Santa Fe Reporter, April 13, 2022

The Long Poison

Money for abandoned New Mexico uranium-mine cleanup spurs questions about design, jobs

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APRIL 13-19, 2022 | Volume 49, Issue 15

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Heard any gossip lately? Let’s clear the air.

BUILT LOCAL, STAYING LOCAL.

OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 RACING FOR THE HOUSE 9 Four candidates lined up for District 46, the only Santa Fe seat in the lower chamber up for grabs in the June primary COMMUNITY CRISIS 10 Sephardic citizenship bids at risk amid alleged “implosion” at New Mexico’s Jewish federation COVER STORY 12 THE LONG POISON Money for abandoned New Mexico uranium-mine cleanup spurs questions about design, jobs THE INTERFACE 8

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EAR TO THE GROUND Artist Ruben Olguin combines art and science to explore the relationship between plants and human sound

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no idea if medical and recreational are paying the same taxes, etc.

Given the unknowns in supply, I stocked up early so I can avoid it all for the next month or two. Now that I think about it, I’m on at least six Santa Fe dispensary mailing or text lists, and none of them sent out that information.

With the exception of Sacred Garden who is staying medical only right now. (Sadly they don’t usually have what I need.)

I’m thrilled it’s legal, don’t get me wrong.

And, I’d love to see things like medical only hours, medical only specials, etc. And recognition that we rely on this medicine to function in whatever capacity we’re using it to treat ourselves. I know we’re not the bright shiny new thing that will bring in tons of revenue, but we are a big part of the reason that was made possible.

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Ear to the Ground of the vessel near your ear and “listen for the presence of anthropogenic frequency.”

The idea began germinating when Olguin was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico studying Pueblo pottery. His great grandmother was from Nambé Pueblo, which fed his interest in learning about “how traditional public pottery was made.” One aspect, he says, involves “going out into the middle of nowhere” to collect clay, minerals and other resources.

He began noticing certain sounds that were “prevalent” everywhere he went and, given his background in sound design, began researching certain sound waves he characterizes as mechanical—the noise

Artist Ruben Olguin combines art and science to explore the relationship between plants and human sound

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umans are such noisy bastards that we affect community structure just by being loud.”

So proclaimed a tweet circa 2012 from a scientist in the Netherlands responding to a paper examining the effect of anthropogenic—human-generated—noise on piñon pines, one of a growing body of scientific work studying the impact of noise on ecological systems.

New Mexico artist Ruben Olguin also read the paper—along with many others investigating the topic—in part because he reads white papers “for fun,” and because the topic dovetailed with both his background as a sound designer and observations he had amassed in nature. He began to focus on acoustics and incorporate his growing understanding of sound frequencies into his art.

The culmination is his series, “Anthropogenic frequency,” part of the Arrivals 2022 exhibition at form & concept gallery (through May 28), which features more than a dozen artists working in innovative ways with textiles and other craft forms. Olguin’s series consists of vessels 3D-printed in plant-based plastic filaments infused with wood. Those filaments hold the sound of specific frequencies “isolated to the optimal sound to stimulate the plant growth of specific plants,” such as basil, corn, tomato and mung bean.

The experience is interactive: To hear what the plant hears, you put the bottom hole

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from the highway or the sounds of airplane traffic, for instance. “I started to think about how I [could] produce something that could capture that noise. And I started to look at how Pueblo pottery could be used in that way,” he says.

That path of inquiry led Olguin to German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, after whom the Helmholtz resonator is named, a device that captures specific noise frequencies. In Olguin’s case, “I started to make pottery that would capture specific frequencies.”

Integrating an ecological focus into the work came naturally. Olguin works with the Seed Broadcast, a community-based ecology project and journal (seedbroadcast.org) and says over the last few years, “I’ve been making a lot of work that’s sort of ecologically based.” And he had come across another research paper, this one looking at the effects of sound on corn, specifically frequencies that made corn germinate more quickly.

The scientific discoveries piqued his interest, but the conclusions also resonated with Olguin’s knowledge of Indigenous customs. “In the Pueblos, speaking to, singing to and drumming along in the fields is a common practice,” he says.

“Anthropogenic frequency” incorporates specific frequencies’ impact on specific crops, partly derived, he says, by isolating the instruments and song patterns on re-

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Artist Ruben Olguin’s 3D-printed sound vessels series, “Anthropogenic frequency,” explores the relationship between plants and human sound. The series is part of form & concept gallery’s Arrival 2022 exhibition, featuring more than a dozen artists whose work challenges contemporary ideas of art, craft and design. Through May 28.

cordings of Pueblo singers. He already had a growing interest in 3D printing, and this project was an apt use for the technology.

Using a 3D printer allowed him to be precise in the work in a way that clay would not have allowed. Moreover, he says, “the process of the 3D printing is actually very similar to Pueblo pottery. In Pueblo pottery, we use a coil method for building up our forms, which is one coil laid on top of the other on top of the other, which are pressed together to complete the form; 3D printing emulates that process pretty closely.”

The work reflects Olguin’s natural orientation toward science and technology, but also integrates them with reverence for the natural world.

“These vessels that I’m making are essentially like holders of sound,” he says. “You can use vessels to hold a lot of things: water, food, grains, seeds. These ones, in particular, are holding sound.”

I visited those vessels several times, holding them up to my ear like seashells. The idea is the same, Olguin says: “They have a hole in the bottom; there’s a flute with a hole in the top. And the volume of air that’s in the base and the length of the flute have a way to target specific frequencies.”

That being said, the vessels themselves also are quite lovely to behold, visually and with touch. That too, is intentional, Olguin says, as he likes to allow the “craft of the work” and its aesthetics to engage viewers “all on its own. And then as you get into it, you can go deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper. So people have a way to engage with my work on a lot of different levels. And so you don’t necessarily need to know all that information to appreciate them.”

The backstory, though, carries both a hopeful message and a warning.

“These plants that we have cultivated over thousands of years are dependent on our presence to be successful,” Olguin says.

Technology can’t substitute for that co-evolution, he adds. “We need to be present amongst their growth. You can’t just allow drones to sort of monitor your fields.”

The tension between the natural world and technology embodied in the vessels also reflects an ongoing theme in Olguin’s work about his self-identification as Mestizo, with both Hispanic and Indigenous ancestry.

“I’m always coming from this blend of colonizer and colonized, simultaneously.

And that also allows me to engage with technologies in different ways: as a colonizer engaging with the colonizer technologies and as a colonized person, who is trying to unravel how these colonized sort of systems are integrating with the cultures and systems that we have today.”

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Racing for the House Four candidates lined up for District 46, the only Santa Fe seat in the lower chamber up for grabs in the June primary

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water use for growing cannabis.

She says cannabis growers face “the most rigorous water protections that we have for any industry in the state, and I think that’s sort of the gold standard for how you might look at other industries in the state but also how we manage water.”

The incumbent has outraised her opponents many times over, raking in upwards of $53,000, according to her first campaign finance report. Salazar’s filed report shows he has raised just over $1,000; Roybal’s report indicates he’s collected over $5,000.

Though he won’t face a challenger in June, Jay Groseclose will appear on the ballot in November as the Republican candidate for House District 46. Groseclose, 70, unsuccessfully ran for the seat in 2020, earning just 23% of the vote in a race against Romero.

Groseclose has $4,000 in his war chest, according to his campaign finance report.

Water issues are a top concern for Groseclose, whose background is in engineering and includes a stint with the state Interstate Stream Commission. He believes there’s room for improvement in the management of water and other natural resources.

“The whole question for New Mexicans is, how do we want to live?” Groseclose says.

“One thing that I value highly is our vast landscapes, our beautiful horizons.”

He argues that the way communities are being developed, with taller apartment complexes and more wind and solar energy infrastructure, doesn’t align with his hopes for New Mexico’s future.

Groseclose also wants to tackle taxation in New Mexico, by eliminating a tax on Social Security income, which legislators partially accomplished this past session, and reducing the gross receipts tax rate.

The seat for House District 47, soon to be vacated by Speaker Brian Egolf, will go to his chief of staff, Reena Szczepanski, who is running unopposed in both the primary and general election. Francisco Lopez attempted to run against her, but Lopez was disqualified for failing to gather enough signatures from qualified voters.

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wo hopefuls will challenge Democratic incumbent state Rep. Andrea Romero in the June 7 primary in Santa Fe’s only contested race for the House of Representatives, with the winner facing the lone Republican come November.

Four other Democrats will run unopposed to represent the remaining districts that touch Santa Fe County: 45, 47, 48 and 50.

House District 46, where the action is, covers the region north of the city including Pojoaque, Tesuque and Nambe; it also encompasses slices of the city, notably the Railyard and the area northeast of Siler Road. The district also shares land with four pueblos: Nambé, Pojoaque, Tesuque and San Ildefonso.

The issues dominating the race are familiar to Santa Fe voters: affordable housing and water scarcity.

Newcomer Ryan Erik Salazar says that when we think of affordable housing, we focus on how best to support low-income residents. But he argues that middle-income families have been priced out of Santa Fe. Middle-income households, burdened by college debt and insufficient wages, haven’t received the support necessary to invest in homes, Salazar says.

“We need a larger middle class and it’s shrinking,” says Salazar, adding, “I see it especially living in Santa Fe County.”

A lifelong resident of the district, Salazar, 30, works for Los Alamos National Laboratory as a buyer for federal acquisitions. He sees a need to provide legislative support to small businesses as a way to help middle-income families and secure better rights for workers.

With so many Santa Fe County residents working in the service industry, Salazar says that many are “juggling three jobs, three 20hour jobs, minimum wage, just to put a roof over their heads and sometimes their family.

And that’s a lot of people in Santa Fe County.”

Santa Fe County Commissioner Henry Roybal, 52, sees the district’s affordable housing crisis as inextricably linked to the region’s fragile relationship to water.

According to the Aamodt settlement agreement, the state engineer severely restricted the drilling of new wells in the Nambe, Pojoaque, Tesuque basin, Roybal says. He laments the difficulty for property owners in this region to drill new wells to supply water for new housing, “even in some areas where they want to subdivide a piece of property.”

Roybal explains that new wells can be drilled under recognized water rights, but his constituents complain that the process is overly complex and has prevented new drilling from taking place.

He says regional leadership needs to work with the state engineer to renegotiate how the community can access water to support new development and ease the pressure on the housing market that has driven median single-family home prices north of half a million dollars.

Wrapping up his second term representing District 1 on the commission, Roybal says he already has good relationships with his constituents. And that would extend to the House district, given the overlap.

“I make sure that I’m responsive and I an-

swer my phone,” he says. “I give my personal number.”

Roybal points to $2 million in federal funding he secured to expand broadband infrastructure along State Road 76 as a success on the commission. Improvements to the Pojoaque Valley Recreation Complex mark another.

Behavioral health initiatives are another priority Roybal says he’d tackle if elected.

“We’re looking at just the crime rate that’s going on, homelessness, opioid addiction,” Roybal says, citing indicators of the need to provide better behavioral health services to the communities.

The housing situation also occupies the incumbent’s thoughts.

“I’m greatly concerned about affordability for those seeking…a stable place to live, and there are a lot of folks who are having to change housing and look for more affordable options,” says Romero, 35, who is completing her second term in the House. “But unfortunately, they really just don’t exist right now.”

