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COVER, APRIL 27: “SPRING POETRY SEARCH”

FROM THE ZO MAN Old Man Gloom sez: Yes, Reporter. You published the haiku I wrote.

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OPINION, APRIL 20: “GUTSY MOVE”

WHY ALL THE BIG GUNS? I read the weighted responses to Lena Griffith’s potent angry letter to the editor from major NM-based representatives for the well-organized “not for profit” corporatist heads of ADL, Federation, Chabad etc.

Why all the big guns pointed at an American woman who questions US’s unending support for the Israeli state’s “slo-mo” genocide in Palestine since 1948?

Americans have learned that an Indigenous population oppressed by military occupation and brutal treatment will resist with all they have to end said oppression. Wounded Knee and Vietnam come to mind for Americans. That the US government arms and pays Israel’s government millions of tax dollars every single day to expand and “cleanse” the Indigenous Palestinian population is an outrage to our hearts and minds.

So-called “nonprofits” who wash their donors’ contributions in order to continue funding the criminal 70-year occupation of another people on their own land is a violent slap in the face of thinking and informed Americans, who have observed the pathetic malaise of Congress and UN

who allow outright torture and murder of Palestinian children and youth. A child [was] murdered every other day for the last 16 years by those occupiers, with nary a criminal charge against their border police, IDF or illegal settlers who beat, poison wells, attack American laity observers, run over and murder Palestinians routinely.

Psychopathic racism and supremacy reign in that once most “moral army.“ Remember the tens of thousands who gathered in Rabin Square a week ago chanting “Death to Arabs”? That is what people around the world and across North America reject, revile and despise. If you defend such racist, brutal abuse, you are not seeking peace but rather pieces.

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‘THANKS’ FROM ISRAEL I want to thank Lena Griffith for taking the mask off the endemic hatred of Jews and Israel masquerading as criticism of Israeli policy. She doesn’t even pretend to base her distaste for Israel and Jews on what Israel did after being attacked by Jordan in 1967, but calls “Jewish Zionists and Jewish Israelis” the “new Nazis” because of the last seven decades, making it clear that for her the very existence of the Jewish state is the crime.

Then comes her grand finale, blaming increasing anti-Semitism on the Jews themselves. Thank you, Lena. All intelligent, wellmeaning people who read your letter now know the truth behind the demonization of Israel.

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DANIEL M ISRAEL, PRESIDENT KOL BERAMAH TORAH LEARNING CENTER SANTA FE

WHY PRINT IT? I can’t understand why you would publish such a profoundly anti-Semitic letter.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not to their own facts. To compare the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the genocide of 6,000,000 Jews and millions of other undesirables is simply untrue. If Israel systematically rounded up the Palestinians and gassed them, then this would be a fair analogy. But as the world knows, no such genocide has or will occur.

Further, the Jews that were murdered by the Nazis had done nothing to deserve their fate other than being Jewish. By comparison, Palestinians have sent thousands of rockets at population centers and hundreds of suicide bombers and terrorists to murder Israelis. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is complicated, and statements like this letter do nothing more than inflame hatred.

History has shown that if you tell a big lie often enough, people come to believe it. The Nazis convinced millions of Germans, Poles and other Europeans that Jews are rats and vermin. Many of these people were already profoundly anti-Semitic; nonetheless, this lie became reality and allowed hundreds of thousands of people to directly or indirectly participate in the genocide with a clean conscience. We can all agree that killing rats and vermin is a good thing.

I have visited Santa Fe and hate to think this represents your community.

AUDREY KADIS BRIGHTON, MASS.

WHERE ARE STANDARDS? Has SFR abandoned all pretense of journalistic standards, or editorial oversight, of what appears in its pages?

Otherwise, what could explain printing Lena Griffith’s blatantly biased, abysmally illinformed, grossly anti-Semitic letter? Space hardly would suffice to point out all its factual errors. One, though, “medical denial,” was ludicrously perverse. … When Palestinian officials, or family members, are desperately ill, they head to Israel for treatment.

That includes close relatives of Palestinian Authority head, Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas head, Ismail Haniyeh.

Many ordinary Gazans, West Bank Arabs, even Syrians have been treated in … one of Israel’s many world-class hospitals.

One recent example epitomizes Israel’s giving medical ethos. A Syrian toddler, with lifethreatening injuries, was evacuated to Israel.

It was discovered that she had another life-threatening condition, requiring access to a close relative. An Israeli special forces team was able to enter Syria and bring one

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I cannot fathom how you chose to print this letter by Lena Griffith. It is undisguised hate material. It recycles the old anti-Semitic line that Jews themselves are responsible for the hate visited upon them. Along with the newer, scurrilous canard that Jews and Nazis can somehow be equated. Not to mention minimizing of the Holocaust. Jews “suffered” under the Nazis? Hardly the word to use for genocide which reduced millions of people to smoke and ashes. ... I think an apology to your readers would be appropriate, plus editorial guidelines which would prevent such screed from being disseminated by your paper in the future.

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BARRY SALWEN WILMINGTON, NC

NEWS, APRIL 27:

CAN’T SILENCE VOICES

back to Israel.

Israel is among the first to send medical rescue teams, as now in Ecuador and Bhutan, as formerly in Haiti and Nepal, to countries, experiencing natural disasters, around the world. This is one of its greatest strengths, so, naturally it is one at which haters of Israel, like Griffith, aim their greatest lies.

RICHARD D WILKINS SYRACUSE, NY

EVALUATE THE MYTHS It is a shame that it takes a committee of five echoing rabbis, three federation fundraisers, two misinformed laymen and an ADL director who still cannot critically evaluate the myths they share that were created expressly for the appropriation of Palestine for the resettlement of Jewish Europeans after WWII. This theft of another people’s land started with a great ethnic cleansing in 1947 (not during the 1948 War of Independence). This mythology has grown into a calumny.

It has grown and been amplified so loudly that a presidential candidate assures a Zionist donor, Haim Saban, of 200,000 murders during the next genocidal attack on Gaza. It grieves me that given the opportunity to do so, Israelis have learned to act just like Nazis. I learned all those same myths regurgitated in the letters in the April 4 Reporter in my first 65 years but managed to evaluate them when I finally faced the truth.

The truth is there; open your eyes. Israel is not what he had hoped and prayed it would be in 1948. Herzl is dead but the Nazi Jabotinski sadly lives in the hearts of those who wish to retain victimhood as their reason for being.

GERALD M ROSEN SANTA FE

Having an obvious, orchestrated response to my comment by the tribal Jewish Zionist organizations in New Mexico does not stop the truth of Israeli actions on innocent life from becoming globally transparent. In Santa Fe, a city still suffering from the colonialism of Native American and Hispanics, do Zionists really think they can silence voices for justice? Israel is openly practicing ethnic cleaning and genocide, worse than anything seen in apartheid South Africa, and just as horrific as the Nazis.

Since 1948, Israel has officially killed hundreds of thousands of people “defending” itself in wars and attacks on Arab neighbors. Israel has created the largest unresolved refugee crisis in recorded human history. What happened to the fundamental Jewish commandment “Thou Shall Not Kill’”? It is stolen land, and Palestinians have the right to go home. I stand with the tens of thousands (and growing) of Jewish voices for justice who have openly equated Israel with the Nazis and/or Nazi tactics (Media Benjamin, Miko Peled, Ilan Pappe, Hedy Epstein, Dr. Finklestein, Gilad Atzmon, JVP, etc.). They are my people. All land is holy, and all people are chosen. In time, the “Jewish state” will hurt all Jews. Boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) Israel! L’chaim.

“POP QUIZ, DISTRICT 2 COUNTY COMMISSIONER”

NOT SO FINE I loved reading and listening to this. Not one of the candidate’s finest hours, to be sure.

Thank you for providing such great info to the electorate.

SUSAN MARTIN, POLITICAL CHAIR RIO GRANDE CHAPTER, SIERRA CLUB

CORRECTION In April 27’s Pop Quiz, we listed the wrong outgoing Santa Fe County Commissioner for District 5. Liz Stefanics is leaving the commission and running for a state Senate seat.

SFR will correct factual errors online and in print. Please let us know if we make a mistake, editor@sfreporter.com or 988-7530.

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Seal of Disapproval

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BLUE CORN

Who are those two dudes, anyway?

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aise your hand if you’ve given a lot of thought to the official seal of the University of New Mexico. I know I haven’t, until I recently learned that a lot of UNM students think the thing really sucks.

The school’s seal has two people on it. Go ahead and try to guess who they are. I’ll wait.

Mary and Joseph?

Starsky and Hutch?

Abercrombie and Fitch?

Ike and Tina Turner?

Lyin’ Ted and Little Marco?

Sorry, those are all swell guesses, but they’re wrong. The dudes on the seal are a buckskinned frontiersman and an armored conquistador. Seriously.

I have to ask: Weren’t there some other people living here before the conquistadors and frontiersmen arrived? I know nobody did more for higher education in New Mexico than the conquistadors, but you still have to wonder what these guys are doing alone on the seal, without a Native American in sight.

By the way, the seal also displays a Latin phrase, Lux hominum vita, which I believe means, “The governor would like more pizza.”

Not for nothing, but a sizable slab of this state’s population can’t look at a frontiersman holding a rifle or an ironclad conquistador holding a sword without reflecting on what they used those things for.

If you think about it, this is exactly like if the Charles Manson family invaded your home and slaughtered everybody you love in a helter-skelter

orgy of blood lust, and in spite of that, they got to be in your Christmas card photo, and you couldn’t do anything about it.

Frankly, this issue doesn’t totally surprise me, from a school that ironically calls its sports teams the Lobos, even though the state has been doing its best to drive its real lobos into extinction.

Some Native American students have been pissed off about the seal for a long time, and now they’ve posted an online petition demanding the school get rid of it. The petition says UNM “has one of the highest populations of Native students in the Western Hemisphere currently, and it’s seal continues to make a mockery of it’s Native students and the surrounding Native community.”

I feel like I should stop here and offer the student who wrote that sentence some guidance on the difference between “its” and “it’s,” but that might seem insensitive, so I won’t.

The irate students have even created their own version of the seal, showing the frontiersman and conquistador standing on a pile of human skulls and branded with the inscription, “WHAT INDIANS?” By now, you’re probably saying, “But Bob, this seal probably dates back hundreds of years, to when

people didn’t know any better.” I’m sorry, it doesn’t.

The seal was updated in 1969, when people did know better.

That was a period called the ’60s, and it was all about righting old wrongs and being culturally sensitive. Except in New Mexico, where apparently it was about adding insult to injury and reminding Native Americans why their ancestors didn’t live to a ripe old age.

The angry students correctly point out that these days, old, offensive symbols are being retired right and left, all around us. Confederate flags are disappearing over much of the South, and Harvard’s law school is getting rid of its seal with ties to a slaveowning family, so maybe we could do some similar housekeeping.

You may also be saying, “But Bob, it’s just a school seal. How often will these crybaby students have to look at it, anyway?”

That’s a fair question, and the answer is, every single time they look at their diploma, for the rest of their lives. That’s how often.

Robert Basler’s humor column runs every other week in SFR. Email the author: bluecorn@sfreporter.com

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The city’s fireshed includes 120,000 acres of the mountains bracketing the eastern edge of the city and the watershed. This year, local governing bodies adopted a resolution committing to protecting infrastructure, recreational resources and the watershed, which provides nearly half of the city’s drinking water, from wildfire and bringing together a coalition of stakeholders to address those concerns. The Fire Fair introduces the coalition’s work.

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efore ever walking through the doors at Capital High School, incoming freshmen hear a lot of things about the school—that it’s rough, that it’s a bad school, that it’s a ghetto school, that there’s a lot of violence and gangs.

But Capital High students say that’s not what their experience has shown.

“You could go anywhere and see the complete opposite,” says Kevin Martinez, a Capital High senior.

“People here want to go to school. They want to graduate.”

So students and their mentors from Littleglobe’s Youth Media Project have organized “City of Dreamers,” an event at the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Sunday, May 8—an effort to change the community’s perceptions using short videos, live radio productions, music and on-stage conversations that show what students from Capital can do and have done.

“It’ll open doors for future generations,” says Nathalie Beltran, a Capital senior who this fall heads to St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. “They won’t see you with pity or shame.”

“It’s always assumed that they’re not worthy,” says Toby Wright, who teaches students in the AVID college-readiness program and has been at Capital for four years. “That affects them. For some of them it means, ‘I’m just going to work harder and do better.

I’m just going to be a superhero, because that’s what it takes to get over this.’”

There’s no denying that at one point, the school had problems. Channell Wilson-Segura, who was a student and a teacher there before becoming its directing principal, says a zero-tolerance policy and work with the gang task force cleaned things up, beginning about eight years ago. But the students still face a fair share of issues. Every student is provided with free lunches, because so many families have incomes that fall below the poverty line. At home, Wilson-Segura says, substance abuse may be an issue, and quiet space to study is often not available. Sometimes, she says, people come forward wanting to help, and she has to explain that at times, what the students most need is something basic like deodorant to use while they’re living in a car, or business clothes to wear to an interview.

“Unfortunately, a lot of the kids at our school— they come from severe poverty or they’re not in a place, they’re homeless, or they’re undocumented, so therefore they don’t feel encouraged or excited to graduate and go on to college and get a degree, and therefore they can’t get a job,” says Heather Sellers, coordinator with the student-support organization Communities in Schools at Capital. “There are a lot of factors that are affecting these kids, and I think the more adults they have, the more things that they’re connected to,

Capital High School students worked with mentors to shoot short films explaining their experiences.

and the more people that believe in them, then they’ll ships, but still, when presenters from those programs be able to believe in themselves.” visit Santa Fe, they only stop at Santa Fe High.

Sellers brought Littleglobe, a nonprofit that coor“Sometimes it’s sad, because they don’t realize how dinates community art projects with an eye on social much potential we could have,” says Brenda Zamarchange, to the school last year to support kids and pro- ron Acosta, a senior who plans to start her higher eduvide some extra motivation to stay in school. Students cation at Santa Fe Community College before translearned how to shoot video, record audio and conduct ferring to a four-year university. interviews.

“You’re the underdog. They don’t expect you to do “All of my current students anything. We were overlooked, but we who have been involved, it really always found a way to get there,” says has just changed them,” Sellers Martinez, who has secured a place in says. “It really helped them feel UNM’s medical school and a full-ride People are like they were a part of something scholarship. “It’s kind of been motivatthat grew into this big project. ing to me. People don’t believe you’re going to have to They’re super proud. … And these going to succeed. They’re like, ‘You were some students who weren’t to Capital and you did all this?’ … actually take note went coming to school—ever, and now People are going to have to actually take they are, and they’re totally and note of what happens here, and not just of what happens completely being successful.” assume what happens here.”

Both she and Littleglobe’s Part of the success Wilson-Segura here, and not just Chris Jonas recall hearing a story attributes to an individual case-manof a time students ran a carwash agement approach—that the specialized assume what fundraiser and discussed not putprograms they run, like a medical cating “Capital High” on the sign, reers track and AVID, allow teachers to happens here. fearing that if they did, no one build relationships with students over would stop. four years. If word comes through the The films, radio features, musocial media grapevine that a student sic and speakers such as Estevan is struggling, even if they’ve graduated Rael-Galvez of Culture Connects, the city’s cultural and moved on to college, Wilson-Segura will get in planning effort, are intended to work together to touch personally to ask what’s going on and how she spark conversations about immigration and equity is- can help. sues in Santa Fe, using Capital as a framework.

“It’s working with every child, period,” she says.

“We talk about equity, but the language we use “How do we encourage them to stay in school, to like doesn’t demonstrate equity within our own town,” school, to like learning?”

Jonas says. “For those of us who do seriously believe In the current class of seniors, 55 percent applied in social equity, we need to be conscious how we speak to a four-year college and 45 percent now plan to atabout Santa Fe’s Southside. We’re reiterating the tend. same negative predisposition that our values seem to “Our kids do have dreams, just like anybody else,” indicate is not the case.”

Wilson-Segura says. “Our goal is to help support Opened in 1988 as Santa Fe’s second public high that.” school, Capital has long struggled in the shadow of Santa Fe High.

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eet the prosecutors. This week, we quizzed the three Democrats vying for the party nomination for 1st Judicial District attorney, serving Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos counties. Marco Serna and Maria Sanchez-Gagne are both running to unseat Jennifer Padgett, the incumbent, when voters hit the polls June 7. The winner faces an unopposed Republican in the general election in November. The rules of Pop Quiz are simple: We record the entire conversation and report the answers verbatim.

No research allowed, and if candidates call back later with the right answer, too bad. Listen to recordings of these and previous quizzes at SFReporter.com/primary

MARIA SANCHEZ-GAGNE is former director of the Border Violence Division of the attorney general’s office.

1.

I haven’t worked in the misdemeanor level for some time. I’m going to guess that it could be possibly batteries?

2.

I think there’s two, and I know one is Robert Fry.

3.

The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program? That is a program which is designed for treatment. It’s a diversion program, rather than prosecution, and it is for nonviolent offenders. And they must be charged or be involved with opiates.

And they are given treatment and no prosecution for nonviolent felonies. Nonviolent crimes. And that is sponsored by the Santa Fe Police Department.

4.

Okay, you’re going to have to define for me what you describe as problem-solving courts.

[SFR: “It is a term that courts use to describe a certain type of court.”] I’m not absolutely clear on the term, but I’m assuming it’s drug courts. There’s drug court and teen court.

There are at least two to three drug courts, and two to three teen courts. They’re in Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba.

5.

