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COVER, DECEMBER 7: “SO LONG, FAREWELL”

MOURNING CONTINUES It’s impossible to say what we feel when we care for the world that gave birth to our species, and what we’re doing to it. How it feels to be part of the species that is doing this magnitude of damage. It’s nightmarish, like dreaming of being behind the wheel of a car that is running over the mother or child you adore, again and again. In the instant it begins, it is already unbearable.

But then it repeats, and repeats with every ignored headline.

I read in the local paper today a letter to the editor. The writer wanted all the Dakota Pipeline protestors rounded up, jailed and forced to pay reparations to the oil company and its investors. Reparations.

From the Indians. For trying to prevent further degradation and certain pollution of the aquifer, when we have alternatives.

It’s Hitchcockian, the grief and sense of helpless rage. To love something so much—have you seen the sunset, the contrast between the aspens and the blue sky filling the space around them, the blue of the piñon jays, the openness of whales approaching tourist boats in Baja?—and to see members of your own species destroying them, as if trampling the Mona Lisa with muddy boots. It’s beyond comprehension.

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FEELINGS FOR FIDEL I agree with Juan Bacigalupi. Of all the human rights atrocities on the island of Cuba, by and large the United States is the worst offender with their interrogation prison at Guantanamo Bay. Castro’s government may have killed and imprisioned people, but they also drastically reduced illiteracy within the rural inhabitants of the island nation, created more doctors per capita than any other country and helped revolutions in countries like Nicaragua and the Congo. Not a perfect political leader but certainly a fighter for freedom from Imperialist powers and injustice the world over.

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NEWS, DECEMBER 7: “RUFFLED BY RAFFLES”

THIRD-PARTY DEAD ENDS As a student at SFUAD, I have no clue what is going on. Not really. I get all my information about the transfer from third-party sources. ... I don’t know how biased these sources are. It is hard to know what to believe. I am receiving no information from the school. Finding any information about Raffles as a company is nearly impossible.

There is nothing about them, and their US subsidiary they are using to buy the school, Joshua Education, basically didn’t exist until August 2016, so no information there. I keep finding more dead-ends rather than answers.

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MUSIC, DECEMBER 7: “DIY TILL WE DIE”

LOOK TO THE TOWN At risk of sounding insufferably establishmentarian, it’s also about demanding effectiveness and accountability

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Evidence on Ice Santa Fe PD is ahead in processing rape kits—because they already cleaned out a freezer full of them

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he trouble started with a freezer, and the question of just what could be done to get rid of it and open up some space at the Santa Fe Police Department headquarters. Someone cracked the door, and found materials tied to about 100 sexual assault cases. Evidence dated back to 1975, and included anything cops thought might someday be useful in solving the crime. In a pre-DNA era, that net was cast widely.

“We had some strange things in this freezer,” says Lieutenant Michelle Williams, who worked with SFPD spearheading the project. “We had frozen high heels, frozen bed sheets.”

The effort to clean out the freezer led to the police department spending a year and a half, starting in January 2014, with seven officers processing 313 sexual assault evidence kits to ship to the state forensic lab, coming in and out of the task on top of handling every other robbery, stabbing, domestic violence case, homicide and incoming sexual assault report.

The DNA evidence that emerged has already helped to solve cases, and has linked one to another.

A DNA profile from a 1985 case links Susan LaPorte’s murderer to a rape in Bernalillo County within six months of her death. They don’t yet have a name for the assailant, but changes to the statute of limitations now allow for prosecuting those cases even if they’re decades old.

This work meant that, in December 2015, when State Auditor Tim Keller’s office surveyed law enforcement agencies about the number of sexual assault evidence packages, or rape kits, stored in their evidence rooms, Santa Fe’s count was just 10, and they likely weren’t more than a few months old. Checking back in six months later, the state auditor found zero.

The auditor’s statewide assessment of the issue, however, found more than 5,440 untested kits, a number that ranks New Mexico top in the nation for per capita backlog with almost double the rate seen in the next worst state, Michigan. Seventy-three percent of untested kits were found in Albuquerque—some 3,948—while northwestern New Mexico, including Santa Fe County, had just 11 percent as of December 2015. By November of this year, just 2 percent of kits were in this region.

The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department, according to the auditor’s office, had 203 untested kits in December 2015, and just 22 in July 2016. The department spokesman refused to comment on the report.

“We saw this happen all over the state where once the audit started, the local law enforcement agencies started sending batches of the kits to the crime lab,” says Justine Freeman, with the auditor’s office. “They had the kits for a long time, and then with the power of

forced to leave their jobs, the report continues.

Therefore, apparent non-cooperation or nonavailability is “not an appropriate reason to ter terminate an investigation.”

The pattern also suggests a disconnect with the research on the rate at which sex sexual assaults are falsely reported, which the National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women pegs at 2 to 8 percent, a rate similar to other crimes.

“When we, as a society, believe victims when they speak of their ex experiences, kits will not sit untested in evidence rooms,” the report states.

The investigation also finanidentified a lack of finan cial resources and a lack of handling systems for the evidence as contributing to the problem. “While guns, drugs and money tend to be subject to specialized handling procedures,” the report states, “[sexual assault evidence] kits do not.”

“We would like to see overpolicies implemented to over come the issue with victims and we would like to see leaders step up and allocate resources for this issue because it’s a public safety issue for everyone,” Freeman says.

The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded the New Mexico Department of Public Safety a grant worth almost $2 million on Sept. 26 as part of a nationwide initiative to address the backlog of untested sexual assault kits and aid in following any leads that might emerge from testing them. The state Legislature also appropriated $1.2 million to the State Forensic Lab to assist with processing old kits and staying on track with new kits as they come in. But that’s not enough money. Processing all untested kits just in Albuquerque will cost $7 million.

“We are hopeful that, because of the light that’s shining on this issue right now, that those kits will continue to be sent in in a more timely manner,” Freeman says.

While the news that New Mexico holds the highest per capita backlog in the nation was disheartening, it’s one of the only states that’s done an audit of this nature.

“I think that’s one way that New Mexico can lead even though we’re behind in the rankings,” Freeman says.

One in every four women and one in every 20 men will experience at least an attempted sexual assault.

Children constitute 65 percent of victims, and people with disabilities 27 to 32 percent of victims.

A kit is more than evidence. From the report: “Each kit is a story of both trauma and courage. Each kit represents a person who subjected their body to search and examination in order to increase the chances that the community might become safer. Each kit may become a tool for investigation, for prosecution, or even for exoneration.”

We are hopeful that, because of the light that’s shining on this issue right now, that those kits will continue to be sent in in a more timely manner.

-Justine Freeman, Deputy Chief of Staff, New Mexico State Auditor’s Office

sunshine and transparency, they started sending the kits in … to the state crime lab.”

That’s where those kits sit now: swabs from the victim’s body, clothes, blood and urine samples, and photographs waiting for analysis. The oldest sent in this wave has gone untested for more than 20 years.

State law requires testing every kit as a police report is filed. Why more than 5,000 kits weren’t sent a decade or more ago wasn’t always documented, but in a sample set where auditors conducted deeper review, for those kits for which a reason was given, over half were set aside because of the officers’ assessments of the credibility of, cooperation from or contact with the victim.

“These statistics are particularly troubling because they suggest a failure to understand the realities of sexual assault victims,” the auditor’s report states.

Sexual assault victims are more likely to contemplate suicide, experience depression and PTSD, and to abuse alcohol and drugs, and up to half quit or are

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wo New Mexico Department of Health employees secretively pledged thousands of dollars to a Santa Fe medical cannabis producer applicant that was eventually awarded a license by their own agency last year.

SFR reported in March that the department’s then-staff attorney Michal Hayes was listed on the board of directors for Shift Cannabis New Mexico/ Keyway, Inc. A new investigation uncovered that she was not only the board secretary, but a silent investor.

The department’s chief privacy officer and records custodian Daniel Jacobs also guaranteed money for the startup.

Members of the application scoring team were aware of the roles Jacobs and Hayes had in the proposed nonprofit’s license application, public records show, and most of them affirmed in writing that they had no qualms about their colleagues’ conflicts of interest until after the firm was named a semifinalist in the competitive process.

For his part, Jacobs refused to release public documents outlining the duo’s financial interests. Those records only saw daylight after the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government and this reporter filed a lawsuit in July 2015 and the department ultimately changed its internal confidentiality rules in February.

Just days before a May 1, 2015, filing deadline that drew 86 applications from across New Mexico, Jacobs, Hayes and her husband, Santa Fe attorney James Hayes, organized Bootstrap Capital—a private equity investment firm—at the Secretary of State’s Corporation Bureau. The trio pledged $50,000 to fund Shift Cannabis New Mexico, a shared management company, founded by Santa Fe attorney Matthew Clarke, who is also Keyway Inc.’s executive director. The documents outlining the deal are part of 85,000 pages of redacted information the department forked over in April.

Neither Jacobs nor Hayes agreed to talk to SFR about their involvement or explain why Clarke, who also refused to return our phone calls, asked them to put up their personal money (about 12 percent of the firm’s total capital) right before the application deadline.

It’s also unclear why they waited to disclose their financial interests with their supervisors before Keyway’s application material was evaluated, scored and eventually ranked fifth-highest by co-workers.

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Health Secretary-designate Lynn Gallagher, who served on the application evaluation team while she was deputy secretary, tells SFR that Hayes and Jacobs told their bosses only after Keyway was named a semifinalist.

Their conflict, Gallagher insists, was cured when Jacobs was ordered to divest and Hayes transferred to the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department.

Documents also show that the pair signed affidavits swearing they took no action to influence Keyway’s application score. But

that justification does not sit well with other groups whose applications didn’t make the final cut.

Karen DeSoto, who filed a lawsuit in state district court after her application to set up a dispensary in Grants was rejected, says Keyway should have been determined ineligible for a license.

“Keyway had an inside advantage and that undermines the integrity of the licensure process,” says DeSoto. “Even if the employees didn’t seek any special treatment, it is impossible for their co-workers not to give them higher marks. It’s just human nature.”

In fact, Andrea Sundberg, a medical cannabis program coordinator who regularly interacts with Jacobs on hundreds of public record requests, awarded a perfect score to Keyway for its quality assurance plan— a primary board role listed for Jacobs in the group’s 1,200+ page application.

DeSoto also questions why red flags were not raised before Keyway was named a semifinalist in September 2015 since Hayes and Jacobs’ names, resumes, personal statements, health department positions, state emails and work phone numbers were clearly visible to evaluators in Keyway’s paperwork.

Gallagher, who was named interim cabinet secretary after Retta Ward died in March, insists the evaluation process was fair since it was open to anyone who wanted to apply. “No one reviewed the applications beforehand, so that was kept separately, and then the cabinet secretary [Ward] made her decision based on her criteria and her review.”

Gov. Susana Martinez, who has publicly said that everyone in her administration “should uphold the highest level of ethical conduct,” declined to comment for the story. A spokesman referred SFR back to the health department.

Records there show that Hayes and Jacobs dissolved Bootstrap Capital a few weeks after Keyway was named a finalist. Hayes’ husband reorganized it under his name alone.

More than a year after being named a finalist, Keyway is still not open to registered patients.

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NEW MEXICO SEES ONE HIGH-PROFILE CHILD ABUSE DEATH AFTER THE NEXT, BUT OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN AREN’T GETTING ANY BETTER

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n a winter afternoon nearly five years ago, a 3-year-old child showed up at the emergency room at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. He arrived unconscious and vomiting, covered in bruises.

Those who follow the evening news remember the facts, but only two people know the full story.

Leland Valdez’ mother, Tabetha Van Holtz, and her then-boyfriend, Steven Gallegos, drove the boy down to the hospital from Pojoaque. They claimed he fell out of a chair and hit his head while eating chicken noodle soup.

Doctors immediately cast suspicion on the couple’s tale. Leland had cuts and bruises on his face, legs, stomach, back and groin area. Some were fresh.

Others had partially healed. The injuries appeared to have been inflicted over time, pointing to abuse rather than an accident. Physicians called the police. Sheriff’s deputies arrested Van Holtz and Gallegos later that night on charges of child abuse.

Leland, meanwhile, rode a helicopter to University Hospital in Albuquerque. He held on for two days before succumbing to his injuries on January 26, 2011. A medical examiner later determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head and neck.

Newspapers and local TV stations ran photos of Leland wearing a smile and huge sunglasses. Another snapshot shows him sporting a blue suit vest, tie and pocket square, his elbow resting on an armchair. Leland’s obituary noted his love for sailing, bike riding, skiing and his older sister. His funeral was conducted in private.

The court, as it does, moved slowly towards justice. Gallegos pleaded guilty in 2014 to two counts of intentional child abuse, one of which led to Leland’s death. He is currently serving a 21-year prison sentence at Guadalupe County Correctional Facility.

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Van Holtz pleaded guilty to the same charges four months later and received a nine-year sentence including two years probation. She walked out of prison in September after about a year and a half behind bars, freed on time served and good behavior.

Leland’s death set off a chain reaction familiar to New Mexicans: a series of promises and finger-pointing that repeats itself when children die horrific deaths. The players change, but outcomes for children don’t get any better.

State officials and journalists wasted no time finding culpability among cops and caseworkers who came across Leland before that fateful morning.

Governor Susana Martinez, just a few weeks into her first term at the time, got personally involved in Leland’s case. She fed a scoop to the media: Protective services workers from the Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) came across Leland’s case earlier that year. An investigator visited with the boy after his father reported substantial bruising on his body. Leland allegedly told his father, “Mommy hit me.” But after interviewing the child, the investigator couldn’t determine who caused the injuries. His supervisor closed the case.

That supervisor got fired. The investigator was put on 14 days of administrative leave. Santa Fe County Sheriff Robert Garcia told The New Mexican his office “screwed up” when it became clear that one of his deputies previously interviewed Leland after an abuse allegation, but did not forward his findings to the district attorney’s office.

Leland’s estate settled a wrongful death lawsuit with Santa Fe County in October for $450,000. Reflecting on the case now, Garcia says the officer’s failure to pass on information went against department policy at the time.

“The protocol has always been in place, but that initial report never went forward,” he tells SFR. CYFD underwent an internal investigation. Former State Sen. Mary Jane Garcia, a Democrat from Doña Ana, introduced four bills related to child abuse that session. “A good analysis, a good critical analysis of the agency is desperately needed,” said Martinez in an interview with The New Mexican one week after Leland’s death.

Over the next couple years an average of nine children died of homicide each year, 47 percent of whom were killed by the mother’s partner.