Romero is pursuing a law degree at the University of New Mexico in addition to running a business that sells probiotic eggs.

To address the lack of supply, which Romero attributes to the overabundance of homes rented through Airbnb or other vacation companies, she would like to “figure out how to potentially get additional revenues for those homeowners that are treating their homes as a business and really try to incentivize them to think about long-term rentals over short-term rentals.”

To further support renters, Romero hopes to modernize landlord-tenant laws to provide more time for lack of payment.

The current timeline, Romero explains, only affords renters three days after payment is due before a landlord can serve an eviction notice. She wants to extend that to at least 11 days.

Romero celebrated the passage of the Cannabis Regulation Act, which she co-sponsored, noting not only economic benefits of the historic legislation, but also the protections included in the legislation to regulate

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Communal Crisis An email from two of the federation’s largest donors two months later revealed what Minkus had not. The donors said they would be withholding further contributions because allegations by employees were being concealed from the board. Other donors soon followed suit.

Albrycht quit the next day. By the end of June 2021, 11 members of the board had resigned. Several would later register their protest in affidavits accusing Minkus and her allies on the board of deception and mismanagement.

The sequence of events at the federation is drawn from three lawsuits filed against the federation in recent months. Four board members who stayed on when the 11 resigned are asking a New Mexico court to strip authority from the federation’s executive committee. They want a court-appointed overseer to step in and audit the federation’s finances.

Meanwhile, two of the people who complained to HR about Lennick filed separate lawsuits. Sara Koplik and Jordi Gendra have since been laid off in what their lawyer is calling an act of retaliation.

Koplik and Gendra were responsible for a unique federation program certifying Sephardic heritage for applicants seeking citizenship under Spain’s Law of Return, an

Sephardic citizenship bids at risk amid alleged “implosion” of New Mexico’s Jewish federation leadership

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effort launched in 2015 to make amends for the persecution suffered by Jews during the Inquisition hundreds of years ago. As a rabbi and native of Barcelona, Gendra is believed to be the first rabbi to have been born in Spain since the time of the Inquisition.

The federation had raised more than $1 million in fees from applicants, with additional fees going to a local synagogue whose rabbi signed the certificates, according to court filings. But at the end of last year, certificate holders learned that the federation had abruptly shut down its Sephardic heritage program.

At stake in the cascading dispute is the future of communal Jewish life in Albuquerque and beyond, according to the lawsuits and interviews with the local community members, one of whom said she was “horrified,” characterizing the situation as an “implosion.”

“Under current leadership, the very existence of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico weighs in the balance,” Renni Zifferblatt, the attorney representing the four board members in revolt, wrote in a Feb. 6 District Court filing. Zifferblatt accused Lennick, Minkus and other members of the federation’s executive committee of “intentional and reckless misconduct” that has transformed the federation into an “autocratic entity.”

To back up these claims, Zifferblatt solicited input from Samuel Sokolove, who was the federation’s executive director from 2005 to 2015. Sokolove signed an affidavit for the court describing the “chaos” at the federation. He defended Koplik and Gendra, with whom he had worked, and laid the blame for

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ith his livelihood on the line, Rob Lennick texted the wrong Deborah.

The CEO of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Lennick sent a message asking for support of an extension to his contract.

He was also asking for a $30,000 forgivable loan from the federation to pay for the repair of a home he was hoping to purchase.

Lennick had meant to reach Deborah Boldt, who was serving on the federation’s board of directors—but he reached Deborah Albrycht, the federation’s human resources officer.

What happened next set off a crisis in Jewish communal life in New Mexico that many say could unravel the philanthropic structure supporting synagogues, elder care for Holocaust survivors, youth programs and cultural initiatives. The situation is also causing uncertainty for thousands of people who were depending on the federation to help them gain Spanish citizenship under a reparations program for descendants of Jews expelled during the Inquisition.

Before she received Lennick’s errant message, Albrycht didn’t know that the board would be voting on Lennick’s request at the board’s upcoming meeting. But she did know that several employees had recently complained to her about Lennick, court records show. They reported inappropriate behavior such as harassment, intimidation and gender discrimination.

After getting the misdirected text message, Albrycht decided it was important to inform the board’s president, Sabra Minkus, about the complaints before the vote on Feb. 17, 2021. Minkus seemed concerned about what Albrycht told her, and she even hired a mediator to begin investigating.

But she also told Albrycht to keep quiet, and when the time came to vote on Lennick’s contract extension and loan, most board members had no clue that his conduct was under investigation, according to court records. They approved his new contract by a 20-to-1 vote.

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An applicant for citizenship under Spain’s Sephardic restitution law, James Ord, right, traveled to Barcelona in May 2019 to sign paperwork. Now, his certificate is in limbo and he’s angry.

the strife on the federation’s leadership. He warned that the federation could “fail as an organization” if nothing was done.

Echoing the same concerns, the Rabbinical and Cantorial Association of Albuquerque has called on the current leadership to step down, “given the conspicuous harm caused to the reputation of the federation.”

Meanwhile, Lennick—after having lobbied for a long-term contract and purchased a house locally—announced in a federation meeting on March 23 that he would be leaving in June to pursue an unspecified new career opportunity.

In response to an email seeking comment from Lennick, Minkus and current federation president David Blacher, Blacher wrote that they have been advised by a lawyer not to comment on pending litigation.

Like the other 146 organizations affiliated with the Jewish Federations of North America, the New Mexico federation raises funds for local Jewish institutions and global Jewish causes. Eric Fingerhut, JFNA’s president and CEO, acknowledged the recent turmoil but downplayed its severity.

“We are supporting the Jewish Federation of New Mexico as it works to mend the rifts in that community and continues supporting Jewish infrastructure, uplifting Jewish life, serving the most vulnerable, and exceeding its fundraising goals,” Fingerhut said in a written statement.

According to a JFNA spokesperson, “There is no indication that the Jewish Federation of New Mexico’s continued operation is in question in any way, shape or form.”

The fate of the Jewish federation in Albuquerque matters to the dozens of local causes it supports, but the crisis in the Land of Enchantment is also reverberating across the country and the world.

For one, the issue of hostile workplaces is inching to the forefront of attention in the Jewish world, with investigations of rabbis recently launched in at least three Reform synagogues.

Lennick, ordained as a Reform rabbi, started at the New Mexico federation in 2019.

He had served in the pulpit of congregations in Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Florida and Connecticut, often for very short stints. Court filings suggest that the plaintiffs’ lawyers are scrutinizing his record in these places.

Around the world, there are some 20,000 people holding certificates of Sephardic heritage from the federation. Some of them have successfully petitioned for Spanish citizenship, but it is estimated that thousands of others are still in the pipeline. With no dedicated staff available to advocate for them and field questions, many certificate-holders are feeling abandoned. What adds to the sting is

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The Jewish Federation of New Mexico laid off Sara Koplik in what her lawyer calls an act of retaliation. She helped oversee the Sephardic heritage certification program.

that the program shut down not long after some critics in Spanish media and genealogists elsewhere insinuated that applicants from New Mexico are faking their Sephardic heritage.

Allegations of fraud were circulating when the Spanish government last year tightened its rules for the program. As a result, after years in which only one person was denied and 34,000 approved, 2021 saw thousands of rejections with thousands more unable to get an answer.

James Ord is one of the thousands of applicants with a federation certificate who are in limbo, and he’s angry.

“The federation discontinued the Sephardic heritage program and they didn’t make any statements to defend its legitimacy,” Ord told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “They basically threw us under the bus. The federation has sat by idly and allowed all applicants to have their reputations tainted with crazy allegations of fraud while they refuse to stand up to those allegations.”

In the first few years following the passage of Spain’s law of return, few Jewish institutions chose to enter the business of examining genealogical records and producing the kind of certification necessary for applicants to qualify. But the New Mexico federation became active on the issue early on. That’s because of historical circumstances particular to the area it serves.

During the Inquisition, when Spain forced Jews to convert to Christianity or be

exiled, many of those who chose to convert continued to practice at least some Jewish rituals in secret. In recent decades, evidence has surfaced that some conversos and crypto-Jews crossed the ocean with the Spanish Empire, eventually settling in what is today New Mexico.

Many members of the oldest Spanishdescended families in the state profess customs that would seem odd in a region historically dominated by Catholicism. Ord, who traces his genealogy back 28 generations to medieval Spain, comes from such a family.

“We would have Easter dinner growing up, and we would leave an empty plate at the table full of herbs that were still on the stem,” Ord said, alluding to a practice that is reminiscent of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which takes place around the same time as Easter. “We didn’t know why we did it. Nobody remembered.”

“In New Mexico,” he added, “the more religious somebody is the less pork they’ll eat.”

A lawyer by profession, Ord says he is a part of a group of several dozen people who are considering suing the federation.

“There was no legal contract that said they would support us through the entire process,” Ord said. “However, they had taken on a duty of care and so legally they owe us something.”

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But yesterday’s injustices could mean jobs for the future.

Abandoned uranium mines are found in all corners of the Southwest. In New Mexico, about 1,100 sites where mining, milling or exploratory drilling occurred lie abandoned, mostly in the Grants Mineral Belt, which stretches more than 90 miles from Laguna Pueblo almost to Gallup. Hundreds more dot the greater Navajo Nation, in Arizona, Utah and Colorado.

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ranium mines are personal for Dariel Yazzie.

Now head of the Navajo Nation’s Superfund program, Yazzie grew up near Monument Valley, Arizona, where the Vanadium Corporation of America started uranium operations in the 1940s.

His childhood home sat a stone’s throw from piles of waste from uranium milling, known as tailings. His grandfather, Luke Yazzie, helped locate the first uranium deposits mined on the Navajo Nation. His father was a uranium miner, then worked for Peabody Coal mine.

Yazzie (Diné) heard the family stories about the US Environmental Protection Agency scanning his family’s home for radiation in 1974, when he was 4 years old, finding several high contamination readings.

“Nothing was done,” he said. Not until 32 years later, in 2006, when a new scan was conducted, leading to eventual demolition in 2009 of the home where he grew up.

His father now suffers from kidney failure and complications with his heart and lungs, ailments that can stem from uranium exposure, research shows. He received financial support through the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which provides lump sum payments to former uranium workers, but it doesn’t make up for the fact that he struggles with illness.

And it’s not just his dad. Yazzie has survived cancer, and now lives with the prospect that it could come back one day.

“We often hear about environmental justice, social injustice,” Yazzie said. “Flat-out

decade from settlements with large corporations and the US government for contamination, cleanup of hundreds of abandoned mines will finally begin after decades of neglect.

And that means jobs for tribal citizens and businesses, providing an economic balm for areas that need work. One estimate concludes that about 1,000 jobs could be created over the next 10 years for every $1 billion spent on cleanup, with an average salary of nearly $55,000 per year.

The New Mexico Legislature appears convinced. Lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year to develop a strategic plan for uranium cleanup and to focus economic development on reclamation.

“There are plenty of jobs that can be created cleaning up…abandoned uranium mining sites all across the area,” said Susan Gordon, coordinator of the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, a coalition of activist groups located in uranium-impacted communities.

