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Editor’s Note: In recent weeks, our “7 Days” satire column referenced events in Española.

We now realize that what we wrote carried a deep context of racism and classism. We’re sorry for our lack of consideration.

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As we continue to reflect, here are the reflections of others:

7 DAYS, JULY 26: UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS I would like to write some of the accomplishments that we have in the Rio Grande Valley in light of the recent unpleasant posts you made about NNMC and Española.

I represent Northern New Mexico College (NNMC). Despite criticism, Northern has continued to evolve, from a secondary boarding school to a vocational training school to New Mexico’s first community college to a baccalaureate degree granting institution. We provide undergraduate research opportunities to students.

Few studies have examined the student’s perception of “science identity” in research and learning through analysis of students’ research activity. Your unfortunate “jokes” are precisely what we are trying to “not joke” around.

Our work on how the “student’s perception” can change in the way they see themselves if provided with research experiences, scientific seminars and a suite of men-

toring tools have become a national model for rural biomedical/science education. For example, 17 NNMC biology, chemistry and environmental science students secured summer research experiences across the country. This is unprecedented for us.

ULISES RICOY DEAN OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, NNMC

BETTER TO BE AN ALLY I am sure you have received email regarding the “joke” about NNMC’s out-of-state tuition and having to live in Española.

I too love jokes, and understand, as Paulo Freire wrote, how humor can create community and templates for addressing macro issues. But, the Española joke is old and tired. I have personally witnessed decades-long abandonment of Northern New Mexico by mainstream New Mexico urban communities. Much of the larger state utilizes debasing humor as a way to somehow rationalize indifference.

This indifference is stunningly ironic as the region simultaneously commodifies Northern New Mexico’s enormous resources of water, gas and tourism. Santa Fe, in particular, is very adept at selling Rio Arriba via a romanticized partial rendering as “Northern New Mexico.” Rio Arriba’s resources are being displaced beyond itself to benefit the overall state and national public. Yet, Santa Fe continues to demoralize the North: a caricature for a beneficiary to mock.

I hope SFR takes a look at the tremendous work that NNMC is doing to engage Northern New Mexico that not only benefits the north but the entire state. It would be incredibly important for NNMC to have a critical ally like SFR in the region.

PAULA CASTILLO CORDOVA

TRYING TO IMPROVE I moved to Española to attend NNMC in 2011 and I graduated from there in 2014.

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7 DAYS SOLAR ECLIPSE BLOCKS ROUGHLY 85 PERCENT OF THE SUN IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO Clouds obscure part of the big event, but it beat sitting in the office.

GONZALES STILL HASN’T ANNOUNCED WHETHER HE’LL RUN FOR REELECTION So much for dramatic mid-eclipse pronouncement: “If you re-elect me, I’ll bring back the sun!”

PAT PRUITT WINS BEST OF SHOW AT INDIAN MARKET WITH METALLIC SCULPTURE Terminator 11: The Rise of the Contemporaries.

BANNON OUT AT WHITE HOUSE, BACK IN AT BREITBART Time to start shaving, bathing again.

VERIZON SUCKS DOWNTOWN It’s not the Santa Fe vortex. It’s typical corporate decision-making.

NMSU TEAMS UP WITH BOSQUE BREWERY TO LICENSE ITS OWN PISTOL PETE ALE Meanwhile, Santa Fe University of Art and Design gets a deal for Evaporating IPA.

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LETTERS ... I got into my graduate degree program of my choice and I am now thriving in that program in Seattle. NNMC set me up for success to reach my academic and professional goals.

NNMC offered me an intimate, close community of peers and professors.

Everyone knew my name. We looked out for each other. And coming from a big city, I was highly impressed by the tenacity and perseverance of the young people in that community. …

The majority of the kids going to NNMC have seen drug addiction, racism, poverty and countless other adversities. ... I am proud to have graduated with fellow students that have more grit and have been through more hard times then the average student. And I find it absolutely disgraceful that you would allow something to be published that insults that very thing. Shame on you for speaking ill of an institution that is trying to improve Española and improve the lives of young people. The people that go there should hold their heads up high with pride, knowing that they have faced much worse than your petty bullying.