Thousands more have endured

mer on the monster who committed this murder,” she said.

Two months later, Martinez placed the death penalty on the agenda for a special Legislative session intended to address New Mexico’s budget crisis. The proposal, along with two other crime bills, did not pass.

Leland Valdez’ death in 2011 sparked promises of reform, but child well-being in the state has only gotten worse since then, according to the Annie E Casey Foundation.

Four months after Omaree’s death, the governor held a press conference announcing a host of reforms at CYFD. She focused on improving cooperation between police and caseworkers.

The CYFD and Public Safety secretaries stood by the governor’s side as she pushed for more child advocacy centers, where law enforcement and protective services work together.

Omaree’s death also preceded a foster home population boom from 1,872 to 2,156 over a fiscal year. Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, a former social worker who once headed protective services for the state, says that increase signals a switch in policy to err on the side of removing children from their family.

That’s not true, says Secretary Jacobson, who moved to the position in 2014 after heading the Tourism Department. She points to an increase in calls around the same period. (While CYFD field workers substantiate cases of abuse, custody is ultimately the terrain of the courts.)

This summer, a 10-year-old girl named Victoria Martens died in Albuquerque after unspeakable horrors that involved forced drug use, beatings and repeated rape.

Sen. Michael Padilla, a Democrat from the same city, called for another investigation of the agency. Gov. Martinez held another press conference.

“Justice should come down like a ham-

I remember being an investigator and going, It’s Christmas. Thank God. We’re going to get a break. Not anymore.

-Angela Teertstra, former CYFD worker

Angela Teertstra supervised protective services fieldworkers in Albuquerque at the time of Omaree’s death. She tells SFR that immediately after, police started practicing extra caution when they came across potential abuse, referring more cases to her office.

That caution rippled to CYFD as well. Teertstra’s superiors instructed her to review a backlog of cases in which a family received three or more referrals, whether substantiated or not.

Teertstra took time away from her team to sort through files, creating more work for herself and her fieldworkers.

“The intention was good, but the resources weren’t there,” she says.

Plagued by burnout and huge caseloads, CYFD has continually struggled to keep fieldworkers. Lawmakers took note of the agency’s troubles during the last two legislative sessions, allocating more than $3 million for new positions.

That’s a modest increase for an a general fund appropriation that grew from $200 to $240 million during the Martinez administration.

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“Child protection is trapped in a cycle of scandal and reform,” wrote Harvard-based historian Jill Lepore in February, tracing the evolution of American attitudes towards child welfare policy for The New Yorker.

Lepore described a “pendulum” of policy, swinging between separation and restoration of families involved with protective services.

New Mexico is no exception.

In recent years, high-profile child deaths have prompted proposals to overhaul CYFD and enact tough-oncrime legislation.

We remember the children’s names.

They become laws, like 18-month-old Brianna Lopez, who died in Las Cruces in 2003 after physical and sexual abuse by family members. The Legislature passed Baby Brianna’s law two years later, making child abuse resulting in death for kids under the age of 12 a first-degree felony punishable by life in prison. Brianna’s name resurfaced this fall, when Republican legislators attempted to extend that law to people who kill children under the age of 18.

CYFD secretary Monique Jacobson spoke in support of the proposal.

The beating death of 9-year-old Omaree Varela by his own mother in 2013 led to an exhaustive review of CYFD, which had previously investigated nine allegations of abuse against the child. One Albuquerque police officer got the boot after it was revealed he failed to listen to a 20-minute 911 recording from Omaree’s household that captured two adults verbally abusing the young child.

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abuse and neglect. The child victim rate in New Mexico rose nearly eight points from 2011 to 2015, before seeing a slight dip this year. And the state dropped from 46th to 49th in the nation for overall child well-being, according to the annual Kids Count Data Book from the Annie E Casey Foundation.

Just last month, a Santa Fe boy named Ares Baroz arrived at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center with a fractured skull and bleeding brain. The toddler died a few days later at University Hospital in the same wing where Leland breathed his final breath.

A neurologist noted that Ares’ brain showed signs he had been shaken before. His mother claimed to have found him unresponsive in his crib, one of the only pieces of furniture in the home. Prosecutors charged the mother with two counts of child abuse.

His father was already locked up in Colorado on unrelated charges.

Despite more children entering foster care, CYFD secretary Monique Jacobson did not request any new funds for the next fiscal year.

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in June remained below target levels, as it has for at least five fiscal years.

“Unless turnover rates are reduced additional [positions] will not impact caseloads as significantly,” a report from the Legislative Finance Committee noted.

Teertrstra tells SFR that caseload got worse during her tenure, from 2004 through this August. She left the agency to spend more time with her son.

“When I started as an investigator, you could go out and refer them to services. Now, all they’re doing now is investigating safety. That’s all they have time for. It’s not manageable. That’s why people leave,” she says. “I remember being an investigator and going, It’s Christmas. Thank God. We’re going to get a break. Not anymore. It’s steady.”

Starting in the mid-2000s, CYFD loosened hiring restrictions, recruiting from outside the state’s pool of licensed social workers, opening up eligibility to recent college grads with related degrees, like psychology or education.

Teertstra said that change also contributed to the turnover.

“If you come from a middle class family, it’s hard not to judge someone based on your values. It’s unfortunate people leave before they get it,” she adds. “It’s just really hard. The caseloads are high. The media, the people.

People’s perspective of CYFD is hard to deal with.”

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New Mexico needs to shift its thinking about child welfare if it’s going to prevent abuse on a large scale, says Krisztina Ford, CEO of All Faiths, an Albuquerque outpatient therapy organization that runs the largest forensic interview station for child abuse victims in the state. Children who come through her doors usually live in poor households.

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abuse. Domestic violence. Hunger,” she says. “When you look at these families, they have multiple stress factors. They are not sitting on a couch, deciding that night they will abuse their kids.”

She says outsized attention on highprofile abuse distracts from deep, systemic problems impacting outcomes for children: “We all want to do something in the moment. We all want to make it good—buy a teddy bear. But we really need to demand better systems.”

Home visiting, programs that send caseworkers to check in with new mothers for a period after birth, is part of that system. So is preschool and childcare. New Mexico has invested in all three—and spending on those programs has slowly increased over the past few years.

CYFD in April also expanded eligibility for childcare assistance to families within 200 percent of the poverty line, a bump up from 150 percent. (That number has fluctuated for decades between 100 and 200, depending on the economy.)

While most state agencies took a 5 percent cut during the October budget session, CYFD went unscathed. In fact, the agency received an additional $1.5 million, about a .6 percent increase from the beginning of the fiscal year.

Jacobson plans to spend the new dollars on expanding pre-K access to 3-year-olds (right now 4 is the minimum age requirement) and home visiting for babies that leave from neonatal intensive care units.

Advocates say that isn’t nearly enough. Sen. Ortiz y Pino says there should be mandated home visiting for Medicaid recipients. “A lot of these families have no idea how to parent,” he tells SFR, suggesting that the state draw more dollars from the permanent fund to cover the costs.

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Jess Clark of the Solace Center says child sex abuse prevention has moved away from looking out for the “creepy man in the van” to education about the whole community’s role.

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It can’t just be the purview of CYFD to ensure the welfare of our children, advocates say. Everyone needs to step up.

Jess Clark, the education and prevention manager at Solace Crisis Treatment Center, teaches a sexual abuse awareness program funded by the Department of Health. He takes his lessons to middle schools and fourth grade classrooms.

In the past, when we talked about sexual abuse, we focused on the “creepy man in the van,” Clark says. “But children are clear about strangers. What they’re less clear about is the people in their lives, the people they trust.”

Solace’s education programming now aims to foster stronger community awareness of the potential signs for abuse. “When we portray the adults who hurt children as sick, we place them in this other category. When we do that we deny our own responsibility in preventing abuse,” Clark says.

Near Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, a charter school called Health Leadership High School primarily serves disadvantaged students. Jeanette Paiz teaches a night class there. Her students range in age from 16 to 24 and many of them have children themselves.

In keeping with the school’s philosophy of learning through “hands-on

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slack, says Kim Strauss, the manager of the Brindle Foundation. His organization helped the City of Santa Fe pay for a study on how a soda tax could create about $10 million for pre-K education.

Mayor Javier Gonzales announced the idea in October.

“We’re more and more convinced that the state is not as able to do that as local communities are,” Strauss says.

“If leadership is local, there is a better chance community-by-community to improve the opportunities for young children and families. The state is complicated. It’s broke.”

Even so, Jacobson, CYFD secretary, did not suggest any cuts or request any new funds during a hearing with the Legislative Finance Committee last week. “We view as our job to convince the Legislature we are spending these dollars the smart way,” she tells SFR. But with a budget on the brink and revenue projections down, CYFD could still find itself on the chopping block.

Rep. Jimmie Hall, a Republican from Albuquerque, told her, “We’re asking for your help. If we don’t get it, the committee will make recommendations that won’t be good for your department and the core vision of what you have to have.”

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health projects,” the students invited Suzannah Burke, executive director of Peanut Butter and Jelly, a family services organization, to give a demonstration on shaken baby syndrome.

Paiz’ night class developed a lesson based on simulation babies that cry until you shake them violently. They’ll be teaching Health Leadership’s daytime students. “These young people deliver a stronger message than if it comes from an old lady like me,” Paiz says.

Burke points to Paiz’ classroom as an example of a community-minded approach towards child abuse. The state, Burke says, could benefit from the same spirit of cooperation. “What is Public Safety’s role in this? What is the Corrections Department’s role? Human Services Department?” she says.

“Each of those departments owns child development.”

Peanut Butter and Jelly works with families referred by protective services.

On top of that, Burke’s staffers make weekly visits to the city and county jail, addiction clinics and other venues where they may find at-risk parents and children.

One caseworker, Claudia Benavidez, started doing outreach on streets well

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The foster care population boomed after the 2014 death of Omaree Varela.

Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino suggested a more cautious approach to abuse led to the increase, while CYFD Secretary Monique Jacobson said it naturally grew out of more calls to protective services.

trafficked by sex workers. It wasn’t long before medical students joined Benavidez on her walks.

Connected with the right services, parents make tremendous progress. In the last fiscal year, about 60.4 percent of New Mexico children that entered foster care were reunited with their family within 12 months.

Burke says, “The public has to be seeing more than one horrific case after the other. Parents do get better and connect in positive ways and they’re supported in doing that.”

Francesca Duran-Lopez was 16 when she became pregnant with her first son. She was under house arrest in Clovis at the time, awaiting trial.

Three years prior, she had been charged, along with two other girls, for her involvement in the beating and stabbing death of a 13-year-old girl named Regina McCollum. (Prosecu-

tors claimed Duran-Lopez instigated the attack, a claim she denies.)

Duran-Lopez’ sudden pregnancy set off alarm bells for the district judge.

He ruled that she had violated her terms of release by coming into contact with someone outside her family. She pleaded guilty to aggravated battery charges and went to the juvenile lockup in Albuquerque to serve out a two-year sentence. “I wanted to move on and start life with my son,” she says.

Not long after Duran-Lopez arrived at the jail, Burke paid her a visit.

The social worker regularly checks for pregnant women at both the adult and juvenile jails. Burke told Duran-Lopez she wouldn’t qualify for services until her son was born, but promised to return after she became a mother.

“I didn’t trust very easily,” DuranLopez tells SFR. She grew up in a household fraught with alcoholism and domestic violence. “I didn’t believe that Susannah would come back.”

On April 20, 2002, Duran-Lopez gave birth to her son. Not long after, Burke arranged for the boy to live with Duran-Lopez’ mother. Duran-Lopez enrolled in parenting classes and group sessions. Her son made regular visits.

As she developed a relationship with her newborn child, Duran-Lopez also began processing own trauma.

She recalls Burke asking her, “What happened to you, Francesca? What happened to you?”

“That was the first time I met someone who truly cared. People had sat me in courtrooms and made accusations. When I was at Head Start, they said, ‘She’s troubled and she’s bad,’ but no one had ever asked what was going on in that little girl’s home.”

Duran-Lopez was released in 2003.

Her son was a year and three days old.

PB&J set her up with a job at Kmart, and the New Mexico Youth Alliance invited her to sit on its inaugural advisory board. She also started taking classes at UNM, working towards an associate’s degree.

In 2006, PB&J hired Duran-Lopez to work in its therapeutic preschool as a teacher’s assistant. Today, she manages the organization’s five-member home visiting team. But “management” doesn’t do justice to the scope of her work. Duran-Lopez also goes out into the field. She says her past helps her connect with families she serves.

“I don’t always share my stories. I think that families just know. A lot of times, we may share in the Hispanic culture. Many people would say I’m good at it. But, I don’t know, I just want to make sure people feel cared for at the end of the day.”

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THE SECRETS OF THE GARDEN Got a green thumb? You may be interested in Wacky, Weird and Wild: Plant Stories You Don’t Know, a curated compilation of stories heard and experienced by Mollie Parsons and Cristina Salvador of the Santa Fe Botanical Garden.

Salvador says she’d like to encourage all to “be curious about where we are and what we interact with.” The lecture explores the wonders of exotic, carnivorous and even local plants, as well as addressing climate change and food sources. Parsons tells SFR she and Salvador collected stories from local gardeners, which inspired the idea to give plants voices for themselves. (Kim Jones)

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Wacky, Weird and Wild: Plant Stories You Don’t Know: 6 pm Wednesday Dec. 14. Free. Georgia O’Keeffe Education Annex, 123 Grant Ave., 946-1039.

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Of Course, Of Course The artistic power of horsing around of culture I wanted to know.” This has led to relationships with riders near and far, and an expanded appreciation for what can come of the relationships formed by riding. In addition to her upcoming opening at the Beals & Co. Showroom on Canyon Road, Ciminio is in the planning stages of forming an as-of-yet unnamed nonprofit organization that hopes to provide at-risk youth and women with lessons in horsemanship and artistic expression.

“I’d like it to be about providing jobs and opening opportunities to teach life skills through horses,” Cimino tells SFR. “I don’t consider myself religious, but it is most definitely spiritual to be out there; it’s that connection with the landscape. … I feel like what I’m doing is going to be special to someone.”

(Alex De Vore)

BRI CIMINO: BENEATH THE SADDLE 5 pm Saturday Dec. 17. Free.

Beals & Co., 830 Canyon Road, 357-0441

Diné photographer Will Wilson’s AIR, a series of self-portraiture, portrays a post-apocalyptic man who must utilize his auto immune response (AIR) to survive on an Earth destroyed by man. “It’s about reconnecting to the land and the histories of renewable energy and resource extraction,” Wilson says. More specifically, AIR touches on environmental change and its negative effect on Native Americans’ health. Wilson has refined the show since 2004 and says that, given our new presidential administration, now is the right time to exhibit his work in hopes that it can challenge viewers to question the system. (Kim Jones) AIR Opening Reception: 5 pm Friday Dec. 16.