Are you saying potential or mandatory? Are you saying a range? [SFR: “Yes, a range.”] It’s for the fifth time, right? [SFR: “It’s for the fifth time, yes.”] I remember the second or third is going to be up to 364 days incarceration and a $500 fine, and let me see, the mandatory.

There is mandatory time on this. I’m pretty sure. From what I can recall, it’s going to be 96 hours mandatory time and up to 364 days.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY THE QUESTIONS 1.

What is the most commonly charged misdemeanor in the 1st Judicial District?

2.

How many inmates are on death row in New Mexico? What are their names?

3.

Describe LEAD.

4.

How many problem-solving courts are there in the district, and what types are there?

Where are they located?

5.

What are the potential punishments for a fifth-time DWI offender?

JENNIFER PADGETT, the current district attorney, is running for re-election.

1.

Driving under the influence.

2.

That’s a really hard question. I do not know the answer to that, except to say that they would all have had to been on death row prior to the repeal of the death penalty, and I don’t know their names.

3.

The LEAD Program, it stands for Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion. And it is a complete diversionary program that originates and starts with law enforcement. Law enforcement finds appropriate candidates that have underlying issues that involve substance abuse that may be involved in low-level felony crimes. They actually ask these candidates if they will voluntarily participate in the LEAD Program. … The acceptance protocol runs through my office to ensure that, in fact, they are appropriate candidates. They don’t have any other pending cases in our jurisdiction or others. And if we approve of their participation, they voluntarily enter the program. The program is centered around case coordination. If housing is appropriate, obviously outpatient treatment. Sometimes inpatient treatment. And they continue in the LEAD program throughout their recovery. Something unique about the LEAD program is that it is not abstinence based. It recognizes that participants will have ups and downs. And it is also a complete diversion away from the criminal justice system, so the charge does not hang over their head. It actually disappears to allow the person to fully participate and engage in the program.

4.

In the district, in terms of problem-solving courts? I’m assuming that that is, generally, the treatment courts. We have drug courts for both adults and juveniles. This drug court is in the 1st Judicial District in Santa Fe. I do not believe there is a drug court in Rio Arriba at this point. There are a number of treatment courts in Los Alamos that are run through their municipal courts that are centered around juveniles. There’s a teen court there. Um, there’s also an active teen court in Rio Arriba and an active teen court in Santa Fe.

5.

Well, it’s a felony level at that point, and there is mandatory jail time that my position should be generally served in the Department of Corrections. However, of course, electronic monitoring gives them the credit towards that sentence as well. Their licenses are revoked for life, which generally ensures—well, would be hopeful that they don’t drive anymore. There’s some nuances. Because if they do drive, they don’t have the ignition interlock mandated because of course their license is revoked. They have to engage in treatment and other court-mandated conditions of probation and parole.

MARCO SERNA most recently worked in the attorney general’s office.

1.

My understanding, the most commonly charged misdemeanor is probably DWI.

2.

You know, I wasn’t aware there were any more inmates on death row, specifically because we no longer have the death penalty.

3.

LEAD actually stands for Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, and what the program is, it’s a great program. Only Santa Fe and Seattle have these programs, but what it is, law enforcement, specifically SFPD identify individuals who are habitual drug offenders, and when they identify these individuals, they refer them to a review board who will then decide if they are appropriate for the program, and once placed in the program, they receive some assistance with housing and some assistance with getting a job, but also they are mandated to be in drug treatment programs, and they also will receive certain things like suboxone or methadone to help wean them off whatever drug—and in the majority of the cases it’s going to be an opiate, and heroin, specifically—and what’s great about the program is it’s a long-term program.

I was fortunate enough to go to one of the trainings provided by the Santa Fe Police Department. And it has a great, within the last three years, they had a really good retention rate. Of the 70 individuals that have been placed in the program, 60 are still involved and receiving treatment. Also, what I love about the program is it thinks outside the box because, unfortunately, other programs have much lower success rates. What I’ve seen is there is an 8 percent success rate for 30-day programs. So these long-term programs are so successful and very beneficial. [SFR: “I’m going to cut you off there because I feel like you answered the question, and we have limited space in our paper.”]

Okay, sorry about that. I really like the program.

ANSWER KEY 1.

Magistrate courts handle the vast majority of misdemeanors in New Mexico.

Of the three county magistrate courts that are geographically located in the 1st Judicial District, no proof of insurance is the most commonly charged misdemeanor. District courts handle a few misdemeanors a year. The most commonly charged misdemeanor in the 1st Judicial District Court is DWI.

2.

Two people are on death row in New Mexico: Timothy Allen and Robert Ray Fry.

3.

Originating in Seattle, Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion is a pre-booking, long-term program that connects nonviolent drug offenders to treatment, rather than jail.

4.

So my understanding, in Santa Fe, there is the drug court. It is in Santa Fe, and that is the only problem-solving court that I can think of at the moment in the 1st Judicial District.

4.

There are four drug courts: Two in Santa Fe, for adults and juveniles, and the same in Española. There is also a treatment court in Santa Fe.

5.

A fifth-time DWI offender, I believe that becomes felony level. Fourth-degree. And that is potentially 18 months of incarceration and up to a $5,000 fine.

5.

Between 6 and 18 months in prison, lifetime treatment, up to $5,000 fine, and a lifetime license revocation or ignition interlock with a five-year court review.

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ymbols help us find our way around. They are shorthand for “Hey! This thing you need is right here!” Like a public restroom. We all know the white stick figure emblem painted on cobalt blue plastic that marks the spot.

For eons, this white figure donned two outfits: pants or an A-line dress to designate the restroom as men’s or women’s. Cultural evolution of gender identity led to a third bathroom option, a gender-neutral one, and a new outfit for the white restroom figure.

North Carolina recently mandated that its citizens use the bathroom that corresponds to the gender on their birth certificate. The new law electrified the issue, and celebrities from Bruce Springsteen to Joe Jonas have cancelled appearances in the Tar Heel State as protests erupted and the country divides over bathroom-monitoring antics.

Santa Fe took a stance on who can go where last June, when the City Council passed an ordinance stating that all public single-occupancy restrooms must be gender-neutral. But in a recent spot check, SFR found several single-occupancy restrooms still with gender-specific signs.

And we’re not the only ones. A group calling itself All Families Matter New Mexico has launched a public awareness campaign to urge more compliance with the Santa Fe law. The group is asking residents to add the names of local businesses breaking the gender-neutral rule to its Facebook page.

Jenn Jevertson, coalition coordinator, tells SFR the ordinance is beneficial to more than just the transgender community. “One of the reasons that it’s needed, is that often times transgender folks don’t feel safe and comfortable using the restroom,” Jevertson says, “but it has a broader positive impact for

everyone in Santa Fe. It helps the daughter who needs to help her elderly father in the restroom. It helps the mother with a disabled son.”

Even though the city ordinance sets up fines for violating the rule, Jevertson says her group isn’t asking for that kind of punishment now. “It’s about providing information and helping businesses make the changes, one, because it’s required, but two, because it’s the right thing to do,” she says.

Community members can print flyers from the campaign’s Facebook page, which provides information about the ordinance and how to be in compliance with it. Jevertson says the campaign has already helped some businesses get with the times.

“Betterday Coffee Shop is a great example,” she says. “Recently, they still had the bathrooms labeled as male and female, and I know a few of our community members dropped off flyers and talked to them about it, and last time I was in there, I noticed the bathrooms were marked as gender neutral.”

In response to SFR’s request for comment, city spokesman Matt Ross issued a statement from the mayor in support of the awareness campaign. Henotes the city will “keep that push going until we reach full buy-in” but didn’t provide details about how the city is enforcing the rule.

Visits to businesses around the city show compliance is slow.

La Montañita Co-op has two public single-occupancy restrooms. On SFR’s first visit to the Co-op on April 26, one restroom had the familiar women’s emblem posted on its door. The other restroom was signless, a detail Will Prokopiak, who has managed La Montañita Co-op for 10 years, was unaware of when SFR spoke with him.

During a visit to the Co-op later in the week, new signs had appeared—typed, printed and posted on the bathroom doors. “We have non-gender specific bathrooms because sometime gender specific toilets put others in uncomfortable situations,” the letter on the restroom door reads.

The Allsup’s at the intersection of Cerrillos Road and Paseo de Peralta has two single-occupancy bathrooms, both of which have gender-specific signs. An employee at the location did not want her name published but told SFR that she hasn’t heard of any plans to change the signs on their restrooms. She also said Allsup’s hasn’t received any complaints about the restrooms’ gender-specific status.

Meanwhile, bathroom inclusivity has been a thing at Santa Fe Community College since 2011, when students raised the issue. The facilities not only benefit and support transgender folks, but also parents with small children and people with disabilities, says Emily Stern, head of the Center for Diversity and Integrated Learning at the college.

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The change began when Kathy Knapp and her mother, Mary, passed through the town and read a sign on the door of the old Pie-O-Neer Café, making the sad proclamation that it no longer sold the town’s namesake dessert. Mary declared that if Kathy would buy the place, she’d bake the pies. That partnership worked for a couple years, with Knapp dividing her time between Dallas and her career in advertising there, and the lonely retreat to a roadside café where her mother, yes, baked pies and served three meals a day, usually to locals. Then, it didn’t work anymore, and Knapp had to take over the café while her mother made a doctor-pre-

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scribed move to lower elevation.

In the decades that have since passed, she’s made the place her own and, in the process, become something of a celebrity chef as Pie Town, a small community in the high desert in western New Mexico, has seen increasing attention, traffic and tourism. She’s had to follow through on her mother’s recommendation—to buy a few magic markers, because she’d be signing a lot of autographs.

But in the back of her mind, Knapp says, she’d always wanted to do a photography project to record the “oldtimers,” the remaining few residents left over from early settlers of the town, population now about 60. Many of them arrived in the area after fleeing the Midwestern Dust Bowl to made a go of things as dirt farmers, living in homesteads dug into the ground. So when photographer Arthur Drooker called and asked if she would help him connect with the people and places of Pie Town, she said yes.

Above: A Russell Lee photo of Main Street in Pie Town sits near cooling pies, image by Arthur Drooker.

Right: Cutting pies and cakes at the Pie Town Fair, by Farm Service Administration photographer Russell Lee.

Drooker wasn’t the first photographer to be captured by the little town, and he came with a mission of retracing the path carved by Farm Service Administration photographer Russell Lee. In the 1930s and 1940s, Lee made more than 600 images of Pie Town, more than any other single location covered by the government effort to make a photographic record of American life. In an era that saw many photographers decrying color film as lowbrow, Lee loaded up a camera with Kodachrome. The end result is a stunning sampler of color images that capture a place that has long drifted decades behind its counterparts. Visually, Pie Town of the 1930s and 1940s still had one foot in the previous century.

What Drooker’s photographs reveal, as captured in his book Pie Town Revisited, published late last year by University of New Mexico Press, is a place for which that’s still largely true. It’s a town of unpaved roads and no stoplights, of lunch tables stocked with

ranchers who walk in alone but immediately find the keys out of their cars, and occasionally finding a someone with whom to reminisce, to trade turkey note in the kitchen from a neighbor who borrowed hunting spots, to recall that year so much snow fell some sugar or eggs, the closest grocery store being 80 that a snowmobile could simply drive over the top of miles away in Socorro. the fence lines. It’s a town of people who still live like The place became known for pie when a prospecthey did decades ago. tor began selling apple pies from his general store.

But some of that is changing.

When the time came to petition for a post office, loAs Pie Town has been splashed across the pages cals insisted the name Pie Town stick. of magazines, including Smithsonian, and featured When Knapp first drove through, she says, “There on television shows—namely Bill Geist’s CBS Sunday was nothing. It was a ghost town.”

Morning and the Food Network’s After they reopened the PieThe Best Thing I Ever Ate, and O-Neer, she took pies to visitor most recently, the Travel Chancenters around New Mexico and nel’s Hungrytown, USA—crowds into neighboring states to delivhave increased. And, at the same er the news that once again, Pie It’s almost like it time, some of those old-timers Town had pie. have moved to lower elevations For a few years, Knapp recalls, went from black-andor passed away, and some of the running the café meant showing iconic structures erected by early up, baking a few pies with Nita white to color, and he settlers with wood, tar paper and Larronde (who came on board to mud have collapsed. was right there before help after Knapp’s mother left), “A little place like Pie Town, and then the two of them sitting it changed. you think, Things don’t change,” down to play dominoes. ParticuDrooker says. “Things do change. larly January to March, the road I have no doubt that if I was emthat runs by the front door, US barking on Pie Town Revisited Route 60, is basically dead—“in now, it would be a noticeably dif’95, ’96, we could go all day withferent book. The people moving into Pie Town now out seeing a car on this road,” Knapp says. are retirees, people who want to get away from it all, Tearing down the Pie-O-Neer’s building might and want to try to see if they really can make a go of have been easier than keeping it, she concedes. Its being away from it all. … It’s still a very small town, history includes multiple fires under previous ownstill geographically isolated, still requires a certain ers that left charred wood in the ceiling—a woodamount of grit to make a go of it.” burning stove in the dining room still provides the only heat—and minimal infrastructure that made for Pie Town stakes a claim to a hillside along the an unreliable water supply and an electrical system Continental Divide, at nearly 8,000 feet in elevation, so temperamental it wouldn’t tolerate plugging in near the buttresses of the Sawtooth Mountains and more than two appliances at a time. south of the blackened lava flows of El Malpais, in Locals kind of dismissed the operation early on, Catron County, one of the least populated counties in saying, “Give them until the first hard winter,” and exthe state. The highway is the only paved road. Locals pecting the folks from Texas would call it quits after a talk about never needing to lock their doors or take few quiet and snowed-in months.

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OUNSELOR, NM—The night Daniel Tso was driving home from a traditional Navajo ceremony to mark his granddaughter reaching puberty, a light caught his eye, silhouetting a hillside along NM Hwy. 550. Since oil and gas development took off in the Four Corners area years ago, its beacons appear constantly. Tall white towers of drilling rigs catch the baking noon sun. Flames from flares draw the eye out over the tops of arroyos and piñóns at dusk and dawn. At night, when operators are working to drill new wells, lights illuminate the well pads so brightly that they etch the bluffs behind them out of the darkness, drawing their ridges and folds in blackand-white relief.

Tso turned off onto one of the deeply rutted county roads that meander back into the Navajo tribal lands and chased the light to where a recently drilled well was flaring natural gas, the torchlike flame springing up 3 feet off the ground. He stepped out of his white pickup truck and walked toward the well pad, the smell of burning methane thick in the air. Grease and smoke covered his skin, soaking his clothes and hair in a scent that followed him back into his truck.

A couple weeks later, he drives past that well again, with me in his passenger seat. The flare, still burning away gas deemed unworthy of capture, is candlesticked away from the ground by a roughly 20-foot pipe; the lights are gone, and the day-to-day hum of pulling petroleum out of the ground is under way. A chemical smell lingers in the air.

Tso has made a point of watching the development, of knowing his way around the back roads that lead to the latest well sites. In July, we ride for hours among the wells, on the same routes that school buses take, often jostled to the point that my notes were rendered illegible. There’s a sense that someone has to serve as witness to what’s happening out there, and the former Navajo councilor feels that burden comes to him.

That tribal lands sit in the heart of what has for decades been declared an “energy sacrifice zone” by the federal government has long struck him as a bit of a contradiction. The environmental integrity of this area has been sacrificed to harvest the coal, oil and gas that lie beneath it, and yet many of the Native homes that sit

pected? Katzman says the lab really hadn’t set expectations for how quickly it would move. But the time is now to act, and they hope to begin mitigation work, pending state approval, this fall.

The Department of Energy proposes to gain control of the plume, perhaps even drawing it back over the boundary line, with an eight-year project that will see up to 1.8 billion gallons of chromium-contaminated water extracted from 1,000 feet underground through three wells, cleaned and then spread over the land, allowed to evaporate, or returned to the depths from whence it came through six injection wells. A similar model is in use at a Superfund site in the central business district in Albuquerque, where contamination from a defunct dry cleaning facility stretches ⅔ of a mile long, and at the bulk fuels facility on Kirtland Air Force Base, where a jet fuel leak has required 8.2 million gallons of water be treated.

It’s impossible to know exactly when the Los Alamos chromium was released from the power plant 3 miles up Sandia Canyon. Officials say it happened sometime between 1956 and 1972. Then, surface water likely carried the material down the canyons to where the geology was permeable enough to allow it to settle underground, reaching the top layer of the aquifer. The surface water in that area now is clean, Katzman says, leading them to believe that they’ve caught the tail end of the plume.

That doesn’t cue peace of mind for everyone keeping an eye on the project, which includes the Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board and Nuclear Watch New Mexico.

“The fact that it’s 1,000 parts per billion 3 miles from where they dumped into the canyon is kind of scary, because it seems like there might be a lot of it out there,” says Scott Kovac, operations and research director for Nuclear Watch New Mexico. “Chromium is very soluble; it’s an indicator, like a canary in a coal mine…They dumped chromium in the upper part of Sandia Canyon from the ’50s to the ’70s, and it’s already in the aquifer, so you can’t tell me that the rest of the stuff [won’t get there, too].”

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eated at one of the child-sized desks in her bilingual second grade classroom, Araceli Enriquez-Trinidad talks about how she always wanted to be a teacher.

She even returned to college after earning her bachelor’s degree in Spanish and psychology to get a teaching license but sputtered out of the program. She quit—not quit wanting to be a teacher, but quit taking classes. She was working two jobs on top of them, discouraged and struggling financially. It was all just too much.

