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PACKED Agenda Legislature sets sail on 30-day session aimed at state budget, crime, constitutional amendments and more If it feels like the New Mexico Legislature has been in session more often than usual lately, that’s because it has. The 30-day, 2022 regular session that began Tuesday is the first of this calendar year; it comes after three meetings of the Legislature last year. While this session is limited to budget matters and the governor’s call for other topics, it’s already looking to be packed full. Here’s a look at four issues sure to garner lots of attention.
Education
Education reform to address long-standing inequities, exaggerated by the pandemic, could see significant economic investments, as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham proposes to inject a recurring $600 million into initiatives ranging from early childhood education programs to tuition-free college for New Mexican students. The Legislative Finance Committee echoed Lujan Grisham’s recommendation to raise wages for all school staff, including teachers’ minimum salaries, which would increase by at least 30%. While the governor’s budget focuses largely on the state’s teacher short-
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age—New Mexico needs around 1,000 more educators—the Legislative Finance Committee suggested $180 million in non-recurring funds to help address insufficiencies in public education identified in the 2018 Yazzie/Martinez lawsuit. “When we think about New Mexico’s children, 70% of them legitimately come from low income households,” says Cindy Nava, the executive director of Transform Education New Mexico, adding that the state has yet to create a comprehensive plan to provide low-income and other vulnerable students with an adequate education ahead of the session. “The bottom line is many students still don’t have what they need,” Nava tells SFR. (William Melhado)
Crime
Legislation focused on the state’s criminal justice system for the upcoming session has the distinct feel of Republican priorities for the past several years—with a bent toward increasing penalties for certain crimes, rolling back changes to pretrial detention and pouring cash into the hiring of more police officers. In short, “tough on crime” is the message of the day as New Mexico—and in particular, Albuquerque, its largest city— struggles with high violent crime rates, while what Democrats have traditionally pushed as “criminal justice reform” is taking a back seat. Lujan Grisham rolled out her priorities at a news conference last week with Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, Bernalillo County District Attorney Raúl Torrez and others, including fellow Democrats who will sponsor proposals the governor says will make the state safer. State Rep. Marian Matthews, D-Albuquerque, is set to sponsor one of the biggest changes. In 2016, voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that barred the state from holding people before trial solely because they couldn’t
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afford bail and allowed judges to order people who prosecutors could prove were dangerous incarcerated before their day in court. Matthews’ bill would flip the burden, forcing defendants to prove why they should be allowed to await trial at home. Lujan Grisham has said she also supports a raft of bills that would do away with the statute of limitations for second degree murder and ratchet up sentences for people convicted of several different gun crimes and fleeing from a law enforcement officer. Finally, the governor wants to give New Mexico State Police officers a 19% raise and create a $100 million fund that would be used to recruit, hire, train and retain cops at agencies statewide. (Jeff Proctor)
some of the behavioral health needs that we have in the state.” Asked whether Lujan Grisham plans to add either Rehm’s or Steinborn’s bills to the session, spokeswoman Nora Meyers Sackett writes in an email to SFR: “Certainly both public safety and health and wellbeing are two of the governor’s priorities.” Included in Lujan Grisham’s executive budget recommendation is $6.5 million in additional funding to support the Cannabis Control Division, which, combined with $3.2 million in other revenue, would fund 35 new division employees. There’s also a recommendation for $2.3 million in general fund spending to the environment department for 19 new staff positions within the Hemp and Cannabis Bureau, which oversees and regulates cannabis food products. (Bella Davis)
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Cannabis
Cannabis-related legislation is sparse as the session begins, with only two bills introduced by the prefile deadline of Jan. 14. Rep. Bill Rehm, R-Albuquerque, a retired Bernalillo County sheriff’s captain, is sponsoring HB 54, which deals broadly with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, including cannabis. If passed, the impairment standard would be removed from state statute, making driving a vehicle while under the influence of any drug illegal. Under current state law, it’s illegal to drive while impaired due to the influence of drugs or alcohol. Sen. Jeff Steinborn, D-Las Cruces, backs a bill dedicating a portion of cannabis excise tax revenue to a substance use disorder treatment fund, which would be administered by the Human Services Department. Other state Democrats say they’re waiting until after recreational sales begin in April to pursue similar legislation. “It’s hard for us to plan what to do with money that has yet to come into the state’s coffers,” Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, tells SFR. “We’re planning to have different funds available focused on business-building with equity, looking at
While the governor has said she will seek a reduction in the statewide gross receipts tax rate, that bill had not been introduced by a legislative sponsor as of presstime. The LFC budget for the coming year noted that Arizona, Colorado and Texas have average combined state and local tax rates of 8.4%, 7.72%, and 8.19%, respectively. By lowering the state GRT rate by at least a quarter percent, New Mexico could have the lowest average combined state and local tax rate of 7.58%. Other bills about taxation are already on the table, including an effort in the House to remove the state income tax on social security benefits and one to remove taxes on sales of feminine hygiene products. Those watching Santa Fe’s polarized second-home market versus affordable housing crunch might take note of a bipartisan effort from Galisteo Democrat Rep. Matthew McQueen and Rio Rancho Republican Rep. Jason Harper that would allow greater property tax hikes for homes that aren’t a primary residence. Right now, assessors can’t increase the recorded value of a home by more than 3% per year, but the bill would allow second homes to increase by 10% per year. (Julie Ann Grimm)
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n the early days of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, news of a mutation to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 made headlines and stirred controversy. Bette Korber, a theoretical biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, had first identified the D614G mutation, named for the amino acid mutation in the virus’s spike protein, and co-authored a pre-print paper alerting the world to a new and possibly more transmissible strain. Pushback came swiftly, with many scientists questioning both the study and the reporting about its claims—the original article’s metrics indicate more than 7,000 tweets, some quite outraged. Fellow LANL scientist Ethan RomeroSeverson, a computational epidemiologist in the lab’s Theoretical Division, first heard Korber’s observation about the D614G mutation during an internal talk at the lab and it gave him an idea. “I heard this and I was thinking, ‘I bet we can use this data to actually estimate exactly how much more contagious these things are,” Romero-Severson tells SFR. His thinking proved apt. RomeroSeverson is the senior author of a peer-reviewed paper published last month in Nature Communications that puts forth methods for quantifying the transmissibility of new COVID-19 variants.
den anywhere. Anyone can download it and look at it and anyone can download the data and look at that too.” That sort of collaborative approach, Romero-Severson notes, has emerged as a dominant theme among scientists during the pandemic. “I have never seen anything like this in my career,” he says. “Scientists are just like people…they tend to want to protect their own research. The amount of open Doing so, he says, takes advantage of the collaboration and cooperation going on in global nature of the data in service of prothe scientific community has been unprecviding new modeling tools to rapidly assess edented. We are actively coming up with a variant’s transmissibility and risk. Those ways to better understand and document assessments, in turn, can help guide vaccihow COVID is spreading and how to prenation and public health policies. vent it.” ICYMI, Korber’s observations turned The work Romero-Severson and his colout to be correct: The variant with the leagues have done, he says, is a “little sliver,” D614G mutation became the dominant in the service of helping quantify variants’ strain of the virus around the world. But risks. More broadly: “What we want to fathat did not become evident immediately. cilitate here is knowledge and we want that “It’s very important to remember that knowledge to be public and disseminated.” people were very dismissive of [Korber’s] Currently, of course, New Mexico—and idea initially,” Romero-Severson says. everywhere else—is grappling with the “Bette faced a lot of pushback…people ramifications of the highly transmissible didn’t want to believe the virus was evolvOmicron variant and the glimmer of hope it ing in real time and adapting to humans, might be more mild than previous variants. but she was absolutely right. We wanted to The model Romero-Severson’s really put the things Bette was seeteam has devised looks to dising to a really rigorous test and that tinguish between some of the was our motivation in doing this different factors that play into work.” analyzing a variant’s impact Korber had seen the mutation and tease apart its innate conthrough intensive study of the tagiousness versus, for examSARS-CoV-2 genomes being upple, a mass gathering that might loaded to the international GISAID cause it to spread more widely. database. “We try to be as conservative “With COVID, we have a massive as possible,” he says. “We want collection of COVID sequence data,” to avoid falsely claiming someRomero-Severson notes. “And thing is going to be a concern; there’s a huge global effort to share that’s a big concern for us.” COVID sequence data, and it’s been At the same time, he caugrowing exponentially…our method tions about drawing conclufocuses on: How do we use that type sions too quickly that Omicron, of data?” for instance, might be less of a Specifically, he and his colleagues threat to public health. developed three methods for ana“There’s a lot of confoundlyzing global SARS-CoV-2 sequence ing factors to think about here,” data and applied them to four forhe says, such as the possibility mer variants. that Omicron’s capacity to inThey found they were able to find fect already vaccinated people evidence that a variant was more could play a role in its seemingcontagious than a previous strain ly more mild attributes. even when the frequency of the variBut a few things are ant was fairly low. “Understanding certain: “the virus has been contagiousness is really importadapting consistently over ant,” he says. “This research funtime.” And “the data is really nels into [providing] information to clear that three shots, full people who are doing modeling on Ethan Romero-Severson, a computational epidemiologist in Los vaccination plus a booster, vaccine efficacy and public health Alamos National Laboratory’s Theoretical Division, is the senior does provide protection interventions.” author of a recently published paper that demonstrates modeling against Omicron. That is clear While the new paper doesn’t exmethods to quantify the transmissibility of new COVID-19 variants. and unambiguous.” amine either the Delta or Omicron variants, forthcoming research does, using the population-genetic model the scientists devised, which they describe as providing “a reasonable balance between computability and accuracy.” The computability element is important to Romero-Severson, who has a background working with public health departments. “We were really, really sensitive to this,” he says. “We wanted something that could be run in a really low computational environment. One of the things that is really easy for a scientist like myself to get wrong is we come up with these super sophisticated things that take a 200-core computer, 100 hours to run and it’s really hard to do.” Avoiding that outcome was “one the reasons in this paper that we have these three methods is we wanted something that a person could run on a reasonable laptop… doesn’t require specialized resources or libraries or anything like that.” In addition to computational accessibility, the scientists also make their methods available. “All of our code and our papers is 100% publicly available,” he says. “It’s not hid-