Free. Peters Projects, 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5800.

DANCE GET CRACKIN’ Ballet is always breathtaking, but one can shake it up a little with the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. The company has presented The Nutcracker for 20 years now, and the perennial favorite features all the spectacular brisés and petit jetés you’d expect from its world-class dancers. But, says ASFB marketing manager Jessica Moore, this presentation steps outside the traditional ballet realm to feature sequences of authentic Spanish flamenco, aerial Arabian and Chinese dances as well. The show brings a little dignity to a season that may be overrun with hectic schedules and cranky inlaws, so sit back and enjoy. (Charlotte Jusinski)

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Must one be trained in some sort of official fashion to create meaningful art, or is there an inherent value in natural talent unshackled by institutional methodology? Of course there is, but it doesn’t always mean the art will be worthwhile. Luckily, photographer Bri Cimino leans toward the latter, and that, coupled with a lifelong love of the powerful, majestic equine, has fueled her to create Beneath the Saddle, a new exhibition of photography shot while riding in the Southwest. “I think that being on horseback, being in that perspective, it gives the viewer a chance to see what I’m seeing,” she says.

Cimino has no formal training, but can definitely boast a preternatural compositional eye. Thus, her body of work, mostly black and white, is a gorgeous series that explores the bond between human and horse. So far, Cimino has shot in places like Abiquiu, California, Arizona, Mexico and beyond, though she admits that when she set out to capture these photos she didn’t know she’d wind up traveling. “I realized it would be a good opportunity to learn landscapes, so I asked myself where I would really want to ride, what kind

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THE CALENDAR BOOKS/LECTURES 8TH ANNUAL COLLECTED WORKS HOLIDAY PLAYERS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Local celebs read holiday stories and poems.

6 pm, free BOOK CLUB FOR GROWN UPS Beehive Kids Books 328 Montezuma Ave., 780-8051 The club reads Fates and Furies

by Lauren Groff.

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WED/14 BOOKS/LECTURES BRAINPOWER AND BROWNBAGS Fray Angelico Chavez History Library 110 Washington Ave., 476-5025 Tim Maxwell, director emeritus of the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies, presents a lecture titled “New Mexico Turquoise in Mexico?”

It’s held in the Meem Community Room.

Noon, free SCIENCE CAFÉ: CRISTINA SALVADOR AND MOLLIE PARSONS Georgia O'Keeffe Education Annex 123 Grant Ave., 946-1039 Salvador and Parsons (of the Santa Fe Botanical Garden) tell fun plant stories in "Wacky, Weird and Wild: Plant Stories You Don't Know" (see SFR Picks, page 17).

6 pm, free

DANCE ZUMBA AT THE CLUB Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 For those who require a little more structure to their dance.

6 pm, $10

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Do you have a lot of trivial knowledge? A pub quiz is your chance to show off.

8 pm, free

MUSIC BERT DALTON AND MILO JARAMILLO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classical and Latin jazz.

7 pm, free CS ROCKSHOW La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Did you miss ‘em last night?

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7:30 pm, free DADOU Pizzeria & Trattoria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Enjoy everything from traditional Italian tunes to the Beatles, all on accordion.

6:30 pm, free DAVID GIDEON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana and folk.

8 pm, free DELPHIA Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The solo vocalist performs a selection of soulful pop.

6:30 pm, free GARY VIGIL Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-5531 Such soothing acoustic guitar.

6 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Bar Alto 228 E Palace Ave., 982.0883 Traditional Irish folk music.

6 pm, free LATIN NIGHT WITH DJ DANY Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 If bachata is your thing, Dany is your DJ. 9 pm, $7

DANCE SWING NIGHT Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Remember a few years ago when swing dancing was cool again? Well, it still is.

6:30 pm, $5

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 More than just trivia—a pub quiz. Enjoy the camaraderie.

8 pm, free TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 If you are a board game lover, this is the event for you. Happy hour and healthy competition!

6 pm, free THE MORRIS MINIATURE CIRCUS: RETURN OF THE LITTLE BIG TOP Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 It’s back! Check out 3/8 scale miniature circuses that feature 100,000 handcrafted figurines.

Also, Wise Fool does actualsized circus acts.

1-4 pm, free

MUSIC BUSY McCAROLL Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 McCarroll sounds like every female singer you ever loved, plus a little Tom Waits.

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Flock together for Jhenna Quinn Lewis’ oil paintings. Her show, which includes “The Reference Section,” opens Friday evening at Meyer Gallery.

CS ROCKSHOW La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Good old classic rock from Curry and Springer.

7:30 pm, free COUNTRY NIGHT Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Admit it. You listen to country.

8 pm, $5 DADOU Pizzeria & Trattoria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Enjoy everything from traditional Italian tunes to the Beatles, all on accordion.

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E CLAYTON WEST El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 The frontman of The Soul Deacons does his own soloacoustic thing.

8:30 pm, free HOLIDAY JAZZ CLASSICS WITH SIERRA CHAMPION Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Holiday songs with a jazzy trio.

7 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classical flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free

ROSEDALE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Pop-punk solo act all the way from Canada. He got his start by playing in the parking lot of Warped Tour until he was invited to actually play on a stage. We like that gumption.

8 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano lounge with the best. Grabbing dinner at a great restaurant is nice and all, but classy music makes it all the nicer.

6 pm, free

THU/15 ART OPENINGS RICARDO CATÉ: NEW WORK FROM STANDING ROCK Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Caté, a cartoonist from Santo Domingo Pueblo, has spent significant time at Standing Rock since August (and, for the record, was interviewed there by The Daily Show in September). He presents his newest works inspired by his time with the protest movement.

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THE CALENDAR LILLY PAD LOUNGE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Old-school funk and hip-hop.

10 pm, free LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Belt out your best tune.

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

6 pm, free ROBERT MIRABAL DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Mirabal is known around the globe for his flute playing.

6:30 pm, $25 RON HELMAN TRIO 401 Fine Neighborhood Dining 401 S Guadalupe St., 989-3297 A swanky jazz performance.

6:30 pm, free SOL FIRE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Pop and rock with Latin influence.

8:30 pm, free SONGS OF LIGHT AND ENLIGHTENMENT Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Santa Fe Women's Ensemble performs a set of winter songs.

6:30 pm, $10-$35 TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Binkley tickles the ivories.

6 pm, free

THEATER JACOB MARLEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 This re-telling of the Dickens classic focuses on the late, not-so-great Jacob Marley.

7:30 pm, $20-$25 MARCO POLO SINGS A SOLO Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 A zany play takes place on a Norwegian iceberg and follows a screenwriter looking for a new story to tell about the Italian explorer.

7 pm, $10-$15

FRI/16 ART OPENINGS BREAKING THE BLOCK Community Gallery 201 W Marcy St., 982-0436 Twenty New Mexico artists present how they overcame creative obstacles.

5 pm, free CLAIRE KAHN: PEACEABLE KINGDOM Patina Gallery 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 Jewelry that interprets the shapes and colors surrounding Kahn's studio in the Jemez Mountains. Through Jan. 15.

5 pm, free DOUG HERREN: INFRA-STRUCTURE Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Herren presents vessels, sculptures and tables in this solo exhibit. Through Feb. 11.

5 pm, free JHENNA QUINN LEWIS Meyer Gallery 225 Canyon Road, 983-1434 Lewis’ oil paintings feature birds. Through Dec. 24.

5 pm, free KUKULI VELARDE: PLUNDER ME BABY Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 The works featured in her solo exhibit are inspired by preColombian terracotta figures.

Through Feb. 11.

5 pm, free

WILL WILSON: AIR Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Wilson, a Diné artist, uses self portraits to explore questions about the survival of humanity. Through Feb. 18 (see SFR Picks, page 17).

5 pm, free

DANCE HOLIDAY FLAMENCO SHOW El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Enjoy an evening of passionate dance with a holiday bent.

7:30 pm, $25

EVENTS LAMY LUMINARIA NIGHT Lamy Railroad & History Museum 151 Old Lamy Trail, Lamy, 466-1650 An evening of illumination featuring farolitos, luminarias, music and refreshments.

6 pm, $5 PRE-CHRISTMAS POP-UP SHOW Gallery 403 403 Guadalupe St., 913-9236 Textiles, photography, wood art, masks and more.

5 pm, free WINTER INDIAN MARKET OPENING CELEBRATION La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Get swanky at a special opening featuring food, drinks and live music.

6 pm, $50

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WORKSHOP ESPRESSO CLASSES AT BETTERDAY Betterday Coffee 905 W Alameda St., 780-8059 A class on the art of espresso.

3 pm, $60-$100 NONPROFIT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LEARNING CIRCLE: A YEAR-END GATHERING Santa Fe Community Foundation 501 Halona St., 988-9715 The Santa Fe Community Foundation hosts a gathering for deflation time, peer connection and an eye forward to 2017.

8:30-10:30 am, free

Anthony Hassett’s People Are Terrific is on display at Phil Space through Dec. 30.

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The Gospel According to Jimmy Carter

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

Blind Boys of Alabama keep on spreading the gospel

later. With meager beginnings as children at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind, the Boys set out with a simple ideal: to spread their love of God. “We weren’t thinking about nothing except singing gospel; we weren’t looking for no Grammys and we weren’t looking for no accolades,” Carter says. “But we’re still here, and we’re going to be here until … until …”

And they’ve kept the faith. According to Carter, the

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Blind Boys, now consisting of seven members (three singers and four instrumetalists), have witnessed plenty of defectors who turned to secular music over the years, but they were never in it for the money or the material. “What we’ve seen is many gospel singers who decided to go the other way, and that’s all right. I don’t got nothing against that,” he says. “We were just determined that we were going to do it, no matter how rough the way was.”

This determination has led to dozens of full-length releases, myriad contributions to other artists’ recordings and a healthy number of collaborative projects with heavyweights like Ben Harper, Peter Gabriel and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. Blind Boys also picked up two more Grammy nominations this year for Best Roots Gospel Album and Best American Roots Performance, and Carter says they’re in talks to work with Amazon.com on an album to be released early next year. That’s an awful lot of output, especially for a group with so many decades under their belt. “You just depend on God and you go forward,” Carter says.

Should this pique your interest, Blind Boys of Alabama perform on Tuesday Dec. 20 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. Says Carter, “We have an annual Christmas concert that we do, and this time we’re bringing it to your neck of the woods, so you’re going to hear traditional gospel music along with some of that Christmas music.”

So is there some key to their enduring success? How has this group kept it going for so long and through so many changing musical trends? “Well, you’ve gotta get you a good lifestyle and you’ve gotta rest,” Carter says. “That’s important.

And—and this is not a brag—you’ve gotta admit, those brown boys sure can sing, though.” Amen.

COURTESY THE BAND

ooking back over the history of music, you’d be hard-pressed to name a group with more longevity than celebrated gospel act Blind Boys of Alabama. We’re talking nearly 80 years of true gospel music, from the segregated world of the late 1930s, the navigation of evolving tastes during the 1960s, the advent of popular R&B, soul and rock music and the eventual infiltration of modern popular culture. Blind Boys’ music was even featured during the opening credits from season one of HBO’s critically acclaimed series The Wire (it was a cover of Tom Waits’ “Way Down in the Hole”) and they’ve taken home multiple Grammy wins—good Lord, that’s staying power.

The true magic, however, is in Blind Boys’ ability to reach out beyond the faithful flock and into the secular world, winning fans both religious and not. But to hear founding member Jimmy Carter tell it, he’s never worked a day in his life. Given Carter’s status as living legend, it’s a nerve-wracking phone call to make, but the man is nothing if not ebulliently disarming. That probably comes easy if you love what you do, though. “I don’t consider this a job,” Carter tells me. “I count it as a privilege, and I think that I was called by God to this.”

Of course, Carter, now 87, never imagined he’d be continuing his Does your music group not hang out in a featureless room while wearing matching suits? musical mission so many years

BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA: TALKIN’ CHRISTMAS 7:30 pm Tuesday Dec. 20. $34-$52.

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7:30 pm, $20 DELPHIA Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Soulful pop from a crooning songstress.

6:30 pm, free GERRY CARTHY AND CHRIS ABEYTA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 A blending of traditional Irish, Spanish and New Mexican music with a couple Santa Fe legends.

8 pm, free JESUS BAS Taberna La Boca 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish guitar and vocals to accompany your tapas.

7 pm, free KINETIC FRIDAYS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 The work week’s over. Shake out the bad ones and move your body.

10 pm, $7 LESLIE LIVINGSTON AND DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Enjoy show tunes and holiday faves with this dynamic pair.

6 pm, $2 LONE PIÑON Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Chicano stringband music.

Norteño por vida.

7 pm, free NORTHERN LIGHT Cristo Rey Church 1120 Canyon Road, 983-8528 The Santa Fe Desert Chorale sings lullabies and carols.

8 pm, $25-$80 RECKLESS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Modern and classic country and rock.

7 pm, free RIVER WHYLESS The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, 424-3333 Join the Radio Free Santa Fe Listener Appreciation Party to celebrate the radio station’s 20th anniversary with an acoustic folk rock ensemble.

7:30 pm, $15 SANTA FE ETERNAL SUMMER STRING ORCHESTRA First Presbyterian Church SF 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The ensemble performs Mendelssohn and Grieg.

5:30 pm, free SANTA FE HOUSE COLLECTIVE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 These folks love their house music—do you?

9 pm, $7

SCOTTY & THE ATOMICS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Rockin' jazz and funky blues.

10 pm, $5 SEAN HEALEN BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Local faves play rock ‘n’ roll.

8:30 pm, free STEPHEN PITTS AND FRIENDS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Pitts, of the Mine Shaft’s Open Mic Nights, jams out with some buddies.

5 pm, free THE ALPHA CATS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Swing and jazz.

6 pm, free THE DELBERT ANDERSON TRIO Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Poetry meets funk meets hip-hop and is mixed with trumpet, drums and bass.

8 pm, $5 TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Tucker’s tickling again. The ivories, that is.

6 pm, free

THEATER JACOB MARLEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 We all know about Scrooge, but what if Jacob Marley had the spotlight? Find out in this re-envisioning of the Dickens classic.

7:30 pm, $20-$25 A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS IV Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 The festive show presents live music, carols and comedy.