But when she read about the newly formed Santa Fe Public Schools Classroom Fellows Program, she decided to apply and found herself participating in its pilot year.

The grant-funded program takes aim at a chronic shortage of teachers with a fast-track approach to filling vacant positions.

Eight weeks of training over the summer sets new teachers on course to start in public schools in August.

They’re provided a $4,000 stipend; their tuition, books and fees are paid for; and they continue coursework through Santa Fe Community College and workshops at the Academy for the Love of Learning on evenings and weekends throughout the year to complete an alternative teaching license.

Enriquez-Trinidad’s words to describe that first year include “tough,” “challenging” and “intense.” But the program—which also provided her with a mentor, a coordinator to track her progress, and a cohort of nine other aspiring teachers going through the same struggles—worked.

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“If it wasn’t for the fellows [program], I wouldn’t be here,” says Enriquez-Trinidad. “I don’t think so. Because I tried on my own, but…I didn’t have the support that I had this time with the fellows program, not only financially but also the moral support. Just knowing that I wasn’t alone and I was with others, it just made a really huge impact.”

She’s gone from standing at the front of a borrowed classroom as a substitute teacher, nervous about her knowledge of everything from the curriculum to classroom management and relationship building, to a comfortable seat in her own thoroughly decorated classroom at Nina Otero Community School, crafting lesson plans with her fellow second grade teacher and excited to implement a new method for teaching writing. She’s heard from her principal that her students last year scored well on their tests.

As a bilingual elementary school teacher working at a school where more than 60 percent of students are enrolled in the free or reduced lunch program because of low family incomes, Enriquez-Trinidad occupies a particularly tough-to-staff position.

“I feel like everyone, all the teachers, they should have the support that I was getting. They should have the moral support, the financial support, because it’s a very demanding job, and with school and trying to teach, it’s not easy. It’s not an easy task to do,” she says.

“Everyone deserves this opportunity.”

Gabriella Torres, who was also in the first class of fellows, echoes much of what Enriquez-Trinidad has to say: She’d always wanted to be a teacher, and without the fellowship, she wouldn’t be here—spending a

wo generations ago, children who spoke Spanish in Santa Fe schools were made to kneel on pencils or grains of rice. At sports team practices, they were punished with extra laps for talking in their native language.

Edward Tabet-Cubero, assistant superintendent of curriculum and professional development for Santa Fe Public Schools, knows because he grew up, like his parents grew up, not being taught his family’s native language after his grandfather was made to suffer for speaking it at school.

“The Spanish was beaten out, literally, of our family,” he tells a group Kellogg Foundation fellows visiting El Camino Real Academy, where they’ve come to learn about bilingual education and racial equity. “There was no motivation in our family to teach it…I found myself in college paying tuition to attain a language that was beaten out of my family.”

Two generations later, several of his daughters are enrolled in dual-language programs at their schools, and he’s happy to see them able to write notes, in Spanish, to their Spanish-speaking abuela abuela in her birthday cards.

That shift from vilifying to valuing the Spanish language is playing out in Santa Fe schools as the district works to serve thousands of students here for whom English is not their native language. The work begins with dismantling the sense among families that the Spanish spoken in their homes is not as valuable as the English their children could learn elsewhere. It’s also about dispelling the idea that an education means drilling English in while native languages and the history and culture and family connections that come with knowing them trickle out.

“Parents know their children need to know English to be successful. They don’t necessarily know they need to know Spanish to succeed. That’s work we as a community will have to do. That’s going to be key,” says Sandra Rodriguez, director of multicultural education for SFPS.

About 3,000 of the roughly 13,000 students in the district have been identified as English languagelearners, though there are likely many more.

The days of corporal punishment for speaking Spanish might be long gone, and everyone from the local superintendent to the state cabinet says that literacy in both English and Spanish helps students, yet schools are still struggling to fulfill that vision. Even as schools work to identify gifted students among the English language-learners and reach them with enrichment programs, funding shortages, a limited and often rotating supply of bilingual teachers and lingering attitudes that undervalue Spanish fluency present obstacles.

Meanwhile, the required tests continue to drive a very different message home: Tests used to guide teachers’ instruction—not to mention assess schools’

To say that we value Spanish...but then we turn around and test them in English, the message to the kids and to the parents is very loud and clear. performance and evaluate teacher effectiveness—are often only available in English. Last year, some students were given an option to listen to translated audio of the math questions for new standardized tests, but the language arts portion assesses only English.

Students who are just learning the language, and may still be receiving as much as 80 percent of their instruction in Spanish, were tested on their grasp of a language they’re not yet fluent in.

“If they’re in an 80/20 model, in other words, 80 percent of the instruction is in Spanish in the early years, and then they’re tested in English, well how does that reflect what the students know? It doesn’t. It can’t,” Rodriguez says. “How would you assess someone in a language they don’t know?”

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English-only testing advances an English-only agenda, she says.

“To say that we value Spanish, we really want you to learn Spanish, but then we turn around and test them in English, the message to the kids and to the parents is very loud and clear,” says Rodriguez, who grew up in Roswell, where she wasn’t allowed to speak Spanish in schools or take it as a course in high school. She spoke it at home and learned to read it in college.

Principals are finding workarounds, like using Spanish-language Standards Based Assessment tests, recently abandoned as the test of choice by the New Mexico Public Education Department in favor of the more stringent Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test. There’s also a prescription for patience with low test scores, the latest rounds of which showed an average of less than a quarter of Santa Fe students meeting or exceeding the expectations for their grade level.

Achievement gaps can be especially visible in the early grades. For example, the third grade language arts tests show schools like Acequia Madre, Carlos Gilbert and Wood Gormley, which all have a low number of English language-learners, scoring with half or more of their students in the top two tiers. At schools with a higher number of students learning English, like Sweeney, Ramirez Thomas, Nina Otero Community School or El Camino Real, closer to 10 percent earn the highest marks.

“I think it requires principals to know that there’s a different timeline for a school to demonstrate success. That’s the starting line,” says David Call, duallanguage coordinator for El Camino Real Academy.

“It’s more complicated with teacher evaluations tied in. If I were in the classroom, I would be on the phone every day saying, ‘I welcome an assessment, but assess my students in the language they’re learning in.’”

Teachers’ unions are calling out the state for that flaw in its teacher evaluation matrix via a lawsuit. Their plea that a judge halt the practice of tying evaluations to test scores hasn’t yet resulted in change, though the decision on an injunction is expected any day.

Even “short cycle assessments,” meant to mark gaps in student learning and tell teachers where to concentrate their instruction, like the Discovery Education Assessment tests, are also often only available in English.

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Shortly after their test results are posted, Allison Majure, communications director for the department, stands in front of roughly 100 people gathered for a nightly update in Farmington after millions of gallons of pollution from an abandoned gold mine poured into the river. The meeting comes a week after drinking water intakes for Farmington and Aztec had been

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A network of 20 monitoring wells like this one are supposed to help scientists keep tabs on a plume of chromium.

of a complex environmental problem.”

EPA standards say the safe level for chromium of all types is 100 parts per billion, but the New Mexico Environmental Department sets the standard for drinking water at 50 ppb. (In a post-Brockovich choice, for comparison, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment set a goal specifically for hexavalent chromium in drinking water of 0.02 parts per billion.)

Testing in the plume has found chromium levels as high as 1,000 ppb. That info comes from about 20 monitoring wells that keep tabs on underground contamination estimated to encompass an area of about a mile by one-half mile. Exactly how far chromium now stretches past the lab boundary isn’t clear, but researchers infer from the changing concentrations that the plume is still moving.

A southern monitoring well near the boundary with San Ildefonso Pueblo has been showing increasing levels of chromium, which has made the matter all the more pressing. Did it move faster than they exJOSEPH JOHNSON

en years ago, Los Alamos National Laboratory discovered a problem creeping its way through lab property. A plume of hexavalent chromium—of Erin Brockovich fame— had drifted down the canyon from an old power plant.

Recent testing by the US Department of Energy shows increasing concentrations of chromium at the edge of the plume, indicating that the material is still moving and has likely breached the lab boundaries.

Chromium comes in a variety of forms. The US Environmental Protection Agency lists chromium-3 as an “essential human dietary element” that can be toxic in high concentrations, while chromium-6 is known to pose health risks even in small amounts and may also be linked to cancer.

The lab unloaded up to 160,000 pounds of chromium after it was used in the power plant’s cooling tower water to slow corrosion, and now, some of the contaminant is sitting in the top 50 to 75 feet of the aquifer that serves residents of Los Alamos County.

It’s also moving on land long considered sacred within the jurisdiction of San Ildefonso Pueblo. Pueblo officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but the county doesn’t seem to be worried.

“We’re testing continuously,” says Julie WilliamsHill, public relations manager for Los Alamos County. “LANL takes the lead doing the testing for us, and they do it in such a way that if any of the testing is of concern, we would have ample time to stop drawing water from that well, and they would drill us a new well.”

So far, Williams-Hill notes, levels of chromium in the county well have tested at 2.29 to 13 ppb, well below the drinking water standards.

The lab had previously claimed that its so-called legacy contaminants—from researching the materials to make the world’s first nuclear bombs, and other tasks—sat on a layer of impermeable rock. But after a state-ordered hydrogeologic survey, which uncovered the plume, it’s clear that’s not the case. Crazy straw-like fissures lie within the landscape, and one of them allowed the chromium plume to drop into the aquifer.

A decade lapsed between when the chromium was found and the publication of a plan to address it, but it’s taken some time to wrap their arms around the problem, says Danny Katzman, technical lead for LANL’s chromium project, pictured at right. The lab’s aim, he says, is to slow the drift for now. Eventually, they hope to neutralize the contaminant in place.

“Our understanding of the plume, where it is and how it’s moving has really only matured in the last year,” Katzman says. “It’s kind of a typical evolution

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And this is the first most of them have heard of anything resembling test results on what, exactly, was in the river when it turned a toxic, mustard color. Even some of the public officials present to speak have not yet heard that test results were available.

Ire is accumulating, and though audience members have been asked to submit all their questions in writing, they quickly devolve into shouting them out to officials.

The department’s analysis, Majure says, has determined that the heavy metals in the river never failed to meet drinking water standards. She pulls up the report on her phone to read to audience members the findings that “all of the parameters that we tested for,

the heavy metal parameters between Friday, August 7 and Sunday, August 9 were below applicable state water quality standards. That time frame is when the plume was here.”

An angry voice comes from the audience: “So what you’re saying is when the river was orange, it was safe to drink?”

Majure is quick to respond: “I wouldn’t have drunken a glass of orange water from that river,” and she adds, “These aren’t the rest of the Safe Drinking Water Act constituents, these are just the heavy metal ones. So that doesn’t translate into, ‘The water was safe to drink,’ but it does tell you that the concentration of the plume when the river was orange, that the suspended and dissolved substances, was below water quality standards. But that does not mean that the water was safe to drink.”

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adorable, and if he recorded this when the Talkboy Moods even covers one of the songs, but Marcos was released, I’d imagine he’s about 30 now.” himself remains a mystery.

The show sounds like brief forays into Muzak, “I’m a big fan of found footage, both audio and according to Langford, and has titles like “Clouds,” video, and both mysteries of ‘Who is Marcos?’ and “Reggae” and “Office.” There is a brief ‘Where does this music come from?’ are enticing to interlude when two other young kids me, to the point that it’s been a big part of my life,” tape over the show with repeated muthe laments. “Mostly I just want to meet terings of, “Dakota is a Frito,” but our the guy to thank him, ask him intrepid hero carries on immediabout all the circumstances ately afterward. surrounding the tape’s creI’VE BEEN ASKING Since that day in 2001, ation and see what he’s EVERY SANTA FEAN I Langford has been trying to up to now.” find Marcos, to meet and So help us out, Santa KNOW IF THEY KNOW reunite him with his musiFe. You can hear the A MARCOS AROUND 30 cal time capsule, to no avail. show in its entirety at Now he’s hoping for your soundcloud.com/piecesYEARS OLD. help, dear readers. bymarcos. See if it sounds “I’ve eliminated all the Marfamiliar, or ask any Marcos coses I know, and I’ve been asking you’ve ever met if they once every Santa Fean I know if they know a recorded a radio show on a Talkboy.

Marcos around 30 years old,” he tells SFR. We want to find this guy and speak with “There are two other names mentioned on him ASAP. Any information can be sent to the tape—the aforementioned Dakota and music@sfreporter.com someone named Leo—and I would guess “I wonder how he’d react to that they’re siblings or cousins. I’ve exhaustdiscovering some dude has been ed my Googling capabilities, and apps like obsessed with this radio Shazam and SoundHound yield false or zero show he made on a toy results; as generic as they are, I really have tape recorder 20-plus come to love the pieces, [and] they get years ago,” Langford stuck in my head all the time.” concludes.

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hirty-three-year-old Warren Langford now lives in Seattle, but he was once an important part of Santa Fe’s music scene.

His band, Nectar, was an awesome example of gothy synth-punk in the vein of the Faint, and he helped shape the sadly defunct punk rock scene alongside so many in the late ’90s and early 2000s. These days, Warren has a problem, and he needs Santa Fe’s help to locate a young man responsible for one of his favorite pieces of local music history. But first, let’s go back a bit.

“I’m pretty sure it was summer, 2001-ish, and my friend Liz Prince and I were on our way to Santa Fe Baking Co. and saw a yard sale sign off of St. Francis,” Langford recalls. “We spotted a Talkboy in a box labeled ‘50 cents,’ and both of us thought it was a pretty good deal for the device made famous in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.”

Indeed, the must-have Christmas item of 1993, Tiger Electronics’ Talkboy was desperately wanted by anyone who had seen Home Alone 2. In the film, Macaulay Culkin reprises his role as young Kevin McCallister, this time forgotten and abandoned in New York City and once again outwitting the bumbling burglars played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.

In a genius-caliber marketing scheme present throughout the movie, Kevin uses the Talkboy’s ability to slow down or speed up playback in order to fool adults and rack up a gigantic room service bill while making Tim Curry look like a fool. It was awesome, and anyone who is in their mid to late 30s will probably recall the device in question lovingly. Langford’s Talkboy, as it turned out, contained a surprise in the form of a tape inside the machine.

“We were amazed to discover that a young boy who identifies himself as Marcos recorded an almost-30-minute-long radio show in which he was the DJ,” Langford says.

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Rex Collins Norris Jr. holds a Russell Lee photo of his grandfather, Sam Norris.

Knapp wouldn’t give up on it, though she twice tried to lease the place and walk away. Each break, she says, let her return with new ideas about how to make the café work.

When an emailed tip to CBS brought the television crew to town, the producer warned Knapp to expect that after the show aired, the phone would ring off the hook, the website would crash from too much traffic and lines would form out the door.

“I thought he didn’t know what he was talking about, but everything he said would come true, did,” Knapp says. “I didn’t think the world would find us.”

But by 10:30 am on the bitterly cold morning after

that Nov. 30, 2014, airdate, the parking lot was full.

Knapp opened the doors to the crowd at 11 and asked who’d been there before. The answer was, no one. She asked who’d seen them on TV. And that answer: Everyone.

“You come to Pie Town not for fame and glory, but to get away from the masses,” Knapp says. “It’s just kind of surreal.”

She has since rearranged the way the café works to accommodate the crowds and pared the restaurant down to pie, coffee and a simple lunch menu; she also adjusted the schedule to just Thursday, Friday and Saturday. She closes for those bitter cold winter

months between Thanksgiving and Pi Day, March 14, deciding to draw the line at going home when the kitchen is so cold she has to thaw the dish soap in the microwave.

The stream of people, and media, allow for no bad pie days and no days she’s not happy to have the doors open and talk to the people who want to meet “the pie lady.”

In addition to serving slices of chocolate chess pie with red chile or pear ginger or strawberry, she tries to hand out a little history. The Pie-O-Neer is wallpapered with Russell Lee’s photographs, pink and pie-covered aprons, and images of the New Mexican landscape. The café is filled with copies of spine-busted books, among them, Far from Main Street: Three Photographers in Depression-Era New Mexico, which includes Lee’s photographs of the town. She puts those books in the hands of children, turning to pages with relatable images of a dinner table set with food or a dentist bracing a child back in a chair.

“I would hope that by coming to little, out-ofthe-way places like this, kids will get to peek into the past,” Knapp says. “I know they’re going to get in the car and start thinking about what used to happen in these little towns.”

What draws the parents, though, is a hope for some portion of the life they once knew.

“It’s not realistic for most people to live in a town like this, but I’d like them to know it exists,” Knapp says. “It’s still genuinely 100 years in the past here.

It’s simple. It’s challenging. It’s not for everyone. … It’s refreshing to visit an era that no longer exists most places.”

One visitor observed that it’s interesting that a bunch of old hippie-types can live in the middle of nowhere on pie, Knapp recounts, but adds, it’s true: “We are a bunch of old hippies just surviving on pie.”

The wheels aren’t slowing. With the forthcoming commercial release of The Pie Lady of Pie Town, a documentary directed and produced by Santa Fe’s own Jane Rosemont, along with additional television show appearances, Pie Town is likely to see still more visitors this summer. The annual pie festival, which takes place the second Saturday in September, drew more than 3,000 people last year, big enough that it’s become tough to wrangle with a mostly volunteer crew. The weeks up to the festival see every freezer in town filled with piecrusts, and every oven in town is baking pies the day before.

The tour buses haven’t yet arrived, Knapp says, but it’s only a matter of time. More and more, her guest book shows entries not by people who happily stumbled onto a slice of pie and a serving of nostalgia on their way to somewhere else but vistiors for whom Pie Town was the destination.

