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LOCAL COMMENTS CRITICAL Comment periods on the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests plans close Nov. 7.

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ACTING OUT, OCT. 21: “FEAR NO ART: OPERA EDITION”

up to his face in coming years as a joke (or not). ... Ms. Jusinski owes Tom Franks an apology both personally and publicly for her gratuitous insult.

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NEWS, OCT. 16: “CITY COUNCIL ENDORSEMENTS”

SAME-DAY VOTING Early voting is already underway and runs until Saturday, Nov. 2, with Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

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Voting is one of the most important ways we can impact our communities. Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and everyone here at the Secretary of State’s Office encourages you to make your voice heard and vote in this election. Happy voting!

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A GRATUITOUS INSULT I was nonplussed to see that Charlotte Jusinski referred to Tom Franks as “smarty pants.” Tom is one of the most knowledgeable people on the topic of opera in Santa Fe ...

I do not know if Ms. Jusinski has an ax to grind with Dr. Franks or why she would use such words to describe him. Did she ever think that now he will be stuck with that label for life? He will no doubt have it thrown

ONLINE, OCT. 19: “VINCE KADLUBEK STEPS DOWN AS MEOW WOLF CEO”

THANKS, VINCE Being a CEO of a young company that is wildly successful would be tough.

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PRESIDENT’S LATEST WALL PLAN WOULD PUT NEW MEXICO OUTSIDE US BORDER More of Trump’s Tales from the Sharpie.

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TEEN CENTER SHIFT Warehouse 21 is leaving the Santa Fe Railyard after years of declining teen participation and funding support and as efforts ramp up for a Southside center.

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BOLDLY GO Turahn Dorsey, the first chief of education for the City of Boston, told a local audience last week that the future of learning has to focus on closing equity gaps such as gender and race

LETTERS Managing the growth, publicity and day to day operations would be intense and taxing on anybody in my opinion. Vince has been open about his struggles with his mental health. The guy needs to take care of himself. We aren’t privy to all the background information, but what he helped create is incredible. The founders have done much for our state. Sure, they’ve had hiccups, but overall, they’ve helped our economy and invested in community programs.

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CORPORATE “ART” Like Disney or any number of other Hollywood entertainment entities ... not surprising, and as long as we are calling ducks ducks, I hope people of the world realize that the word “art” is not to be affiliated with [Meow Wolf]. MW is a sham, a grift, a set-up, a capitalist manifestation built on ego, competition and greed. Has MW really helped our community in any long-lasting way? What are the players gonna do when the party is over? [Vince Kadlubek] loves the attention and is like so many people I have encountered in this community over the past 30 years— incompetent at the job they occupy. Again, is anyone really surprised by my words?

How many people do you know that hold positions they have no right holding? Too many to list. It’s pathetic.

MICHAEL WEBB FACEBOOK.COM

WHERE’S MY STOCK? My faith in Meow Wolf as an aspiring art movement was broken when they forced a buyback of the stocks I was so excited to invest in and own. The community spirit feels like it disappeared.

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ONLINE, OCT. 25: “WAREHOUSE 21 TO LEAVE RAILYARD”

GROWING UP WITH W21 Very sad for Santa Fe. I grew up with Warehouse 21 having youth concerts. I met new people and good friends. Warehouse 21 provided a great place for locals to explore music and ... a place for local bands to play. Many of our local musicians started by performing there.

We need to do better for our youth and families trying to live in our town.

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WE TRIED Many of us who have served on the board at one time or another tried very hard to make things work. It was apparent to me years ago that the Southside needed this kind of place. The lack of parking made things even worse. In a town with so little theatre space that would have been a dream of mine, a full blown arts complex. However, I don’t see anything resolving itself in that area unless parking is addressed.

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SOUTHSIDE-BOUND? Sad, but probably for the best, it’s been troubled ever since they moved out of the original building, and the kids who actually need it have all moved out to the Southside anyway. Hopefully they’ll take the opportunity to get back to what worked.

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for decades, and sees the needs spreading to other industries.

“In my field of manufacturing, we’ve used robotics as long as I’ve been in the field,” she notes. Now other industries are following suit, from grocery stores employing cashierless technologies to other stores integrating robotic industrial cleaners. “So, we have someone who is moderating a panel who is a senior consultant for Walmart and they are very concerned [about] how do we retrain our front line workers,” Boisvert says. “What we really want to do is get the educators and policy makers and employers talking to each other about what is it we need and being sure we are training people for the jobs that industry is looking at.”

The need for education systems to adapt to changing workforce needs will be the topic of a discussion at the summit moderated by Erica Barreiro, dean of the School of Communication, Humanities and Social Sciences at Central New Mexico Community College. Barreiro was granted a one-year fellowship at CNM to explore what the college “needs to be thinking about in order to position ourselves as an institution of higher learning” in the future.

“I have been really convinced that in higher education we are currently in a major shift,” Barreiro says. “It’s my opinion we are in much the same place that newspapers and publishing was 10 years ago. There will be fundamental changes in what we look like in the next five years.”

Tech, ed and business leaders convene in Santa Fe to ponder the future

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hat will future technological disruptions look like? And how can educators, employers and states prepare for those disruptions’ impacts on workers? These are some of the overarching questions industry, government and education leaders will tackle next week at The New Collar Workforce Ideation Summit in Santa Fe. They also were the focus of Future Workforce Now, an 18-month project from the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, FHI360 and the Fab Foundation, which convened three panels over the last year around the country, among other research initiatives.

Rachael Stephens, program director at NGA’s Economic Opportunity, serves as an adviser to state leaders on workforce development and education policies. Future Workforce Now, she tells SFR, was aimed at figuring out “the key questions the governors and states were really looking to answer around what the future of work looks like, what all that means for human beings, what it means for the workforce, what it means for skills and training needs and, from there, how state policy can and should be reimagined to address these emerging needs.”

She says many states and governors are “grappling with understanding what the technological disruptions look like in their states, and how they are impacting specific workforces in different regions.”

Overall, the conversations that have taken place made clear there is interest in building “ecosystems that support lifelong learning,” as well as the importance and challenges “that exist around engaging employers in this work.” A framework for this work was presented earlier this month to representatives from 29 states at a Chicago conference.

Stephens will be presenting the project’s findings at the Santa Fe conference, in concert with Sarah Boisvert, founder of Fab Lab Hub, part of the MIT-based Fab Lab Network, which operates at Santa Fe Community College and the Santa Fe Business Incubator.

Boisvert, author of The New Collar Workforce, has worked in manufacturing

The Robot Revolution

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Today’s classroom, she says, “looks largely the same as it did 20 years ago or 30 years ago or 40 years ago,” and needs to adapt to today’s students. Colleges model everything from schedules to curriculum to financial aid to dormitories based on the notion that students are 18-year-old recent high-school graduates. In reality, 70% of CNM’s students, she says, work while they go to school. Calling these students “non-traditional” is a misnomer, she says, “because they are now the core of who we serve, and yet so many of those functions … are not positioned to serve them. We need to shift what we’re doing in a way that prioritizes and recognizes this new reality.”

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Last year, she helped CNM organize a future of work conference and discovered how many people “were hungry” to discuss the topic. “We’re grappling with it,” she says, “and we really need to take leadership in this conversation in our community because it has profound impacts for the way we’re serving our community.”

A recurrent issue revolves around access and equity. Those also are at the forefront for Tim Castillo, a University of New Mexico associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning, and associate dean for research and special adviser to the provost for Santa Fe Initiatives, the latter title involving UNM’s interest in developing a satellite facility on the Midtown campus.

Castillo last year developed a mobile makers lab with the Air Force Research Lab and New Mexico Tech, the intention of which, he says, “is to really get out to the rural areas to bring these technologies” to middle-school students.

Castillo, whose teaching already incorporates digital prototyping technology, sees much opportunity in New Mexico for developing future workforce skills.

“It positions us for the future in terms of creating new venues for economic development,” he says.

He also sees challenges, as do others, in how the K-12 education system can revamp to address the changing landscape.

That’s a question that requires industry and the rest of the community to help answer, according to Gwen Perea Warniment, New Mexico Public Education Department deputy secretary of teaching, learning and assessment, and summit participant.

“What I’m hoping for at the conference is to really invite industry and community stakeholders to help us think through what the K-12 space can be, including a redesign, particularly at the secondary level,” Perea Warniment tells SFR. That redesign would incorporate rethinking curriculum, the role of internships and workforce training, as well as redefining what it means to be a high school graduate overall.

“That’s the work we’re going to be embarking on,” she says, “where we think through [that] instead of graduation being a mechanism of course requirements or competency with a test, how are students coming away with job-embedded skills and the ability to collaborate?”

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Fab Lab Hub founder Sarah Boisvert will host industry leaders for a New Collar summit in Santa Fe Nov. 5-6.

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Hemp Ripoff Santa Fe farmer has his crop stolen from a remote site in Ribera, while other New Mexico farmers report success with heightened security

BY ZANE VORENBERG a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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hen Shawn Putnam planted 4 acres of hemp near Ribera this spring, he felt like a pioneer heading into a brand new industry, but a series of disasters had other plans for his crop.

The Hemp Farming Act of 2018, part of the United States Farm Bill that passed in December, legalized cultivation of hemp nationally, so long as the THC content of the hemp plants remains under 0.3%. The decision has been a boon for CBD companies, which can extract the trendy cannabinoid from hemp without dealing with federal restrictions on cannabis. And several New Mexico growers and companies are now finishing up their first harvest.

For Putnam, who decided to grow his plants at a remote site away from his home, the first hemp harvest seemed to only be missing a plague of locusts.

“We got hit with hail at the end of June, and it flooded and destroyed all our little plants,” Putnam said. “We replanted one acre after that, and that got destroyed by weather in July. But we still had a few plants survive, maybe about 300 of them.

Well, we harvested them and then somebody stole all of them.”

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This hemp crop in Ribera made it to harvest, then got stolen earlier this month.

He wasn’t at the site at the time, and his dummy security cameras didn’t record anything. All he knows about the thief is that they had a black SUV with a hatchback, and a friend saw it driving away with plants hanging out of the back.

“I assume they thought it was weed they could smoke,” Putnam said. “And law enforcement, I didn’t even call them because I don’t know if they’re enforcing this yet. And that area is kind of rough.”

Putnam wanted to use the plants to develop a line of hemp plastics, and he was also growing to get more hemp seeds out of his crop. The excess was supposed to go to a new shop his wife Amy Putnam is setting up called Tierra Madre Botanicals at 1345 Pacheco St. in Santa Fe, which is set to open in the next week.

“We’re trying to source everything locally, and we’re selling herbal CBD products, zero-waste and plastic-free items,” she said. “I’ve been sourcing my CBD from Colorado, and really we just want to try to support real life people here and move

away from companies like Amazon. This is such a new thing in New Mexico. We may try to grow again, but we’ll probably just try to source locally either from New Mexico or Colorado.”

Shawn Putnam said if he grows again, he’s learned some lessons about security— next time, he won’t grow away from where he lives.

That’s an important lesson to learn from the situation, said Bob Boylan, CEO of Road Runner CBD in Torrance County.

Road Runner grows in a highly secure location, with greenhouses for small plants that are moved outside once they mature. The site has fencing, working security cameras, dogs and a few other security features that Boylan declined to mention.

“Our first harvest went great,” Boylan said. “And our crop is compliant.”

His company is focused on making purified CBD products for athletes, doctors, massage therapists and chiropractors.

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dent during its first crop, but it actually seems to have ended up helping in the grow cycle, Boylan said.

“In the beginning we were attacked by grasshoppers, which destroyed some of our early vegetation,” Boylan said. “But at the end we had absolutely no bug issues. It seems like the grasshoppers ate some of the other bugs.”

The company also uses ladybugs and other natural methods to fight off pests and protect its crop.

Shawn Putnam said he’s also considering a plan to partner with some other farmers in a better location. He does not recommend growing hemp in Ribera.

“If I do this again, I’m going to team up with other farmers in Pojoaque,” he said.

“The weather is better there, and the hail is not as bad.”

As for he and his wife, the Putnams are planning to focus more on their new shop over the next few months while deciding whether or not they will try to grow hemp again next year.

“It’s like a dream come true, having this space and getting it ready to open,” Amy Putnam said. “The theft is a hardship, but we’re just moving forward and trying to stay positive with it all.”

The New Mexico Agriculture Department reports it issued 400 permits this year for hemp growers on about 7,500 acres of land, but not all those crops made it to harvest for reasons including non-compliance with THC limits, poor seed germination and clone development, inability to manage weeds and other problems. Some were destroyed because of low genetic CBD content.

Meanwhile, the state Environment Department’s public meetings to provide information and receive input on its proposed “hemp rule” began Tuesday in Santa Fe and continued Wednesday in Albuqurque. An emergency rule regulating the extraction, manufacturing and transportation of hemp and hemp-containing products in New Mexico went into effect in August.

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Mining the Resistance Pecos residents expand the reach of opposition to new mining activity

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he majority of the visitors we get into the Pecos area actually live in Santa Fe. Santa Fe needs to be on this and we do need more people on this, though we already have tremendous support from many,” Frank Adelo, president of the Upper Pecos Watershed Association, tells SFR outside Hondo Volunteer Fire Department No. 2 on Saturday. He had just attended the most recent community meeting about a mine proposed by an Australian company, New World Cobalt, through its US-based subsidiary Comexico LLC. The fire station sits about 11 miles from the Santa Fe city center, just past the intersection of Old Pecos Trail and Highway 285.

While many of the more than 100 attendees drove from Pecos and Las Vegas, up to an hour away, organizers say part of the purpose of holding the meeting there was to make it easier for Santa Feans to attend. Getting people in Santa Fe to see the potential mine as their problem, too, is part of a grassroots strategy to oppose the development.

