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RAISING MEMORIES Gratitude to Alex De Vore on bringing Santa Fe’s music history up for air. The highlighted Instagram account bares too many memories for me, but...by 2002 we had a scene that attracted other touring bands, so it’s worth noting. Warehouse 21 was the perpetual force! Aztec Café also got involved. We still had the Onion and Tommy sold records. Thanks, Alex.
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former Santa Fe Municipal Court employee has quietly won a pair of significant legal victories in her lawsuit alleging that Judge Virginia Vigil illegally fired her for filing a misconduct complaint against the judge. The case has received little attention since SFR broke news of the allegations in September 2019. But in the last several months, Mary Salazar, who has accused Vigil of violating the state Whistleblower Protection Act, has cleared a legal hurdle that sets the stage for a public airing of her claims in the 13th Judicial District Court in Sandoval County. In two separate decisions, handed down in August 2019 and December 2020, District Judge George Eichwald declined to toss the case as Vigil’s defense team had requested. Eichwald is set to take up the matter at trial on Nov. 8, 2021. Despite the case’s progress in court— and news of Salazar’s claims appearing in SFR—Vigil easily won a second four-year term as the city’s Municipal Court judge in November 2019. She ran unopposed. Salazar, a former 12-year employee of the court, alleges that Vigil fired her after she found out that Salazar and several other employees had filed an anonymous complaint against the judge with the New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission in September 2017. It is not clear what’s become of the complaint filed with the commission. That’s because its work is secret unless the commission finds merit in a given case and sends it on to the state Supreme Court, which would decide on discipline and make that decision public. As he has for years, commission Executive Director and General Counsel Randall Roybal offered a cryptic response when SFR asked about the status of the complaint against Vigil: There is no “public matter concerning the judge
that you’re asking about” on file at the Supreme Court for discipline. SFR, however, got a glimpse of the complaint when Salazar’s former lawyer characterized it in 2019. The allegations include that Vigil made changes to a plea agreement without a defendant’s knowledge after the defendant had left the courtroom; and that Vigil asked court employees if they knew of anybody a defendant could date—while she was in the courtroom with the defendant. Salazar also accused Vigil of not following proper procedures for criminal and traffic offenses by bargaining during arraignments with defendants who were not represented by attorneys. Salazar sets out a timeline for the alleged retaliation: Nine months after the employees filed the complaint, on June 21, 2018, Vigil learned about or suspected that a complaint had been filed when
I feel confident saying, and we’ll say this at trial, that my client did raise what she felt were very serious allegations. -Deena Buchanan, Mary Salazar’s lawyer
a court observer sat in her courtroom most of the day. Five days later, Vigil fired Salazar. The Albuquerque-based law firm Robles, Rael and Anaya has represented Vigil and the court from the beginning. Attorney Luis Robles argues Vigil fired Salazar as her administrative assistant for lack of professionalism and work ethic. (Salazar alleges that during her time at the court, she never faced any “disciplinary actions, criticism or communications regarding these matters.”)
A former employee is suing Municipal Court Judge Virginia Vigil, alleging she illegally fired her for filing a misconduct complaint against the judge to the Judicial Standards Commission.
Salazar’s legal team says the timeline is proof Vigil likely knew Salazar complained. The defense says the visit was unrelated to the Judicial Standards Commission—and the meter is running for Santa Feans paying for that defense. The city has paid the firm $23,533.50 so far. The city’s insurance covers retaining outside counsel for this type of case, according to a city spokesman. Robles took over the case after the firm attempted to have it dismissed based on improper venue back in December 2018. The improper venue motion claimed the case should have been heard in Santa Fe’s First Judicial District Court, rather than in Sandoval County, because the Municipal Court is based here. Eichwald disagreed. In his written ruling on Aug. 16, 2019, Eichwald determined that because the court is an “arm of the State of New Mexico,” the case would not be dismissed. Robles made another attempt to get the case thrown out, filing a motion for summary judgment on Feb. 25, 2020, alleging there’s no evidence that Vigil knew it was Salazar who had filed the complaint, and that Salazar had faced verbal warnings about her work performance and attitude leading up to her firing, plus at least one written warning. Robles also claimed that the visit from the court observer was “not unusual” and not for a “specific purpose.” Buchanan fired back with evidence, including Salazar’s initial complaint to Judicial Standards. “I feel confident saying, and we’ll say this at trial, that my client did raise what
she felt were very serious allegations,” says Deena Buchanan, Salazar’s lawyer. It was enough to convince Eichwald, who has ordered mediation before the November trial date. The lawyers expect to eventually go to trial. “Ms. Salazar was fired for the kind of insubordination you cannot have in a court,” Robles says. “If nothing else, a court relies on its institutional reputation and fairness, impartiality, with no games being played.” Robles says Salazar tried to “mind read” Vigil by claiming that her termination was due to the complaint filed with the Standards Commission. He says the judge could not have known Salazar was one of the people who went to the commission because those complaints are confidential. He declined to make Vigil available for an interview for this story. Buchanan disagrees. She tells SFR there’s strong circumstantial evidence that proves her client’s claims, including a second complaint brought by another employee to the Standards Commission against Vigil. Buchanan tells SFR the two known complaints submitted to the Standards Commission against Vigil are “very similar” in their allegations of misconduct. “There’s overlap between issues we knew Judge Vigil was aware of and the specific things raised in my client’s complaint,” Buchanan says. “Also, there’s circumstantial evidence that we found that was pretty strong showing that she was aware that there was a complaint and that she suspected that my client was the one that raised the complaint.”
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hen Capital High students return to campus next Tuesday, the school day will look—at long last—relatively normal. With the first period starting at 8:40 am, students will follow a regular bell schedule until 3:55 pm, attending in-person lessons except for classes in which teachers are exempt from returning because of health problems. Schools are in overdrive preparing for students’ arrival. The decision to jump back into a pre-pandemic school day came from administrators’ intention to salvage what’s left of this academic year and prepare students for a successful return in the fall. “Our freshmen have never been on campus, they don’t know what it’s like to be a Jaguar. Ending the year strong will help them develop those skills and knowledge,” Capital High School Principal Jaime Holladay tells SFR. While lengthening days and blooming golden bells carry the scent of spring, the reopening of schools feels reminiscent of fall. Holladay forewarned her staff to be on alert for those start-of-the-year de-
Students of Nava Elementary welcome the arrival of spring and the reopening of school with seedlings.