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Share the Road Ahead of significant Cerrillos Road redesign project, bicycling advocates call for a break from automobile supremacy
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rena Ossola was wrapping up the most successful year in her cycling career—completing a tour of Europe where she made it to the podium five times in a month, winning gold twice, and having just placed third at the US National Criterium Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. Early one morning, she went for a ride in her hometown of Santa Fe. On her way home, she approached the roundabout that joins West Alameda Street to Siler Road. In the bike lane, Ossola slowed, assuming the car coming in the opposite direction saw her as she prepared to continue through the traffic circle. But the driver, who had just exited the roundabout, turned left into a driveway, striking Ossola before she could react. “That person that nearly killed me? That ended my cycling career,” Ossola tells SFR four years after the 2017 crash. A year passed before she felt 90% back to normal; there had been a two-month stint in the hospital. A traumatic brain injury divided Ossola’s life into two parts: before the crash and after. The toll of her injuries on her memory has forced Ossola to relearn how to manage her emotions and mental stability. Though few cyclists in Santa Fe approach the sport with Ossola’s intensity, she wants the city’s streets to be safe for everyone to ride on, from commuters to bike enthusiasts. And Santa Fe—though not one of the worst cities for cyclists in the country—has room for improvement for biking accessibility and safety. With a fatality rate of 3.2 per 100,000 residents, New Mexico ranks as the third 10
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deadliest state for pedestrians and bicyclists, after Florida and Delaware, according to data from 2012 through 2016 compiled by the League of American Bicyclists, a cycling and pedestrian advocacy organization. Closer to home, the City of Santa Fe ranks third in the state for pedestrian and bike crashes, behind only Albuquerque and Las Cruces, based on the most recent reports from the University of New Mexico’s Traffic Research Unit. While the number of times cars crashed into those walking and biking in Santa Fe made up 6% and 9% of these types of collisions in the state, respectively, the city only accounts for 4% of New Mexico’s population, according to the 2020 census. Santa Fe, with its mild winters and sunny days, could be an excellent biking city, advocates and regular cyclists tell SFR. A glaring spot at which the city could do better: Cerrillos Road. The city’s busiest road, connecting the Southside to eastern parts of Santa Fe, remains a perilous avenue for cyclists, despite several redesigns, the most recent of which wrapped in 2016 and was aimed partly at improving multi-modal transportation facilities. Turns out, the addition of bike lanes and wide sidewalks didn’t result in a safer avenue for pedestrians and cyclists, according to a preliminary analysis from Santa Fe’s Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). The New Mexico Department of Transportation’s pedestrian safety plan released last August supports those findings. The report identified Cerrillos Road, also known as New Mexico 14, as a high-crash corridor in the state, with 44 pedestrian-involved collisions between 2012 and 2018. Even for experienced bikers, Cerrillos is strictly off limits. “As a cyclist, a biker, I have never ridden down Cerrillos Road,” Ossola tells SFR. “And I would tell anybody else never to ride down it either.” But with the final phase of the thoroughfare’s latest redesign in the planning stages—and with completion, a long-awaited handoff of responsibility for the road from the state to the city—there is fresh opportunity to give bicyclists and pedestrians more consideration that is often devoted to cars.
Highway mindset
The view along Cerrillos Road differs dramatically from that of the once-famed Route 66, which snaked southwest out of downtown Santa Fe. Parallel to the railroad tracks, the road’s growth was largely driven by commerce, eventually eclipsing El Camino Real—what is today Agua Fría Street—as the primary way in and out of the city.
Drive to St. Francis, which acted as a control to determine the impact of the redesign. Aune hoped to determine how the design affected safety outcomes for pedestrians and bicyclists. On the renovated section of Cerrillos, west of St. Michael’s, the number of pedestrian- or bike-involved crashes hovered around 15 per year, both before and after the redesign that aimed to include better facilities for non-vehicle users. The wider trend for crash rates for cars on Cerrillos shows safety outcomes didn’t improve for vehicles. “On both sections of roads, crashes and injuries were higher after reconstruction was completed than before,” reads a memo Aune shared with NMDOT. Aune admits that a more rigorous analysis of crash data would be necessary to draw
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In 1937, Route 66 was redirected south, bypassing Santa Fe on Interstate 40, and Cerrillos Road gained the designation as part of the Pan American Central Highway. The motel aesthetic that dominated the road in the ‘30s and ‘40s has slowly been etched away by the arrival of box stores and local businesses serving the community’s evolving needs. As the commerce lining the road grew over the last decade, vehicles have remained the predominant mode of travel. Recent redesigns of Cerrillos have maintained cars’ dominance on the road. The transportation department is leading a final segment of redesign—and the road will remain under the agency’s jurisdiction until the anticipated upgrades are made— before transferring the thoroughfare to the City of Santa Fe. Despite NMDOT’s ownership of the corridor, the city undertook the latest redevelopment of Cerrillos, from Airport Road to St. Michael’s Drive,. While the city cherishes its historical and cultural significance, the growth and changing population dynamics demand alternative ways of moving around. Erick Aune, the officer of Santa Fe’s MPO, says sustainable communities, which city officials aim to create and often tout in Santa Fe, must include multi-modal transportation in the design of construction and development projects. More simply: Consider pedestrians and bikers. The scope for the city-led redesign of the roadway included multimodal facility upgrades, but it’s one thing to paint a bike lane onto a road; ensuring the safety of cyclists and pedestrians is another. In an effort to assess the safety impacts of the most recent redesign of Cerrillos Road, Aune compared the number of crashes that occurred on two sections of the road. Aune tabulated the crashes that took place within the redesigned section and an unchanged portion of Cerrillos, St. Michael’s
Gearing up for a run at Rabbit Road Trailhead, Irene Ossola’s training schedule usually consists of a pre-dawn swim and evening spin classes. BELOW: Ossola uses her left hand for tasks like opening jars after the loss of muscle in her right arm she suffered from the crash four years ago.
concrete conclusions about how the Cerrillos redesign impacted public safety. But advocates like Aune and Ossola agree that the renovated section, from Airport Road to St. Michael’s Drive, doesn’t encourage cyclists to use the motorway—despite the painted-on bike lanes. For the next section of the Cerrillos redesign, further east, cycling and pedestrian advocates want the road to reflect the needs of all users in an effort to build a more sustainable community.
In her role as Public Works Director, Regina Wheeler describes why a sustainable mindset would benefit Santa Feans. “You get better health indicators from the community, right? As people are moving their bodies to get from place to place, you reduce congestion, you reduce pollution,” she tells SFR. Estevan Gonzales, a transportation department engineer who is working on the Cerrillos Road project, tells SFR that the first stage—the study phase—will determine the project’s overall goals. This section of road’s primary function is vehicular traffic, Gonzales explains. According to the project website, officials hope the study will help identify ways to
maximize traffic operations for cars and other modes of transportation, while minimizing environmental impacts on the approach to downtown. This phase of the Cerrillos Road redesign follows two previous reconstructions of the arterial boulevard, which resulted in much-needed renovations to the roadway. With the third and final section to receive a makeover, the NMDOT will relinquish maintenance responsibilities for the road and 14 others. The handover is part of the road transfer agreement the city signed in return for the construction of Highway 599 in the 1990s and a number of upgrades on those streets. Aune, working with the city, lobbied NMDOT to prioritize the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists on the newest designs. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Share the Road systems that continue to protect drivers over other users. The 2019 Santa Fe Metropolitan Bicycle Master Plan, published by the MPO, outlines strategies the city and NMDOT could undertake to improve biking and pedestrian safety when redesigning and retrofitting streets. Tim Rogers, a trails program manager for Santa Fe Conservation Trust and one of the master plan’s authors, says a lot of the streets and roads in the city “are designed purely, or 99%, with motor vehicle through-traffic in mind, which is kind of a highway mindset.” It has shifted over time, Rogers says, but there remains a significant
lag between intentions and results because “road projects come along very slowly.” Rogers applauds the city for some progress made since the 2012 master plan, its first iteration, was published. He points to the bike lanes established on Siringo Road and Galisteo Street, but Rogers
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To visualize what it means to maximize traffic operations, Aune points to the 2016 construction of the Interstate 25 and Cerrillos Road interchange, known as the diverging diamond. Aune argues that the space allocated to that NMDOT-led project, which is roughly equivalent to the area of downtown Santa Fe, achieves the goal of moving vehicles quickly. Aune pauses to ask, “Is it really needed? And then what are the results of 30 years of a really wide and super-fast interchange?” By continuing to prioritize traffic operations—as the NMDOT and the city have historically done—roads, and the community that surrounds them, will maintain the imbalanced network of transportation
doesn’t shy away from highlighting missed opportunities. On Alta Vista Street across from Salvador Perez Center, the city installed street parking instead of bike lanes as a previous report had suggested, explains Rogers. A study to reduce the number of lanes on Paseo de Peralta, from South Guadalupe Street to East Alameda Street, presented to the City Council, “got shot down,” Rogers says. Of that decision, he explains, councilors and constituents often have “a knee jerk reaction like, ‘Oh, you’re gonna reduce the number of lanes? This is gonna cause delays for cars.’” He says, “It’s not just the city and DOT, but our citizens feel that way often.”
