Santa Fe Reporter, October 5, 2022

Chronic Pain Self-Management Program

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Learn new skills during a FREE live 6-week workshop using your electronic device and an internet connection.

Come learn how to better manage your chronic pain. Join the Chronic Pain Self-Management Program (CPSMP).

• Build skills that will help you manage your health.

• Family, friends and caregivers are welcome to attend with you for free.

Workshop Details

DAY OF WEEK: Thursdays

DATES: Orientation: October 13

Sessions 1-6: October 20–December 8

TIME: 2:00 – 4:30 pm

LOCATION: Live, ONLINE via Zoom

You will need a computer or device with internet connection.

TO REGISTER, Wellness Referral Center CONTACT: Text or call (505) 850-0176

What topics and skills are covered during this workshop?

• Using our mind to lessen pain

Appropriate use of medication

Balancing activity with rest

Improving strength and endurance with Moving Easy Program (MEP)

Overcoming worst-case thinking

Learning our minds affect pain

Managing negative emotions

Eating healthy

Working with healthcare providers

Communication with self, family, friends and care providers

Action planning, problem-solving and decision making

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

RECEDING RENEWALS 8

Patient counts for Medical Cannabis Program decline in the wake of adult-use legalization

COVER STORY: ELECTION GUIDE 10

GENERAL ELECTION ENDORSEMENTS 11

recommendations on the candidates

PROTECTING THE VOTE 13

A Q & A with Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver

ELECT, RETAIN AND AMEND 14 How to interpret the judiciary-related questions

BACK OF THE BALLOT 16

primer on constitutional amendement and bonds

LOVE MY JOB” 17

interview with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham

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COVER, SEPT. 28: “REENA STEPS UP”

IS THIS HOW IT WORKS?

Reena Szczepanski is the preordained succes sor to Brian Egolf in representing District 47 in the State Legislature. Because she is a female and has substantial experience working in the State Legislature as Egolf’s chief of staff, the article portrays her as an ideal candidate who will have a positive influence in the Legislature. While she may be a good candidate – she seems highly competent and has much expe rience – the concern to the citizens of District 47 should be that she will win by default, since she was unopposed in the primary and will have no opponent in the general election. The Republicans in Northern New Mexico are so dysfunctional that either they don’t run anyone for important offices or they recycle the same uncompetitive “losers” from one election to another. As a citizen in District 47, I would like to see different candidates running so that I

can evaluate their credentials to decide how I will vote. Too often in Northern New Mexico, citizens don’t have that chose. It’s like if I am shopping for a car, and I am limited to buying a Chevy. Is this how democracy should work?

It’s almost like in Russia and other places where voters really only have one choice. Potential competitors are either “knocked off” or are unable to run because of contrived charges. I guess things could be worse.

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FYI, the alien space predators who roamed Comanche territory spoke very little French and didn’t hook up with Native supermodels. Read your Bible!

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RONCHETTI “BAD FOR NEW MEXICO” MEMES ARE PRETTY FUNNY, ACTUALLY

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WE MADE IT TO OCTOBER

Which means people who like Halloween are going to tell you allllllll about it, and/or that, according to Merle Haggard, if we make it two more months, everything is gonna be alright.

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OH, GOD, BALLOON FIESTA IS STILL GOING

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PNM FILES PLAN TO MODERNIZE ELECTRICAL GRID, THEREBY OPENING UP OPTIONS FOR SUPERHEROES (AND VILLAINS) WITH ELECTRICITY POWERS

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RAIL RUNNER RIDER NUMBERS DOWN 19% SINCE 2021

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BIDEN APPARENTLY TOLD AL SHARPTON HE’LL RUN FOR REELECTION IN 2024

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Receding Renewals

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

Patient counts for Medical Cannabis Program decline in the wake of adult-use legalization

officials expect to see an increase in the com ing months.

ing key compounds many find therapeutic.

gram as long as there is a need,” Zurlo says. “I think that need has been expressed, and I do think we have a very strong medical program, and I think we’re going to continue to have a very strong medical program.”

Patients

and advocates for years have warned that New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Program might take a hit when dispensary doors opened to all adults 21 and over in April.

Now, six months later, the number of medical cannabis patients in the state is slowly but steadily declining. Officials who oversee the program attribute the decrease to patients opting not to renew their medical cards; they say the dip was expected and the downward trend will eventually reverse. But some patients say they’re worried this is the beginning of the end.

During the years leading up to full legal ization, politicians repeatedly promised a never-ending life for the medical program, saying adult-use would not negatively im pact it.

According to data published by the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program, a di vision of the state Department of Health, the number of medical cannabis patients rose steadily from about 57,000 in 2018 to a peak of roughly 135,000 in May. But each month since, the figure has dropped, with 126,000 enrolled patients in August, the most recent month for which figures are available. For Santa Fe County, there were 14,329 patients in May and 13,221 as of August.

Dr. Dominick Zurlo, director of the Medical Cannabis Program, tells SFR his office expected to see a decrease in patients based on trends in other states that shifted from requiring patients to register for med ical use to broad sales for all adults, but that

“It is what we saw with many other states, including our neighbors, for example, in Colorado,” Zurlo says. “After their adult use programs went into effect, they did see a de crease with enrollment for the medical pa tients. But after a while, that actually does start to increase again, and so you sort of have a leveling out.”

The state’s Cannabis Regulation Act ex empts medical cannabis sales from both gross receipts and cannabis excise taxes. Zurlo says his office has re ceived some card renewal applica tions from those who have let their cards lapse, but are having second thoughts about abandoning their pa tient status. Besides avoiding taxes, patients are able to buy edibles and extracts with higher levels of THC than non-patients

Zurlo cites a few factors for the decrease. The first, he says, is that three years ago lawmakers and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham approved sweeping changes to the state’s med ical program that, in part, pushed the renewal period for medical cannabis cards from one year to three. Second, he says, some patients have opted to pay higher prices for adult-use can nabis instead of renewing their cards.

But Larry Love, a longtime medical cannabis patient, dis agrees with Zurlo’s assessment. Love says after adult-use sales began in April, many dispensaries placed a larger focus on products that only have THC and are miss

“It’s very hard to find full-extract canna bis oil, which is a real medicine,” Love says. “Everything is distillate now, all the edibles and so forth. So the medicine has been taken out of the cannabis. And it’s now just THC.”

Love predicts within three years, “there will be no program.”

But Zurlo tells SFR the program will not fold as long as there are patients in need of medical cannabis.

“We are going to continue having that pro

Melissa Chambers, who uses medical can nabis for neuropathy and arthritis symptoms, says she uses Rick Simpson Oil, a full-spec trum product known as RSO. Chambers says she hasn’t struggled to find it.

“I haven’t noticed that because I do use [RSO]occasionally, like after I’ve had surger ies and stuff,” Chambers says. “So I’d be sad if that was the case.”

Chambers says she opted to keep her medical cannabis card despite having to shell out “a couple hundred dollars” to get a medical professional to sign off on her di agnosis. She says the cost of seeing a doctor more or less “evens out” when compared to the taxes she would pay without a medical card.

Chambers adds that the card provides a certain level of legiti macy to her cannabis use and she appreciates being able to buy the higher-THC products.

Cullen Vujosevic, another Santa Fe-based medical patient, says he thinks there are a “mul titude of perfect-storm kind of factors” that are leading people to not renew their medical cannabis cards. He says patients are willing to pay taxes on their medicine, but many don’t understand the medi cal program’s benefits.

“[Patients are] not getting enough education, and that can either be from their provider or from the staff at the dispensaries,” Vujosevic says. “I mean, realisti cally even talking patient expe rience-wise here in New Mexico, some of our new licenses that have come online, they don’t know how to serve medical patients.”

New Mexico medical cannabis patients are afforded perks like tax breaks and higher THC levels, and at R. Greenleaf, a cannabis dispensary, a separate line.

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2022 Election Guide

SFR’s endorsements in key races, plus info on voting, ballot questions, the judiciary and more for the New Mexico general election

Urging voters to participate in elec tions and declaring the importance of doing so may seem like pro forma rhet oric. But the Nov. 8 general election car ries particular significance, as it will be the first true chance for the electorate to weigh in on significant national issues in the wake of the 2020 election. Those issues include voting rights and access to abortion, both of which are in play in New Mexico.

Our endorsements at the top of the

Dates and Details

General election voter registration, vote by mail and polling places

EARLY VOTING

Voters can first cast ballots in person at the Santa Fe County clerk’s office on Oct. 11, 100 Catron St. Voting hours are 8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri and 10 am-6 pm on Saturday, Nov. 5. Santa Fe County voters may also visit any alternate voting locations beginning the third Saturday before the election, Oct. 22, through the Saturday before the election, Nov. 5. Voting hours are noon-8 pm, TuesFri and 10 am-6 pm, Saturdays.

★ In Santa Fe:

Christian Life Church, 121 Siringo Road;

Santa Fe County Fair Building, 3229 Rodeo Road; Southside Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive

★ Out of town:

Max Coll Corridor Community Center, 16 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado; Pojoaque Satellite Office, 5 W. Gutierrez Ste. 9; Plaza Abedon Lopez Comm. Center, 155 Camino De Quintana, Española; Town of Edgewood Administration Building, 171A NM-344, Edgewood

REGISTER TO VOTE

Register by mail and online before Oct. 11 or use same-day registration at the county clerk’s office through Election Day, and at Election Day polling places and expanded early voting sites.

First-time voters must submit a copy of a photo ID or official documents with their name and address. If the required documents aren’t submitted with a firsttime registration, voters need to show one of those forms of ID when voting. For examples of accepted forms of ID, see the secretary of state’s website.

VOTE BY MAIL

First, request an absentee ballot by mail or online via nmvote.org and return it to the clerk’s office. Mailed ballots will first be sent to voters on Oct. 11. Then, fill out your ballot when it arrives and return it to a drop box, alternative voting location or via the mail.

County clerks must receive applications for absentee ballots no later than Nov. 3 (which would be cutting it very close with the United States Postal Service.)

ELECTION DAY

Polls are open on Tuesday, Nov. 8 from 7 am-7 pm. Voters may choose any location.

★ Santa Fe - Las Campanas

La Tierra Fire Station, 6 Arroyo Calabasas Road

★ Santa Fe - Northeast/Downtown Montezuma Lodge, 431 Paseo De Peralta

ticket for US Congress, governor and secretary of state lay out arguments for the Democrat incumbents, who have demonstrated their commitments to those issues, as well as to improving the state’s infrastructure, education and health care. These endorsements were based on our interviews with those can didates who made themselves available, as well as reviews of public materials.

We also weigh in on the lengthy bal lot’s choices for other state races, as

well as proposed state constitutional amendments and an explainer for New Mexico’s sometimes-confusing hybrid system for electing judges. You’ll also find state and Santa Fe County bond questions on this year’s ballot, and we’ve broken down how those funds would be allocated. There’s a lot to parse, but not to worry: Early and absentee voting doesn’t start until Oct. 11!

Atalaya Elementary, 721 Camino Cabra; Gonzales Community School, 851 W Alameda St.; St. John’s Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail

★ Santa Fe - Southside/West Southside Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive; Nina Otero Community School, 5901 Herrera Drive;l El Camino Real Academy, 2500 South Meadows Road;

★ Santa Fe - Midtown/ South-Central

Santa Fe County Fair Building, 3229 Rodeo Road; Salazar Elementary, 1231 Apache Ave.; Chaparral Elementary, 2451 Avenida Chaparral; Christian Life Church, 121 Siringo Road

★ Santa Fe - Rancho Viejo

Amy Biehl Community School, 310 Avenida Del Sur

★ Pojoaque/San Ildefonso/ El Rancho

Pojoaque Middle School, 1797 State Road 502 West; San Ildefonso Visitors Center, 74 Povi Kaa Drive; El Rancho Senior Center, 394 County Road 84

★ Edgewood/Stanley/Galisteo Stanley Cyclone Center, 22 W Kinsell Ave.;

Town of Edgewood Admin Building, 171A NM-344 Galisteo Community Center, 35 Avenida Vieja

★ Eldorado/Hondo/Glorieta

Max Coll Corridor Community Center, 16 Avenida Torreon; Hondo Fire Station #2, 645 Old Las Vegas Highway; Glorieta Fire Station #2, 366 Old Denver Hwy.

★ Española/Chimayo

Tony E. Quintana Elementary, 18670 US 84/285, Espanola; Benny J. Chavez Community Center, 354A Juan Medina Road, Chimayó

★ La Cienega

La Cienega Community Center, 136 Camino San Jose

★ Madrid/Los Cerrillos

Madrid Volunteer Fire Station, 5 Firehouse Lane, Madrid; Turquoise Trail Charter School, 13 San Marcos Loop

★ Nambe/Tesuque

Nambe Community Center, 180 NM-503; Nambe Pueblo Tribal Administration, 15A NP 102 West;

Tesuque Pueblo Intergenerational Center, 39 TP 804; Tesuque Elementary, 1555 Bishop’s Lodge Road

—Julia Goldberg and Julie Ann Grimm

US Reprentative

Teresa Leger Fernández

Service for its role in the disaster. She campaigned for her first term in some part on her rural credentials, and has continued advocating for the district’s rural residents, be it on issues of health care, veterans’ ser vices or protecting water resources. She co-sponsored legislation for federal investment in energy in frasturcture for Native American tribal communities and helped lead the US House effort extending the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to make whole New Mexico communities still suffering from the effects of radiation exposure. And with every vote counting, Leger Fernández, if re-elected, will be another crucial voice fighting to protect voting rights and women’s constitutional right to abortion.