Comexico’s original proposal speculated that the site near the Pecos Wilderness Area could potentially hold more than 5 million metric tons of extractable ore at sites near the old Tererro mine.

But the path from a proposal to full-fledged mining operation is a long one, and Comexico is still in the first stage of applying for a prospecting permit to drill for ore samples at 30 spots across the proposed site to confirm to investors and regulators that the site can bear out the claimed potential.

Even if the Forest Service approves the prospecting permit, Mike Haynes, general manager and CEO of New World Cobalt, told the Santa Fe New Mexican in August that there is only a “1 in 200 or 1 in 300 chance that there

munity,” said Roy Montibom, a resident of Las Vegas who added that Hayes’ comments were a “complete mischaracterization” of local concerns.

According to the company’s original timeline, residents should have been able to expect public hearings on the permits to begin as early as November, but Comexico’s applications to both the New Mexico Mining and Minerals Division and the National Forest Service are still pending due to the company’s delays in providing the required cultural and natural resource reports.

Now, grassroots organizers expect hearings might not begin until after the first of the year.

They say they plan to use the time to continue building resistance. Reaching a

wider audience than the 1,300 residents of the Pecos village itself is an important part of the plan.

Already, the efforts are gaining traction. A group of students from the UNM Wilderness Alliance were among the attendees at Saturday’s meeting, and opposition to the mine has attracted the support of both Santa Fe and San Miguel counties, as well as from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.

“We have such small amounts of intact public land left and it’s really important for us to protect what we have left for future generations,” UNM student Kai Hollenberg tells SFR at the meeting.

Rachel Conn, projects director at Amigos Bravos, a Taos-based organization for the protection of New Mexico waters, tells SFR by phone that organizers are asking concerned residents to call the state agencies and request they hold upcoming public hearings in Santa Fe and Las Vegas as well as in Pecos to allow a wider swath of impacted New Mexicans to publicly raise their concerns.

Organizers have also encouraged attendees to comment on the Santa Fe National Forest’s draft of a new forest management plan before the deadline for public comments on Nov. 7. The plan is a 20-year update on forest management policies that dictate everything from forest fire and prescribed burn management to roads and hard-rock mining requirements.

Forest Service spokeswoman Julie Anne Overton tells SFR the new forest management plan will likely not go into effect for at least a year and concerned residents can take more immediate action by commenting on the National Environmental Policy Act process involved in Comexico’s application for a prospecting permit during the upcoming scoping period.

Several organizations are seeking signatures for petitions to federal agencies like the Forest Service in opposition to the mine.

But Overton tells SFR that petitions are not an effective way to take action.

“Comments are most valuable when they are original, substantive and include specifics … these comments very much help us define the scope and requirements of a project,” Overton says. “Comments are not votes … quantity is not a determining factor. Substance is.”

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is enough mineralization there to look into a mining feasibility study,” adding that residents were responding to “hysteria and misinformation.”

But a vocal contingent of Pecos residents are determined to stop even the slightest chance that striking a rich mineral vein could lead to another mine there.

“Even if the chance was 1 in 1,000, we’d fight back,” SFR overheard one woman tell another at Saturday’s meeting. Both wore identical gray baseball caps with the words “Tererro Mine” struck through in red.

“The people who live around here, we are citizens, we are taxpayers, we are voters, many of us are property owners and business owners, we have an investment here and the executives from the mining company do not have a stake in this com-

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iriam Headley Reyes sits among pillows bearing Frida Kahlo’s face and describes seven years of hell.

What started as a deep romance in 2011 degenerated into what Reyes describes as abuse by her husband. The pushing, punching and constant cheating and lying continued as a tsunami of tragedy engulfed her and her children.

Her husband’s teenage son from a previous relationship molested the 5-year-old daughter they share. And the domestic violence never stopped, Reyes says.

Pursuing criminal cases against her stepson and soon-to-be-ex-husband have drained Reyes emotionally and financially. The estranged husband has agreed to help pay for her car, utilities and mortgage.

But there’s plenty left in the wake of the devastation: Reyes needs assistance with lost wages, gas and, most importantly, counseling for herself and for her daughter.

She’s likely to get that help, now that an advocate has connected her with the New Mexico Crime Victims Reparation Commission, whose primary mission is to assist those in precisely the kind of predicament in which Reyes finds herself.

“When everything with [my daughter] happened, I started working with [the commission],” she says in Spanish through tears inside her bright yellow, red-roofed home in Las Cruces. “When we started going to court, I noticed that I was missing days of work and I had more bills. I registered, I filled out documents, they talked to me, they asked me for information ... about the case.”

The little-known commission, headquartered in Albuquerque, is a vital cog in the state’s criminal justice system. In recent years, staff and governor-appointed board members have expanded who’s eligible and made it easier to compensate the applicants, most of whom cannot cover funeral costs, rent, medical bills and certain other expenses.

Crime rates have continued to rise in New Mexico during the past half-decade. So has the number of applications to the commission—topping 4,400 in the fiscal year that ended June 30. That’s more than triple the applications just five years ago.

Yet, even though more people are asking for help, the amount paid out by the commission each year since 2014 has remained somewhat static, hovering around $2 million.

The rate at which people have been approved for help, on the other hand, has plummeted—down nearly 20 percentage points overall since 2014, a close analysis of data provided to SFR shows.

In 2014, 85% of applications were approved. In 2019, just 66% were approved.

A longtime victim advocate was surprised to learn of the downward approval trend and calls it “very concerning.”

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Why the application approval rate has decreased is unclear.

The commission’s director and board chair insist that despite their own figures, the agency is helping a larger share of victims than ever. They disagree with commission data, saying they do not have a declining approval rate.

“We are a very victim-centered commission,” Marron Lee, chair of the board, tells SFR in a lengthy interview last week.

“When I came on [in 2013], this was a commission of ‘no.’ Now, we are a commission of ‘yes.’”

The commission even posted an annual report to its website while this story was being reported that was full of misdirection and numbers that do not match the data provided to SFR. The report, which was posted, deleted and changed several times in the week before this story was published, says the commission actually granted a higher percentage of applications in 2019 than in years past, muddying the picture for the public.

Also murky: whether the decline in approvals has fallen disproportionately on people of any particular race or ethnicity.

Every state has a pool of money to compensate crime victims. In some states, black people have been denied reparations at higher rates than whites in certain types of cases—another example of the justice system’s burdens falling more heavily on non-white communities.

While the New Mexico commission collects the data, it had never tracked the race or ethnicity of applicants until SFR filed a request under the Inspection of Public Records Act for breakdowns showing who was approved and denied.

It marks just one more corner of the New Mexico justice system in which race and ethnicity data are absent or ignored.

Lee and commission director Frank Zubia, who was hired by the board in 2014, say it never occurred to them to analyze approvals by race or ethnicity, and they have no plans to do so going forward.

The commission’s application includes a box for people to list their race or ethnicity, but Lee and Zubia say the commission doesn’t consider it.

“It’s never even a factor. It just isn’t,” Lee says.

Reyes, who immigrated to Las Cruces from Mexico around 2007, says the commission’s investigators have been helpful and reassuring since she applied for funds a few weeks ago. She is waiting to hear whether she’s been approved.

“I’m asking for the fair thing,” Reyes says. “I don’t know how much I can qualify for. I haven’t talked to them about that, but

When we started going to court, I noticed that I was missing days of work and I had more bills.

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I’m seeing if they will reimburse me for the days I lost from work [and] gasoline.”

‘They need to be aware it exists’ Crime stories have dominated newspaper headlines and evening newscasts for years in New Mexico. The flashing police lights and photographs of evidence markers behind yellow tape illustrate a grim reality here: As the national violent crime rate decreased again in 2018, the most recent year for which complete figures are available, New Mexico’s rate ticked up, leaving the state second in the nation with 857 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, according to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report.

The national rate: 369.

Miriam Headley Reyes, among her Frida Kahlo pillows at her home in Las Cruces, is waiting to hear whether she’ll get reparations.

Every violent crime has a victim, and how they’re impacted days, weeks and months afterwards reveals the less-told story.

Expenses can pile up quickly, whether it’s to mend broken bones after an aggravated battery, bury a family member or remove a domestic violence survivor from an abusive home quickly. In New Mexico, one of the nation’s poorest states, many people can’t afford the costs of being victimized.

That’s why the reparation commission exists.

Despite efforts to get the word out in recent years, many victims who would qualify for reparations never apply, according to a 2018 analysis of the commission by a team from the Council of State Governments.

The commission seems to operate largely out of view.

When SFR attended its monthly meeting in September, it was clear commissioners and staff hadn’t encountered a journalist in some time. Lee, who was appointed chair in 2013 by then-Gov. Susana Martinez, says she spent her first few years on the commission telling ill-informed legislators about it.

And then there are the victims themselves.

“Well, number one, they need to be aware that [the commission] exists,” says Linda Atkinson, executive director of the

New Mexico Victims’ Rights Project, an advocacy group. “Many don’t.”

Other advocates who work for government and nonprofit agencies say they are often the first to inform people about their right to compensation.

Reyes’ first brush with the commission came in April, but the confusion and trauma from the ordeals with her daughter and abusive husband left her unable to focus on the paperwork requirements to apply for reparations.

It wasn’t until Melissa Lesh, an advocate with New Mexico Victims’ Rights, came into the picture that Reyes could put everything together to complete her application.

On paper, she should be easily approved.

Multiple missions The crimes committed against Reyes and her daughter, like more than a dozen other crimes, qualify under state law for compensation, and she’s asking for money to help defray costs in approved categories.

Reyes wouldn’t be eligible for reparations if the commission determined she had contributed to the crimes, she had failed to obtain a police report or report the crime within two years, or her claim fell within another of the listed statutory exemptions—but none of those appear to apply to her case.

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The commission also acts as a passthrough, administering millions of dollars in federal grants through the STOP Violence Against Women Act and the Victims Of Crime Act to more than 170 government and nonprofit agencies such as rape crisis centers and domestic violence centers throughout the state.

In fiscal 2019, the commission funnelled more than $14 million to those groups—up from about $9 million the year before and about $4 million in fiscal 2014, according to the commission’s figures.

Lee says the commission could function more efficiently with a full staff, but only if it “didn’t take on any more responsibilities.”

The Council of State Governments’ Justice Center analyzed several pieces of the New Mexico justice system, including the reparation commission for a report published in December.

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Data switcheroo Data collection and analysis have not been priorities for the commission—particularly in the areas of application approval rates and the demographics of who is receiving reparations versus who isn’t.

According to Zubia, his staff relied on a case management system that couldn’t perform much beyond the most basic tracking functions prior to fiscal 2019.

What data extracted from the old system does show is a downward trend for approved reparation applications from fiscal 2014—when 85% of the 1,378 requests were granted—to fiscal 2018, when 70% of 3,707 applications were approved.

The Council of State Governments found New Mexico had the highest violent crime rate in its nine-state region in 2016, but the fourth lowest expenditure rate per 100,000 residents for crime victim reparations.

Lee and Zubia say the numbers they provided to SFR are accurate, even while disputing that the approval rate has declined. At the same time, they say any potential decrease in approval rates could be the result of poorly educated victim advocates submitting ineligible applications and fewer people being approved for medical expenses since the Affordable Care Act passed into law.

The commission could not provide raw data for fiscal years 2014 through 2018— just aggregate numbers Lee and Zubia stand by.

The picture gets at once clearer and messier for 2019.

SFR submitted a public records request in late July for six years’ worth of information from the commission. In September, Zubia provided aggregated numbers that showed a 74% overall approval rate for 2019.

Last week, just before the stated deadline for this story and after SFR interviewed Lee and Zubia, they provided a spreadsheet containing raw data in numerous categories for fiscal year 2019.

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“We actually found that the staff at CVRC had their head in the right place,” says Celine Villongco, a policy analyst with the council. “They were trying to get as many claims as they could within the limitations that they were being faced with approved.”

But the commission did not provide the council with detailed, “case-level data,” Villongco says, making a deep analysis more difficult.

She complimented the commission for “strategic thought that goes into making sure that they’re able to approve as many claims as possible.”

The council was “unfortunately not able to dig deeper into the system and provide additional analysis” because of the limited data it was provided, Villongco says.

Analysts were not aware of the decrease in approved applications since 2014, she says, and did not discuss it with the commission. “But that’s definitely something that’s interesting,” Villongco adds.

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Further, Reyes says she doesn’t have insurance that would cover counseling for her and her daughter; if she did, that would count as a “collateral source” of payment that would disqualify her from receiving reparations.

Lee and Zubia say all applications are assigned to a commission investigator, who processes the claim and begins a cursory review—90% of which relies on a police report—to determine whether it fits within state law. Complete applications, they say, can be approved “in a matter of hours,” and the average turnaround time from claim to payout is 72 days—significantly shorter than it was several years ago.

Atkinson, of New Mexico Victims’ Rights, says she’s seen much longer wait times. She counts the sometimes dragged-out process among her few complaints about the commission’s work.

Another, which Lesh shares: There aren’t enough Spanish speakers at the commission to meet New Mexico’s demand.

Lee disputes that assessment, saying that four of the commission’s 11 staffers who process claims, including Zubia, speak Spanish.

Atkinson and Lesh describe several improvements to the reparations process, all of which Lee and Zubia confirm.

Several crimes have been added to the list of those eligible for reparations in recent years; the commission pushed for a change in state law that allows for “good cause” extensions to the requirement that claims be filed within two years of the crime; and it’s no longer mandatory that victims initially report crimes to police.

Those changes, along with increased efforts to educate New Mexicans about the commission’s work and mission, have created a more victim-friendly environment for reparations, the board member and director say.

