefficient source of motivation. Still, let’s tion of the anxiety-provoking fantasies that are coalescing. But wait! It doesn’t have to be that way. I’m observe a moment of silence anyway. Even dysfunctional mirages deserve to be mourned. Besides, its here to tell you that the bewildering self-doubts and demise will fertilize a truer and healthier and prettier anxiety-provoking fantasies are at most ten percent dream that will contain a far smaller portion of illusion. accurate. They’re not even close to being half-true!

Here’s my advice: Do NOT go with the flow, because AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Judging from the astrothe flow will drag you down into ignominious habit. logical omens, I conclude that the upcoming weeks will Resist all tendencies towards superstition, moodiness, be a favorable time for you to engage in experiments and melodramatic descents into hell. One thing you befitting a mad scientist. You can achieve interesting can do to help accomplish this brave uprising is to sing results as you commune with powerful forces that are beloved songs with maximum feeling. usually beyond your ability to command. You could LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your lucky numbers are 55 and have fun and maybe also attract good luck as you dream and scheme to override the rules. What plea88. By tapping into the uncanny powers of 55 and 88, sures have you considered to be beyond your capacity you can escape the temptation of a hexed fiction and break the spell of a mediocre addiction. These catalytic to enjoy? It wouldn’t be crazy for you to flirt with them. codes could wake you up to a useful secret you’ve been You have license to be saucy, sassy, and extra sly.

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LEGALS LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS/NAME CHANGE STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Mary Josephine O’Bryan Case No.: D-101-CV-2017-03138 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Mary Josephine O’Bryan will apply to the Honorable DAVID K. THOMSON, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:00 a.m. on the 8th day of January, 2018 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Mary Josephine O’Bryan to Mamie Jo O Bryan.

STEPHEN T. PACHECO, District Court Clerk By: Bernadette Hernandez Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Mary Josephine O’Bryan Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY No. 2017-0169 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Alfonso U. Barela, DECEASED. 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 (4) 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 at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe, County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Avenue - PO Box 1985, Santa Fe, NM 87504.

Dated: Sept 19, 2017.

Virginia L. Garcia 229 Villeros St. Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-988-4613 Raymond B. Barela 55 Vereda Serena Santa Fe, NM 87508 505-986-1372

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE Silvia Lopez Xicay Petitioner/Plaintiff vs.

Edwin Bamack Garcia Respondent/Defendant Case No.: D-101-DM-2017-00211 NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF SUIT STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO Edwin Bamack Garcia.

GREETINGS: You are hereby notified that Silvia Lopez Xicay, the above-named Petitioner/Plaintiff, has filed a civil action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, The general object thereof being: to establish parentage, determine custody and timesharing and assess child support.

Unless you enter your appearance in this cause within thirty (30) days of the date of the last publication of this Notice, judgment by default may be entered against you.

Silvia Lopez Xicay 2721 Walnut St Santa Fe, NM 87507 WITNESS this Honorable SYLVIA LaMAR, District Judge of the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico, and the Seal of the District Court of Santa Fe/Rio Arriba/Los Alamos County, this 6th day of November, 2017.

STEPHEN T. PACHECO CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: Angelica Gonzalez Deputy Clerk STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY No. 2017-0198 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Joan R. Koch, DECEASED. 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 (4) 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 at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe, County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Dated: Nov. 15, 2017.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Robert James MacLean Case No.: D-101-CV-2017-02873 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Robert James MacLean will apply to the Honorable Gregory S. Shaffer, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 1:30 p.m. on the 28th day of November, 2017 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Robert James MacLean to Jerad James MacLean.

STEPHEN T. PACHECO, District Court Clerk By: Victoria Martinez Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Robert James MacLean Petitioner, Pro Se

LEGAL NOTICES ALL OTHERS STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Cause No. D-101-CV-2015-00547 LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff, v.

JYL DEHAVEN, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ANCILLARY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES WAYLAND ROBERTS, DECEASED; JYL DEHAVEN, AS ANCILLARY PERSONAL REPRESENTIVE OF THE ESTATE OF ARCHIE LEE ROBERTS, DECEASED; THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUM UNIT OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., A New Mexico nonprofit corporation.

Defendants.

NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master, in accordance with the terms of the Order Granting Summary Judgment (“Association Order”) entered on June 20, 2017 in favor of the Board of Directors of Pueblo Encantado Condominium Association (the “Association”), the Order Denying Plaintiff’s Objection to Defendant the Board of Directors of Pueblo Encantado Condominium Unit Owners Association, Inc.’s Proposed Form of Summary Judgment and Motion for Reconsideration of Summary Judgment entered on