tails: “Reminding freshmen to wear IDs, you know, things that normally would happen in August will be happening in April. And that’s OK.” The district invited all students to return to classes on April 6 for the first time since before Spring Break last year, when schools shut down to slow the spread of COVID-19. Schools started a hybrid learning schedule in February where cohorts of in-person classes came on alternating days of the week. Now parents must choose between a fully online or in-person curriculum, with hybrid learning no longer an option. So far, just over half the students in the district—about 5,300—decided to return. The district anticipates this number will change as vaccine availability expands. Holladay says many families feel hesitant to return prior to receiving the vaccine due to “fear of having their child or family get sick.” Tamara Quintana, a special education teacher at Kearny Elementary, pored over every detail that goes into making the transition from online learning back into the classroom as smooth as possible. The change will be consequential for the
students in her kindergarten through second grade class, all of whom fall on the autism spectrum. “The challenge specifically with special education is the transition of being at home for so long and then coming back into the school building,” Quintana says. “But with the routine and with the schedule and the structure we’ve set up for them, I anticipate a very smooth transition for these kids and I’m very excited to see what we can accomplish in these final weeks.” Kids on the autism spectrum often struggle with social, emotional and communication skills and can have trouble adapting to changes in their routines. The social isolation of the pandemic and frequent changes to the status quo presented difficulties for kids in her class, says Quintana. She’s worked closely with parents to develop hands-on projects kids can do at home, and gained valuable insight into her students’ personal struggles. A good portion of her online class time has been spent on life skills such as self-care, hygiene and processing the emotional response to the pandemic. “Our biggest goal for [special ed] classrooms to begin with is independence,” says Quintana. “And so we just want to make sure that no matter where they are, whether it’s at home or in the school building, that they practice their inde-
The big picture here is getting kids back on campus, getting back into the flow so that we’re not doing this in August. -John Morrison, Santa Fe High School teacher
pendence skills and can do things on their own terms.” Of Quintana’s class of seven children, only three will be returning to the classroom. She says these parents want their kids to receive the extra attention and structure available in person. Parents deciding to stay remote raised concerns over altering their child’s routine so late in the year.
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Quintana tells her students stories that help them visualize what to expect in the classroom and acclimate them to the idea that they will still have to wear masks and wash their hands frequently, while maintaining social distancing. “We have to help them understand that it will not look like it did before,” she says. “The more they can visualize all of these things, the easier the change will be.” To juggle remote versus classroom learning, Quintana will have educational aides instructing students in person for two hours each day while she teaches online lessons to the other half of the class. While school leaders express enthusiasm about returning to face-to-face instruction, they also acknowledge that simultaneously managing online and in-person classes will be a challenge. John Morrison, a Santa Fe High School teacher, says educators will have the option of instructing both groups of students at the same time via live lessons, or allowing students to watch videos and complete classwork at their own pace. “I don’t think anybody’s going to be reprimanded for not managing a class online and in their classroom,” says Morrison. “It makes it especially difficult for teachers doing synchronous learning. If you’re trying to get everybody to do the same thing in class and remotely, that’s just that much more challenging.” While lesson logistics consume the minds of teachers, administrators have concerns over the number of staff on hand. At presstime, only 52% of school staff were slated to return to campus on April 6. “The one challenge that I have that other principals have is actual adequate supervision… we are being stretched thin,” says Nava Elementary School Principal Marc Ducharme. A new revised memorandum of understanding between the district and the employees union signaled teachers can wait two weeks after receiving the second dose of a vaccine for full immunity before returning to in-person learning. The district plans for this number to increase as more staff receive their second dose. “The big picture here is getting kids back on campus, getting back into the flow so that we’re not doing this in August,” says Morrison. “I think that’s the primary objective for the next six to seven weeks.”
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A Long Road to Relief Aid in dying to become an end-of-life option for many, but not all STO RY BY S H E I L A M I L L E R , P H OTO G R A P H S BY MORGAN TIMMS a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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aia Calloway watched the New Mexico Senate vote on March 15 from the rocking chair in her living room, surrounded by books on art and anthropology. A longtime advocate for expanding the legal options for people facing the horrors of a terminal illness, Calloway had waited years for changes to the laws of New Mexico. She was thrilled when the vote on the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act settled at 24-17, in favor, all but ensuring freedom at the end would become law. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has indicated that she will sign the bill. Calloway, 43, has shared her story over and over in the hope of seeing medical aid in dying become available in New Mexico. Her long fight has paralleled efforts by advocates in the Legislature and the courts to combat loaded rhetoric and unfounded fears about aid in dying and urges New Mexico to join the nine other states that allow the practice. The Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, named after a well-loved Albuquerque judge who died of cancer, gives adults diagnosed with terminal illnesses and less than six months to live the option to voluntarily self-administer legally prescribed medication in order to die peacefully and without pain. That’s it. The law is not a secret back door to a dark conspiracy to methodically kill off the marginalized and depressed for the benefit of their greedy families, as opponents have said. It’s an option Calloway wants for herself. One day she was an aspiring documentary filmmaker editing Project Runway footage at midnight. The next day she was diagnosed with a rapidly advancing neurodegenerative disease, secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. The progression of her illness is inevitable, halting and unpredictable. Unless she dies first, it will confine her to her bed, likely unable to swallow or have clear thoughts. Calloway would rather die. Disease can target anyone. We are powerless to protect ourselves from it. But,
Winding through piñon and juniper trees with her Veloped walker, Maia Calloway says a prayer for her loved ones, pets, home and “for the days, weeks and months ahead to be full of peace.” As she nears the hill overlooking her home in 2020, Calloway reflects on her evolving relationship with God. “Ultimately, God is mercy,” she says, “and he doesn’t want us to suffer.”
Calloway insists, while disease might be arbitrary, human choices are not. No one has the right to make her suffer because of their beliefs.It’s her body. It’s her life. She should get to decide when she’s had enough. “Ultimately this is a human rights issue,” Calloway says. New Mexico has wrestled with aid in dying for decades. With reform at last on the doorstep, SFR checks in on the legislative and judicial history of the issue, fears of coercion, misuse and bullying by insurance companies that have persisted into 2021 and how the new law could change health care in New Mexico. For Maia Calloway, the Legislature’s long-awaited action marks significant
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progress—though, because of the bill’s restrictions, it won’t broaden her own range of choices.