Long a stronghold for Democrats, New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District received a makeover during redistricting last year. Now, while still enveloping much of Northern New Mexico, including Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos coun ties, CD3 also has portions of Republican-leaning counties in the southwestern part of the state.

Nonetheless, Democrats still comprise 47% of registered voters in the district, compared with 30% Republican and 22% other. Political forecasting from FiveThirtyEight also puts the 3rd Congressional District in the “solidly Democrat” column.

We hope it is so.

In her first term, US Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández has demonstrat ed her ability to work with the rest of the state’s congressional dele gation to help secure funding des perately needed as New Mexico recovers from the economic toils of the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastating wildfire season.

Leger Fernández has been a par ticularly strong voice champion ing the needs of the Mora and San Miguel County residents who have suffered significant loss from the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire and a stentorian critic of the US Forest

Republican Alexis Martinez Johnson ran for this seat two years ago as well, garnering 41% of the vote. She was one of the Republicans in this year’s general election who made herself avail able for an endorsement interview and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with her. Like many of the Republicans on the general election ballot, Martinez Johnson is run ning on a platform highly critical of President Joe Biden’s adminis tration, with an emphasis on crime, the border, energy policy and the economy. She also holds the feder al government responsible for the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, but maintains that had she been in Congress, the prescribed burn would not have happened—a claim that lacks plausibility given how the federal government actually works. Moreover, Martinez Johnson sup ports the US Supreme Court’s re versal of Roe v. Wade, relying on the usual strawman/bogeyman discussions of late-term abortions in her reasoning. The US House is likely to flip to Republican control, which will have a significant impact on the next two years. We would en dorse Leger Fernández even with out those dynamics at play, but this year’s race makes holding onto that seat even more crucial.

Governor

Michelle Lujan Grisham

Much of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s first term has transpired during an unprecedent ed global pandemic, which then overlapped with the most devastating wildfire in the state’s history. Her critics blame her for all of the above and then some. To their way of thinking, locking down New Mexico at the height of COVID-19’s surge through the state was unjustified, even if it was done to save lives (which it most certainly did). To our way of thinking, Lujan Grisham has responded aggressively to this slate of crises—badger ing the federal government for resources during the pandemic and loudly demanding compensation for the US Forest Service’s role in the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire. Even with those calamities, the governor also shepherded the legalization of cannabis; the expansion of college scholarships; bills to increase teacher pay; bills to fund early childhood education; bills to fund more law enforcement hires, among many other ini tiatives. She has done all that while trying to rebuild a state government largely decimat ed by her predecessor, particularly in the area of behavioral health. And, when the US Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade, Lujan Grisham sprang into action to protect pa tients and providers and to expand services here, where abortion remains legal, also in part thanks to her.

Make no mistake: We have plenty of criti cisms of the governor, some big, some small. Her legal battle with the Legislature regard ing authority over federal pandemic dollars last year was a waste of time and money. We disagree with her plans to revamp the state’s pre-trial detention system (read more about that in our Q & A with her on page 17). Her ad vocacy for hydrogen energy in the face of sig nificant and credible environmental criticism in the last legislative session proved contro versial and counterproductive.

But our criticisms of Lujan Grisham could be 20 pages long —which they aren’t—and she would still be, far and away, a better choice than Republican Mark Ronchetti.

Ronchetti did not respond to our re quests for an interview, an unsurprising de velopment. Former Republican Gov. Susana Martinez also did not much care for talking to us and, in fact, we sued her administration for discrimination and public records viola tions. We won the records claims but did not prevail on the discrimination claim, based on state law. We maintain public officials should provide equal access to journalists, regardless of how they perceive their politics. Ronchetti campaign spokesman Enrique Knell, how ever, in August blocked a Source New Mexico journalist from an event, reasoning to the Albuquerque Journal that Source was “a leftwing advocacy group, not a legitimate news organization.” Knell also was Martinez’s spokesman during the era SFR sued her administration.

Ronchetti is also long on criticisms of the incumbent, but short on specific proposals or solutions.

Finally, if a woman’s right to an abortion is a deal breaker—and it is for our paper— Ronchetti isn’t just a non-viable choice: He’s a real threat. Like other Republicans across the US, he’s tried to backpedal his opposition to abortion access, scrubbing his website to post more moderate views. We don’t support his proposal to put forth an abortion question via a constitutional amendment (an undertak ing that would require working successfully with the Legislature). Abortion is already le gal here and should stay that way. We believe Lujan Grisham will ensure it does. Moreover, we believe her plans for a second term, which include ongoing initiatives to tackle the state’s endemic poverty; to transition to re newable energy; to improve the lives of New Mexicans, deserve another four years to come to greater fruition.

Secretary of State

Maggie Toulouse Oliver

Of course, the last few years in the Secretary of State’s office also involved running elections during a pandemic, as well as a dev astating wildfire season.

Attorney General Raúl Torrez

Bernalillo County District Attorney Raúl Torrez handily defeated state Auditor Brian Colón for the Democratic nomination for the $95,000-a-year job to lead 200 employ ees with a $35-million annual budget. We recommend him, a Harvard and Stanfordeducated New Mexican with experience in the state’s most populated district, over Gallup Republican Jeremy Michael Gay, a former judge advocate in the Marine Corps.

The Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol transpired thousands of miles from New Mexico, but its impacts quickly hit home. One participant, former Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin—who was ultimately convicted for his actions—re turned home and continued to perpetuate misinformation, even refusing to certify that county’s primary election vote last June until forced to by the state Supreme Court. Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver didn’t hesitate to take the Otero County Commission to court in that situation, just as she hasn’t hesitated to confront the corrosive and ongoing misin formation campaigns that have metastasized since the 2020 election. She has taken legal ac tion, testified to Congress, set up a website to debunk election conspiracy theories and con tinues to champion legislation at the state level to protect poll workers and expand voting ac cess. She has done so at a per sonal cost, receiving threats to herself and her office serious enough to warrant law enforce ment involvement.

Toulouse Oliver has ris en to all of these challenges, and she has the knowledge and experience to both oversee the office’s myriad responsibilities and push for improvements, such as the current overhaul of its campaign finance information system. She intends to re-champion several important facets of election bills that failed to pass in the Legislature’s 2022 session, including the reinstatement of vot ing rights for the formerly incarcerated; codifying the Native American Voting Rights Act into the state’s election laws; and creating a single sign-up concept allowing voters to al ways receive absentee ballots in the mail if they choose. She also will be pushing for more com pensation and protection for poll workers—who sadly have also faced violent threats.

GOP candidate Audrey Trujillo did not respond to SFR’s request for an interview. But she has reportedly described the 2020 election as a “coup,” and perpetuated other debunked theories about voting machines (she also briefly tried to trade guns for campaign contributions before learning it was illegal).

Libertarian Mayna Erika Myers also will appear on the ballot.

When she’s not running the Secretary of State’s Office, Toulouse Oliver is a Ph.D stu dent in the University of New Mexico’s political science de partment. We don’t know if the events of the last two years will factor into her dissertation, but her knowledge, commitment and interest in New Mexico’s electoral process make her re-election a no-brainer.

Auditor Joseph Maestes

Former two-term Santa Fe City Councilor Joseph Maestas earned political cred as a councilor, then mayor in Española and is a retired engineer wrapping up a term on the Public Regulation Commission. After defeating upstart Zach Quintero in the Democratic primary, he’s our favorite over Travis Steven Sanchez, a Libertarian with no demonstrated relevant experience.

Treasurer Laura Montoya

The state treasurer’s race features two Montoyas, but one comes with more rele vant experience. Former Santa Fe County Commissioner Harry Montoya is well known in the north, yet former Sandoval County Treasurer Laura Montoya is most prepared for the job after serving in that elected post and representing the Treasurer’s Affiliate at the Legislature. We recommend her.

Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard

Incumbent Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard’s first term in that of fice follows three successful terms as a state legislator. A former teacher, the Los Alamos resident has applied diligence to public lands administration. We recom mend keeping her in office over challeng er Jefferson Byrd, a member of the Public Regulation Commission from southern New Mexico.

House District 46

Andrea Romero

Incumbent Rep. Andrea Romero bested two others in the Democratic primary and now faces a second challenge from retired professional engineer Jay Groseclose, whom she defeated in the 2020 election. Romero’s articulate advocacy for cannabis legalization was particularly impressive. We recommend her over Groseclose, whose platform includes a promise to “adopt prolife laws.”

Protecting the Vote

State

fraud. There’s always been this element of claiming it’s this massive problem when there’s almost zero evidence to suggest that it is. But in New Mexico…those false claims really never went anywhere, and they were pretty limited. This, needless to say, is sort of that on steroids.

What are your expectations going into the Nov. 8 general election?

BY JULIA GOLDBERG

In

the last six months alone, Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver has gone to court to force the Otero County Commission to certify its 2022 primary election results; to the FBI to report threats to her own safety; and to Congress to testify about the threats mis information poses to US elections. SFR spoke with Toulouse Oliver about these issues. The interview has been edited for concision and clarity.

SFR: Republicans have been the pri mary mover of various false election conspiracy theories since the 2020 election. As a Democrat, do you have an argument to make about yourself to a Republican voter?

MTO: Absolutely. Because first and fore most, it’s not all Republicans that believe or ascribe to the Big Lie. We’re talking about a vocal subset of the population. A lot of the folks who are election deniers aren’t even necessarily Republicans. What they really have in common is just the sort of diehard belief based on zero evidence that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election. I want to appeal to Republicans and all voters based on my record of running fair and accurate elec tions. It’s not as though Republicans hav en’t won elections under my tenure.

Did you see the seeds of these attacks on voting prior to 2020?

For a long time, the biggest sort of issues I dealt with in terms of…pre-election deni alism really had to do with this concept of voter fraud, particularly in-person voter

Other than I’m sure there are going to be threats, I don’t have any because I feel like every month, post-2020, we’re sort of out in uncharted waters in terms of what to expect and what it’s going to look like. We are working very hard with our state and federal law enforcement partners [and] my office has undertaken a number of steps and measures to make sure we are all safe.

What has it been like for you, person ally, being on the front line?

It’s surreal. It’s just so unbelievable to me that something so blatantly false has had the impact that it has. And that so many people are just so unhappy with the outcome of the election that it has real ly brought what I consider to be a major threat to our democracy forward. For me, personally, it’s been hard; it’s been really challenging. Between Jan. 6 and when I had to make the decision to run again…I had to really take time with that [deci sion] because the impacts to my mental health, the challenges that I’ve had to go through to keep myself safe…being sep arated from my 13-year-old son, in some cases, because it was safer for him to be elsewhere. I had to kind of go like, ‘Is it time for me to pass the torch and go down a new career path that is better for my mental health and my physical safety?’

But I decided that there’s just too much at stake and it’s so much greater and bigger than me personally, that I felt like it was absolutely critical that I run again and try to continue the legacy of the work over the next four years. My therapist is on speed dial.

As the New Mexico’s chief election administrator, Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver has been on the front line of the partisan battleground over democracy’s most core mechanism.

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posed amendment to the New Mexico Constitution that would slightly alter the odd way in which our state conducts elections for those who wish to don the black robe.

To help walk you through the labyrinth, SFR enlisted the aid of Roderick Kennedy, a former state Appeals Court judge and longtime watcher of the legal world here.

“with the governor and pooh-bahs of the Legislature appointing some of each party, and the State Bar making up the difference, trying to keep the political balance.”

BY JEFF PROCTOR

Election

Day ballots each year include choices for voters in a host of judicial races, some contested, some not. This year is no different, though increases in crime around New Mexico have shone a brighter light on those who sit on the bench.

Some of the options are straightforward enough. Our state’s somewhat unique system for electing judges can cause confusion at the ballot box, though, with complexities beyond Candidate A vs. Candidate B muddying up some of the questions voters face.

Statewide ballots feature competitive races. Two incumbent Democratic state Supreme Court justices, Briana Zamora and Julie Vargas, have drawn Republican challengers: Kerry Morris and Thomas Montoya, respectively. The New Mexico Court of Appeals, our second-highest judicial body, features two contests, with incumbent Democrat Gerald Baca taking on Barbara Johnson, a Republican, and Libertarian Sophie Cooper; while Judge Katherine Wray, the incumbent Democrat, faces off against Republican Gertrude Lee and Stephen Curtis, a Libertarian.

There are four races on the ballot for the Santa Fe Magistrate Court, too, but none of them are contested.

Here is where it gets weird—the concept of “judicial retention” and a pro-

To start, Kennedy offers some context on how judges become judges in the first place. A seat on the bench opens, and a 15-member commission, helmed by the dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law, is formed to begin the vetting. It’s a bi-partisan deal, Kennedy says,

The commission takes applications “sent in under oath (yes, some folks lie), and then” conducts interviews, Kennedy continues. The commission then recommends candidates it has deemed qualified to the governor for appointment—no specific number of potential judges is spelled out.

“Though single-name lists don’t make governors happy,” he says, adding that governors can reject the list and ask for a new one. Should the governor reject a second list, the state Supreme Court makes the appointment.

“In New Mexico, unlike any other state I know of—though North Carolina may have just adopted this as part of their ‘screw the Dem governor’ beguine—a qualified, nominated and appointed new judge then has to run against any stinking bozo with a law license or perhaps qualified candidate,” Kennedy says. “If the appointee (or that judge’s opponent) wins, it’s non-partisan retention races from now on. These are very hard to lose, though it has happened.”