“It’s a good thing because you want your business to flourish,” Knapp says, “but it brings an element of change you’re never quite ready for.”

And then, of course, there’s Drooker’s book, which sports Knapp’s photo on the cover. When he first called Knapp looking for a local contact and introductions to some of the old-timers around town, she says, she told him, “Come quick; there aren’t many left.”

He did, making the first of seven trips to Pie Town within a couple months of their first phone call in 2011, and he caught both buildings and people before they were gone.

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“It’s almost like it went from black-and-white to color, and he was right there before it changed,” Knapp says.

Most people didn’t really want to be interviewed or photographed. They’re private, proud, a bit reticent and disinclined to open up to pushy producers. But Drooker was different.

“He nailed the pioneer homesteading spirit, the Grapes of Wrath—he got it because he’d been fascinated by these people’s lives,” Knapp says.

Collectively speaking, it’s a record of all of our ancestors, she says. It’s all our families in those pages.

“What Arthur did is, he put us in touch with our past, and I’m grateful because a lot of it is gone,” Knapp says.

Drooker dates his interest in photography—and, for that matter, the Farm Service Administration’s deployment of photographers around the country, where they made some 175,000 images of rural America and the war effort—to his teenage years in the 1960s and 1970s.

Only recently, after decades working in television and film, did his mind turn back to that early affection.

“I think most people, certainly a lot of people, when they turn 50, it’s a time to have an involuntary life review, and I certainly had one,” he tells SFR in a telephone interview from San Francisco. “I really had a sit-down with myself to sort of see where I was in my life, take stock and see what I wanted to do with my life in the time that I had left, and one of the questions I asked myself is, what makes me happy? Interestingly or oddly, working in television at thattime did not make the list.”

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photography. He decided to change the balance.

“Instead of being a guy who worked, worked, worked in television and squeezed photography in when he had a chance, I was going to do photography and squeeze television in only when I needed to,” he says.

What followed were two books, American Ruins and Lost Worlds: Ruins of the Americas, which presented haunting images of deteriorating structures.

He’d never been happier. He then returned to the ambitions of his teenage years and to a promise he’d made to himself: to someday go where a Farm Service Administration photographer had been. He’d had no specific place in mind, until Lee’s images of Pie Town surfaced while he was working on the film Seabiscuit in 2002.

“He’s photographing these homesteaders who escaped the Dust Bowl and resettled in Pie Town, and they’re living like 1800s pioneers. They’re dirt farming, which is as simple as it gets,” he says.

That Lee shot some images in color, which was rare at the time, made his work stand out.

“That’s when I thought, Pie Town is the place I want to go,” he says.

Visiting the town over the course of four years, Drooker photographed its current residents against the backdrop of their wood-sided homes and dilapidated buildings. In some, he places Lee’s photographs in the landscape, so a gaggle of women and children striding past the Farm Service Bureau building in the 1940s seems to approach a row of pies cooling on a baking rack. A farmer kneels at a pile of pinto beans, the image losing its edges in the weeds just off the side of the highway, and one of the skyward eyes of the

Top: Pie Town Hotel, where Russell Lee lodged. Bottom: Kathy Knapp, proprietor, Pie-O-Neer Café. Both by Drooker.

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Sam Norris and wife, homesteaders, from the original Russell Lee visits to Pie Town in the 1930s and ‘40s.

Very Large Array peeking over the top of the photo. A cowboy holds a photo of a Pie Town rodeo to his chest, the wooden beams of a corral laced behind him.

The Pie-O-Neer Café is no longer the only stop for pie in town. The Pie Town Café has changed hands, and names, in recent years, but continues to serve pie and lunch. Last year saw the opening of The Gatherin’ Place, a full-service restaurant run by Janine McMurtrey and Brad Brown, and The Pie Source, which Cyndi Fowler runs out of a cabin that’s been restored to look much the way it would have when a homesteading family lived in it.

The point of these multiple options is, in part, to make sure that on any given day, everyone passing through Pie Town can get pie. They’re not competitive, the restaurant owners insist, instead calling around to let one another know when they’re closing or when they’ve been busy, or even when they’re running low on pie.

The Gatherin’ Place started as a gift shop, McMurtrey says, but people kept coming in and asking if they sold pie. So now, she does. The restaurant stayed open all winter, a rarity in this frigid outpost.

“It is slower, but it definitely paid to keep the doors open,” she says.

The publicity has brought people on the early and late ends of the season, and The Gatherin’ Place intends to catch them. Just since June, they’ve seen visitors lured in by mention of the town in the Chicago

Tribune, and people who have come all the way from Spain with Pie Town as their destination. A map of the United States on the wall, for visitors to mark where they’re from, has been up for just four months and already has pins in all 50 states. The wooden doorframes people can sign have signatures from Nigeria, Madagascar, China and Switzerland.

At times, McMurtrey meets them at the door with dough on her hands, taking orders off a menu dominated by BBQ and burgers. Diners sit family style and often share the table with new acquaintances, sometimes exchanging phone numbers.

“Welcome to a time that doesn’t exist anymore,” says McMurtrey, who relocated with her husband six years ago from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. “I traded stiletto heels for boots and mud.”

And, for that matter, 3 million people for 60.

“We knew we wanted to slow down,” she says. “This was like hitting the brakes.”

But it just felt right, she says. Their first winter, they weathered 32-degree-below-zero temperatures and three feet of snow. But she claims it was worth it.

“In big cities, you have acquaintances,” she says.

“In Pie Town, you have friends.”

The Pie Source Homestead Café sits on the eastern edge of town, behind a forest of windmills. Inside the cabin, alongside an old-style washing machine and a wall hung with yellowing newspapers and magazines from World War II and rows of antique coffee cups, Fowler sells just coffee and pie—including her twist on Southwest apple pie, baked with piñón nuts and red chile.

“If everybody’s closed, I’m open,” Fowler says. “It used to be, if you closed, people were mad.”

Asked what brings people to Pie Town, she answers simply, “What I hear from them all is, ‘I want to be able to say I had pie in Pie Town.’”

Sure enough, a woman and her grandson walk in, take a seat at the one table in the dining room, sip some coffee and each indulge in a slice of pie. She says she’d driven through before and told the skeptical teenager, “I betcha we’re going to find a pie place.”

He appeared doubtful, until Fowler set a slice of cherry pie down in front of him.

No one wants people to leave Pie Town disappointed. But it’ll be authenticity that matters, Knapp says, not the media buzz.

“The Pie Town mentality will keep you humble,” she says. “You’re so busy being a personality, you don’t pay attention, and if I don’t pay attention, it’s not going to be great, and it has to be great. It’s my reputation.”

“There’s this increased self-awareness about the town and its tourism potential, and if that continues, then it’s almost like Pie Town just becomes a different version of itself,” Drooker says. “In some respects, it loses or could lose a certain unvarnished, un-selfconscious sense of authenticity, and that’s something personally I would keep an eye on just to see what becomes of a town as a result of all this attention that’s coming to it. … If you’ve been there before and you go there now, you’ll see some changes. Whether those changes continue, whether things develop more, I think that remains to be seen.”

His advice: “You should check it out. It’s a little bit of a drive, but I think you’ll like it. And if you like pie, you’ll love it.”

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WHO’S THE GREENEST OF THEM ALL? Snow White and her loyal comrades are back, but this time they’ve become environmental activists.

A new production from Teatro Paraguas Children’s Co. comes in the form of a green fairy tale, complete with a full score composed by Melange, a husbandand-wife musical team. Narcissa, professional evil queen, has been saturating the soil with chemical pesticides for years. Princesses Snow and White must seek help from six nature-conscious gnomes and others. “There’s political commentary, like fighting over fuel,” says Rhoman Peden, the actor who plays the Huntsman. (Cybele Mayes-Osterman)

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Snow and White and the Seven Conservationists: 7 pm Saturday, May 7. $10. Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, Ste. B, 471-3140.

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Leave Room for Inspiration With nigh unbelievable range, a singer like Alicia Olatuja stands head and shoulders above of love song standards, bossa nova rhythms and even show tune-esque numbers amid the upbeat vocal acrobatics, Timeless is not only a breathtaking first effort from the young singer, it stands head and shoulders above similar contemporary works.

And though she’s been busy with a nonstop touring schedule in recent years, she expects to start recording her next album soon. Olatuja’s range is nigh unbelievable, and her melding of numerous crossover styles is seamless in a way that is, believe it or not, comparable to the catalog of someone like Michael Jackson in its excellence and scope.

“I definitely look at music to be food for the soul, and it’s good to not eat the same thing every day,” Olatuja tells SFR. This is an ideal she carries over into her live performance, as well.

“There will be the songs that make me think, Oh, we’re definitely playing that, but as I write new songs, I also introduce some into the repertoire,” she says. “I like to leave room for inspiration.” (Alex De Vore) ALICIA OLATUJA 7 pm Friday, May 6. $25.

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Though Santiago Perez’ paintings do contain recognizable imagery (a Picasso-like bull, for example), they approach the surreal in terms of intent, scope and imagination. Through the use of homage and a twisted brand of whimsy, Perez’ work is almost childlike, yet with a darkly ominous underlying feeling akin to a blurry dream.

“Many painters struggle with the artists who came before, and this is almost like a jumping-off point,” the Albuquerque-based artist says. “You learn from them but also want to paint as good or better than them, and if you can’t, sometimes you make a joke about it.” (ADV)

In the Night Kitchen Opening Reception: 5-7 pm Friday, May 6. Free. Nüart Gallery, 670 Canyon Road, 988-3888

MUSIC WE BELIEVE THE CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE (AMERICANA-WISE) If you sometimes think to yourself, Y’know, I like Americana, but where are all the young people? you need look no further than the next performance by the Santa Fe University of Art & Design’s Acoustic Americana Ensemble. That might be a mouthful, but these students represent new and graduating musicians who’ve been training so hard, they’re bound to wow you. “They are coming along nicely,” says their teacher, Tom Adler. “The audience is in for a great evening of fiddle tunes, old-time country music, a jug band, folk and blues and Americana songs.” (ADV)

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In every generation, there are a mere handful of truly standout female vocalists. Singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Nina Simone ring in our minds as culture consumers not just because they have ability—plenty of singers sound great—but because they have that certain un-nameable something that lifts them up above their peers and keeps them popular forever.

New York’s Alicia Olatuja, 29, is one such singer. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and member of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, Olatuja rose to prominence with her show-stealing solo at the 2013 presidential inauguration, no small feat considering the event also featured such heavy-hitters as Jennifer Hudson, Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson and Alicia Keys. Since then, Olatuja’s smooth and effortlessly gorgeous vocal style has won her plenty of worldwide acclaim, and she’s worked with the likes of the Julliard Jazz Ensemble as well as huge names like Christian McBride and Chaka Khan. She also continues to record and perform with the aforementioned choir and released her own solo album in 2014, titled Timeless.

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Brigitte Carnochan’s “Mirror Reflects Nothing” is on display in the Bellas Figuras exhibition, beginning Friday at the Verve Gallery.

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WED/4 ART OPENINGS ELI LEVIN: STILL LIFE Back Street Bistro 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 Works from the Santa Fe artist created over decades.

10 am-6 pm, free QUAT PHOTOGRAPHY AND CHIVAS COFFEE Las Chivas Coffee, 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 922-5013 Photographs from Daniel Quat, refreshments and jazz played

by David Yard. Berets and finger snapping are optional.

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BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 The library’s Books and Babies program is an ongoing event for families with children ages 6 months to 2 years.

10:30-11 am, free SCIENCE WRITER'S WORKSHOP Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Hey, Dick and Zelazny fans who are also into writing—this one's for you! If you don’t know who those guys are, you probably do, you just don’t know it. C’mon guys! Blade Runner? That’s Phillip K Dick all the way.

6 pm, free WALTER STERLING St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 Sterling speaks about “The Problems of Friendship in Shakespeare’s Treatment of Fallstaff and Prince Hal.” 3:15 pm, free

FREE COMMUNITY FLAMENCO CLASS Santa Fe School of Flamenco 1730 Camino Carlos Rey #5, 209-1302 If you've ever wanted to flamenco, now's your chance. We may have wanted to flamenco at one time, but then we took an arrow to the knee.

5:30 pm, free SWING DANCE! Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 You better believe this event title has an exclamation point, and that swing is still a thing.

We’re East Coast swing people, but hey, it’s all cool.

6:30 pm, free

EVENTS CITY SILENCE IN SANTA FE Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe Street, 982-3373 Community meditation.

Mindfulness. Quiet. Silence.

6 pm, free

DAVID CROSS: MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 From the hallowed excellence of Mr. Show and the brilliant Arrested Development to the unbearable hysterics of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, David Cross is one of the funniest humans in the history of comedy.

8 pm, $44 FREE JOB SEEKERS WORKSHOP Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC and Back to Work 50+ help you navigate the treacherous process of online applications for state jobs.

11 am, free NATIONAL BIKE TO SCHOOL DAY Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 If you bicycle to SFCC, you can get snacks and such, check cycling demos and more.

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SANTA FE CHILDREN'S CHESS CLUB Santa Fe Public Library 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Take yer kids and let 'em go nuts on some chess.

5:45 pm, free SANTA FE SCRABBLE Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 426-1753 Quixotic. Parliamentary. Za. A few words you should use while playing Scrabble.

5:30 pm, $1 SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Learn about the arts and culture of the medieval era.

6 pm, free SUPPORT GROUP FOR STROKE SURVIVORS Christus St. Vincent 455 St. Michael's Drive, 820-5202 If you or a loved one has suffered a stroke, this group offers some support.

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TAPS & TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Shine up your pocket protectors and prepare your D&D paladin with the +5 broadsword—this gathering of tabletop RPG/game enthusiasts is heating up.

6 pm, free WORLD TAVERN POKER Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 It's poker. Every week.

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MUSIC BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals and really good wine.

7 pm, free CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classic and modern flamenco guitar.

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CHRIS ABEYTA El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Get your singing and songwriting here.

8:30 pm, free CS ROCKSHOW La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 A classic rock cover band from these guys Curry and Springer.

7:30 pm, free ELECTRIC JAM WITH NICK WYMETT AND ALBERT DIAZ Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Jam it up over at Tiny's.

8:30 pm, free GROUND ZERO YOUTH RADIO WITH DAVID TARDY Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Tardy helps you create and produce your own radio show for local station KSFR (see 3 Questions, page 31).

6 pm, $10

JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana, country and singer-songwriter tunes.

8 pm, free RAMON BERMUDEZ TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Smooooooth guitar jazz, baby.

6 pm, free SFUAD ACOUSTIC AMERICANA ENSEMBLE CONCERT O'Shaughnessy Perf. Space 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6200 Students perform in the Acoustic Americana Ensemble, directed by Tom Adler, who is just a straight beast on the banjo and guitar (see SFR Picks, page 25).

7 pm, free SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Solo singer-songwriter tunes that may involve guitars.

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TAKEOVER WEDNESDAY WITH MANDY MAS The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 Hip-hop that cannot and will not stop.

9 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano to facilitate your pizza and pasta eating.

6 pm, free

THU/5 ART OPENINGS SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ARTS & DESIGN STUDENT EXHIBITION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Student works in ceramics, drawing, architectural design, book arts, carving, sculpture and so much more. Seriously, if you don’t like something here, you may be dead inside.

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ALEX DE VORE

Vitality Lifesongs helps and heals across generations

BY ALEX DE VORE @teamalex

W

e are conditioned to fear the concept and ramifications of aging. The ancient Egyptians would surely find this ridiculous, but it’s true: Aging and dying are mostly terrifying, and we spend the vast majority of our time attempting to either ward these things off or forget about them as best we can.

As such, we tend to neglect the elders in our lives and communities, due to our own complicated feelings.

All too often, these people are forgotten, shoved into nursing homes or hospice situations and then trotted out to sit in the corner during holidays or family gatherings. This could almost allow us to feel like we’re good people, but at the end of the day, we sweep them back under the rug until the next time we’re forced to interact. Granted, the societal fear of aging plays a much larger role than we might like to admit, but the point remains the same.

Enter Lifesongs, a program from the Academy for the Love of Learning. We’ve talked about them before in brief; Lifesongs’ most basic premise is that composers, singers and musicians work with elders to create original songs based upon their lives and experiences. It’s really only a small amount of what they do, but it is honestly enough.

“It’s connecting to something greater than myself, and it’s such an honor every day I get to do this work,” 35-year-old volunteer Vanessa Torres tells SFR. Torres, a counselor and lifelong musician who has been involved with the program for the last 18 months, echoes a story similar to others who work with Lifesongs, like singer Alysha Shaw or composer Grisha Krivchenia. They each went into the program with the assumption they were the ones doing good but say they wound up feeling fulfilled in unimagined ways.

“This isn’t just a program, it’s a movement,” Torres says. “We are bridging the gap in this conversation

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A legacy doesn’t just serve the living, it also serves the dying.

about aging and dying. … I was kind of scared of death, but I’ve become more comfortable and aware that it’s no t a bad thing to get older.”

Eighteen-year-old Elle Knowlton learned similar lessons after writing a song titled “Tears for Santo Domingo” with a local woman named Rita Pacheco, 72. “She had this whirlwind of a life, as the only girl in a family of brothers, and her mother, who was her idol, died when she was young; she actually has dementia now,” Knowlton says. “Being able to share her pain has been hard, but this is such soulful work to be doing.”

Knowlton, a member of the Santa Fe Opera’s Young Voices, is just one of many teens who work with the elders and an excellent example of the multigenerational possibilities of the program. The high school senior is also the perfect candidate to illustrate an important side effect of Lifesongs: Teens, like elders, are often written off as incapable or unimportant, and their experiences in going through life are not entirely dissimilar. This allows for an easier connection. “I hadn’t thought of that,” Knowlton says.