LAUREN GRESHAM-WATTERS SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

NO SAFE SPACE FOR IDEAS Why is everyone so quick to take away the freedom of speech of others though bullying? Do we only have the First Amendment to say safe things? In some academic circles we are starting to hear speech equated with violence. As if having your feelings hurt is the same as being physically attacked. If we do not have the right to offend then we do not have the right to speak truth when it is offensive. I would rather be mocked mercilessly than censor someone.

Are we to turn into Europe where if you say or tweet the wrong thing, you can end up in jail? All you guys did was tell a joke, that was it. It is the job of artists and journalists to be subversive. We used to celebrate that.

There is no safe space for ideas. All ideas, all symbols, all beliefs are up for grabs. People need to decide, do they want to be offended or live under blasphemy laws? What happened to the South Park generation?

JARED RODRIGUEZ ALBUQUERQUE

MICROAGRESSION I write this letter in solidarity with Española and the surrounding communities to the north of Santa Fe. I live in our wonderful City Different. However, I am blessed to work in Española and look forward to the breathtaking commute every day.

I was sharply taken aback by the text in the most recent publications under the “7 Days” column in the Santa Fe Reporter. First, the anonymous voice behind such comments is a microagression: Without direct responsibility there is no accountability.

Second, while the newspaper claims the comments are simply “jokes,” I find this a significant oversight. On another recent publication, Aug. 2, one of the “7 Days” reads: “Health Care Reform Dies Again: God bless those GOP mavericks.” This reads as powerful commentary about the politics and values of the Santa Fe Reporter.

Intentionally choosing to comment on something serious signifies that the column is not merely “irreverent.”

Finally, regardless of the intention of the comment, the impact was hurtful.

Individuals and organizations in positions of influence can no longer use the excuse of ignorance or misconstrued intentions.

Española and Santa Fe are both aiming grow and yet dealing with the aftereffects of colonialism. Let’s work together.

GWENDOLYN PEREA WARNIMENT K-12 PROGRAM DIRECTOR, LANL FOUNDATION

FOCUS ON POWER I’ve been a longtime fan of the Reporter, but I am disappointed with your decision to continue to ... [make] Española jokes and your halfhearted apology in response to criticism of that decision.

I understand your perspective that this is part of a longstanding “rivalry” between Santa Fe and Española, but I think you and your writing staff are failing to see the subtext of these jokes. When a white writer in a wealthy community publishes a “jab” at a majority Hispanic, low-income community that doesn’t have an equivalent mouthpiece with which to respond, it’s not much of a rivalry.

Please focus on people and groups with power—not the disenfranchised—if you want your humor to have a positive impact on the world.

JAMES SANCHEZ ALBUQUERQUE

MISPLACED SUPREMACY The City Different likes to poke at Española.

The recent jokes in the Santa Fe Reporter are hardly “news.” Just like anywhere else in America, framing the brown neighbors as problematic, crime-ridden, drug-addled and lacking pride is alive and well in this most different of cities. I guess when your intention to be liberally minded and above the common folks is so deeply core to your civic identity, you can be callous and cavalier with your racism. … I am a newcomer to New Mexico and to Rio Arriba. But I recognize racism when I see it in myself and others. I had a lot of the same judgements and preconceptions of Española back in 2007. But having lived and worked here, building relationships and participating with this amazing community, I have learned just how wrong I was.

This community certainly has struggles and challenges to face, as do we all. And this

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You are far from different, and have proven that judgmental racial stereotyping is not simply a sickness of right-wing politics, but indeed, embedded in the collective psyche of liberals as well. All you readers who laughed at the cheap shots; stop and think for a moment. What do you really know of this beautiful Rio Arriba valley? I guess driving through town and seeing all the fast food restaurants on your way to Taos to buy more art makes you an expert on an entire community. Wake up and smell your white supremacy.