7 pm, $10

WORKSHOP ESPRESSO CLASSES AT BETTERDAY Betterday Coffee 905 W Alameda St., 780-8059 A class on the art of milk steaming and lattes.

3 pm, $60-$100 JEWELRY WITH DEBRA BAXTER form & concept 435 South Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Learn about jewelry with the Smithsonian-collected artist.

5 pm, free

SAT/17 ART OPENINGS BRI CIMINO: BENEATH THE SADDLE Beals & Co. 830 Canyon Road, 357-0441 Cimino presents a series of photographs illustrating the bond between humans and horses. Through Dec. 31 (see SFR Picks, page 17).

5 pm, free

MEET THE ARTISTS + TRUNK SHOW Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Artists Shelly Johnson and Lori Swartz present collaborative pop art paintings.

3 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES LA FONDA BOOK LAUNCHING PARTY La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Meet the authors of La Fonda: Then & Now, which explores the storied history of the downtown hotel.

3 pm, free STILL HOWLING LAUNCH PARTY Strangers Collective 54 1/2 E San Francisco St., 541-844-6683 Poet and scholar Mary Dezember reads from her book, Still Howling, a clapback to Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl.”

7 pm, free

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Unwind while the flamenco dancers stun with their moves.

6:30 pm, $25 HOLIDAY FLAMENCO SHOW El Flamenco De Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Nothing says “Christmas” like lithe dancers, right?

7:30 pm, $25 THE NUTCRACKER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Embrace the holiday season with this classic ballet performed by a cast of 60 dancers circus members (see SFR Picks, page 17).

2 and 7:30 pm, $25-$94

EVENTS EL MUSEO CULTURAL WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Peruse the weekly market and see folk and tribal art, antiquities, jewelry and more.

8 am, free GEEKS WHO DRINK San Francisco Street Bar and Grill 50 E San Francisco St., 982-2044 Grab a drink and test your knowledge against others.

Who's the brightest crayon in your friend-box? Invite them.

8 pm, free HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE Bullseye Glass 805 Early St., 467-8951 Tasty refreshments and a bunch of local glass artists.

Nothing warms you up like a glory hole.

10 am-5 pm, free HOLIDAY TRAINS Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 An interactive model train exhibit is perfect for kids— and, honestly, adults too.

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Same Old Story Mural on Santa Fe County building inspires conversation on public art

BY J O R DA N E D DY @jordaneddyart

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he mural started to take shape in midNovember, swirling across the face of the Santa Fe County Human Resources building on West Alameda Street. It’s a scene depicting Spanish colonial New Mexico, with figures tilling soil and chopping wood beside a sweeping Southwestern vista. Looming large over the pastoral tableau, a man on horseback points a sword at a seated figure on the ground before him. The character holds a cross in one hand.

Not long after the public art project began, local artist Chris McLean contacted his friend Nina Elder.

“He called me on the phone and said, ‘I live really close to this mural that’s going up. I find it deeply offensive, and I don’t know what to do,’” said Elder. Elder, an Albuquerque artist, is currently enjoying a residency in Oregon, but her previous work in Santa Fe as an activist and arts organizer helped guide her next steps. “I said, ‘Well, I think getting the public involved would be the best way to go,’” she says. “We knew that as a couple of white people, it might not be our place to cry out against it. My goal was to get our Native friends involved and get their voices in the front of the conversation.”

On Nov. 26, Elder posted an image and description of the partly completed mural on Facebook. “We have seen enough of this imagery,” she wrote. “We need to stop glorifying this narrative. How can we confront this inappropriate painting in a very public place?”

The community response was swift and diverse. Some online respondents called for a halt to the project, while others protested against censoring the work and hiding New Mexico’s history. In the comments thread, Elder posted a statement she received from Mayor Javier Gonzales on the issue. “It does seem in an era where we are seeking healing that the mural would depict harmony,” he wrote.

As the comments stacked up, details about the mural came to light. It’s part of a series of public art projects organized by Santa Fe County Teen Court, which pairs up local artists with first-time teen offenders to complete community service hours by beautifying public spaces. The artist who designed the controversial image is Glen T Strock, head pastor of the Pecos Valley Cowboy Church.

The mural is not meant to show a conquistador, as Elder and several online commenters originally assumed. It recounts a story of Tomás Vélez Cachupín, the Spanish colonial governor of New Mexico in the mid-1700s. After a battle between the Spanish settlers and the Comanche, a Native boy brought a cross made of reeds to Cachupín as a plea for mercy. The governor accepted the offering and spared most of the battle’s survivors, kicking off a period of relative stability in the region.

A new mural in the Solana Center is attracting a divisive community reaction.

Strock told Albuquerque news outlet KRQE that the image is meant as a tribute to Cachupín as a “man of peace.” It’s a debatable reading of a historical moment that took place after a bloody conflict with numerous Comanche casualties. When the mural was vandalized on Dec. 2, KRQE returned to the scene and captured Strock defending the piece from county officials who sought to remove the figure on horseback.

“This guy’s a hero, you know?” he told them. “This is a beautiful story of courage.”

Community members have varied perspectives on the mural. Local artist and educator Cristina González, founding chair of the visual arts department at the New Mexico School for the Arts, says that cultural dominance is woven into the very structure of the image. “The whole visual construction of the painting reinforces a Eurocentric model … in a very particular painting tradition,” she says, pointing out the grandiose size and position of Cachupín relative to the Native boy. “Just from a purely formal analysis, that presents a problem. The public will read it in a certain way.”

González just completed a six-year stint with NMSA, which is housed in the historic St. Francis Cathedral School building, and is now a full-time artist. “There are murals in the entryway [of the school] that tell the story of the reconquest,” she says.

“That’s where I noticed it on a daily basis… the degree to which, in sometimes subtle and sometimes not-sosubtle ways, racism and colonialism are perpetuated by visual imagery.”

Jason Martinez currently lives in Omaha, but caught wind of the mural controversy through Elder’s Facebook post. He grew up in New Mexico, and descends from Spanish settlers who came here in the 18th century. “In this picture, I see the Spanish, I see the Mestizos, I see the Natives. I look at it as a whole and say, ‘Yeah, that’s who we are,’” Martinez tells SFR. “There’s a lot of good and a lot of bad, but it is what it is. To deny yourself any part of that history is to deny yourself completely.”

During his career in the US Military, Martinez spent time in Germany. He says seeing World War II-era public art there helped him understand the importance of keeping dark histories visible. “Once you erase what the whole story is, you’re erasing the whole story itself,” he says. “You might be doing it for the sake of protecting people, but you’re actually leading people down that road to forget it. You sterilize it, and desensitize people to it.”

As the debate rages, Teen Court Program Manager Jennifer Romero has been focusing on moving the debate from the mile-a-minute digital sphere and into the real world. She says the project didn’t receive the vetting it should have, partly because they wanted to move forward on the first phase of the mural before winter set in. “I think a big misconception that people had was that [the mural] is going to go up, and that’s just how it is,” she says. “That’s not how we work. We need and invite community input.” This is the 12th mural in the program since its founding in 2009, and Romero says participating artists have shifted imagery before based on community input.

The county held a public meeting at the Santa Fe Art Institute on Dec. 5, with Strock in attendance.

Now they’re turning to the teens in the program to help change the imagery, a process that Romero hopes can be “fast-tracked.” She plans to hold another meeting at SFAI when new sketches for the mural have been completed.

A few days after the gathering, Strock responded by email to SFR’s request for comment. “In the wake of our lively discussion … I have committed much serious consideration to everyone’s concerns, while fending off blows,” he wrote. “The passions run deep and I am grateful that the work has opened this door of creative dialogue. There is so much pain in our community.”

Meanwhile, other local creatives are seeking to broaden the discussion. Artist Israel Francisco Haros Lopez posted a link to his GoFundMe campaign for community mural projects in the comments thread of Elder’s post. “There are so many walls in this town that have depictions of similar images,” he wrote SFR in a Facebook message. “All the while this conversation is happening, we are finishing one mural and starting on another. [We are] getting more queer, more Native, more Chicano, more people on board to work on walls. So I figure it’s a perfect opportunity to heal, to create alternatives and not to get stuck.”

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Perhaps you’re not the best person to ask, being a cis white man, but as a queer woman of color, the election had an extremely detrimental effect on my relationships with my white partners. I love and care for them, but looking at those results has me wondering why the fuck they didn’t do better in reaching out to their shitty relatives? I’m sick of living at the whim of white America. I’m aware this is the blame stage of processing, but it’s left me unable to orgasm with my white partners.

I’m really struggling with what Trump means for me and others who look like me. I know my queer white partners aren’t exempt from the ramifications of this, but I wish they had done better. Respond however you like.

-Devastated Over National Election First and most importantly, DONE, you don’t have to fuck anyone you don’t wanna fuck— period, the end, fin, full stop, terminus—but we owe it to ourselves to be thoughtful about who we’re fucking, who we aren’t, and why.

Data isn’t a turn-on for most people, DONE, and I’m not suggesting the data I’m about to cite obligates you to fuck anyone. But queer voters (a group that includes millions of people of color) didn’t just reject Trump, they did so by wider margins than some communities of color (groups that include millions of queers). While 14 percent of LGBT voters backed Trump, 28 percent of Latino voters and 19 percent of Asian American voters backed Trump. (Only 8 percent of African Americans voted for Trump.) The shitty and unfathomable votes of some POC—and some queers (WTF, 14 percenters?)—doesn’t get your white partners off the orgasm-killing hook. It’s possible your white queer partners didn’t do enough to persuade their families back in Clinton County, Iowa, to vote against hatred, fascism, racism, and Trump. (Trump won Clinton County, Iowa, by five depressing points.)

Like you, DONE, I’m struggling with what this election means. I’m not going to tell you what to do, or who to do, or how to process the election. I am going to tell you to talk with all your partners about your fears and your anger, and I encourage you to do whatever and whoever feels right going forward.

If the GOP can send a huge prick like Donald J. Trump to the White House, why can’t we send our own pricks? My modest proposal: a coordinated effort to send thousands of dildos to Trump on January 21—enough dildos to make news and get under his thin skin. This coordinated effort would be supplied and vetted by responsible, women-friendly sex shops with a portion of the proceeds going to Planned Parenthood, LGBT charities, and the ACLU. -Donald Is Loathsomely, Disastrously Outrageous I like the way your mind works, DILDO, but your plan would result in good dildos going to waste. So perhaps we should do a dildo version of the ice-bucket-challenge thing instead? You gift a dildo to someone through a cooperating, woman-friendly, progressive sex-toy shop, and that person gifts a dildo to someone else, and so on. A portion of the proceeds for each gifted dildo goes to groups fighting Trump’s agenda and a card gets sent to Trump letting him know a dildo was gifted to a deserving orifice in his name and a worthy organization benefited. Nearly 100,000 people have made donations to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence’s name since the election, and that’s made news. This could too, DILDO. If someone wants to run with this idea, I’ve purchased the URL marchofdildos.com. Get in touch, show me your plan, and I’ll gift the URL to you.

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My wife enjoys being submissive and getting spanked. A few weeks ago, she asked to put that part of our sex play on hold. The ugliness of Trump’s sexual aggressions made her feel strange. We joked about the fun we’d have after the election. Well, here we are, and that asshole and his misogyny are going to be front and center for the next four years. How do we get back to being us?

-Upsetting News Sincerely Unnerves Best Spouse Voting rights, health care, public education, legal pot, police reform, a habitable planet, LGBT equality, our undocumented friends, coworkers, and lovers—the Trump misadministration is going to take so much from us, UNSUBS. We can’t let them take our kinks, too. Encourage your wife to feel the shit out of her feelings and don’t pressure her or rush her—and if she needs to put spanking on hold for the next four years, I wouldn’t blame her and you shouldn’t shame her. In the meantime, UNSUBS, maybe spanking your ass would make her feel better?

I have an idea for something that I think might make it a bit easier for us to survive Trump.

What if there were “Trump Minus 100” parties? Every time we get another 100 days closer to the end of the Trump/Pence administration, we have a get-together to celebrate, commiserate, protest, raise money, whatever.

The first party would be just a few days before the inauguration—to stiffen people’s resolve—and then three or four parties a year after that. Here are how the dates fall out: Sunday, January 15, 2017 (1,100 days left); Tuesday, April 25, 2017 (1,000 days left); Thursday, August 3, 2017 (900 days left); Saturday, November 11, 2017 (800 days left); Monday, February 19, 2018 (700 days left); Wednesday, May 30, 2018 (600 days left); Friday, September 7, 2018 (500 days left); Sunday, December 16, 2018 (400 days left); Tuesday, March 26, 2019 (300 days left); Thursday, July 4, 2019 (200 days left and the Fourth of July!); Saturday, October 12, 2019 (100 days left); Monday, January 20, 2020 (0 days left). What do you think?

-One Hundred Days At A Time Something about seeing the next four years broken up into 12—just 12!—100-day chunks makes it seem less daunting. Orange Julius Caesar can do a lot of damage over four years, of course, but breaking his term into 100-day increments, and making each hundredth day a day of action, is a great idea. If someone out there wants to pick up OHDAAT’s idea and run with it, I purchased the URL TrumpMinus100.com. Get in touch, show me your plan, and I’ll pass the URL on to you.

In response to Peaceful Protester from a couple of weeks ago—the reader who suggested protesting at Trump’s inauguration—everyone needs to know that a protest is already planned! It’s called the Women’s March on Washington, but all genders are welcome, and local protests are being organized around the country for those who can’t make it to Washington, DC. -Protesting in Minnesota Thanks for sharing, PIM! CONFIDENTIAL TO OAKLAND: My heart goes out to all the lovers, friends, family members, and artistic collaborators of the musicians, artists, poets, writers, filmmakers, and students who lost their lives in the fire at the Ghost Ship. Terry and I made a donation to the “Fire Relief Fund for Victims of Ghostship Oakland Fire” at YouCaring.com. Please consider making a donation if you can.

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HOLIDAY TREE AND TRAIN DISPLAY First National Bank of Santa Fe 62 Lincoln Ave., 219-3007 Santa Claus will be on hand as you check out the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club’s Lionel trains (including a Hogwarts Express).

10 am-2 pm, free PRE-CHRISTMAS POP-UP SHOW Gallery 403 403 Guadalupe St., 913-9236 Visit a new gallery before it officially opens for a pop-up of local art.

10 am-3 pm, free THE NEW ADVENTURE BEGINS Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 A multidimensional event celebrates the coming of the new year with astrology, dance, poetry, music and more.

7 pm, $20-$25 SHOW & SELL ARTIST SALE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 MW artists offer up their works from all kinds of mediums.