“But it’s totally true.”

As for the elders themselves, they tend to blossom when they get involved. According to Catherine Sandoval, senior activities director for Santa Fe Care

Center, “Lifesongs is a meaningful thing for us because [the seniors] are getting out of the building and going to a safe space, where they’re looked at like human beings, and that changes the culture of how we think about aging.”

“I was relieved of my anger,” 79-year-old Nancy Fresquez, a resident of Santa Fe Care Center, tells SFR of her own experience with the program. “I’m a new person now.” As for her fellow resident Herman Sandoval, 87, he jokingly states that he’s happy to “be spending my time with young people instead of just old people.”

Both Fresquez and Sandoval will appear onstage alongside Torres, Knowlton and myriad others.

“It’s not about just documenting or extracting stories, it’s actually a celebration of what it is to be human,” director and co-founder Acushla Bastible says.

“We’re all seeking connection; that’s missing from so many people’s lives, and with Lifesongs, there are these moments of real, meaningful connection.”

I SAW THE MYSTERY: LIFESONGS IN CONCERT 2016 7 pm Saturday, May 7. $10. Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St. 988-1234

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I’m a 31-year-old straight woman. I have a good job, great friends, and average attractiveness. I’ve dated close to 30 men at this point, and I can’t wrap my head around this: I’ve never had a boyfriend or dated anyone for more than a couple months. It’s really starting to wear on my self-esteem. I don’t believe anything is wrong with me, but the more time goes on, the more I think I have to be doing something wrong. The guys ghost me or things fizzle out or we’re not at the same point in our lives. This is particularly true for one guy I’ve remained friends with (common social circle) who is struggling with his career, though things are still awkward because it’s clear there’s still something there. Another area of concern: I’m still a virgin. Catholic guilt resulted in me being a late bloomer, with my first kiss at 21. Once I got more into dating, my low self-esteem coupled with the fact that I’ve basically decided I want to be in a monogamous committed relationship with a guy before having sex, relationships just never happened. I don’t have unrealistic expectations that I’ll marry the first dick that sticks itself into me—but I’ve waited this long, so I’m not going to jump into the sack with just anyone without knowing that I can at least trust them. The only guy I really do trust is Somewhat Depressed Guy, but propositioning him could further complicate our already awkward friendship. Is something wrong with me, and what the hell should I do?

-What’s Wrong With Me? I get variations on the first half of your question—is something wrong with me?—all the time. But it’s not a question I’m in a position to answer, WWWM, as I would need to depose a random sampling of the guys you’ve dated, interrogate your friends, and grill you under a bare lightbulb for a few days to figure out what’s wrong with you.

And you know what? Nothing could be wrong with you. You may have pulled the short straw 30 times in a row, and you just need to keep getting out there and eventually you’ll pull a guy who won’t ghost or fizzle on you.

As for the second half of your question…

What the hell should you do? Well, gee.

What you’ve been doing hasn’t worked, WWWM, so maybe it’s time to do something else. Like fuck some dude on the first date. Or if that’s too drastic, fuck some dude on the second date. Or better yet, go to Somewhat Depressed Guy and say: “I don’t think you want a relationship right now, and I’m not sure I do either. But I like you and trust you, and I could really use your help with something…”

While the commitment-and-monogamyfirst approach has worked for some, WWWM, it hasn’t worked for you. And being a virgin at 31 isn’t boosting your self-esteem. There are lots of people out there who jumped in the sack and did a little dick-sticking with people they barely knew but had a good feeling about.

The jumping/sticking/dicking approach doesn’t always lead to committed and/or monogamous relationships, but it can and it has and it does.

Somewhat Depressed Guy might be somewhat less depressed if he was getting some, you might have higher self-esteem if you finally got some, and dispensing with your virginity might make dating after you part ways—if you part ways with him (you never know)—seem a lot less fraught.

I’m a virgin in my late 20s. I’m not waiting until marriage, just for the right person. I’ve dated enough and had enough fun to continue being a happy, normal, socially competent guy, much to the disbelief of my various knuckle-dragging, vagina-blinded pals. I’ve

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been dating this gal for a few months. She’s special—we have tons of chemistry and she cares about me. We had a brief conversation about my lack of sexperience when we first started dating, and she was very cool about it. I really like this girl, but I’m not sure yet if she’s the future Mrs. I am a worrier (thanks, mom!), and I find myself thinking that if I share this with her and somewhere down the road we end up breaking up, she’s going to be even more devastated because I shared my first time with her. Am I just having silly virgin worries? Not only am I concerned about her feelings if things don’t work out, but I’m also concerned that I might become vagina-blinded—that I might immediately tell this girl I want to spend my life with her just because she’s having sex with me only to find myself a few years down the road feeling trapped.

What should I do?

-Very Indecisive, Really Gettin’ Naughty You should fuck this girl already—provided, of course, that this girl wants to fuck you.

You could wind up saying things you come to regret or have to walk back—her vagina might be that bedazzling—but that’s an unavoidable risk, and not one that’s unique to virgins. The right vagina, ass, face, skill set, or bank balance can blind a fucker with decades of experience. The only way to avoid vaginablindness—or ass-blindness, etc.—is to never have sex with anyone. And I don’t think you’re interested in celibacy, so stop freaking out about the risk that you’ll imprint, duckling-like, on the first vagina your pee-pee sees the inside of.

You must also eliminate “sexperience” from your vocabulary, VIRGN, as it’s equal parts cloying and annoying.

I’ve been with my boyfriend for more than a year. He’s the first person I’ve had sex with.

Four times now while we were having passionate sex, he has slipped out of my vagina and accidentally penetrated me anally. That shit hurts, and I can’t help but cry. I know he feels super guilty each time. I love sex, but I’m kind of scared every time we have it now.

We’ve engaged in a little anal play before, and I wasn’t really a fan. But I’m not adverse to the idea of using a butt plug. Do you think this would work? Surely other people have this problem too, right?

-Wrong Hole, Anal Torment My own personal sexperience with anal led me to doubt claims of accidental anal penetration, WHAT, as anal penetration always required focus, precision, and proper breathing techniques—in my own sexperience. But listeners of the Savage Lovecast schooled me in Episode 340, and I’m now convinced that accidental anal penetration is something too many women have sexperienced. (Do you see how annoying that is, VIRGN?) A strategically deployed butt plug sounds like a sexcellent solution to the problem, WHAT, but get yourself a plug with a widerthan-usual base to prevent your boyfriend’s misdirected cock from pushing the plug, base and all, all the way in you (ouch) or his misdirected cock from sliding in alongside the plug.

(If you hate single penetration, you’ll really hate double penetration.)

If the problem persists even with a plug—if your boyfriend’s cock is constantly slamming into the plug in a way that you find uncomfortable—a thumbtack glued to the base of the plug will inspire your boyfriend to be more focused and precise.

And speaking of the Savage Lovecast, we’re coming up on our 500th episode, which is a significant milestone for this relatively new genre/platform/doohickey. If you’re not already listening, find it here: savagelovecast. com. And a big thanks to Nancy Hartunian, the Lovecast’s producer since Episode 1, and to the tech-savvy, at-risk youth who pushed me to start podcasting before it was cool. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

SFUAD BFA SENIOR THESIS EXHIBITION OPENING: GROUP 4 SFUAD Fine Arts Gallery 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6500 SFUAD’s final exhibition features work from students Justice Levine, Sen Salinas and a group installation.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 The library’s Books and Babies program is an ongoing event for families with children ages 6 months to 2 years.

10:30-11 am, free CHIMAYÓ: BEYOND THE SANTUARIO Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo Museum Hill, 982-2226 Admission to the museum grants access to this lecture with Don Unser. In conjunction with the exhibit, Chimayó: A Pilgrimage Through Two Centuries.

1 pm, free MATT DONOVAN Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Donovan reads from A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption.

6 pm, free SILKSCREENING Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Make your own designs for clothing or for art or pillowcases (we've seen them make some cool-ass pillowcases).

5 pm, $10-$20 STUDENT READINGS O'Shaughnessy Perf. Space 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6200 Readings from SFUAD students Elizabeth McKean, Cris Galvez, Andre Koss and Josh McGuire.

7 pm, free WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY NORTHERN NEW MEXICO NETWORKING LUNCH Los Alamos Nature Center 2600 Canyon Rd., 662-0460 The New Mexico Technology Council will host Harshini Mukundan with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lucrece Borrego with Camino Real Capital Partners and Molly Cernicek with SportXast to discuss what it means to be a woman in the technology sector in Northern New Mexico.

11:30 am, $20

DANCE BREAKDANCING FOR B-BOYS AND B-GIRLS WITH TYRONE, ALE AND FRIENDS Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Check it out everybody, if you give these kids a chance, you just might have a real cool time and learn to do a dance!

Believe it or not, it’s an excellent workout, too.

5 pm, free

EVENTS FILM DIGITIZATION AND STORAGE WORKSHOP State Records Center & Archives 1205 Camino Carlos Rey, 476-7000 Learn about preservation methods.

1 pm, free FUTURE VOICES OF NEW MEXICO AWARDS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Filmmakers and photographers aged 13-18 are honored.

10 am, free

FOOD CINCO DE MAYO WITH THE GIRL’S INC. FAMILY The Owings Gallery 120 E Marcy St., 986-9088 An evening of Cinco de Mayo celebration with our Girl’s Inc. family. There will be plenty of Mexican food, beer, wine and conversation.

5 pm, free

MUSIC BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals and really good wine.

7 pm, free CHANGO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock and pop covers that will surely make people dance.

8 pm, free CS ROCKSHOW La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 CS Rockshow sounds like a guy who writes rock operas, but it's actually a classic rock cover band from these guys Curry and Springer.

7:30 pm, free DADOU Pizzeria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 We love Dadou and his French, Italian, pop jams that come in both covers and originals. We truly do.

6:30 pm, free DJ INKYINC. The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Soul, funk, ska and lots more.

9 pm, free GARY VIGIL Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo guitar and vocals.

6 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Bar Alto at the Drury Plaza 828 Paseo de Peralta, 424-2175 Irish music, good times and great oldies.

7 pm, free LATIN NIGHT WITH VDJ DANY Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Bachata, reggaeton, salsa and lots more. We don't know what a VDJ is, but we do know this is popular as hell.

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LIMELIGHT KARAOKE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Yes, you too can be in the spotlight for one brief moment and hear things from your friends like, "Wow, you're like, a really good singer and should go pro!"

10 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ & FRIENDS La Boca 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Latin/world music fusion.

7 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Come on down to the Mine Shaft Tavern the first Thursday of each month for open mic night.

7 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 The solo jazz guitarist proves that even though we all like to make fun of jazz, the genre can boast some damn impressive musicians.

6 pm, free PAT MALONE & JON GAGAN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz guitar and jazz bass.

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7 pm, free RUSSELL SCHARF AND JAZZ EXPLOSION The High Note 132 W Water St., 919-8771 A big explosion of jazz with the trumpeter and his posse.

8 pm, $10 SFUAD BALKAN/MIDEAST ENSEMBLE CONCERT O'Shaughnessy Perf. Space 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6200 Students perform in the Balkan/Mideast Ensemble, directed by Polly Tapia Ferber.

With special guests the Women’s Choir, directed by Willa Roberts and Dr. Steven Paxton.

7:30 pm, free SMALL LEAKS SINK SHIPS, FUTURE SCARS, STEEPLE CONFIGURATION The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 The Portland, Ore., quartet blasts out of the PNW to alter the way our brains works in beautiful ways, alongside local power-weirdos Future Scars and an ABQ post-rock duo called Steeple Configuration.

9 pm, $5 SOL FIRE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n pop 'n Latin music that together becomes this thing bigger than those things we just said.

8:30 pm, free TIM NOLEN AND THE RAILYARD REUNION AT DERAILED Derailed at the Sage Inn 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Good tunes, a full bar and a comfy patio could be the best ingredients for a Cinco de Mayo happy hour.

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THE CALENDAR TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano to facilitate your pizza and pasta eating.

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FRI/6 ART OPENINGS BELLAS FIGURAS Verve Gallery 219 E Marcy St., 982-5009 Fine photos from four incredible artists exploring—you guessed it—beautiful figures.

5-7 pm, free DAVID GRAY: REFLECTIVE Sage Creek Gallery 421 Canyon Road, 988-3444 Figure and still life paintings.

5 pm, free DICK EVANS, UNSUNG MEMORIES, AND PENNY TRUITT, INTERSECT Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road, 992-0711 Two art experiences in one.

These artists have concurrent shows, with Evans exhibiting paintings, and Truitt showing ceramic and steel sculpture.

5 pm, free FLORIOGRAPHY: THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS The Globe Gallery 727 Canyon Road, 989-3888 Artist Annie O'Brien Gonzales signs her new book, Bold Expressive Painting and gets all psyched on flowers with an exhibit on—get this—flowers.

5 pm, free INTIMATE INQUEERY IAIA 83 Avan Nu Po, 424-2387 Live painting and an open mic at this student-curated show.

7 pm, free JEWELRY TRUNK SHOW True West Gallery 130 Lincoln Ave,, 982-0055 Meet John Paul Rangel, Jerry Faires and Matt Miranda, three jewelers with crazy different styles, but styles that are also very beautiful.

5-7 pm, free SPRING FESTIVAL PREVIEW GROUP SHOW Ventana Fine Art 400 Canyon Road, 983-8815 Painted works by John Axton, Doug Dawson, Rod Hubble, Natasha Isenhour and Barry McCuan; these well-known artists can make for a good hour in your Friday evening.

5 pm, free GARY DENMARK El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road, 982-0016 Denmark is more known for color abstractions, but Megaliths and Cairnages shows works with cut and collaged photo "sketches."

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SHE KILLS MONSTERS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 A special preview of playwright Qui Nguyen's tale of a young girl who discovers an interesting way to connect with her dead sister— Dungeons & Dragons. Thanks, Gary Gygax!

7:30 pm, $15

David Tardy, native New Yorker, composer and broadcaster, is the center of Warehouse 21’s teen tornado. As well as being W21’s resident techie, Tardy helps young people create their own radio shows at his Ground Zero Youth Radio Program (5 pm Wednesdays, Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 898-4423). (Cybele Mayes-Osterman) What’s the process you’ve created for teens to produce their own radio shows?

I teach Santa Fe youth and teens how to record, produce, mix, host their own radio show. That includes actually creating their own music list, creating their own tags, also interviewing people within the community as well ... So, basically I’m just trying to create avenues for kids that may not necessarily exist in the regular classroom. I just want to give kids the avenue to be able to do something that they love to do. And that’s very important to me.

How does your program fit into W21’s goal of creating Santa Fe “youth culture?”

As co director, I’m really on a mission to create a community here, to create a space that the kids can come and just be themselves and discover who they are as individuals and connect with people and each other.

We’re getting ready to celebrate our 20th anniversary and I’m going to re-brand and re-launch a new Warehouse 21 that is really a community center for all ages. I think it’s also important for Santa Fe youth to be able to connect with older Santa Fe citizens of all ages.

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I hope it will always remain a valuable and a meaningful platform simply because it gives our youth and our kids that are producing their own, that have their own show, a platform to actually voice what they opinions are—to voice issues that they feel need discussing. It gives them a chance to connect with local individuals and organizations that inspire them or they might have questions about. It’s a blessing to be here. I mean, I wish I had a place like this when I was growing up because I practically would have lived here.

REFLECTIONS Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Reflections features drawings, paintings, photography and sculpture by Santa Fe Waldorf School's 9th-12th grade students as well as excerpts of creative writing from the Taliesin, the high school's literary magazine. The is the starting point for many young artists.

4-7 pm, free SANTIAGO PEREZ: IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road, 988-3888 Perez brings a modern touch to the surrealist likes of Bosch with a slight Sendak-y vibe (see SFR Picks, page 25).

5 pm, free

STEPHEN DAY AND PEGGY IMMEL Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 Meet plein air painters Day and Immel at the opening reception for This Enchanted Landscape, which presents Southwestern scenes.

5:30-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 The library’s Books and Babies program is an ongoing event for families with children ages 6 months to 2 years.

Wait a minute, babies can read books?! If they manage to understand tools, we’re done for.

10:30-11 am, free

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FILM DIGITIZATION AND STORAGE WORKSHOP State Records Center & Archives 1205 Camino Carlos Rey, 476-7000 Learn about preservation methods.

1 pm, free FIRST FRIDAY OPEN HOUSE Ralph T Coe Foundation for the Arts 1590 B Pacheco St., 9836372 Behind-the-scenes view of the collection of Indigenous art.

1 pm, free SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENT FASHION SHOW The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Students show their fashions.

6 pm, $7 CITIZEN MIN IN NEW MEXICO New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Minoru Yasui, a civilrights advocate, got his start in WWII internment camps, when the Land of Enchantment was the Land of Entrapment. His daughter offers this presentation to honor her activist father.

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SANTA FE SPIRITS COCKTAIL CLASS Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1, 467-8892 Do something different with your mom this Mother's Day: make fancy drinks!

6 pm, $30

MUSIC ALCHEMY WITH DJS POETICS AND DYNAMITE SOL Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, Top 40, dance jams, and plenty more.

9 pm, $7 ALICIA OLATUJA Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 Presented by the Santa Fe Music Collective, Olatuja was born in Brooklyn and has gotten national recognition lately for being a vocal powerhouse (see SFR Picks, page 25).

7 pm, $20-$25

BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals and really good wine.