‘Automobile supremacy’
Vehicle traffic empties from the city as the sun sets on the recently redesigned section of Cerrillos—despite signs and painted lanes, no bikers were part of the evening exodus west. ABOVE: The bike crossing on St. Michael’s Drive is the site of a future redesign project that may result in an underpass.
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“To page through the law books today is to stumble again and again upon evidence of automobile supremacy,” writes Gregory Shill, a University of Iowa College of Law professor, who studies the impact of policy on transportation. Shill characterizes automobile supremacy as a legal force that creates a landscape where Americans, dependent on cars, have few other options for transportation. From the publicly-funded interstate highway system to advancing the convenience of motorists, Shill underscores how federal, state and local governments have created a system in which vehicles are king. Advocates confirm that cars in Santa Fe— like the rest of the nation—control the streets. The umbrella of pedestrians and cyclists is wide, explains Catherine Rivard, a Santa Fe lawyer who represents cyclists involved in crashes. While some users choose to walk and bike for some trips in addition to also regularly using cars, there are a number of cyclists and pedestrians whose only form of
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Once a section of Route 66, now the busiest artery of Santa Fe, Cerrillos Road has seen significant overhaul over the last century. While El Camino Real was once the primary avenue into downtown, Cerrillos has replaced today’s Agua Fría Street as the commercial and traffic passage. Iconic motels that once defined the thoroughfare are slowly being replaced by chain restaurants and retail stores. Previous reconstruction of Cerrillos resulted in an expressway that maximizes vehicle traffic, which has raised concerns about NMDOT’s plans to redesign its easternmost section.
Reconstruction of this section of Cerrillos Road stretched from 2008 to 2016, transforming the former dirt track into a six-lane avenue. Cyclists cite the business driveways and raised central medians for left turns as reasons for avoiding Cerrillos.
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ST. MICHAEL’S DRIVE TO ST. FRANCIS Considered by transportation officials as the “gateway to downtown,” this section is unique in that it sees more foot and bike traffic given the surrounding neighborhoods and office buildings. The narrow space available for redesign will put pressure on including sufficient multi-modal transportation infrastructure, NMDOT says.
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transportation is a bike or their feet. Often, these users with no other options for transit became victims of a system that protects drivers and casts blame on pedestrians and bikers, explains Rivard. As an example Rivard points to New Mexico’s tort law scheme—the system of civil suits whereby victims seek compensation from those who harm them—as a nearly impenetrable defense for drivers who injure cyclists and pedestrians. “Why should we have a system in which the person operating the more dangerous piece of equipment is presumed to not be liable?” Rivard asks, drawing a comparison between the mantra of criminal law: “innocent until proven guilty” and tort law’s equivalent: “innocent until proven liable.” It’s not a direct analogy, Rivard explains, because in criminal cases the state must prove guilt. But in the case of an injured cyclist, “the victim ends up having to prove that the person with the dangerous instrumentality was at fault.” For over two decades, Gary Schiffmiller commuted to work by foot or bike at the New Mexico Environment Department by traveling northeast on the Acequia Trail. Every weekday he’d cut onto Baca Street to cross Cerrillos Road. When riding on Baca, “I take the whole damn lane,” Schiffmiller tells SFR, explaining that on roads like Baca, cyclists are entitled to ride in the middle of the lane, like a vehicle. Painted on a number of Santa Fe’s narrow one-lane roads, including Baca, are “shar-
rows”—signals that the road is a bike route and cyclists can use the full lane. Schiffmiller says sharrows don’t work. “There are plenty of drivers who think share the road means, ‘Those damn bicyclists should get the heck out of my way and share the road,’” he says. Instead, Schiffmiller advocates for posted signs that can’t be worn away, like those painted on the streets, that clearly state, “Bikes may use full lane.” That’s not the case on Baca, where one winter morning in 2017 Schiffmiller was riding his bike when a car rear-ended him. Though he didn’t sustain significant injuries from the crash, he suffered whiplash and underwent therapy before getting back on a bike again. Schiffmiller explains that the driver, who he says hadn’t sufficiently scraped the frost off their windshield, was charged with careless driving, which Schiffmiller calls a slap on the wrist.
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When the first draft of redesign options for the final section of Cerrillos Road came to Wheeler and Aune’s attention, they had questions for NMDOT. Would the transportation department consider traffic-calming techniques like reducing lane sizes? Maybe adding a pedestrian crossing at Railfan Road, which sits just across from NMDOT’s Santa Fe offices? Perhaps lower the posted speed limit? What was the state agency doing to improve pedestrian and bike safety on a road that is
notoriously dangerous—by the agency’s own standards—for non-vehicular users? “We believe that results from a design that strives to maximize…vehicular traffic ought to maximize safety for all users as a concurrent goal,” reads a memo the City of Santa Fe and the local MPO sent to the agency, requesting more attention to multi-modal transportation, which includes all the users of roads. Following the memo and a period of public engagement, NMDOT has modified its originally proposed designs to include many of the suggestions made by the city and MPO, Wheeler explains. “I would have said something different a month ago,” she tells SFR. But since then “the DOT has really embraced the feedback in that document.” Gonzales of the transportation department says his agency took the desires of the city and MPO into consideration. “We’ve dived into what we can do for bicyclists as well as pedestrians,” Gonzales tells SFR. “We’re still working out the details.” As the agency continues to develop a proposal that will satisfy the city and its drivers, Gonzales explains there is a lot that needs to fit in that narrow section of road, from sidewalks to utility poles. “To fit all those users in that existing right of way footprint is really challenging,” Gonzales says. “We’re trying not to acquire any commercial properties which is, of course, really expensive and could kill the project.”
Gonzales points to the limitations presented by that portion of Cerrillos Road: The agency only has 80 feet of right of way to work with, despite seeing traffic from 28,000 vehicles per day, and must also incorporate a plan to manage stormwater runoff. Gonzales confirms that the 1.7 mile section of Cerrillos will maintain two lanes of traffic and the 35 mph posted speed limit that’s in place now. “In this particular case, there’s so much value to…Santa Fe collaborating with DOT with these goals that we have as a community of being multi-modal and pedestrian and bicycle friendly and safe,” Wheeler says of the recent collaboration with the transportation agency. “Because if we’re not going to stand up to DOT and require those things, who’s going to do it?” In waiting for the study phase of this Cerrillos redesign—and future road renovations—to advance, advocates patiently wait for signs of progress, knowing these projects take a long time to proceed. While she’s waiting, Ossola has turned the end of her cycling career into motivation to continue her dream of being a professional athlete. Since recovering from the crash four years ago, she has leveraged her past cycling experience to compete as a professional triathlete—on top of working as a coach and fitness guide. “I’m still here and I’m still active,” Ossola says. “Now I’ve made it this far to go into helping other people and to start coaching for myself to get people out there.”