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ENTHUSIAST, AUG. 16: “HAPPIER CAMPERS”

GET HIP, NEW MEXICO Our intention for creating a free resource for exploring public campgrounds is for the community to help each other figure out the best place to camp, so your feedback here is really helpful. We’ve updated Aspen Basin your recommendations. Thank you! ...

Regarding the biking at Panchuela Campground, that’s tricky, since mountain biking and road biking should really be differently categorized. ... We’d ... never want to unintentionally encourage a prohibited activity. One of our big company values is to “To Leave it Better,” and this certainly includes all trails!

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COVER, JULY 9: “A MORAL CHOICE”

MORAL ANESTHESIA In a recent article by Joey Peters, [Dr. Curtis] Boyd “goes to work every day clad in his gray surgical gown.” ... Boyd fits squarely into the modern moral nooks and crannies of today’s “50 shades of gray,” a politically correct and legally acceptable world of hyper-tolerance.

And unfortunately, we as a society find ourselves in Boyd’s and his supporters’ political and moral anesthesia.

The story of abortion in New Mexico and how it has become a political live wire is much deeper than Boyd’s individual perspective as an abortionist. Boyd’s craft and its political and legal support beams, footings and stem walls find their basis, ironically, in the Bible a text much older than a Supreme Court decision. ...

Those like Boyd, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and even certain nominally Catholic legislators claim to be rooted in Judeo Christian beliefs. They must ask themselves whether or not a “choice” to end the “life” of an unborn child is contrary to the Decalogue. How do Dr. Boyd and his religious supporters reconcile this disparity?

Peters reveals that Dr. Boyd concedes “life” begins at conception. So if abortion kills life, how do Dr. Boyd and his nominal supporters reconcile this with the Mosaic Law? The truth is: They don’t.

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

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Car Trouble New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division makes it hard for the elderly to renew their licenses

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s a young girl in Poland, Ursula Freer escaped Nazi forces from the West and Soviets from the East. Her family eventually emigrated after the war to Chicago, where Freer took English classes at night while working a string of jobs during the day. She grew up, got married, divorced and remarried, and fell in with the countercultural crowd. She moved all over the country until finally settling down in the Santa Fe area in 1994, and now sells art she makes with Photoshop.

She became a naturalized citizen in 1971; the internet wasn’t around yet, and her naturalization papers weren’t digitized. Over 40 years later, they still were not, as she discovered when she recently tried to renew her driver’s license here.

She had the original document, but a worker at a Motor Vehicle Division branch told her it could be a fake because they couldn’t locate it in an electronic archive.

“I just wanted to renew my license that I had for 22 years,” she tells SFR. After two trips, she still didn’t have any license at all.

“I just was stunned because I didn’t have a license for three weeks. And my daughter, who lives in Cincinnati, she started calling around, and finally they told her, ‘Well, they should have given her a temporary license.’”

Freer later received a letter informing her that her naturalization papers had been located. But driving without a license for weeks and being at the mercy of the immigration bureaucracy spooked her.

“There was no explanation; just, ‘We can’t find the naturalization papers,’” she

says. “I was stunned. I was speechless. It was like being back in Europe during the war.”

The state does not keep records of people who have had similar but hard-totrack trouble. In April, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported that between January and early April, 1,412 people statewide had filed name-change applications in New Mexico courts, a sharp rise from the year before and believed to correspond with the state’s new enforcement of stringent requirements for obtaining forms of state identification that comply with the federal REAL ID Act. Because such identification requires that people present primary source documentation to confirm their identities, those who’ve lived their lives using and signing a name other than the one on their birth certificates have had to legally change their names.

Elderly folks who haven’t handled their birth certificates or naturalization paperwork in a very long time are especially vulnerable to the headaches of obtaining REAL ID-compliant identification. Peter Simonson, the executive director of New Mexico’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, says he and others foresaw the issue while lobbying against the federal bill before its 2005 passage.