Twenty-five years in the making
Assisting suicide was and remains a crime in New Mexico. Still, there are occasions when it is legal for doctors to hasten death. They can withdraw life-sustaining treatment at the request of a patient or administer high doses of pain medication to a dying patient. These practices are relatively uncontroversial, and doctors who give such care in New Mexico are protected by two 1978 laws. Oregon voters felt that doctors should
be free to follow the wishes of their terminally ill patients, even to a hastened death. They codified that sentiment with the 1994 Death With Dignity Act, a ballot initiative packed with provisions to prevent abuse. The next year Sen. Liz Stefanics, D-Santa Fe, who is also a co-sponsor of this year’s legislation, introduced a bill proposing to legalize medical aid in dying in New Mexico. Fourteen years later, in 2009, Rep. Karen Giannini’s similar proposal didn’t make it out of committee. The push for progress seemed stuck. Dr. Katherine Morris and Dr. Aroop Mangalik wished to be able to offer aid in dying to their patients with terminal cancer. They filed a lawsuit in 2012 to argue
that the law prohibiting assisted suicide didn’t apply to physicians writing lethal prescriptions requested by terminally ill patients and that if it did, it would be unconstitutional. Morris had prescribed lethal medication to two patients in Oregon while practicing there and testified that they “expressed a feeling of peace that they had this option, and it seemed to relieve some of their suffering that was related directly to the loss of control over their own bodies.” Morris and Magalik were later joined in the suit by Aja Riggs, who was then receiving treatment for uterine cancer. In a 2012 interview with the American Civil Liberties Union, Riggs said, “I have a good life and I want to keep living. But if the cancer is going to kill me, I want the peace of mind of knowing that I have some choice at the very end.” The judicial process was a roller coaster. In a landmark January 2014 ruling, Second Judicial District Judge Nan Nash wrote, “This court cannot envision a right more fundamental, more private or more integral to the liberty, safety and happiness of a New Mexican than the right of a competent, terminally ill patient to choose aid in dying.” Briefly, Riggs believed that when the cancer returned, which she expected, aid in dying would be an option for her. The local DA appealed the ruling, citing concerns that if aid in dying was recognized as a fundamental right, it would apply to everyone, even those who could not take the medication themselves. Furthermore, people would be able to request it in advanced directives, just as they can refuse medical intervention in such directives. A divided Court of Appeals reversed Nash’s ruling in 2015. The plaintiffs appealed to the New Mexico Supreme Court, which sided with the Appeals Court in 2016. The high court said the issue should be settled by the Legislature. Though none of the legal arguments presented challenged the realities of regulated medical aid in dying, the ruling was a major blow. And even as reform gained new life in the form of legislation, there are plenty who still strongly oppose the practice.
insurance companies as a cost-control measure.” These fears are not supported by evidence. In the US, there has not been a single reported case of a person receiving and self-administering aid in dying medication under coercion. There has been no documented coercion by insurance companies. Further more, poverty does not increase the chance that a person will ask for aid in dying. An analysis in the journal JAMA Network Open of patients who have requested aid in dying in Oregon and Washington shows that “most patients in both states were insured, non-Hispanic white individuals with some level of college education,” most dying of cancer and over the age of 65. Loss of autonomy (87.4%), impaired quality of life (86.1%) and loss of dignity (68.6%) were the reasons most commonly cited for requesting aid in dying.
Other options
Locked in the shed outside Maia Calloway’s Taos home is a Veloped, a sort of fourwheel-drive of walkers. When it’s not too muddy or too icy, she takes it out and walks a slow loop around her house with Bella, an aging wolfhound who ignores most commands but always arrives home just before Calloway.
The way is hilly, the surfaces uneven. The giant wheels of the Veloped are reminiscent of a fat-tire mountain bike, able to press on without getting stuck in the tire ruts and potholes. Calloway’s gait changes from week to week. Some days the partial paralysis from the MS lesions on her spine is worse, and one leg follows a bit behind. Other days her gait is more regular, but one can still feel the care she takes with each step. Calloway fears loss of autonomy above all else. She wants to be able to think her own thoughts, and to have the power to bring those thoughts into the world through her words and actions. While walking, she often speaks of things other than death and disease. Her father. Her mother and sister, both gone now. Movies. Spirituality. The adventures of living in LA and New York City. What different Law and Order actors were like on set. How on Earth one is supposed to order quality clothes online. Back at the house, talk frequently returns to her most pressing dilemma. Calloway wants to die on her own terms, at home. Without access to aid in dying, the possibilities are gruesome. International organizations and books detail the pros and cons of every known way to end one’s life. The list for every method is heavy on the cons.
Most are violent, traumatic for the one who dies and for anyone who might discover them. Unregulated medications aren’t always lethal and often aren’t painless. Gases like carbon monoxide endanger other people. Even the least horrifying option is still horrifying. No human being should feel compelled to end their life with a turkey roasting bag filled with nitrogen fastened over their head. To Calloway, these ideas are intolerable.
Shifting public opinion
In the 24 years since the Oregon law was first enacted in 1997, American public support for aid in dying has increased. The most recent Gallup poll, conducted in May 2020, shows that 74% of Americans now support aid in dying—up from 68% in May 2019. That spike is likely due to exposure to the dying process. Over the last century, death migrated from the home to the hospital. In the early 20th century, four out of five deaths took place in the home. That statistic has now reversed: 80% of Americans die in hospitals or long-term care facilities. The pandemic has placed death and dying at the forefront of people’s minds. According to a November 2020 poll by the Pew Research Center, 54% of Americans know someone who was hospitalized or CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
Fear of coercion and misuse
The Catholic Church has been among the most vocal opponents of medical aid in dying around the world. Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe said in a March 3 statement, “God’s law calls us all to recognize and protect the life and dignity of each and every human being, especially the most vulnerable.” Sen. Gregg Schmedes, R-Tijeras, is quoted by the New Mexico Alliance for Life expressing a similar fear: “Patients will feel pressured to opt out of life-saving care by
Calloway slowly exhales while moving through core exercises during a yoga therapy appointment in 2019.
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died from COVID-19. An Axios-Ipsos poll reports that one in three Americans personally know someone who died of COVID-19. Overwhelmingly, people want their end-of-life options to include aid in dying. New Mexico is set to become the 10th state to reflect that sentiment with law.
the anxiety terminal patients experience when faced with the prospect of unmanageable suffering and loss of autonomy. She wished to ensure that New Mexicans, and especially her daughter, could have the “dignity of living the end of life.”
What does the law actually say?
The Legislature takes a stand
When the state Supreme Court refused to recognize aid in dying as a fundamental right, the issue was returned to the legislative branch. Lawmakers filed bills in 2017, 2019 and 2021. Calloway testified in support of the bills in person in 2017 and 2019 and by Zoom this year. In 2017, retired Judge Whitefield told the Legislature, “Cancer has stolen everything from me.” That included her 30-year career as a lawyer and then a judge. She was one of the co-founders of the New Mexico Women’s Bar Association and won numerous community service awards. “I implore you to give me the choice that is right for me,” she said. The bill was voted down on the Senate floor, 20 to 22. Whitefield died in 2018. When a version of the bill was introduced in 2019, it bore her name, as does the recently passed 2021 measure. Co-sponsor Rep. Debbie Armstrong, D-Albuquerque, told SFR in a telephone interview in January that the legislation is intended to provide access to “a peaceful and dignified death,” and to grant the relief that comes from “knowing you can have your family and loved ones with you.” Her daughter, Erin Armstrong, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor as a teenager and was almost 40 when she told the House Health and Human Services Committee that she wants the option to choose “loving goodbyes and memories shared with loved ones” rather than “disorientation and wrenching pain.” During her 45-year career in health care, Rep. Armstrong has seen firsthand
“Essentially, my immune system is allergic to my nervous system,” Calloway says, taking her daily pain medications last year. There is no cure for progressive multiple sclerosis, and most treatments focus on alleviating ongoing symptoms, which in her case include partial paralysis, electric-shock sensations and seizures.