But cleanup contracts issued recently by the Environmental Protection Agency have gone to out-of-state companies.

And reclamation brings its own troubles.

ABOVE: A building abandoned by United Nuclear Corporation sits at a uranium mill site in Church Rock. BELOW: Larry King (Diné) stands on Feb. 27 beside the fence around the buildling, close by the disposal site where the 1979 dam breach spilled radioactive tailings. He said he had never walked this close to the building before.

Largest radioactive catastrophe in the US

Most of the uranium mining and milling on and around the Navajo Nation occurred before environmental regulations were in place to safeguard human health.

When the industry shut down in the 1980s, companies closed shop, leaving hundreds of abandoned uranium mines, extensive surface and groundwater contamination, radon gas releases and vast amounts of radioactive soil and mining debris.

The US government essentially created the industry in the late 1940s when the newly established Atomic Energy Commission announced it would purchase all uranium mined in the US at a guaranteed price, which it did until 1966. The commission was established after World War II to transfer the nuclear energy assets of the secretive Manhattan Project to civilian control.

By 1967, New Mexico mines were producing half of the total US uranium.

The dangers were significant. On July 16, 1979, the dam of a holding pond at the United Nuclear Corporation uranium mill in Church Rock failed, spilling 94 million gallons of watery, radioactive sludge into the Rio Puerco, running through the local community to Gallup and on to Sanders, Arizona. It is still the largest radioactive catastrophe in the United States.

Larry King (Diné), president of the Navajo Church Rock Chapter, remembers well the day of the spill. King worked at the UNC mine not far from the mill as an underground surveyor, beginning a few months after graduating high school in 1975 until the mine closed in 1983. He heard about the spill from miners coming in for their day shift.

“There was a huge gaping hole,” he said about the breach at the dam.

The dam failed a few months after the meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor near Middleton, Pennsylvania.

Three Mile Island led to minimal public health impacts but generated enormous national press coverage and galvanized opposition to the nuclear fuel industry.

Much larger and consequential to public health, the Church Rock spill received little attention.

The morning of the spill, the sound of rushing water puzzled people, because it was a clear day.

“I’ve heard from community members who live along the Rio Puerco wash, that’s

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Some cleanup involves little more than moving contamination from one site to another. The first major cleanup proposed, in Church Rock, New Mexico, exposes the shortcomings of bypassing local communities in the planning process.

Dariel Yazzie (Diné) heads the Superfund program within the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency, which includes overseeing uranium cleanup. His childhood home was eventually demolished after a scan revealed high levels of radioactive contamination.

where the mill waste flowed through, that it sounded like thunder,” King said.

Eventually they learned it was mill waste, he said, but not before people had let their livestock out and they themselves had crisscrossed the wash. Sheep died, crops withered, and at least one woman said it burned her feet. There were similar reports up and down the wash, he said.

The focus on the catastrophe obscured the fact that water had always trickled into the Rio Puerco from the uranium mining upstream, King said.

“Contaminated water did not only flow through the Rio Puerco that one day, on July 16, it was going on for years, 24/7,” he said.

His father’s livestock grazing area ran alongside the Rio Puerco, and his dad extended their fenceline into the wash to make it easier to water the cattle. He played in the water, too.

“There used to be a smell, a real terrible smell, yellow slime along the side…the water always flowed,” he said.

At that young age he thought it was a natural stream. But later, he said, he found out it was contaminated mine water that didn’t stop running until the mining company shut off pumps in the 1990s.

The industry collapsed shortly after the Church Rock spill because of cheaper uranium prices outside the United States. There were 6,800 people employed in 1979. That figure dropped to 2,613 in 1982, before the industry largely shut down completely over the next several years.

The limited amount of information they shared, over the radio, over internet platforms, they were speaking oftentimes too technical, in English, that some didn’t understand. So, is this an environmental justice issue? Or is this a racism issue?

-Dariel Yazzie, head of the Navajo Nation’s Superfund program

Indigenous voices not heard

Perry H. Charley has investigated the scope of uranium contamination for decades.

Recently retired from Diné College where he founded the Diné Environmental Institute Research and Outreach Program, Charley said official counts on Navajo land underestimate the number of abandoned mines—including exploratory mines, drilled shafts and

buildings—resulting from the Atomic Energy Commission’s uranium program.

“They left it as it is; they just walked off,” said Charley (Diné), an expert on the health and environmental impacts of uranium contamination. “You have tons of radioactive material scattered all over the Southwest.”

Now, 40 years after the industry shut down, the UNC Church Rock mine where King worked remains contaminated with debris, but that could change soon.

It’s the only one of 523 abandoned mines on or within a mile of the Navajo Nation nearing the beginning of cleanup, according to the EPA. But that cleanup plan is controversial. The proposal, developed by the EPA office in San Francisco, calls for simply moving approximately one million cubic yards of contaminated uranium soil, rocks and other debris across a nearby highway to the reclaimed millsite where the dam breach in 1979 occurred. It’s on private land, but so close it’s still near the local Navajo community. A remaining amount of contaminated mine waste would still need to be cleaned up, through a separate EPA process.

The plan doesn’t reflect the wishes of the Navajo Nation and local residents that the waste be removed entirely. The community will still sit practically next door to the contamination.

“The position has always been off-site disposal. And taking it across the street, literally across the street, does not work for the Navajo people,” said Valinda Shirley, executive director of the Navajo Nation EPA, to state lawmakers at a hearing on uranium last September.

The mill site is regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the successor to the Atomic Energy Commission, so the EPA’s plan triggered the need for the agency’s approval. The NRC issued an environmental impact statement for public comment in 2020, and is expected to finalize its decision this summer.

But public education and opportunities for input from the local community about the environmental impact statement were insufficient, Yazzie said.

Direct person-to-person outreach to people living near the site was needed, he said, because many people don’t have phones or reliable internet. Instead the NRC held one in-person meeting in Gallup, and several more online meetings, he said.

“They should have knocked on every door, with the whole plan, bring copies,” he said, “and be fluent in Navajo to go over the entire packet. That never happened. The limited amount of information they shared, over the radio, over internet platforms, they were speaking oftentimes too technical, in English, that some didn’t understand. So, is this an enCONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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area 30 miles away that wasn’t prioritized for cleanup. Taking the plants back home would spread contaminants, a risk that could be missed by non-Native scientists, Charley said.

The result is a high certainty that rural communities that are sparsely populated won’t be prioritized for cleanup when they should be, he said.

New generation of workers

Yazzie said the reclamation field needs a new generation of Indigenous workSOURCE: NEW MEXICO MINING AND MINERALS DIVISION

vironmental justice issue? Or is this a racism issue?”

The lack of community voices and input is concerning, Yazzie said, because the northeast Church Rock mine cleanup will set the stage for how community members are included in future cleanups.

The Church Rock proposal comes despite the EPA’s 10-year plan requiring that traditional ecological knowledge and Diné Fundamental Law, a set of principles that guide Navajo decision-making, inform its remediation decisions.

The Native view of cleanup is based on ecological restoration, Charley said, but Indigenous perspectives are often missing from non-Native approaches to cleanup, which can lead to reclamation projects failing.

“Modern Western science risk assessment leaves out so much from the Diné viewpoint,” he said. “It leaves out sacredness, livingness, the soul of the earth.”

From the perspective of the Diné people, the traditional belief is that illness and the imperfections of life are an imbalance, and the underlying toxins, such as radioactive waste, are disrespectful to the environment, or Mother Earth, he said.

Holistic healing, he said, is maintained by a “delicate interconnectedness” between the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual existence of human beings.

To bridge non-Native and traditional approaches to reclamation, it’s important to include traditional Navajos and scientists, like him, who live in impacted communities, Charley said.

Failing to incorporate Native ecological knowledge at the beginning of the process can mean certain communities are overlooked for cleanup because the full impact of toxic exposure they experience is missed.

A medicine man, for example, might gather plants for their medicinal properties or for traditional ceremonies from a contaminated

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People like Kirby Morris.

Every week, Morris (Diné), drives 35 miles east from her home in Coyote Canyon to Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint where she studies environmental science and learns to clean up abandoned, hardrock mines.

Abandoned Mines in New Mexico

Abandoned uranium sites in the Grants Mineral Belt, which was a booming uranium region until the mid-1980s. The area stretched from Laguna Pueblo almost to Gallup in New Mexico’s northwest checkerboard region.

As a child, Morris would visit her grandmother in Coyote Canyon, on the Navajo Nation in northwest New Mexico, and climb to the top of the mesa behind her grandmother’s house.

“They always said there’s abandoned mines back there,” she said. “You can just see it—a doorway that’s closed up into the hillside.”

After looking at maps of abandoned mines, Morris, now 39, realizes the mine she saw had been used to unearth uranium decades ago.

“We shouldn’t even be near it, but it’s so close, you know,” she said, “just on top of the mesa from the communities down there.”

Morris works on a Navajo Technical University team trying to transform soil from an abandoned coal mine near Socorro so that it can grow plants and vegetation. The idea is to come up with the right “recipe” that can then be used back at the mine to grow ground cover.

Morris and the other Navajo students working on the project could one day employ what they’re learning in uranium remediation jobs.

At the root of her work is a desire to teach her four children about the environment and protect it for them and Navajo communities.

“I do see it as a career,” she said. “This is something that is, you know, needed here not only on the Navajo Nation but the state of New Mexico as well. It would be a benefit for all of us.”

Dr. Abhishek RoyChowdhury, an assistant professor of environmental science and natural resources at NTU, leads the soil cleanup project for the Socorro coal mine and is working to prepare future environmental scientists from Navajo communities for the reclamation field.

Along with colleagues, he’s building a radiation health physics associate science program that will train students to handle radioactive waste, a specialized process regulated by the government.

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“We believe if we can train our local workforce, they will be the main force to solve this issue,” said RoyChowdhury, who is non-Native. “If we can provide the education, if we can provide the training, we can build a future workforce who can work for the Navajo Nation, who can work for these external companies who are always looking to hire local people.”

Looking ahead

The security gate for the Quivira (formerly Kerr-McGee) uranium mine just north of the UNC uranium mine site, which operated from 1977 to 1982.

from the state and federal governments and the private sector.

And it created uranium reclamation positions in the state’s Mining and Minerals agency and Environment Department. That gives the agencies additional resources to address legacy uranium mining and mill-site contamination through holistic strategic planning, Environment Department spokesman Matthew Maez said.

The effort complements the EPA’s 10-year plan for uranium remediation on Navajo land, which includes a workforce development component intended to ensure cleanup money flows to Navajo companies and workers.

So far, however, cleanup contracts the EPA has awarded have gone to non-Nava-

jo-owned companies. The EPA doesn’t give preference to Navajo companies in awarding contracts, according to EPA spokesman Joshua Anderson, but each contract includes an employment plan and training requirements, and companies must file an annual report about how they created “meaningful job opportunities” for Navajo businesses and the Navajo Nation.

In an $85 million contract with Tetra Tech, Inc. inked in 2017 to assess uranium contamination, the EPA built in criteria to encourage the company to procure services and supplies from Navajo companies, and to partner with NTU to train Navajo students, like Morris, in career paths related to assessment and cleanup. The plan also calls for industry job fairs and advertising to get the word out about

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New attention to environmental cleanup comes after a string of bad economic news for the region, which is made up of a checkerboard of Navajo, federal, state and private lands.