10 am-6 pm, free WINTER INDIAN MARKET La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 More than 130 participating artists bring the summer’s favorite market to the offseason.

9 am-5 pm, $10

MUSIC BLUE BUGALU El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Cuban and Latin jazz.

7:30 pm, free CELTIC CHRISTMAS Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4414 Holiday Irish jams? Sláinte!

2 pm, $20 COWBOY CHRISTMAS Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4414 The Bill Hearne Trio and Half Broke Horses celebrate Western heritage.

6 pm, $20 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery’s been playing R&B, jazz, soul, cabaret and blues on piano for three decades, so he’s gotta be good.

6 pm, free DRASTIC ANDREW Cowgirl 319 S Guadalue St., 982-2565 Local country/rock and/or roll.

8:30 pm, free GERRY CARTHY AND CHRIS ABEYTA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 A blending of traditional Irish music with Spanish and New Mexican music featuring a couple Santa Fe legends— both of whom are fresh from a summer pub tour in Ireland.

8 pm, free

HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 They do the Americanahonky-tonk thing real damn well.

1 pm, free KIRK KADISH Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Ambient jazz from a guy of many talents.

8 pm, free LESLIE LIVINGSTON AND DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Enjoy a holiday show with this dynamic pair.

6 pm, $2 LORI OTTINO AND ERIK SAWYER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Powerful lady vocals and deft guitar from a local duo.

3 pm, free NORTHERN LIGHT Cristo Rey Church 1120 Canyon Road, 983-8528 The Santa Fe Desert Chorale sings lullabies and carols.

8 pm, $25-$80 PRANZO GEIST CABARET: DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Italian food and a piano cabaret? Yes please.

6 pm, $2 REGGAE DANCE HALL Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 This live performance includes roots, dancehall, ska and dub mastered by this reggae ensemble. This edition is Trinkie and Don's Birthday Bash! Will there be cake?

10 pm, $5 SATURDAY JAZZ Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 What better way to spend your weekend morning than with The Shiners Club and their impeccable old-timey jazz?

11 am, free SEAN HEALEN BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Dance the night away with Healen’s folky rock.

8 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 From hip-hop to house, he’s bound to spin something you’re into.

9 pm, $7 SONGS OF LIGHT AND ENLIGHTENMENT Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road, 988-1975 The Santa Fe Women's Ensemble performs a set of winter songs that will warm your heart.

3 pm, $10-$25

SWING SOLEIL Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 All-acoustic gypsy jazz.

6 pm, free THE KODAMA TRIO Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 The piano-jazz trio plays Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas.

7 pm, free THE STICKY & JOIE FLARE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 A live funk party!

7:30 pm, $5-$10 TRASH DISCO WITH DJ OONA Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Trash? Love it. Disco? Also love it. DJ Oona? Yes! 9 pm, $7 TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Binkley dazzles in the piano lounge nearly every night.

6 pm, free

THEATER JACOB MARLEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Jacob Marley wasn’t always just a ghost haunting Scrooge.

Hear the story from Marley’s side in this re-envisioning of the Dickens classic.

7:30 pm, $20-$25 A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS IV Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Not really feeling those boring Anglo-centric Christmas celebrations? This festive show presents bilingual performances, live music, carols, comedy and more. Kids can bust a piñata at the end.

2 pm, $10

WORKSHOP BEGINNER PAINT MOMENT Santa Fe Art Classes 621 Old Santa Fe Trail, 575-404-1801 Join in for a 2-hour, step-bystep guided painting class.

10 am, $45 GLOW: NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Take advantage of the unique ambiance during the winter lights festival.

3:30 pm, $30

SUN/18 ART OPENINGS CAROL ANTHONY McLarry Fine Art 225 Canyon Road, 988-1161 Anthony exhibits new work and signs a retrospective book.

5 pm, free

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DANCE THE NUTCRACKER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Down with the rat king! If you have ever seen this show, you’ll know why you should go. If you haven’t seen it, go find out why it’s a favorite (see SFR Picks, page 17).

1 and 5 pm, $25-$94

EVENTS GLOW: FAMILY NIGHT Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Enjoy the winter lights festivities with entertainment geared towards families.

5 pm, free HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Carols! Art! Puppets! More!

Noon-4 pm, free HOLIDAY TRAINS Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 An interactive model train exhibit is perfect for kids— and, honestly, adults too.

11 am-4 pm, $5-$7 PRE-CHRISTMAS POP-UP SHOW Gallery 403 403 Guadalupe St., 913-9236 Pick up some local art to send to faraway friends.

10 am-3 pm, free RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 See photography, jewelry, paintings and more from local artists.

10 am-4 pm, free SHOW & SELL ARTIST SALE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 MW artists offer up their works from all kinds of mediums as artist Nico Salazar creates a mural live.

10 am-6 pm, free WINTER INDIAN MARKET La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 More than 130 artists bring the summer’s favorite market to the off-season.

9 am-5 pm, $10 WINTER SOLSTICE Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 Celebrate the season by drinking a hot chocolate and admiring the sky by a bonfire.

5:30 pm, $3-$5

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JOURNEYSANTAFE: A POETRY READING Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Board members of New Mexico Literary Arts read original works, including Anne Valley-Fox, Joan Logghe, Michelle Holland and more.

11 am, free

Just think how nice it would be to eliminate that drive to the airport in Albuquerque. Well now

Santa Fe County wants to rebrand. On the left is our current logo, and your local government budgeted about $99,000 to develop the design on the right, outsourcing the work to GumCo, a marketing company in Utah. On top of the designs, GumCo suggested two new taglines. For marketing: “Step Outside the Limits.” For government: “Stand on Higher Ground.” County commissioners will have the final say on the new art. We asked Maggie MacNab, a local designer who offers consulting on logos, what she thinks.

(Steven Hsieh) What are your initial impressions of these logos?

On the plus side, the current logo carries visual content specific to the Santa Fe area in both historic and current contexts. Relevance creates meaning, essential to establish a relationship with the audience. However, the current design contains a disjointed group of elements that don’t communicate effectively as a whole. No one should have to interpret a logo. A good logo creates an immediate impression with simplicity and depth. A great logo amalgamates a few essential elements that are integrated seamlessly and specifically to the client. Without doubt, the proposed logo is universal—so much so it is almost completely devoid of meaning.

It could represent a healthcare or sports organization, a restaurant, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, the Dakotas ... almost anything, anywhere in the world. It is akin to clip art and a waste of the client’s investment.

Part of the problem was the Committee’s decision to send this design out of New Mexico.

Which do you prefer?

I would stick with what we have, which has more pluses than minuses compared to the proposed logo design, but this design is also lacking.

What are your initial impressions of the proposed taglines?

‘Step Outside the Limits’ would not be reassuring to some and I don’t feel this message communicates in a positive enough way. I like ‘Stand On Higher Ground,’ as it contains the double entendre of literally describing our elevation and implies the figurative ethical association as the governmental seat of the state.

WINTER SOLSTICE LABYRINTH WALK Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 An indoor walk, accompanied by a crystal bowl soundscape.

2 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic country.

8 pm, free CONNIE LONG AND FAST PATSY Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country music with a twist of rockabilly and blues.

6 pm, free

DON CURRY La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Catch one half of the Curry Springer Duo rockin' out solo.

6 pm, free FLAMENCO EN NAVIDAD Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Storytelling by Melissa Moore is accompanied by Fernando Barros and Carlos Lomas, who present music from the early Arabic eras. Plus they’ve got that little Iconik Coffee Roasters café in there now, so, like, yeah.

6 pm, $5

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THE CALENDAR NACHA MENDEZ La Boca 72 W Marcy St., 988-7102 Nacha specializes in enchanting music from Spanishspeaking countries. Tonight’s show is a benefit for Mendez, who recently racked up some hefty medical bills.

6 pm, free PISTOLS IN PETTICOATS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Women play original and bluegrass-inspired songs.

3 pm, free SUGAR MOUNTAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Neil Young tribute band.

Noon, free THE MAJESTY OF CHRISTMAS Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 Southwest Arts brings a dignified concert—no jaunty, trendy stuff here. Enjoy sacred Christmas music.

2 pm, $5-$15

THEATER JACOB MARLEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Jacob Marley haunted the hell out of Scrooge, but Marley also had a story of his own to tell in a re-envisioning of the Dickens classic.

2 pm, $20-$25 A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS IV Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 This festive show presents bilingual performances, live music, carols, comedy and more. Kids can even whack a piñata at the end.

2 pm, $10

MON/19 BOOKS/LECTURES KIRT KEMPTER Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 The local volcanologist, field geologist and photographer discusses his work.

6 pm, $12 POLAR EXPRESS READING Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 Special guests Richard and Ursula Moeller read from the classic story.

5 pm, $3

EVENTS COMMUNITY DAY Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Enjoy free admittance to the garden for a monthly community day.

9 am-5 pm, free HOLIDAY TRAINS Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 An interactive model train exhibit is perfect for the kids.

11 am-4 pm, $5-$7

FOOD MARIACHI FIESTA La Fogata Grill 112 W San Francisco St., 983-7302 Enjoy your tacos with a live musical mariachi performance every Tuesday at this downtown spot.

7 pm, free

MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque ensemble celebrates the joy of the season. Enjoy music by Vivaldi, Telemann and traditional carols performed with vocals too.

6 pm, $20-$75 BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Catch the Americana/roots icon and cut a rug (or tile, as the case may be).

7 pm, free CHUSCALES La Boca 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Internationally renowned flamenco guitar by the artist also known as Jose Valle Fajardo.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery starts the evening solo on piano, but is joined at 8:30 pm by Elizabeth Young on violin.

6:30 pm, free KARAOKE WITH MICHÉLE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michéle is the best karaoke hostess around. As for the singers, the same folks go many weeks in a row, so it’s kind of like a big musical family.

9 pm, free SANTA FE GREAT BIG JAZZ BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 It truly is a great big band!

A 16-piece ensemble plus vocalist Joan Kessler.

7-9 pm, free

TUE/20 DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Slip on your dancing shoes for this traditional South American dance.

7:30 pm, $5 ROMANCE DE LA LUNA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Mina Fajardo and Company present a holiday performance including flamenco music, dance and Spanish and English poetry inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca.

7 pm, $23

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EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 It’s a pub quiz, OK?!

8 pm, free HOLIDAY TRAINS Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 An interactive model train exhibit is perfect for kids— and, honestly, adults too.

11 am-4 pm, $5-$7

MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque ensemble celebrates the joy of the season with a performance of selections by Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann. Oh! And carols, too!

6 pm, $20-$75 BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Hearne is the best at his country music thing.

7 pm, free BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 This group is an American treasure known for crossing boundaries with their renditions that cover every genre from traditional gospel to renditions of Prince and Tom Waits (see Music, page 21).

7:30 pm, $34 CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 The legendary blues jam features some of the best blues musicians in town.

8:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano tunes and wine. Yes. 6:30 pm, free NORTHERN LIGHT Cristo Rey Church 1120 Canyon Road, 983-8528 The Santa Fe Desert Chorale sings lullabies and carols from the northernmost regions of the world.

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HIGH FASHION

IL LUSTRATI O N S AN D STO RY BY A MY DAV I S

ticky. Minty. Green. All covered in a smattering of dusty micro-crystals, viscous resin dew droplets and wild purplered hairs. Anyone? From Maine to Alaska, the goofy nugs have been legalized for recreation in seven great states and for medicinal purposes in 28 others (also DC). Basically that means the fluffernutters and Funyuns are out of stock at your local Allsup’s; plus, if you are suffering from anorexia, glaucoma or side effects of chemotherapy, it’s a godsend in a precious green package.

Yeah, the stuff of grass parties and cottonmouth is absolutely one of the biggest trends we have going for 2017 in fashion. Who knew?

Parisian designer Olympia Le-Tan—whose whimsical takes on everything I have always enjoyed—knew. Her Spring/Summer 2017 collection is a veritable weedy wonderland with obvious nods to Milton Glaser illustrations, delightful and decadent, a heady mix of juicy-red lips sucking down sweet leafstuffed joints that puff out a big bright rainbow. Voila!

The line is very 1970s with a smidgen of recent Prada, but mostly good, original, obscene fun.

Alexander Wang has been loading the vaporizer up with a few full-on Rasta pasta collections for a couple years now, and his latest can be snapped up at Saks Fifth Avenue. His 2017 bag, a Rockie leather mini leaf print duffle ($650!), has black and white pot leaves strewn all over. For Autumn/Winter 2016 he included fuzzy miniskirts and fluffy jackets with reefer frond intarsias. Mr. Wang is enjoying a very lucrative stoney high.

French designer Lucien Pellat Finet has been embellishing delicious cashmere sweaters with devil weed for decades. His creations are a gorgeous nod to the nugs without looking like you just came back from a Phish fest. From shimmery Jordan almondcolored sequins to kitten-soft knitted cashmere sweaters, slouchy tanks and his very famous skull and marijuana leaf scarves a la Alexander McQueen circa 2005, the ubiquitous semi-legal plant life floats up to smooch you in primary hues and pot-pizzazz, and I have always respected a designer who can subvert a tacky image into something grand.

Even back in 2009 the late great Sonia Rykiel had marijuana motifs proudly dancing down her run-

ways. Bonus: They were pretty! Chic, even.

In November 2017 designer Jacquie Aiche unveiled her absolutely stunning “Sweet Leaf” pave diamond ear jackets (think of an earring on acid wrapping and poking out and up your entire ear) selling for $2,690 a puff—I mean pop! Aiche, the Los Angeles designer to the rock stars, also has a snakeskin weed leaf-emblazoned jacket and clutch.

Parsons graduate and young enfant terrible Gelareh Mizrahi has a very luxe line entitled The Stoned Collection. She serves up gangadipped pins ranging from French fries, pouty lips, pizza slices, brainon-drugs (yeah folks, a fried egg), smiley faces, bloodshot eyes and straight-up pot leaves. As well as matching python skin clutches! The bags are insane; brash and bitchin’.

Streetwear line Unif has a “Weed Be Good Together” semi-distressed tunic that is very Urban Outfitters, but still worthy of lounging, though I prefer their Li’l Wayne-inspired “Pussy Money Weed” tee with two joints and a weirdo floating cat head made out of thick smoke with a pot leaf for a third eye.

There is even a line inspired by the NYC late ’80s marijuana delivery system. Remember Dial-AJoint? New York-based twin brothers Shimon and Ariel Ovadia of Ovadia & Sons have a Spring/ Summer 2017 menswear collection chock-full of destroyed crewnecks and varsity jackets, all with embroidered cannabis leaf patches. And it works.