Impassioned rhetoric by some opponents of aid in dying has created fear and confusion. There are decades of data that point in the other direction. No one is required to request or to provide aid in dying under the End-of-Life Options Act. Patients have a right to know what their options are and which providers offer which forms of care. Hospices and other facilities and providers offering end-of-life care are required to inform patients of all their legal treatment options, including not only aid in dying but also palliative care, but no facility, provider or pharmacist is required to provide aid in dying. If they choose to prohibit it, they must clearly inform prospective patients of that
Calloway arrives home after a walk with her housemate’s dog Bella in 2020. “For people suffering with these diseases who are involved with rightto-die, there’s a desperation because of what’s happening to us, and the unjust ways the laws are written,” she said. “So we lose the ability to enjoy the quality of life we still have. This is an argument for changing the laws; if you allow this access, it gives us the courage to live on longer.”
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A Long Road to Relief choice on their websites and in any relevant printed material. Providers, facilities and pharmacists who choose not to participate in aid in dying, no matter the reason, must refer their patients to providers who will or agencies that can help them find providers who will, and to transfer medical records upon request. Organizations cannot compel a health care provider to participate or punish them for not participating. They can restrict clinicians from providing aid in dying in their roles within the organization, but not where the provider acts on their own time and outside of the “course and scope of the provider’s affiliation with the sanctioning health care entity.” A significant percentage of primary care clinicians in New Mexico are advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who have extensive prescribing rights in other areas of medicine. In order to avoid effectively excluding patients in frontier counties, medical doctors, osteopathic doctors, advanced practice nurses and physician assistants are all legally allowed to
prescribe aid in dying medication. No clinician may do so alone, however. Two clinicians must confirm the terminal diagnosis, and the prescribing provider must verify that the patient is mentally capable and is freely and voluntarily making the request. When there’s any doubt as to the patient’s mental capacity or mental health, a mental health care professional must evaluate the patient. Only if they are found to be mentally capable and free of any mental health condition that might influence their decision-making regarding the act of taking life-ending medication can the prescription go forward. No one will get a prescription after “having a bad day,” or even a series of bad days. Even after a patient’s eligibility is verified, there is a waiting period to fill the prescription. In other states, the waiting period is too long. Many people die during the 15 days between their second request and when the prescription is filled. In light of that problem, New Mexico has a 48-hour waiting period, which can be waived.
The law applies to all residents of New Mexico, regardless of how long they have lived here. The vagueness of “resident” is intentional. Yes, some people might move here to access aid in dying from states where it is forbidden; it also accommodates residents who live off the grid without tax returns or driver’s licenses. Under the new bill, assisting suicide remains a fourth-degree felony, but attending an aid in dying death is legally protected. Family, friends and caregivers can gather to support a dying loved one using the law without fear of prosecution. The bill stipulates that “actions taken in accordance with the End-of-Life Options Act shall not be construed, for any purpose, to constitute suicide, assisted suicide, euthanasia, mercy killing, homicide or adult abuse under the law.” “For any purpose” includes the nullification of insurance policies, wills and other legal contracts. No one ever has to use aid in dying—not even after they fill the prescription. A journal of the American Medical Association studied use patterns of aid
Calloway holds onto the branches of a tree for balance on her front porch Sept. 21, 2020. In the mornings, she stands on the porch and rings Tibetan wind chimes, continuing a ritual started by her late mother, Tova Calloway. “Now [my dad] has passed her Tibetan chimes to me, I go outside and do that every morning, and I think about my mom and my sister,” she says. “Even just that simple moment is a ‘thank you’ to life.”
in dying over 18 years in Oregon, the US state where it has been legal the longest. Between 1998 and 2015, 1,545 people received prescriptions for lethal doses of medication under the Death with Dignity Act. Of those, 991 had used it, while over a third—554—did not. Similar statistics have been seen in other states that allow aid in dying. For many patients, the main issue is peace of mind. As Riggs put it, “I understand people can’t really know how they’ll feel until they actually get there. So I don’t know for sure how I will feel as I get closer to death. But I do know I want to have the choice.”
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After watching the Senate vote, Calloway’s elation quickly progressed to a more complicated experience. Even when the End-of-Life Options Act becomes law in June, Calloway and others with degenerative neurological illnesses like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), dementia and Alzheimer’s disease will not be eligible to use it. Doctors can’t reasonably predict how much time she has left. By the time Calloway is six months from her death from MS, she expects to be either physically unable to take the medication herself or mentally unable to request it. In other countries, including Switzerland, the Netherlands and Canada, a mentally competent person can qualify for aid in dying on the basis of suffering alone, regardless of whether they have a terminal illness. Of these countries, only Switzerland extends the option for voluntary assisted death to non-citizens. To be approved for voluntary assisted death at Pegosos Association in Switzerland, Calloway has undergone the extensive review of her medical records and the psychiatric evaluations. It’s a process she has to repeat every six months until she leaves. She’s waiting as long as she can. Like others who are faced with losing their cognitive abilities or the voluntary use of their bodies, the question of when to go to Pegosos is fraught. Such patients say they want to go at “five minutes before midnight,” the last moment they possibly can before they lose the ability to make the choice. When the day comes, she will be in a foreign country instead of at home. “How jarring is that?” she asks. “The only good thing about it is I know them really well and they’re amazing people, amazing compassionate doctors and activists.” When asked if she was afraid, Calloway says: “When we die, that’s the death of our ignorance…Our true reality is something that survives the body.”
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As the Holocaust raged on in Europe, prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp and its satellite sites became the only ones with serial numbers tattooed on their persons. But even in that one camp, 400,000 Jewish prisoners wound up permanently marked. What sort of long-lasting ramifications could result from such an indelible reminder of one of the lowest and most harrowing chapters of human history? The ongoing Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival and the Center for Contemporary Arts team up with the Jewish Federation of New Mexico to stream Numbered, a 2012 documentary from filmmakers Dana Doron and Uriel Sinai that aimed to answer that very question through interviews with those who still bear the tattoo to this day. (ADV) Numbered: All day Thursday April 1- Wednesday, April 7. Free. santafejff.org
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MUSIC SUN/4 LUCY DREAMING With things like more vaccinations, nicer weather and just plain boredom pushing us ever farther out of our homes, we could do a lot worse than a responsible day trip to li’l old Madrid. The weirdest (and proudly so) little town in the region has all kinds of galleries and shops and eateries to visit, and this particular week heralds a live mid-morning performance from Americana/folk singer-songwriter Lucy Barna at popular restaurant The Hollar. arna’s smooth If you’re safe, they will be, too, and B and sweet voice feels like a great accompaniment to your return to the world at large. Order something tasty and breathe a little easier from behind that mask. We’re in the endgame now (we hope). (ADV) Lucy Barna: 11:30 am-2:30 pm Sunday, April 4. Free. The Hollar, 2489 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 471-2481.