In 2020, big employers near the city of Gallup—a Marathon oil refinery and the Escalante coal-fired power plant in Prewitt— shut down. Three hundred people lost their jobs.

In metropolitan Farmington, another city near the Navajo Nation, the closing earlier this year of the San Juan Generating Station will worsen a steady decline in the labor force.

On the horizon looms the expected 2031 closure of another large employer, the Four Corners Power Plant in Fruitland.

Corporate interests and New Mexico elected officials, including Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, hope to tap the region’s vast natural gas reserves to create a new hydrogen fuel industry and replace lost jobs.

Another job-creation idea sailed through the New Mexico Legislature earlier this year: cleanup of abandoned uranium mines.

Lawmakers hope mine reclamation can help workers and businesses access jobs if the state helps to coordinate training and fosters relationships.

The idea began to take shape during a 2018 struggle over a uranium mining permit at Mount Taylor, which pitted a need for jobs against desecration of a sacred site of the Navajo Nation and many of the state’s pueblo tribes.

It then bloomed into an influential economic study by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of New Mexico. In a legislative presentation last year, bureau researcher Rose Rohrer estimated cleanup projects could create 1,000 jobs for every $1 billion spent on cleanup over 10 years, with an average salary of $54,633 per year. Jobs would include general labor, trucking, environmental science, architecture and engineering.

New Mexico lawmakers ran with the idea, passing a law that directs state agencies to develop a strategic plan for mine cleanup, and create or promote programs for worker training and business development. It also created a revolving fund specifically for uranium remediation with hopes for future funding

contract opportunities.

Cleaning up abandoned mines costs a lot of money. Regulations, laws and safety issues must be considered when planning for uranium remediation. Millions of tons of radioactive soil will likely be moved to designated repository sites, and workers will need specialized training for handling chemicals or radioactive material and to master guidelines they must follow while on the job.

The economic study singled out time-consuming, costly training as a barrier to small companies breaking into the uranium remediation industry.

Funding for reclamation has been a long time coming, though it got a recent boost through large, corporate settlements and new funding that US Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, attached to last year’s federal infrastructure bill.

But the expected explosion of jobs could be snatched up by out-of-state companies and out-of-state workers as more reclamation money flows into the state, Rohrer said.

“These are lifetime issues,” Rohrer said, “and they can bring jobs and opportunities for lifetimes.”

This story is part of a collaboration from INN’s Rural News Network in partnership with INN members Indian Country Today, Buffalo’s Fire, InvestigateWest, KOSU, New Mexico In Depth, Underscore and Wisconsin Watch, as well as partners Mvskoke Media, Osage News and Rawhide Press. Series logo

by Mvskoke Creative. The project was made possible with support from the Walton Family Foundation.

Kirby Morris (Diné) stands in the Red Rock State Park in Church Rock, New Mexico, on Feb. 27 with Dr. Abhishek RoyChowdhury, right, an assistant professor of environmental science at Navajo Technical University. Morris is studying mine reclamation under a program operated

by RoyChowdhury, and hopes to be able to use her knowledge with uranium cleanup.

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The Microscope Method Local nonprofit brings a colorful sculpted look to the sciences It’s probably been a while since your high school science classes, and it’s doubtful you sat at your desk thinking, “Wow, mitochondria is so artsy!” Yet art and science are far more intertwined than we give them credit for, and local nonprofit SciArt Santa Fe is on a mission to show the split between both pursuits isn’t nearly as binary as we think.

If anything, they’re intrinsically linked, and SciArt’s new showcase and lecture series, Under the Surface, offers viewers a chance to see art like they may not have before.

“This is all about that intersection,” says University of New Mexico professor and artist Andrea Polli, who will also show in the exhibit. “I’ve thought about this for a long time. Now I think there’s a level of creativity in everything—in the understanding of the world, which is what science tries to do for us...the art-science connection is where it intersects. So this is an acknowledgment that there are many different ways to understand and engage with the world; art science is a way to address scientific issues more free of the chains of the traditional practice or formal science.”

In short, the idea is to showcase artists who pair craft alongside an academic discipline such as physics, astronomy, biology, meditative practice and more. As such, viewers can see how natural sciences build

geometric patterns, how colors are shaped by gas, why translucent glass bubbles glimmer and even living organisms at work in a mini-biosphere. Images that might have once been reserved for viewing through a microscope hit the macro level. Entire new worlds flare into existence. In addition to the gallery show, viewers can also attend the LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) discussions on select days to informally chat up the artsy science types and better understand how their processes work.

“We’re hoping this is an acknowledgement there’s many different ways to understand and engage with the world,” Polli tells SFR. “When we say science, there’s a broad definition: Indigenous knowledge is something we embrace, too. That’s intersecting knowledge to the world’s sciences.”

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UNDER THE SURFACE OPENING 3-6 pm Saturday, April 13. Free.

Vital Spaces at the Midtown Campus 1600 St. Michael’s Drive. sciartsantafe.org

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ONGOING ART ABANDONED MOMENTS Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave. (505) 992-0800 Yeah sure, the world is chaos, but that doesn’t mean the chaos doesn’t lead to art. See these photos from Ed Kashi, who has chronicled chaotic world events for 40 years.

10 am-5 pm, free CLOSE TO HOME Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323 Fiber works and landscape paintings, to make your book browsing a little brighter.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Fri 11 am-4 pm, Sat, free EARTH & SKY: OAXACA TO SANTA FE Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie kouricorrao.com See the landscapes and abstract cartographies found from the walls of Oaxaca, Mexico. View in person or online.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free INTERSECTIONS ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 Something and nothing?

Existential questions, but also artistic ones. As an exploration between the boundaries of these two concepts, this show helps us understand what the heck artistic form even is.

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“Mona Lisa“ by Christopher Merlyn, part of the showcase unPOPular Opinion, opening April 15 at Alberto Zalma’s Art Shop.

METAPHYSICS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Up, down and all around, artist Kate Joyce created this photography series from her many, many (many) airline adventures.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free LA LUZ DE TAOS Couse-Sharp Historic Site 138 Kit Carson Road, Taos (575) 751-0369 Paintings, pottery, jewelry and all the other good handcrafted crafts on display. These works reflect the local Hispanic and Native cultures in the Taos region.

By appointment, free MEDIUM RARE: ART CREATED FROM THE UNEXPECTED Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 How unexpected is this art created from the unexpected?

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10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free SPECTRUM SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Artist Nani Chacon (Diné)’s first solo exhibition explores cultural repair and radical colonial resistance through vibrant visual storytelling. Word is it’s pretty dope.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free OCHO CUBANOS AHORA Artes de Cuba 1700A Lena St. (505) 303-3138 Check out this inaugural group exhibition of eight contemporary artists from Cuba. See artistic styles from our island neighbors we don’t get to see in our everyday galleries.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free PAULA & IRVING KLAW: VINTAGE PRINTS No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org These sibling photographers captured the bizarre fetish understand world within urban life and their work brings reminders of things seen and unseen.

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10 am-5 pm, Wed-Sun, free SKATE NIGHT Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 From Alejandro Sanchez, check out this photo series documenting the Black roller-skating community of bygone days. Maybe feel a little nostalgic too, who knows?

Noon-5 pm, Thurs & Fri, free SPRING GROUP SHOW Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 What is better than group art shows? Let us know if you think of anything, cause we can’t.

See works by Renate Aller, John Garrett, Peter Millett, Lisa Holt and Harlan Reano, Chris Richter and Bryan Whitney.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free THE LAS VEGAS PROJECT: CONTEMPORARY LIFE ON THE HISTORIC SANTA FE TRAIL IN NEW MEXICO New Mexico Highlands University 905 University Ave., Las Vegas (505) 425-7511 A photography exhibition featuring black and white contemporary photos of Las Vegas, New Mexico, examining a sense of isolation. On display at the Highlands University Kennedy Hall Gallery.

8:30 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free THE TEST COMMANDMENTS Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St. (928) 308-0319 Religious-inspired art that may not be all that it seems. This work asks where we’re finding our “idols“ in modern society and if they’ve replaced our traditional understanding of faith.

By appointment, free TONGUES IN TREES Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Wonderfully trippy art, sensory patterns found both in nature and the human body.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free VIBRANT POOL Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 A pool so vibrant you can see the ripples when the T-Rex stomps. Hear sound installations, experimental photography and light sculpture. Yeah, we said light sculpture. Sculpted light. Whoa, that’s actually a thing.

Thurs, 9 am-5 pm Fri and Sat, noon-6 pm Sun, 11 am-5 pm, free

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THE NIGHT FALLS AND THE DAY BREAKS 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Artist Utako Shindo displays sumi ink on paper and stoneware vessel.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free

DANCE EL FLAMENCO: SPANISH CABARET El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a flamenco show with wine and tapas. Seriously.

You’re a walking ghoul otherwise.

Various times, $25-$43

WED/13 ART BLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOP Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 alasdeagua.com With Mary Ann Maestas as the instructor. learn the basics of linoleum block printings—tools provided! Join with a a design in mind or sketches (but it isn’t required).

5:30 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES CONSIDERATIONS FOR INDIGENOUS COLLECTIONS CARE Online tinyurl.com/u8vpeubz Indigenous collections care is a practice prioritizing Native knowledge and intentions. Join esteemed panelists for a presentation and discussion of the guidelines in progress outlining the importance of considerations for Indigenous collections. Learn what the next steps are for institutions around the country. From the School for Advanced Research.

2-3:30 pm, free

DANCE TWO-STEP WEDNESDAYS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Get your steps in, one way or another. Honky-tonk tunes, New Mexican brews and all the possible grooves. Finally, you can go somewhere in boots and not look like you’re trying too hard.

7-10 pm, $10

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278 Where those with collections of useless knowledge frolic in the fields of victory.

8 pm, free

NM GOVERNOR'S MANSION TOUR New Mexico Governor's Mansion One Mansion Drive (505) 476-2800 Mansion tours. Email: mary.brophy@state.nm.us for tickets.

Noon-3 pm, free HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 After you finish up all your witchy spells, take that good luck to Hotline B(L)ingo, where victory is so assured your confidence will smash the ceiling.

Maybe. No promises. We can only promise bingo.

7 pm, $2 per round NEW MEXICO HEALTHY MASCULINITIES TOOLKIT Online tinyurl.com/bdyna3wu A collection of readings, workshops, and exercises that engage communities in conversations and activities around the topic of masculinity.

5:30-7 pm, free

MUSIC JOHNNY LLOYD The Dragon Room at Pink Adobe 406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712 Toe-tapping entertainment, great food and delicious libations in a really cool setting.

Actual dragons TBD. 5:30-7:30 pm, free KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Yesssss, you can sing Backstreet Boys until the place empties out. Share the mic so the staff doesn’t have to tear it away from you again.

10 pm, free THE HIGH PLAIN OF HEAVEN AND SABINE COLLEEN La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Americana and acoustic. Must be 21+ to enjoy beverages at the bar. Tickets are not required, but as always remember to tip your hard-working musicians. If you don’t plan to, maybe don’t leave your house?