They concede some challenges, though, including six vacancies on a staff of

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SFR analyzed the nearly 4,700 rows, and found that the approval rate was just 66%.

Around the same time, the commission posted to its website an interactive series of graphics titled “2019 Annual Report” that contained a fever chart showing that the commission’s approval rate spiked in 2019 to nearly 82%.

Reached late Thursday for an explanation of the discrepancies, Zubia says the initial numbers he provided in September were “wrong.” He then says the information posted to the commission’s website last week was a “work in progress” and “not our annual report.”

He then promises to append a caveat to the report “just for you.”

After agreeing that the raw data he provided on Oct. 22 constitutes the best available information, Zubia disputes basic calculations SFR performed with the data—including for the application approval rate—and accuses the news organizations of “twisting the numbers” and “spinning” the commission’s own figures.

By Friday, the report posted on the website had been changed again. But rather than adding a note about “work in progress,” the commission had changed the 2019 approval rate to 91%.

By press time, the report had been removed completely from the commission’s website once again.

Lee and Zubia said repeatedly that the top reasons for denying applications in 2019 were: people the commission deemed ineligible by law to ask for reparations, and the commission’s own inability to find victims after they had applied.

They say those applications should be removed when calculating approval and denial rates, even though they say those categories are included in the figures they provided for 2014 through 2018.

‘We didn’t think it was important’ The commission’s lack of curiosity about its trends over time does not stop at approvals and denials.

Commission data shows a relatively consistent approval rate across demographics for the 2019 fiscal year, with Native Americans, whites, African Americans and Hispanics being approved for compensation at rates between 63% and 70%.

For previous years, however, the commission’s case management system was incapable of separating approvals and denials by race and ethnicity, Zubia says.

At the request of SFR, he sent the old system off for an outside review, but he has no confidence in the numbers that came back.

That makes examining demographic trends in the commission’s work over time impossible.

When victims of crime ask for help, the New Mexico Crime Victims Reparation Commission decides whether to grant or deny their requests. The rate of approval has been dropping lower over the last six years.

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The New Mexico Crime Victims Reparation Commission funnels through millions of federal grant money every year to other state and nonprofit entities.

In fiscal year 2019, the commission sent more than $14 million in funds to those groups—up from about $9 million the year before and about $4 million in fiscal 2014, according to the commission’s figures. Here are some of the local places the money goes:

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An investigation by The Frontier, a nonprofit, online news organization, found that black homicide victims were denied reparations at higher rates than white homicide victims in Oklahoma—often due to a finding that the victims contributed to their own deaths.

Similarly, an investigation by The Marshall Project, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and the USA Today Network turned up racial disparities in victim compensation in seven states that bar people with criminal records from receiving reparations. (New Mexico has no such prohibition.)

Lee says she can’t think of a reason to examine approval and denial rates by demographic information.

“We didn’t think it was important,” she says. “I don’t know why we would be tracking that when we don’t take it into account when we make our decisions and we’ve never been accused of anything like that. It would be anathema to us.” ’Restore ourselves’ Trends and patterns don’t matter to Miriam Reyes.

She needs help paying crucial expenses to get herself and her children through tenuous times.

Reyes pets her small white and brown Chihuahua, whose name also is Frida, on her lap. Her home sits on a hill in the middle of Las Cruces. Inside are artistic odes to Kahlo and her on-and-off-again husband, Diego Rivera.

Reyes talks about her own on-and-offagain husband and the pain he brought her.

Their relationship moved quickly—her husband showed up at her house one day with a moving truck and insisted she, along with her two older children, move in and that she marry him. She accepted—the physical abuse began shortly after they were married in 2012.

Nothing was the same for her from there. The abuse and, later, other horrors continued.

As their divorce moves forward, Reyes needs money to keep her life intact—and to help her daughter heal with the assistance of a counselor.

She has asked the commission to chip in.

“Right now I am in the process of starting working with them,” Reyes says. “Right now I am still in the hurricane. I am just going through the most difficult stage. Now where their program comes in, it is the restoration. Now we will see how we are going to restore ourselves as victims.”

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Parting Stone’s technology for human remains may leave the cremation industry in the dust

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Home burials. Trees instead of gravestones. Funeral concierges. Every industry, it seems, will find itself at some point upended by new ideas—even death, the most stagnant of concepts and most resistant to technological innovation.

Enter Santa Fe entrepreneur Justin Crowe. Last year, I interviewed Crowe about his startup, Parting Stone, which was aiming to revolutionize the busy cremation industry.

How busy? According to Crowe, 1.5 million people are cremated each year in the United States, along with 2 million pets.

Crowe’s business instincts have proven apt. Last month, he launched Parting Stone with $500,000 in angel investments, a slew of awards and a growing list of partners, fans and customers.

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The 31-year-old’s vision was born of his own profound response to his grandfather’s death, and his desire to find a way to allow people to remain meaningfully connected to their loved ones.

Parting Stone takes human and animal ashes, filters them for contaminants (staples, screws, implants) and transforms the remains into solid stones.

A grant from the New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program provided Crowe access to a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist when he was working on his technology (which Parting Stone is in the process of patenting).

Those solidified remains now constitute, Crowe says, a new category of human remains. The company has received a second grant to study the environmental impact of its technology (it also was the top winner in the 2018 bizMIX competition).

Parting Stone does not perform cremations, but works directly with funeral homes and crematoriums. The company initially piloted solidified remains with five funeral homes in Chicago. Since launching a month ago, Parting Stone has received requests from 150 funeral homes around the country, “looking to offer this option to their customers,” many with multiple locations, bringing the total number of locations Parting Stone is preparing to serve to 250.

“The funeral industry historically ignores innovation, and so this was not the route that we expected to go,” Crowe says, “but the industry is really celebrating this, which has been shocking to ev-

eryone involved and really exciting.”

Individual sales to customers living with remains also is going well, he says.

“We have revenue. The lab in Santa Fe is full of remains we’re processing.”

Parting Stone has posted testimonials from early customers, including Garth Clark, who lived with his parents’ ashes for two decades. The stones, he says in the video, have been “transformative …

Somehow, the idea of your parents turning into rock is a transfer of human life into nature, which is sort of exciting.”

This market, the “at home” group of people living with remains, includes approximately 20 million people in the US, Crowe notes.

“There’s an immense amount of anxiety surrounding cremated remains,” he says, “Seeing the bone fragments is one. It also has to do with them being messy: Funeral directors will glue the lids onto urns because people are so afraid of spilling them.

And that’s such a tragic experience, that one of our most treasured possessions has to be hidden and concealed.”

Crowe’s vision also resonated with investors such as Meow Wolf co-founder Corvas Brinkerhoff, who invested $50,000

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“First and foremost, I think Justin is really brilliant and I completely believe in him and his vision and I think he can change the world,” Brinkerhoff says. That change strikes hard at an issue “we really struggle with in our culture. We have an aversion to death, and we have an inability as a culture often to talk about it in a healthy way. What he’s creating is a product that will help people process death in a more healthy and real way.”

Brinkerhoff says he almost hesitates “to use the word product in the sense that this isn’t a product you go buy at the store; this is an extremely meaningful one-ofa-kind object that is designed to help you connect with some of the most important feelings you’ll ever have in your life … the connection with your past loved ones.”

Those loved ones include pets: Parting Stone also piloted with the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society, which keeps a sample box at its admissions desk to show people.

“I love it,” shelter Public Information Officer Murad Kirdar says. “I think this is a great way to take your animal remains and make it a beautiful keepsake stone that you can keep forever.”

Crowe says his main response to the success of the last year is “pure gratitude for the support we’ve received, not only from the economic development initiatives of New Mexico but also the angel investors … all of that has enabled us to launch this company.”

He also sees how his company fits into a larger industry disruption.

“Clearly the public is asking for a change in death care right now,” he says.

“They are asking for a more intimate relationship with it. They’re asking to be more involved with it.”

Parting Stone founder Justin Crowe has launched his company offering a new technology for human and animal remains.

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IT’S ALIVE! Even if Halloween will technically be over, Second Street Brewery’s Rufina Taproom hosts the horrifying second year of its Nightmare on Rufina Street concert. Find local bands covering popular acts such as The Cure and Blondie as well as songs from the movie Labyrinth while DJ Mr Gray fills out the in-between. There’s also a pop-up market featuring artists like Fade Away Vintage, Nikolas Lee Duran-Geiger and others, plus a costume contest for all ages. Ghouls and goblins of the night, it is your time to rise from the darkness and slay. (Cade Guerrero)

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Nightmare on Rufina Street: 7 pm Friday Nov. 1. Free. Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom), 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068.

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ART OPENING SAT/2 A LOOK UP How do American cityscapes uphold capitalism?

Jim Costanzo asks this question with his camera in an exhibit titled wall street in black & white, opening this Saturday at freeform art space. A participant in the Occupy Wall Street protests, Costanzo shot these photos of the menacing architecture and gaudy storefronts in the fall of 2017 and wrote the accompanying poetry shortly thereafter. A half-look-back on the motives of the Occupy movement and a half-shove-forward towards the system’s extinction, this art challenges our normalization of the banking and exchange industry and forces us to question the function of these structures in our lives.

(Cole Rehbein) wall street in black & white: 4-7 pm Saturday Nov. 2. Free. freeform art space, 1610 C de Baca Ln., 692-9249

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POETRY MON/4 DON’T CLAP Open poetry readings are one of the best ways to break into the literary scene. Where else can you find a spontaneous group of live people who not only want to hear your words but also have words to exchange with you? Where does the most peaceful form of percussive praise, the snap, reign supreme? I’ll tell you where: Teatro Paraguas, this Monday, so wash your beret. This reading is sponsored by the NM State Poetry Society and takes place every month on the first Monday. For a city where the poet laureate is actually a coveted position, we think this event is gonna uncover some fire new poets. (CR) Santa Fe Poetry Trails Open Mic: Sign-up at 6, readings begin at 6:30 pm Monday Nov. 4. Free. Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie Ste. B, 424-1601

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The Haunting DIY haunted house takes over the ‘burbs “We noticed there wasn’t really anything like a haunted house in Santa Fe— you had to go to Albuquerque,” says local artist Alex Streeper. “We decided we were going to just get together and make one, and we open it up so the kids in the neighborhood can check it out.”

But now you can, too, because Streeper, her husband Eric, Samuel Dabbs of Soul Punk Studios and more than two dozen others have decided to open their massive, haunted creation to the public this year, and it should prove terrifying … or at least come with free candy.

Dabbs comes from a background of movie special effects, comic books and screenwriting while the Streepers embrace a Meow Wolf-like aesthetic of experiential arts installation. Along with a team of engineers, designers and artists, they’ve created similar pieces in previous years based on asylums and circus terrors. This year’s version, dubbed the Haunted Forest, marks the

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third year and largest iteration of the haunted house project yet. Indoors, you’ll find a cave and mine shafts, and spilling into the outside is the eponymous forest which, we hear, is crawling with ghosts and baddies and any number of deceased loggers. Surprises lurk everywhere, but we hear it’s still OK for the kids.

“Every year it gets bigger and bigger,” Dabbs says, “and while we usually open it up to friends and neighborhood kids, we thought we had put so much effort into it that we should reach out [to the public].

For Eric Streeper, it’s also kind of personal.

“My mom’s birthday is Halloween,” he says, adding a nice touch to an already promising night of frights. (Alex De Vore) THE HAUNTED FOREST 5-9 pm Thursday Oct. 31. Free.

The Haunted Forest, 1304 Lujan St.

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VOTE EARLY SANTA FE COUNTY 2019 REGULAR LOCAL ELECTION Municipalities: City of Santa Fe (Rank Choice Voting for Councilor Position District 4) School Districts: Santa Fe Public School, Espanola Public School, Moriarty-Edgewood School, and Pojoaque Valley Public School Community College Districts: Santa Fe Community College (Voting for Board Members Only), and Northern New Mexico College Branch Community College (Voting for Ballot Question Only) Soil & Water Conservation Districts: Santa Fe-Pojoaque SWCD, Ciudad SWSD, Edgewood SWSD, and Eldorado Area Water and Sanitation District Early Voting (Absentee In Person): County Clerk’s Office (102 Grant Avenue) from Tuesday, October 8, 2019

through Saturday, November 2, 2019, during regular days and hours of business (Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). The office is closed Monday, October 14, 2019. The County Clerk’s Office will be open for Voting on Saturday, November 2, 2019, 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., but not the other Saturdays of Early Voting.

Early Voting Alternate Sites: Saturday, October 19, 2019 through Saturday, November 2, 2019. Hours of voting are from 12:00 noon until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; and from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays.

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By Mail or Online: Ended Tuesday, October 8, 2019 In Person Same Day Voter Registration at the County Clerk's Office: Begins October 9, 2019 and Ends Saturday, November 2, 2019 (Photo ID Required) Absentee Voting: Last Day to Apply to Vote By Mail: November 1, 2019 Regular Local Election Day: November 5, 2019, 7:00 a.m. - 7:00p.m.

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VOTE EARLY SANTA FE COUNTY 2019 REGULAR LOCAL ELECTION Municipalities: City of Santa Fe (Rank Choice Voting for Councilor Position District 4) School Districts: Santa Fe Public School, Espanola Public School, Moriarty-Edgewood School, and Pojoaque Valley Public School Community College Districts: Santa Fe Community College (Voting for Board Members Only), and Northern New Mexico College Branch Community College (Voting for Ballot Question Only) Soil & Water Conservation Districts: Santa Fe-Pojoaque SWCD, Ciudad SWSD, Edgewood SWSD, and Eldorado Area Water and Sanitation District Early Voting (Absentee In Person): County Clerk’s Office (102 Grant Avenue) from Tuesday, October 8, 2019

through Saturday, November 2, 2019, during regular days and hours of business (Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). The office is closed Monday, October 14, 2019. The County Clerk’s Office will be open for Voting on Saturday, November 2, 2019, 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., but not the other Saturdays of Early Voting.