The rationale to require primary documentation of one’s birth, as well as legal status and place of residence, was “predicated on the assumption that, by making access to identification more challenging, that you figure out the sort out people who are using falsified forms of ID and might have malicious intentions in the country,” Simonson tells SFR. “But all of this, that

Producing enough paperwork to satify the state’s REAL ID requirements can be a tough job.

entire paradigm, is based on the misguided assumption that you can protect our country through identity-based forms of security.”

This is misguided, he says, because people intent on forging their identification have and continue to figure out ways to get around strict requirements. There have been cases in other states where people have, for example, conspired with motor vehicle department employees to obtain false IDs. Having a national ID for all citizens, he says, is the kind of Big Brother-esque initative that can quickly get out of hand. For average people like Freer,

It was like being back in Europe during the war.

-Ursula Freer, on trying to renew her driver’s license

who just want to drive down the street to the grocery store, trying to obtain a REAL ID-compliant identification can result in expensive filing fees and advertisements in newspapers (if they want to change their names), missed work days and enduring the unhelpful stoicism of MVD employees who say their instructions are coming up from on high.

That’s also what happened to John Woodie, a 76-year-old who did not succeed in obtaining a renewed license until four trips later. By luck, he discovered his

birth certificate in a baby book his aunt maintained for decades. He wasn’t even aware he had one, since he’d been delivered at home in a rural area.

“They wanted my car registration, they wanted to see my old driver’s license,” says Woodie, who works as a registered financial agent. “My army discharge papers, that wasn’t good enough. I showed them my passport, it wasn’t good enough; it was expired.” He drove around with an expired license for two months until the state finally gave him a temporary one.

Woodie says he has several friends experiencing similar problems. “They were all in their late 60’s, they were all having trouble,” he says.

Ben Cloutier, a spokesman for the Tax and Revenue department, which oversees offices that produce and dispense state IDs, did not answer whether the department was attempting to make the process smoother for the elderly following reports of difficulty.

On a recent day outside the MVD Express on St. Michael’s Drive, Issah Abdallah, a doctoral student from Ghana currently studying at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, is there to have his license renewed. As an international student, he had to provide his passport and two proofs of residence for renewal, for which he’s providing bank statements and an insurance card.

“I actually came here before, and I got to know the documents, and I went to build those documents for my renewal of license,” he says, explaining that he had to coordinate with his insurance company to change his address on his card from a PO box to his physical address.

“It has been easy, very very easy,” he says.

It should be easy for non-PhD students, too.

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Breaking Up is Hard to Do Santa Fe’s romance with Wells Fargo is set to continue for another four years B Y M AT T G R U B S m a t t g r u b s @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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fter much soul-searching about community values, and following four and a half months of research, interviews and evaluation, it appears the city of Santa Fe is going to put its money where its mouth might not prefer it to be.

The city’s Finance Committee voted Monday night to recommend the city continue its financial services contract with Wells Fargo. SFR reported last month (web extra, July 14, “Back to the Wells”) that the recommendation was in the works. The measure next goes to the full City Council for a vote set for Aug. 30.

Wells Fargo would earn about $141,000 for the next fiscal year, a roughly 20 percent increase from its current contract that in part reflects more financial transactions demanded by the city.

The city’s financial staff worked to craft an unusual request for proposals that let local banks leverage their strengths while writing off their weaknesses. Banks were allowed to throw in for all the city’s business or only certain parts of it. Still, the breadth and depth of what Santa Fe and its 84,000 residents needed from a bank meant that only five financial institutions responded, and only two were true local banks.

Two New Mexico-based institutions, Century Bank and Los Alamos National Bank, applied for part of the city’s business. New Mexico Bank and Trust and Bank of Albuquerque—both of which are owned by out-of-state parent companies—joined Wells Fargo in submitting responses for the full contract.