So, when you ferry your ballot to one of those cheap plastic booths that’s ostensibly meant to provide some election privacy, you’ll see the chance to “retain”—or not— state Supreme Court Justice Michael Vigil and Court of Appeals Judge Jane Yohalem. That’s because, in Vigil’s case, the

Democrat already won a competitive election, taking down then-Gov. Susana Martinez appointee Gary Clingman, a Republican, by a whopping 19% in the 2018 election.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham appointed Yohalem to the Appeals Court in June 2020 to succeed retiring Judge Linda Vanzi. Because of the peculiar system New Mexico uses in judicial races, as Kennedy pointed out, Yohalem had to run a couple months later against Montoya (who is trying again to win a seat on the Appeals Court, this time against Judge Vargas.) She beat him by 4% and, now, will stand for retention.

Confusing as all of this is, the state in 1990 created a group meant to help voters decide whether judges should be retained: The Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission (JPEC), a group of seven lawyers and eight non-lawyers appointed by the state Supreme Court via nominations from the legislative and executive poobahs Kennedy mentioned earlier. This year, JPEC recommends retaining Justice Vigil. For Yohalem, the commission had “insufficient time to evaluate.”

Yohalem’s quick turnaround between appointment and election—and other scenarios like it—has drawn criticism from court observers of pretty much every political stripe. The argument is essentially that a few months is not enough time to allow a judge to establish a record.

That’s why you’ll see Constitutional Amendment 3 on your ballot in November. It proposes a change to the state’s guiding document so that “an appointed judge [would] serve at least one year before a general election is held for the office to which the judge was appointed.”

There you have it.

Whether you decide to elect, retain or amend, SFR hopes some of this is demystified for you and, most of all, vote!

Back of the Ballot

A primer on constitutional amendment proposals and bond issues

QUESTION 1: LAND GRANT PERMANENT FUND

Should New Mexico send more money from public lands into early-childhood education, public schools and other programs?

The proposal would increase dis bursement cash from the investment of the fund from 5% to 6.25%, with 40% of the new distribution going to pay for education needs of at-risk students and 60% toward early-child hood education. If the fund drops below $17 billion, this provision would pause. The fund currently contains more than $21.6 billion; distributions go to 21 beneficiaries, including public schools and higher education insti tutions, along with prisons and the state hospital. At present rates, the new distribution would amount to an estimated $211 million per year.

PRO: Education inequality in New Mexico is a real problem that this pro posal stands to address. A major court ruling determined the state has failed to properly allocate funding for its entire school system and in particular for atrisk students, English language learners, Native American students and special education students. When it comes to early-childhood education, there’s a demonstrated positive benefit later in life for students and the whole commu nity when children enter school sooner.

CON: There’s no guarantee adop tion would have a lasting effect on money available for education, as a future Legislature could easily vote to remove other sources of funding. Additionally, even if voters approve the amendment, the US Congress must also adopt the change in order for it to take effect. Mathematical analysis indicates the fund would hit a tipping point around 2040, after which the corpus would diminish and the amount of disbursements to all beneficiaries would begin to drop for the life of the fund.

SFR’s take: Keeping billions of dollars in the bank when our state is at the bottom of the nation’s education rankings today seems like a formula for failing the future. We recommend a yes vote.

structure. With six amendments to this rule since 1971, the value of the clause has been diminished and it has become difficult to parse out what’s allowed or prohibited. That also leaves interpretation in the hands of appropriators who might have undis closed agendas.

SFR’s take: Relying on the private sector alone to build infrastructure that reaches all New Mexicans has proven an ineffective strategy. We recommend voting yes to make it clear that these services are a public benefit.

CON: Appointed judges are vetted by a bipartisan committee that gives the governor a short list to choose from, while people who run for election don’t have to have relevant qualifications except that they be licensed attorneys. At the same time, allowing an appointee to keep an office without affirmative action by voters could also fuel political divides.

SFR’s take: Voter participation rates are abysmally low, and with so much noise on top-of-the-ticket races, there’s little education about the judiciary as it stands. The potential to attract qualified and committed candidates is promising. We recommend a yes vote.

QUESTION 2: ANTI-DONATION CLAUSE

Should the anti-donation clause be amended to allow public spending on infrastructure for essential services such as internet, energy, water or wastewater?

The existing law aims to prevent the use of state, city, county or school resources to aid private entities through loans or direct spending. New Mexico already has added a number of exceptions to this clause that outline acceptable ways subsi dies to the private sector may occur, including for construction of afford able housing and care of sick people who are indigent. The amendment would specify contemporary services for digital connectivity and residential utilities also qualify.

PRO: Application of public funding for these services would increase their availability, particularly for rural areas, including what the Department of Internet Technology estimates are at least 20% of New Mexico homes without internet. Water and wastewa ter will only gain critical importance in the future and this law change could make federal funding and public-pri vate partnerships more viable.

CON: Future legislation would be required for specific projects and leave the details of determining fair distribution across the state subject to the political mood and power

QUESTION 3: APPOINTED JUDGES RE-ELECTION

Should a judge appointed to fill a vacancy be up for election at the first general election one year after the appointment?

The state constitution requires appointed judges be on the ballot at the next general election after appointment. This proposal would give those people longer to establish their work histories on the bench before challengers can take aim. The amendment also makes the language of the law gender-neutral rather than calling all judges “him.” (Read more about the retention and appointment process in a story on page 14.)

PRO: Some judges are appointed with just a few months remaining in a term before the next election. That uncertainty keeps accomplished independent attorneys from applying for and accepting these jobs. Plus, sometimes appointments are made with too little time for a judge to qualify for public campaign financing.

BONDS

Should the state issue bonds for various projects, then repay them through property tax revenue?

1. $24.47 million for senior centers

2. $19.3 million for public libraries

3. $215 million for public higher education, special public schools and tribal schools

Should Santa Fe County issue bonds?

• $13 million to acquire, construct, design, equip, and improve roads

• $7 million to acquire real property and necessary water rights for, and to construct, design, equip, rehabilitate, and improve, water and wastewater projects

• $5 million for open space, trails and parks

“I Love My Job”

BY JULIA GOLDBERG

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, is finish ing her first term in office. She previously served three terms in the US Congress, representing the state’s 1st District, and as a cabinet secretary for the state’s Health and Aging and Long Term Services departments. The following inter view has been edited for space and clarity.

SFR: What is your response to crit ics who say we remained in lockdown for too long, and to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research study that gave New Mexico an F grade for its response to the COVID-19 pandemic?

MLG: I actually am critical of that re view—both my critics and the Heritage Foundation report [Editor’s note: One of the report’s three researchers works for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank; another for the conservative Committee to Unleash Prosperity]. They were trying to make a case that you just let this deadly virus run its course and people will die. And frankly, they don’t believe that it caused any of those deaths. New Mexico is unique in a bunch of areas, which, in the context of a pandemic—where we had the politicization of a deadly virus by a presi dent and an administration who said states were on their own and literally tried to steal our PPE and testing equipment—cre ates a dangerous, complex situation to try to navigate. We have less per-capita health care. We have a sicker population, includ

ing with kiddos. We also have one of the highest grandparents-raising-grandchil dren population. We also have one of the oldest educators-in-the-class population. But we were one of the only states that wasn’t providing intense health care in a parking lot in a hospital. The rest of the country started to use our modeling and

data. Our Native American populations are some of the most highly vaccinated popula tions. New Mexico led the nation standing up testing sites; having the highest test ing-per-capita in the nation for quite some time; having the best vaccination access and outcomes in terms of percentage of population. Those are things that showed

New Mexico can be a leader, even though the circumstances are clearly stacked against us.

How should voters set their short- and long-term expectations for improve ments in public education?

I think New Mexicans recognize that under the best-of circumstances, educational re forms take some time. It’s not an overnight prospect and add to that COVID and all the underlying systemic issues we have. The early childhood education [investments] have yet to fully be realized because a lot of those three-year-olds are just now getting in. I’m very energized and confident about what we’ll see in the next couple of years.

Your opponent has been very critical of your stances on crime and police. You’ve indicated you still support re vamping pre-trial detention policies, despite studies showing they might not be effective. Can you explain why you continue to back that approach, and also respond to the depiction of New Mexico as a crime-ridden cesspool?

Yep. Right out of the national GOP play book. They don’t take responsibility, in my view, for gun violence. We have way too many guns available, which creates risk in any number of ways. Another issue about crime is, as with education, COVID… made it worse. It was a very difficult period for the world, and certainly the United States. So, you bet: Crime is worse everywhere.

I feel very confident that a system where you have a rebuttable presumption for the most dangerous offenders and violent re peat offenders will give both the commu nity the confidence they need; will signal to jails and prisons who you have to retain and why; and still doesn’t erode the due process rights that are required in a fair, unbiased, criminal-defense/ criminal-jus tice system. I also want more arrests. That

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has made protecting New Mexico’s legal abortion landscape a keystone of her re-election campaign.

means highly trained, effective communi ty policing statewide. We’re down at least 1,000 officers. We need more [district at torneys] and more [public defenders]; the entire judicial system has been weakened and is broken. I inherited a system where nobody was really paying attention to that. We are and I think it’ll pay off.

What will you be prioritizing in the next legislative session?

We want to keep doing public safety. We want to get up to 1,000 officers; I think we really ought to plan over a long haul for more than that. I want a lot more in affordable housing and I want the kind of affordable housing that allows us to have childcare built in it; that we’re really clear about both single-family and stabilization housing where you build equity in a model that’s meaningful.

I’d like to be the first state in the coun try to get to universal childcare. I want to really focus on what we’re paying childcare workers and early childhood education workers. Tax reform has to be comprehen sive, which is really tough to do, but it’s time in this state, and we have the resourc es, in my view, to do that.

We want to keep doing infrastructure. We’ve spent a lot of money in water and broadband. We need more and I want to keep making sure that we stay partnered with the federal government.

Health care. I want that rural health care delivery fund and I want a very spe cific focus on a health care authority that rebuilds and frankly revamps in-person and telehealth behavioral health. We need in patient services, and I want in-campus behavioral health services, which is a fan cy way of saying long term residential—but not inpatient—living resiliency working operations that allow you to have much more access to in-person case-managed health care, behavioral/health services.

We have to have it. Not having it for a de cade has been crushing and I want to rebuild and I wanted it available right now.

You’ve obviously taken important ac tions to protect access to abortion in the state. What’s next on the queue?

Building access points. We know that wom en and their families through reproductive health care access receive comprehensive primary health care. We need more cervi cal cancer screenings…prenatal and post baby care—these are really important ac cess points that is a public health response. The private HMOs need to be doing their part to make sure that women’s health gets the attention it deserves. I want to see better outcomes for maternal health. I certainly want better outcomes for women

who are struggling. All of this is related in a comprehensive reproductive health care state—and abortion and abortion access are key components of that—and all of that is going to be part of our agenda: building, rebuilding and making sure it’s available readily in every single community.

New Mexico has a front-row seat to cli mate change, between the drought and wildfires. What will your focus be there in the next four years?

Expect to see accountability. We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of oil and gas producers stopping the use of fresh water. We want that to get as close to 100% with real accountability. You’re seeing real accountability in methane: Expect that to go further. Expect ozone protection to go

further. Expect more innovation in that space. Watch Calf Canyon/ Hermit’s Peak and the stewards of the land—acequias, land grants, people and families who have lived in these communities for hundreds of years—do the reforestation. We’re going to see both economic opportunities, but also cleaning up the environment, includ ing that the feds want to work with us to finally do something about all of our legacy pollution. And, certainly, expect us to keep trying to prevent New Mexico from being a place where high-level radioactive and nu clear waste gets dumped. Expect that fight to be turned up several notches.

You’ve been in public life a long time. Do you think the rancor for elected offi cials is worse now than it’s been?

Yes. If you had told me that in my public career, people would actively be trying to make good on threats of physical harm, or engage in emotional abuse…You know, there are things we implement and try and they don’t have the results that we thought they would and then we change course. For me that’s always been effective leadership. You can’t be so risk averse that you don’t try things that would make a difference. You can’t be reckless, but you also have to be earnest when it doesn’t quite work the way that you thought. And there is no tol erance for that. There is a sense that public sector work isn’t meaningful, that people don’t work hard. I love my job. I’ve always worked hard. It’s something I pride my self in. I have never worked this hard in my life. And my team, I guarantee you, has never worked this hard. And they want to do work; they’re proud of it. This rancor is really hard on the men and women who are willing to do public work. It’s a tough nut to crack, disinformation and misinforma tion, but I hope every elected leader spends some time trying to get back better and leave it better than the way we found it.

JULIA GOLDBERG

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and others appear in the Roundhouse in July, when Lujan Grisham signed an executive order aimed at shielding New Mexico from other states’ anti-abortion laws.