8-10 pm, free

WORKSHOP IMPROV GAMES Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Unit A santafeimprov.com This opening class to an eightweek series for anyone 18+ with a desire to hop into the world of improve. Crack those knuckles, double knot your shoelaces assuming you were taught how to do that and get your little self ready, as the theater sports are here and ready to rumble.

6-8 pm, $175

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Grammy opinions aside, it’s neat that we can go to a coffee shop or show around town and run into mainstream award show winners.

Add Marc Whitmore to that list. He’s new to town and was just schmoozing at the Grammys, where his work on Jon Batiste’s We Are album earned the Album of the Year award—the night’s top prize. Whitmore is a recording engineer and mixer for the album (and you can check out his other credits on his website, markwhitemoresound.com).

SFR spoke with Whitmore about his career in music and what brought him to lay down roots in our little town. (Riley Gardner) First off, congrats. For those who aren’t familiar with these job titles, what does it mean to be a recording engineer and producer for these big-time albums, and what was the path getting there?

My job is pretty much being the middle man between the artist and the way things sound tonally. I work with an artist to understand where their heads are at, and it sometimes takes a bit of odd language and nonverbal language, especially with Jon, to understand where we are sometimes. A lot of this job is the shaping of sound with the use of different equipment—equalizers, compressors, pretty much mangling audio to find a perfect sound that works for all of us. I’ve been working with Jon Batiste for over six years, so our working relationship is always, ‘Oh, we have a week off, let’s get in the studio,’ so we always had to schedule it around things. He’s a big genius, and I’d come home and tell my wife how this guy’s in another zone most of the time. Seeing how great he is, I was just waiting for everyone else to realize it, too. I think he’s one of those virtuoso people on a different plane, always thinking about music, 24/7.

I started school in Cleveland then went on to Nashville for an internship at Blackbird Studios, then became an assistant engineer for one or two producers, then eventually I became a

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producer outright. After I met producer Roger Moutenot, he helped put my career to a natural level where I was working with people outright rather than assisting. And then a Black Keys album came along, Let’s Rock, and that came out in 2019. You can say I’ve been in the industry since I was playing around with Garage Band when I was 16. Back then, I was editing music for people and doing dance recital pieces in Ohio. I really taught myself how to work with audio. I’ve taught myself to keep myself busy, musically. Once I get into the studio, I find it hard to stop working or take a lunch break. It’s an energy I get when I work. After 14 to 16 hours in the studio I need to be told to wrap it up.

Now that you’ve got a Grammy on the shelf, one would assume it’s Los Angeles or NYC calling. Why’d you choose to establish a new recording studio here in Santa Fe? There were a lot of reasons, but [my wife and I] were planning on leaving Nashville for a while. In Santa Fe, we discovered how much the artists are respected here. People are doing what they do here because they love it, not because they are trying to ‘make it’ in the same way.

Big labels in big cities are spending a lot of money, but it never really ends up that way. The stuff I record in the garage gets just as many streams on Spotify as the ones with $100,000 in the budget. I didn’t want to be surrounded by people constantly trying to be successful in that big-city way.

What are the plans for this new Santa Fe-based studio setup?

It’s called Planet Caravan, and we’re about 15 minutes out of town. I want people to come out, especially since a lot of people who’ve recorded in a bunch of studios in Nashville in other places are looking for something different and wanting a big change of scenery. I’m wanting to work with a lot of local groups, too—right now we’re putting something together with Jon Francis & The Poor Clares. I saw them at La Reina a few weeks ago and I thought they were dope. We did five days in the studio. So if the band is down for it and good enough for it, which Jon and his band are, we do it live without headphones. Let them get comfortable and play their songs, especially if they don’t have studio experience. I like that different studios have different sounds here. Some focus on reggae and hip-hop spots, metal, Americana, my vibe is more 1970s live recording. There are a bunch of different studios in Santa Fe, and all of them have their own niches. That’s part of what makes this place really cool for artists.

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THU/14 BOOKS/LECTURES SAR CREATIVE THOUGHT FORUM: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Online tinyurl.com/4hxh2mr2 Moving beyond questions about the reality of climate change, this conversation shares perspectives on how to address its impact, from strategies to reduce the unequal distribution of environmental damage. Plus, a discussion of the risks of experimenting with more aggressive tech.

2-3:15 pm, free LATE SELF-PORTRAITS AND GROUND, WIND, THIS BODY Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 Mary Morris’ compelling collection of poems and Tina Carlson’s debut collection exploring the vestiges of war.

6 pm, free

DANCE ADVANCED SALSA WORKSHOP Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. (505) 989-9788 Spread that salsa down on the dance floor. If you know some basics, this is the class for you to improve your dance game 7:30-8:30 pm, $20

EVENTS AUTO TECHNOLOGIES CENTER OPEN HOUSE Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000 Meet with a technical placement specialist from the Ford Motor Company. Ask questions in English or Spanish and learn how to get started in the automobile industry. (see SFR picks, page 17) English sessions at 10 am; 2pm Spanish at 11 am; 3 pm, free

PRIDE AFTER 5 La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 A monthly pride mixer, where allies and folks can meet up, get some drinks (with many mocktail options) and say gay as much as we want.

5:30-7:30 pm, free PECHAKUCHA NIGHT SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Constant undulation is the state of nature. How do you cope, embrace or experience flux? We here at SFR have no clue, but perhaps this diverse lineup of local creatives and changemakers will tell us.

They'll be sharing their stories and visions about experiencing change and its relation to the arts.

6-8 pm, $5 YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 Got gardening gloves plus a love for the Santa Fe Railyard Park?

This community gardening event is certainly calling out to you.

Help make the park even more beautiful with your community.

10 am-noon, free COLOMBIAN DREAMING Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Always dreamed of traveling to the delightful South American nation? Learn how you can with the Todo Bien Colombia travel company. Please don’t sing that Bruno song while you do this.

Like, please.

5:30-7 pm, free MINDFUL CAREGIVING Online (505) 982-2565 Mindfulness tools to cope with the duties of caring for another.

This is open to anyone wanting to learn more mindfulness tools, even if you’re not current a caregiver. Get access to resources specific to Santa Fe for caregivers of people living with dementia.

5:30-7 pm, free

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THEATER

GREGG TURNER GROUP: CD RELEASE PARTY Lost Padre Records 905 W Alameda St. (505) 310-6389 Hear the hits, ranging from “Stakeout on Dope Street” to “Vampire Dog of Jesus Christ.”

With opening acts Nizhonniya and Scott Richardson. Free baklava, too, FYI. 6 pm, free MARIACHI GRAN VICTORIA Café Castro 2811 Cerrillos Road (505) 473-5800 New Mexican food. Live mariachi. That should be enough to get you over to Café Castro, but we’ll keep reminding you.

4:30-6 pm, free MAXO KREAM Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Rap fans might know Maxo Kream for his ability to be anything but mainstream and cliché radio plays. Hear the music and words that essentially act as his autobiography. Peso Peso and Lul Bob open the show.

8 pm, $22-$57 SARAH JAROSZ Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Jarosz is a four-time Grammy Award-winner (at the age of 30), who's an accomplished multi-instrumentalist. This show is for folk music lovers who've accomplshed so much we feel insignificant. The good news is the music will heal us.

7:30 pm, $34-$49 SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE: A TEACH-IN AND BENEFIT CONCERT Rodey Theatre 1 University of New Mexico, ABQ (505) 277-4332 A teach-in and benefit concert to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees. The evening features musical performances by Iraqi composer/virtuoso Rahim AlHaj and Engine, an Afro-Latin group.

On-the-ground Ukrainian activists will Zoom in.

7 pm, free (but donate, obvs)

DIDEROT STRING QUARTET Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-4640 A commemoration of the joys and sorrows of the Easter season. Hear this musical meditation on the seven last words of Christ, open for the religious and nonreligious alike. Call above for tickets.

7 pm, $20-$85

UNPOPULAR OPINION Alberto Zalma Art Shop 407 South Guadalupe St. (505) 670-5179 See Christopher Merlyn, an active member of the Santa Fe art scene, with his bright, urban abstracts and stencil graffiti-like portraits. Plus the debut of California based artist Johnny Taylor, whose work is drawn from advertising images and glyphs.

5-9 pm, free

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FINDING THE HEART OF MEDITATIVE WORK Online tinyurl.com/kcwx44rk We might say that we mostly live in the tip of the iceberg of our lives. In quieting down, we begin to come in touch again with the deeper part of ourselves. And in this still listening, difficult things in this human life to come into the sunlight of awareness.

7-8:30 pm, $10

JACK'S MAGIC BAKERY Root 66 Café 1704 Lena St. (505) 780-8249 A challah paradise, plus all sorts of magical vegan baked goods that makes the weekend worth having at all.

9 am-3 pm, free

FRI/15 ART CROSSING THE REALM (OPENING) IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 This exhibition is a culmination of senior students’ final semester. It’s from the IAIA folks at MoCNA, so you know it’s gonna be good.

6-8 pm, free NIGHT FEEDING Smoke the Moon 101 Marcy St., Ste. 23 smokethemoon.com The debut solo exhibition by artist Sarah Alice Moran, who makes magic paintings. The bleeding and soaking action of her pigments on unprimed canvas conjures a primal feminine force. Oh man, we all gotta see this one. (see SFR picks, page 17) 6 pm, free

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MUSIC HILLARY SMITH SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 New Mexico’s favorite singer brings out jazz standards with Bob Fox on piano, Alex Murzyn on tenor sax, Terry Burns on bass and JT on the drums. A smashing time awaits you, plus excellent acoustics.

7 pm, $25-$30 TGIF CONCERT First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. 87501, (505) 982-8544 Hear the Chancel Choir perform Service of Darkness

by Dale Wood including Seven Choral Meditations on the Last Words of Christ. Religious music is pretty stuff.

5:30 pm, free IAN MOORE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 A Texas music star arrives to New Mexico just in time—we need these inspiring folk covers (and of course there are originals mixed in).

9-10:30 pm, $15

WORKSHOP EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR LITTLES Online tinyurl.com/33yd4jh8 For preschool-age children, where them and their special adult can focus on what they feel and how to deal with their array of feelings. And oh man do they have feelings or what?

11 am, free MEDITATION: CONNECT AND ENGAGE Online tinyurl.com/57sweuzb And this class for school-age children, focusing on using meditation to be calm, collected and engaged in this ever-attention grabbing world.

11 am, free

SAT/16 ART SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas, north of the water tower 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 The weather rocks, which means it’s perfect timing to stroll through our beloved artist market, where one can see and purchase a range from jewelry to furniture and mugs.

9 am-2 pm, free SHELTERS FROM THE STORM 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 A brick and wood-based sculpture show.

Noon-5 pm, free DROP-IN PAINTING FOR ADULTS Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6781 No experience needed. Learn to paint or get some practice in. Yes indeed, it’s that simple.

Watercolor and/or acrylic paints are on deck. Make new friends while making art, both of which are just as beautiful.

2-4 pm, free

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DANCE DIRT DANCE IN THE PARK Patrick Smith Park 1001 Canyon Road allaboardearth.com A community dance event featuring live DJs, sound healers, performers and karaoke stars.