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Last week we gave all y’all some tips about a social bicycle ride that ended in beer, and this week we’re giving all y’all tips on a social bowling circle that’ll also end in beer and maybe pinball, too. We speak, of course, of that Third Thursday Bowling Social, a once-monthly hang-down from the folks at Santa Fe Habitat at the brilliantly named DeVargas Center bowling alley, The Alley. The spot’s got that pinball, too, plus air hockey and food that’s much better than any bowling alley fare has any right to be. Oh—and there’s bowling, too! Make sure you RSVP with Maddy at info@santafehabitat.org and remember to mask up and bring some travel-sized sanitizer. Oh, and avoid splits, right? (Alex De Vore) Third Thursday Bowling Social: 6 pm Thursday, Jan. 20. $10 per game The Alley, 153 Paseo de Peralta (505) 557-6789
The Towns Without a Word A classic New Mexico facet gets an in-depth exploration “A ghost town doesn’t mean zero people,” John Mulhouse, author of Abandoned New Mexico, tells SFR. “We’re talking about a place where the population has significantly depopulated from its peak.” One drive through the Southwest and you’ll note we’ve got more than our fair share of abandoned settlements. Ghost towns in New Mexico remain a curious relic of our history, whether it be the remnants of mining towns, long lost ranching communities or even abandoned spaces within still-thriving areas. Mulhouse has seen ’em all—he suspects he’s visited, photographed and researched at least 70 in the state—and as a part of the El Rancho de las Golondrinas Winter Lecture Series, Mulhouse is bringing his collected research to the living history museum’s Facebook Live virtual world. In a state of forever little towns, “newness” has a habit of smashing up one-industry communities. Perhaps it’s a mined mineral where a cheaper alternative can be found elsewhere, or a spot where trains take on water and travelers may need a hotel—but the diesel engine means more travel and less stops. Some old timers might even remember the towns that popped up on Route 66 before the Interstate Highway System. Mulhouse’s explorations of New Mexico’s mostly-empty spaces often leave him contemplative. “The thing that stands out to me is that humans go through so much change. We go
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to these places, thinking ‘this is where I’m going to build my life’ and then things just change and people have to move on,” he observes. “There’s a sense of impermanence, the correlation of living through a pandemic or climate change and these things that might be disruptive to us. Things change, no matter how permanent.” Students of history and thinkers on impermanence will tumble down the rabbit hole of tales and imagery of a world passed on—or to remember some of the places we’re living in today will eventually be just as desolate. But hey, positive thinking. Mulhouse’s advice for a proper ghost town adventure? “You’ve still got to go and be respectful of these places,” Mulhouse concludes. “Even I get a little nervous about how easy these places are to find—the irony of sending too many people to a ghost town can damage its character. Know the history before you go, it’ll make it a lot more meaningful.” We think this lecture may be the perfect opportunity for that. (Riley Gardner)
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MUSIC FRI/21 YOU’LL BELIEVE IN GOD If you’ve never heard the work of otherworldly guitarist Charlie Christian, have you even truly lived? Unlikely. See, the Oklahoma-born Christian was the type of string-master who effortlessly sounded as if several hands were playing one guitar. A contemporary of the famed Django Reinhardt, Christian is likely lesser-known for having been a Black man. Typical, sadly, though a brilliant opportunity for fans of swing, jazz and all-around beautiful guitar to find a new obsession. In this case, that’s Albuquerque guitarist Michael Anthony, a man who has assembled a murderer’s row of players like Alex Murzyn, Mickey Patten and John Trentacosta to perform and celebrate Christian’s music. Chalk another musical victory up to comtempo art museum SITE Santa Fe. (ADV) The Charlie Christian Project: 6 pm Friday, Jan. 21. $25-$30 SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199
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MUSEUMS SAT/22 YOU’LL GO DOWN IN HISTORY Say you love Santa Fe all hard. Say you consider yourself a bit of a history fan. Do you find yourself interjecting fun facts about our fair city’s storied past during conversations at parties? The New Mexico History Museum has an opportunity for you. During a series of special Zoom info sessions, learn how you might become a volunteer docent for the museum’s walking tours. Not only will you have a chance to lead ambulatory lectures with other history lovers, you might learn some things you never knew yourself. Plus, there’s something pretty glorious about telling folks you’re volunteering for a museum. They’ll think you’re interesting. (ADV) History Buffs to Walk the Talk: Docent Tour Training: 11 am Saturday, Jan. 22. Free (505) 225-3455 for details
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ONGOING ART ABIGAIL SMITH: COLLAGE No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Twelve recent works on paper by Santa Fe-based collagist, Abigail Smith. During No Name Cinema events or by appointment, free AS TIME GOES BY 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Alas, ’tis not a musical performance of the Oscarwinning song from the acclaimed classic Casablanca. This is a showcase of the passage of time in the Jemez Mountains—but hey, just as cool and with all the right vibes. Thurs-Sat, noon-5 pm, free AWAKENINGS ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 You know that feeling when the artistic spirit just hijacks you? Here are works with such a mindset, ranging from oil, acrylic, glass, sculpture, mosaic and contemporary mixed media. 10 am-5 pm, free CROSSROADS Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 Landscapes with paintings by Jeremy Mann, Francis DiFronzo and Jay Bailey. Tues-Sat, 10 am-5 pm, free
WED/19 BOOKS/LECTURES HISTORY BUFFS TO WALK THE TALK: DOCENT TOUR TRAINING Online (505) 225-3455 Wanna serve the city but running for public office sounds like drama you aren’t ready for? Become a walking docent for downtown Santa Fe instead. It’s more fun. Free info sessions via Zoom. Contact the number above for more deets. (See SFR picks, page 14) 4 pm, free
EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278 Trivia night. Flex those memories from your high school anatomy class and rip the next table to shreds. 8 pm, free GLIMPSES OF THE PAST: HISTORIC NEW MEXICO PRINTS 1880-1950 Couse-Sharp Historic Site 138 Kit Carson Road, Taos (575) 751-0369 A presentation of more than 50 works in graphic media focusing on Northern New Mexico. Even cooler, most of these works have never been presented to the general public (that’s you). Tues-Sat, noon-4pm, free HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Bingo (blingo?) isn’t for the weak minded these days. When you hear B1 and you’re about to have the row ready to go, that feeling is just... *shivers* 7 pm, $2-$10 RELIABLE COMPACT COMPLIANCE Online tinyurl.com/2p9ehxrv Part of the 2022 Middle Rio Grande Water Advocates virtual conference. The title might sound dense, but water-related policies are more accesible than you think. Attend and find out so you can position yourself as a future leader of water rights. 6-8 pm, free
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HELEN PASHGIAN: PRESENCES SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Pashgian’s Light and Space inspired showcase displays her prowess and innovation. Check out sculptures and immersive installations from this legendary figure in the arts. 10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free JUDY TUWALETSTIWA: SOURCE, PROCESS, TRANSFORMATION Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 Tuwaletstiwa uses a broad range of materials including kiln fired glass, fiber, clay, handcrafted paper, quills and wood sticks. These materials hold collective memory, but also give us some pretty inspired art shows. Tues-Sat, 11 am-5 pm, free MARIETTA PATRICIA LEIS: SENSE MEMORIES Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 Leis’ reflections of trees and abstractions found in the natural world bring a focused attention to the fleeting and subtle sense of atmosphere. Fri-Sun, noon-5 pm, $10 SECRET GARDEN Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Artist David Simpson’s latest exhibition brings together a mix of new and older works, of interference paintings, light wells and flower paintings from his exhibition Vanitas. Tues-Fri, 10 am-5:30 pm Sat, 10 am-5 pm, free
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THU/20 DANCE TANGO ARGENTINA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 We know the drill. Two-plus years of isolation and we’re all really needing to watch some sexy tango. Shocker: You can! Hear music by the Fabrizio Mocata Quartet and explore tango through the combination of unique choreography and improvised elements performed by acclaimed dancers and musicians from Argentina. It’s so much more than you think it is. Trust us. 7:30 pm, $25-$49
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Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History January 25, 2022, 6–7 p.m. with John Mulhouse
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Join us on a journey across the Land of Enchantment, from the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert to the snow-capped Moreno Valley. John will delve into forgotten history and take you to the far corners of New Mexico in this fascinating lecture based on his recent book.
Premiering on Facebook Live @sfgolondrinas at 6 p.m. Watch later on the Las Golondrinas YouTube Channel. PARTIALLY FUNDED BY THE CITY OF SANTA FE ARTS COMMISSION AND THE 1% LODGERS’ TAX, COUNTY OF SANTA FE LODGERS’ TAX, AND NEW MEXICO ARTS
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EVENTS CHESS & JAZZ CLUB No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Chess playing and jazz listening. Open to all skill levels. Free herbal tea. Oh, yeah. 6-8 pm, free THIRD THURSDAY BOWLING SOCIAL The Alley 153 Paseo De Peralta santafehabitat.org Part of the Santa Fe Habitat Young Professional social event. Please arrive a few minutes ahead of time to check in. Send your RSVP to Maddy at info@santafehabitat.org before. $10 per round. (See SFR picks, page 14) 6 pm, $10 WARM MEAL DISTRIBUTION DeVargas Park 302 W DeVargas St. whoiamfoundation.org Help feed community members who might need a little hand. You’ll feel good about it. Arrive a little early, around 4:15 pm, if you're able to help set up. 5 pm, free
MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Is Rogers the spirit of Hermes, messenger of the gods, arrived here on winged shoes with beautiful melodies? Mayhap, dear readers! 6:30 pm, free (no cover) DAVID GEIST: CABARET UPSTAIRS Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858 Geist is straight outta Broadway and played piano for a few little shows you might know like Cats, The Lion King, Les Miserables and Wicked. Now for you, dear Santa Fean or traveler. Phone reservations only. 7-10 pm, $5
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FREE RANGE BUDDHAS AND BROTHER SOUND Second Street Brewery (Rufina) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068 Get some folk-rock, be charmed by indie-pop and bask in the talent of these musical nerds. 8 pm, free LANCE AND TIMBO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Blues by Lance and Timbo drops the third Thursday of every month. 6 pm, free
WORKSHOP SPECIALTY CROP BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM WORKSHOP Online tinyurl.com/shduj3sw For our agriculture friends: Over $500,000 in funding is available through the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. New Mexico Department of Agriculture hosts a virtual workshops for you and your fields to help build grant proposals. 4 pm, free
FRI/21 ART KATE JOYCE: METAPHYSICS (OPENING) SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 An exhibition of photographs created between 2012 and 2019—a period during which Joyce was regularly commuting by air. We stan sky-inspired arts. Clouds are cool. 5-7 pm, free VIBRANT POOL (OPENING) Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 Work by Emily Margarit Mason, Kirsten Angerbauer and Zuyva Sevilla. Vibrant Pool presents three young New Mexico-based artists creating across a variety of disciplines in innovative ways. This one is all about the vibrations, y’all. The good vibrations. 5-8 pm, free
MUSIC THE CHARLIE CHRISTIAN PROJECT SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 A celebration of Oklahomaborn guitarist, Charlie Christian. Michael Anthony, Albuquerque's master of guitar, delivers the musical goods. A bunch of champs round it out like Alex Murzyn on clarinet, Mickey Patten on bass and John Trentacosta on drums. (See SFR picks, page 14) 6 pm, $25-$30
AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Is perhaps the spirit of Aphrodite, his tunes become the spirit of love and soaring through our souls? 6:30 pm, free ESTHER ROSE AND MADRE MEZCAL La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Enjoy an evening filled with country/folk tunes embedded in sly humor, empathy and pure talent. Esther Rose found her voice over the course of years spent regularly performing and recording in New Orleans, combining her DIY work ethic with an affinity for traditional country arrangements. 21+ 7:30 pm, free (no cover) GERRY CARTHY La Posada de Santa Fe 330 E Palace Ave. (505) 986-0000 Traditional Irish tunes. We're talkin’ whistles, fiddle, banjo, concertina, saxophone and guitar. And yes, Tell Me Ma is still a banger. 6-9 pm, free (no cover) LUCINDA WILLIAMS WITH HER BAND Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Over the course of 14 albums, three Grammy awards, and countless accolades, including Time's Songwriter of the Year of 2001, Williams has gritty blues in store for you. Hope she plays “Drunken Angel.” 7:30 pm, $54-$74 LUCY BARNA Mine Shaft Cantina 2846 Hwy 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Americana singer/songwriter Barna is a regular fixture around town these days. Give her a listen and you'll see why. 5 pm, free TGIF CONCERTS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 Herbert Howells Lambert’s Clavichord, with Linda Raney on harpsichord. Life is enriched with a harpsichord. Watch Amadeus and say we’re wrong. Try it, you cowards! 5:30 pm, free
THEATER COYOTE ACID Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 A one-act play by John Macker. In a bleak homestead somewhere in southeastern New Mexico, Luke (Peter Chapman) is fresh out of jail, and has come home to ask his mother Esther (Jennifer Graves) where the money from the bank robbery is buried. Oh hell yeah. We live for these kinda stories. 7:30 pm, $10-$15
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SAT/22 BOOKS/LECTURES HISTORY BUFFS TO WALK THE TALK: DOCENT TOUR TRAINING Online (505) 225-3455 Ever been making your way downtown, walking fast while faces pass, and then you breeze by a docent giving a tour and think “hey that looks cool?“ Now’s your time to shine. (See SFR Picks, page 14). 11 am, free
EVENTS COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP Walmart Supercenter 5701 Herrera Drive None of us like the sight of litter. Litter spoils where we live. Help build a safer environment, protect wildlife and get that dopamine rush we get from helping other people. 2-5 pm, free EQUITABLE SHORTAGE SHARING IN THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE Online tinyurl.com/2p9ehxrv The wrap-up of the 2022 Middle Rio Grande Water Advocates virtual conference. When the water levels are low, who gets what? 9-11 am, free
FILM MICHAEL BARNARD'S FIELD FILMS (1969-PRESENT)/ JUSTIN RHODY'S EASY TO LEARN HARD TO FORGET No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Michael Barnard's Field Films (World premiere of 2K restorations!) and films from No Name co-founder Rhody—plus a found, moldy Super-8mm road movie. Brilliant. 7-10 pm, free (please donate)
MUSIC BÁRBARA PADILLA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 This award-winning soprano was first runner-up on America's Got Talent, now she’s in Santa Fe proving her voice is better in person. Oh ,Lensic, you and your big names in a beautiful theater thing that you do so well. We saw Weird Al there one time, even. 7 pm, $60-$120
DIRTY BROWN JUG BAND Mine Shaft Cantina 2846 Hwy. 14 Madrid (505) 473-0743 Outlaw Country, rock and blues at the Cantina. 3 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 If Rogers is an Olympian, is not Montgomery? Surely he’s Hera, marrying music to our ears. It does make sense—no it does, stop questioning it. 6:30 pm, free FREDDIE SCHWARTZ Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475 (505) 982-4429 Schwartz plays for the folks who like winter sports. Aren't you guys cold? Jeez. 11 am-3 pm, free
THEATER COYOTE ACID Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 New Mexico really seems to be the perfect setting for niche crime drama, huh? 7:30 pm, $10-$15 FOUR NEW PLAYS: FULLY STAGED READINGS La Tienda at Eldorado 7 Caliente Road Jerry Labinger is a prolific Eldorado based playwright who explores the depth of the human experience in his new plays. 7:30-8:30 pm, free RICHARD II: GALA SUPPORTERS NIGHT New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B nmactorslab.com A special night for Upstart Crows and folks who've got some money. Let's not beat around the bush here: Support local youth theater and you'll feel like a Medici-level patron of arts. 6:30 pm, $50
SUN/23 ART LIFE DRAWING CLASSES Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 We all need practice in drawing the limbs, don’t we? Bring your own dry materials and supplies and they’ll provide the model and seating. Noon-2 pm, $10-$20
DANCE ECSTATIC DANCE BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road (505) 986-0362 A celebration of movement and connection. DJs from Santa Fe and around the world take you on a musical journey each week. 7-9 pm, $12
EVENTS NEA LEGISLATIVE LOBBY DAY State Capitol Roundhouse 490 Old Santa Fe Trail Educators are speaking out! Join the National Education Association as they raise their voices in favor of students and public schools. Noon, free
MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Of course he’s actually Zeus, his chords a thunder of musical prowess. But he’s also cooler than Zeus who was sort of a shady character, no? 6:30 pm, free KEY FRANCES Mine Shaft Cantina 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Rockin' blues at the Cantina. At this point, you probably know how it goes. Is it ever not a good time at Mine Shaft? 3 pm, free (no cover)
THEATER COYOTE ACID Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 We love ourselves some one-act crime shows. 2 pm, $10-$15 RICHARD II New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B nmactorslab.com Richard, Richard, Richard. Tsk tsk, are you acting up again? 6:30 pm, $15
WORKSHOP BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 Belly dancing cultivates our capacity for pleasure, releases tension, increases strength and suppleness. It’s also accessible, exciting and just plain looks awesome. Please RSVP for a spot. All COVID protocols are in place. 1-2 pm, $15 MODERN BUDDHIST MEDITATIONS ON BALANCING OUR MIND AND EMOTIONS Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 292-5293 How to use our mind to our advantage? It’s been a mental roller coaster since...always, and we can use some inner balance and a fresh perspective. We’re not at the whim and whimsy of our circumstances. We can control and transform them with Buddha’s wisdom. Come for the whole series or just drop in for a teaching. Meet like-minded people, all growing inner peace and giving happiness to others. 10-11:30 am, $10
MON/24 DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Weekly swing dance in Santa Fe with rotating DJs. The class is at 7pm and the open dance at 8pm. $8 for the class and the dance, $3 for just the dance. Masks and vax proof required. 7 pm, $3-$8
EVENTS QUEER NIGHT La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Queer identifying people and allies welcome, with both alcoholic and nonalcoholic options. Pride isn’t just in the flags and on the streets, it’s also in our eyes and our hearts. And our drinks. 5 pm, free
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MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 We’ve figured it out! Perhaps he’s Poseidon, bringing a mighty wave of upon the keys, a horse race of sound, an earthquake of minor keys. It’s Poseidon’s sea of musicality, we’re all just riding the waves. Montgomery doesn’t strike us as the Hades type, (but Hades is a very underrated god minus, you know, the bad stuff). 6:30 pm, free MUSIC AS MEDICINE: OPTI-MYSTIC BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road (505) 986-0362 Drop into the energy of hopefulness and confidence about the future. Join musicians Walkingstar and Thunder, who will create a tapestry of sound for your journey into the heart of optimism. Sparkle-sparkle. 6-7:30 pm, $20 suggested
BOOKS/LECTURES ABANDONED NEW MEXICO: GHOST TOWNS, ENDANGERED ARCHITECTURE AND HIDDEN HISTORY Online facebook.com/sfgolondrinas A journey across the Land of Enchantment, from the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert to the snow-capped Moreno Valley. Mulhouse deslves into forgotten history and takes you to the far corners of New Mexico based on his recent book, Abandoned New Mexico. (See SFR picks, page 14) 6 pm, $10
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MUSEUMS IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Experimental exPRESSion: Printmaking at IAIA, 1963– 1980. Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass. A Place in Clay. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12 MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 18 Co Road 55A, Los Cerrillos (505) 424-6487 Encaustic Art Exhibition. By appointment, $10 NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5052 Storytellers: Narrative Art and the West. Poetic Justice: Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard and Jaune Quick-To See-Smith. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St. (505) 946-1000 Abstract Nature. Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico. 10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon $20
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RICHARD II New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B nmactorslab.com He might be the second, but he's number one in our hearts. Check out Upstart Crows' rendition of Shakespeare's "being in charge is chaos" theatrical universe. Local youth theater is where the future is made. 6:30 pm, $15
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From Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass currently at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence and the Architecture of John Gaw Meem. 1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12, free for members NEW MEXICO MILITARY MUSEUM 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 474-1670 New Mexico’s Civil War. 10 am-3 pm, Mon-Fri, free
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Can you give us the lowdown on why the studio has to move? We’ve had a lease, and the lease was not renewed. I don’t really know a lot about why, but we need to find a new space. The building itself is over 100 years old, and Paseo Pottery has been there for 30 years. I took over in 2018, and before that, it was just a straight up for-profit business. The volunteers are all helping us to pack up right now and we’re all just looking for a new place. Since I took over, we’ve had over 50 ceramic artists volunteering their time—currently 20—and everyone is heartbroken. They love the space. We’re trying to be optimistic and look at everything like an opportunity for a new beginning. What does moving a space like Paseo Pottery entail? It sounds terribly hard. When we first found out, that’s kind of how it felt, but I’m also starting to be more optimistic about it. Serendipitously, someone donated an electric kiln to us last month, and I was able to purchase a large gas kiln—and those are the main things we need to set up in a
new location. But the universe seems to be showing us the way. During the pandemic, we had to rethink everything. We added an outdoor classroom so we could have classes in the open air, we created an online gallery because there were months there where nobody could shop; we’ve been rethinking everything and restructuring, and we’re ready to make a big change. So what are you looking for in the right now? What would be your ideal space and situation, and how can people help? We are looking at everything. I’m looking at everything available in Santa Fe for lease and purchase. Ideally, I’d like to purchase so we’re not in this same position in a couple years. I’ve been looking at warehouses in the Siler [Road] area, the Railyard, the Meow Wolf area; downtown would be great again. A warehouse would be great, but we’re even looking for old houses that could maybe be converted. We are technically a for-profit that donates 100% of our net profits to charity, we’re not actually a 501c3, though I think we’ll probably do that in the future. As far as people donating [to Paseo Pottery], it wouldn’t be tax deductible unless we found a nonprofit that would operate as our [fiscal umbrella] then we could receive donations and give a tax receipt. At this point, though, it’s not an actual nonprofit, but we’ve thought about having a fundraiser or something. Until we know where we’re going, we don’t know what we need. Right now we just need a space, then we can figure out what we need and if we can make it happen. We like to be in the position of giving help to the community, not asking for it, and we’ve never asked the community for help. And our own community is great. This year has been great, too—just right back up to pre-pandemic levels. Customers have all come back, the students, too, and our classes were more popular than any other year. I feel we were just finally hitting our stride, and everything was going well. Then [having to move] hits and we’re just kind of reeling. We have this great system and we need to figure out how to get our show on the road. The Food Depot gets our 2021 donation, though we haven’t given the donation yet and that won’t come out until our taxes are done. But we’re excited. In our first three years, we donated over $30,000. That’s way more than I thought we’d do in our first years. If people want to reach out, they can email at angela@paseopottery.com.