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Live and In-Person David Berkeley plays honest-to-goodness live music at Tumbleroot next week We always kind of feel bad for the Wednesday events as they drop the same day SFR does each week, leaving us to either write things like “It’s in three hours from when the paper hits the streets!” or “Don’t forget this a week from now!” With that in mind, don’t forget what we’re about to tell you when it’s a week from now, because indie/ Americana singer-songwriter David Berkeley rides again—on Wednesday, April 7 at recently reopened Midtown haunt Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery (tumblerootbreweryanddistillery.com). “I feel very good and very safe about doing it outside,” Berkeley tells SFR. “It’s going to be spread out, at 50% capacity and I just got my first vaccine today, so I feel safe.” Berkeley’s been one of those online streaming performers over the duration of the pandemic, and his last album, Oh Quiet World, was all about grappling with the startling new realities of a postCOVID world. Still, he says, writing songs meant to mend, spur or even quantify ideas of loss, connection and, ultimately, healing, is just his basic deal.
“One thing that became clear to me through playing a ton of online shows is that a lot of my music speaks to challenges we face,” he explains. “Challenges of fears we face, overcoming fears and trying to show each other support and love. I find a lot of my old material resonates now.” As this is one of the first bigger events to go down in Santa Fe since early 2020, Berkeley assembled a who’s-who of local talent including violinist Karina Wilson, bassist Josh Martin (who arrives soon on loan from the great city of Los Angeles), plus guitarist Ben Wright and drummer Paul Groetzinger of D Numbers. “It’s basically [Grateful Dead] tribute act Detroit Lightning,” Berkeley says with a laugh. “But more seriously, my music tries to be cathartic and emotionally honest, and my songs address what is going on, but they also ultimately try to find the light in it.” (Alex De Vore)
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Reading in the Arroyo: An Occasional Column About Books Woman, myth, legend: Doña Tules B Y M O L LY B O Y L E a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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his is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” says a newspaper reporter in the 1962 movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. That’s what happened to the New Mexico Territory’s most notorious woman, Doña María Gertrudis Barceló, even during her lifetime (circa 1800-1852). Nearly two centuries later, there’s still so little that can be gleaned about the Wild West figure called Doña Tules. There are only two books about her life: historian Mary J. Straw Cook’s 2007 biography, Doña Tules: Santa Fe’s Courtesan and Gambler, and Ruth Laughlin’s 1948 novel, The Wind Leaves No Shadow. After reading them, it’s clear history’s embrace of her murky legend has contorted the truth—and with it, valuable insights into the era Doña Tules presided over—into a state of arrested development. Here’s what we know for sure: La Tules was a sharky card sharp who excelled at sleight-of-hand dealership of the Spanish
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game monte. That’s how she amassed a huge fortune and became a shrewd businesswoman, a money-lender who fearlessly called esteemed debtors into court and a consummate hostess whose influence acted as a bridge between two cultures during the Mexican-American War (1846-48). And this is what legend tells us, based on newspaper accounts written during her lifetime: She was a prostitute and madam whose moniker “Tules” (a diminutive of Gertrude that also means “reeds”) either referred to her stick-straight frame or her curvy attributes; her beauty was the captivating source of her power, or she was “scarred and seamed,” toothless before her time; her hair was flame-red or inky black; she was from France, Taos or Mexico; she slept with New Mexico Gov. Manuel Armijo, who granted her many favors, and she acted as a spy for Americans during the war. We’re still falling victim to the legend side. I recently framed a restaurant review of Palace Prime around the oft-reported “fact” that its address had once been home to Doña Tules’ saloon. But according to Doña Tules, newly out in paperback from University of New Mexico Press, “popular lore” mistakes the former Candelario house for La Tules’ gambling sala, which actually stood on the northwest corner of Palace Avenue and Burro Alley.
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The most intriguing Tules tidbits from Cook’s bio detail the gambler’s elaborate whisper network. Described by a contemporary, it’s impressive: “To this Señora, the Governor communicates all the a ffairs of the State, she then gives them to her adopted daughter, who is married to an American resident, and… thus they go from one to another until every movement becomes known to our people in the capital.” As such, La Tules was complicit—perhaps even instrumental—in a holiday-season grapevine that ultimately delayed the first potential Taos Revolt against the US occupation of Northern New Mexico. The grand funeral of María Gertrudis Barceló, carefully orchestrated in advance by La Tules to display her influence in death as in life, was reported by the New York Daily Tribune and St. Louis Republican. This continued the darkening of Doña Tules’ legacy, as newspapers seized on the chance to describe the ostentatious display of mourning (which, although elaborate, hewed closely to traditional Mexican funeral customs for important figures). Her death became an occasion for puritanical pooh-poohing about New Mexico’s loose morals and tacit approval of ill-gotten gains. The funeral was closely timed to French Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy’s arrival in Santa Fe in 1851, too. The notion that Lamy gave the territory’s most prominent sinner a benediction and funeral Mass—making her the last person buried in the consecrated ground of La Parroquia—was much more than the rest of the country’s proselytizers could take. The facts of Cook’s book can read a little lifeless, so I looked forward to Laughlin’s romantic novelization of her life. (After all, Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels taught
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quick glance around the social media-o-sphere has revealed something about which I’ve been excited, but kind of nervous: Live music seems to be making a comeback. This, by the way, might include New Mexico musicians who’ve been traveling to other states where lockdowns and public gathering restrictions are more lax. Please note that I honestly don’t know if those travelers have been coming in and out of New Mexico the whole time, but I lean toward pessimism given the American population’s apparent reticence to do anything that might be helpful to their fellow humans. But I digress, and want to say that I think the prospect of upcoming live music is great! The musicians deserve it, it’s been hard for everyone (including myself, as I’ve been known to make terrible music and perform it in front of people from time to time) and, honestly, Queen’s Gambit was pretty fucking short (just kidding, never watched it, but it’s about a bus, right?). But someplace within that excitement over possibly seeing my bandmates after a year or my friends or whatever Santa Fe cover act has at long last mastered their own signature version of “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” I’m more truthfully finding myself wildly nervous about what a return to live
brief trip up the street from my home to a coffee shop last weekend proved mildly harrowing as I chose to quickly sip from my to-go cup on my way out just as an elderly lady e ntered the building sporting an absolutely ferocious stink-eye toward my masklessness. In my mind, I was taking one tiny moment to quaff, but this lady and I were closer to each other than 6 feet in an instant. If I’d had three beers and was really feeling whoever was playing “Hallelujah” on whatever patio, I’m not sure I’d be thinking 100% about my mask, if I’m being honest. There’s just so much we still don’t know, and while I absolutely believe musicians deserve to make a living, you’d have to be the reanimated Biggie or Beethoven for me to care enough to risk my life for your music—but I’m sure you’re just a totally sick-ass guitar player, though, so kudos to you. I’m just saying, try to be patient as people start trickling back to doing old things they enjoyed, and don’t come at any of us like we owe you (nobody likes that), and hopefully the rest of us will take your own risks seriously as well when we leave our homes. I don’t personally have great answers, but I think most New Mexicans being vaccinated is coming quicker than we think. I know this is unbelievably hard for people who work in the arts, and make no mistake—working in the arts is work. But no matter how hard up you’ve been or how unsupported you’ve felt or how little aid you’ve received, all the sacrifices we’ve made won’t amount to much if we blow it now. Businesses, musicians and workers everywhere simply can’t survive another whole year of this. Let’s try to do this right. That means patience, masks, distancing, tipping huge and not bugging people for freebies right now. Pay up, mask up and get real chumps…or stay home. LLEN