TAPES ’N’ TAPES

If you’ve ever had a hankering to see some fascinating digitized video clips outlining various elements of Native America, your ship has come in thanks to a joint event between the Center for Contemporary Arts, the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Native American Video Tape Archive. In a nutshell, the latter organization gathered video imagery of various Native goings-on as part of a Bicentennial project way back in 1976—be it art, dance, literature, documentary, what-have you. Then, just last year, an IAIA archivist received a grant to digitize those tapes. In other words, this is probably the first time some of this footage has been available to the public in more than 40 years. When you’re done checking out the footage, maybe wander down to the CCA’s Tank Garage to see the work of 13 stellar Native artists in the concur rently running show, Self-Determination: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists. (ADV)

Self-Documented: The 1977 Native American Video Tape Archive: 6 pm Thursday, Oct. 6. $15. Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

STUDIO TOUR FRI/7

ELKINS

TOURISM

Oh, sure, you could go out to see art work in galleries like some kinda n00b, or you could figure out how to cut out the middle man and check out artists in their own habitats. At least that’s part of the idea behind the 2022 Santa Fe Studio Tour. This year, the annual event finds more than 70 artists working in countless mediums opening up their workspaces for dedicated art fans to get a glimpse behind the curtain and into their processes. Sometimes, learning how the process works is the most exciting part. But don’t fret if you can’t schlep all over town—organizers have put together a preview gallery-like opening event at the Santa Fe Woman’s Club at which you can view a smattering of works from participating artists. The tour itself runs for the next few weekends, too. (ADV)

2022 Santa Fe Studio Tour Preview Gallery: 5-8 pm Friday, Oct. 7. Free. Santa Fe Woman’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, santafestudiotour.org

FOOD SAT/15

NOODLING AROUND

Quick note? You won’t catch a listing for Open Kitchen’ Asian Noodles Cooking Class in our print calendar this week, because it actually happens a little later in the month—Saturday, Oct. 15, to be precise. We mention it now, and encourage you to mark your own calendars at home, because registration for classes taught by chef Hue Chan Karels fill up fast, and you’ll only have until Wednes day, Oct. 12 to sign up. You remember Karels, right? Just last June she was kind enough to go shopping and cook with SFR staff (Stop, Shop and Cook; June 20), and those who have taken any of her classes come away with a better understanding of what makes food work. You get to eat it, too, and with a variety of dishes on tap, not to mention info on sauces and broths, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the finer points of noodles. (ADV)

Asian Noodles Cooking Class: 10 am-1 pm Saturday, Oct. 15. $115 (Register by Oct. 12) Open Kitchen, 227 Don Gaspar Ave. openkitchenevents.com

Wildin’ Out

Wild Pigment Project mindfully puts the power of colors in the hands of creators

Artist and curator Tilke Elkins’ Wild Pigment Project seems like something that would have existed well before its 2019 inception, but now that it’s here, one almost has to think, “Finally!”

While in grad school at Bennington, Elkins found herself inspired by the idea of creating her own pigments after working with grass and chlorophyll in place of tradi tional paints. As she dipped further into the practice of doing just that—foraging from the land and creating pigments from various plants, soils and rocks—further things to ponder arose: What does it mean to create with materials you gather yourself? What does it mean to take from unceded lands? Who has a right to what? What must return to the land? How can the practice of creating pigments best be shared with other artists?

Such questions are at the heart of the project, as well as a healthy dash of exper imentation. Think of the various pigments like the product of recipes.

“I found a book called Colours of the Earth by Anne Wall Thomas,” Elkins tells SFR. “She’s from the Southeast and had learned from her husband how to gather soils and make them into paints. I found her book and it was the only book I could find at the time about making paint from soil, so I followed her guidance, but I was also kind of doing it on my own.”

Others appeared, however, as it turns out there are plenty of artists out there who ei ther already work with foraged pigments or want to learn. That’s how Elkins began the

Wild Pigment Project and the Ground Bright subscription service, which offers a monthly delivery of foraged pigments at a nominal fee—and it’s also how experts in the field connected with Elkins, who curated a group show featuring participants in the Wild Pigment Project at form & concept along side a solo show of her own work.

“As I broadened my awareness, I found other people who had their own small net works,” Elkins explains. “I think people have a hunger for this materiality, for connecting with the Earth and questioning their own re lationships with the land.”

The show includes 28 artists who have participated in the project, who not only show their work, but the pigments they foraged alongside it. Furthermore, interest ed parties can check out Elkins solo show, Records of Being Held at form & concept concurrently. Lastly, on Tuesday, Elkins and other artists will participate in an online sto ry session that not only digs deeper into the project’s ethos, but which allows for artists to speak a few minutes on what it means to them.

“Specifically, they’re stories about how pigments have brought them to plac es of action and healing,” Elkins says.

(Alex De Vore)

PIGMENTS AS CATALYSTS FOR ACTION, DECOLONIZATION & HEALING: A VIRTUAL STORY-SHARING EVENT 2-3 pm Tuesday, Oct. 11. Free. form&concept.center/events/95

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ONGOING

ART

ALISON HIXON

Susan Eddings Pérez Galley

717 Canyon Road

(505) 477-4ART

New surrealist works from Hixon.

10 am-5 pm, free

ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Rural landscapes and more.

10 am–6 pm, free CAMILLE HOFFMAN: MOTHERLANDS form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 780-8312

Hoffman transforms the space into an immersive landscape.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

CIPX: CRITICAL INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCHANGE

Foto Forum Santa Fe

1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582

Tintypes from photographer Will Wilson.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Fri, free

DEBBIE LONG

5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417

Glass works from Taos. Jeeze, glass is amazing.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free

HAVANA PRINTMAKERS

Artes de Cuba

1700 A Lena St., (505) 303-3138

Dispatches from Cuba’s vibrant contemporary art scene.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

JACKS MCNAMARA: ANCESTRAL IMAGINATION form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 780-8312

New paintings on wood.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free JOHNNIE WINONA ROSS: BEAN CREEK SEEPS

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688

New paintings from Ross.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

JUN KANEKO: SOLO

Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

Key pieces of Kaneko’s lesser-known study.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

MAGNUM OPUS

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Still lifes.

10 am-6 pm, free

MILAGRO PAINTERS PAINTED STORIES SHOW Abiquiú Inn

21120 Hwy. 84, Abiquiú (505) 685-4378

Award-winning arts.

7 am-9 pm daily, free

NISHIKI SUGAWARA-BEDA: TIDAL TIME

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road, Suite 1C (505) 780-5403

Painter Sugawara-Beda draws upon her Japanese heritage.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

RESPONSE

Pie Projects

924 Shoofly St., Ste. B (505) 372-7681

Four New Mexico artists.

11 am–5 pm, Tues-Sat

SELF-DETERMINED: A CONTEMPORARY SURVEY OF NATIVE AND INDIGENOUS ARTISTS

Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 216-0672

Notable Native artists.

11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun $10

TACK ROOM

Gerald Peters Gallery

1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

Art as equine equipment.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

THE LYRICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DANCE

Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888

Surrealism and color studies from Willy Bo Richardson and John Tarahteeff, two of the most exciting artists showing in Santa Fe right now, says this calendar writer.

10 am-5 pm, free

WILD PIGMENT PROJECT form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 780-8312

Curated by Tilke Elkison, numerous artists create with foraged pigments. In your face, buying paint! (See SFR Picks, page 21)

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

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ART

ARTS JAM WEDNESDAYS

Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 alasdeagua.com

Make art with everybody’s favorite local arts collective. 5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

BILINGUAL BOOKS & BABIES

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6781 Books and music.

10 am, free

William and Anne Frej present a new book about time spent in the Himalayas alongside a lecture and exhibition at Peyton Wright Gallery this week.

Death of ‘Facing the Fearbeast’ Artist Tigre Mashaal-Lively Mourned

Artist, 37, co-founded Santa Fe’s Earthseed Black Arts Alliance

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

fellow artists and multi-talented fabricators and welders from local shop Stark Raven Fabrication, which Mashaal-Lively helped found, the Fearbeast was an interactive piece about facing one’s fears, evolving with and through them, and hopefully becoming bet ter for it.

was an image in there that, at 9 months old, people could recognize.”

Marshall says she was dedicated to Mashaal-Lively attending more arts-fo cused schools, and by the time they went off to Bennington, they were adept at creating worlds and stories through more media than seems possible.

of these efforts, friends and collaborators say Mashaal-Lively cast an inimitable shadow during a short time in Santa Fe.

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Fe multi-disciplinary artist Tigre Mashaal-Lively died over the week end. Friends and family who say they’ll remember Mashaal-Lively, 37, for being a creative storyteller and a loving collabora tor wrote and released a statement through Mashaal-Lively’s social media accounts on Tuesday stating the artist “left this world of their own volition to travel to the next realm of their being.”

A co-founder and member of Santa Fe’s Earthseed Black Arts Alliance and graduate of Vermont’s Bennington College, MashaalLively grew up in Philadelphia and has shown their artwork across the planet. They moved to Santa Fe in 2019 and almost immediately set to work creating across a wide swath of mediums, including dance, illustration and, perhaps most famously, large-scale immer sive sculpture.

Mashaal-Lively’s work appeared at endur ingly popular arts and music festivals such as Lightning in a Bottle and Electric Forest; they were also an honorarium grant recipient from Burning Man, one of the most-known gatherings on the planet. In addition to help ing establish Earthseed, Mashaal-Lively was also a co-founding member of the Braided Branches Collective, which created the O’Gah Po’Geh Altar Project, an altar of wood and ma nipulated branches that stood in Santa Fe’s Railyard Park for a time. They also worked in various forms with arts incubators and dance troupes, including Design Science Studio and Bad Unki Sista, the latter of which being the arts and performance project of close friend and collaborator Anastazia Louise, who was a key player in the creation and installtion of the 21-foot “Solacii” sculpture outside of Guadalupe Street’s form & concept gallery.

Just two months ago, Mashaal-Lively was wrapping production on the interactive sculpture that turned out to be their swan song, “Facing the Fearbeast,” about which SFR wrote in-depth. Created with a grant from Burning Man and with assistance from a wide variety of donors, volunteers, interns,

“The real crux of this piece is not just about facing the things that terrify us, but being able to see through that to what needs love and compassion,” Mashaal-Lively told SFR about that project in August. “It’s find ing this place that’s like, ‘OK, is there a place of peace that is not inaction, but that allows access to careful thought, considered choic es?’ When you’re at peace, you have access to a wider range of outcomes.”

According to Mashaal-Lively’s mother, Linda Marshall, the artistic spirit was simply a part of them.

“I will tell you two things,” she tells SFR. “It absolutely was there from the very begin ning, and that the number one classic story I tell is that when they were in daycare, they were probably 9 months old, and they had done some finger painting, and [the caregiv ers] gave me this finger-painting they had done and said, ‘It looks like a firebird.’ There

“Their creativity, their sense of storytelling, their ability to relate to the animal kingdom— there are so many things,” Marshall continues. “Their love of books and learning, and their in terest in mythology; these are things they car ried with them the rest of their life.”

“I think Tigre was a person of so many different communities,” says longtime friend Ruben Pacheco, who met Mashaal-Lively at a roleplaying summer camp when the artist was still a teen. “From the start, they lived their truth.”

Storytelling and introspection through visual arts became almost like a reflex with in Mashaal-Lively’s practice. And as much as their creations seemed to speak of love and comfort for others, they were open about searching for such things themselves. Perhaps this could explain their dedication to working across so many mediums. Because

At form & concept, for example, writer and gallery director Jordan Eddy tells SFR he’s been slingshotting through emotions for days. Artist Pascal Emmer, who suggested form & concept show Mashaal-Lively’s work alongside their own for 2021’s Entangled Futurities exhibit, tells SFR that “Tigre was a brilliant spirit who was ushering us toward the future we need—a future world where ev eryone is cared for, liberated from fear and oppression; to be our most free, compassion ate selves.”

It doesn’t end there.

“There are absolutely no words,” says Stark Raven Fabrication’s Calli Beck. “We just are trying to figure out how to move forward without them. We don’t know how because they’re so intrinsic to who we are and what we do.”

“Everything that was big, I built with them…I don’t really know what we do now,” adds Stark Raven’s Lucas Janowski. “I don’t know what I do now, but I am alive because of Tigre; I am an artist because of Tigre; I know how to be loved because of Tigre. They were my grandest love.”

Lifelong friend Sophia Wise One chalks Mashaal-Lively’s magnetism up to a willing ness to be vulnerable on the deepest level, but also to embrace their own flawed existence.

“They always had a profound sensitivity inside a really rough world,” she tells SFR. “One of the things I can say is that their ability to articulate the suffering most conscious and sensitive and alive beings feel at some point came from their ability to share and reflect in this beautiful way that was a result of the magnitude to which they experienced being alive.”

A memorial service will take place at 10 am Friday, Oct. 7 at Rivera Funeral Home and is open to all, according to the social media post. Friends and family will also hold an informal gathering at form & concept from 1-4 pm on Saturday, Oct. 8 to be followed by an evening dance party at Stark Raven Fabrication.

In addition to their mother, MashallLively is survived by father Donald Lively, partner Jhana Goldenflame, cat IshqAllah and “their family and community in Santa Fe as well as the uncountable friends and loved ones all over the world.”

A memorial for the late Tigre Mashaal-Lively will take place at Rivera Funeral Home this Friday, Oct.

Friends and family will also hold an informal gathering at form & concept on Saturday, Oct. 8.

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EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278

Hot pub quiz action. 8 pm, free

HOTLINE B(L)INGO

Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, (505) 983-0134

It's bingo time. $2 per round. 7 pm, $2

MEOW WOLF: ADULTIVERSE Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

It’s the Meow Wolf you know and love only they don’t let kids in from 6 til close.

6 pm, $35

SKY RAILWAY: SUNSET SERENADE

FIRE SAFETY STORYTIME

WITH JEFF FOLGATE

Santa Fe Public Library

La Farge Branch

1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860

Stories and fire safety tips.

10:30 am, free KIDS SING-ALONG WITH QUEEN BEE MUSIC ASSOCIATION

Santa Fe Public Library

Southside Branch

1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860

Kids explore literacy through music.

3:15 pm, free PAJAMA STORYTIME/HORA DEL CUENTO EN PIJAMA

Santa Fe Public Library

Southside Branch 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2580

Social storytime for both kids and parents who need to talk to someone who isn’t a kid.

6 pm, free

TEEN LOUNGE

Santa Fe Public Library

La Farge Branch

1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860

A safe space for teens to wind down once the school day’s done.

1:30 pm, free

KELLY D. NORRIS PRESENTATION AND LUNCHEON

Santa Fe Country Club

4360 Country Club Road, (505) 471-2626

Horticulturalist Norris is known for his remarkable talent and ability to transform the most challenging landscape into a work of art.