2-4 pm, $5-$12 CONTRA DANCE Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Old fashioned line dancing, sort of. But hey, it’s fun and there are classes beforehand. Live music from Cheap Shots! Vax proof required.

7-10:30 pm, $5-$10

EVENTS COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP Franklin E Miles Park Camino Carlos Rey and Siringo Road whoIamfoundation.org None of us like the sight of litter. Litter spoils everything, seriously, and makes our town unhealthier. Plus, it's like having friends over when you forgot to clean. Ain't that the worst?! Meet up and assist in cleaning things up. Do it.

1-4 pm, free FLY FISHING TIPS & TRICKS Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323 Get all the tips and tricks, find out about the best locations and celebrate New Mexico's waterways! It's true—you can actually fly fish in our arid little region.

1:30-3:30 pm, free

SPRING RUNOFF Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place (505) 424-3333 Outdoor activities, live music, food, vendors, raffles and more.

All day, by donation

FOOD PLANTITA VEGAN BAKERY POP UP Plantita Vegan Bakery 1704 Lena St. Unit B4 (505) 603-0897 Hand pies, cupcakes, strawberry chocolate chip scones and more.

10 am-noon, free

MUSIC FINE WATER TASTING REMIX Audio Bar 101 W Marcy St. (505) 803-7949 Learn how to pair water with coffee, wine, bee and liquor.

11:30 am-1 pm, $30 RANDOM RAB Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle tinyurl.com/yedk9drx Via the West Coast electronic music scene (a place bursting with talent), Random Rab uplifts the soul and provides the background music your life has been missing.

10 pm, $20 NOSOTROS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 If you’re thinking “wow these guys play a lot” you’re right, and we don’t want a world where they don’t.

8-11 pm, $10 NEIL ROLNICK No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Rolnick has been a pioneer in the use of computers in musical performance since the late 1970s, his work has been performed world-wide and released on over 20 albums. Live solo show!

2:30 pm, free (please donate)

THEATER THE BILLIONAIRES AND OTHER PLAYS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Four short plays by Jerry Labinger.

7:30 pm, free

SUN/17 BOOKS/LECTURES SECULAR ALLIANCE: WHAT IS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE? Online tinyurl.com/2sxzembe Restorative Justice and Truth and Reconciliation: What are they? Debra Oliver leads this talk in collaboration with Mary Ellen Gonzales.

Noon, free

FOOD

DANCE

SKY RAILWAY: LAMY BRUCH RUN Santa Fe Railyard 332 Read St. (844) 743-3759 Enjoy first-class service as you and your family roll to the historic Legal Tender restaurant in Lamy. Sip on your complimentary Bloody Mary or Mimosa while listening to live music and enjoying the view of the breathtaking Galisteo Basin. Did we say it’s on a train?

We really like trains. (see SFR picks, page 17) 11 am, $99-$169

SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Weekly swing dance in Santa Fe with different teachers and DJs every week. Class starts at 7pm and the open dance at 8pm. $8 for the class and the dance, $3 for just the dance. Vax proof required.

7 pm, $3-$8

MUSIC SPIRITED SUNDAY WITH SPOOLIUS La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Happy hour and and the dynamic DJ duo dropping beats so sick you’ll call an urgent care.

4-7 pm, free THE MASTERSONS & THE WHITMORE SISTERS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 For Eleanor and Bonnie Whitmore, two of roots music's most accomplished songwriters, the ghosts chose to appear right as COVID-19 became entrenched—when live music evaporated and people were isolated from each other. Hence their new country roots album Ghost Stories. With special guests The Mastersons.

7:30 pm, $17-$20

WORKSHOP BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE CLASS Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 Show that belly who’s boss. But in a loving way, ya know?

1-2 pm, $15

MON/18 BOOKS/LECTURES ANNE HILLERMAN BOOK SIGNING Le Pommier Bistro 7 Caliente Road (505) 466-7323 Renowned author Anne Hillerman presents The Sacred Bridge, A Leaphorn: Chee & Manuelito Novel, in this reading, book signing and dinner. Call the number above for tickets.

5-7 pm, $50 GIUSEWA PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY: RECENT DISCOVERIES AT JEMEZ HISTORIC SITE Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200 What's new at the old Jemez historic site? Matthew Barbour, regional manager of Coronado and Jemez sites lets us know.

6 pm, $20

FOOD ‘90S NIGHT Social Kitchen + Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Drink specials plus dance hits from the old days. Backstreet’s back, alright.

4 pm, free

MUSIC BARBERSHOP CHORUS REHEARSALS Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road tinyurl.com/49ekha3b Learn to sing not only barbershop standards, but also pop songs and show tunes.

6:30-8 pm, free

TUE/19 ART UNEASY ABSTRACTIONS Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 From Alabama-based artist Millian Giang Pham, whose art focuses on structures and barriers that oppress the body.

She uses visual art strategies to flip this on the viewer by creating visual puzzle.

10 am-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES FOLK ART FOCUS ON FIVE Online tinyurl.com/3m7btscs Can’t wait to have a guided look at the Museum of International Folk Art’s Girard Wing? Well, of course! There are 10,000 arranged folk art pieces from dozens of countries, after all.

Here’s an opportunity to tour or even re-visit—virtually— Alexander Girard’s last massive art installation from the comfort of your home.

11 am-noon, free

SKY RIDER: PARK VAN TASSEL AND THE RISE OF BALLOONING IN THE WEST Online tinyurl.com/mr3z6tj8 Ever wondered just we're so obsessed with hot air balloons?

Author Gary Fogel may offer an answer. This legacy links back to the 1880s and a man by the name of Park Van Tassel. Learn facts from the Historic Santa Fe Foundation.

3 pm, $10

EVENTS YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 A good chance to get your gardening skill bar up like in the Sims.

10 am-noon, free

MUSIC SAGE & AUSTIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Rock. Blues. Americana.

3 pm, $10

MUSEUMS IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology. IAIA 2021–2022 BFA Exhibition: Awakened Dreamscapes.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass.

Birds: Spiritual Messengers of the Skies.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Música Buena.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12 NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 The Palace Seen and Unseen.

Curative Powers: New Mexico’s Hot Springs.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St. (505) 946-1000 Spotlight on Spring.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon $20

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BOOKS/LECTURES BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES: STORYTIME AND SONG Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Books, activities and art-related things for Spanish-first language kiddos or youth speaking both languages.

10 am, free NEW MEXICO STATE POETRY SOCIETY 2022 CONVENTION Online tinyurl.com/5b63bs38 The state poetry convention presents many ofthe nation's finest poets alongside the state's own poetic voices. Keynote Ana Castillo joins nationally acclaimed poets Traci Brimhall, Dana Levin, Lauren Camp and more. Plus workshops, curated readings and open mics.

10 am to 5:30 pm, $25-$50 SANTA FE YOUTH POET LAUREATE CROWNING CEREMONY Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 New Mexico Poet Laureate, Levi Romero, and current Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate, Oz Leshem, will read their poetry, as will the current finalists before the announcement is made.

5 pm, free

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“Trails, Rails, and Highways: How Trade Transformed the Art of Spanish New Mexico” at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence and the Architecture of John Gaw Meem. Trails, Rails, and Highways: How Trade Transformed New Mexico.

1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12, free for members NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063 Western Eyes.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-12

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t’s been a whirl of wind in my little universe of late, including a quick trip to Denver to see the legendary Jawbreaker and Descendents (more on that on page 27), which also meant feeling too overwhelmed to cook or plan to cook or even plan to plan. I’ll admit it, there’s been a little too much dining out lately, but in the pursuit of New Mexican food, can there be such a thing?

stalwart local rock god Mikey Baker of Moby Dick and Love Gun. Note immediately that while Counter Culture will take your card now, tipping still works on a cash-only basis. I expressed my guilt over having none and was graciously assured there’s no way I could have known.

Now you know, though, so take a couple extra bucks. Otherwise, the main goal was in choosing between a handheld burrito or a smothered one ($6.50-$10.50, and contingent on chile/bacon choices). I’ve learned repeatedly that this can be a point of conten-

Counter Culture 930 Baca St., (505) 995-1105; Breakfast and Lunch daily In the pantheon of problems, Counter Culture not taking credit or debit cards over the last several millennia has certainly been a small one, but now that the Baca Street locals’ favorite does indeed accept plastic, it’s good news for those of us who consistently forget to carry cash.

Everything else is likely how you remember it—counter service, grab-your-own water and an older lady and gentlemen who ask if you’re in line, scoff when you say, “Oh, sorry, I am waiting in line,” and then try to surreptitiously form their own with a different cashier. No matter, though, for this was a lazy midweek day, and the company was none other than

E2P for future columns in this series, as I plan to mention it A LOT) was tragically off.

It’s frustrating to wind up with a breakfast burrito that amounts to little more than potatoes wrapped in a tortilla, but this is what I received and, were it not for going the smothered route, it might have been a real dryness problem. Counter Culture’s

green is often superb, though, and it did not disappoint this day while Baker and I compared notes on the insanity of local music and musicians. The red chile, sadly, was less than satisfying. If one has a choice, one almost invariably wants their red to err toward thickness. On this particular burrito, it traipsed right into watery territory. Now, I’ve had more than my fair share of breakfast burritos at Counter Culture, and this feels more like an anomaly, an off day—we all have them—but when you’ve just navigated that stressful parking lot and been unable to find a table outside on a beautiful day, something so trivial starts to feel like a bigger deal. The food’s been better, and it likely will be again; the bottomless coffee from Aroma, however, was pitch perfect and just what we needed, and nobody went home feeling unfed.

Sopaipilla Café tion amongst dining friends, and while Mr. Baker opted to go the un-smothered route like some sort of maniac, I generally like to get as much Christmas action on my New Mexican dishes as is possible. This proved a wise choice, indeed, as the egg-to-potato ratio (which I should maybe start calling

2900 Cerrillos Road Unit B, (505) 474-1448; Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner MondaySaturday; Breakfast and Lunch Sunday I’ll be the first to tell people not to sleep on the restaurants in the so-called weird locations like a strip mall, a gas station or,

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in the case of newly opened New Mexican joint Sopaipilla Café, attached to a Days Inn down Cerrillos Road. This is the exact definition of a locals’ haunt, the sort of restaurant that visitors who happen to be staying at Days Inn might discover, but that the downtown “We’re here to spend thousands on art!” folks will likely miss. It’s also an excellent example of simple New Mexican items done exceedingly well, a spot that dreams up specials regularly and fresh, delicious guacamole with just the right chunky-to-creamy contrast.

First off, the guacamole appetizer ($8.50) proved a real treat, both in how avocado-forward it was and in how the restaurant didn’t do that thing where they stuff a piece of lettuce underneath in an effort to give the illusion of enough guac.

Here, the portion was generous, and the chips came slightly warm, a small but vital detail that everyone I’ve ever met loves far more than seems possible for chip temperatures.

My dining companion was not particularly hungry, but definitely doubled down on chips, and good for them!