think “Really? That place?” You fill in the blanks—I know you can. I’ve seen social media posts about what we’re all going to do for soon-to-be-playing musicians who’ve missed out on a year of work and struggled with unemployment, unsupportive government and a society that already deems their work shouldn’t generate the kind of money on which one can live. And it’s a lot. And I’m scared. And you maybe should be, too, at least a little bit. Or maybe the word is “vigilant.” We’ve learned a lot in the last year about how viruses are transmitted, and a number of ill-fated performances and rehearsals across the country in that time proved how simply singing near others posed deadly COVID-19 risks. You might be knee-jerk reacting into thinking, “But I’ll stay socially distant and wear a mask when I’m not eating or drinking! I will be vigilant!” Forgive me for saying, but I’m not sure I believe everyone will. Even a
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music is going to actually mean for the future of local players, local venues, local everybody if we don’t do it right. If we rush into shows because we’re tired of waiting and streaming, what’s going to happen? A downside of working in journalism is what my father has dubbed “the curse of knowledge,” which is to say people tend to come to me with all kinds of actual information even though the bulk of my job has pretty famously been me typing out sentences like “…and that’s why it was the worst muffin I ever had.” Still, because of the whole people-telling-me-things thing, I’ve grown intimately familiar with how the people of New Mexico—and the adjoining states, such as mask-free Texas— have reacted to health orders and care for others. It’s often not great, but it is often horrifying! And while I’m in no way saying it’s reasonable to expect working musicians to continue twiddling their thumbs or streaming more mind-numbingly boring “concerts” wherein they meekly announce “Hey, guys, my Venmo and PayPal are…” I want to advise that we all just take a beat and think long and hard about how we’re going to interact with one another if we do indeed start attending shows (to prove there’s no cause for outright panic, find details on two such events on page 17 of this issue). I know, I know—you’re already penning a hate letter about how I couldn’t possibly understand the shape of the music biz despite having worked within it from one angle or another for more years of my life than not; how the shape of the town and my lack of med school training mean I should shut up forever. Fair enough, I guess, but even over the last week alone, I’ve already seen too many local citizens, workers, etc. with masks drooping lazily down below their noses if they’re wearing one at all—and that’s not even counting reopening announcements from b usinesses I won’t name here that made me
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Tina displays a life driven by luck, circumstance and certainly by willpower. That simplicity won’t sit well with all viewers of the new HBO Max documentary, but there’s a wonderful kind of simplicity in how the life of Tina Turner is expressed here—defeating racial and class oppression, escaping a 16-year abusive relationship and an astonishing comeback in her middle age, even as most artists of the time dealt with an expiration date. Anna Mae Bullock (Turner’s birth name) didn’t accept dismissal, but felt and still feels like her career is often defined by her relationship with her abusive ex, Ike Turner. It’s ironic, then, that Tina’s main focus is that very relationship, given her vocal frustration. Her complaints about the involuntary definition aren’t missing from the story, but directors Dan Linsday and TJ Martin (who previously helmed the acclaimed documentary LA 92) bet on audiences forgiving them on that point. They’ve structured the film for people
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Usually in a film review, we’d spend time giving readers an idea of the plot and then highlighting some of the good, some of the bad and some of the baffling. When it comes to a four-hour steaming pile of garbage like Zack Snyder’s Justice League—a longer version of Joss Whedon’s abysmal 2018 train wreck and box office flop—there’s simply too much ground to cover without making adjustments. In a nutshell, the world faces an ancient evil called Darkseid that sends its totally evil ward Steppenwolf (who was born to be wild) to Earth to, like, conquer it. Thus, Bruce Wayne/Batman assembles a team of heroes to fight those jerks. Here’s everything you need to know about the movie, which just dropped on the HBO Max streaming platform: 1. The 4:3 aspect ratio, which a bit of text before the film tells us was chosen to keep Snyder’s “artistic vision” intact, is weird. We’ve all gotten used to widescreen and that’s what our televisions do. There’s no point to this. And we wouldn’t call Snyder an artist. 2. If slow-motion technology didn’t exist, Justice League would probably be about 15 minutes long. All of Snyder’s films would be. Every other scene is several minutes of slo-mo melodrama underscored by some trite pop song. 3. There’s a high bar of entry here. If you haven’t kept up with DC Comics, good luck knowing who any of the players are outside of the main superheroes—and good luck enjoying any cameo-type moments which might hint at other aspects of the 20
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who know Turner by name but couldn’t say much else about her. Therefore, it’s natural they’d focus on the trauma that so defined her life; even if you’re not an expert on Turner by the end, you’ll know why you should celebrate her. That modern documentary feel—subjects distant in the frame, title fonts reminding you of clothing brands, snap-fast editing—is certainly here, but beyond style, Tina shimmers in the larger world that built its subject. She self-describes as a girl from the cotton fields, bringing forth fantastic slower moments of rural Tennessee, complete with the fields and shuttered town fronts that still stand, though are a little worse for wear. Without heavy exposition, the imagery of the Black American experience in
broader DC universe or potential sequels (may they never come to pass). 4. Every single time Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) appears onscreen, we hear a snippet of her theme music written by composer Rupert GregsonWilliams. In scenes where she pops up repeatedly, this actually becomes quite funny. It’s unclear why nobody mentioned this to Snyder, but it’s presumably because he was too busy stroking his own ego to take notes. 5. Ray Fisher (Cyborg) and Ezra Miller (The Flash) try their hardest and even approach enjoyable performances. Sadly, Ben Affleck’s turn as Batman, Henry Cavill’s Superman, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman and Jason Momoa’s Aquaman all seem bored or something. Lifeless? Listless? Pointless? They’re saying lines they memorized, they’re just not really doing any acting. You’ll just feel bad for better actors like Jeremy Irons and Willem Dafoe, whose characters exist only on the periphery. 6. Those who would describe the film’s visual aesthetic as “stunning” should see more movies. Slo-mo and green screen in an endless loop of self-indulgence aren’t so much stunning as they are maximalist nightmares playing out in a p retentious and tiresome fashion. 7. It’s pretty ballsy to tackle a role like The Joker after Heath Ledger’s Oscar-winning turn from 2008’s The Dark Knight, but rest assured that Jared Leto’s take on the role is not only boring and lacking depth—it serves no purpose, it seems, other than being a part of the pre-release marketing. Dude sucks. 8. It’s boring. It’s a boring movie. And needlessly long. From scenes in which we have to hear a group of Icelandic villagers sing an entire-ass song to others wherein poor, bewildered Diane Lane
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trades sad talk with poor, bewildered Amy Adams, there are just better ways to spend your time. Stubbing your toe, for example, or getting those taxes done. Almost anything you can think up is time better spent. Watch this if you love crap, want to be in on the joke or simply don’t have a single other thing going on for the next four hours. Boo. Slime. Muck. Filth. Rubbish. Boooo! (ADV) HBO Max, R, 242 min.