11 am-2 pm, $75

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Flamenco with Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez.

6:15 pm, $25-$45

RHYMECRAFT AT THE MINE SHAFT

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Highway 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Hip-hop from members of the Outstanding Citizens Collective. They’re outstanding. And upstanding. Also they spit so sick.

7 pm, free

STRANGERS FROM AFAR

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Highway 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Hit the deck for a lovely fall afternoon of music and drinks.

2 pm, free

TROY BROWNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Americana

4 pm, free

Santa Fe Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street Booze on a train with the sunset all pretty.

6 pm, $99

WAYWARD COMEDY OPEN MIC

Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Weekly open mic with the local comedy crew.

5:30-8 pm, free YARDMASTERS

Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596

Bring your own gloves, dress for the weather, and enjoy the great outdoors while contributing to the beauty of public space.

10 am-12 pm, free

YOUTH CHESS CLUB

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Play chess, kids. Do it. 5:30-8 pm, free

FILM

ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Who’s on first? Naw, just kidding.

6:30 pm, $10

MUSIC

JOHN FRANCIS AND THE POOR CLARES

El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

A little bit country and folk, a little bit storytelling, a whole lotta pretty dang good.

8 pm, free

KARAOKE NIGHT

Boxcar

530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222

Classic karaoke options at Boxcar. It's pretty self-explanatory, huh?

10 pm, free

THEATER

THE CHILDREN

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Tony-nominated Lucy Kirkwood play about retired scientists in the midst of an apocalyptic event.

7:30 pm, $15

THU/6

ART

ARTIST-LED WALKTHROUGHS

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-7799

Max Cole and Shirin Neshat show y’all their stuff.

9:15 and 10:45 am, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

BILINGUAL BOOKS & BABIES

Santa Fe Public Library La Farge Branch 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860 Books and music. 10 am, free

FIRE SAFETY STORYTIME WITH JEFF FOLGATE

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6781

Stories and fire safety talk. 10:30 am, free

FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER DISCUSSION

Santa Fe Public Library Southside Branch 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2580

Chat about the Angeline Boulley book. 6 pm, free

DANCE

LA EMI FALL SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Flamenco’s afoot.

7:30 pm, $25-$55

Did you hear about Spirit Rangers, a new animated Netflix program premiering Monday, Oct. 10—Indigenous Peoples Day? The firstever kids’ show created by a Native woman in US TV history—all hail creator Karissa Valencia (Chumash and Mexican)—and one which features an all-Native writers room, Spirit Rangers follows siblings Kodi, Eddy and Summer as they become park rangers, but they might just have secret animal powers (rad). There’s a local connection, too, with actor Wes Studi tackling the role of a character called Sunny, hoop dancer Shandien Larance knocking out a guest spot and local artist/ musician Ehren Kee Natay (Kewa Pueblo and Diné) writing and producing music for the show. We spoke with Natay to learn more about his contributions. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

(Alex De Vore)

How did you come to be involved with Spirit Rangers?

I came into contact with the crew through the producer, or I guess I should say songwriter Raye Zaragoza. She’s a singersongwriter based out of LA, and I’ve played drums for her whenever she came to New Mexico. We just have a real chemistry, and in November 2020, when the pandemic was insufferable, Raye gave me a call to say she was working on this show, they were writing songs and the show runner had been asking if there’s anybody who plays traditional drums and flutes. She said, ‘I know Ehren Kee Natay, he’s the perfect person.’ So they reached out and said, ‘We’ve got this song, it’s sort of a transformation song.’ If you can imagine when the Power Rangers would transform into the Megazord, it’s kind of the same thing. They said, ‘The kids transform into animals, and we need a sound that’s clearly Indigenous.’

So I had some ideas, sent it back to them real quick and they were impressed. From there, they brought me on to do 10 more songs and to actually write one myself. I believe I had my hand in 12 or 13 songs total. I had never done TV or film— I’d done a lot of theater work...so there was kind of a nice segue from watching dancers

and knowing the expression and what they’re looking for.

I would say music is my primary practice. I’ve been doing that longer than anything. I would say I’m a contemporary musician with very strong roots in traditional music. I have a legacy of musicians in my family. My grandfather was the first Native American to be recorded and broadcast on the radio. I followed in his footsteps learning his songs, that’s how I became acquainted with traditional music. I hope to make my grandfather proud. He passed before I was born, so music was the only way I could connect.

What was the process like for finding the music?

The [music] writers were Raye, who I told you about, and the two others are Michael Kooman and Christopher Diamond, and they’re amazing Broadway musicians out in NYC, and they were like, ‘We can’t give this an Indigenous sound, we don’t even want to try—just send us what you feel, what you hear, what inspires you, and we’ll tell you what we’re looking for, and we’ll pass the songs back and forth.’ That’s what I did. I added flutes, and I have a large collection of rattles, traditional drums and instruments from all over the world. I collected this stuff because I thought it was interesting, and finally I got to use it.

And I didn’t have the accolades for them to put that level of trust in me, but we’re at a point in this Indigenous revolution of media right now where we haven’t had the reins throughout the history of filmmaking, but finally we’re being given that chance, so you’re going to see a lot of newcomers.

Let’s talk about the concept of representation. Obviously you’re more of an adult as far as I know, but is a program like this still exciting?

Totally. As a kid and watching cartoons, you start to realize there’s nobody like me on TV. I remember specifically this moment with the GI Joe cartoon when [the creators] said to send in drawings and they’d maybe create them and put them on the show. I was probably about 7 or 8 years old, and I did it. I said, ‘I’m going to make a Native character who’s not like...’ I don’t know his name, but he’s the stoic Indian with the wolf and the eagle? I created this kind of Street Fighter character, and he was badass.

I always wanted that from the time I was young without even understanding what I was seeking. I was creating characters with Indigenous and Diné influence—things that looked really different and unique. There’s been a huge misrepresentation of our culture as pan-Indian, and only with very specific characteristics. If we could’ve made those decisions ourselves, comedy would have definitely been at the heart of it. It’s been such a tool for our pathology of survival.

With Musician/Artist Ehren Kee Natay

COURTESY EHREN KEE NATAY

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CHESS & JAZZ CLUB

No Name Cinema

2013 Pinon St.

It’s a well-named club.

6-8 pm, free

CLARK LIBBEY AND KRISTEN RAD

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Highway 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Country folk. 1 pm, free

ESTHER ROSE

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

The Lousiana-based country maven comes to town.

6 pm, free

OSCAR BUTLER

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Easy listening. 4 pm, free

ROBERT WILSON

ARTIST RECEPTION FOR SASHA VOM DORP (OPENING)

MoMo

143 Lincoln Ave. (505) 690-7871

Multidisciplinary Taos artist Sasha vom Dorp.

5-7 pm, free

DOUG WEST: CHACO CANYON AND BEYOND (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Magical skies and environments of the Southwest.

5-7 pm, free

KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON (OPENING)

El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016

A collection of linoleum block prints carved, inked and printed by Scott W. Parker.

MONTROSE TRIO

ENTREFLAMENCO

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave.

(505) 209-1302

Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez.

6:15 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen + Bar

725 Cerrillos Road

(505) 982-5952

To-the-death trivia cage match.

7 pm, free

THURSDAY NIGHT SOCIAL

Santa Fe Public Library

La Farge Branch

1730 Llano St.

(505) 955-4860

Board games and more.

10:30 am, free

YOGA & MOVEMENT FOR KIDS

Santa Fe Public Library

La Farge Branch

1730 Llano St.

(505) 955-4860

A yoga class designed for kids.

10:30 am, free

FILM

ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 466-5528

A second chance to catch the old-timey fave.

6:30 pm, $10

SELF-DOCUMENTED: THE

1977 NATIVE AMERICAN VIDEO TAPE ARCHIVE

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail

(505) 982-1338

From the 1977 Native American video tape archive. (See SFR Picks, page 21)

6 pm, $15

MUSIC

BLAIR AND PHIL

2846 Highway 14 Madrid (505) 473-0743

Singer-songwriter team.

7 pm, free

The Dragon Room

406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712

Local singer.

5:30 pm, free

THEATER

THE CHILDREN

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Tony-nominated Lucy Kirkwood play about retired scientists in the midst of an apocalypse.

7:30 pm, $15

WORKSHOP

ACRO BALANCE WITH COLLEEN AND JO Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, Ste. B. (505) 992-2588

AKA acro-yoga. 5:30-7 pm, $22-$108

YOGA FOR KIDS

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

Exactly what it sounds like. 10:30 am, free

FRI/7

ART

2022 SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR

Santa Fe Woman's Club and Artists' Studios

1616 Old Pecos Trail Preview works by artists from the tour.

5-8 pm, free

A NEW MEXICAN BURIAL

No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org

A photographic survey by JC Gonzo of cemeteries located throughout the state of New Mexico, from abandoned to active, documented in a variety of analog formats, including 35mm and 120 film. Weird, old creepy stuff is fun!

During events or by appt., free

5 pm, free

MAX COLE: ENDLESS JOURNEY (OPENING)

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Paintings and works on paper spanning 1962-2022.

5 pm, free

MEET THE ARTIST: SHARON MEYER (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Meyer releases a new line of jewelry and a special ensemble of high-level couture pieces.

4-7 pm, free

SHIRIN NESHAT: LAND OF DREAMS (OPENING)

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

A solo exhibition by IranianAmerican artist and filmmaker Neshat. 5 pm, free

TAL WALTON: MEMORIES FROM THE BOX IN MY MIND

Victory Contemporary

124 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-8589

Walton drops his newest landscapes and barn paintings. 10 am -5 pm daily, free

THOM ROSS

Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555

Folk heroes and more. 5-7 pm, free

TIMELESS ENCHANTMENT WITH MANFRED RAPP (OPENING)

The Signature Gallery 102 E Water St. (505) 983-1050

New works, including altered furniture. 5-7:30 pm, free

TINA MION: HOLY GHOSTS (OPENING)

Kouri+Carrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888

Paintings and drawings exploring tragedy and improbable beauty.

5-7 pm, free

TODD RYAN WHITE: DESERT SOLITAIRE (OPENING)

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

White goes minimal than he usually does with new observational pieces. (See A&C, page 35) 5-7 pm, free

TRAVELS ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD: A HIMALAYAN MEMOIR BOOK LAUNCH & LECTURE

Peyton Wright

237 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-9888

Photographer (and SFR fave)

William Frej and his wife Anne drop a new book about their travels through the Hindu Kush, India, Nepal, Tibet and beyond.

5-7:30 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

READ RUNNERS BOOK CLUB

Santa Fe Public Library

La Farge Branch

1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860

A book club for kids 9-12 run by kids 9-12.

3:45 pm, free

WHO ARE YOU DROP-IN SELFPORTAIT MAKING

Santa Fe Public Library

La Farge Branch 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860

Create your own self-portrait. 2 pm, free

DANCE

LA EMI FALL SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

Some of the best flamenco around with the internationally trained performer.

7:30 pm, $25-$55

ENTREFLAMENCO

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez strut their flamenco stuff in style.

6:15 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

POTTERY THROW DOWN!

Paseo Pottery 1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Pottery demos, music, drinks. 5-8 pm, $20

QUILT FIESTA SANTA FE

Santa Fe Community Convention Center

201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590

Quilts! Quilts! Quilts! 9 am-5 pm, $10

FILM

KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

You either know it or not, and if you know it you know it’s weird and glorious.

6 pm and 9 pm, $10-$20

MUSIC

BLACK MESA BRASS QUINTET

First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544

Classical, pop and jazz tunes as part of the church’s ongoing TGIF series. 5:15 pm, free

DAVID BERKELEY

Reunity Farms 1829 San Ysidro Crossing A gifted singer-songwriter. 6:30-9:30 pm, $15

DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Hip-hop, R&B, soul and more. 10 pm, $5

DOSO DIRTBAGS

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Highway 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Blues meets punk somehow. 8 pm, free

IMARHAN

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Ummmmm, Algerian Tuareg desert rock? Yes, please. 7:30 pm, free

LUCY BARNA

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Highway 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Singer-songwriter Barna drops songs from her What I Know is True album and beyond. 5 pm, free

MAGDALENA BAY

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Synth-pop and electronic. This is very Meow Wolfy, y’know? Like, you know what we mean by that?

10 pm, $21

UNDERGROUND CADENCE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Eclectic and bluesy rock. 8 pm, free

THEATER

THE CHILDREN

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

The New Mexico Actors Lab’s Robert Benedetti directs thisTony-nominated Lucy Kirkwood play about retired scientists who find themselves in the midst of some sort of apocalyptic event.

7:30 pm, $15

THE MOUNTAINTOP

Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

The night before his 1968 assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. retires to the Lorraine Hotel in this stirring play from Katori Hall that explores and humanizes the civil rights leader and orator.

7:30-10 pm, $30-$75

WORKSHOP

MAKE SANTA FE TOUR

MAKE Santa Fe

2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Get some As to your Qs at the local makerspace which, if you didn’t know, is all about helping folks make stuff on their own terms.

6 pm, free

SAT/8

ART

2022 SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR PREVIEW GALLERY

Santa Fe Woman's Club and Artists' Studios

1616 Old Pecos Trail

Visit santafestudiotour.org to learn more. (See SFR Picks, page 19)

5-8 pm, free

MEET THE ARTIST: SHARON MEYER

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Jewelry+couture—together at last, right? Naw, just kidding, they’re often together.

4-7 pm, free

MY LIFE IN ART: SHIRIN NESHAT

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-7799

Neshat and Lucy Lippard in conversation about her film and art. 2 pm, free

SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

In the West Casitas, north of the water tower 1612 Alcaldesa St.