Tragically, Sopaipilla Café did not have a breakfast burrito on the menu, which is what I’d been searching for, and while much of the menu is meat heavy (including seafood), I opted for the huevos rancheros, Christmas ($10.50), and the promise of stuffing the eggs and the sides of beans and rice into my sopa. A wise choice. Whoever’s cooking at Sopaipilla Café truly knows the meaning of eggs over easy. And when I broke those yolks into my melange of chile and beans and posole, they intertwined into that all-important New Mexican food moment of harmony. This obviously comes down to seasoning, chile fluctuations, egg type and chef skill, but once I crammed anything and everything from my plate into that tantalizing pillow of dough, it became something else entirely. Who among us doesn’t love a stuffed sopaipilla? Even so, they’re often filled with meat or beans, end of list. Having MacGyver’d my own breakfast stuffed sopa, though, I have to wonder why it’s not just a thing everyplace.

Fingers crossed that someone somewhere works out how to do this regularly, but until such a time comes, you can finagle your own at Sopaipilla Café, and it’ll stand up to pretty much any other locally beloved eatery. There will be some among us who act a bit too hoity-toity about how this new spot sits in a spartan room or two beside a motel. Let them, I say. The rest of us are trying to get someplace real.

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Save Your Generation

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y the time emo-punk trio Jawbreaker’s 1995 stunner Dear You made its way to me in 1998 or 1999, the band had been broken up for years. The legend goes something like, singer-guitarist-songwriter Blake Schwarzenbach and bassist Chris Bauermeister came to blows by the side of the road, mid-tour, after years of mounting pressure, a massive signing bonus with Geffen and punk-wide sellout accusations from the Bay Area scene that helped birth the band. According to the 2017 documentary Don’t Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker, the fight broke up, Schwarzenbach and Bauermeister got back in the van with drummer Adam Pfahler and returned home, and that was that.

Meanwhile, the mythos surrounding Dear You grew, particularly, I think, among nerdy punk and emo-obsessed teens who felt, perhaps naively, that they were alone in the world. But whereas the prevailing emo logic of the day dove often into mi-

How finally seeing Jawbreaker punctuated my pandemic feelings

sogynistic, one-sided rhetoric a la, “How could you do this to me?!” Jawbreaker’s “Why do *I* do this to me?” introspection coupled with Schwarzenbach’s literary influences, Pfahler’s chaotic tempo shifts and Bauermeister’s borderline mournful bass lines made for songs that were not only universally appealing, but worthy of self-reflection. These songs weren’t blaming anyone, and they certainly weren’t about whining over girls or boys or enbys not liking you and why that made them worthy of hate. Instead, they were about regretting pride, trying to cling to the last vestiges of strength and about working out why, or if, you even liked yourself, and where you’re supposed to go from there.

“What’s the meanest you can be to the one you claim to love?” Schwarzenbach croons on “Accident Prone;” “I don’t think I hate you enough to commit you to me,” he laments on “I Love You So Much it’s Killing Us Both;” “Congratulations to you both I hope somewhere you’re happy,” he offers on “Sluttering.” Dear You is, plainly, a masterpiece, but for much of the fanbase, it and a couple other records were all we had to cling to, and hopes of a reunion were

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be there’s a whole lot to unpack in seeing a band that spent so many years refusing to perform, even as promoters reported offering them absurd payouts. I don’t take for granted the myriad emotions that went into the sheer joy I felt at seeing them live, but I also think there’s much to be said for the timing, too.

COVID-19 is not over yet, particularly for the immunocompromised. But restrictions have relaxed and people are more willing to gather than we’ve been in years.

We can make informed decisions about how and where we spend our time. We can feel less fear. Had this show come together even six months earlier, it might have been a different conversation, but—and shoutout to Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium for taking vaccination proof seriously—the opportunity to experience a punk version I built up Jawbreaker of mass catharsis along with so many othin my mind for more than two decades, ers who’d never experienced Jawbreaker and they delivered so live felt worth the risk, and it feels like a hard. turning point: We screamed along with strangers, sans-masks. We laughed at Schwarzenbach’s mid-show banter. We repeatedly dashed. Until 2016, when rum- made predictions about what non-Dear blings of a possilble Jawbreaker show start- You songs might appear during the set. ed reverberating amongst aging punks. And when Schwarzenbach returned to the That following year, they reunited to play stage solo to kick off a brief encore with Chicago’s Riot Fest, and an entire gener- the song “Unlisted Track,” it felt meaningful to once again embrace ation of feelings-havperformance as therapy. ers who never got the “You might show some chance to see one of the Whereas the interest,” he sang, “your most impactful bands of world looks good enough their era finally had an prevailing emo logic to eat.” opportunity.

In that moment, it was.

I’m one of those feelof the day dove often Through the cancellaings-havers, which is into misogynistic, tions and the deaths and partly how it came to the dying, the suffering pass that a carful of New one-sided rhetoric of those we love and have Mexico yahoos recentnever met before, we’ve ly spent way too much a la, “How could clung to the idea that our time, money and effort you do this to me?!” world is worth sacrifice. to visit Denver where, at There, in a room with a long last, Jawbreaker Jawbreaker’s “Why old friends, new friends performed almost all of Dear You alongside do *I* do this to me?” and a sea of people who’d waited for that moment some other songs from introspection...made since they first heard previous records, and Schwarzenbach implore where a band I’ve loved for songs that were us to “Save your generadesperately blew my tion,” we didn’t find ourever-loving mind alongnot only universally selves bogged down by all side seminal punk quarappealing, but worthy we lost, but rather enamtet Descendents (who, ored with the things that frankly, warrant their of self-reflection. might still come to pass. own column about feelIronic given the age of ings, but thats’ for anthe songs, but another reother day).

It took me nearly 25 years to see minder that music is one of the best things Jawbreaker live, but I did it, and it was ev- we do, and some of it transcends everything erything. Maybe there’s something to be else to provide the comforting reminder: said for having built up expectations for We just want to be happy half the time, and more years of my life than not, or may- blue only when we have the time.

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Despite being the third largest movie market in the world, India’s on-again/off-again relationship with queer representation hasn’t shown off much. And while the new Netflix movie Cobalt Blue doesn’t hit the nail on the head, it is a gentle reminder that a little bit of decent cinematography can go a long way.

University student Tanay (newcomer Neelay Mehendale) is a literature nut in mid-1990s India.

As the country begins to position itself as a cultural powerhouse, his desires to be a part of a growing poetry movement gets a boost when a vacant room in his house is occupied by a mysterious, unnamed hunk (Prateik Babbar). Sexy unnamed hunk is sexy because he’s always got his chest bulging out of his tight button-ups. You know how it goes. Tanay’s new experiences with love offer a sudden jolt to his poetic skills, too, all while his sister (Anjali Sivaraman) struggles to find that same sense of freedom as she stares down the barrel of an arranged marriage she doesn’t particularly want.

Despite numerous sensual and literary pleasures, Cobalt Blue takes forever to get going. The

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In our world, every dude filmmaker gets his suburban-childhood-on-film moment, so why not add Richard Linklater (Boyhood) to the pile? But there’s good news: This rotoscoped nostalgia dump isn’t the act of self-aggrandizement you’d expect. Instead, young Stanley’s (Linklater’s stand-in, portrayed by Milo Coy and Jack Black as an older narrator) childhood recollections are told in montage fashion with the Apollo 11 moon landing anchoring the history and ironically grounding an intense dreamed-up “reality” wherein he is sought out by NASA to go the moon. So secret is this faux mission that his family can’t ever know about his incredible contributions to the space race. Alack, alas.

There are few things more sigh-worthy than a filmmaker emboldened enough to believe his own life warrants a cinematic autobiography. But Linklater doesn’t take us for fools. He trudges forward, aware that white-kid bildungsroman in the Houston suburbs is actually pretty bland. Rather than portray his own artistic promises, the era itself becomes the main driver. The ’60s, of course,

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first rule of queer cinema is to never wait too long for the sexy new arrival—this is what brings our sensitive and artistic protagonist into adulthood.

Director Sachin Kundalkar (who also penned the novel on which the film is based) has a strong visual eye, but his direction can’t reach its aspired heights.

He’s especially hobbled by the decision to cast many first-time actors who could better learn how to frame themselves in a shot. And even if they did possess such knowledge, Cobalt Blue can’t seem to get beyond its own sense of self-importance even as its egotistical nature offers an entertaining enough ride. Here Kundalkar aims at a more experimental take on the love story contrasted against expected narrative tropes; the strongest moments, however, wind up showcased in montage sequences.

Behold a stretched-out narrative begging to be squeezed back into the tiny home in which it be-

felt very alive, and Linklater explores how even the most average Americans experienced the counter-culture and NASA-spurred patriotism. The society of Linklater’s youth is obsessed with what’s to come and, much like the never-ending sparkly suburban developments, its members can’t recall a world before its societal and cultural trappings.

In many ways, however, widespread optimism is shaded in pessimism here. But it hardly matters for Stanley: Now is forever.

Stanley’s fantasy therefore examines how thennew and promising ventures were part of a larger cultural gestalt. Seeing a rocket launch? “Well, my neighbor’s dad’s father’s cousin works near the NASA headquarters and delivers their coffee, therefore I somehow influenced this technical achievement.” Linklater never strays into worship, yet does paint a compelling picture of brief optimism, the kind of which our country demonstrably couldn’t maintain.

He’s a fine filmmaker, but he’s downright astonishing when it comes to Texas tales and capturing the minutiae and absurdity of life there—a J. Frank Dobie for the screen. Where Apollo 10 lacks in story, it brims with a Dazed and Confused-like energy. Don’t worry, though, because one doesn’t need to be a Texan to grasp what Linklater’s going for. That’s part of his skill. (RG) Netflix, NR, 98 min.

longs. Conflict within romance feels forced, while most character choices are baffling. Even worse, generally decent dialogue flips toward the end when some shoved-in words about gay rights zap away much of the established subtlety. Even so, for all of its narrative problems, Cobalt Blue’s arthouse aesthetic vibe promises a reward beyond its surface issues. Its editing is superb, however, and highlights an energetic world without dwelling too long in its artistic sensibilities. Far better than half the stuff Netflix crams onto the platform, the rarity of seeing queer Indian cinema at least feels like a worthy use of time.

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If you’ve ever had even slight concerns about the efficacy of any prison system, or felt even more skeptical about what benefit such places provide to society at large, Great Freedom might prove your concerns justified.

Despite the post-Holocaust liberation, gay men didn’t find freedom. Taken from death camps, they were incarcerated immediately, and it’s there that we catch up with Hans (Franz Rogowski), a man imprisoned for his “perverted” activities. It would break most others, but through a decades-long bond with straight inmate Viktor (Georg Friedrich), Hans’ imprisonment leads to an unusual form of dependence that softens systemic brutality while uncovering a shared humanity between two men with otherwise opaque personalities; notions of masculinity are thus torn asunder.

Great Freedom is a purposefully ironic title, and it coaxes the audience into forging their own paths to discovery surrounding what it is to be free. Hans and Viktor spend decades alongside the viewer fantasizing about freedom only to find the laws which put them away have ultimately marked them with another kind of death sentence. Despite an evolving

COBALT BLUE Directed by Kundalkar With Mehendale, Babbar and Sivaraman Netflix, NR, 113 min

society outside, the prison stamp does its job.

Director Sebastian Meise (Still Life) uses color sparingly and often delves into expected motifs, ranging from windows to a burning matchstick, as metaphors for a more nebulous concept of freedom.