Last spring, Mayor Javier Gonzales was vocal in his desire for a review of the city’s contract with Wells Fargo, saying the city needed a bank that had “a social responsibility policy that matches the values of Santa Fe, and a history investing in our community and economy.”

While opening up the bidding for the city’s business resulted in a contract

with the same financial institution that made headlines for financing the Dakota Access Pipeline and creating thousands of fake accounts for customers to boost its numbers, councilors seemed pleased with the process, if not thrilled with the result.

Wells Fargo scored well in the part of the bidding process that rated community initiatives, but councilors Carmichael Dominguez and Renee Villarreal questioned bank executives’ commitment to the local community.

“You can donate and give as much money as you want, but that doesn’t mean you’re not part of the problem,” Villarreal told Wells Fargo Regional Manager Bryan Scott.

“Personally, I’m very disappointed with some of the things that have happened in our institution this past year,” Scott told the panel. “What you’re seeing and reading in the papers is not indicative of the culture and the commitment that we have to your community.”

Dominguez questioned the bank’s willingness to serve less wealthy Santa Feans. While he agreed to send the recommendation on to the full City Council for debate, he asked the bank to map out how many branches it had in or next to low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.

“I want to make it clear that when we talk about community values … that we take it very seriously here,” Dominguez said.

Scott couldn’t answer Dominguez when he asked if Wells Fargo trained its employees about implicit bias, but local Wells Fargo executive Sharen Ramirez said such training is part of what local employees go through.

“We do know,” Ramirez told the committee, pausing to gather herself.

“The first time I took [the training] I did not pass. And as a native New Mexican I was shocked.”

While the recommendation means more than $200 million in city business will go to a bank headquartered out-ofstate, the city’s finance director said the review has opened up relationships with local banks for future projects.

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Court Cleanup Neglect is obvious on Municipal Court grounds

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he American flag flying outside Santa Fe’s Municipal Court building on Camino Entrada has seen better days.

It’s partially hidden by an overgrown tree. The ever-present breeze flicks it endlessly into the branches. When it settles, it’s easy to see strands of red fabric hanging amid the leaves.

“It’s not like I don’t have another flag,” Court Administrator Jon Singh tells SFR, gazing up into the tree. He looks back down. “But what’s the point?”

For years, the city has neglected the grounds of its Municipal Court building.

Stucco is cracked, signs are faded, weeds poke through old landscaping. The paint on a weathered wooden bench is peeling. The branches on some trees hang so low that someone bumped their head and complained to Singh. It’s more evidence that the city’s ongoing landscaping maintenance problem—whether it’s weeds in medians or the state of public buildings—is a lot of hard work away from being solved.

“It’s just getting out of hand. And as a court administrator, [when someone complains] I have tell someone,” he says.

“I came out and took pictures myself. It’s all over this whole block, really.”

While the Police Department’s grounds just south of court aren’t quite as bad, they’re far from the neat-andtidy appearance that might be expected.

“This has been like this for probably about two or three years,” Singh says.

“They won’t come out and do anything.

[We’ve sent] emails—the judge, me …”

Outside court that day, Municipal Court Judge Virginia Vigil tells SFR there have been repeated requests for help from the city, including a recent one.

In a later phone interview, Vigil says she feels the court has a good working

The ground of the Municipal Court building on Camino Entrada have been ill-kept most of the summer.

relationship with City Hall. She says the complaint Singh mentioned was at the top of her mind when SFR spoke to her earlier.

Asked whether the court grounds look the way she’d prefer them to look, Vigil says, “I’ve only been here about a year and a half and I don’t know that I have the history to answer that question. … I don’t want this to seem like Municipal Court against City Hall.”

Vigil says she’s seen work crews around and feels as though the city has a long list of work to do and not many people to do it.

A while back, city crews showed up to clear out the median in the parking lot so vehicles could pull all the way into the parking spots. And recently, crews spent some time tending to the Police Department’s Internal Affairs offices just north of the court building. The halls of justice look fine on the inside, Singh says. He no longer has a full-time custodian, but does get help for a couple hours each morning and afternoon.