Weekly outdoor art market. 9 am-2 pm, free

WORKING THROUGH LUNCH —A GROUP EXHIBITION (OPENING)

Title Gallery 423 W San Francisco St. titlegallery.com

More artists than we can fit! 6-8 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

BABY & TODDLER PLAY HOUR

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6781

A time for kids to play. 10:30 am, free

BILINGUAL BOOKS & BABIES

Santa Fe Public Library

Southside Branch

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2580 Books and music. 10 am, free

FRIENDS OF THE SANTA FE

PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK SALE

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6781

Time to stock up on books.

9:30 am-2:30 pm, free

LANGUAGE OF NEW MEXICO

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6781

Presentation on local language. 3 pm, free

POETRY WORKSHOP WITH LUCI TAPAHANSO

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6781

For teens, tweens and adults.

4 pm, free

SOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO

Santa Fe Public Library

Southside Branch

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2580

The social justice organization talks on the importance of collective action.

1 pm, free

DANCE

LA EMI FALL SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

Just some of the best flamenco. 7:30 pm, $25-$55

ENTREFLAMENCO

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Flamenco with Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez.

6:15 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

FULL MOON CEREMONY

Puerta de la Luna

546 Harkle Road (505) 982-1200 Drumming and ceremony. 3:30 pm, free

SKY RAILWAY: SUNSET SERENADE

Santa Fe Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa St. Trains, cocktails sunsets. 6 pm, $99

STORY SLAM!

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Ten people tell their story in just a few short minutes. This is how you connect with others. 1 pm, $7 (by admission)

OPEN HOUSE OCTOBERFEST

The Horse Shelter

100AB Old Cash Ranch Road Los Cerrillos (505) 471-6179

A fun-filled and horse-fact-filled day at The Horse Shelter.

11 am-3 pm, free

WALK WITH US FOR MENTAL HEALTH

Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St.

namisantafe.org

The walk supports NAMI, Santa Fe's free mental health programs and services.

9 am, free

WE ARE WATER

PROTECTORS: STORYTELLING AND ACTIVISM THROUGH WATERCOLOR

Santa Fe Public Library

La Farge Branch 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860

An art class for kids 9-15.

3 pm, free

FILM

KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

You should just know this movie by now. Here, let us help: It’s about killer klowns who come to town from outer space to wreak their unique brand of clownish havoc. So good.

6 pm and 9 pm, $10-$20

THE SOULTANGLER No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St.

The local anti-profit cinema screens Pat Bishow’s 1987 kitschy masterpiece, which is reportedly a little bit Lovecraft and a whole lotta good example of outsider cinema. There’s even free popcorn, we hear.

7 pm, free

Best way to start your day!

WMORNING RD!

BY LAYLA ASHER

CHEATING AND ITS AFTERMATH: ADAM LEVINE EDITION

If you have an Instagram algorithm that’s anything like mine, you’ve seen the latest Hollywood cheating scandal. Adam Levine has been outed on the internet by what feels like an endless slew of women for inappro priate DMs and at least one accusation of a physical affair. Why, the Twittersphere is hav ing an absolute field day with Levine shooting his shot in the most fuckboy way possible.

In case you haven’t encountered one in the wild, a fuckboy, according to Urban Dictionary, is “a boy (man) who plays with someone’s feelings, doesn’t really like them, and will say anything they want to hear to have sex with them or to get something they want.”

So far, the very married front man of Maroon 5 claims he never had an affair, but rather, “crossed the line during a regrettable period in his life.”

When stories like this break, we are often confronted with our own shit around cheat ing. What are our lines? What does it look like when they are crossed? Have we com municated clearly enough what monogamy looks like for us? Have we communicated it at all? My inbox has been full of questions about this, so let’s get to it.

That Adam Levine story mostly just made me want to barf. Is there actually some thing to be learned within it?

-LITERALLY SICK OF CHEATERS Totally!

What strikes me immediately is that you are having such a visceral reaction to the story. That kind of insight into your feelings is much more meaningful than trying to figure out why yet another dude married to a Vic toria’s Secret model isn’t fulfilled. (Don’t go down this rabbit hole, Alice, there’s nothing good there.)

Maybe you already know where you stand on cheating, but I would encourage you to get a little deeper with what is trig gering you. What exactly makes you want to toss your cookies? That he’s married? Has a baby on the way? (Did I forget to mention that?) That he was so careless? Get as spe cific as you can with yourself. The more in sight we have into how we authentically feel about things, the more we can carry our selves and communicate in a way that hon ors that. The learning is taking place within you, this stupid story is just the vehicle that got you there. After being lied to and cheated on repeat edly, how do I put myself out there again

to give love, trust and monogamy another chance?

-SCARED THEY ARE ALL CHEATERS

Look at you asking the damn question, tho, STAAC! Take a moment and celebrate your resiliency and your willingness to move for ward. That’s no small thing, my friend.

It sounds like trust and monogamy are high up on the list of things you are looking for in a potential partner. That’s great! But don’t assume that they are on the same page just because it’s been the societal “norm.” That’s all smoke and mirrors bullllll shit, anyway. There is this little window of opportunity early on when dating to have conversations about this very thing—you’ll know when the time comes because the fear of the answer isn’t quite there yet. Ask your potential new partner what monogamy means to them, what trust feels like to them, share what it is to you and try to be mindful that they are not the people that hurt you in the past. I say this a lot, but adding levity to these conversations is always a plus, even if that just means smiling through it. And re member, you are looking for someone who is in total alignment with your boundaries around monogamy and trust, not someone who may “change” for you or someone who skirts the issue.

The harsh reality, though, is that it is al ways a risk. People are not perfect and they will disappoint you. All you can do it be OK with taking the risk. It’s the only way to let the love in, after all.

By now you’ve noticed I’m not really interested in what makes people cheat or how we can get them to stop. Personally, I think monogamy is an unrealistic choice for most of us. Why we choose to keep holding ourselves to a standard that has such a poor success rate is beyond me—but there are levels to this shit. Relationships don’t have to look like what we’ve seen on every single rom-com since the dawn of Meg Ryan. We can create consensual relationships on our own terms with boundaries that are specific to our needs, monogamy and non-monog amy included. My polyamorous folks know what I’m talking about.

This is not to say that there won’t be people who still enjoy the thrill of sneaking around or like to exert their independence by sleeping with someone else. I know it’s difficult, but we have to get comfortable with that reality and not let our self-worth get all tangled up in it. There will always be some fuckboy like Adam Levine who tries to name their unborn baby after their side chick and that’s only a reflection of him, not his partner.

Layla Asher is a local sex worker on a mission to spread radical self love to her community and the world. Have further questions after reading this? Want to ask your local sex worker their expert opinion on something? Let’s start a sex positive conversation that keeps respect and confidentiality at the forefront and judgment a thing of the past. Please submit your questions to thenakedlayla@gmail.com and include an alias that protects your anonymity.

FOOD

PLANTITA VEGAN BAKERY

POP UP

Plantita Vegan Bakery

1704 Lena St., Unit B4 (505) 603-0897

Vegan apple cider donuts, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, and more from the local vegan bakery.

10 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

CHATTER (IN)SITE

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Cello and piano.

10:30 am, $5-$16

DISCOVERING THE MUSIC OF PAINTINGS

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403

An interactive exploration and performance based on paintings by Nishiki Sudagawa-Beda.

10-11:30 am, $25

CONTROLLED BURN

Ski Santa Fe

1477 NM-475 (505) 982-4429 Rock and such.

11 am-3 pm, free

JJ5TH AND THE 77 RIDERS

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Highway 14 Madrid (505) 473-0743

Outlaw country.

8 pm, free

LOOSE ENDS

Santa Fe Brewing Co. (Eldorado Taproom)

7 Caliente Road (505) 466-6938 Blues and R&B.

5:30 pm, free

OPEN MIC IN ELDORADO

Native Wings Coffee House

7 Ave Vista Grande B8 Singing and stuff.

3:30-6:30 pm, free

THE RUDY BOY EXPERIMENT

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Rock'n'Roll. 8 pm, free

THE SHEEP STEALERS

GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St.

Traditional Irish and American folk songs.

7:30 pm, $25

SUGAR MOUNTAIN BAND

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Highway 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Don’t let it bring you down, it’s only castles burning—by which we mean Neil Young covers.

THESE FINE MOMENTS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Folk-pop.

1 pm, free

THREE BAD JACKS

Boxcar

530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222

Rockabilly for fans of Hasil Adkins and the like.

10 pm, $5

THEATER

THE MOUNTAINTOP

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

The night before his 1968 assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. retires to the Lorraine Hotel in this stirring play about the great civil rights leader and speaker. 2 pm, $30-$75

WORKSHOPS

COMPASSIONATE RESTORING OF YOUR CHAKRAS' HEALTH & ABUNDANCE

Online deeprootsstudio.com

These individual workshops offer fantastic ways to take a step in your life.

10-11:30 am, $40

BAGUETTE & BEYOND

Open Kitchen

227 Don Gaspar Ave. (202) 285-9840

Join Open Kitchen on a culinary journey. 10 am-1 pm, $115

SUN/9

ART

2022 SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR PREVIEW GALLERY

Santa Fe Woman's Club and Artists' Studios 1616 Old Pecos Trail A preview of the 2022 tour. 5-8 pm, free

MY LIFE IN ART: MAX COLE

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-7799

Artist Cole in conversation with David Pagel. 2 pm, free

DANCE

LA EMI FALL SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

Just some of the best flamenco. 7:30 pm, $25-$55

ENTREFLAMENCO

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez with the option to do dinner and a show.

6:15 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Desert Dogs Brewery & Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134

Make teams and prove you smart good at pub quiz. 7 pm, free

MUSIC

FIREBIRD

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

Music of Franck, Dohnany and Stravinsky.

4 pm, $22-$80

GENE CORBIN

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Highway 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Americana jamz.

1 pm, free

KARYN ANN + HAYLEY LYNN

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Karyn Ann packs a proverbial punch with her powerful vocals.

7-9 pm, free

LIVE MUSIC WITH ALTO

STREET

Ski Santa Fe

1477 Hwy. 475 (505) 982-4429

Final day of fall activities.

11 am-3 pm, free

TRINITY SOUL

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Highway 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Rock and/or roll. 3 pm, free

THE WESTERNHERS

Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Country duo. 12 pm, free

THEATER

THE CHILDREN

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Tony-nominated Lucy Kirkwood play about retired scientists in the midst of a Fukushima-like apocalyptic event.

2:30 pm, $15

THE MOUNTAINTOP

Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

The night before his 1968 assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. retires to the Lorraine Hotel after delivering his last impassioned speech.

2 pm, $30-$75

MON/10

BOOKS/LECTURES

MARK G POMAR BOOK SIGNING

Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

The author signs copies of the book.

6 pm, $15-$25

TRILLIUM CONSERVATION

IN NORTH AMERICA AND BEYOND

Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso (505) 983-9461

Clay Meredith of the New Mexico BioPark Society lectures on plants.

6:30 pm, free

EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Pub quiz.

7 pm, free

MUSIC

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505)982-2565

Country, honky-tonk. 4 pm, free

QUEER NIGHT WITH JABRIL

YOUSEF + VELVET VISION

El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Synth pop champ Violet Vision would be worth it on their own. 7-10 pm, free

THEATER

SHATTER///

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

A cathartic destruction and literal shattering of racist stereotypes. CCA has implemented a live, multi-camera setup in its

MUSEUMS

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY

NATIVE ARTS

108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900

Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux. Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers. Art of Indigenous Fashion.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon

11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART

18 County Road 55A (505) 424-6487

Global Warming is Real Juried Exhibition.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun, $10 (18 and under free)

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200

Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery. ReVOlution. Here, Now and Always. Painted Reflections.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200

Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia. Fashioning Identities. Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12

NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM

113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200

Setting the Standard. The First World War. WORDS on the Edge. The Palace Seen and Unseen.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS

334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261

Colonial living history ranch.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sun, $4-$6

gallery space to be fed in realtime to the cinema.

4 pm, $15

TUE/11

BOOKS/LECTURES

PIGMENTS AS CATALYSTS

FOR ACTION

Online

Join participants of the Wild Pigment Project exhibition. (See SFR Picks, page 21) 2-3:30 pm, free

EVENTS

SANTA FE SWING

Odd Fellows Hall

1125 Cerrillos Road (505) 690-4165

Take a class or just dance. 7 pm, $3-$8

SENSORY SENSITIVE DAY

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

The whole of The House of Eternal Return will be in quiet mode, bringing down the sound and lights to make a sensory friendly environment. Capacity is limited! Noon, free

MUSIC

GARY GORENCE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St.

(505) 982-2565

One of those singer-songwriter types who does the guitar vulnerablity thing. We like that kind of thing, we’re just saying, that’s what you’re gonna see. 4 pm, free

From the 6th Annual: Global Warming is REAL juried exhibition. Featuring everything wax.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART

750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226

Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence. Trails, Rails, and Highways.

1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063

Selections from the 20th Century Collection. Western Eyes. Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed Media Photographs of the ’60s, ’70s.

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

POEH CULTURAL CENTER

78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041

Di Wae Powa. Nah Poeh Meng: The Continuous Path.