Early Voting Alternate Sites: Saturday, October 19, 2019 through Saturday, November 2, 2019. Hours of voting are from 12:00 noon until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; and from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays.

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Voter Registration

By Mail or Online: Ended Tuesday, October 8, 2019 In Person Same Day Voter Registration at the County Clerk's Office: Begins October 9, 2019 and Ends Saturday, November 2, 2019 (Photo ID Required) Absentee Voting: Last Day to Apply to Vote By Mail: November 1, 2019 Regular Local Election Day: November 5, 2019, 7:00 a.m. - 7:00p.m.

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WED/30 BOOKS/LECTURES BOOK CLUB FOR GROWN-UPS Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 Crudo by Olivia Laing is a fierce, compassionate account of learning to love when the end of the world seems in sight.

7-8:30 pm, free CREATIVE WRITING AND LITERATURE RADIO SHOW Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Students present a live radio performance of original work.

6-7 pm, $5-$10 DEBORAH LEVY AND JOHN FREEMAN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Levy is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and broadcast on the BBC. Freeman is the author of How to Read a Novelist and Maps, his debut collection of poems.

7 pm, $5-$8 DHARMA TALK Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk is “Way Seeking Mind,” presented by Fushin James Bristol. The evening begins with a 15-minute meditation; please arrive on time.

5:20-6:30 pm, free GHOST REMOVAL AND ENERGY CLEARINGS Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Learn about clearing of ghost energies, dimensional energies, portals, vortices and more. Jane Phillips has extensive experience as a paranormal investigator.

6-7:30 pm, free

J RYAN STRADAL: THE LAGER QUEEN OF MINNESOTA Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 986-0151 The author discusses his story of two generations of female brewers who each reckon with a chance to repeat or resolve the mistakes that tore their family apart.

6 pm, free LOO’K CLOSER: ART TALK AT LUNCHTIME Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 A member of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s team leads a 15-minute discussion of a work of art currently on exhibit.

12:30-12:45 pm, $13 SANTA FE DEATH DOULA COOPERATIVE PANEL DISCUSSION The Legacy at Santa Fe 3 Avenida Aldea, 333-0210 A team of trained and certified death doulas discuss the non-medical aspects of supporting a person through death.

6 pm, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Pub trivia with prizes.

8 pm, free GOATS IN THE PARK Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Rd, 316-3596 Live goats prune grasses and shrubbery while providing toprate "fertilizer." Local ranch and conservation volunteers provide interpretive programming and workshops for the first three hours.

11 am-4 pm, free INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Everyone is welcome to explore the basics and finer points of Zen meditation.

5 pm, free NEW MEXICO PINBALL MEETUP The Alley 153 Paseo De Peralta, 557-6789 Meet people who enjoy pinball and learning more about the hobby. Bring cash or quarters for the machines.

6-11 pm, free

OPEN HOUSE Mandela International Magnet School 1604 Agua Fría St., Santa Fe, 87505 Mandela International Magnet School is an SFPS school of choice focused on the International Baccalaureate curriculum and offers this open house for prospective families.

5-7:30 pm, free

FILM GOLDA'S BALCONY The Screen 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 87505, 428-0209 The Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival announces the opening of its 10th season with this film, in which Tovah Feldshuh recreates her award-winning Broadway performance as Golda Meir (and 45 other characters) in this final masterpiece by William Gibson.

4 pm, $10-$18

MUSIC BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free

COSTUME KARAOKE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Dress up like a witch and sing songs from one of the many musicals about witches ... or maybe some of that White Witch Stevie Nicks good shit.

10 pm-1:30 am, free DALLAS BURROW Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folky, rocky, bluesy singer-songwriter.

8 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Covers and originals on guitalele.

6 pm, free PAT MALONE El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Mellow romantic jazz with guitar and vocals.

7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazz duet.

6 pm, free

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WORKSHOP KARMA AND HOPE: VENERABLE AMY MILLER Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 1807 2nd Street, Ste. 35, 660-7056 Learn how to use life's dissatisfactions to dismantle the safety net of limited thinking and to reassemble a more positive mindset. See the full schedule of events with Ven. Amy Miller at thubtennorbuling.regfox.com/ vam2019.

7-8:30 pm, $25

THU/31 ART OPENINGS STRANGE BEDFELLOWS HALLOWEEN PHOTOSHOOT Ellsworth Gallery 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900 Inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono's original piece of performance art, participants are invited to spend time expressing themselves in a bed in the gallery's front window. Tonight, a special Halloween-themed version; dress up in your favorite costume and get in bed.

5-9 pm, free

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“Flying Ice” by Elliott Green, who opens a new solo exhibition of paintings, Syncretism, at Peyton Wright Gallery this Friday.

See page 23.

Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival Nov 15th - 17th Santa Fe Convention Center get more info at Recyclesantafe.org Anita Goodrich

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THE NEW BIOLOGY: A GRAND VIEW OF LIFE St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Since retiring from LANL, theoretical physicist Mike Boring’s interest has been the recent developments in biology. His lecture on “New Biology” discusses how DNA sequencing of different species has changed our view of the evolution of species from the “Old Biology” of Darwinism.

1-3 pm, $15

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SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music.

7:30 pm, free WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A live recording of a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff’s Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers and cultural events.

Turn on your radio and hide.

Unfortunately sold out.

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EVENTS COMMUNITY DAY Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Free admission to the Halloween-decorated garden for New Mexico residents and students with identification. Decorate a mini-pumpkin on your visit, available to the first 50 visitors.

9 am-5 pm, free THE HAUNTED FOREST 1304 Lujan St. Local artists collective creates an immersive forest-like experience with lots of dead loggers (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, free HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 An all-day event featuring a kids campus parade from 10:4511:15 am, a student and staff costume contest from noon-1:30 pm and free and safe trick-ortreating from 3:30-6:30pm.

9 am-6:30 pm, free STATE SURPLUS SALE State Agency for Surplus Property 1990 Siringo Road The state has extra stuff for you to buy, like furniture and government vehicles and knives surrendered to the TSA at the airport.

9 am-4 pm, free TODDLER COSTUME PARADE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A special Halloween edition of toddler tales, followed by a toddler costume parade through the House of Eternal Return exhibit and a contest for prizes.

10 am-noon, free

FILM DESERT NIGHTMARE Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Short films produced by students at Desert Academy.

7-9 pm, $13

MUSIC A LATINX HALLOWE'EN: MAKING MOVIES Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Latinx rock n’ rollers and activists Making Movies and Grammy-nominated hip-hop duo Los Rakas are joined by Santa Fe’s own alt-rock en español quirky cumbia outfit Nohe & Sus Santos.

8 pm, $12-$15 BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free HALLOWEEN BASH Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 The best costumes receive prizes, plus Your Boy Re-Flex spins hot tracks.

10 pm-1:30 am, free DJ RAGGEDY A'S CLASSIC MIXTAPE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig takes over with R&B, rock 'n' roll y más.

8 pm, free

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DESERT PORTAL DJ'S HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Halloween dance party and costume contest.

8 pm, $5 JESUS BAS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

6 pm, free JIM ALMAND El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Rock, blues and folk.

7 pm, free JUSTIN MARTIN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 San Francisco-based house.

10 pm-2 am, $20-$22 LUCY DACUS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Indie rock. 21+.

6-9 pm, $18-$23 MARIO FEBRES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free MATT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Indie folk originals.

7-10 pm, free SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music.

7:30 pm, free THE SHADOW OF NIGHT San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Be entranced by the occult arts of early 17th-century England as musicians delve into contemporary diaries, diatribes, drama, poetry and music, touching on alchemy, witchcraft and magic of all sorts.

7:30 pm, $20

THEATER SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, ADAPTED BY KATE HAMILL Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable.

7-9 pm, $5-$10

FRI/1 ART OPENINGS A FEAST FOR YOUR EYES El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 In honor and celebration of Dia de Los Muertos, 15 Northern New Mexico artists present shrines, ofrendas and interactive art in which viewers are invited to participate by bringing a personal tribute to add to any of the ofrendas. At 5:30 pm, the shrines will be blessed along with a dance performance.

4-6 pm, free

CALAVERAS Y DIABLITOS Zalma Lofton Gallery 407 S Guadalupe St., 670-5179 Santa Fe native Alberto Elias Zalma presents his first solo show of paintings.

5-9 pm, free OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA NATIONAL JURIED SHOW Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 For the first time, the gallery hosts this juried show of work from about 100 Western artists.

5 pm, free SYNCRETISM Peyton Wright Gallery 237 E Palace Ave., 989-9888 New paintings by Brooklynbased Elliott Green.

5-7 pm, free

Saturday & Sunday

November 2 & 3

BOOKS/LECTURES ANN MURDY: ON THE PATH OF MARIGOLDS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Photographer Murdy discusses her book of 90 photographs from three Mexican towns' celebrations of El día de los muertos, which she has been documenting for 20 years.

6 pm, free CURRENTS OF IMAGINATION: THE RADICALNESS OF FEMINIST ART Santa Fe Art Institute 1600 St Michaels Dr, 424-5050 Feminist artists use their empathy and talents to humanize statistics, expose the strength that lies within pain and trigger wide-spread community actions. This event features intimate conversations between artists discussing the currents of their own imaginations and the ways in which they choose to shift and shape culture.

7-9 pm, $10 GARDEN SPROUTS: PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Listen to a book and participate in interactive nature and garden related activities. When you arrive, please make your way to the Ojos y Manos: Eyes and Hands Garden across the red bridge.

10-11 am, free JIM COSTANZO: WALL STREET IN BLACK AND WHITE op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Costanzo, of the Aaron Burr Society, documents his participation in the Occupy Wall St. movement with prose poem rants and striking photography.

5:30 pm, free JUDITH FEIN: HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEAD El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Travel journalist and author Fein speaks on her new book about global traditions of communicating with the deceased for personal healing and to answer questions. A book sale and signing follows the talk (see 3Qs, page 27).

7-9 pm, free

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DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the longest-running tablao in North America.

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6:30-9 pm, $30 VARIETY SOCIAL DANCE Dance Station, Solana Center, 947-B W Alameda St. Arrive at 7 pm for a quick dance lesson if you need, then get your groove on with everything from Latin and country to ballroom and swing. No partner required.

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DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A line-up of live music from the theater orchestra, staged cuentos (folk-tales), a medley of songs, local dancers, poetry and a short original comedy. An altar to honor los antepasados, those who came before, is set up in TP's Second Space and the public is invited to add mementos and photographs to honor their own relatives. Also occurs on Saturday and Sunday.

7 pm, $5-$10 ELDORADO ARTS AND CRAFTS ASSOCIATION SHOW AND SALE St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Thirty-three members of the association show their best work and offer gifts for sale.

1-7 pm, free

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BLACK MAGIC FLOWER POWER Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Stoner-disco desert-boogie.

8-11 pm, free CS ROCKSHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Classic rock 'n' roll.

9 pm, $5 CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 First-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends.

6 pm, free DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Top 40 hits.

10 pm-1:30 am, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive, 471-1111 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6-9 pm, free DAVID NUNEZ AND DIMI DISANTI Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock 'n' soul 'n' such.

9 pm, free DETROIT LIGHTNING Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Grateful Dead cover band.

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DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too. Doug opens, with Bob at 8pm.

6-10 pm, free KATHLEEN RYAN First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Original piano compositions.

5:30-6:15 pm, free NIGHTMARE ON RUFINA STREET Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Tributes to The Cure and Blondie, with Chicharra as Music of the Labyrinth and DJ Mr Gray's 80's Freak Dance Party to close the night. Plus, a pop-up market with a huge list of vendors and a costume contest (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7-11:30 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN Manitou Galleries 123 W. Palace Ave., 986-0440 A jazz duet with guitarist Malone and bassist Gagan amid fine artworks.

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

7 pm, free RYAN CHRYS AND THE ROUGH CUTS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Modern outlaw country.

8:30 pm, free STRAY DAWGS DUO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluegrass duo on the deck.

5 pm, free THE GRUVE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Soul and R&B. 5 pm, free THE SHADOW OF NIGHT Unitarian Church of Los Alamos 1738 N. Sage St., Los Alamos Be entranced by the occult arts of early 17th-century England and as musicians delve into contemporary diaries, diatribes, drama, poetry and music, touching on alchemy, witchcraft and magic of all sorts.

7:30 pm, $20 THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER MOTHERHOOD, BARBELLS AND T-SHOTS The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Mona Malec is a world champion Highland Games athlete, actress, power lifter and mother of two.

Four years ago, her son came out as transgender. This play follows Malec's process of adapting to and cherishing her newly changed relationship with her son (see Acting Out, page 26).

7:30 pm, $15

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, ADAPTED BY KATE HAMILL Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sister after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart?

7-9 pm, $5-$10 THEATER OF DEATH: FREAKATORIUM Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A new series of original short plays with music and circus sideshow with a theme dedicated to the carnival sideshows of yesteryear. A carnival midway opens an hour before the show for games of chance, freakshows and special treats.

7 pm, $20

SAT/2 ART OPENINGS DAY OF THE DEAD PARTY Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St., 928-308-0319 Come and celebrate with the ancestors with new artwork from Lindsay Payton and live music by Bone Orchard. Enjoy refreshments, treats, candle lighting at our gallery ofrenda and an after-hours dance party.