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October 5, 2017 (“Oct. 5 Order”), the Summary Judgment in Rem (“Trust Order”) entered on November 17, 2017 in favor of LSF9 Master Participation Trust (the “Trust”), and the Court Approved Stipulation of Lien Holders Regarding Foreclosure Sale (“Lien Holder Stipulation”) also entered on November 17, 2017, will on Wednesday, December 20, 2017, at the hour of 10:15 a.m. MT, at the entrance of the First Judicial District Court, located at 225 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, offer for sale and sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following described property located in Santa Fe County, New Mexico: The property to be sold is located in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is a condominium unit within the Pueblo Encantado Condominiums, generally described as Pueblo Encantado Condominium, Unit K-2, 15 Mesa Encantado #227 and more particularly described as: Unit K-2, Pueblo Encantado Condominium (“Condominium”), created by the “Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Pueblo Encantado Condominiums”, recorded on December 30, 1980, in Book 412, pages 824-841 in the office of the Santa Fe County Clerk (“Declaration”);It is also described as:UNIT K-2 OF THE PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUMS AS THE SAME IS SHOWN AND DESCRIBED IN THAT DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS UNDER THE NEW MEXICO BUILDING UNIT OWNERSHIP ACT FOR THE PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUMS FILED FOR RECORD ON THE 30TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1980, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK OF SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO IN BOOK 412 MISC., AT PAGES 824-840 AND FURTHER SHOWN AND DESCRIBED IN THAT PLAT AND FLOOR PLAN FILED WITH THE DECLARATION ON THE 30TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1980 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO AS DOCUMENT NO. 471,107; SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 387; SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 392; SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 399 SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 405; AFFIRMATION OF DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 426 MISC., AT PAGE 413; AND ALSO SHOWN ON PLAT OF SURVEY ENTITLED “PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUMS CLUSTER B & C”, BY BERNIE A. ALARID R.P.L.S. NO. 5338, DATED AUGUST 25, 1981 AND

RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 16, 1981 AS DOCUMENT NO. 484,929, ALL IN THE RECORDS OF SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO,15 Mesa Encantado 227 - 427, Pueblo Encantado K2, Santa Fe, NM 87501. (the “Property”).

The Association Order, the Oct. 5 Order, the Trust Order and the Lien Holder Stipulation are collectively referred to as the “Orders”.

The Orders authorize the foreclosure of the liens the Association and the Trust hold at a foreclosure sale of the Property, conducted through a special master. The Court has appointed Jonathan Morse as the Special Master. The Special Master has authority to assign special master duties to another.

In the Association’s Order of June 20, 2017, the Association obtained judgment in favor of its lien (“Association’s Judgment Lien”). The Court reaffirmed the Association’s Judgment Lien in its Oct. 5 Order. The Trust obtained a judgment in favor of its lien on November 17, 2017 in the Trust Order (“Trust Lien”), and the Association and the Trust stipulated as to lien priorities in the November 17, 2017 Lien Priority Stipulation.

The Association’s Judgment Lien as of April 5, 2017 was $34,053.16 (“Association’s Judgment Lien”).

The Association’s attorneys represent that the Association’s Judgment Lien on December 20, 2017 will be $46,214.97, plus any additional costs, expenses and reasonable attorney’s accruing prior to the December 20, 2017 date of sale through to a Final Order Approving Sale.

The Trust’s lien on December 20, 2017 will total $214,296.18, which consists of the $207,870.01 as set forth in the Trust’s Lien, plus interest from 7/20/17 to 12/20/17 of $6,426.17. The Trust can also recover and include in its lien any fees for advances actually incurred either on or to the judgment date, or after the judgment date, through to a Final Order Approving Sale.

At the foreclosure sale, the Association and the Trust, or an assignee, may apply all or any part of their judgments liens to the purchase price in lieu of cash as a credit bid. At the foreclosure sale, the Association and the Trust, or an assignee have the right to bid at such sale and submit their bids verbally or in writing.

The Association’s Judgment Lien is first and primary; the Trust’s Lien is second and primary to any other interest, except the Association’s Judgment Lien and subject only to rights of redemption. This means that at the foreclosure sale, the Association can credit bid all or part of the Association’s Judgment Lien in lieu of cash first, and that the Trust can credit bid all or part of the Trust’s Lien in lieu of cash, second to the Association, and only with cash payment satisfying the Association’s Judgment Lien in full.

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sale results in a winning bid that exceeds the these costs and judgments, then the excess amounts will be put into the Court’s registry for distribution by further order of the Court.

The Sale of this Property includes ANY AND ALL IMPROVEMENTS, FIXTURES, AND ATTACHMENTS, AND ANY AND ALL ABANDONED PERSONAL PROPERTY AS DESCRIBED IN THIS COURT’S JUDGMENT, together with all and singular tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereto belonging or any wise appertaining thereto. If personal property of Ms. DeHaven, her agents, or representatives, or of any other person or entity separately ordered to vacate and quit possession of the Property on or before the date of the sale, remains on the real property after the date of the sale, such personal property is deemed abandoned and the purchaser may dispose of the property in any manner pursuant to applicable law.

The property will be sold subject to a nine month right of redemption; easements, reservations and restrictions of record; taxes and governmental assessments including unpaid utility bills; any liens or encumbrances not foreclosed in this proceeding; the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property; affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land; deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property; environmental contamination, if any; any homeowners’ association or condominium dues, assessments, declarations, rules, requirements and restrictions and the Association’s continuing assessments and recorded rights as set forth in the Declaration and other matters of record; any requirements imposed by city or county ordinance or by state law affecting the property; and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. No representation is made as to the validity of the rights of ingress and egress.

Transfer of title to the highest bidder shall be without warranty or representation of any kind.

ALL PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT THE SALE ARE ADVISED TO REVIEW THE DISTRICT COURT FILE, TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF TITLE AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. The sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the undersigned Special Master as stated above or in the event of weather closing the Courthouse on the date of sale. The purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to Defendant Jyl DeHaven’s nine month right of redemption. /s/ Jonathan Morse Jonathan Morse, Special Master P.O. Box 8387 Santa Fe, NM 87504-8387 (505) 982-3305 Address inquiries to the Attorneys for the Association: Walcott, Henry & Winston, P.C. Charles V. Henry 200 West Marcy St., Suite 203 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 982-9559 (505) 982-1199 fax charlie@walcottlaw.com NOVEMBER 22-28, 2017

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