8 pm, free THE BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 We're out of reggae jokes.

Sorry, guys. We know you look forward to 'em. All the same, this is that band that does reggae/rock/hip-hop.

8:30 pm, $5 DADOU Pizzeria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 We love Dadou and his French, Italian, pop jams that come in both covers and originals. We truly do.

6:30 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Geist basically makes you wish you were half as cool as he is by dropping musical theater, love songs, and more all over the place.

6 pm, free DJ DANY'S LATIN FRIDAYS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Bachata, cumbia, reggaeton and lots more with Skylight's resident Latin music expert.

9 pm, $7 DK AND THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 These fine folks bring a swing kinda sound to bluesy rock and rockabily. Is there such a thing as “bluesabilly?” If so, it might be these guys.

8:30 am, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 When Billy Joel wrote "Piano Man," he was probably thinking about Montgomery and his tremendous piano chops.

6:30 pm, free GREG BUTERA & BAND Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 Grab a beer (maybe to calm the Cinco de Mayo hangover) and listen to some jams.

6 pm, free JANE FITZ WITH SEAN THOMAS AND BILLIAM Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A veteran DJ of 20+ years, Fitz comes to Meow Wolf to hobnob with local DJs and freak dance fans the eff out.

9 pm, $15-$20 JOHNNY AZARI Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Deltas are those things where a river branches into other little parts of a river, so, like, delta blues should probably have branches (style-wise, stick with us here) as well.

Azari will teach you if they do.

Don’t forget your blue suede shoes. Sorry about the Marc Cohn reference.

5 pm, free

MONDO VIBRATIONS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Reggae meets rock and soul while the rest of us miss being able to use the word “mondo” without sounding really ’80s.

8 pm, free NIGHT TRAIN La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Dance your week away with this lively ensemble.

8 pm, free THE NOMS AND REVIVA Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 The Noms go rock in a Dave Matthews fashion (take that how you will), and Reviva does a reggae-rock kind of thing.

7 pm, $7 SFUAD AFRICAN DRUM ENSEMBLE CONCERT Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6011 Students perform in the drum ensemble, directed by Fred Simpson. This concert takes place at the Forum.

7:30 pm, free TGIF: RICK BEAUBIEN AND LYDIA MADRICK First Presbyterian Church SF 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Big-time hits by Schubert including "Gute Nacht," "Aug dem Flusse" and "Rast."

5:30 pm, free THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Three guys, three faces, three reasons to like jazz. Have three drinks (but don't drive), eat three foods, bring three friends ... other things with three in them, and so forth.

7:30 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano to facilitate your pizza and pasta eating.

6 pm, free ZOLTAN & THE FORTUNE TELLERS Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Dance or just listen to swingy folk music at the Railyard.

7 pm, free

THEATER SHE KILLS MONSTERS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Playwright Qui Nguyen's tale of a young girl who discovers an interesting way to connect with her dead sister— Dungeons & Dragons.

7:30 pm, $20-$25 SNOW & WHITE & THE SEVEN CONSERVATIONISTS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Teatro Paraguas Children's Program presents a reimagining of the well-known fairy tale (see SFR Picks, page 25).

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Seeds of Change Art exhibit at the Roundhouse invites a conversation about our use, and abuse, of the land ELIZABETH MILLER e l i z a b e t h @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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UNM students wove a vessel from willows as a statement on the prospect of damming the Gila River.

“It is a seed planting in people’s heads,” Besold says of Ecozoic. “Some of them may not grow for a while, but some may sprout right away—where do we get our food, and what could we do with our yard? If it makes people talk about our relationship to everything, to planet earth, that’s a really important piece.”

The opening reception will include a seed exchange hosted by SeedBroadcast, demonstrations and information on composting from Reunity Resources, and an interactive weaving of an olla, a native water-storage vessel, that started with a University BASIA IRLAND

or many years, Bobbe Besold has photographed the hands of farmers, often those she met at the Santa Fe Farmers Market, in or near their stands of produce and between customers, their fingers draped over carrots or cupping pints of berries. Then she was asked by the director of Española Farmers Market to participate in a project that sent her out to the fields of a family-run farm near Tesuque, pulling carrots, helping to open the acequia and interviewing the family.

The work cut to a much deeper level, to conversations about the land we live in, the land that made us, the land that feeds us, and how we cultivate a life for ourselves without destroying sources of food and life for those who follow us.

Besold realized other artists were similarly engaging with these issues and decided to curate a show, The Ecozoic Era: plant|seed|soil, that focuses not on that food chain of what eats what, but where that what begins—in plants, in seeds, in soil—and to cultivate a conversation about how we are shaped by, and have begun to reshape, the planet around us.

“Visual art is a catalyst in a way that other things are not,” Besold says. “We can read a lot of facts about what we should be doing, and why we should be doing it, but when you actually are seeing images and absorbing ideas in that way, it’s a whole other avenue into the human mind.”

The exhibition, featuring roughly 20 artists, explores the interactions of people, climate and carbon, and it does so at the State Capitol building.

“I like to work in unusual places,” Besold says, “because people come to the place without expecting to see something that might change them.”

Based on the number of annual visitors to the Roundhouse, some 20,000 people could pass by this exhibition, which opened April 29 and has a reception on May 6.

“I’m expecting [visitors] to think about what their responsibility is to everything, to all other beings,” she says. Perhaps, she says, seeds will be planted in the minds of some of those lawmakers on the fourth floor.

She chose the term “ecozoic” as a counter to the now increasingly common “anthropocene.” In the latter, she says, she doesn’t see enough accountability for what we do and have done. But “ecozoic” ties together the Greek roots for “house” and “living beings”—there’s an accountability implied, like in any home, that the residents will each take a share in the chores required to keep the household running, like washing the dishes and doing the yard work.

of New Mexico class on art and the American West that took college students out into the landscape to prompt projects about the environment. While visiting the Gila Wilderness, the students heard about a proposal to dam the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico.

“To think about where exactly they want to put the dam, it would just disrupt that entire ecosystem, and that place we had lunch at would never be there again,” says Sarah Molina, a UNM senior fine arts major who attended the class. “Just coming in as artists that connect with the earth, it really affected us a lot.”

They harvested willow branches along the riverbank and created a four-foot basket that was then placed back into the Gila River. But they wanted to bring that piece and that conversation back to Albu-

querque, recounts Molina. And that’s also how the project landed in Santa Fe for the Ecozoic opening.

“An olla is used to capture water, but this olla is a woven basket, so of course it’s not going to hold water,” she says. “A dam is going to capture water, but it’s not going to hold the water forever. It’s just kind of an obstruction in the way of the natural flow.”

People will be invited to weave a willow into the olla and to consider the prospect of damming the last predominantly undammed river in the state.

The standing exhibit features artwork that invites a closer look at the elements of plants and seeds— bundles of leaves, made by Santa Fean artist Matthew Chase-Daniel, that see oak leaves folding in on one another and cottonwood leaves packed so their stems make a tiny forest, or spun and pinned together.

Nancy Sutor photographs the miraculous beauty of a compost pile turning persimmons and apple cores into soil, instead of festering in a landfill where they would release methane. Ahni Rocheleau intercedes on behalf of New Mexico’s communities affected by oil and gas development and coal-fired power plants with an installation of Department of Defense drinking water canisters and tumbleweeds below a banner that declares, “I am not a sacrifice zone.” Albuquerque-based Jade Leyva’s paintings make sweet statements about the intertwining of human spirits and their natural surroundings. Basia Irland’s photographs show her “ice books,” blocks of ice carved into the shape of books, the pages of which are covered with seeds from native riparian plants. The books are then placed in a river, where they melt and disperse their contents, fueling restoration of the river ecosystem in which plants provide habitat, filter pollutants and reduce flooding.

“Each of us is a walking river held together by paper-thin skin,” Irland said in a 2015 TEDx talk in Vail, Colo. “We are water, we are blood, we are tears, and we are urine. We are all connected. We are not separate from the waters of the world.”

THE ECOZOIC ERA: PLANT|SEED|SOIL State Capitol Building, 411 S Capitol St. Through Aug. 5 Opening reception 4-6 pm Wednesday, May 6

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LIFESONGS in Concert I I Saw the Mystery Saturday, May 7 • 7:00PM Lensic Performing Arts Center

$10.00 Adults • Children under 12 FREE • $100.00 Premium Tickets More information and tickets at ticketssantafe.org A Celebration of the Human Journey Lifesongs Concerts are the culmination of months of creative collaboration between elders, artists, community members, youth and people in hospice. The performances celebrate the voices of our elders, the insights gained at end-of-life, and the extraordinary alchemy of intergenerational creative exchange.

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BELLAS FIGURAS Verve Gallery 219 E Marcy St., 982-5009 The artists behind the show talk about their works.

2 pm, free IN MICROSCALE Metallo Gallery 2863 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 471-2457 Fine art showcased in miniature form from Kevin Box, Melissa Morgan and more.

4 pm, free JOHNSON'S OF MADRID MAY EXHIBITIONS Johnson's of Madrid Galleries 2843 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 471-1054 There's so much going on at Johnson's of Madrid, it's crazy.

From landscapes and peoplescapes to dyed fabrics and frames and more. It all starts here, and it's all probably going to be fun.

3 pm, free PLACITAS STUDIO TOUR Placitas 3 Cañon de Apache, 867-2450 Some 49 studios show art from dozens of artists at the 19th annual studio tour.

10 am-5 pm, free WALTER ROBINSON Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Rd., 986-9800 Robinson, who also shows at the NM Museum of Art, discusses his work.

3 pm, free WOVEN GEOMETRICS Tapestry Gallery 4 Firehouse Lane, Ste. D, Madrid, 471-0794 Woven tapestries from woven tapestry masters.

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BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 The library’s Books and Babies program is an ongoing event for families with children ages 6 months to 2 years.

10:30-11 am, free FREE COMIC BOOK DAY Big Adventure Comics 801 Cerrillos Road, Ste. B, 992-8783 Grab a free story.

Noon, free NASARIO GARCIA: GRANDPA LOLO'S MATANZA op.cit.

500 Montezuma Ave., #101, 428-0321 A free signing and reading with the award-winning author. In case you were curious, a "matanza" is a village event that's all about food and togetherness.

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DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 An intimate dining experience with the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25

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RAPTURE BY MODAS DANCE Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 An evening of diverse dance by the gifted artists of Modas Dance.

7 pm, free

EVENTS MASTER GARDENER GARDEN FAIR Santa Fe County Fairgrounds 3229 Rodeo Road Eat food from local vendors and catch some demos or buy some plants at this outdoor garden event.

9 am, free URBAN FARMING IN SANTA FE Molecule 1226 Flagman Way, 989-9806 Did you guys know that urban farming is one of the best things you can do for the planet and for yourselves? But how do you get started? Find out at this thing right here.

1:30 pm, free

FILM HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Watch this screening of How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change direct from its world premiere at Sundance. The fundraiser for New Energy Economy also presents Oscarnominated director Josh Fox (Gasland) in attendance.

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MUSIC AMERICAN JEM Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 955-0765 Steaks and Americana go together like ... steaks and Americana.

6:30 pm, $15 BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals and really good wine. There’s not much better than that.

8 pm, free THE BUS TAPES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk, anti-folk, rock, anti-rock, jamz, anti-jamz.

8:30 am, free CONTROLLED BURN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock and blues.

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DADOU Pizzeria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 We love Dadou’s French and Italian pop jams that come in both covers and originals.

6:30 pm, free ROBIN HOLLOWAY Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Holloway fills in for David Geist but keeps the piano jams a-going.

6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 When Billy Joel wrote "Piano Man," he was probably thinking about Montgomery and his tremendous piano chops.

6 pm, free GARRY BLACKCHILD Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Blackchild rocks out some folk tunes for your Saturday beer and burger session.

7 pm, free INNASTATE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Reggae rock rides again at Skylight. It's almost like Sublime is still around.

8 pm, $5 I SAW THE MYSTERY: LIFESONGS IN CONCERT 2016 Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The Academy for the Love of Learning presents a performance of their Lifesongs program. It's a very cool gathering of composers, singers, youths and elders playing original songs based on the lives of elder Santa Feans (see Music, page 29).

7 pm, $10 JESSE RS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Go and listen to this person and maybe convince them to add some letters to their name.

7 pm, free JOSH MARTIN TRIO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 Classic rock and beer is a classic combo. And Martin, we've already told you, is a musical genius and goes for Americana with this trio.

6 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluegrass meets honky-tonk and jazz. Blazzy-tonk—write that down.

3 pm, free NIGHT TRAIN La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Dance your week away with this lively ensemble.

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ast week in reviewing a new steakhouse, The Bourbon Grill at El Gancho, I mentioned that I like to buy nice cuts of beef and cook steaks at home. I do this because a) it’s cheaper and b) I think it’s fun, plus c) I get to drink as much wine as I want while I’m cooking and d) I don’t have to put on real pants to do any of it. Win. As I said, this doesn’t really work for things like prime rib because a) it requires a Flintstone-sized roast, which b) is quite expensive and c) is just too much effort for a Tuesday night.

Filet mignon is another story. Yes, it’s expensive if you buy two prepackaged steaks in the meat section at the grocery store. But here’s a great secret: You can save a lot by buying a whole tenderloin and trimming it yourself. Last week at Costco, I bought a 7-pound tenderloin (USDA Choice, because Prime wasn’t available) for $82 and turned it into 11 smallish filets, half a pound of what I called stir-fry slices and a pound of cubed meat, perfect for beef stroganoff or bourguignon or whatever you want to do with super tender little beef chunks.

That’s less than $7 for a filet mignon. Not bad, eh?

If Costco doesn’t work for you, ask the meat counter attendant at your favorite grocery store if they’ll sell you a whole tenderloin.

When you get it home, make a little bed of paper towels on the kitchen counter, near the sink. Then, holding the meat over the sink, cut open the plastic and allow the liquid to drain. Set the meat on the paper towels and pat it dry.

Move it to the cutting board.

The best bargain in tenderloin isn’t very pretty; it’s a lumpy shape, all covered with weird chunks of fat and silverskin. This is why you paid less than $12 per pound for tenderloin. But believe me, it’s worth it.

Now get familiar with your tenderloin. Notice there’s a flat, skinny end to the meat and a wide, fat end. There’s also a long piece of meat kind of stuck all along one side. We’re going to separate this into three pieces.

First, use your fingers to peel off all the sheathing of fat and connective tissue that envelops the meat.

Pretty quickly, you see the three parts emerge. Pull the membrane away from the central part of the meat and use your

Get your carnivore on, if you’re so inclined. Or not, if you’re a veggie-saurus; there’s nothing wrong with that.

knife to gently separate the chain (that long, skinny strip) from the tenderloin.

Put the chain on a plate or a piece of foil; we’ll deal with it later.

Now, remove the other piece—the miniature roast that makes up half of the fat end of the tenderloin— and put it with the chain.

Next, we need to remove the silverskin, that long, shiny piece of tissue that runs the length of the tenderloin. Start at the bottom, and get the tip of your knife under the silverskin. If you’ve successfully removed the skin from a piece of salmon, use that same technique here. Lift and wiggle the silverskin as you gently work your knife underneath it, trying to take off as little meat as possible. It’s not easy to do this well, so you may have some cleanup to do.

Now, you should have a pretty tenderloin.

Lay out another plate or piece of foil for the trim-

mings you want to keep for another purpose.

I like a little steak (4-6 ounces), and my dude likes a big one (6-8 ounces), plus I’m kind of fussy, so I use my kitchen scale to weigh out the pieces.

I cut the steaks and then weigh each one, wrap it in plastic and then in foil, and use a Sharpie to write the weight and the date on it.

I used trim and portion tenderloins all the time back when I worked in restaurants, and it was important to get them as uniform as possible, so that every customer’s steak weighed as much as you promised, and they all looked equal when they came to the table.

But at home, this is probably not as important, so just cut steaks that look good to you. It’s nice to have a variety of weights and thicknesses to reach for in the freezer.

A good piece of tenderloin is delicious when seasoned with salt and pepper, cooked in a hot cast iron pan. A little olive oil in the pan is good. Cooking the steak in beef fat is great.

If you want to dress it up a little, make a little sour cherry sauce while the cooked steaks are resting. Add some olive oil or beef fat to the pan if it’s dry. Sauté a minced shallot or ¼ cup minced onion over medium heat, just until they’re translucent. Add ¼ cup of port, cognac, madeira, sherry or whatever, and let it simmer until it’s almost gone. Throw in a handful of dried tart cherries and ½ cup low-sodium beef. Simmer for a few minutes while the cherries plump and the sauce thickens. If you have demiglace in the fridge, drop in a couple tablespoons of that. Otherwise, you can do butter. Or you can leave it. Either way, season the sauce with salt and pepper and pour it over your steaks.

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7 pm, $10 NOSOTROS LIVE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Jazzy salsa rock and/or some such. These fools will get you fools dancing.

10 pm, $7 SANTA FE CHILES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Dixieland jazz.

1 pm, free SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SPRING CHORAL CONCERT 2016: WITH A VOICE OF SINGING! Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC student singers jam with accompanist Lydia Clark.

2 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Hosts Cyndi and Nanci preside over this beloved and longrunning karaoke event.

8:30 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, mainstream and EDM. Skylight is the place to be on Saturday nights.

9 pm, $7 TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano to facilitate your pizza and pasta eating.

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All day, free SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Plaza Guadalupe Street and Paseo de Peralta Buy local art and local berries at this event.

10 am, free

BOOKS/LECTURES BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 The library’s Books and Babies program is an ongoing event for families with children ages 6 months to 2 years.