“I don’t have too many problems with the custodians themselves,” Singh says.

But he can’t figure out why the city can’t get the court’s grounds squared away.

“We’re a long way from downtown,” he muses.

Not such a long way that the court facilities have been forgotten, though, says city spokesman Matt Ross.

“The staffing shortages that put us behind the ball on weeds and parks maintenance resulted in some city facilities … falling below what we’d like to see at our public buildings,” he tells SFR in an email. He counts the Municipal Court and Police Department buildings among them.

The city’s budget for this year included money for new maintenance workers, both full-time and seasonal. The city just filled two dozen seasonal positions. Ross says those crews also take care of landscaping at city buildings.

The new positions mean more bodies and the ability to catch up on work that’s been put on the back burner. “They can’t do 100 percent of the work overnight, but they expect to be at the municipal court this week,” Ross said on Monday. When SFR cruised by on Tuesday afternoon, some work had already begun.

Ross says crews will “continue to work through the list of city parks, medians, trails and facilities until they have gotten back on top of the maintenance challenges.”

Just maybe, Singh can soon hoist that new flag.

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HOW A FEDERALLY PAID PROFESSIONAL SNITCH LURED A WOMAN INTO A RELATIONSHIP, THEN TWO DRUG DEALS, THEN TURNED HER IN

BY J E F F P RO CTO R @NMInDepth

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ennifer Padilla’s boyfriend was pleading: Call people you used to run with, hook me up with some meth deals so I can pay off my Florida partners.

He’d been robbed and needed cash, he kept saying. He’d be hurt if she didn’t.

On parole after a year in prison for a string of Santa Fe burglaries and struggling to stay off drugs, Padilla was conflicted.

Stepping back into the drug world unnerved her, but she refused to see the man she loved in danger.

Two calls to three old acquaintances led to a pair of methamphetamine deals last July. Even though she wasn’t present for either, the calls cost Padilla, then 37, her freedom.

The man who pleaded with her was a paid government informant with a violent rap sheet, brought to Albuquerque last year by agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) as part of a massive undercover operation. He was one of five such informants dispatched into an impoverished, largely minority swath of the city to entice people into gun and drug crimes.

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Padilla is one of 103 people arrested Padilla’s case adds another claim of by agents in the sting, all delivered by wrongdoing by the ATF in an operation informants, and one of at least 13 tar- that has drawn community and legal geted by the man she believed was her scrutiny for alleged racial profiling. boyfriend. She has been in jail in Santa The operation also scooped up many Fe for a year and faces a decade or more who did not fit the “worst of the worst” in federal prison if she’s convicted of profile trumpeted by federal officials conspiracy to distribute meth. during a self-congratulatory news conDuring a nearly two-month court- ference last August, a previous New ship, the man kept his government job Mexico In Depth investigation found. a secret.

Padilla’s lawyer, Santa Fe-based L They had sex several times in the Val Whitley, says in a pair of court mopublicly funded halfway house where tions filed last month that the man PaPadilla lived with other recently re- dilla thought was her boyfriend, ATF leased women. But it was more than a Informant No. 9097, and his handlers physical attraction. He complimented went far beyond the questionable—but her, listened, drove her to work—set- legal—tactics law enforcement often ting himself apart from the abusive uses in the always-murky world of usmen she’d loved before. ing one criminal to catch another.

When he held her youngest daughter’s hand, strolling along Tingley Beach in search of digital Pokémon, it felt like a fresh chance at having a family.

There was darkness, for sure.

She fed his marijuana and ecstasy habits with cash. Sometimes he disappeared for days. And he encouraged her relapse, slipping her an ecstasy pill one night at the halfway house. That ended a stretch of nearly two drug-free years in her decade-long battle with addiction.

But she had fallen in love with him. So when he asked her to set up a drug deal—scared for Jennifer Padilla in the spring of 2016. his safety after he claimed he’d been robbed—she called an old acquaintance and made an introduction.