5-9 pm, free OROGENOUS ZONES: WORKS OF PASCAL EMMER Show Pony Gallery 501 Franklin Ave Post-apocalyptic fractured worlds of desire in clay, crystallized like geodes within the magma of the melted worldremains (see A&C, page 29).

6-9 pm, free WALL STREET IN BLACK AND WHITE Freeform Artspace 1619 C de Baca Lane, 692-9249 Dramatic images of the architecture in and around Wall Street combined with urgent and layered text by Jim Costanzo, an Occupy protester and member of the Aaron Burr Society. (see SFR Picks, page 19).

4-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES JEFF BERG: 100 THINGS TO DO IN SANTA FE BEFORE YOU DIE op.cit Books, DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Local historian reads from his book on odd things to do in Santa Fe. 2 pm, free MEDITATION AND MODERN BUDDHISM Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 How to develop pure, unconditional love by meditating on Buddha’s wisdom. Sponsored by the Kadampa Meditation Center New Mexico.

10:30 am-noon, $10

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They’re escaping later.

Escape on a Horse Rides Hard Daniel Jaramillo and Co. have just reached the beaten path to success B Y M AT T H E W G U T I E R R E Z a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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n just three years, local band Escape on a Horse has grown from a small group of loosely affiliated players to a powerhouse with its smooth and loud amalgamation of rock, country and soul. The brainchild of former Anthony Leon and the Chain drummer Daniel Jaramillo, the band is practically everything you’d want in an alt-country act, but Jaramillo and his bandmates tweak the formula just enough to create something entirely more individual.

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This has resulted in consistently packed shows and a 2019 nomination from the New Mexico Music Awards in the Best Country CD category, and Jaramillo says they’re only getting started.

Prior to forming the band, Jaramillo says his work with Anthony Leon and the Chain felt a little more commercial, like a day job in band form. These days, however, he writes to please himself.

“We have normal jobs, so we aren’t doing this to make money,” he explains.

“We can be ourselves.”

He insists that drumming for The Chain was a great learning experience that not only tightened his ability, but led to some stellar opening slots for bands like Lucero. Still, by the time the band officially dissolved in 2016, he had written a number of songs that never came to be. He struck out on his own.

“I knew [they] had a better chance of exposure if I dropped the drums and grabbed a guitar,” Jaramillo says, “which is exactly what I did.”

He took cues from the old-timey gospel he’d heard in his grandmother’s church as a youth, and from the punk and grunge explosion of the ’80s and ’90s.

“I wanted to mix bands like Soundgarden and Ramones with old country jams and soul,” he says.

Once he’d fleshed out the songs, it was just a matter of assembling the members. Classically trained violinist and vocalist Allisyn Stanfield joined first, followed by David Fellenz on drums.

After alternating session musicians in the bassist slot, Andrew Stoker became the band’s most consistent addition, adding ska and reggae elements as a

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sort of counterpoint to Jaramillo’s punk sensibilities. Rounding the band out are pedal steel guitarist Ryan Little (who fans of Greg Butera will know) and David “Dog House” Holtkamp, a mandolin player from Albuquerque with a jam band pedigree.

Together, they form a cohesive project that might not work properly if any one piece fit any differently—but it is working: The release of Escape on A Horse’s self-titled LP last year felt like a bit of a game changer as far as local alt-country goes, semi-familiar with subtle nods to post-rock country-ish acts like Deertick or even Ryan Adams.

But while the songs are recognizable and draw listeners in with what they already know, they’re also fresh and exciting enough to expand any preconceived alt-country notions.

Jaramillo says this might be because he likes a challenge when it comes to songwriting, but also because Escape on a Horse is a democracy.

“I always want different points of view,” he says of their collaborations, “because I can’t see every creative option.”

Album track “Blood in the Water,” for example, was co-written by his wife Samantha, and carries a multi-generational theme about the challenges facing blue-collar New Mexican workers and water rights. It even touches on the Battle of Glorieta Pass during the Civil War for a song as powerful as it is somber.

“There’s magic in spending time with my band mates. Since Horse formed, I’ve felt us turn our music into a living, breathing thing,” Jaramillo says. “And when you add the energy of the crowd at a show, it no longer becomes just the band, but simply ‘us.’”

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ACTING OUT It’s a Boy! f you listen to common discourse, asserts Mona Malec, there are two kinds of parents of trans kids: Those who thump their Bibles, scream and yell about hell and damnation and “unnatural” things and kick their kids out of the house; or those who, the moment their kid comes out as trans, turn into a fierce transflag-waving protective Pride-planning behemoth of inclusivity. There is no in-between.

But …

What about the in-between?

In Motherhood, Barbells and T-Shots, Malec explores the intricacies of what it means—or, perhaps more accurately, how it feels (because “meaning” implies there is a certain way it always is)—to be the parent of a trans man. Through a one-woman monologue that incorporates weight-lifting, cookies, unnerving meta elements and a digestible amount of interpretive movement, Malec expresses how she fiercely loves her son while simultaneously grieves the loss of her daughter.

It’s tempting to entice you and say that Malec approaches tough subjects (deadnaming, top surgery, family estrangement) with humor—but that isn’t necessarily true. Sure, she’s an approachable person, comes across as warm and honest, and I certainly chuckled a few times while

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watching her rehearse the piece with director Rod Harrison. But the piece is not a knee-slapper. It’s pretty intense, to be honest.

But don’t let the intensity scare you off. If there is any one word that would describe this piece more aptly than “intense,” it’s “important.”

The simple set features a rocking chair, a weight-lifting rack and a gym bag. The scene sets us up for two-thirds of the title; the “motherhood” (because what traditional image of a mother doesn’t include a COURTESY THE ARTIST

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rocking chair?) and the “barbells.” Malec is a world-champion Highland Games athlete, having discovered weight-lifting and “throwing trees” as an empowering and fun way to get exercise and meet people.

In this show, it also gives her the perfect in to discuss what it means to be a masculine woman walking through a world obsessed with gender, and how her experience in her body is so vastly different from her son Emery’s experience coming out as trans.

Malec uses anecdotes and poetry-esque repetition and movement to deftly communicate points that might otherwise take a dissertation.

And we need this story right now. In a world where 41% of trans people attempt suicide, in a country run by what the National Center for Transgender Equality calls “The Discrimination Administration,” in a political climate in which whether someone can use the bathroom becomes a legislative question, this is one of the most important conversations we can be having with regards to civil rights. Further, it’s a story of love and support, rather than the tragic stories we often see in the news about trans folk shunned and disowned. There is a lot of love out there, and we can’t despair thinking there isn’t.

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And Malec approaches her own story with the nuance and delicacy it deserves, too. Never does she question the validity of Emery’s gender or emotional experience; if there is any doubt in this piece, it is of herself.

She spends a decent portion of the play questioning her own skills as a mother.

But that shame is not related to having a trans kid; she knows and makes clear that there isn’t anything “wrong” with her son.

Rather, the questioning of her motherhood takes the form of agony over his suffering.

When Emery doesn’t leave his room for months, when he bakes obsessively to try to process his intense feelings, when he distances himself from his supportive stepfather—she knows he is suffering, and she also knows her job description as his mom is to alleviate that suffering. What does it mean about her abilities if she can’t change his life for the better?

So she does everything she can. She travels all over the country to bring him to Fall Out Boy concerts (the only place he seems truly happy). She sells his cookies to her friends to help pay for his name change. In a particularly infuriating section of the piece, she educates her friends when they ask endless stupid questions, assuming a trans body is public domain.

She fights for him in the ways she knows how, but openly admits the times at which she’s most lost.

Motherhood, Barbells and T-Shots is one of many stories we need to hear right now; about love, about family, about struggle and about sadness. There are no right answers, but two things are more clear than others: Treat others with kindness, and have a cookie.

MOTHERHOOD, BARBELLS AND T-SHOTS

Mona Malec is a mother, athlete, actress, activist and staunch supporter of transgender rights, as Motherhood, Barbells and T-Shots deftly illustrates.

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WHOSE HISTORY IS IT, ANYWAY? San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Southwestern historian Joseph P Sanchez, founding director of the Spanish Colonial Research Center at UNM, presents a series of three illustrated lectures on life in 17th century New Mexico. This first lecture is on Spanish colonial cartography and Native American conceptions of the continent.

2-3 pm, $10

THE CALENDAR with Judith Fein

COURTESY PAUL ROSS

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the longest-running tablao in North America.

Reservations required.

6:30-9 pm, $30

EVENTS ALL SOULS' PSYCHIC FAIRE Paradiso 903 Early St. For the first time in many years, several practitioners of the psychic arts gather for a collection of activities, including a Day of the Dead altar by Lisa de St Croix, psychic readers, Tarot, palmistry and astrology; plus, vendors of various crafts and sundries. All readings are $20 for 10 min, but entry is free.

11 am-4 pm, free DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A line-up of live music from the theater orchestra, staged cuentos (folk-tales), a medley of songs, local dancers, poetry and a short original comedy. An altar to honor los antepasados, those who came before, is set up in TP's Second Space and the public is invited to add mementos and photographs to honor their own relatives.

2 pm, $5-$10 DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR MAKING AND ART EXHIBITION Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 This Dia de Los Muertos, Warehouse 21 honors and remembers passed youth with a community altar. Live music and art exhibition by local artists.

9 am-2 pm, free EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world.

8 am-4 pm, free ELDORADO ARTS AND CRAFTS ASSOCIATION SHOW AND SALE St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Thirty-three members of the Association show their best work and offer gifts for sale.

9 am-4 pm, free

Santa Fe-based Judith Fein is a travel writer who had bylines along with her husband Paul Ross in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic Traveler, Boston Globe, and Dallas Morning News. She’s published a new book, How to Communicate with the Dead, just in time for the Day of the Dead celebration at El Museo Cultural on Friday Nov. 1 (Free. 555 Camino de la Familia, 982-0591). A shrine show takes place from 4 to 6 pm, there’s food available for purchase, plus dancing, blessings and more. She’ll give a talk at 7 pm. (Julie Ann Grimm) Do you feel like during certain seasons or days there’s a better chance of successful communication with the dead?

No. I really don’t think it’s dependent on human time.

I think it’s dependent on a relationship between you and a person you are trying to contact or the person who is trying to contact you. It’s more a question of when the timing is good for both that it happens. It could be when you are brushing your teeth, it could come in a dream, or it could be when you are walking down the street or when you are driving over a mountain pass in Colorado. It can be any time. If you initiate contact, you choose the time.

What do you think readers find the most surprising about your book?

How widely accepted this is. Communication with the dead is in so many places in the world, and how varied and exciting and upbeat and wild and moving the ways that they communicate with the dead are. ‘Cause this is a culture that is afraid of death. … We, my husband and I, have been experiencing this everywhere in the world. ... I hope that we will see the normalization of this as opposed to being some marginal thing that people are embarrassed to talk about.

You write in your email signature that you only report on things you’ve experienced first hand. When did you develop this rule for your writing?

Right now the buzzwords are ‘experiential and transformative travel,’ and we’ve been doing that for 19 years. ...

We’re contacted all the time that people want us to write about things, but it has to be something that we have tasted, felt, experienced, learned, gone to, so that we write from a place of personal engagement … I am interested in subjective/objective stories that are about something that’s not me, which is great, but also I’m giving you a personal, honest account of what’s it’s like and then, it’s about ‘Hey come along with me. Let’s go to this together.’

HALLOWEEKEND BASH Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Live music tributes to KISS, Black Sabbath and ZZ Top, plus a costume contest with prizes.

7-11:30 pm, $7-$10 P E O FALL BOOK FAIR St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 A symposium celebrating Santa Fe woman authors is followed by a light lunch and book sale.

10 am-2 pm, $15

SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more.

8 am-2 pm, free NEW MEXICO FIBER ARTS CENTER GRAND OPENING New Mexico Fiber Arts Center 328 S Guadalupe St., Ste. E, 747-3577 The grand opening of a new Santa Fe location for local weaving and yarn supplies and art.

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THE CALENDAR FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Local produce and crafts from over 150 Northern New Mexico producers. Eat local!

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HOLIDAY SCHEDULE: Collected Works will close on Wednesday, November 27 at 3:00pm for Thanksgiving and will reopen on Friday, November 29 at 8am FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Ann Murdy, On the Path of Marigolds: Living Traditions of México’s Day of the Dead, with Carmella Padilla

Ariel Gore Hexing the Patriarchy 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance. A full moon event!

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Redefining Freedom - Poets Natachee Momaday Gray and G.S. Brandson will read from their collections alongside the soundscape of musician, Kyle Thomas

Local author, food activist, Mark Winne Food Town USA in conversation with Rebecca Baran-Rees, Project Director, MoGro at the Santa Fe Community Foundation

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Photographer, Joan Myers Where the Buffalo Roamed: Images of the New West in conversation with Luci Lippard

Pulitzer nominee, Sid Balman Seventh Flag

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Novelist Dianne Romain The Trumpet Lesson SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 @ 9:30AM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 @ 9:30AM OPERA BREAKFAST SERIES

Akhnaten by Philip Glass with lecturer Desirée Mays WINNER: BEST BOOKSTORE 2008-2019

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Puccini’s Madame Butterfly with lecturer Tom Franks

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CW AYON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rocking blues on the deck.

3 pm, free CANDACE VARGAS AND NORTHERN 505 Turquoise Trail Bar at Buffalo Thunder 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 877-848-6337 Tejano and country.

9:30 pm-1:30 am, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy first-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends.

6 pm, free DAVID BORREGO AND THE WIGGLERS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock and folk.

8:30 pm, free DAY OF THE DEAD SINGERS TRIBUTE Old Lamy Church, 137 Old Lamy Trail, Lamy Over 20 local musicians offer a tribute for lost-too-soon artists to benefit Our Lady of Light Historic Foundation.