10:30-11 am, free INEZ RUSSELL GOMEZ Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The editorial page editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican talks local issues with host Alan Webber.

11 am, free PETER STRECKFUS AND SAWNIE MORRIS Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Part of Muse Times Two, a program to discover unheard poetic voices from around the country and bring them to Santa Fe. Streckfus is from Washington DC. 4 pm, free

EVENTS HISTORIC SANTA FE FOUNDATION MOTHER'S DAY TOUR 2016 Santa Fe Properties 1000 Paseo de Peralta, 983-2567 Take your dang mom on a historic walking tour of places like the Oldest House, San Miguel Chapel, Roque Tudesqui House and the Bataan Memorial Building.

1 pm, $7-$12

FILM LITTLEGLOBE AND THE LENSIC PRESENT "CITY OF DREAMERS" Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 This is a night of short films, live radio presentations and music to showcase the stories of the students, families and immigrants of Santa Fe’s Southside (see news, page 13) 7 pm, $15

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DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 When Billy Joel wrote "Piano Man," he was probably thinking about Montgomery and his tremendous piano chops.

6 pm, free JOE WEST AND THE SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana for your brunching/listening pleasure.

Noon, free LATIN WORLD MUSIC WITH NACHA MENDEZ & FRIENDS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A night of world music with Mendez and special guests.

7 pm, free MIKE MONTIEL HOSTS THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Open mic. Be there, whether you’re good, bad or whatever.

3-6 pm, free THE ART OF MUSICAL TRANSCRIPTION Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat and Conference Center 50 Mount Carmel Road, 988-1975 The music of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Franck and Fauré as played by flautist Linda Marianello, clarinetist Robert Marcus and pianist Jacquelyn Helin.

5:30 pm, $28 RHYTHM DRAGONS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 These dragons got rhythm.

3 pm, free SANGRE DE CRISTO CHORALE First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Morley, Morten and Paulus as choraled by this beloved chorale. ¡Chorale!

3 pm, $20 SFUAD ARTISTS FOR POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE CONCERT Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6011 Students showcase their work.

7:30 pm, free SHOESHINE BLUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluesy folk and gospel with a dash of doo-wop all the way from Portland (the good one), Ore. 8 pm, free

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7:30 pm, $30 SNOW & WHITE & THE SEVEN CONSERVATIONISTS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Teatro Paraguas' Children's Program presents a reimagining of the well-known fairy tale in such a way as to explore humor and conservationism.

7 pm, $10 ZIRCUS EROTIQUE: FRINGE & MAYHEM The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Your fave local burlesque troupe welcomes performers from Colorado, New York and right here in NM for a sexy night of sexy jams and variety.

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EVENTS EXPLORE YOUR OPTIONS @ SFCC Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 A bilingual discussion about the programs and services offered by SFCC, a school that is astoundingly awesome.

6 pm, free

MUSIC COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Enjoy a night of amateur fun.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 When Billy Joel wrote "Piano Man," he was probably thinking about Montgomery and his tremendous piano chops.

6 pm, free YUJA WANG Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Wang, a piano prodigy of such talent and ferocity, has not yet even hit 30 years of age.

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10:30-11 am, free ROMEO & JULIETTE: PLAY AND MUSIC Unitarian Universalist Congregation Church 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-0439 The Santa Fe Opera Guild gets you ready for the upcoming opera season.

5:30 pm, free STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES AND DAN WELLS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 It will be werewolves for Jones and demons for Wells as they talk gore and fantasy in their new novels. For some, werewolves are demons. But still, sounds cool.

7 pm, $10

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A tango dance event. Make like Gomez and Morticia and check it out.

7:30 pm, free

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SANTA FE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 The Jewish Film Festival returns for its sixth season; this night presents three documentaries.

5 pm, $8-$12

MUSIC CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Enjoy a night of blues with the Canyon Road Blues Jam. 8:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 When Billy Joel wrote "Piano Man," he was probably thinking about Doug Montgomery and his tremendous piano chops.

6 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 He's one of those multiinstrumentalists who plays traditional-ish Irish music kind of guys.

8 pm, free THE GUNSELS Evangelo's 200 W San Francisco St. Honky-tonk tunes as led by local hero Greg Butera.

8 pm, free LOUNGE SESSIONS WITH DJS GUTTERMOUTH AND DYNAMITE SOL Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 No cover and cheap beer/ food. Plus the music for which you long and pine (hip-hop and dance jams et al).

10 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH JOHN RIVES AND RANDY MULKEY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Sign up, and get down.

7 pm, free OPEN SONGS WITH BEN WRIGHT Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 This night can produce hidden gems in our vast musical community, and Wright alone is a reason to go.

7 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 The jazz guitarist proves that even though we like to make fun of jazz, the genre boasts some damn good musicians.

6 pm, free

RECORDING WITH JAMES LUTZ Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Santa Fe audio-visual sound master Lutz teaches all you need to know to get on the road to music production.

4:30 pm, $10 SANTA FE BLUEGRASS JAM Derailed at the Sage Inn 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 All levels of players and all acoustic bluegrass instruments are welcome.

6 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano to facilitate your pizza and pasta eating.

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136 GRANT 36 Grant Ave, 983-0075 John Boland, Mustangs and Other Wild Horses of Northern New Mexico.

3 STUDIOS GALLERY 901 Canyon Road, 919-1103 Angel Wynn, Dayna FiskWilliams and Tom McGee. ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING 133 Seton Village Road, 955-1860 Archives on Display.

ADOBE GALLERY 221 Canyon Road, 955-0550 Pablita Velarde & Helen Hardin: Tradition & Innovation.

ARGOS STUDIO & SANTA FE ETCHING CLUB 1211 Luisa St., 988-1814 Prints about Prints.

ART EXCHANGE GALLERY 60 E San Francisco St., 603-4485 Group show, Faces.

ART GONE WILD GALLERIES 203 Canyon Road, Ste. B, 820-1004 Doug Bloodworth, Photo Realism.

ART HOUSE 231 Delgado St., 995-0231 Group show, Luminous Flux 2.0.

ART.I.FACTORY 930 Baca St., Ste. C, 982-5000 Patti Levey and Laura Stanziola, Body of Work.

AXLE CONTEMPORARY Santa Fe Farmers Market, 670-5854 Susan Begay, We the Extranimals.

BACK STREET BISTRO 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 Frances Ehrenburg-Hyman and Mary Olivera, Catching the Light.

BINDLESTICK STUDIO 616 1/2 Canyon Road, (917) 679-8080 Jeffrey Schweitzer, Into the Moonlight and The Biography of an Eccentric Gentleman.

CANYON ROAD CONTEMPORARY 402 Canyon Road, 983-0433 Craig Mitchell Smith, The Winter Garden.

THE CALENDAR CAPITOL COFFEE 507 Old Santa Fe Trail, 398-4113 Mark Steven Shepherd, Exterior and Interior Landscapes.

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CATENARY ART GALLERY 616 1/2 Canyon Road, 982-2700 Nicolai Panayotov, Sans Frontiéres.

CCA 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L Twist, A Very Long Line. M12, The Breaking Ring. Group show, Getting Real.

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CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 Edith Bauman, The Unseen.

CHIVAS COFFEE La Tienda Exhibit Space 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 922-5013 Daniel Quat.

CITY OF MUD 1114A Hickox St., 954-1705 Under See: Subliminal and Sublime.

COMMUNITY GALLERY 201 W Marcy St., 955-6707 Banned. Through May 12 DAVID RICHARD GALLERY 1570 Pacheco St., Ste. A1, 983-9555 Group show, Happy Birthday, Meow Wolf.

DOWNTOWN DAY SPA OF SANTA FE 624 Agua Fría St., 986-0113 Sharon Samuels, One-Woman Show.

EDITION ONE GALLERY 1036 Canyon Road, 570-5385 Group show, Woman. Miracle.

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ED LARSON GALLERY 821 Canyon Road, 983-7269 Grand Finale.

ELLSWORTH GALLERY 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900 Tim Klabunde.

EYE ON THE MOUNTAIN GALLERY 614 Agua Fría St., (928) 308-0319 Rachel Houseman, ColorScapes.

FINE ART FRAMERS 1415 W. Alameda, 982-4397 Renée Vogelle, Will Schmitt, Tati Norbeck and Chad Erickson, Like ... You Know.

FREEFORM ARTSPACE 1619 C de Baca Lane, 692-9249 Jody Sunshine, Tales from the Middle Class.

GALLERY 901 708 Canyon Road, 780-8390 Eddy Shorty, Sculptures.

GREENBERG FINE ART 205 Canyon Road, 955-1500 Dennis Smith, Lighter than Air. JAMES KELLY CONTEMPORARY 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1601 Bill Jacobson, Lines in My Eyes.

Tom Miller, Set to Topple and Equivalent Architecture.

JEAN COCTEAU CINEMA 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Taylor Oliver, Photopaintings.

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1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Wes Hempel, Reconnection.

Henry Jackson, Continuum.

Forrest Moses, The Monotypes: Reflections of a Painter.

Michael Roque Collins, The Venetian; Dirk De Bruycker, Memorial Exhibition. Jivan Lee, Landscapes.

LYN A FOX POTTERY 806 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-0222 Maxine, Camilla and Dominique Toya, A Family Affair. Lyn Fox, Whistlestop.

MANITOU GALLERIES 225 Canyon Road, 986-9833 Spring Show.

MARIGOLD ARTS 424 Canyon Road, 982-4142 Linda Running Bentley and Kipp Bentley, Art Carpets.

Carolyn Lankford, Robert Lyn Highsmith and Jim McLain.

MONROE GALLERY 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800 Spring Fever. Group show, Vintage Photojournalism. They Broke the Mold.

NATCHEZ ART STUDIO 201 Palace Ave., 231-7721 Stan Natchez, Indian without Reservation.

NEDRA MATTEUCCI GALLERIES 1075 Paseo de Peralta, 983-2731 Robert Lougheed, A Brilliant Life in Art. NISA TOUCHON FINE ART 1925 Rosina St., Ste. C, 303-3034 Group show, Small Is the New Big. OFFROAD PRODUCTIONS 2891-B Trades West Road, 670-9276 Group show, Sheroes/She Rose!

Nick Benson, Thais Mather, Todd Christensen, Penumbra Letter Press, Burning Books Press, Printed Matter.

PATINA GALLERY 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 Jack Parsons, Bugs and Buses.

Claire Kahn.

PETERS PROJECTS 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Kent Monkman, Failure of Modernity. Group show, Spectrum.

PHIL SPACE 1410 2nd St., 983-7945 Donald Rubinstein, Music Fields/Energy Lines. Aaron Rhodes, Eye Candy.

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY 541 S Guadalupe St., 988-5152 Cig Harvey, Gardening at Night.

Baron Wolman, Woodstock.

Alan Friedman and Douglas Levere, Fire & Ice. Chaco Terada, Between Water & Sky. POP GALLERY 125 Lincoln Ave., Ste. 111, 820-0788 Winter Salon.

RADICAL ABACUS 1226 Calle de Comercio, 577-6073 Group show, Raylets.

RANGE WEST GALLERY 2861 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 474-0925 Shelly Johnson, Cirque de la Vie. RIEKE STUDIOS 416 Alta Vista St., 913-1215 Serena Rieke, Memento.

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SAGE CREEK GALLERY 421 Canyon Road, 988-3444 Winter Show.

SANTA FE ART COLLECTOR 217 Galisteo St., 988-5545 Ken Bonner, Land of Enchantment.

SANTA FE CLAY 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 Tom Sather, Praying Without Words. Group show, The Figure in Clay. Amanda Jaffe and Suzanne Kane, Cups.

SANTA FE COLLECTIVE 1114 Hickox St., 670-4088 Micaela Gardner, Small Used Paintings. Tom Appelquist.

SANTA FE WEAVING GALLERY 124 Galisteo St., 982-1737 Judith Bird, Handwoven Shibori Tunics and Shawls.

A SEA IN THE DESERT GALLERY 836 A Canyon Road., 988-9140 Friedrich Geier.

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STUDIO CENTRAL 508 Camino de la Familia, 947-6122 Ross Chaney. Frank Buffalo Hyde. Courtney M Leonard.

TANSEY CONTEMPORARY 652 Canyon Road, 995-8513 Leslie Richmond, solo show.

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TRESA VORENBERG GOLDSMITHS 656 Canyon Road, 988-7215 Heyoka Merrifield, The New Treasures.

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Game Over Ratchet & Clank is, itself, ratchet by alex de vore @teamalex

In the early 2000s, the fine folks at Insomniac Games brought a spirited young Lombax (yeah, it’s a fake species that’s sort of like a cat) named Ratchet and an adorable defective robot named Clank together, and the gaming landscape was forever blown away. Equal parts creative sci-fi absurdity, platforming/shooter brilliance and slapstick gold, the series has run for over a decade, spanned three console generations and generated nearly a dozen games be-

fore hitting the big screen last week in one of the most disappointing uses of a gaming license since that unbelievably terrible Super Mario Bros. movie with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. And that’s saying something, as we’re pretty sure there’s never been a good game-tomovie adaptation, anyway.

In the animated Ratchet & Clank film, we learn that the evil Chairman Drek (a painfully over-the-top Paul Giamatti) is systematically destroying various planets throughout the universe to farm their most iconic landmasses in an effort to create his own utopic

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world. When the galaxy is threatened thusly, a superhero cadre known as the Galactic Rangers are called to save the day. These superheroes are led by the ridiculous Captain Qwark (Jim Ward, also from the game series), a complete idiot who is more interested in fame and accolades than the actual well-being of the universe. Usually, this squad could handle anything, but given the especially horrendous situation, they actually host open tryouts for additional members, and this is where our hero, Ratchet (voiced by the games’ James Arnold Taylor), comes in.

Through a series of goofy misadventures, we learn that the little Lombax is a great mechanic, with a big heart and no shortage of good intentions. Despite this, no one really gets him, including his boss, Grimroth (a pointlessly minor role for John Goodman) and the Galactic Rangers themselves, who give Ratchet the same old “You’ll never amount to anything!” spiel that every kids movie apparently now utilizes.

But of course, he does, thanks in no small part to his tiny robot pal Clank (the always fantastic David Kaye), who is all about being good and who basically gives Ratchet a reason to care about things, outside of him being the good guy. If it sounds underdeveloped, that’s because it absolutely is, which is especially criminal given the wildly enjoyable storylines of the game series. Drek is evil because he is, Ratchet is good because he is, anyone who dreams big can

make anything happen and blah blah blah. Even for a kids’ movie, Ratchet & Clank is so bareboned and paintby-numbers that by the time we learn there’s actually another villain behind everything, we mostly just wish the thing would end.

Subtle nods to the Playstation universe and precious winks to fans of the game series are cute and all, and Sylvester Stallone does provide an enjoyable turn as Drek’s enforcer, Victor, but the overall value of the film falls someplace between your kids made you do it and the rainiest of rainy day nap movies. You’d have to be a fan of the series beforehand to even want to give this flick a shot, and even then it mostly just hurts your feelings they’d do you like this. The animation is subpar, the jokes are so boring it hurts and even a super-cool montage of the property’s signature goofy weaponry (one gun turns people into sheep) isn’t enough to redeem Ratchet & Clank by the end of its (thankfully) short running time. Insomniac Games should be pissed their characters have been used this way, and the rest of us should probably save the price of admission and use it toward one of the vastly superior games.

RATCHET & CLANK Directed by Kevin Munroe and Jericca Cleland With Taylor, Kaye, Ward, Stallone, Giamatti and Goodman Violet Crown, Regal 14 PG, 94 min.

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FRANCOFONIA Aleksandr Sokurov’s newest film, Francofonia, is a schizophrenic misadventure in filmmaking. The lackluster attempt at weaving its several elements into a cohesive union is a failed effort, marked by poorly mixed sound, inexplicable cameos by historical figures, poor costume design, unusually bad editing choices/camera work and a muddled narrative arc that makes less sense at the end than it does at the beginning.

The film’s focus is on the Louvre (and “focus” is a term used loosely here) and the lives of two men, one a French civil servant and the other a German military officer during the nascent World War II, and their efforts, amid the conflict, to preserve the works of art that resided in the museum.

In the scenes set in the past, there are blatant anachronisms, such as a WWII-era German soldier chasing down a WWII-era French civilian in a park in modern-day France, or French school children dressed in period clothing except for 21st-century tennis shoes, or grand vistas of what we can only assume is supposed to be 1940s France during the occupation, complete with Luftwaffe warplanes flying in the foreground … but in the background haze, you can see modern skyscrapers. Whether this is meant as an artistic juxtaposition

or not is unclear, and it doesn’t matter. On the one hand, it’s a terrible error; on the other hand, it’s a ham-handed venture in the realm of artful criticism. In either case, it doesn’t work.

There are moments when the director speaks to a random sea captain transporting precious art objects in a storm, but their communiqués are often cut off by the weather. Why we’re being shown this is never explained, nor is the relationship between the two. The director speaks to Napoleon or other historical figures, breaking the fourth wall constantly.

However, there’s never a reason that’s satisfying enough to explain why Sokurov is doing this, other than to offer some sort of commentary on imperialism and its relationship to art that gets lost in translation. At times, the narration goes something like, “The Louvre, the Louvre …” or, “France, France …,” as if the director were speaking stream of consciousness into a digital recorder, unsure as to what he’ll say next. While on the subject of sound, sometimes you can hear telephones ring in the background, or doors shut, or electric devices. It smacks of an amateurism that doesn’t belong in the film and seems more like a lazy mistake than a focused decision.