Emily Blunt (HAHAHA get it?) workSequined rainbow joint dress by Olympia Le-Tan; “Slice of Heaven” python clutch by Gelareh Mizrahi; sterling silver weed grinder pendant by Vetements.

ing the red carpet in a Jason Wu gown with a very minty embellishment of suspicious foliage? Even Alisters have a need for weed.

Paris provacateurs Vetements is now serving you piping-hot weed grinder pendants in silver and gold. The silver will run you $750. And now that your wacky tabbacky is crushed and rolled up tight, grab an art deco-inspired roach clip by Portland-based designer Erin Rose Gardner. Entitled High Society, the collection is encrusted with various gemstones and hand-made with a hammer and anvil for under $100.

Del Toro Prince Albert bubblegum-pink velvet slipper loafers with a glowing greenie-green cannabis leaf plopped on the toe and for $340? How will you afford to smoke?!

And lastly, superstar designer to all the Hollywood stoney baloney kids (hiya, Miley!), Jeremy Scott, redid the Adidas logo as a pot leaf for his sweatshirts way back in the prohibition era of 2012, and the result is graphic brilliance.

But what about hemp, you ask?

Well, the big wigs have been playing with hemp for a few seasons.

Ralph Lauren, Stella McCartney, YSL and even kicks kids Vans have all been working with this very cool fabric. Most hemp is imported into the good ol’ USA (even though George “I chopped down the cherry tree” Washington also grew it). Locavores, we do have you covered too. Santa Fe Hemp (105 E Water St., 984-2599) has tees, socks, pants and accessories for the mellow folks, and carries pieces from Albuquerque’s Hemp Elegance.

Couture? Quite. Pashmina-esque and classy mama, this is the higher end of hemp and there’s no need for pesticides or GMOs with this crop. I mean, fashion and weed? It’s sort of a no-brainer.

Dreams dissolve. Motivation fizzles.

Paranoia bubbles and life keeps chugging by. You need it to sleep and cough up black stuff and wonder ... Is this OK? Or maybe you don’t. You rock your art/music style and awesome culinary creations to a higher level, and only you know your weedy little truth. Heck, a Lucien Pellat Finet sweater will never give you the munchies and it’ll keep your fans guessing. That’s what life’s about.

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OPEN MIC Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Pro-am jam-a-lams.

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

6 pm, free SAVANNAH KING Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 The alternative folk band comes all the way from Buffalo, New York (where it is probably somehow colder than it is here) to be like, “Who enjoys music?” Us! 8 pm, free

TREVOR BAHNSON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bahnson is from Santa Fe but now lives in Los Angeles where he spends his time just totally slaying Americana music so very hard. We cannot recommend him enough.

8 pm, free

WORKSHOP GLOW: NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Take advantage of the unique lighting during the winter lights festival.

3:30 pm, $30

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Teeny tamers taunt tiny tigers at the Museum of International Folk Art’s Morris Miniature Circus.

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

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 O’Keeffe at the University of Virginia. Through summer 2017.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Ken Price, Death Shrine I. Agnes Martin Gallery.

Continuum, Through May 2017.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Rick Bartow: Things You Cannot Explain. Through Dec. 31. Lloyd Kiva New: Art. MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art. The Life and Art of Innovative Native American

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Artist and Designer Lloyd Kiva New. MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo,476-1200 Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Through Sept.

2017. Sacred Realm. The Morris Miniature Circus.

Under Pressure. Through Dec. 2017.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Chimayó: A Pilgrimage Through Two Centuries. The Beltran Kropp Collection. The Delgado Room.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Agnes Martin and Me. Through Aug. 2017.

Lowriders, Hoppers and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico.

Through March 2017. Out of the Box: The Art of the Cigar. Through Oct. 2017.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Alcoves 16/17. Small

Wonders. Through March 2017. Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts exhibition. Through Dec. 2016.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, The Inquisition and New World Identities.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Ashley Browning, Perspective of Perception.

The Past of the Govenors.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Bill Barrett: Visual Poetry.

Through March 2017. Ojos y Manos.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Eveli: Energy and Significance.

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Party Cookies

For all you cookie monsters out there

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BY GWYNETH DOLAND t h e f o r k @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

very year I have this party where I make vats of icing in psychedelic colors and a zillion sugar cookies in totally weird shapes and invite people over to decorate them. Before my friends all had kids, this party was mostly for adults who made the most creative and amazing (and often not PG) cookies. Now the party is ostensibly for “children,” but grown-ups still make the best cookies. Here’s how to do it. This is esentially a streamlined version of an ancient Fannie Farmer recipe.

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1 cup butter (two sticks), softened 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 3 cups all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon baking soda · 1 teaspoon salt Put the flour, baking powder and salt in a small mixing bowl and stir them together with a fork.

The best way to make this dough is in a stand mixer. (I have a KitchenAid 6-quart and I have doubled this recipe in its bowl; if you have one that big or big-ger you could probably even triple it.) If you

have a handheld mixer that’s fine, but don’t try to double it. If you’re doing this by hand, congratulations, you won’t have to do arms at the gym tomorrow.

Put the softened butter in the workbowl and beat it with the paddle (or beaters) for about 30 seconds, starting on low speed and working your way up to high. The butter should be pale yellow and creamy.

Add the sugar and mix on medium speed for about 2 minutes, stopping the mixer and scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. It will look almost white.

Add the eggs and vanilla, then mix on medium about 30 more seconds. Scrape down the sides.

Add the flour mixture to the bowl mixer on low (unless you want to be covered in flour). Within about a minute it should come together and look like cookie dough.

Scrape the dough out of the bowl and onto a big piece of waxed paper or plastic wrap. Fold the wrap over the ball, flattening the dough with your hand.

Wrap it up and put it in the fridge for a couple of hours.

When you’re ready to make cookies preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

Break off about half of the cookie dough and set it on your work surface to soften a little.

Dust your work surface with flour and roll the dough out about ⅛-inch thick.

Use all the geometry skills you have to cut as many elephants and horseshoes and dreidels as you can out of the piece of dough you’ve rolled out, using a bench knife (get one!) or a spatula to transfer them from the work surface to silicone baking mat or sheets of parchment. Gather the scraps into a ball, mush them together into a ball, wrap it and put it back in the fridge.

Put the mats on the cookie sheets or half sheet pans (cheap and indestructible—you need them!) and put two pans in the oven at a time. Set a timer at 7 minutes and check them. It might take as long as 10 minutes. They should be pale in the middle but light brown around the edges and golden on the bottom.

Pull the pans out of the oven and transfer the cookies to cooling racks or just pieces of aluminum foil on the counter. They take about 10 minutes to cool completely.

Meanwhile, bring the silicone baking mats (or new pieces of parchment) over to your work surface.

Get the second half of the dough and repeat with new, weird cutters. Then gather those scraps into a ball and put it in the fridge. While you’re there grab your first scrap ball and roll that out. See the pattern?

You’ll get in the zone.

When you’re done, make the glaze.

SIMPLE SUGAR COOKIE GLAZE This stuff tastes like diabetes but it dries to a hard, glossy surface on the cookies. · · · ·

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Forget Frozen. Just let it go. And ditch your heartbreak-turned-fury over the role sexism likely played in the recent

presidential election. Instead, let your thrill for a 13-year-old Mongolian girl named Aisholpan Nurgaiv soar above the ice-covered steppes of Mongolia in The Eagle Huntress, which has to be the girl-power movie of the year. The new Sony Pictures Classics documentary, narrated by Star Wars newcomer Daisy Ridley, tells the story of the traditional hunting bond between golden eagles and men from the Kazakh, a no-

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It is a trip for the imagination to look inside yurts and back to stone goat enclosures, across barren snowscapes and through villages with stumpy homes and smoky corridors. See too the textures of the textiles, the steam from the mouths of beasts, and the expressive faces not just of the starring eagles, but the scruffy horses and bleating lambs.

We dare you to watch impassively as father and daughter ride off together after Aisholpan passes the ultimate test of recognition for a hunter: catching a fox in the snowy mountains.

The Eagle Huntress is a great winter movie that stands to touch the coldest chambers of heart with fierce inspiration. Grab it with your talons.

THE EAGLE HUNTRESS Directed by Otto Bell DeVargas, G, subtitles, 87 min.

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FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM “The American magic community sure is different than the British one.”

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madic tribe that’s been around since before the days of Genghis Khan. But more than that, it’s how this young girl breaks the glass ceiling between verdant expanses and craggy mountains.

You see, like being president of the United States, eagle hunting in Mongolia is just for men. And, boy howdy, even if you stopped reading the subtitles for a few minutes, you’d know how the men interviewed for the film really feel about Aisholpan’s interloping on their sausage fest. Women are weak; they don’t have the courage to hold the bird; they should stay home and make tea for the hunters.

Her father, to be congratulated on his forward thinking and bold dedication to his daughter, sees past the gender barrier. “It’s not choice,” he explains, “it’s a calling that has to be in your blood.”

And it’s in hers. Aisholpan thus shows no fear, strapping on her furlined hat and trotting into town on her sturdy horse, arm extended as it becomes a perch for the avian predator. The bird’s wingspan is wider than she is tall, dwarfing the ruddy-cheeked girl with each restless flap. She pets its head as if it were a house cat, talking all the while with praise and comfort.

Oh, and by the way—she had to rappel down a cliff side and snatch the eaglet from its nest. Then months of training.

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THE HANDMAIDEN “Keeps us guessing the whole damn time.”

SEASONS From the directors of 2009’s Oceans, Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, comes an alternative approach to documentary filmmaking with Seasons. The $35 million nature documentary portrays seasonal change over a span of several millennia as well as the perspective of animals that coexist with humans who, as we all know, ultimately destroy the environment.

Although Seasons is less than two hours long, the film is overstuffed with scenes that are supposed to cover the last 10 million years. The filmmakers are careful not to discriminate against the smaller forest life, allowing a good chunk of screen time for spiders spinning webs and beetles walking across trees. We follow a pack of wolves hunting a pig and a pack of humans who brutally shoot one wolf after another in a fashion so intensely up-close-andpersonal one might almost assume it is computer generated imaging.

Seasons’ cinematography also seems too good to be true, and some scenes raise questions about the logistics of observing animals from a distance. It’s hard to believe Perrin and Cluzaud were able to get close enough to bears fighting, let alone somehow catch wolves running from four different up-close angles. And how on earth did they just so happen to stumble upon

a perfectly composed, full-sized rack of detached deer antlers in a sunny clearing?

The composition and heavily cinematic editing begin to beg the question: Is this a nature documentary, or a staged film based on a true history?

Unlike Perrin and Cluzaud’s previous works, the lack of narration allows viewers to openly interpret the film. This makes Seasons more peaceful, but the overtly informative aspects of documentaries are sorely missed. If you don’t mind creating your own internal narration, this may be an enjoyable watch for you. If, however, you thrive on the tried-and-true method of a voiceover, you may feel ripped off and lied to because you thought you’d be watching a nature documentary. (Kim Jones) Center for Contemporary Arts, PG, 97 min.

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM We follow the hijinks of a young wizard named Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne of Les Misérables), a sort of conservationist/magic ecologist who travels the globe both searching for and educating folks about rare magical beasts and having just such a delightfully absurd yet appropriate name. For those familiar with the Harry Potter fiction, we can think of Newt like a sort of precursor to the beast-loving Hagrid from the original run of

books and films, especially in his inability to accept that some beasts are just plain dangerous. It’s 1926 in New York City and oh, man, wouldn’t you know it—a bunch of Newt’s beasts get loose! If that wasn’t hard enough for the guy, the American magic community sure is different than the British one to which we’ve grown accustomed via JK Rowling’s other works. Muggles (nonmagic folk) are here called “no-maj,” and it’s hard to decide if it’s insulting or just right that the American version of such a concept is the least creative descriptor of all time.

Just as Newt comes to New York, a malevolent invisible force starts killing people, and our adorable little hero must join up with a disgraced magic cop named Tina (Katherine Waterston of Inherent Vice), her mind-reading sister Queenie (Alison Sudol) and a no-maj named Kowalski (Dan Fogler) who just wants to open a damn bakery but is swept up in the madness. Everyone obviously blames Newt and his magic creatures, but it seems like the mysterious Graves (who is like, the vice president of magic or something and played by Colin Farrell) knows more than he’s letting on and anyway—Newt dresses in bright colors, so he can’t possibly be bad.

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MOONLIGHT

In a new work based on the previously unproduced screenplay In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, director Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) brings us a romantic drama fueled by self-discovery.

A young boy grows up in Miami during the ’70s and ’80s while struggling to accept his identity. We tour through three significant chapters of Chiron’s life, from timid boy to deluded man, as played at various ages by newcomer Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders from Straight Outta Compton and Westworld’s Trevante Rhodes. Chiron must navigate a veritable minefield of adolescent strife, from a drug-addicted mother, an antihero crack dealer named Juan (Mahershala Ali) and his budding sexuality with lifelong friend Kevin (Jharrell Jerome and André Holland).

Moonlight focuses on the paradoxical question of who you are and who you are expected to be, as Chiron learns he can be open with Kevin sans judgment and utilizes that presence as a safe space. Chiron uncomfortably flits through adulthood, defying the stereotypes of gay and black men, but eventually becoming a crack dealer running the inner city of Atlanta. When Chiron and Kevin reconnect in adulthood, however, Chiron must evaluate who he has become and who he has portrayed himself to be.

The gritty plot is beautifully accompanied by ambient lighting and carefully composed scenes, further supporting the poignancy each character brings to the screen, and though Chiron’s voice is rarely heard, he expresses himself with his actions, whether violent or passionate. Moonlight thus becomes a cinematic masterpiece, a journey of love, loss and self-discovery that will leave viewers captivated by Chiron’s character long after the film is over. (KJ) Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, R, 111 min.

ARRIVAL Half the country is celebrating the arrival of an iconoclastic new leader, while the other half is gripped with despondency and even fear. It’s hard not to think about this when watching Arrival, an aliens-to-Earth film that’s less about first contact than first communication.

Twelve black, split-shaped ovoids simultaneously appear around the planet, each measuring 1,500 feet high and hovering mere meters above the surface. The arrival of these ships triggers immediate hysteria—air travel is grounded, gun sales are barred, food rationing begins. Looting and mass suicides follow. The world’s militaries also mobilize, including efforts to communicate with the aliens. The US Army converges on a ship stationed above the green prairie of Montana, recruiting linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and mathematician Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) to help translate the aliens’ language. Director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario; Prisoners) seems to deliberately invite comparisons to cinematic classics like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Day the Earth Stood Still. It’s certainly no coincidence that the rectangular, translucent barrier separating humans visiting the spacecraft from the onboard extraterrestrials resembles a movie theater screen.