2-6 pm, $5 DIA DE LOS MUERTOS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Local favorites Nosotros keep the party going, with face painting and other festivities.

10 pm-1:30 am, $10 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards and originals with vocals. Doug opens, with Bob at 8pm.

6-10 pm, free DOUG WEBB Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original acoustic folk rock with Sigmund Jenssen on piano.

6 pm, free ESCAPE ON A HORSE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Alt-country.

8 pm, free GARY GORENCE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Classic rock.

5-8 pm, free HOSIE & LADY URANIUM DOUBLE TAPE RELEASE Ghost 2899 Trades West Road, 87507 A celebration of Lady Uranium's new tape, Vulpes Macrotis and Hosie's new self-titled release.

Lady U and Hosie both play, along with some special guests including Jesse Deluxe.

8-11 pm, $5-$10

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LOWER RIVER ALBUM RELEASE Peralta 320 Paseo de Peralta Composer and musician Michael A Muller debuts his first solo album alongside a video installation titled Fixed Shadow by Andrew Gallo and art from Emily Margarit Mason's series Shadows Through A Petal.

6-9 pm, free MOZART AND HAYDN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott leads the orchestra from the keyboard in two different piano concertos by Mozart, K. 449 and K. 482. The concert opens with Haydn’s Symphony No. 90. Join the Lensic for pre-concert talks

by Thomas O’Connor one hour prior to the concerts.

4-6 pm, $10-$95 NACHA MENDEZ El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Latin music.

9 pm, $5 PAT MALONE TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Sweet melodic jazz.

7:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SAVOR Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Cuban street music.

9 pm, free STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues 'n' rock.

1 pm, free SUSAN GABRIEL Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Singer/songwriter.

7-9 pm, free YUNG BAE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Future punk.

8 pm, $16-$19

THEATER MOTHERHOOD, BARBELLS AND T-SHOTS The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Mona Malec is a world champion Highland Games athlete, actress, power lifter and mother of two.

Four years ago, her son came out as transgender. This play follows Malec's process of adapting to and cherishing her newly changed relationship with her son (See Acting Out, page 26).

7:30 pm, $15 NEW MOON CABARET Honeymoon Brewery, Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 A monthly curated 21+ variety show which celebrates diversity with performance artists in belly dance, drag, comedy, burlesque, spoken word, flow arts and more. A dance party follows the performance.

8 pm, $5

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, ADAPTED BY KATE HAMILL Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart?

7-9 pm, $5-$10 THEATER OF DEATH: FREAKATORIUM Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A new series of original short plays with music and circus sideshow. A carnival midway opens an hour before the show for games of chance, freakshows and special treats.

7 pm, $20

WORKSHOP COMMON SOUTHWESTERN NATIVE PLANTS Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 The Colorado Native Plant Society's book provides everything needed to identify the plants lining the byways and trails of the region. Learn about gardening with native plants and leave with your very own copy of Common Southwestern Native Plants.

2-3 pm, $10-$15 THE PATH FORWARD IN CHALLENGING TIMES Academy for the Love of Learning 133 Seton Village Road, 995-1860 Open to all local educators from schools and other service organizations. These sessions introduce theoretical material drawn from neuroscience focused on the power of presence. Lunch included.

9 am-4 pm, $15

SUN/3 ART OPENINGS SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED: 1970S COLOR ABSTRACTION David Richard Gallery 1570 Pacheco St., 983-9555 Paintings by Anthe Zacharias.

4-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES LGBTQIA+ EDUCATION SERIES: TWO SPIRIT & INDIGEQUEER IDENTITY Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 This presentation centers Native American and Indigenous narrative to introduce queer indigenous identities such as Two Spirit and indigequeer. The presenter, Byron Tsabetsaye, is Navajo and Zuni Pueblo. He is the director of the Native American Center at San Juan College.

3-5 pm, free POETRY READING op.cit Books, DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Kyce Bello, Anne Haven McDonnell and Stella Reed read from their work.

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The Earth Shakes Pascal Emmer’s Orogenous Zones embraces the fractures

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rom a background of social sciences, movement organizing and activism, Santa Fe newcomer Pascal Emmer creates artifact-like sculptures of silica clay in response to fractured systems—the border crisis, violence against our queer siblings, the climate crisis and so on.

The show, Orogenous Zones,, is his first solo outing since he moved to town two years ago. In a nutshell, it’s inspired by the speculative fiction trilogy The Broken Earth by NK Jemisin, but also a play on words: Orogeny is the geological process through which mountains are formed, though the term “orogenous” is often conflated with the term “erogenous.” Emmer hopes to convey the concept of desire through the show title’s wordplay.

Further, on a macro level, the pieces are the culmination of Emmer’s work, his sense of self and his over-arching feelings spurred by the aforementioned circumstances; Orogenous Zones is a political exhibit, yes, but a very human

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statement on societal ills, on activism based in burgeoning movements and the ways in which these ideals and movements can help or harm the creation of space for healing within our fractured reality.

“I was drawn to the theme of fracture,” Emmer says of Jemisin’s books. “In many ways [The Broken Earth is] an Afro-futurist parable about climate change, the literal fracturing of the earth, of ecosystems, but also the figurative fracturing of oppressive systems.”

In the books, Emmer explains, certain characters known as Orogenes have the power to cause and quell earthquakes. For this, they’re demonized, feared, hunted and locked away. For an organizer like Emmer, it’s easy to find parallels between these characters and real-life people living within oppressed systems. The organization Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Emmer says as an example, is fighting against the type of tech that is outwardly meant to eliminate police biases—facial recognition and the horrifying Philip K Dick-esque LASER software designed to predict crimes before they happen—but that seem to drastically target people of color. Emmer worked with that organization last

year, one of many, he says, that give him ideas for his work.

The pieces themselves hide the messaging well on a surface level. Ostensibly broken, cracked, flawed and fractured, they’re borderline sexual, though that might be a projection of the humorous title. Without denigrating, they almost look like cannoli, though with bright, almost neon colors shining from each.

Emmer says it begins with a slab of clay, and through a series of flattening, rolling, shaping and firing, he gets the desired, aged look—cracks and deformations representing both the endings of things, but signifying potential new beginnings. He can predict the final appearance to a degree, but there’s room for letting go, for the pieces to become what they will; if something is never broken, it never gets fixed. Also, Emmer

Orogeny creates mountains while artist Pascal Emmer builds bridges between art and movements.

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says, “as abolitionists would say, it’s not that these things we’re talking about are failing, they’re working exactly as they’re designed.”

Thus, he calls out the sorry state of police and prisons in America, our rapidly diminishing privacy, the white supremacy hidden beneath these things’ thin veneers. It’s heady and packed with symbolism and a little unfortunate that Emmer has to explain the pieces so deeply to get to the heart of his statement. They contain an odd beauty, true, but for those who don’t bother to go looking, it’s hard to convey so much from a mere sculpture.

It’s the gathering of so many thought processes for Emmer, an intersection of his personal and professional lives.

My best advice? Attend the opening this weekend and ask Emmer to explain how his work came to be. He’s fascinating and has put a great deal of thought into it.

“What does it look like when we strengthen our movements?” he asks.

“What does it look like to contend with heightened aggression while also holding space?”

These are good questions, partic particularly since we’re skyrocketing past a place where compla complacency is acceptable.

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SANTA FE DEATH DOULA COOPERATIVE PANEL DISCUSSION The Legacy at Santa Fe 3 Avenida Aldea, 333-0210 A team of certified death doulas discuss the non-medical aspects of supporting a person through death.

2 pm, free THE PERMIAN BASIN’S ROLE IN NEW MEXICO POLITICS AND THE GLOBAL CLIMATE STRUGGLE Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 JourneySantaFe presents Attorney Denise Fort in conversation with Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, executive director of Western Environmental Law Center.

11 am, free

EVENTS DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A line-up of live music from the theater orchestra, staged cuentos (folk-tales), a medley of songs, local dancers, poetry and a short original comedy. An altar to honor los antepasados, those who came before, is set up in TP's Second Space, and the public is invited to add mementos and photographs to honor their own relatives.

2 pm, $5-$10 EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world.

10 am-4 pm, free RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Meet a wide variety of New Mexico’s artists and craftspeople and get pottery, painting, jewelry, sculpture, fiber arts, photography, hand-blown glass, artisanal teas and body products right from the source.

10 am-4 pm, free SUNDAY AFTERNOON BEER BASH Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Albuquerque’s DJ RiffRat and Santa Fe’s DJ BlackDeath spin classic punk and post punk.

4-9 pm, free

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BORIS AND FRIENDS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

Noon, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free EZRA BELL Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk, soul and rock.

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MOZART AND HAYDN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott leads the orchestra from the keyboard in two different piano concertos by Mozart, K. 449 and K. 482. The concert opens with Haydn’s Symphony No. 90. Join the Lensic for pre-concert talks

by Thomas O’Connor one hour prior to the concerts.

3 pm, $12-$95 ROADHOUSE KARMA Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana on the deck.

3 pm, free ROBERT MARCUM AND BRIAN DEAR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Folk 'n' rock with solid Americana roots.

6-8:30 pm, free RONNIE COX Kitchen Sink Recording Studio 528 Jose St., 699-4323 Country music from a New Mexico native.

7:30 pm, $20

THEATER MOTHERHOOD, BARBELLS AND T-SHOTS The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Mona Malec is a world champion Highland Games athlete, actress, power lifter and mother of two.

Four years ago, her son came out as transgender. This play follows Malec's process of adapting to and cherishing her newly changed relationship with her son (see Acting Out, page 26).

2 pm, $15 THEATER OF DEATH: FREAKATORIUM Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A new series of original short plays with music and circus sideshow. A carnival midway opens an hour before the show for games of chance, freakshows and special treats.

2 pm, $20

WORKSHOP TEA AND MEDITATION Artful Tea 101 W. Marcy Street Melissa Smith-Wilkinson offers a simple guided meditation session followed by a quiet cup of tea. Please bring what you need to be comfortable: a yoga mat, blanket or cushion. All are welcome, new and experienced meditators alike 10:30-11:30 am, $15 ZEN MEDITATION INSTRUCTION Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This is an opportunity to get acquainted and receive instruction on Zen meditation and temple etiquette. All are invited to this free introduction which is usually offered the first Sunday of the month. Please RSVP to meditate@upaya.org or 505986-8518 ext. 111.

3-4 pm, free

MON/4 BOOKS/LECTURES MONDAY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 Story time for all ages at the fabulous little book store (which is also for all ages—with a particular focus on kids, of course).

10:30 am, free NATACHEE MOMADAY GRAY AND G.S. BRANDSON: REDEFINING FREEDOM Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The poets read from their collections of written works, alongside the soundscape of musician Kyle Thomas Perkins in an event that pays homage to world icons, rock and roll, the Wild West and youth rebellion.

6 pm, free POETRY OPEN MIC Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Sponsored by the Santa Fe Poetry Trails Chapter of the New Mexico State Poetry Society.

Sign-ups at 6, with readings at 6:30 pm (see SFR Picks, page 19).

6 pm, free THE CODED LANGUAGE OF COLOR Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Introductory talk with enjoyable practical demonstrations of the electromagnetic basis of color and its profound effect on human life and the planetary theatre. Presented by The Living Theatre.

6:30-7:45 pm, free THE ZUNI REGION IN THE POST-CHACOAN ERA Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail., 983-9455 Keith Kintigh speaks on the cultural geography of the Chaco area after that civilization's decline.

6 pm, $15

MUSIC CASEY ANDERSEN AND MOHIT DUBEY Dinner for Two 106 N Guadalupe St., 820-2075 Classical and jazz guitar.

6 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke.

9 pm, free DOS AMIGOS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 A Mexican-style duet featuring trumpeter Chief Sanchez.

6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free TR/ST Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Canadian electronic.

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erhaps I’m paranoid, perhaps it’s just that time of year—or perhaps I really do feel a spiritual vortex around Santa Fe Bite’s new parking-lotcum-strip-mall location off St. Michael’s Drive (1616 St. Michael’s Drive, 4280328). The 70-plus-year-old eatery is surrounded with myths and heroes from its humble beginnings in a cramped, 800-square-foot building in the foothills outside town, but the new location seems rather a hollow, inflated shell of what once was and emits an altogether different sort of energy. The bobcats are long gone, their habitat paved over by urban sprawl.

SFR has published a lot of coverage on Bobcat and, later, Santa Fe Bite, so when the diner crawled into the Midtown remains of Tecolote Cafe’s unexpected death (RIP, bakery basket) in mid- September after almost a year of being out of business, we took notice.

Admittedly, I moved to town in 2015, after the drama surrounding the move out of the Old Las Vegas Trail location and a couple of successful years at the downtown Garrett’s Desert Inn location.

I heard recommendations of the burger from passing winds, but never managed to visit before they closed in 2018.

“Guess I’ll never get to try that delicious burger,” I thought, but like, not re-

What masquerades as a burger reveals itself to be a startlingly spiritual experience.

ally—there’s a billion and a half burgers out there, so what’s but another manifestation of meat lost to time, tasting so soon the fate that we and all other burgers are bound to meet?

It’s potentially portentous that the business bought up Tecolote’s corpse, then, which while alive faced similar issues of being evicted from a successful long-time location and found the St. Michael’s corridor the next best choice.

The one other successful restaurant in the strip mall, Annapurna’s World Café, is at least situated far enough south of the Carl’s Jr. to have a decent view of the mountains. The new Santa Fe Bite location, however, lacks such advantageous positioning, and as I stared at the drive-through from my table while waiting for my burger, watching people leave that dive with their flame-charbroiled California-style Beyond Burgers (truly a revolutionary food product), I thought, “this mythic burger better be fucking good.”