Overall, Francofonia is a pretentious

and fractured conglomeration of a film that seems to take itself entirely too seriously and offers little in the way of historical enlightenment or worthwhile criticism.

(Ben Kendall) CCA, NR, Subtitled, 88 min.

A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING Tom Hanks is almost always at his best when he plays the everyman thrust into extraordinary circumstances. He’s America’s sweetheart, and while the man has proven his chops in dozens of memorable films over the years, he always excels in roles that utilize a simple and understated charm that almost allows us to feel like he’s a buddy of ours. In A Hologram for the King, Hanks plays Alan Clay, an aging businessman with a recent messy divorce under his belt, a strained relationship with his daughter and a poor decision that led to the accidental destruction of Schwinn bicycles still fresh in his mind. Clay travels to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to pitch holographic technology to the king himself and must navigate a baffling labyrinth of culture clash, gender issues and severe panic attacks that practically hobble him. In the process of trying to do his job, Clay seeks a fresh start and a sort of redemption with the help of the goofy yet memorable driver-for-hire Yousef (newcomer Alexander Black), a comely Danish diplomat (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and a beautiful female doctor (Sarita Choudhury of CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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barf Everybody gather round for our daily fascist singalong, in Francofonia.

The Hunger Games) also in the midst of a divorce.

Based on the 2013 Dave Eggers novel of the same name, Hologram seems on the surface to be simple to the point of lacking depth, and for those who might misinterpret subtlety or prefer their films to lay out stories plainly, that could definitely be a problem. Glaring issues such as the archaic role of women in modern Middle Eastern society or the systematic hollowing of the American economy at the hands of outsourcing are briefly explored, but anytime anything begins to approach too heavy or serious, we pop to a new scene wherein Hanks’ character comically falls off a chair or the differences in culture create silly little misunderstandings. This doesn’t mean that Clay’s struggles to be heard by the Saudis don’t come with tense moments of confusion, rather that the film knows what it is and doesn’t strive for too deep.

Hologram recalls the importance of story in cinema, an important accomplishment in our current filmic era of real-life people playing support roles to superheroes and CGI. It is a story of people, people we feel we might even know, and one of the more beautiful story experiences, medium irrelevant, in recent memory. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 98 min.

APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD Hand-drawn animated features are a rarity is this day and age. Having one shipped over from Europe that has any kind of resonance is even rarer (the last one that this critic can recall personally was The Triplets of Belleville).

More’s the pity, because if the aforementioned film and April and the Extraordinary World are any indication, they’re making some pretty awesome animated features over there.

The year is 1941, and the world is still trapped in the age of steam and Victorianera imperialism, following the mysterious disappearances of well-known scientists since the late 19th century. She seeks something called “the ultimate serum” to save the life of her cat, who’s dying because he’s old, for a cat.

The serum is discovered, and with the man on her trail, April goes on the lam from both government forces and other strange, more sinister antagonists.

For a cartoon, this film hits on all points.

It may be difficult to follow some of the plot points due to illogical (for the world the story takes place in, that is) jumps between scenes.

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logic isn’t as important as good story. April and the Extraordinary World has that in spades.

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THE JUNGLE BOOK One could easily make the argument that Jon Favreau’s (Iron Man) new live-action Jungle Book adaptation is another nail in the “Hollywood is out of fresh ideas” coffin, but there are enough new elements mixed in with nods to the animated Disney classic that it’s worth checking out, even if you aren’t being forced by your kids. We follow young Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub who was found in the jungle by the wise and just panther, Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), and deposited with a pack of wolves to be raised all wolf-like and to learn the ways of the jungle. Bagheera super-duper loves this kid and spends all sorts of time with him and his wolf-bros, running informal training drills so as to make the jungle a little safer.

Life is good for Mowgli, but then a dry spell causes a lack of drinking water and thus the need for a jungle-wide truce; since there’s pretty much only one place where an animal can get a sip, they all ditch the predator/prey dynamic and get drinking. This is actually a real-life thing that happens for wild animals, so that’s cool, but it brings the totally angry Shere Khan (voiced to epically evil proportions by Idris Elba) to town, and he’s not havin’ it.

By the end of The Jungle Book, it’s unclear if there was supposed to be some kind of message about environmentalism and how fire is powerful or something about nature versus nurture, but since the CGI is some of the best to date and there’s not a lot cooler than a bear fighting a tiger, it ultimately doesn’t matter.

If you liked the animated version as a kid, are one of the few who has actually read the book (don’t lie, we know most of you didn’t) or want to take your kids someplace (shout out to the parents behind me in the theater, who totally let their young kid walk around through the whole thing and kick the back of my seat for a good five minutes), you could do a lot worse than this. (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal 14, PG, 105 min.

MILES AHEAD If you had a time machine and wanted to know where “cool” came from, you could do worse than to travel back to 1949 New York and look up a guy named Miles Davis. Davis was a pioneer in bebop and jazz music, in case you

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Tom Hanks and a guy who appears to be a hipster, in A Hologram for the King. didn’t know (and if you didn’t, shame on you). It seems like it would be a great fit for Hollyweird to make some sort of biopic of Davis and his exploits on the bleeding edge of music and popular culture. Somehow, it hasn’t happened until now.

Cheadle takes the lead in front of the camera as well, playing Davis during his post-postmodern era in the late ‘70s, with wild hair and an even wilder drug-addicted disposition. Davis is on the edge of creative destruction, holed up in his Manhattan apartment, being hounded by record company executives and a morally bankrupt but somehow loveable freelance reporter, played by Ewan McGregor. Cheadle’s performance is remarkable. He keys into Davis’ raspy, curt, nearly unhinged personality.

The movie starts off with a car chase and a gunfight. You read that right. A lauded jazz musician, whose music you’re more likely to

hear now in a fine dining restaurant than in the smoke-filled gin-joints of yesteryear, wildly fires a revolver out of the back of his luxury automobile—chased by an unknown assailant for a reason that’s not entirely clear at the outset. It’s worth noting that it’s not the only gunfight of the movie (or the only car chase, for that matter). Whether this event is true or not isn’t the point. Rather, Miles Ahead is an attempt to portray Davis as a gangster (those are Cheadle’s words) and a man of his time—being an African-American somewhat involved with a criminal underworld due to his habits during the high era of the civil rights movement and its immediate aftermath.

Miles Ahead is worth taking the time to see.

It never lets up in its unapologetic portrayal of an American icon, despite how uncomfortable he may make us feel at times. Cheadle makes Miles real. (BK) Violet Crown, R, 100 min.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF ANTHEA-LYNE ROUTH Case No.:D-101-CV-2016-00771 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec.408-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Anthea-Lyne Routh will apply to the Honorable David K. Thomson, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 8:30 a.m. on the 13th day of June, 2016 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Anthea-Lyne Routh to Alynxandra Lawless.

Stephen T. Pacheco, District Court Clerk Submitted by: Anthea-Lyne Routh Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELOYDA GARCIA, DECEASED. No. 2015-0046 NOTICE TO CREDITORS -1.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed personal representatives 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 claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representatives at the addresses listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501.

Dated: 4-17-16 Robert Garcia 2403 Sycamore Loop Santa Fe, NM 87507 505-412-2385 Dated:4-19-16 Leonor Ritchie 03 San Mateo Way South Santa Fe, NM 87508 505-473-5220 1. See Section 45-3-801 to 45-3-803 NMSA 1978 for notice to creditors STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RUDY GARCIA, DECEASED. No. 2015-0045 NOTICE TO CREDITORS -1.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed personal representatives 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 claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representatives at the addresses listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, New

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Dated: 4-17-16 Robert Garcia 2403 Sycamore Loop Santa Fe, NM 87507 505-412-2385 Dated:4-19-16 Leonor Ritchie 03 San Mateo Way South Santa Fe, NM 87508 505-473-5220 1. See Section 45-3-801 to 45-3-803 NMSA 1978 for notice to creditors FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO Case No. D-0101-PB-2014-00111 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MANUEL FELIX LUJAN, Deceased.

NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO: All Unknown Heirs of Manuel Felix Lujan, Deceased; and All Persons Claiming an Interest in the Estate of Manuel Felix Lujan, Deceased NOTICE IS GIVEN that a hearing on the Petition on Order of Complete Settlement of Estate Discharging Personal Representative is scheduled for Tuesday, June 14, 2016, beginning at 11:30 p.m., before the Honorable Francis J. Mathew, First Judicial District Court, Division III, at the First Judicial District Courthouse, Courtroom of the Honorable Raymond Ortiz, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thirty minutes have been set aside for the hearing.

Respectfully submitted, Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid,PC Attorneys for the Estate of Manuel Felix Lujan, deceased Carla Lujan, Personal Representative 708 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 bryan@swbpc.com By: Bryan Biedscheid

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Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, has been appointed as personal representative of the Estate of William Frank Hendricks, deceased. Creditors of the estate must present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or be forever barred.

Dated April 28, 2016 Respectfully submitted, SAWTELL, WIRTH & BIEDSCHEID, P. C. Attorneys for the Estate of William Frank Hendricks 708 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 988-1668 By /s/ Peter Wirth FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE Case No. D-101-PB-2016-00054 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KATHRYN GRAHAM CHESTER, Deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that Peter Wirth, whose address is c/o Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid, P.C., 708 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, has been appointed as personal representative of the Estate of Kathryn Graham Chester, deceased. Creditors of the estate must present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or be forever barred.

Dated April 25, 2016 Respectfully submitted, SAWTELL, WIRTH & BIEDSCHEID, P. C. Attorneys for the Estate of Kathryn Graham Chester 708 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 988-1668 By /s/ Peter Wirth

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COUNTY OF SANTA FE Case No. D-0101-PB-2016-00067 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION JACQUELINE SARAH WELGE FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF COWAN, Deceased.

TAMARA KARLA KUYACA SURENDORF NOTICE OF HEARING BY Case No.:D-101-CV-2016-D1045 PUBLICATION NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TO: All Unknown Heirs of TAKE NOTICE that in accorJacqueline Sarah Welge Cowan, dance with the provisions of Deceased; and Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. All Persons Claiming an Interest 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. in the Estate of Jacqueline Sarah the Petitioner Tamara Karla Welge Cowan, Deceased Kuyaca-Surendorf will apply NOTICE IS GIVEN that a hearing to the Honorable Francis J. on the Petition of Mark Stone Mathew, District Judge of the and Jamie Stone for Formal First Judicial District at the Adjudication of the Intestacy of Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Jacqueline Sarah Welge Cowan, Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, for Determination of Heirs and New Mexico, at 9 a.m. on the for Formal Confirmation of their 14th day of June, 2016 for an Appointment as Co-Personal ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME Representatives of the Estate of from Tamara Karla Surendorf to Jacqueline Sarah Welge Cowan Tamara Karla Kuyaca. is scheduled for Monday, June Stephen T. Pacheco, 6, 2016, beginning at 11:00 District Court Clerk a.m., before the Honorable Submitted by: Tamara Karla Raymond Z. Ortiz, First Judicial Kuyaca Surendorf District Court, Division III, Petitioner, Pro Se at the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

STATE OF NEW MEXICO Thirty minutes have been set COUNTY OF SANTA FE aside for the hearing.

Case No. D-0101-PB-2016-00055 Respectfully submitted, IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid, PC WILLIAM FRANK HENDRICKS, Attorneys for the Estate of Deceased.

Jacqueline Sarah Welge Cowan, NOTICE TO CREDITORS Co-Personal Representatives Notice is hereby given that Mary 708 Paseo de Peralta McElroy, whose address is c/o Santa Fe, NM 87501 Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid, pwirth@swbpc.com P.C., 708 Paseo de Peralta, By: /s/ Peter Wirth SFREPORTER.COM

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Rob Brezsny

Week of May 4th

ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing,” writes Jane Hirshfield in her poem “Everything Has Two Endings.” This observation is apropos for you right now. There are potentially important messages you’re not registering and catalytic influences you can’t detect. But their apparent absence is due to a blank spot in your awareness, or maybe a willful ignorance left over from the old days. Now here’s the good news: You are primed to expand your listening field. You have an enhanced ability to open certain doors of perception that have been closed. If you capitalize on this opportunity, silence will give way to revelation.

are in a phase when luxuriant growth is possible. To harvest the fullness of the lush opportunities, you should be willing to shed outworn stuff that might interfere.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your ability to accomplish magic is at a peak, and will continue to soar for at least two more weeks. And when I use that word “magic,” I’m not referring to the hocus-pocus performed by illusionists like Criss Angel or Harry Houdini. I’m talking about real feats of transformation that will generate practical benefits in your day-to-day life. Now study the following definitions by writer Somerset Maugham, and have faith in your ability to embody them: “Magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) According to author Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian word toska means “a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness.” Linguist Anna Wierzbicka says it conveys an emotion that blends melancholy, boredom, and yearning. Journalist Nick Ashdown suggests that for someone experiencing toska, the thing that’s yearned for may be “intangible and impossible to actually obtain.” How are doing with your own toska, Gemini? Is it conceivable that you could escape it—maybe even heal it? I think you can. I think you will. Before you do, though, I hope you’ll take time to explore it further. Toska has more to teach you about the previously hidden meaning of your life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) On Cracked.com, Auntie Meme tells us that many commonly-held ideas about history are wrong. There were no such things as chastity belts in the Middle Ages, for example. Napoleon’s soldiers didn’t shoot off the nose of the Sphinx when they were stationed in Egypt. In regards to starving peasants, Marie Antoinette never derisively said, “Let them eat cake.” And no Christians ever became meals for lions in ancient Rome’s Colosseum. (More: tinyurl.com/historicaljive.) In the spirit of Auntie Meme’s exposé, and in alignment with the astrological omens, I invite you to uncover and correct at least three fabrications, fables, and lies about your own past.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Poet Charles Wright marvels at the hummingbird, “who has to eat sixty times his own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that’s a life on the edge.” In the coming weeks, Scorpio, your modus operandi may have resemblances to the hummingbird’s approach. I don’t mean to suggest that you will be in a manic survival mode. Rather, I expect you’ll feel called to nourish your soul with more intensity than usual. You’ll need to continuously fill yourself up with experiences that inspire, teach, and transform you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Anybody can become angry,” said Greek philosopher Aristotle. “That is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” I’m pleased to inform you, Sagittarius, that now is a time when you have an exceptional capacity for meeting Aristotle’s high standards. In fact, I encourage you to honor and learn all you can from your finely-honed and well-expressed anger. Make it work wonders for you.

Use it so constructively that no one can complain.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) To celebrate your arrival at the height of your sex appeal, I’m resurrecting the CANCER (June 21-July 22) “Gandhi’s autobiography is old-fashioned word “vavoom.” Feel free to use it as your on my pillow,” writes Cancerian poet Buddy Wakefield. nickname. Pepper it into your conversations in place of “I put it there every morning after making my bed so I’ll terms like “awesome,” “wow,” or “yikes.” Use a felt-tip remember to read it before falling asleep. I’ve been read- marker to make a temporary VAVOOM tattoo on your ing it for 6 years. I’m on Chapter 2.” What’s the equiva- beautiful body. Here are other enchanted words you lent phenomenon in your world, my fellow Crab? What should take charge of and make an intimate part of your good deed or righteous activity have you been pursuing daily presentation: verve, vim, vivid, vitality, vigor, vorawith glacial diligence? Is there a healthy change you’ve cious, vivacious, visceral, valor, victory, and VIVA! been thinking about forever, but not making much progress on? The mood and the sway of the coming days will AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) When he was a boy, Mayan poet Humberto Ak’ab’al asked his mother, “What are bring you a good chance to expedite the process. In those things that shine in the sky?” “Bees,” she answered Wakefield’s case, he could get up to Chapter 17. mischievously. “Every night since then,” Humberto writes, LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In the 16th century, European “my eyes eat honey.” In response to this lyrical play, the explorers searched South America in quest of a mythical logical part of our brains might rise up and say, “What a city of gold known as El Dorado. Tibetan Buddhist tradi- load of nonsense!” But I will ask you to set aside the logical part of your brain for now, Aquarius. According to my tion speaks of Shambhala, a magical holy kingdom understanding of the astrological omens, the coming days where only enlightened beings live. In the legends of will be a time when you need a big dose of sweet fantaancient Greece, Hyperborea was a sunny paradise sies, dreamy stories, and maybe even beautiful nonsense. where the average human life span was a thousand What are your equivalents of seeing bees making honey years and happiness was normal. Now is an excellent time for you to fantasize about your own version of uto- in the night sky’s pinpoints of light? pia, Leo. Why? First, your imagination is primed to PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “Sometimes, a seemingly expand. Second, dreaming big will be good for your insignificant detail reveals a whole world,” says artist mental and physical health. There’s another reason, too: Pierre Cordier. “Like the messages hidden by spies in the By envisioning the most beautiful world possible, you dot of an i.” These are precisely the minutiae that you will mobilize your idealism and boost your ability to cre- should be extra alert for in the coming days, Pisces. Major ate the best life for yourself in the coming months. revelations may emerge from what at first seems trivial.

Generous insights could ignite in response to small acts VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “Anytime you’re going to grow, you’re going to lose something,” said psychologist of beauty and subtle shifts of tone. Do you want glimpses James Hillman. “You’re losing what you’re hanging onto of the big picture and the long-range future? Then be reverent toward the fine points and modest specifics. to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.” I nominate these Homework: Thousands of amazing, inexplicable, even thoughts to serve as your words of wisdom in the com- miraculous events occur every day. Report yours: http://bit.ly/Amazement ing weeks, Virgo. From an astrological perspective, you

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