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o, it’s the new year, a time when many a bibliophile makes a reading list for the coming year (month; week?), or writhes in helpless anguish beneath the tower of unread books that has accumulated over the past one. Perhaps you look through the annual “best of” lists and despair—how have you missed so much? How have so many fizzy, tangy, erudite and allaround intriguing words filtered through the publishing mill without your knowledge? Perhaps start with Coolest American Stories 2022, an anthology edited by Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey and the inaugural volume of a series that promises to deliver an annual smorgasbord of verbal delights. Released Jan. 11 from Itasca Books/Coolest Stories Press (are you getting it yet?), the collection includes pieces from SA Cosby, David Ebenbach, Lori D. Johnson, Frances Park, D.Z. Stone and more. Within you’ll meet a maladroit divorcé who commits a
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social blunder at a birthday party (”Happy Birthday, Honey Vanlandingham”); a cokedout 1980s businessman who thinks too highly of himself and generally behaves exactly as one might expect (“Boss”); a David Foster Wallace boi upon whom news of the writer’s death does not have the anticipated effect (“All of This is Water”); and a host of other curious characters. This is just a sampling of the alleged coolest-of-cool for the coming year. Some, I’d agree with—very cool indeed. My personal favorites include Frances Park’s “The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon,” in which two sisters disassemble and assemble their identities in an attempt to distance themselves from their lineage, Matthew Goldberg’s “Therapunitive Intervention” wherein a distracted pharmacist attends a state-mandated retreat led by monks, and “Pantera Rex,” a previously unpublished story by SA Cosby which taught me the word “stygian.” While these live up to the criteria the editors set out on the Coolest American Stories’ website: “...riveting, stunning, and courageous,” some are more in the vein of...cool story, bro. I’m looking at you, “Boss.”
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In the interest of having you continue to read this column throughout the year, I won’t tease my picks for coolest stories/ books/essays/zines/etc. coming out in 2022, but I will heartily recommend Jawbone from Ecuadorian poet/novelist Mónica Ojeda, which is set to be released in English next month from Coffee House Press with a translation by Sarah Booker. Mandíbula (Jawbone) was originally published in 2018 by Candaya, in the original Spanish, and just the year before, Ojeda was named one of the Bogotá39—a list of exceptional fiction writers under 40 from across Latin America. In her upcoming third novel, Ojeda follows two friends who have claimed one another as sisters: Fernanda Montero Oliva and Annelise Van Isschot. They belong to the self-proclaimed “most perfect group in class” at the Delta Bilingual Academy, High School for Girls until Fernanda is kidnapped by her literature teacher (don’t fret, I’m not spoiling a ny t h i n g — t h i s happens on page 1) following a dark rift that causes the girls’ friendship to unwind. Two narratives rasp against one another in a conflict of dissonant realities. The reality of Fernanda and Annelise’s turbulent friendship, and that of Miss Clara López Valverde, the literature teacher whom the girls call “Latin Madame Bovary,” is a study in abjection in the Kristevan sense: The horror exists in, and is generated by, a delicious but unsettling uncertainty of self and non-self whereupon realities are created and cast off.
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Ojeda’s poetic craft shines through Jawbone’s prose. It’s a deeply visual book in which seemingly transparent images introduced early on are lacquered over with layers of meaning as the story progresses, building a patina of dread. The book’s anxiety dwells in the space between characters. Who, in a friendship, dictates reality? In this case, reality is woven (or unraveled) by Fernanda and Annelise, but it’s never quite clear whose reality the reader is inhabiting. Jawbone must have been a challenge to translate, too. Its privileged and welleducated characters already speak in a pastiche of languages. Booker is careful to preserve the nuances of the characters’ shifts between Spanish and English without aligning with the common Englishlanguage practice of using italics to designate “foreign” words, which, as she explains in a translator’s note, “creates an artificial and problematic division between self and other.” She also maintains the “sonorous experience” of the dialogue by leaving snippets of Spanish slang untranslated. Another idiosyncrasy of Ojeda’s language is her fondness for invented portmanteaus—“1966-Twiggyface,” “Nicki-Minaj-booty,” “sleeping-angel-ofhistory voice”—which give texture to the rhythm of her prose, as well as a glimpse into the girls’ cultural experience, locating them within a cultural narrative without jarring the reader out of the book’s atmosphere. In short? It’s cool.
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Drive My Car Review The little red Saab that could
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Yusuki’s (Hidetoshi Nishijima) only certainty comes from his car, an aging red Saab. The car becomes something of a totem for his autonomy, but as life’s trials strike him down, Yusuki dives into a directing job in a Hiroshima theater. It’s not the picturesque escape he envisioned—he’s faced with a lead actor (Masaki Okada) whose self-destructive nature ripped apart Yusuki’s personal life years before. Even more upsetting is his gradual vision loss, resulting in the young Misaki (Tôko Miura) taking the helm of his Saab as his personal driver, altering Yusuki’s sense of control. In short, this is one sad dude. Based on the short story of the same name by Wind Up Bird Chronicles author Haruki Murakami, Drive My Car is a difficult piece to grasp in one sitting. It’s a slow ride at nearly three hours, exceedingly quiet and overwhelmingly lonesome. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi turns the concept of an urban night drive into something of a holy hour, the time when confessions burst out, revelations are exposed and the gradual understanding of living occurs in a place that lingers between mysticism and reality.
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JR (Tye Sheridan/Daniel Ranieri) wants to be a writer. He wants to write because he’s, y’know—special. You won’t see him writing much or discover a thing about his passions, but remember: He’s special. The people who make up JR’s crowded home love and encourage him, Uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck) in particular, who becomes a guiding light in opposition to JR’s deadbeat father (Max Martini). Still, our hero wonders if he has what it takes to be a writer, plus there’s some girl drama. There you go—that’s The Tender Bar from director George Clooney (yes, that George Clooney), a film with a decidedly un-clever title which portrays itself as a sprinkler spouting truth when it’s really as murky as polluted lake water. You’ll probably wonder why you’re watching JR at all, especially as the writer-riddled-with-self-doubt story has been told ten gazillion times in film. Most kids are told they’re special by their families, what’s unique about this one? You won’t ever find out, save for something or other about daddy issues, but you will get a ’70s/’80s nostalgia-fueled tale with the weakest kinds of evocation, from then-ubiquitous pop tunes and a sepia tone filter, as if that’s supposed to mean anything. C’mon, Clooney. Amazon Prime’s new film is a tonal trainwreck, its focus as unsteady as the camcorder-like cinematography. Find here an inexplicable abundance of snapzooms, as if Clooney had a fever dream and thought he might be making an action flick. But then, Clooney’s directorial history is littered with one stumble after another (remember The Midnight Sky? Suburbicon? Sheesh). At least those stumbles are a source of con20
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What results is a curious take on grief. Not the fear of death, really, but a fear of self and how we react to the sudden evils of which we’re capable. Drive My Car, then, is a film of slow surprises, dripping with minute reveals scene-by-scene. Juicy drama unfolds, mind you, but also a remarkable humanism we rarely see in Western cinema these days. One could imagine a less reserved filmmaker needing to push platitudes and proverbs and otherwise underestimating their audience. Hamaguchi instead crafts a world that reflects a universal human experience and the secret fear most dread: loss of control. By understanding entirely where it’s aiming from the get-go, Drive My Car proves its plaudits and accolades well earned. Imagine a cinematic land-
sistency, but maybe we can all collectively agree that, moving forward, the majority of memoirs can stay within pages rather than digital frames? The Tender Bar, most curiously, promotes the notion that real America is the folks at the bars who passively watch the world and its people go by. They are content with their lot and recognize brilliance, however; they give grandfatherly advice to the special smarties like JR. Uh, OK. Such weird working class romanticism hovers over this story, all while encouraging the notso-special normies to be cool with what they have. Clooney, one the highest paid Hollywood actors, maybe isn’t one to tell us about working class truths, though.(RG) Amazon Prime, R, 104 min.