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

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636

Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry. Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é. The Mary Morez Style.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8

COURTESY MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART

Jesse Allen

Stephen Apodaca

Gini Barrett

Gayla Bechtol

Jonathan Blakey & Nanci Cartwright

Gay Block

The Blogs

The Bobs

Curtis Borg M Yvonne Brown

BSPOKE Brand Consultancy Kent Buckingham Anne Coller

Barbara Conroy John & Bekki Cook Davis-Gibbon Family

The Deej

Adrienne DeGuere

Rothsteine Donatelli, LLP Nate Downey DeeDee Downs

George Ducker

Dona Durham

Lauren Eaton Prescott

Sara, Michael & Nordic Eckhardt Areena Estul & Shel Goldman Ever Joyful Yoga Jill & Terry Fernandez Gail B Flanagan Cheryl Fossum Graham Q Gallaher Mark Glaser Helen Goldberg Goodwest Productions Katy Gross David Gunter Mary Hall HaydenFold Tom & Rose Himrod Samuel Hokin Nelson Hower Joanna Hurley

RECURRING GIFTS

Sheila Hyde Megan Kamerick

Heather Karlson & Bill Leeson Diane Karp

The Rev. Canon Ted Karpf Katie & Andrew Nicholas King Photography Laurie Knight Karen Ann Koestner Ruth & Paul Kovnat

Joseph Lacayo Laurel Ladwig & Trina Altman Melanie Lamb Faithful Guido Lambelet David LaPlantz Catherine & Britt Leach Long View Asset Management Douglas Lonngren

Peter Lundberg & James Mowdy James Lutz

Scotty & Sue MacGregor Jane & Paul Mandel Kate McCahill Jean McCray James McGrath Morris Mike & Mary McGuire Sara McKenzie Jean McRay Lanette & Jeff Meister Bram Meehan Richard Meeker Michael A. Messner Katherine Mille Wimmer Karla Milosevich Laurie Mitchell Dunn Marylin Morgan Kristen S. Moy Heidi Munziner Juliet Myers

SUPPORTERS

Nan Newton Lauren Paige Kristen Pelz

Grace Perez & John Benfatto Justin Peters Janey Phillips Johnnie Prather Proctor Family Rainbird Susan Ray Greg Reiche Shelley Robinson John R Roby Pat & Richard Rosenthal Barbara Russell Pamela Ryan Dante Schackel Bordegaray Don Schreiber Vickie Sewing Mary Ann Shaening Martin Shannon

Joan Sickler & Mike Roscow

Danette Sills

Melinda Silver & Melvin Buchwald Caitlin Smith Joan Snider Lauren Snyder Meredith Speers Eric O. Springsted Howard & Dorothy Stein Laura Stupin Robert D Taylor

Caitlin Thomas Pamela Villars

Adair Waldenberg Jasmine Walker Jeff Waters Dr. David Wood & Brad Barrios Mary Beth Yates Kimberly Zeilik Ellen Zieselman

Frances Adams & David Patterson Bill Adrian Jan & Jim Allen

Helga Ancona

Jarratt Applewhite Atlas Fitness Center Karen Aubrey Irene Ayala

Joe & Tamara Banar Cris & Marilyn Barnes Joanie Puma Bennet Bill Bergner Neil H. & Kelley O. Berman

Jason Berry Ruth Blaser

Gay Block & Billie Parker

Gino Brazil

Markeeta Brown Alexis Bove Georgellen Burnett Anne & Jack Burton (IMO - Richard McCord) Lee Caldwell & Marcus Randolph Mary Ellen Capek & Sue Hallgarth Susan & Appy Chandler Jill Christian & Kiera Ortiz Tom Claffey Lynn Cline Gene Covington & Patrick Murphy CC Culver Merrilee De Vore

Elizabeth Dunham Meredith Dunning Peace Exists

Dede Feldman

Joshua Finnell Barbara Fix Ella Frank Michael Friestad Thomas G. Gallegos Roman Garcia Lynn Gary Tim & Lina Germann

Birgitte Ginge Susan Gordon Lisa Gray Fisher Denise Fort Teri Hackler

Cynthia Hartling

Vicki Holmsten & Don Allen Bernhard Holzapfel Michel & Lynn Hopkins Jane & Lee Hruska Ken Hughes Hal Kahn Jeff & Sue KemnerRichardson Michael Kentor & Mandy Dealey KevinBox Studio Malissa Kullberg & Joshua Maes Cathy LaForte Bushrod Lake Leslie Lakind

Signe Lindell Dave Maass Gloria Martinez Friestad

Virginia Mattingly Pam McFarland Sasha McGhee Elizabeth Alexander & Larry Metzger Milagro Dental Native Bloom Bob Novak

Craig O’Hare Dylan O’Reilly & Sara Montgomery Janet Patrick William & Susan Primm

Dori & Tom Ramsey

Lee Caldwell & Marcus Randolph James & Barbara Redd Linda Reid Coletta Reid & Pat Hastings Ana Reinhardt Karen Rowell Sonya & Myron Salamon Gail P Samota Roberta Shaw Linda Siegle Martha & Ken Simonsen Morgan Smith Anne Souders Monica Steidele Dennis Storz

Melody & Michael Sumner Rachel Thompson Suzanne Timble

Two Star Trading Rob Turner Christine & Paul Vogel Brian Watkins Adam Wasserman Elizabeth West William & Janislee Wiese

Leah Yngve Faith Yoman

Let Slip the Dog

cut fries. I made this selection based on countless recommendations and declara tions from food fans I trust. “They’re the best in town,” is a common refrain in my little world, and Loyal Hound once again did not disappoint. The fish was ever so

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

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Been to Loyal Hound lately?” I texted my buddy Ryan the oth er day. We’ve been trying to spend more time together when possi ble—y’know, maintaining friendships and all that in this crazy, workaday world.

“Not for a minute,” he responded, “but that place is great.”

I heeded his words, and by the following evening, we did indeed find ourselves in the Midtown eatery as he sipped a re portedly delicious Perle Haggard pilsner from the Ex Novo Brewing Company and I watched. Loyal Hound had been a main stay of the early pandemic lockdowns for my friend, but I hadn’t eaten there since before its original owners sold the joint to the folks behind the Pajarito Brewpub in Los Alamos in 2019. I am glad to report that things seem better than ever at the pub-like eatery. Much better.

First off, our service was flawless, not just from an immediacy standpoint, but in the cut of our server’s jib. My companion noted that she seemed the type who’d come up in restaurants and thus had the touch, the power. I had to agree, particularly in how she carried herself in our interactions. I’m the type of diner who cannot stand faux-polite dec larations like “Now, can I go ahead and refill your beverag es?” said in robot ic form. I wish to be addressed like a human person, and our server at Loyal Hound picked up on that with ease.

In fact, she gave just the right amount of sass, which was fun, and she kept our waters full without ever utter ing the word “beverage.” Seriously, who talks like that? Ugh. I’ll let it go.

We began our meal with BBQ pork

sliders ($11) from the so-called Snacks menu. These might read like ap petizers, but at Loyal Hound, we learned, they’re meals unto themselves. This dish came with three sliders, and someplace between the flavorful and ten der pork, the cucumber slice (a brilliant touch of crispiness and unex pected flavor) and the mountains of coleslaw and jalapeño relish on the side, we found a new local favorite. As a combination of textures ranging from soft to crisp, it was an absolute tri umph, particularly in how the oddly satisfying coolness of the slaw meshed with the mild kick of the relish. We’re professionals, of course, so we can eat a metric ton of food, sliders included. Note, however, this one and other starters come in portions generous enough to spoil lighter appetites.

For our mains, I selected the fish and chips ($17), a beer battered bit of rock fish with green chile thrown into the mix and served with apple coleslaw and house

subtly sweet in just the right places, but remained firm and tasty; the batter was cooked through, which seems to vex lesser kitchens. If I must nit-pick, the fish might have been fried a tad too long. Even so, I like ‘em crispy for one thing, and I appre ciate slight deviations that remind me a human made my food for another. My companion sampled a dish our server explained was new, the chicken shortcake ($17), a sort of play on the chicken pot pie for mula made with the familiar combo of carrots, peas and celery, but swimming also in green chile and served with a fresh-baked ched dar biscuit. At no fewer than three points during the meal, he said somethingto the effect of, “Oh, dude, this is actu ally amazing.” And he cleared that plate, no problem.

I, however, couldn’t make it through all of my chips, but it was less about not wanting them and more about saving myself for dessert. At Loyal Hound, sweet options are few, but cer

tainly enticing, from the red chile choco late mousse ($9) to the famous Doggy Bag ($7), a lunch sack stuffed with cinnamon and sugar beignets and offered up with hot fudge and/or salted caramel. Last time I visited Loyal Hound, it was literally just for those, and they calmed my sweet tooth. This time, however, we zeroed in on the banana cream pie ($9), but the menu description of “house made banana custard on our flaky crust,” left out one very important part: marshmal low merengue. Whoever at Loyal Hound devised this dessert needs a raise immediate ly. Marshmallow merengue is among the most flavorful and pleasantly textured des sert elements I’ve ever en countered, particularly in how its slightly bruleed peaks offered the faintest hint of crisp. In contrast to the banana custard and flaky crust, it was just plain phenomenal.

Actually, come to think of it, there’s a lot left on that Loyal Hound menu I need to sample, so it looks like owner Patrick Mockler-Wood and his wife Emily have made some pretty smart moves. Outside of its only so-so atmosphere, which was improved once the lights went low, the ex perience was excellent all-around. Think of how many years I wasted eating subpar banana cream pies that didn’t even bother with marshmallow merengue, though...

We took a bowl of chicken soup with rice to go ($8) for a sick friend, who lat er said it was delicious, and though we wound up spending a little more than we’d hoped (which was more about the number of dishes we ordered than Loyal Hound’s prices—even at this point in time with in flation, they’re fair), I know the truth now: Loyal Hound deserves way more love than it gets.

It’s called chicken shortcake on the Loyal Hound menu, and you might just need it.

Plain Air

ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Thelast two times I saw work from artist Todd Ryan White, the pieces were either massive, complicated or both. As part of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Alcoves series featuring local creators, White illustrated complex, stonery fan tasy-scapes; at form & concept’s Rainbow Eater, he showed flora-laden hangings that might best be described as tapestries. In short, White has embraced the dual ethos of dense and lush for so long—particularly in graphic work for metal bands, btw—that it’s almost surprising to learn his upcoming Desert Solitaire exhibit at Hecho Gallery (sister space to Canyon Road print-forward space Hecho a Mano) scales things back to gouache and watercolor landscapes with in stances of animal imagery. It really feels like White has entered a new era.

At least that’s what my brain tells me at a recent visit to see the new pieces about a week before the show goes live. When I hit Palace Avenue to meet White, he’s already been up for hours; he’s definitely more ac tive and upbeat than I am. My demeanor changes, however, when I see what he’s cre ated: Smaller pieces featuring potted plants and cacti, larger pieces comprised of land scapes achieved through site visits, photog raphy and composite work.

I won’t belabor the point because we’re all kind of sick of it, but the pandemic played a huge role in White’s new direction, as did fatherhood. White says he found himself overwhelmed after his last major show took years to complete, and the pandem ic slowdown gave him time to reflect and spend time with his daughter, now 4. He also decided that, for his next show, he’d set a shorter timeline to work within, both as a means to maintain sanity, and to sort of con dition himself to relinquish pieces before he overworked them. Even as we stand in Hecho, checking out the work, he points out elements in one of the landscapes—a rocky canyon above which hangs a glowing gila monster in a moon-like, circular repose— that could read as unfinished. It’s almost Zen.

“I like that,” White says, “because it kind of makes you look around the whole piece instead of just one spot.”

Later, we’re sitting on a pleasant down

Todd Ryan White simplifies with Desert Solitaire show at Hecho

town patio and checking out someone’s cute dog as White basks in the sun and explains where he’s coming from:

“With my last show, I felt like I tried to accomplish so many things at one time, and it was very expansive. The work spanned a decade,” he says. “With the current show,

my goal was to create a very minimal band width of expression that was extremely cohesive. I tried to let go of the feeling of needing to communicate a lot of ideas.”

The new idea here is simple, an exercise in pleasant aesthetics. White achieves his canyon-laden watercolor landscapes, for example, on wood panel with paper fused onto its surface. At first glance, the canyons look almost like pen and ink, but in there are softer areas that reveal the painterly aspects. White notes he wanted to make it tricky for the viewer to discern the media straight away so as to strip away the arti fice of power—as in, our tendency to assign

arbitrary value to certain media; oils, for example, somehow hit harder than illustra tions. Why is that?

As the conversation progresses beyond the idea that art is beholden to statement, White discusses how he deprogrammed from the assumption that he had an obli gation to present his thoughts on the world through his work and zeroed in more on sense of place.

“That I was saying something was some how an important part of my artistic iden tity,” he tells SFR. “I intentionally took a couple years off and had a lot of time to be more introspective. I felt like after living here for a decade, I could be more connect ed to where I’m at instead of where I came from.”

That where-he-came-from is a combi nation of Southern California and Boston, for the record, though that seems irrelevant now. White has embraced the desert in a real way, particularly its more soothing as pects, at least in this show. He’s embraced what it means to be a dad, the beauty with in the wings of a moth, the vast cosmic in ner-life of snakes.

“I guess I wanted to be more of an observ er,” he adds of New Mexico’s role in the new body of work, “instead of a commentator.”

Part of that grew through daily walks with his daughter (they did 1,000 miles one year, he says, though not as part of a goal or regimen—it just happened). Which brings us back to ideas of exploration and even isolation. In those early days of COVID-19, when White was hunkered down with his kid and wife—the artist Thais Mather, with whom White co-owns downtown business Good Folk, and who will also show new pieces at Desert Solitaire—outdoor sojourns became regular occurrences for many. It be came almost spiritual for White, even if, he says, he’s “reticent to talk about spirituality and symbolism in a literal sense.”

“I do find it very propulsive in what I’m drawn to and how I understand the world,” he adds. “But I don’t have any claims on those things being real per se. I do think they resonate spiritually with everyone as archetypal parts of who we are.”