There’s a lot of cute car-themed, Route 66 decor on the walls to gawk at while I

wait, although it feels like it’s been arbitrarily placed out of obligation to a past aesthetic rather than someone being like, “this would look so cool on the wall of my little cafe,” which I hear was the leading design philosophy in the first location. At any rate, I felt like I had been in this same café in many different places, perhaps even in this same place, and my server started looking more familiar to me as I grew more antsy. Was I really trapping my soul here, in a strip mall, for a burger?

But then, it arrived. First off, I’m sorry folks, I didn’t get the green chile on my burger, I stuck to just cheese and bacon in the 10-ounce portion ($14.65). Maybe that’s my mistake, but I feel that chile, in its power to improve basically anything, can be used to mask cheap meat (I’m looking at you, Blake’s Lotaburger—not even chile can mask the taste of your contributions to anti-marriage equality campaigns in California). The cheese was gooey, the bacon was crispy, but my favorite accoutrement to the burger was the bun—a golden brown, flakey shell on the outside with a soft, yeasty interior, it

soaked up the burger juices like a sponge.

The burger itself was ominously delicious, like the archetypal burger I had only been tasting echoes of in all other burgers. The meat was ground to a notquite-crumbly texture and speckled with tiny beads of fat. I hear it’s cooked on an ancient cast-iron grill that hasn’t been washed in 120 years, and that’s why it’s so delicious. I kid about the age, but the cast-iron thing is legit. One unfortunate thing I can’t lie about: I ordered it cooked medium, and it arrived just on the well-cooked side. The supporting housemade potato chips were an appropriately light and crunchy alternative to heavier, frenched potatoes, though. I also ordered a mocha milkshake ($7.75), and on first sip my eyes opened wide—the espresso flavor was excellently rich and roasty, and the chocolate came in as a pillowy, delicate aftertaste.

When I next crave a burger, I will be back, and I’ll definitely get the green chile—but I’ll also make sure to circle my table with salt to keep out the soul-sucking strip-mall demons.

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TUE/5 BOOKS/LECTURES WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAMED Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Joan Myers reveals regional changes through photography.

6 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, $5

EVENTS THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF SANTA FE St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Attendees are invited to bring up to 10 digital images or prints for peer review during the meeting.

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FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Local produce and crafts from the folks who make ‘em.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC ALLAH-LAS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 American rock from LA. 7 pm, $16-$19 CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Sign up to sing or play if you desire, but be forewarned—this ain't amateur hour.

8 pm, $5 DAVID WOOD AND GOLDEN GENERAL Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Wood starts with piano and vocal covers, with Golden General taking over with indie rock originals at 8:30 pm.

6:30-8:30 pm, free

DON CURRY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll of the classic persuasion.

8 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 DJ Prairiedog and DJ Mama Goose spin the best in garage, surf, country and rockabilly till the wee hours.

9 pm, free

WORKSHOP OPEN HOUSE The Tutorial School 400 Brunn School Road, 806-570-6878 Since 1982, The Tutorial School has nurtured in children independence, responsibility and life skills. Stop by for a tour.

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Work by Diego Romero from his solo exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Scott Johnson: Fissure Through Feb. 2, 2020.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Contemporary Voices: Ken Price. Through Oct. 31.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Judy Chicago: the Birth Project from New Mexico Collections. Through Nov. 10.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Robyn Tsinnajinnie and Austin Big Crow: The Holy Trinity. Through Oct. 31.

Wayne Nez Gaussoin:

Adobobot. Through Nov. 30. Reconciliation. Through Jan. 19. Heidi K Brandow: Unit of Measure. Through Jan. 31. Sámi Intervention/ Dáidda Gázada. Through Feb. 16.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Artworks in wax.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Beyond Standing Rock: The Past, Present, and Future of the Water Protectors.

Through Dec. 31.

Diego Romero vs The End of Art. Through April 2020.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Girard’s Modern Folk.

Through Jan. 26. Gallery of Conscience: Community Through Making from Peru

to New Mexico.

Through Jan. 5. Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico. Through March 7, 20201.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Working on the Railroad.

Through 2021.

The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur. Through Feb. 21.

Atomic Histories. Through Feb. 28. We the Rosies: Women at Work.

Through March 1.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Alcoves 2020 #1 #2.

Through August 2020.

Social and Sublime. Through Nov. 17. Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Closed for renovations.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Di Wae Powa.

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Human Nature: Explorations in Bronze.

Through May 10, 2020.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

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Filmmaker Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows) is rapidly becoming one of our generation’s most important auteurs, and he’s just earned a spot in the pantheon of semihumorous war films like Life is Beautiful or King of Hearts with his uproarious, uplifting and very funny Jojo Rabbit based on the Christine Leunens novel Caged Skies.

We follow Jojo (newcomer Roman Griffin Davis), a 10-year-old Nazi growing up in the fading days of World War II Germany. Jojo’s a bit of a fanatic, a patriot to a terrifying degree with a penchant for his country’s military and Adolf Hitler for an imaginary friend (Waititi plays Hitler in addition to directing and screenwriting duties). But when Jojo discovers a young Jewish woman named Else (Thomasin McKenzie) hidden in his home by his mother (Scarlett Johansson), he’s shaken to his core and begins to question the very fabric of his beliefs and being.

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The kudos are almost too numerous to hand out, from Waititi’s brilliantly sardonic and darkly hysterical take on Hitler to a trio of bumbling Nazi officers played by Rebel Wilson, Sam Rockwell and Alfie Allen, a startlingly nuanced Johansson (who can hopefully lose the transphobic behavior someday soon), to Stephen Merchant’s deeply disturbing turn as an imposing but painfully polite SS officer.

But it’s young Davis’ performance as the sensitive and evolving Jojo that steals the film.

Certainly Waititi’s direction had a little something to do with it, but for a kid actor in a first outing, Davis absolutely nails comedic timing, heartbreaking revelations and even the subtleties of self-doubt and sexual awakening. It may be the most fully-formed and memorable youth

performance since To Kill a Mockingbird, which is especially fascinating in that he’s a literal Nazi.

But, like all of Waititi’s work, there’s an absurdism bubbling beneath the surface of the more overt messaging. He’s a master at pulling an audience into the awkward and keeping us there, questioning. It isn’t always easy but, like Jojo, we need to face it if we’re to gain a better understanding. If nothing else, Jojo Rabbit isn’t anything like you assume—it’s far better.

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I don’t believe I’ve used the word masterpiece when reviewing a film, but when it comes to The Lighthouse, director Robert Eggers’ stunning new tale of madness and violence told against the sweeping backdrop of some remote and nondescript island off the coast of New England, it fits.

It begins like a dream: Suddenly and without warning, lighthouse keepers Ephraim and Thomas are on a rock in the middle of the sea, tasked with keeping a lighthouse running and utterly, painfully, terrifyingly alone. Thomas (a jaw-droppingly brilliant Willem Dafoe) has been here before, or perhaps he’s never left; other partners, he says, were driven to madness.

The solitude has crept in for Thomas, as well, leaving him a callous and particular sort of man.

The younger Ephraim (Robert Pattinson, who is so very good let it lay any Twilight jokes to rest), however, is wide-eyed and seemingly innocent, unprepared for the commitment he’s made. He’s new to the job, the demands of the sea; a man looking for a fresh start and running from something dark in his past. Whatever their circumstances before now, cabin fever sets in.

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Hallucinations take over and any hope for relief, or maybe escape, is soon lost. The longer they toil, the darker their conditions become.

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horrors creep up from the shadows and are made unbearable as Ephraim’s behaviors start to mimic those of Thomas’ previous partner, or so we’re told. The omnipresent cacophony of the rotating light’s machinery drones on in the background and becomes the one thing ground-

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ing us to what we believe is reality. Or sanity.

But then, maybe it isn’t—maybe it’s a low-level form of hypnotism driving us mad, too.

The pair becomes intimate during drunken nights and sets out to torture one another during the labor-intensive days. Why is Ephraim there, anyway? Why won’t Thomas let him tend to the massive bulb at the top of the lighthouse?

It’s downright Lovecraftian in its building of the unknown; it’s downright mythic in its jumps and scares, right down to Dafoe’s artfully delivered poetic and threatening rants.

Is it better not to know ? Are we punished for our obsessions? Would we even know if we’d lost our minds? Eggers presents these questions, leaving room for interpretation, but never irritatingly; rather, he brings us to the brink of madness alongside his characters, then sends them hurtling headlong into the abyss.

We have no choice but to watch, powerlessly.

Answers might not come, but they’re not really needed. It’s about the journey, and from every conceivable filmmaking angle, it is brilliant and shocking and disturbing to the very core. Shot in crisp and foreboding black and white, The Lighthouse is as powerful as cinema gets, an absolute must for anyone brave enough to come face to face with its madness. (ADV)

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the magic of the first film will surely feel slighted.

Everything is less funny and less original. Oh, Emma Stone—you’re honestly too good for this shit. (ADV)

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Ah, yes—yet another sequel that amounts to little more than a semi-manipulative jab at nostalgia— this is Zombieland: Double Tap, a continuation of the 2009 Jesse Eisenberg/Woody Harrelson/ Emma Stone/Abigail Breslin romp that found disparate post-apocalypse survivors getting by in a world full of zombies.

The genre is overloaded, no question, but director Ruben Fleischer’s take back then as today has been to embrace a video game aesthetic for the action scenes and a sort of teen comedy feel for the downtimes. It worked the first time out as silly fun, but now it just feels tired and irritating.

Anyway, we catch up with Columbus (Eisenberg), Wichita (Stone), Tallahassee (Harrelson) and Little Rock (Breslin)—so named for their towns of origin—10 years after the events of the first Zombieland. They’ve since moved into the White House, settled into some degree of normal and all is supposed to be well. When Columbus proposes to Wichita, however, she and Little Rock take off, leaving room for newcomers Madison (Zoey Deutch), a valley girl type with a nut allergy, and Berkeley (Avan Jogia), an underdeveloped hippie about whom weed and patchouli jokes are made, to step into shallow roles that don’t matter. Ugh. Meanwhile, there’s a new kind of zombie on the loose (they call it the T-800 because Terminator and because pop culture), but with an assist from a commune living in a skyscraper, an Elvis-obsessed hotel proprietor

named Nevada (Rosario Dawson) and a shockingly familiar pair of hunters named Albuquerque and Flagstaff (Luke Wilson and Thomas Middleditch), our heroes might just have a shot at killing off the new undead. Or most of them. OK, some of them.

Eisenberg and Harrelson’s chemistry remains mostly intact, though Woody does much of the heavy lifting while young Jesse does his slightly-more-dimensional, nervous Michael Cera thing. Stone and Breslin may as well not be in the film outside of serving as plot devices, and the new characters just plain aren’t funny or interesting in any way.

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But Zombieland isn’t about cinematic excellence, it’s about violence and gore and ridiculous fight scenes that are admittedly quite fun. One particular showdown in an Elvis-themed bar brings both thrills and laughs, but it does represent the high point. Elsewhere, we get a steady stream of regurgitated previous events and, chillingly in 2019, a joke about Tallahassee’s supposed Indigenous lineage that is problematic at best and racist at worst; we’d have thought Harrelson would be better than that.

And so, Zombieland: Double Tap becomes about escapism, though fans looking to recapture

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Honestly, it’s not like the world needed a Breaking Bad movie, but this being a world of reboots and additions, retreads, hot takes and reimagining, why the hell not pile on with one of the most beloved stories in TV history—but this time in movie form?

When last we saw Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), Walt had taken down a white supremacist compound with a remote controlled light machine gun and Jesse had driven off into the sunset in an El Camino (Hey! That’s the name of the movie!).

Jesse had been kidnapped by the ever-horrifying Todd (Jesse Plemmons), a child murderer and nephew to the white supremacist bigwig known as Uncle Jack, and forced to cook meth the Heisenberg way while living in a cage, and we pick up moments after his escape. With his newfound freedom, Jesse decides to tie up loose ends, interact with a few fan fave characters like Skinny Pete and Badger and Joe the junkyard guy, and his overall plans are to get out of town, but not before he sows and reaps that Pinkman brand of violence wherein things just kind of happen to him rather than him having a hand in his own fate.

El Camino feels like an extended episode of the show, but one of those bottle episodes that focuses too much on plot devices and wrapping things up than it does on what we really want to see. This is slow and methodical, though with very little that actually happens. El Camino is Aaron Paul’s movie, and the giddy feeling that comes with the return of Jesse Pinkman wears off awful fast. We phase between the past and the present, little scenes that set up motivations and exposition, and then we reach the payoff in the present wherein the information in the flashback shows us why Jesse knows where Todd lives, why he still feels a weird allegiance to Mr. White and why he’s fixing to stick it to this one evil welder guy—yeah, welder guy.

Everything else is sheer fan service, little nods to elements from the show that anyone who hasn’t seen Breaking Bad wouldn’t understand or care about, and this begins to feel silly.

OK, yeah, we recognize that one van, we still hate Todd, we still wonder if Jesse’s parents care about him anymore, but taking a major chance

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30 2:15p Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins 2:45p Midnight Traveler* 4:45p First Love* 5:00p Golda’s Balcony presented by SFJFF 7:00p First Love* 7:30p Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins

Joker is ... fine. to add a deeper ending and then squandering it on a nonstop cavalcade of slow burn scenes and “remember when…?” moments seems beneath creator, writer and director Vince Gilligan; don’t hold your breath for a bunch of Walt scenes, either, nor do we find out what happens with Aunt Marie, Skylar, Walt Jr. or anyone else we grew to love. Uncle Hank is super dead—it would have been interesting to see how that shook out.