Banks gradually decodes the method of communication used by the “heptapods,” large, barrel-shaped beings whose seven tentacled legs emit an inky secretion that forms their advanced written language.

Arrival opens with a montage depicting the birth, life, and death of Banks’ young daughter, Hannah, and this personal melancholy hangs over the film and informs its ultimate destination. Like Hannah’s name, the narrative is a palindrome, with a common beginning and end. The heptapods’ nonlinear language, expressed as innumerable, circular semagrams, triggers a linguistic relativity in Banks that eventually extends to the viewer’s interpretation of the story.

These weighty concepts, so central to the source material (Ted Chiang’s short story Story of Your Life), translate unevenly to film. Arrival’s latter half becomes bogged down in the existential themes and ponderous presentation of Banks’ transfiguration into soothsayer and then savior, which stays stubbornly esoteric.

Resonance remains in the juxtaposition between Banks’ linguistic aims and the response of divergent, suspicious nations.

After scientists misinterpret a heptapod symbol as referring to the use of a “weapon,” the reaction of world and military leaders is akin to a police officer mistakenly believing he hears the word “gun” during a traffic stop or a political rally. Rogue, trigger-happy soldiers take matters into their own hands. The plug is pulled on a broadcast interface that experts around the globe use to share resources about communicating with the aliens—each of the dozen or so split-screens go dark, each noticeably emblazoned with the word “Disconnected.”

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Following the results of our recent election, many eagerly expect a revival of older cultural and economic traditions, while others are protesting in the streets over the loaded meaning of “traditional.” Another opportunity to find common ground has only reinforced our strident differences. It feels like we’ve never felt more disconnected. (Neil Morris) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 116 min.

THE HANDMAIDEN A clever grifter named Fujiwara (Jung-woo Ha) has painstakingly devised a plot to marry a crazy rich young noblewoman named Lady Hideko (Min-hee Kim) by posing as a Japanese count. Once he’s got her hand, he’ll commit Hideko to a madhouse, thereby claiming her vast fortune. It’s a two-person job, though, and Fujiwara enlists the help of a young thief named Sook-Hee (Kim Tae-ri), who assumes the role of Hideko’s handmaiden so as to gently nudge her toward marrying the bastard. The plan seems simple enough but, wouldn’t you know it, Hideko is kind of spooky and maybe smarter than she lets on, and her perverse uncle Kozuki (Jinwoong Jo) has trained her since she was a child to read erotic stories aloud to groups of similarly

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From the suicide of her aunt to her uncle’s massive library of sex stories, shit’s weird at Hideko’s house, but Sook-Hee starts to fall in love, all the while dealing with the count’s lust for money and the creepy goings-on at the estate.

Min-hee Kim and Kim Tae-ri’s onscreen chemistry is the stuff of cinematic legend, a perfect blend of overpowering lust and passionate love so believable and so intense that it’s almost difficult to watch, yet we cannot look away. Park grasps even the ugly elements of love such as irrational jealousy or the darker side of sexuality. It’s difficult to tell who’s conning whom, but that just keeps things interesting right up to the satisfying conclusion, and even when we’re positive we know how the chips may fall, our assumptions generally prove misguided.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how,” said dancer Agnes De Mille. “We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” As true as her words might be for most of us much of the time, I suspect they don’t apply to you right now. This is one of those rare moments when feeling total certainty is justified. Your vision is extra clear and farseeing. Your good humor and expansive spirit will ensure that you stay humble. As you take leap after leap, you’ll be surrounded by light.

your own as the awesomely unprecedented creature that you are? I dare you to more fully acknowledge and express your singular destiny. Start today!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “To dream…to dream has been the business of my life,” wrote author Edgar Allan Poe. I don’t expect you to match his devotion to dreams in 2017, Scorpio, but I do hope you will become more deeply engaged with your waking fantasies and the stories that unfold as you lie sleeping. Why? Because your usual approaches to gathering useful information won’t be suffiTAURUS (April 20-May 20) “We are torn between nos- cient. To be successful, both in the spiritual and worldly senses, you’ll need extra access to perspectives that come talgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange,” wrote author Carson McCullers. Are you ready from beyond your rational mind. Here’s a good motto for to give that adage a twist, Taurus? In the coming weeks, you in 2017: “I am a lavish and practical dreamer.”

I think you should search for foreign and strange qualiSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Physicist Stephen ties in your familiar world. Such a quest may initially feel Hawking is skeptical of the hypothesis that humans may odd, but will ultimately be healthy and interesting. It will someday be able to travel through time. To jokingly also be good preparation for the next chapter of your dramatize his belief, he threw a party for time travelers life, when you will saunter out into unknown territory from the future. Sadly, not a single chrononaut showed and find ways to feel at home there. up to enjoy the champagne and hors d’oeuvres Hawking had prepared. Despite this discouraging evidence, I GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “If you don’t use your own guarantee that you will have the potential to meet with imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you,” Future Versions of You on a regular basis during the next said writer Ronald Sukenick. That’s always true, but it nine months. These encounters are likely to be will be especially important for you to keep in mind in metaphorical or dreamlike rather than literal, but they 2017. You Geminis will have an unparalleled power to will provide valuable information as you make decisions enlarge, refine, and tap into your imagination. You’ll be that affect your destiny for years to come. The first of blessed with the motivation and ingenuity to make it these heart-to-hearts should come very soon. work for you in new ways, which could enable you to accomplish marvelous feats of creativity and self-transformation. Now here’s a warning: If you DON’T use your willower to take advantage of these potentials, your imagination will be subject to atrophy and colonization.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Why are Australian sand wasps so skilled at finding their way back home after being out all day? Here’s their trick: When they first leave the nest each morning, they fly backwards, imprinting on their memory banks the sights they will look for when they return later. Furthermore, their exiting flight path is a slow and systematic zigzag pattern that orients them from multiple directions. I recommend that you draw inspiration from the sand wasps in 2017, Cancerian. One of your important tasks will be to keep finding your way back to your spiritual home, over and over again.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Vault 21, a restaurant in Dunedin, New Zealand, serves sautéed locusts. For $5, patrons receive a plate of five. The menu refers to the dish not as “Oily Sizzling Grasshoppers,” but rather as “Sky Prawns.”

Satisfied customers know exactly what they’re eating, and some say the taste does indeed resemble prawns. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because it illustrates a talent you will have in abundance during 2017: re-branding. You’ll know how to maximize the attractiveness and desirability of things by presenting them in the best possible light.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The literal translation of the German word Kummerspeck is “grief bacon.” It refers to the weight gained by people who, while wallowing in self-pity, eat an excess of comfort food. I know more than a few Virgos who have been flirting with this development lately, although the trigger seems to be self-doubt as much as self-pity. In any case, here’s the good news: The trend is about to flip. A flow of agreeable adventures is due to begin soon. You’ll be prodded by fun challenges and provocative stimuli that will boost your confidence and discourage Kummerspeck.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) During these last few weeks, you may have sometimes felt like smashing holes in the wall with your head, or dragging precious keepsakes into the middle of the street and setting them on fire, or delivering boxes full of garbage to people who don’t appreciate you as much as they should. I hope you abstained from doing things like that. Now here are some prescriptions to help you graduate from unproductive impulses: Make or find a symbol of one of your mental blocks, and bash it to pieces with a hammer; clean and polish precious keepsakes, and perform rituals to reinvigorate your love for them; take as many trips to the dump as necessary to remove the congestion, dross, and rot from your environment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Singer-songwriter Tom Waits has a distinctive voice. One fan described it this way: “Like how you’d sound if you drank a quart of bourbon, smoked a pack of cigarettes and swallowed a pack of razor blades. Late at night. After not sleeping for three days.” Luckily, Waits doesn’t have to actually do any of those self-destructive things to achieve his unique tone. In fact, he’s wealthy from selling his music, and has three kids with a woman to whom he’s been married for 36 years. I foresee a similar potential for you in the coming weeks and months. You may be able to capitalize on your harmless weirdness…to earn rewards by expressing your charming eccentricities…to be both strange and popular.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Was punk rock born on June 4, 1976? A fledgling band known as the Sex Pistols played that night for a crowd of 40 people at a small venue in Manchester, England. Among the audience members was Morrissey, who got so inspired that he started his own band, The Smiths. Also in attendance was a rowdy guy who would soon launch the band Joy Division, despite the fact that he had never played an instrument. The men who would later form the Buzzcocks also saw the performance by Johnny Rotten and his crew. According to music critic David Nolan, these future pioneers came away from the June 4 show with the conclusion, “You don’t have to be a virtuoso or a musical genius to be in a band; anyone can do it.” I see parallels between this seminal event and your life in the coming weeks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable,” wrote journalist Brenda Ueland. Pause for a moment and fully take in that fact, Libra. It’s breathtaking and daunting. What a huge responsibility it Homework: Talk about the pleasures you’d enjoy if is to be absolutely unique. In fact, it’s so monumental you went a week without consuming any media. that you may still be shy about living up to it. But how Write: Truthrooster@gmail.com. about if you make 2017 the year you finally come into

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JOHREI CENTER OF SANTA FE. JOHREI IS BASED ON THE FOCUS AND FLOW OF THE UNIVERSAL LIFE ENERGY. When clouds in the spiritual body and in consciousness are dissolved, there is a return to true health. This is according to the Divine Law of Order; after spiritual clearing, physical and mental- emotional healing follow. You are invited to experience the Divine Healing Energy of Johrei. On Saturday, December 24th at 10:30 AM, we will hold our Annual Holiday Service honoring Solstice, Chanukah, and Christmas to bring light into this darkest time of year. All are Welcome!

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GURU PUJA/LAMA TSONG KHAPA DAY WITH EXTENSIVE LIGHT OFFERINGS Led by Don Handrick Friday, December 23, 6:30PM-8:30PM at Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center, located at 1807 Second Street, #35 Santa Fe A “heart” practice in the Geluk Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism where we make offerings and pay homage to our spiritual teachers in order to receive their blessings and inspiration for our spiritual development on the path to enlightenment.

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LEGALS LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS/NAME CHANGE STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF ESTATE OF LUGARDITA G. GOMEZ, DECEASED. CASE NO.: 2016-0138 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within two (2) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe, County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grand Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501.Dated: 10/28/2016Julia R. Gomez, Peter H. Gomez 3201 Zafarano Dr., Suite C#273 Santa Fe, NM 87507 505-470-9551 STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Bradan L. Beech, DECEASED. No.: 2016-0198 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within two (2) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe, County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87504.

Dated: Nov. 23, 2016 Gudrun Hoerig 723 Gomez Road, Santa Fe NM 87505 505-927-1606

to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87522.

Dated: November 28, 2016.

Desirre L. Herrera 51 Mountain View Dr. Las Vegas, NM 87701 (505) 490-2550 STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Robert Hernandez, DECEASED. No.: 2016-0115 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within two (2) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Dated: December 13, 2016 Gary L. Thompson 6078 Hoochaneetsa Plz. S Cochiti Lake, NM 87083 505-350-0240

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NOTICE OF SALE ON FORECLOSURE/ D-101- CV-2016- 00162 Lawrence T. Davis STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNT OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT No. D-101- CV-2016- 00162 Villas De Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc. Plaintiff, v.

Lawrence T. Davis; Unknown Spouse of Lawrence T. Davis; JOHN DOES I V, inclusive; JANE DOES I-V, inclusive; BLACK CORPORATIONS I-V, inclusive; WHITE PARTNERSHIPS I-V, inclusive; Unknown Heirs and Devisees of each of the abovenamed Defendants, if deceased, STATE OF NEW MEXICO Defendant(s). NOTICE OF SALE IN THE PROBATE COURT ON FORECLOSURE PLEASE SANTA FE COUNTY TAKE NOTICE that the aboveIN THE MATTER OF THE entitled Court, having appointed ESTATE OF Louis A. Montoya, me or my designee as Special DECEASED. Master in this matter with the No.: 2016-0146 power to sell, has ordered me NOTICE TO CREDITORS to sell the real property (the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN “Property”) situated in Santa Fe that the undersigned has County, New Mexico, commonly been appointed personal known as 400 Griffin Street, representative of this estate. All Santa Fe New Mexico 87501, persons having claims against and more particularly described this estate are required to as follows: An undivided present their claims within two 30000/263000 interest in fee (2) months after the date of the simple as tenant in common in first publication of this notice, or and to Unit Number(s) 2205, the claims will be forever barred. together with a corresponding Claims must be presented either undivided interest in the 38

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Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (I) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, A Condominium (the “Project”); (II) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (III) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, A Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”). Initial Use Year: 2005 Timeshare Interest: Fixed Use Period: N/ A Number of Rights (if applicable): 30000 Fixed assigned Unit: Vacation Week No.: N/A Unit Type (if applicable): The sale is to begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 11, 2017, on the front steps of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, City of Santa Fe, County of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, at which time I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in lawful currency of the United States of America, the Property to pay expenses of sale, and to satisfy the Judgment granted to Villas De Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc. (“Villas De Santa Fe”). Villas De Santa Fe was awarded a Default Judgment Decree of Foreclosure on October 24, 2016, in the principal sum of $27,157.49, plus attorney fees in the sum of $623.16 and attorney costs in the sum of $659.70 for a total amount of $28,449.40, plus interest thereafter at the rate of 8.75% per annum from October 24. 2016, until the property is sold at a Special Master’s Sale, plus costs of the Special Master’s Sale, including the Special Master’s fee in the amount of $212.50, plus any additional attorney fees and costs actually expended from the date of this Default Judgment until the date of the Special Master’s sale, plus those additional amounts, if any, which Plaintiff will be required to pay before termination of this action for property taxes, and insurance premiums, or any other cost of upkeep of the property of any sort. NOTICE IS

FURTHER GIVEN that the real property and improvements concerned with herein will be sold subject to any and all patent reservations, easements, all recorded and unrecorded liens not foreclosed herein, and all recorded and unrecorded special assessments and taxes that may be due. Villas De Santa Fe, its attorneys, and the Special Master disclaim all responsibility for, and the purchaser at the sale takes the property, subject to the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property, affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land, deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property, if any, environmental contamination on the property, if any, and zoning violations concerning the property, if any.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to a one (1) month right of redemption. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT SALE ARE ADVISED TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF THE TITLE AND THE CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. By: /s/ Robert Doyle, Special Master, P.O. Box 51526, Albuquerque, NM 87181 505-417-4113

Court’s address is listed above.