Its simplicity works: Imprisonment dulls what being free and love are—and can be—yet Meise offers hopeful glimmers of the spaces in which humanity might be found. They are not always physical or even particularly tangible. Think on it.

Audiences may find a challenge in the slow, methodical pacing, though. Great Freedom is not, gracefully, a showy experience. Instead, it focuses far more on its performances, and while its third act might be overlong, find here yet another example of a film that eschews jumpy action-style camerawork for strong lighting cues and deep performances.

Imprisoning gay men was (and remains for most minority groups) a cultural genocide not merely designed to put people away, but to break up every facet of their lives. Great Freedom notes how gay men were never truly freed of the Holocaust, even long after. Instead, they continued suffering mental shackles for decades after liberation. For its pessimism, Meise’s vision is unusually humanistic, but it never strays or shies from its messaging about generations of queer men post-WWII, or the world’s collective shoulder-shrug during and afterwards. (RG) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 116 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.” Aries author Erica Jong said that. Since I’m not an Aries myself, her aspiration is too strong for me to embrace. Sometimes I just don’t have the courage, willpower, and boldness to do what I fear. But since you decided to be born as an Aries in this incarnation, I assume you are more like Erica Jong than me. And so it’s your birthright and sacred duty to share her perspective.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to carry out another phase of this lifelong assignment.

no trees, biodiversity increased dramatically. For example, in one area, there were no bird species before the tree and 80 species after the tree. I suspect you can create a similar change in the coming weeks. A small addition, even just one new element, could generate significant benefits. One of those perks might be an increase in the diversity you engage with..

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Smallpox has been eliminated thanks to vaccination, but it was once among the most feared diseases. Over the course of many centuries, it maimed or killed hundreds of millions of people.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Sometimes suffering is For 35 percent of those who contracted it, it was fatal. just suffering,” writes novelist Kate Jacobs. “It doesn’t As for the survivors, their skin had permanent scars make you stronger. It doesn’t build character.” Now is your special time to shed suffering that fits this descrip- from the blisters that erupted. As disfiguring as those wounds were, they were evidence that a person was tion, Taurus. You are authorized to annul your relationship with it and ramble on toward the future without it. immune from future infections. That’s why employers Please keep in mind that you’re under no obligation to were more likely to hire them as workers. Their pockfeel sorry for the source of the suffering. You owe it noth- marks gave them an advantage. I believe this is a useful ing. Your energy should be devoted to liberating yourself metaphor for you. In the coming weeks, you will have an so you can plan your rebirth with aplomb. advantage because of one of your apparent liabilities or imperfections or “scars.” Don’t be shy about using your GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I am very much afraid of unusual asset. definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them,” wrote painter Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). “One must SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian author take care, too, not to be inhibited by them,” he conclud- Pearl Cleage sets the tone for the future I hope you’ll ed. He was speaking of the art he created, which kept seek in the coming weeks. The Black feminist activist evolving. In his early years, he considered his work to be writes, “We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and Neo-Impressionist. Later he described himself as a “her- we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and etic of Cubism,” and during other periods he dabbled howled just as loud as we wanted to howl.” Are you with surrealism and abstract art. Ultimately, he created interested in exploring such blithe extravagance, his own artistic category, which he called Orphism.

Sagittarius? Do you have any curiosity about how you Everything I just said about Delaunay can serve you well might surpass your previous records for rowdy pleasure? in the coming months, Gemini. I think you’ll be wise to I hope you will follow Cleage’s lead in your own inimitaaccept definitions for yourself, while at the same time ble style. not being overly bound by them. That should ultimately CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I can never rest from lead you, later this year, to craft your own unique pertenderness,” wrote author Virginia Woolf. I won’t ask sonal definition. you to be as intense as her, Capricorn. I won’t urge you CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a postgraduate student to be constantly driven to feel and express your tenderin astronomy, Cancerian-born Jocelyn Bell Burnell discov- ness. But I hope you will be focused on doing so in the ered radio pulsars in 1967. Her supervisor, who initially coming weeks. Why? Because the astrological omens dismissed her breakthrough, was awarded the Nobel suggest it will be “in your self-interest to find a way to Prize for her work in 1974—and she wasn’t! Nevertheless, be very tender.” (That’s a quote by aphorist Jenny she persisted. Eventually, she became a renowned Holzer.) For inspiration, consider trying this experiment astronomer who championed the efforts of minority proposed by Yoko Ono: “Try to say nothing negative researchers. Among the 25 prestigious awards and honabout anybody: a) for three days; b) for 45 days; c) for ors she has received is a three-million-dollar prize. I urge three months.” you to aspire to her level of perseverance in the coming months. It may not entirely pay off until 2023, but it will AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I gamble everything to pay off. be what I am,” wrote Puerto Rican feminist and activist poet Julia de Burgos, born under the sign of Aquarius.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):”One should always play fairly Her gambles weren’t always successful. At one point, when one has the winning cards,” wrote author Oscar she was fired from her job as a writer for a radio show Wilde. Let’s make that your motto for the next six because of her progressive political beliefs. On the other weeks. If life could be symbolized by a game of poker, hand, many of her gambles worked well. She earned you would have the equivalent of at least a pair of jacks awards and recognition for her five books of poetry and and a pair of queens. You may even have a full house, garnered high praise from superstar poet Pablo Neruda. like three 10s and two kings. Therefore, as Wilde I offer her as your role model, Aquarius. The rest of 2022 will be a fertile time to gamble everything to be advised, there’s no need for you to scrimp, cheat, tell what you are. Here’s a further suggestion: Gamble white lies, or pretend. Your best strategy will be to be everything to become what you don’t yet know you bold, forthright, and honest as you make your moves. must become.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “In all the land, there is only PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean jazz saxophonist and one you, possibly two, but seldom more than 16,” said comedian and actor Amy Sedaris. She was making a sar- composer Ornette Coleman was a trailblazer. He created the genre known as free jazz, which messed with convendonic joke about the possibility that none of us may be quite as unique as we imagine ourselves to be. But I’d like tional jazz ideas about tempos, melodies, and harmonies. In to mess with her joke and give it a positive tweak. If what the course of his career, he won a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and MacArthur Fellowship Sedaris says is true, then it’s likely that we all have soul “genius” grant. He was a technical virtuoso, but there was twins somewhere in the world. It means that there are more to his success, too. Among his top priorities were numerous people who share many of our perspectives and proclivities; that we might find cohorts who see us for emotional intensity and playful abandon and pure joy. That’s why, on some of his recordings, he didn’t hire famous jazz who we really are. I bring these thoughts to your attention, Virgo, because I suspect the coming months will be drummers, but instead had his son, who was still a child, an excellent time for meeting and playing with such peo- play the drum parts. I suggest you apply an approach like Coleman’s to your own upcoming efforts. ple.

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Petition for Adjudication of Unit#3088 Carlos Martinez 17B Intestacy, Determination Five Jays Lane, Santa Fe, NM of Heirship, and Formal 87508; Crib, stroller, shoe box.

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IN THE MATTER OF A 3. The Hearing set for May 5, PETITION FOR CHANGE OF 2022 at 9:30am shall be heard NAME OF Francine Maria remotely. To appear by video: meet.google.com/hdc-wqjx-wes. Elena Lobato AKA Francine M. Lobato AKA Francine Lobato To appear by phone: 1-954-507Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-00441 7909, PIN: 916 854 445#.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME 4. Pursuant to Section 45-1TAKE NOTICE that in accordance 401 (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 notice of the time and place of through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, hearing on the above-referenced Petition is hereby given to you by et seq. the Petitioner Francine Maria Elena Lobato AKA Francine publication, once each week, for M. Lobato AKA Francine Lobato three consecutive weeks.

Will apply to the Honorable DATED this 5th day of April, Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge 2022. of the First Judicial District at Kristi A. Wareham, Attorney for the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, Petitioner 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa KRISTI A. WAREHAM, P.C. Fe, New Mexico, at 9:00am on Attorney for Petitioner the 25th day of April 2022 for 708 Paseo de Peralta an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF Santa Fe, NM 87501 NAME from Francine Maria Elena Telephone: (505) 820-0698 Lobato AKA Francine M. Lobato Fax: (505) 629-1298 Email: kristiwareham@icloud.com AKA Francine Lobato to Francine Lobato KATHLEEN VIGIL, District A-1 Self Storage Court Clerk By: Desiree Brooks New Auction Ad Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: 10 Mexico 11 12 Notice of Public Sale Francine Lobato Pursuant to NEW MEXICO Petitioner, Pro Se 16 STATUTES – 48-11-1-48-11-9: Notice is hereby given that on the STATE OF NEW MEXICO 21st day of April, 2022 COUNTY OF SANTA FE At that time open Bids will be FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT accepted, and the Entirety of COURT the Following Storage Units will IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION 26 be sold to satisfy storage liens FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF claimed by A-1 Self Storage. The WILLIAM ANTONIO PEREA, A 32 at the time of the sales terms MINOR CHILD. 1/24/22 Case No: D- 101- CV 2020-01274 filed Certificate of Judgement Validating Admission of Extortion and Grand Larceny

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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 Deanna Victoria Rodriguez Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-00421 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Deanna Victoria Rodriguez will apply to the Honorable Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 8:40 a.m. on the 25th day of April, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Deanna Victoria Rodriguez to Deanna Torry Mandela.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Breanna Aguilar Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Deanna Victoria Rodriguez Petitioner, Pro Se

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court CLerk Gloria Landin Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Karissa Rapp Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF LISA NOREEN CEFALI Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-00459 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Lisa Noreen Cefali will apply to the Honorable Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:20 a.m. on the 2nd day of May, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Lisa Noreen Cefali to Lisa Cat. KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Tamara Snee Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Lisa Cefali Petitioner, Pro Se

NO. D-101-CV-2021-00935 HON. BRYAN BIEDSCHEID IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF AMENDING BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF JEREMIAH CHAVEZ NOTICE OF AMENDMENT OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 408-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq., the Petitioner, NOE BENCOMO will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District, at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:10 STATE OF NEW MEXICO a.m. on the 6th day of May, 2022 COUNTY OF SANTA FE for an ORDER FOR AMENDMENT FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR REMOVAL OF BRYAN CHAVEZ’S NAME FROM BIRTH FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF CERTIFICATE. KARISSA LEIGH RAPP TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this Case No.: hearing shall be by remote access.

D-101-CV-2022-00533 All hearings are conducted by NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance Google Meet. The court prefers with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 counsel and parties to participate through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, by video at https://meet.google. et seq. the Petitioner Karissa Leigh com/hdc-wqix-wes. If it is not possible to participate by video, Rapp will apply to the Honorable you may participate by calling Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial district at the (US) +1 954-507-7909 PIN: 916 854 Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New 445#.

District Court Clerk Mexico, at 10:20 a.m. on the 6th By: Breanna Aguilar day of May, 2022 for an ORDER Deputy Court Clerk FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Karissa Leigh Rapp to Chamomile Leigh Lokey.

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Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-00537 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Catherine Lopez will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedsheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 10:30 a.m. on the 6th day of May, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME of the child from William Antonio Perea to William Jeriko Lopez.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Edith Suarez-Munoz Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Catherine Lopez Petitioner, Pro Se

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