But of course, the subtitle just so happens to be A Breaking Bad Movie. “A.” As in, singular, but it’s implied there could be more. Will we see more Netflix-produced movies in the saga?

Is Skinny Peter: Another Breaking Bad Movie on the way? How about Pontiac Aztec: Yet Another Effing Breaking Bad Movie? Who can say, but as Netflix enters the upcoming streaming wars and loses so much of its content to the looming Disney service, one might easily assume that if El Camino makes a few bucks or earns a few new subscribers, that they’ll keep it going.

After all, Better Call Saul is wrapping soon, and Gilligan is gonna have to find something to do.

Oh yeah, and there’s not Bob Odenkirk in this movie, not even in a flashback. Bogus.

So yeah, you’ll probably watch it, and you should, but whereas the original show was like super-lightning in some kind of super-bottle, El Camino feels more like a cash grab or maybe even like scraping the bottom of the Pinkman barrel. This is fine, it’s absolutely fine, but it’s not the same, nor could it be. Expect no more.

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Well, we finally made it. The long awaited Joker movie has arrived in cinemas, a modestly budgeted “superhero” movie that has exhaustingly made waves in the press over the last few months. How is it, you ask? Expect a whole lot of pseudo-psychology and grandiose visuals that have little-to-nothing to offer its supposed character-driven cinema.

Is it a surprise at this point that Joaquin Phoenix gives another incredible performance?

The man is reaching Daniel Day-Lewis/Gary Oldman levels of craft, and this is arguably more his movie than it is Director Todd Phillips’ (The Hangover). To his credit, Phoenix’s Arthur is fascinating to follow, and Robert De Niro deserves a mention as talk show host Murray Franklin. It’s remarkable how comfortable he comes off while Phillip’s King of Comedy references remind you how good that movie was.

But what continually keeps Joker from reaching the greatness it teased during promotion is within its narrative structure. We’ve

seen the plot points a million times before with films like Phoenix’s You Were Never Really Here, though that was leaps and bounds better. It’s also obvious that through the edgy dreck, a true auteur would have relished an opportunity to explore real psychopathy on screen. Point is, Joker is a Todd Phillips film, the director of gems such as Road Trip and Old School, and his runof-the-mill, vapid-bro tendencies shine through the veneer of this one. In fact, outside of the stunning partnership between the production design and cinematography, it’s hard to compliment anything else; even Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz as a love interest of sorts is forgettable.

Regardless of all the complaints, Joker remains a tremendous reach for DC Films and Warner Bros, and that willingness to think outside the box should be viewed as a partial success. When the market is loaded with cardboard cutout characters in fake-looking outfits, staring off into space when not engaging in a massive CGI battle, at least we have something different here. If this movie proves to be a success, maybe it’ll allow someone down the line to make a wholeheartedly good piece of cinema in the comic book genre. (Matthew Gutierrez)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 2:15p Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins* 3:00p Scott Johnson Artist Talk & Gallery Walkthrough 4:45p First Love* 7:00p Parasite Sneak Peek* 7:30p JoJo Rabbit Sneak Peek FRIDAY - TUES, NOVEMBER 1 - 5 11:30a JoJo Rabbit 11:45a Parasite* 1:45p Jojo Rabbit 2:30p Parasite* 4:00p JoJo Rabbit 5:15p Parasite* 6:15p JoJo Rabbit 8:00p Parasite* 8:30p JoJo Rabbit

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WED- THURS, OCTOBER 30 - 31 1:00p Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice 3:00p Fantastic Fungi 5:00p Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice 7:00p Fantastic Fungi FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 11:15a Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice 1:15p Fantastic Fungi 3:15p Gift 5:15p Fantastic Fungi 7:15p Fantastic Fungi SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 11:15a Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice 1:15p Fantastic Fungi 3:15p Gift 5:15p Fantastic Fungi 7:30p PAROLE: Navajo Film w/live comedy act SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 11:15a Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice 1:15p Fantastic Fungi 3:15p Gift 5:15p Fantastic Fungi 7:15p Fantastic Fungi MONA - TUES, NOVEMBER 4 - 5 1:00p Fantastic Fungi 3:00p Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice 5:00p Fantastic Fungi 7:00p Fantastic Fungi

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HOBBS was recently surrendered to us after her owner could no longer care for her. She is 9 years old, a little shy and having a hard time adjusting to losing her family. She does have a gentle personality and would benefit from a quiet home with a patient owner. She is very sweet and in good health. HOBBS has never lived with dogs, but may adjust to living with gentle older children or another cat. She is a beautiful orange tabby girl.

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Week of October 30th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you have any skill in fulfilling the wishes and answering the prayers of your allies? Have you developed a capacity to tune in to what people want even when they themselves aren’t sure of what they want? Do you sometimes have a knack for offering just the right gesture at the right time to help people do what they haven’t been able to do under their own power? If you possess any of those aptitudes, now is an excellent time to put them in play.

More than usual, you are needed as a catalyst, a transformer, an inspirational influence. Halloween costume suggestion: angel, fairy godmother, genie, benefactor.

vocabulary that limit its power to describe and understand the world. I think the same is true for religion: one is never enough. Why confine yourself to a single set of theories about spiritual matters when more will enable you to enlarge and deepen your perspective? With this in mind, Libra, I invite you to regard November as “One Is Never Enough Month” for you. Assume you need more of everything. Halloween costume suggestion: a bilingual Jewish Santa Claus; a pagan Sufi Buddha who intones prayers in three different languages.

friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.”

Even if you’re not a creative artist, Taurus, I suspect you’ll be offered intense visitations from a muse in the coming days. If you make yourself alert for and receptive to these potential blessings, you’ll feel like you’re being guided and fueled by a higher power.

Halloween costume suggestion: your muse.

pressed stuff gets free rein to yammer, it will relax and recede—and you will feel so cleansed and relieved that you’ll naturally be able to express more of your monumental beauty. Halloween costume suggestion: your beautiful, fully exorcised monster.

DR. JOANNA CORTI, DOM, Powerful Medicine, Powerful Results. Homeopathy, SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his novel Zone One, Scorpio author Colson Whitehead writes, “A monster Acupuncture. Micro-current TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Amy Tan (Acupuncture without neeis a person who has stopped pretending.” He means describes the magic moment when her muse appears it in the worst sense possible: the emergence of the dles.) Parasite, Liver/cleansand takes command: “I sense a subtle shift, a nudge es. Nitric Oxide. Pain Relief. ugly beast who had been hiding behind social niceto move over, and everything cracks open, the writing ties. But I’m going to twist his meme for my own pur- Transmedium Energy Healing. is freed, the language is full, resources are plentiful, poses. I propose that when you stop pretending and Worker’s Compensation and ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas shed fake politeness, you may indeed resemble an Auto Accidents Insurance surprise me. It seems as though the universe is my ugly monster—but only temporarily. After the supaccepted 505-501-0439

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): More than a century ago, author Anton Chekhov wrote, “If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure.” Decades later, I wrote, “If you’re frantically trying to heal yourself with a random flurry of half-assed remedies, you’ll never cure what ails you.

But if you sit still in a safe place and ask your inner genius to identify the one or two things you need to do to heal, you will find the cure.” Halloween costume suggestion: physician, nurse, shaman, healer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice,” testified poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” This is excellent advice for you. I suspect you’re in the midst of either committing or learning from a valuable mistake. It’s best if you don’t interrupt yourself! Halloween costume suggestion: the personification or embodiment of your valuable mistake.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Cleopatra was an ancient Egyptian queen who ruled for 21 years. She was probably a Capricorn. All you need to know about CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian artist Marc her modern reputation is that Kim Kardashian porChagall (1887–1985) was a playful visionary and a piotrayed her as a sultry seductress in a photo spread in a neer of modernism. He appealed to sophisticates fashion magazine. But the facts are that Cleopatra was despite being described as a dreamy, eccentric outsider a well-educated, multilingual political leader with strawho invented his own visual language. In the 1950s, tegic cunning. Among her many skills were poetry, phiPicasso observed that Chagall was one of the only losophy, and mathematics. I propose we make the painters who “understood what color really is.” In 2017, one of Chagall’s paintings sold for $28.5 million. What REAL Cleopatra your role model. Now is an excellent time to correct people’s misunderstandings about was the secret to his success? “If I create from the you—and show people who you truly are. Halloween heart, nearly everything works,” he testified. “If from costume suggestion: your actual authentic self. the head, almost nothing.” Your current assignment, Cancerian, is to authorize your heart to rule everything AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Around the eleventh you do. Halloween costume suggestion: a heart. hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the eleventh sign of the zodiac, Aquarius, will be capable LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Dead Sea, on the border of Jordan and Israel, is far saltier than the ocean. No fish or of strenuous feats; will have the power to achieve a success that surpasses past successes; will be authofrogs live in it. But here and there on the lake’s bottom rized to attempt a brave act of transcendence that renare springs that exude fresh water. They support large, ders a long-standing limitation irrelevant. As for the diverse communities of microbes. It’s hard for divers to eleven days and eleven hours before that magic hour, get down there and study the life forms, though. The the eleventh sign of the zodiac will be smart to engage water’s so saline, they tend to float. So they carry 90 in fierce meditation and thorough preparation for the pounds of ballast that enables them to sink to the sea magic hour. And as for the eleven days and eleven floor. I urge you to get inspired by all this, Leo. What hours afterward, the eleventh sign should expend all would be the metaphorical equivalent for you of descending into the lower depths so as to research unex- possible effort to capitalize on the semi-miraculous breakthrough. Halloween costume suggestion: eleven. plored sources of vitality and excitement? Halloween costume suggestions: diver, spelunker, archaeologist.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Robert Musil VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We have stripped all things of their mystery and luminosity,” lamented psychologist Carl Jung. “Nothing is holy any longer.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, your assignment is to rebel against that mournful state of affairs. I hope you will devote some of your fine intelligence to restoring mystery and luminosity to the world in which you dwell. I hope you will find and create holiness that’s worthy of your reverence and awe. Halloween costume suggestion: mage, priestess, poet, enchantrix, witch, alchemist, sacramentalist.

made a surprising declaration: “A number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.” I propose we make that one of your mottoes for the coming months. I think you have the potential to be a flawed but inspiring individual who’ll serve as a dynamic force in assembling and nurturing a brilliant social unit. So let me ask you: what would be your dream-come-true of a brilliant social unit that is a fertile influence on you and everyone else in the unit? Halloween costume suggestion: ringleader, mastermind, orchestrator, or general.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One language is never enough,” says a Pashto proverb. How could it be, right?

Each language has a specific structure and a finite

Homework: “Be homesick for wild knowing,” wrote Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Try that out. Report results to FreeWillAstrology.com.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT No. D-101-PB-2019-00192 IN THE MATTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT ESTATE OF DAVID IAN COURT SILCOCK, Deceased.

COUNTY OF SANTA FE NOTICE TO CREDITORS STATE OF NEW MEXICO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN No. D-101-PB-2019-00186 that the undersigned has IN THE MATTER OF been appointed Personal THE ESTATE OF LILY L. Representative of this estate.

GREENBRIDGE A/K/A All persons having claims JOANNE BALTRUS A/K/A against this estate are required LENE SUNGAZER, Deceased. to present their claims within NOTICE TO CREDITORS four months after after the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN date of the first publication that the undersigned has of this notice or the claims been appointed Personal will be forever barred. Claims Representative of this estate. All must be presented either to persons having claims against the undersigned Personal this estate are required to pres- Representative in care of Karen Aubrey, Esq,. Law Office ent their claims within four of Karen Aubrey, Post Office months after the date of the first publication of this Notice if Box 8435, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435, or filed this Notice is given by publicawith the First Judicial District tion as provided in Subsection Court, Santa Fe County A of Section 45-3-801 NMSA Judicial Complex, Post Office 1978 or within sixty (60) days Box 2268, Santa Fe, New after the mailing or delivery of Mexico 87504-2268. this Notice for creditors who are Dated: October 21, 2019 given actual notice as provided Margaret Dragstra

by Subsection B of Section LAW OFFICE OF KAREN AUBREY 45-3-801 NMSA 1978, whichBy: Karen Aubrey ever is later, or the claims will be P.O. Box 8435 forever barred. Claims must be Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435 presented either to the under(505) 982-4287; facsimile signed personal representative (505) 986-8349 at 320 Osuna Rd NE, Unit G-4, ka@karenaubreylaw.com Albuquerque, NM 87107, or STATE OF NEW MEXICO filed with the Santa Fe County COUNTY OF SANTA FE District Court.

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No. D-101-DM-2019-00628 Shana Schoepke, Personal MARY E. AND THOMAS J. Representative of the Estate of MARTINEZ, Petitioners, Lily L. Greenbridge, Deceased THE MATTER OF THE 445 2nd Avenue KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF Pelham NY 10803 RYLAN AND SHAYLA (347) 693-8361 MARTINEZ, KENNETH C. LEACH & And Concerning ASSOCIATES, P.C. BLAINE MARTINEZ, a/k/a

By Sara M. Bonnell Blayne Martinez and ANGEL Attorney for Shana Schoepke, MARTINEZ, Respondents.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION Personal Representative of the STATE OF NEW MEXICO to Estate of Lily L. Greenbridge, Blaine Martinez, a/k/a Blayne Deceased Martinez, Respondent.

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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 FOR KENNETH JOHN ALIRE Case No. D-101-CV-2019-02751 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, Kenneth John Alire, will apply to the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:30 a.m. on the 25th day of November, 2019 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME FROM KENNETH JOHN ALIRE to KEN JOHN ALIRE. KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Michael Roybal Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Kenneth John Alire, Pro Se 4747 Highlands Loop Santa Fe, NM 87507 SFREPORTER.COM

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