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You can delve into any culture on the planet and find a rich canon of ghost and demon lore, but there’s something that hits deeper about the ancient ones. In director Keith Thomas’ debut The Vigil, we catch a glimpse into the Jewish concept of mazzikim—what we might call a mid-tier ghost or demon that, within the confines of the film, feeds off the pain of mortals. There’s more to unpack there as far as the real-world lore goes, but here we just know the entity is malevolent. We join Yakov (Dave Davis), a young Jewish man who left a more devout lifestyle and community following tragic events. He struggles with money and mental health, so when someone from his old life shows up with $500 and asks him to perform shomer duties (a Jewish tradition whereupon someone must sit with a newly dead body through the first night following the death to protect a departing soul from evil forces). Yakov reluctantly agrees, but creepy stuff ensues as something begins stalking him, toying with his mental illness and forcing him to question his own sanity and beliefs.
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The Vigil scores major points in the lighting, pacing and atmosphere departments. Much of the film takes place in one living room. The house, where the deceased Rubin Litvak (Ronald Cohen) lived with his wife (Lynn Cohen), is oppressively dark and unsettling, and numerous lamps fail to cast light beyond their own immediate vicinity. It seems Rubin may have brought something with him back from the Buchenwald concentration camp following WWII, and Mrs. Litvak roaming the halls and popping up now and again doesn’t help. Somehow worse, the being begins assuming the voice or appearance of those Yakov trusts and tries to reach by phone for help. No, thanks. Davis is a wonder in the darkness, all pins and needles and pained expressions driven not only by the imminent ghost peril, but haunted by the tragedy which shook his faith (no spoilers). Carrying a film on one’s own is hard work, doing it with minimal dialogue seems even harder. And so it goes, with Yakov jumping at each new discovery that appears throughout the longest night ever and Davis’ masterful performance keeping us rapt. As debuts go, Thomas excels in most areas. There’s a high bar of entry here for those unfamiliar with Jewish traditions or stories—and even for those with a passing knowledge. It would have been nice to dig deeper into those ideas, though perhaps there’s something to be said about the thing you don’t know being the scariest thing of all. Still, the language of scares is fairly universal, and The Vigil’s most intense moments are almost always its most unique. Here’s hoping Thomas keeps going with horror and here’s hoping any fans of the genre don’t skip this one, even if it’s not the scariest movie ever. (ADV) Amazon, PG-13, 89 min.
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ACUPUNCTURE ARIES (March 21-April 19): Playwright August Strindberg (1849–1912) was a maverick innovator who loved to experiment with plot and language. One of his stories takes place in a dream and the hero is the Christ-like daughter of a Vedic god. He once said that he felt “an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.” Given your current astrological potentials, Aries, I suspect that might be an apt motto for you right now. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. There’s no need for you to become a savage. In fact, it’s better if you don’t. But the coming weeks will definitely be a good time to start creating a new world.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are affirmations that will serve you well in the coming days. 1. “I am willing to make mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.” 2. “I am grateful that I’m not as judgmental as all the shortsighted, self-righteous people.” 3. “I assume full responsibility for my actions, except those that are someone else’s fault.” 4. “A good scapegoat is as welcome as a solution to the problem.” APRIL FOOL! All the preceding affirmations are total bunk! Don’t you dare use them. Use these instead: 1. “I enjoy taking responsibility for my actions.” 2. “Rather than indulging in the reflex to blame, I turn my attention to fixing the problem.” 3. “No one can make me feel TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Who says all Tauruses are gentle, risk-avoidant, sensible, and reliable? Taurus something I don’t want to feel.” 4. “I’m free from believing in the images people have of me.” author Mary MacLane (1861–1929), known as the “Wild Woman of Butte, Montana,” authored shocking, SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to author scandalous books. In I Await the Devil’s Coming, she Kahlil Gibran, “If we were all to sit in a circle and contestified, “I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not fess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of generous. I am merely a creature of intense passionate originality.” But I challenge you Scorpios to refute that feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me theory in the coming days. For the sake of your sanity like fire.” Can I convince you, Taurus, to make her your and health, you need to commit highly original sins— role model for the coming weeks? APRIL FOOL! I the more, the better. APRIL FOOL! I lied. Save your don’t think you should be EXACTLY like MacLane. novel, imaginative sinning for later. The truth is that Please leave out the part about “I am not good. I am now is an excellent time to explore the joyous and not virtuous. I am not generous,” as well as the “I healthy practice of being extremely virtuous. Imitate await the devil’s coming” part. But yes, do be a crea- author Susan Sontag: “My idolatry: I’ve lusted after ture of intensely passionate feeling. Let your feelings goodness. Wanting it here, now, absolutely, increasingly.” be your genius, burning in you like a fire. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming months GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poet Emily Dickinson had a would be a great time to start your own university and good sense of humor, so she was probably making a wry then award yourself a PhD in Drugless Healing or joke when she wrote, “The lovely flowers embarrass me. Mathematical Reincarnation or Political They make me regret I am not a bee.” But who knows? Metaphysics—or any other subject you’d like to be Maybe Emily was being a bit sincere, too. In any case, I considered an expert in. Hey, why not give yourself advise you to make a list of all the things you regret not three PhDs and call yourself a Professor Emeritus? being—all the qualities and assets you wish you had, but APRIL FOOL! I’m just joking. The coming months will don’t. It’s a favorable time to wallow in remorse. APRIL indeed be an extremely favorable time to advance your FOOL! I was totally lying! In fact, I hope you will do the education, but with real learning, not fake credentials. reverse: Engage in an orgy of self-appreciation, celeCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): After his Nirvana brating yourself for being exactly who you are. bandmate Kurt Cobain committed suicide, Capricorn CANCER (June 21-July 22): Provocation specialist Lydia drummer Dave Grohl was depressed for months. To Lunch is a singer and poet who’s skilled at generating cheer himself up, he wrote and recorded an album’s interesting mischief. She testifies, “My daily existence is a worth of songs, playing almost all the instruments himbattlecade of extreme fluctuations where chaos clobbers self: drums, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, and vocals. apathy, which beats the s--- out of depression which fol- I think you should try a similar spectacularly heroic solo lows irritability which slams into anger which eclipses task in the coming weeks. APRIL FOOL! I lied. Here’s ecstasy which slips through my fingers far too often.” In my true and actual advice: Now is a time when you the coming weeks, Cancerian, I recommend you adopt should gather all the support and help and cooperation her melodramatic approach to living the intense life. you can possibly garner for an interesting project. APRIL FOOL! I lied. Please don’t be like Lydia Lunch in AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Argentine poet Alejandra the near future. On the contrary: Cultivate regal elePizarnik told her psychoanalyst León Ostrov that if she gance, sovereign poise, and dynamic equanimity. were going to steal something, it would be “the façade LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1692, a Swedish man named of a certain collapsed house in a little town called Thiess of Kaltenbrun was put on trial for being a were- Fontenay-aux-Roses [near Paris].” What was so special wolf. He claimed to be a noble werewolf, however. He about this façade? Its windows were made of “magical” said he regularly went down to Hell to do holy combat lilac-colored glass that was “like a beautiful dream.” In against the Devil. I suggest you make him your inspiraaccordance with astrological omens, I invite you, too, to tional role model in the coming weeks. Be as weird as decide what marvel you would steal—and then go steal you need to be in order to fight for what’s good and it! APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. Yes, definitely decide what right. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. What I really meant to you would steal—it’s important to give your imagination say was: Be as weird as you need to be to fight for permission to be outrageous—but don’t actually steal it. what’s good and right, but without turning into a werewolf, zombie, vampire, or other supernatural monster. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’ve never understood the appeal of singer-songwriter Morrissey, especially since VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): ❝I want to hear raucous he began endorsing bigoted far-right politicians. music, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery However, I want to recommend that you adopt the attiBenedictine,” wrote author Anais Nin. “Beautiful tude he once expressed in a letter to a friend. “It was a women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in terrible blow to hear that you actually worked,” he me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know wrote. “It’s so old-fashioned to work. I’d much rather perverse people, to be intimate with them. I want to lounge about the house all day looking fascinating.” Be bite into life.❝ All that sounds like perfect counsel for like that in the coming weeks, Pisces! APRIL FOOL! I you to consider right now, dear Virgo! APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, you’d be making a silly mistake to lie around lied. Nin’s exuberant testimony might be an interestthe house looking fascinating. It’s a highly favorable ing perspective to flirt with—if the COVID-19 virus time for you to find ways to work harder and smarter. had been completely tamed. But it hasn’t. So I must instead suggest that you find ways to express this Homework: Send the secrets you could only tell a lively, unruly energy in safe and sublimated ways. stranger. FreeWillAstrology.com
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF EVELYN KATE FRANCES ROMERO AKA FRANCES MARTINEZ AKA FRANCES E MARTINEZ Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00556 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 Evelyn Kate Frances Romero, AKA Frances Martinez, AKA Frances E. Martinez will apply to the Honorable Maria Sanchez-Gagne, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:10 a.m. on the 27th day of April, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Evelyn Kate Frances Romero, AKA Frances Martinez, AKA Frances E. Martinez to Frances Evelyn Romero. Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Jill Nohl Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Frances E. Martinez Petitioner, Pro Se
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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUP: Art-making, group discussions, and sharing of your queer experience in a validating, intersectional, and inclusive setting. Facilitated by Hope Hayes and Sam Haid, art therapy interns via Zoom through Tierra Nueva Counseling Center. Ages 18 and up. Thursdays, 7:00-8:30pm. Can join on any week, but must register first by calling 505-471-8575. $10/session, sliding scale. TIERRA NUEVA COUNSELING CENTER: We have openings for new clients to work with our student therapists (sliding scale fee of $25 per session) via telehealth, Zoom, or phone. We can also see a limited number of clients in person following all CDC and state guidelines for health and cleanliness. Please call 505-471-8575 to complete a request for services or for more information.
New Mexico Post #1 He was a Military Man, spit shined shoes and a military tan. No one has heard the band of this marching military man. No one here has heard him say why he walks the street of Santa Fe. A Sargent, a General, a Paratrooper too. A twinkle, a quick step and a tear in his eye. Who's to question, who's to blame? This son of country gone insane. Even heroes cry. Hoorah - Gallo, Sargent at Arms The American Legion cares for its own, we Help many civic organizations and people in need. We like many organizations, are stressed by this plague. We would appreciate any help. To Donate: NMPOST1.COM
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF ELE KADE MONROE Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00583 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 Ele Kade Monroe 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 10:30 a.m. on the 30th day of April, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Ele Kade Monroe to Ele Kade Mackrain Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Desiree Brooks Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Ele Kade Monroe Petitioner, Pro Se
1ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Calilah Ananda Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00636 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, the Petitioner Calilah Ananda will apply to the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the 1st Judicial District at the Santa Fe County District Court, 225 Montezuma, Santa Fe, 87501 at 10:45 a.m. on the 30th day of April, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Calilah Ananda to Calilah Truelove. By: Leticia Cunningham Kathleen Vigil, Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Calilah Ananda Petitioner, Pro Se
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF EVELYN BELTRAN Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00649 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 Evelyn Beltran 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 9:45 a.m. on the 26th day of April, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Evelyn Beltran to Evelyn Dominguez Beltran. Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Desiree Brooks Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Evelyn Beltran Petitioner, Pro Se
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF EMILY BELTRAN Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00650 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 Evelyn Beltran will apply to the Honorable Maria Sanchez-Gagne, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:10 a.m. on the 4th day of May, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Emily Beltran to Emily Dominguez Beltran. Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Desiree Brooks Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Emily Beltran Petitioner, Pro Se
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF LOUIS RAYMONDO BERNADINO APODACA Case No.: D-101-CV-2021-00474 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 Louis Raymondo Bernadino Apodaca will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 3:00 p.m. on the 19th day of April, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Louis Raymondo Bernadino Apodaca to Gina Apodaca. Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Bernadette Hernandez Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Gina Apodaca Petitioner, Pro Se
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEIRDRE HALLARAN LEBOUTILLIER, Deceased. No. D-101-PB-2021-00066 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MEGAN LEBOUTILLIER has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the Personal Representative in care of Karen Aubrey, Esq., Aubrey Law Firm, LLC, Post Office Box 8435, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435, or filed with the First Judicial District Court, Santa Fe County Judicial Complex, Post Office Box 2268, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2268. Dated: March 24, 2021. AUBREY LAW FIRM, LLC By: /s/ KAREN AUBREY P. O. Box 8435 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435 (505) 982-4287; facsimile (505) 986-8349 ka@karenaubreylaw.com
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