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Does everything for which writer/bad director Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) lives fit well enough into a behind-the-scenes look at the cast of I Love Lucy? Give the man almost any American institution—the White House, cable news, Facebook—and he’ll find a way to bring it down to a reality check, reminding us along the way that the world is run by assholes. Who woulda known? Lucille Ball (a dedicated but odd-looking performance from Nicole Kidman, who’s got some weird wide-eyed thing going on) and her husband Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) are the brilliant minds behind America’s most-watched sitcom. Things aren’t so idyllic under the surface, though. Wanna know why? Because they are assholes, says Sorkin. Of course. Ball is accused of communist sympathies while Arnaz’s
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scape where filmmakers felt brave enough to prove they feel the darkness, too, even if it manifests less mythologically than it does in the more bombastic movie fare of today. In a time when we’re force-fed tales of heroic inter-galactic victories over catch-all, one-dimensional enemies, it can be a surprise when effective storytelling doesn’t need to lean on something loud and fantastical. You can be the darkness in your own story. You can win small victories. Sometimes, acceptance works just as well.
affairs are tabloid fodder. Everyone is sad and pissed off all the time. Being the Ricardos never falters in its performances, despite its myriad stumbles in everything else it tries. Just how does a film about one of the most beloved comic duos in media history wind up so humorless? Kidman and Bardem spew out all the factoids Sorkin got out of whatever biography he read, but they are still just masses of meat in a frame, like an AI bot telling you about its internet searches. Everyone around Ball and Arnaz are bumbling morons, typical of Sorkin’s usual “great people” mindset. Ball builds her storyboards as if she’s diagnosing computer code or defusing a bomb; intense music flares—intense close-ups everywhere. Why on Earth should a movie about a 23-minute sitcom be so methodical and why did Sorkin employ a painfully pointless fake documentary framing device? It hurts to watch, and whereas Sorkin’s last project, The Trial of the Chicago 7, went for something, anything—even if it was merely highlighting Sorkin’s skepticism of progressivism—and had a unity of vision, here that vision feels as aimless as a lumberjack swinging an axe in a field with nary a tree in sight. (RG) Prime, R, 132 min.
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Many know him as Marty Funkhouser from Larry David’s iconic HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, others from his long-running Super Dave Osborne stuntman parody that started sometime around the heyday of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and ran on talk shows all the way through his death in 2019.
DRIVE MY CAR Directed by Hamaguchi With Nishijima, Mirua and Okada CCA, NR, 179 min.
You might even remember Bob Einstein as George Senior’s surrogate from the criminally under-appreciated Arrested Development, or, if you’re a certain age, as actor/writer Albert Brooks’ brother and a mainstay writer across comedy shows that produced future writer/performers like Steve Martin, Rob Reiner and other heavy hitters. However you know him (or are just realizing you know him), Einstein was a gifted funnyman with an enviable decades-long career, and a new HBO documentary from filmmaker Danny Gold digs into the career of the consummate comic for comics. Whether through interviews with some of the biggest names in comedy—from the aforementioned David, Martin and Reiner, to Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, JB Smoove, Susie Essman, Jerry Seinfeld and more—or in footage from Einstein’s stints with the Smothers Brothers, Sonny and Cher, the short-lived cable program Bizarre or elsewhere, a picture emerges of a creator who somehow became a straight man unto himself. Einstein’s bit, as it were, is that there wasn’t a bit—only deadpan seriousness with the slightest twinge of rage. The Super Bob Einstein Movie unveils one of comedy’s worst-kept secrets, but lovingly teaches us why it continues to matter. Think of it like a crash course in craft for even the most seasoned comedy fans, and a glimpse into the life of a guy who impacted just about anything that made us laugh over the last 50 years. You’ll laugh and cry and wish you were a performer yourself, even as Einstein’s strained familial relationships are hinted at, but never fully explored. At its core, however, Gold’s film seems a great excuse to find out what makes our favorite comics laugh. (Alex De Vore) HBO Max, TV-MA, 75 min.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In October 2021, the Vancouver Canucks hockey team played the Seattle Kraken team in a Seattle arena. A fan named Nadia Popovici noticed that the Canucks’ equipment manager Brian Hamilton had an irregular mole on the back of his neck—possibly cancerous. She found a way to communicate her observation to him, urging him to see a doctor. In the ensuing days, Hamilton sought medical care and discovered that the mole was indeed in an early stage of melanoma. He had it removed. In the spirit of this inspiring story, Aries, I invite you to tell the people in your life things they should know but don’t know yet—not just what might be challenging, but also what’s energizing and interesting. Be their compassionate advisor, their agent for divine intervention.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Marguerite Yourcenar wrote, “All happiness is a work of art: The smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.” If what she says is true, it’s bad news, isn’t it? She makes it seem like cultivating joy and well-being is a superhuman skill that few of us can hope to master. Personally, I am not as stringent as Yourcenar in my ideas about what’s required to generate happiness. But like her, I believe you have to work at it. It doesn’t necessarily come easily and naturally. Most of us have never been taught how to cultivate happiness, so we must train ourselves to do it and practice diligently. The good news, Libra, is that the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to upgrade your happiness skills.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Canadian-Jamaican songwriter and recording artist Kreesha Turner isn’t a megastar like Beyoncé or Rihanna, but she has had a successful music career. What’s the secret to her constant creative output? Here’s what she has said: “I love to surround myself with people who are the best at what they do. My idea is I want to be a sponge and absorb everything they teach, experience their energy, view them in their element, and have the opportunity to ask them questions.” The coming year will be one of the best times ever for you to emulate her strategy, Taurus. And now is a perfect moment for formulating plans to make it happen. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini author Lisa Cron says that when we’re telling a story, we should give each successive scene “new information, rather than rehashing things we already know. Never tell us the same fact twice. Because it’s boring and stops the flow of the story. Never tell us the same fact twice. Because it’s boring and stops the flow of the story.” In accordance with astrological omens, Gemini, I suggest you apply this counsel to everything you say and do in the next three weeks. Don’t repeat yourself. Keep moving right along. Invite novelty. Cultivate surprises and unpredictability. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Years ago, I reluctantly gave up my music career. To do so was sad and hard. But it enabled me to devote far more time and energy to improving my writing skills. I published books and developed a big audience. I’m glad I did it. Here’s another redemptive sacrifice I made earlier in my life: I renounced the chaotic pleasure of seeking endless new romantic adventures so I could commit myself to a relationship with one particular woman. In so doing, I learned a lot more about how to be a soulful human. I’m glad I did it. Is there potentially a comparable pivot in your life, my fellow Cancerian? If so, the coming weeks and months will be a favorable time to make a move.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1891, a cultural organization commissioned Scorpio sculptor Auguste Rodin to create a statue of beloved French author Honoré de Balzac. The piece was supposed to be done in 18 months, but it wasn’t. For seven years, Rodin toiled, producing over 50 studies before finally finishing the piece. We shouldn’t be surprised, then, that one of his mottoes was “Patience is also a form of action.” I’m recommending Rodin-like patience to you in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Yours will be rewarded long before seven years go by. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess,” wrote author Fanny Burney. Actor Jennifer Lawrence said, “I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for.” I nominate these two souls to be your role models for the coming weeks. In my astrological opinion, you are currently as immune to karmic boomerangs as it’s possible to be. Your guilt levels are abnormally low. As far as I can determine, you are relatively free from having to answer to the past or defend your actions. How do you plan to make maximum use of this grace period? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “New truths become evident when new tools become available,” declared Nobel Prize-winning medical physicist Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921–2011). She was referring to developments in science and technology, but I think her idea applies to our personal lives, too. And it so happens, in my astrological opinion, that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to acquire new tools that will ultimately lead you to discover new truths.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Self-help teachers and New Age gurus are fond of using metaphors about opening doors. They provide a lot of advice that encourages us to knock on doors, scout around for doors that are open just a crack, find keys to unlock doors, and LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo actor Claudia Christian has even kick down doors. I will not be following their lead in appeared in over 50 films, including many in the science this horoscope. In my opinion, the coming days are an fiction genre. She has played a variety of roles in movies excellent time for you to heed the contrary counsel of author Paulo Coelho: “Close some doors today. Not with more conventional themes. But as for the sci-fi because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply stuff? She says, “Apparently, I’ve been typecast: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.” If Christian came to me because they lead you nowhere.” Once you carry out for astrological advice right now, I would suggest that the this assignment, Aquarius, I believe you’ll start finding coming months will be an excellent time for her and all of interesting new doors to open. you Leos to slip free of any pigeonholes you’ve been PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 2017, Piscean film direcstuck in. Escape the mold! Create niches for yourself that tor Jordan Peele released his debut film, Get Out. It was a enable you to express your full repertoire. success with both critics and audiences. A year later, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The coming weeks will be a Peele became the first Black screenwriter to win the favorable time to meditate on your job and your calling— Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. As he accepted the Oscar, he said, “I stopped writing this movie as well as the differences there may be between your job about 20 times because I thought it was impossible.” and your calling. In fact, I regard this as a phase when you Personally, I’m glad Peele didn’t give up his dream. Here’s can summon transformative epiphanies about the way one reason why: He will serve as an excellent role model you earn a living and the useful services you provide to for you throughout 2022. As you reinvent yourself, Pisces, your fellow humans. For inspiration, read this quote from don’t give up pushing ahead with persistence, courage, photographer Margaret Bourke-White: “Even while you’re and a quest for what’s most fun. in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it Homework: What’s the best blessing you could bestow with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be on yourself right now? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.”