3. You must file (in person or by mail) your written response with the Court. When you file your response, you must give or mail a copy to the person who signed the lawsuit. 4. If you do not respond in writing, the Court may enter judgment against you as requested in the lawsuit. 5.

You are entitled to a jury trial in most types of lawsuits. To ask for a jury trial, you must request one in writing and pay a jury fee. 6. If you need an interpreter, you must ask for one in writing. 7. You may wish to consult a lawyer. You may contact the State Bar of New Mexico for help finding a lawyer at www.nmbar.org; 1-800-876-6227; or 1-505-797-6066. The Name And Address of Plaintiff’s attorney is: Javier B. Delgado, Esq. #138835, Kellie J. Callahan, Esq. #141405, Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen, PLC, 1400 E. Southern Ave. Suite 400, Tempe, Arizona 85282, Phone: 505-242- 4198, Fax: 505-242- 4169 This Summons Is Issued Pursuant To Rule 1-004 NMRA Of The New Mexico Rules Of Civil Procedure For District Courts. Dated at Santa Fe, New Mexico, this 22 day of January, 2016. /s/ Stephen T. Pacheco Clerk of Court By: /s/ Victoria B. Neal Deputy

Notice Of Sale On Foreclosure/ D-101- CV-2016- 00155 WTA Services, LLC Summons/D-101STATE OF NEW MEXICO CV-2016-00164 COUNT OF SANTA FE W.S. Rodgers FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT STATE OF NEW MEXICO Villas De Santa Fe Condominium COUNTY OF SANTA FE Association, Inc. Plaintiff, No. FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT D-101- CV-2016- 00155 v.

COURT, WTA Services, LLC,; JOHN 225 Montezuma Avenue, DOES I-V, inclusive; JANE Santa Fe, NM 87501, DOES I-V, inclusive; BLACK (505) 455-8250 CORPORATIONS I-V, inclusive; Case Number: D-101WHITE PARTNERSHIPS I-V, CV-2016-00164 inclusive; Unknown Heirs and Judge: Francis J. Mathew Devisees of each of the aboveVillas De Santa Fe Condominium named Defendants, if deceased, Association, Inc. Plaintiff, v.

Defendant(s). NOTICE OF SALE W.S. Rodgers; Unknown Spouse ON FORECLOSURE PLEASE of W.S. Rodgers; Linda G. TAKE NOTICE that the aboveRodgers; Unknown Spouse of entitled Court, having appointed Linda G. Rodgers; John Does me or my designee as Special I V, inclusive; Jane Does I-V, Master in this matter with the inclusive; Black Corporations I-V, power to sell, has ordered me inclusive; White Partnerships to sell the real property (the I-V, inclusive; Unknown Heirs “Property”) situated in Santa Fe and Devisees of each of the County, New Mexico, commonly above-named Defendants, if known as 400 Griffin Street, deceased, Defendant. Summons Santa Fe New Mexico 87501, The State Of New Mexico To: and more particularly described W.S. Rodgers, PO Box 123, as follows: 1 Timeshare Cont. Divide, New Mexico Interest(s) consisting of 1 undi87312. To The Above Named vided one fifty-second (1/52) Defendant(s): Take notice that interest(s) in fee simple as ten1. A lawsuit has been filed ant in common in and to the against you. A copy of the below-described Condominium lawsuit is attached. The Court Unit, together with a correissued this Summons. 2. You sponding undivided interest must respond to this lawsuit in the Common Furnishings in writing. You must file your which are appurtenant to such written response with the Court Condominium Unit, as well as no later than thirty (30) days the recurring (i) exclusive right from the date you are served every calendar year to reserve, with this Summons. (The date use, and occupy an Assigned you are considered served with Unit of the same Unit Type the Summons is determined described below within Villas

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(the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) nonexclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the thencurrent. Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fee Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”). Unit Number: 2113 Vacation Week Number: 45 Unit Type: 1 Bedroom Initial Occupancy Year: 2013 Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Timeshare Interest The sale is to begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 4, 2017, on the front steps of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, City of Santa Fe, County of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, at which time I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in lawful currency of the United States of America, the Property to pay expenses of sale, and to satisfy the Judgment granted to Villas De Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc. (“Villas De Santa Fe”). Villas De Santa Fe was awarded a Default Judgment Decree of Foreclosure on November 2, 2016, in the principal sum of $3,105.42, plus attorney fees in the sum of $767.50 and attorney costs in the sum of $773.57 for a total amount of $4,646.49, plus interest thereafter at the rate of 8.75% per annum from November 2, 2016, until the property is sold at a Special Master’s Sale, plus costs of the Special Master’s Sale, including the Special Master’s fee in the amount of $212.50, plus any additional attorney fees and costs actually expended from the date of this Default Judgment until the date of the Special Master’s sale, plus those additional amounts, if any, which Plaintiff will be required to pay before termination of this action for property taxes, and insurance premiums, or any other cost of upkeep of the property of any sort. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the real property and improvements concerned with herein will be sold subject to any and all patent reservations, easements, all recorded and unrecorded liens not foreclosed herein, and all recorded and unrecorded special assessments and taxes that may be due. Villas De Santa Fe, its attorneys and the Special Master disclaim all responsibility for, and the purchaser at the

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LEGALS sale takes the property, subject to the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property, affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land, deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property, if any, environmental contamination on the property, if any, and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to a one (1) month right of redemption.

PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT SALE ARE ADVISED TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF THE TITLE AND THE CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. By: /s/ Robert Doyle, Special Master P.O. Box 51526 Albuquerque, NM 87181 505-417- 4113

as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).

Unit Number: 2116 Vacation Week Number: 17 Unit Type: 1 Bedroom Initial Occupancy Year: 2013 Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Year Timeshare Interest The sale is to begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 4, 2017, on the front steps of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, City of Santa Fe, County of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, at which time I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in lawful currency of the United States of America, the Property to pay expenses of sale, and to satisfy Notice Of Sale On Foreclosure/ the Judgment granted to Villas No. D-101- CV-2016- 00159 De Santa Fe Condominium WTA Services, LLC Association, Inc. (“Villas De STATE OF NEW MEXICO Santa Fe”). Villas De Santa Fe COUNT OF SANTA FE was awarded a Default Judgment FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Decree of Foreclosure on Villas De Santa Fe Condominium November 2, 2016, in the princiAssociation, Inc. Plaintiff, No. pal sum of $2,123.88, plus attorD-101- CV-2016- 00159 v. ney fees in the sum of $822.50 WTA Services, LLC,; JOHN and attorney costs in the sum DOES I-V, inclusive; JANE of $703.67 for a total amount DOES I-V, inclusive; BLACK of $3,790.04, plus interest CORPORATIONS I-V, inclusive; thereafter at the rate of 8.75% WHITE PARTNERSHIPS I-V, per annum from November 2, inclusive; Unknown Heirs and 2016, until the property is sold Devisees of each of the aboveat a Special Master’s Sale, plus named Defendants, if deceased, costs of the Special Master’s Defendant(s). NOTICE OF SALE Sale, including the Special ON FORECLOSURE PLEASE Master’s fee in the amount of TAKE NOTICE that the above$212.50, plus any additional entitled Court, having appointed attorney fees and costs actually me or my designee as Special expended from the date of this Master in this matter with the Default Judgment until the date power to sell, has ordered me of the Special Master’s sale, plus to sell the real property (the those additional amounts, if any, “Property”) situated in Santa Fe which Plaintiff will be required County, New Mexico, commonly to pay before termination of known as 400 Griffin Street, this action for property taxes, Santa Fe New Mexico 87501, and insurance premiums, or and more particularly described any other cost of upkeep of the as follows: 1 Timeshare property of any sort. NOTICE IS Interest(s) consisting of 1 undiFURTHER GIVEN that the real vided one fifty-second (1/52) property and improvements interest(s) in fee simple as tenconcerned with herein will be ant in common in and to the sold subject to any and all patbelow-described Condominium ent reservations, easements, Unit, together with a correall recorded and unrecorded sponding undivided interest liens not foreclosed herein, and in the Common Furnishings all recorded and unrecorded which are appurtenant to such special assessments and taxes Condominium Unit, as well as that may be due. Villas De Santa the recurring (I) exclusive right Fe its attorneys and the Special every calendar year to reserve, Master disclaim all responsibiluse, and occupy an Assigned ity for, and the purchaser at the Unit of the same Unit Type sale takes the property, subject described below within Villas de to the valuation of the property Santa Fe, a Condominium (the by the County Assessor as real “Project”); (ii) exclusive right or personal property, affixture to use and enjoy the Limited of any mobile or manufactured Common Elements and Common home to the land, deactivation Furnishings located within or of title to a mobile or manufacotherwise appurtenant to such tured home on the property, if Assigned Unit; and (iii) nonexany, environmental contaminaclusive right to use and enjoy tion on the property, if any, and the Common Elements of the zoning violations concerning Project, for their intended purthe property, if any. NOTICE poses, during a Vacation Week,

IS FURTHER GIVEN that the purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to a one (1) month right of redemption.

PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT SALE ARE ADVISED TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF THE TITLE AND THE CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. By: /s/ Robert Doyle, Special Master P.O. Box 51526 Albuquerque, NM 87181 505-417- 4113 Notice Of Sale On Foreclosure/ D-101- CV-2016- 00170 Sharon L. Martin STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Villas De Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc. Plaintiff, v. No. D-101- CV-2016- 00170 Sharon L. Martin; JOHN DOES I-V, inclusive; JANE DOES I-V, inclusive; BLACK CORPORATIONS I-V, inclusive; WHITE PARTNERSHIPS I-V, inclusive; Unknown Heirs and Devisees of each of the abovenamed Defendants, if deceased, Defendant(s). NOTICE OF SALE ON FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the above-entitled Court, having appointed me or my designee as Special Master in this matter with the power to sell, has ordered me to sell the real property (the “Property”) situated in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, commonly known as 400 Griffin Street, Santa Fe New Mexico 87501, and more particularly described as follows: Timeshare Interest(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (1) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit: and (iii) nonexclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the thencurrent Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”). Unit Number: 2114 Vacation Week Number 29 Unit Type: 1 BEDROOM Initial Occupancy Year: 1998 Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Timeshare Interest The

Association, Inc. Plaintiff, No. D-101- CV-2016- 00182 v. Ellen Mattson,; JOHN DOES I-V, inclusive; JANE DOES I-V, inclusive; BLACK CORPORATIONS I-V, inclusive; WHITE PARTNERSHIPS I-V, inclusive; Unknown Heirs and Devisees of each of the abovenamed Defendants, if deceased, Defendant(s). NOTICE OF SALE ON FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the aboveentitled Court, having appointed me or my designee as Special Master in this matter with the power to sell, has ordered me to sell the real property (the “Property”) situated in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, commonly known as 400 Griffin Street, Santa Fe New Mexico 87501, and more particularly described as follows: 1 Timeshare Interest(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (1) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) nonexclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the thencurrent Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”). Unit Number: 1204 Vacation Week Number: 41 Unit Type: 1 Bed Room Deluxe Initial Occupancy Year: 1999 Timeshare Interest: Floating ANNUAL Timeshare Interest.

The sale is to begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 4, 2017, on the front steps of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, City of Santa Fe, County of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, at which time I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in lawful currency of the Notice Of Sale On Foreclosure/ United States of America, the Property to pay expenses of D-101- CV-2016- 00182 sale, and to satisfy the Judgment Ellen Mattson granted to Villas De Santa Fe STATE OF NEW MEXICO Condominium Association, Inc. COUNT OF SANTA FE (“Villas De Santa Fe”). Villas De FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Villas De Santa Fe Condominium Santa Fe was awarded a Default sale is to begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 4, 2017, on the front steps of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, City of Santa Fe, County of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, at which time I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in lawful currency of the United States of America, the Property to pay expenses of sale, and to satisfy the Judgment granted to Villas De Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc. (“Villas De Santa Fe”). Villas De Santa Fe was awarded a Default Judgment Decree of Foreclosure on November 2, 2016, in the principal sum of $7,025.71, plus attorney fees in the sum of $572.50 and attorney costs in the sum of $559.22 for a total amount of $8,157.79, plus interest thereafter at the rate of 8.75% per annum from November 2, 2016, until the property is sold at a Special Master’s Sale, plus costs of the Special Master’s Sale, including the Special Master’s fee in the amount of $212.50, plus any additional attorney fees and costs actually expended from the date of this Default Judgment until the date of the Special Master’s sale, plus those additional amounts, if any, which Plaintiff will be required to pay before termination of this action for property taxes, and insurance premiums, or any other cost of upkeep of the property of any sort. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the real property and improvements concerned with herein will be sold subject to any and all patent reservations, easements, all recorded and unrecorded liens not foreclosed herein, and all recorded and unrecorded special assessments and taxes that may be due. Villas De Santa Fe, its attorneys and the Special Master disclaim all responsibility for, and the purchaser at the sale takes the property, subject to the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property, affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land, deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property, if any, environmental contamination on the property, if any, and zoning violations concerning the property, if any.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to a one (1) month right of redemption.

PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT SALE ARE ADVISED TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF THE TITLE AND THE CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. By: /s/ Robert Doyle, Special Master P.O. Box 51526 Albuquerque, NM 87181 505-417- 4113

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Judgment Decree of Foreclosure on November 1, 2016, in the principal sum of $2,208.82, plus attorney fees in the sum of $822.50 and attorney costs in the sum of $595.06 for a total amount of $3,626.38, plus interest thereafter at the rate of 8.75% per annum from November 1, 2016, until the property is sold at a Special Master’s Sale, plus costs of the Special Master’s Sale, including the Special Master’s fee in the amount of $212.50, plus any additional attorney fees and costs actually expended from the date of this Default Judgment until the date of the Special Master’s sale, plus those additional amounts, if any, which Plaintiff will be required to pay before termination of this action for property taxes, and insurance premiums, or any other cost of upkeep of the property of any sort. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the real property and improvements concerned with herein will be sold subject to any and all patent reservations, easements, all recorded and unrecorded liens not foreclosed herein, and all recorded and unrecorded special assessments and taxes that may be due. Villas De Santa Fe, its attorneys and the Special Master disclaim all responsibility for, and the purchaser at the sale takes the property, subject to the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property, affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land, deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property, if any, environmental contamination on the property, if any, and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to a one (1) month right of redemption. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT SALE ARE ADVISED TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF THE TITLE AND THE CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. By: /s/ Robert Doyle, Special Master P.O. Box 51526 Albuquerque, NM 87181 505-417- 4113

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