What resonates for this art fan is White’s lack of pretense. Here we have a man who saw beauty around him—in his environ ment, his family life, his artistic ability—and found a way to share it. Given previous for ays into darker or more fantastical themes, it feels borderline risky for the artist. But the risk pays off.

TODD RYAN WHITE: DESERT SOLITAIRE

Todd Ryan White

Nothing Compares Review

The enduring badassery of Sinéad O’Connor

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Most people of a certain age remember where they were during the aftermath of Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor’s infamous 1992 performance on Saturday Night Live. You know the one—when she ripped up a picture of then-Pope John Paul II while performing a cover of Bob Marley’s “War,” itself derived from a 1963 Haile Selassie speech to the United Nations.

“Fight the real enemy,” she said directly into the camera as she tore the photo to bits. Today it seems tame as far as protests go—not to mention how right she was insofar as the Catholic church totally was covering up child abuse. But back then, O’Connor became an early example of what we now refer to as cancel culture. Who can say whether her career ever fully recovered?

The SNL thing isn’t the bedrock of the new Showtime documentary about O’Connor, Nothing Compares, but it does make it worth signing up for the streaming service (even on a trial basis) and further represents a turning point in what is otherwise a film about the singer’s meteoric rise and sudden drop-off. In a phrase, O’Connor was (and actually continues to be) punk as fuck, a trailblazingly smart songwrit er and force who escaped the clutches of an abusive

DON’T WORRY DARLING

Florence Pugh (Midsommar) is too good an actor for Don’t Worry Darling, the newest entry from Booksmart director/actor Olivia Wilde and a rather toothless and tactless primer on gaslighting and feminism-lite as doled out through bits and pieces of other and often better films.

In fact, Pugh is probably too good for all the drama that’s surrounded the film, from Wilde publicly claim ing actor Shia LaBeouf—who was originally attached through a role that ultimately went to singer Harry Styles—was fired from the film to allegedly make the set safer for Pugh, to rumors that Wilde herself was unprofessional during filming. With the caveats that safety for women in film is of paramount importance, and we absolutely need non-cis-hetero bros in the movies—not to mention how nobody wants a shitty work environment—these things hang like a dark cloud over Wilde’s new opus, and it’s hard to disconnect from them while watching.

In Don’t Worry Darling, Pugh is the doting Alice, a young wife whose 1950- or 1960-something existence boils down to cleaning by day, serving her hardworking husband, Jack (Styles), by night and hanging out with the neighborhood gals for shopping and drinking and, for some reason, ballet class. Alice and Jack live in one of those Levittown kind of places run by something or other called the Victory Project. Everything seems too

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mother as a child and turned her heart-wrenching ex periences into the sort of songs that connect people. In filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson’s vision of O’Connor, she’s downright heroic, from her toying with gender norms and confronting feminine hairstyle ridiculous ness to her careening and powerful caterwauling on pretty much every album since 1987’s The Lion and the Cobra. The live footage is intense, too!

Ferguson takes us through O’Connor’s early days and band heights, through television and private foot age, to showcase a more intimate portrait of the no toriously reclusive singer than we’ve ever seen. This is the woman who dyed a Public Enemy logo into the side of her head for a performance at the Grammys the year the historic hip-hop group boycotted the awards over the lack of a rap category; the woman who declined to have the American national anthem play before a festival appearance. This is the woman who stood steadfast in the face of tens of thousands of boo ing audience members at Madison Square Garden in ’92 and repeated those words from the same Selassie speech she performed on SNL. In other words, if you can know who O’Connor is and not feel empowered and inspired by her fearless commitment to speak

clean and too quote/unquote normal, but obviously there’s scary shit lying in wait just beneath the surface. Jack and the other husbands go off to mysterious jobs each day they can’t discuss; the wives wait at home. It seems idyllic and all, but when another neighborhood woman starts acting erratically and asking questions of the charismatic town leader Frank (Chris Pine), Alice starts to feel like something ain’t right. And so it goes.

All hail Pugh as the gaslit housefrau who repeat edly finds herself at odds with her environment and all the people in it. Something indeed is awry with the Victory Project, and Pugh soars through her dialogue with the salt and powerful nature of cinema’s greats.

Against Styles’ stilted and timid delivery, however, things stall, and there’s only so much Pugh can do.

Pugh and Pine sing, though, particularly in their alltoo-brief scenes together. As a sort of Alex Jones/Joe Rogan type, Pine crafts quiet and subtle horrors that threaten to emerge but never quite do—making it all that much scarier.

Don’t Worry Darling lacks subtlety, exchanging the joy of discovery and post-screening conversation with tedious hand-holding and finger-wagging. Find also what is hopefully homage and not thievery from films like The Matrix, The Truman Show and The Village; though it’s impossible to know if Wilde and writers

Katie Silberman, Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke are familiar enough with the Fallout series of video games to know what narrative elements they’ve repeated almost wholesale.

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Sadly, the doc glosses over some key happenings, such as O’Connor’s son’s 2022 death. Sure, the film might have been in the can before that happened, but it only released now, toward the end of the year, and its absence is noteworthy. We also don’t get much of a sense of what happened in O’Connor’s personal re lationships outside of that with her mother—and it’s a tough pill to swallow that the Prince estate denied the film the rights to play O’Connor’s version of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” clearly her biggest hit, a landmark music video and, frankly, a killer tune.

No matter, though, because the song remains the same: We don’t often get a talent of O’Connor’s mag nitude, particularly one with important things to say. Nothing Compares is clearly a film for the fans, but more importantly, it’s about the best primer for new comers imaginable.

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“Yes!” someone in the theater said with particular oomph at the moment Viola Davis’ Nansica emerged from the shadows in the opening scene of The Woman King from director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball). And you know what? They weren’t wrong. From the instant Davis appears onscreen, it’s clear her character is a badass, and if recent interviews with the star of Fences and Suicide Squad are to be believed, the training to get there was no joke. Perhaps we’ve never seen Davis in this light before, but she’s so splendidly comfortable (and tough) in the new historical epic that we roll with it and straight up believe she’d chop some heads if the situation called for it.

The Woman King dramatizes the powerful cadre known as the Agojie, a real-life, woman-fronted force of elite warriors who operated in Dahomey (a region in what we know today as the African nation of Benin) during the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as the fic itonalized Nanisca (Davis), their leader. I’m ashamed to say I’d never heard of them until this film, but their imprint upon history and pop culture—Black Panther’s Dora Milaje, anyone?—is unmistakable. Here, how ever, Prince-Bythewood and, unexpectedly, actress Maria Bello, who garners story-by and producer credits for her contributions, delve not only into the Agojie’s fierce fighting methodology, but the socio-po litical goings-on of the African region at the time and

the untenable conditions it fostered for women who didn’t wield swords.

Davis is unquestionably ferocious as the long-fighting Nanisca, too, but her inner-circle of fellow warriors seal the deal. Captain Marvel alumna Lashana Lynch, for example, cuts a satisfying swath of kick-assery that is tempered by her character’s humanity and humor—a surprising but dimensional addition that not only offers levity but a valuable lesson: “It is better to laugh,” she advises when describing a particularly painful encounter in her youth. Amen, sister. Dr. Strange’s Shelia Atim is simi larly noteworthy in her vulnerable portrayal of the one woman who might question Nanisca—and who does cool spear attacks and acrobatic takedowns and such.

Even so, the core of the story centers on the relationship between Nanisca and Nawi (Thuso Mbedu, Scandal!). The latter joins the Agojie after a non-starter arranged marriage attempt with an abusive landowner, and there’s something in the training montage about finding out who you really are. Mbedu represents some real interesting character development that winds up unfortunately lost in the shuffle. The Woman King features so many subplots and side characters, in fact, that one starts to lose the central thread. In adding so many smaller things to flesh out the world, its makers confuse the narrative. Still, when’s the last time you saw a mainstream film wherein just about everyone onscreen was a Black woman. Almost never? Cool. Oh, wait, no; it’s that other thing: Bogus. (ADV)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): When you Aries folks are at your best, you are drawn to people who tell you exactly what they think, who aren’t intimidated by your high energy, and who dare to be as vigorous as you. I hope you have an array of allies like that in your sphere right now. In my astrological opinion, you especially need their kind of stimulation. It’s an excellent time to invite influences that will nudge you out of your status quo and help you glide into a new groove. Are you willing to be challenged and changed?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Toni Morrison thought that beauty was “an absolute necessity” and not “a privilege or an indulgence.” She said that “finding, incorporating, and then representing beauty is what humans do.” In her view, we can’t live without beauty “any more than we can do without dreams or oxygen.” All she said is even truer for Tauruses and Libras than the other signs. And you Bulls have an extra wrinkle: It’s optimal if at least some of the beauty in your life is useful. Your mandate is summed up well by author Anne Michaels: “Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.” I hope you’ll do a lot of that in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said, “It requires a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious.” I nominate you to perform that service in the coming days, both for yourself and your allies. No one will be better able than you to discern the complexities of seemingly simple situations. You will also have extraordinary power to help people appreciate and even embrace paradox. So be a crafty master of candor and transparency, Gemini.

Demonstrate the benefits of being loyal to the objective evidence rather than to the easy and popular delusions. Tell the interesting truths.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian poet Lucille Clifton sent us all an invitation: “Won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand.” During October, fellow Cancerian, I propose you draw inspiration from her heroic efforts to create herself. The coming weeks will be a time when you can achieve small miracles as you bolster your roots, nourish your soulful confidence, and ripen your uniqueness.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Rob the Astrologer: This morning I put extra mousse on my hair and blow-dried the hell out of it, so now it is huge and curly and impossibly irresistible. I’m wearing bright orange shoes so everyone will stare at my feet, and a blue silk blouse that is much too high-fashion to wear to work. It has princess seams and matches my eyes. I look fantastic. How could anyone of any gender resist drinking in my magnificence? I realize you’re a spiritual type and may not approve of my showmanship, but I wanted you to know that what I’m doing is a totally valid way to be a Leo. — Your Leo teacher Brooke.” Dear Brooke: Thank you for your helpful instruction! It’s true that I periodically need to loosen my tight grip on my high principles. I must be more open to appreciating life’s raw feed. I hope you will perform a similar service for everyone you encounter in the coming weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): How to be the best Virgo you can be during the coming weeks: 1. You must relish, not apologize for, your precise obsessions. 2. Be as nosy as you need to be to discover the core truths hidden beneath the surface. Risk asking almost too many questions in your subtle drive to know everything. 3. Help loved ones and allies shrink and heal their insecurities. 4. Generate beauty and truth through your skill at knowing what needs to be purged and shed. 5. Always have your Bullshit Detector with you. Use it liberally. 6. Keep in close touch with the conversations between your mind and body.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Libran approach to fighting for what’s right shouldn’t involve getting into loud arguments or trying to manipulate people into seeing

things your way. If you’re doing what you were born to do, you rely on gentler styles of persuasion. Are you doing what you were born to do? Have you become skilled at using clear, elegant language to say what you mean? Do you work in behalf of the best outcome rather than merely serving your ego? Do you try to understand why others feel the way they do, even if you disagree with their conclusions? I hope you call on these superpowers in the coming weeks. We all need you to be at the height of your potency.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “One bad apple spoils the rest” is an idiom in the English language. It refers to the idea that if one apple rots as it rests in a pile of apples, the rest will quickly rot, too. It’s based on a scientific fact. As an apple decays, it emanates the gas ethylene, which speeds up decay in nearby apples. A variant of this idiom has recently evolved in relation to police misconduct, however. When law enforcement officials respond to such allegations, they say that a few “bad apples” in the police force aren’t representative of all the other cops. So I’m wondering which side of the metaphor is at work for you right now, Scorpio. Should you immediately expunge the bad apple in your life? Or should you critique and tolerate it? Should you worry about the possibility of contamination, or can you successfully enforce damage control? Only you know the correct answer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians know best how to have fun even when life sucks. Your daily rhythm may temporarily become a tangle of boring or annoying tasks, yet you can still summon a knack for enjoying yourself. But let me ask you this: How are your instincts for drumming up amusement when life doesn’t suck? Are you as talented at whipping up glee and inspiration when the daily rhythm is smooth and groovy? I suspect we will gather evidence to answer those questions in the coming weeks. Here’s my prediction: The good times will spur you to new heights of creating even more good times.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): More than you might realize, people look to you for leadership and regard you as a role model. This will be extra true in the coming weeks. Your statements and actions will have an even bigger impact than usual. Your influence will ripple out far beyond your sphere. In light of these developments, which may sometimes be subtle, I encourage you to upgrade your sense of responsibility. Make sure your integrity is impeccable. Another piece of advice, too: Be an inspiring example to people without making them feel like they owe you anything.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Rapper-songwriter Nicki Minaj says, “You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It’s exhilarating.” I will go further, Aquarius. I invite you to summon ingenuity and joy in your efforts to be a work of art. The coming weeks will be an ideal time for you to tease out more of your inner beauty so that more people can benefit from it. I hope you will be dramatic and expressive about showing the world the full array of your interesting qualities. PS: Please call on the entertainment value of surprise and unpredictability.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Robertson Davies declared, “One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.” It sounds poetic, but it doesn’t apply to most of you Pisceans—especially now. Here’s what I’ve concluded: The more you learn your mystery, the more innocent you become. Please note I’m using the word “innocence” in the sense defined by author Clarissa Pinkola Estés. She wrote: “Ignorance is not knowing anything and being attracted to the good. Innocence is knowing everything and still being attracted to the good.”

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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 Yasmin Alejandra Nuñez Valdez will apply to the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:30 a.m. on the 20th day of October, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Yasmin Alejandra Nuñez Valdez to Yazmin Alejandra Paredes Nuñez.

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