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OF HEIRSHIP, AND FOR FORMAL APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO: FRANCINE ANNE LAROSA; STATE OF NEW MEXICO WANTED: HISTORY BUFFS TO AND, ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS OF No.D-101-PB-2021-00271 WALK THE TALK — Now recruiting IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE LUCY DIPONZIO, DECEASED; docents to lead the New Mexico AND, ALL UNKNOWN OF History Museum’s Walking Tours of HARALD GEORGE HOYESEN, PERSONS WHO HAVE OR Historic Downtown Santa Fe. Learn CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE DECEASED more about our city’s fascinating ESTATE OF LUCY DIPONZIO, NOTICE OF HEARING ON past and share your knowledge DECEASED, OR IN THE MATTER PETITION FOR FORMAL with visitors. Free info sessions via ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, BEING LITIGATED IN THE Zoom for volunteers: January 19 at 4 p.m., January 22 at 11 a.m. and FOR FORMAL DETERMINATION HEREINAFTER MENTIONED January 26 at 4 p.m. To register, HEARING. OF HEIRSHIP, email your name and preferred date AND FOR FORMAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to: wthdsfmanager@gmail.com. of the following: APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL Training begins in February for the 1. LUCY DIPONZIO, Deceased, REPRESENTATIVE 2022 tour season starting in April. died on November 09,2021; TO: ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS OF 505.225.3455 2. Gregg Gleba filed a Petition for HARALD GEORGE HOYESEN, VISUAL JOURNALING: Using the Formal Adjudication of Intestacy, DECEASED; AND, book “Visual Journaling: Going ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO for Formal Determination Deeper than Words”, we will use of Heirship, and for Formal HAVE OR CLAIM ANY art directives to help us get in touch INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF Appointment of Personal with our thoughts and feelings Representative in the aboveHARALD GEORGE HOYESEN, which can help reduce stress and styled and numbered matter on DECEASED, OR IN THE release emotions. Buying book not December 12, 2021; and, MATTER BEING LITIGATED IN required. Art supplies provided if 3. A hearing on the aboveTHE needed. Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30 PM, January 25th – February 22nd. referenced Petition has been HEREINAFTER MENTIONED Facilitated by art therapy/counseling HEARING. set for February 14, 2022, at student in person at Tierra Nueva 9:00 a.m. at the Judge Steve NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Counseling Center. Masks required. Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 of the following: Space limited. $10/session/sliding Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 1. HARALD GEORGE HOYESEN, scale. Deceased, died on November 05, New Mexico, 87501, before the To register call (505)471-8575. Honorable Matthew Wilson. All 2021; ARTFULLY EXPLORING DEATH/ parties are to appear remotely for 2. Linda K. Hoyesen filed a DYING: The last two years has this hearing. Parties may appear Petition for Formal Adjudication reminded us of our own mortality, either by video at meet.google. of Intestacy, for Formal which has led to anxiety around com/bbu-aujx-qfx or by calling Determination of Heirship, and anticipatory death. This group will 1-336-949-8079 and entering pin explore and rebuild our relationship for Formal Appointment of number 862702640#. Personal Representative in the to death through mindfulness, art, Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 and conversation to make peace with above-styled and numbered our own mortality. Join us in person matter on December 1, 2021; and, (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, notice on Wednesdays 6-8pm, 1/26 - 3/2 of the time and place of hearing 3. A hearing on the aboveat Tierra Nueva Counseling Center. on the above-referenced Petition referenced Petition has been Space limited. Co-facilitated two is hereby given to you by set for February 11, 2022, at student therapists. Age 18+. $10/ publication, once each week, for 10:00 a.m. at the Judge Steve session/sliding scale. three consecutive weeks. Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Call (505) 471-8575 to register. DATED this 22nd day of Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, December, 2021. CONNECTING WITH YOUR ARTIST New Mexico, 87501, before the Gregg Gleba, Petitioner SELF: Need a creative boost? Honorable Kathleen McGarry Desire to reconnect to your artist THE CULLEN LAW FIRM, P.C. Ellenwood. All parties are to self? Meet with us as we explore a appear remotely for this hearing. Attorneys For Petitioner different sense each week through 2006 Botulph Road Parties may appear either by exploratory mediums. Facilitated P.O. Box 1575 video at http://meet.google. by two Southwestern art therapy Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504 com/wof-cofz-tuq or by calling students via Zoom through Tierra 1-563-503-5060 and entering pin (505) 988-7114 (office) Nueva Counseling Center. The (505) 995-8694 (facsimile) number 818 230 380#. group will meet every Tuesday evening from 6:30-8:30 pm, January Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 lawfirm@cullen.cc 25-February 22. Call 505-471-8575 (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, notice to register. Size of group is limited. FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT of the time and place of hearing Tina Sparks and Karey Carpenter. on the above-referenced Petition COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO TRANSGENDER SUPPORT GROUP: is hereby given to you by No. D-101-PB-2021-00271 publication, once each week, for If you are 18 and over and identify IN THE MATTER OF THE as transgender please join us in this three consecutive weeks. ESTATE OF HARALD GEORGE 5-week group via Zoom. We will be DATED this 23rd day of processing experiences of coming HOYESEN, DECEASED NOTICE December, 2021. Linda K. out or about to come out, current TO CREDITORS Hoyesen, Petitioner states of being, and individual NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THE CULLEN LAW FIRM, P.C. dreams for the future. Tuesdays that the undersigned has Attorneys for Petitioner from 6- 8 pm. January 25 – February been appointed Personal 2006 Botulph Road 22. Call Tierra Nueva Counseling Representative of the Estate of Center at 505-471-8575 to register. P.O. Box 1575 HARALD GEORGE HOYESEN, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504 $10/session. Facilitated by student therapist, Meera Warren. Deceased. All persons having (505) 988-7114 (office) claims against this Estate are (505) 995-8694 (facsimile) GRIEF AND ART MAKING: Are you lawfirm@cullen.cc required to present their claims struggling with issues surrounding within four (4) months after grief and loss? This group teaches the date of the first publication FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT you about the different aspects of of this Notice or their claims COURT grief and loss and offers a creative will be forever barred. Claims COUNTY OF SANTA FE outlet, through art making, to must be presented either to explore, release, and perhaps STATE OF NEW MEXICO transmute these feelings to promote No. D-101-PB-2021-00280 the undersigned Personal the healing process. Facilitated at IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE Representative at P.O. Box 1575, Tierra Nueva Counseling Center by OF LUCY DIPONZIO, DECEASED Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87504, two art therapists in-training, Shenny or filed with the First Judicial NOTICE OF HEARING ON Martines and Gareth Harrold, on District Court, P.O. Box 2268, 225 PETITION FOR FORMAL Thursdays, 1/27-3/10 from 5:30ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 7:30p. Cost: $10/session. Call 505FOR FORMAL DETERMINATION New Mexico, 87504. 471-8575 to register.
DATED: December 28, 2021. Linda K. Hoyesen, Personal Representative THE CULLEN LAW FIRM, P.C. Attorneys for the Personal Representative 2006 Botulph Road P.O. Box 1575 Santa Fe, New Mexico 875041575 (505) 988-7114 (office) (505) 995-8694 (facsimile) lawfirm@cullen.cc
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Italia Marie Iannucci. Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-00009 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT TAKE NOTICE that in accordance COURT with the provisions of Sec. 40COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO 8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA No. D-101-PB-2021-00280 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Italia IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE Marie Iannucci will apply to the OF LUCY DIPONZIO, DECEASED Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, NOTICE TO CREDITORS District Judge of the First Judicial NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN District at the Santa Fe Judicial that the undersigned has Complex, 225 Montezuma been appointed Personal Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Representative of the Estate of at 10:45 a.m. on the 4th day of LUCY DIPONZIO, Deceased. All February, 2022 for an ORDER FOR persons having claims against this Estate are required to present CHANGE OF NAME from Italia Marie Iannucci to Antoni Matteo their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first Iannucci. publication of this Notice or their KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either By: Breanna Aguilar Deputy Court Clerk to the undersigned Personal Representative at P.O. Box 1575, Submitted by: Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87504, Italia Marie Iannucci or filed with the First Judicial Petitioner, Pro Se District Court, P.O. Box 2268, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, STATE OF NEW MEXICO New Mexico, 87504. COUNTY OF SANTA FE DATED: January 2, 2022. FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Gregg Gleba, COURT Personal Representative IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION THE CULLEN LAW FIRM, P.C. FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Attorneys for the Personal MARY LILLIAN SANDOVAL AKA Representative LILLIAN SANDOVAL 2006 Botulph Road Case No.: D-101P.O. Box 1575 CV-2022-00069 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME 1575 TAKE NOTICE that in accordance (505) 988-7114 (office) with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 (505) 995-8694 (facsimile) lawfirm@cullen.cc through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Mary Lillian STATE OF NEW MEXICO Sandoval AKA Lillian Sandoval IN THE PROBATE COURT will apply to the Honorable COUNTY OF SANTA FE Francis J. Mathew, District Judge No. PB-2021-0279 of the First Judicial District, IN THE MATTER OF THE remotely via Google Meets or ESTATE OF LORRAINE T. PRICE, Telephonically (Please see Sixth Deceased. Amended Notice - attached) at NOTICE TO CREDITORS 10:00 a.m. on the 16th day of NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN February, 2022 for an ORDER that the undersigned has been FOR CHANGE OF NAME from appointed Personal Representative Mary Lillian Sandoval AKA Lillian of this estate. All persons having Sandoval to Lillian Sandoval. claims against this estate are Kathleen 1 2 3 4 5 6 Vigil7 8 9 required to present their claims District Court Clerk within four months after the By: Bernadette Hernandez 13first publication of 14 date of the DEPUTY COURT CLERK 15 this Notice or the claims will be SUBMITTED BY: LILLIAN 17 19 forever barred. Claims must be 18 SANDOVAL presented either by delivery or PETITIONER, PRO SE mail to the 20undersigned in care of21 22 Tracy E. Conner, P.C., Post Office HAVE YOU Box 23434, Santa Fe, 23 New Mexico 25 24 87502, or filing with the Probate SEEN THE SFR Court for 27 the County of Santa Fe, 29 CROSSWORD? 30 31 28 100 Catron St., Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, with a copy to the 33 34 IT’S BIGGER THAN 35 undersigned. Dated: January 3, 2022 THE NEW YORK 38 37 36 Michelle Gittens TIMES Personal Representative 42
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