The informant exploited their inThe informant returned a week lat- timate relationship, Padilla’s struggle er, saying the price had been too high; with drug addiction and her vulnerable he still owed money across the country. station in life to lure her into a crime She needed to make another call, he she would not otherwise have committold her, because she was his girl. So she ted, Whitley’s motions say. did.

Whitley says it is entrapment and The men Padilla called sold four “outrageous government conduct.” ounces of meth to an undercover ATF He is asking a federal judge to dismiss agent working with the confidential in- Padilla’s charges and disclose detailed formant. information about Informant No. 9097

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Padilla’s five children are struggling, too. Before running away, her 14-year-old daughter grabbed up photos of her mother from her grandparents’ house. The girl was picked up by police on a shoplifting charge and is in juvenile detention.

Padilla believes the informant knows what he did was wrong. A few days before her arrest, he showed up at her parents’

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should her case go to trial.

“The court should condemn these actions in the strongest possible way by dismissing this case,” Whitley wrote in one of the motions.

Federal prosecutors have until Aug. 28 to respond to Whitley’s motions.

For Padilla, the alleged legal transgression is only one part of a larger whole.

In a jailhouse interview with New Mexico In Depth this June, she recalled the betrayal she believes led to where she found herself: Sitting in a small, windowless room, her cheeks reddening and her knuckles whitening as she chokes the edges of a plastic chair.

“I don’t think it’s fair because he knows how I felt about him,” Padilla says, dabbing her face with the shoulder of her red prison jumpsuit. “I wasn’t out there selling drugs. … All I wanted to do was just be his girlfriend. … The only reason I did what I did is ... because it was him.”

To tell this story, NMID interviewed Padilla, members of her family and others with knowledge of the informant’s activities. It also reviewed court records and other information NMID has learned from sources and sought comment from the ATF, the informant and the US Attorney’s Office.

The informant did not return telephone calls seeking comment.

NMID is not identifying him out of safety concerns related to his ongoing work for ATF. ATF officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment or detailed questions sent by email.

Elizabeth Martinez, a spokeswoman for the US Attorney’s Office in Albuquerque, which is prosecuting Padilla’s case and the others stemming from the sting operation, declined to comment for this story.

Padilla’s arrest has left her parents, who consider themselves pro-law enforcement, and who acknowledge her past run-ins with the law, stunned by how far the ATF went.

“I didn’t know that the government did things like this—that extreme,” Dan Sullivan, Padilla’s father, tells NMID. “That is so underhanded that it’s ridiculous.”

Worst of the worst?

ATF has claimed it helped clean up Albuquerque’s crime-ridden streets last year, arresting 103 of the “worst of the worst”—later defined as people with long, violent criminal records who were moving large quantities of drugs and guns in the city. But a New Mexico In Depth investigation found that most of the 103 didn’t fit those descriptions. Case in point: Jennifer Padilla, whose criminal record contrasts with that of the ATF informant she believed was her boyfriend, who delivered her to the feds.

PADILLA: Guilty plea to misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, 2011; guilty pleas to 11 felony counts of solicitation to commit residential burglary, sentenced to probation April 2012; guilty plea to felony drug possession, sentenced to jail and probation, October 2013; arrested on suspicion of felony drug possession, violating her probation, sentenced to 15 months in prison, June 2014.

Snapchat videos show Padilla snuggled up with a man she considered her boyfriend. He apparently considered her a target.

house where she had moved after completing 90 days in the halfway house.

“He was kissing me and hugging me— we were sitting in the car out in the driveway,” she says. “He said, ‘I’m just sorry for the way everything turned out and the way everything is.’”

His apology confused her.

ATF CI NO. 9097: Convicted of felony drug trafficking, sentenced to one year in prison, 2002; convicted of felony aggravated armed robbery, sentenced to three years in prison, 2005; convicted of felony drug possession, sentenced to one year in prison, 2010; arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence/battery by strangulation, 2014.

A few days later, she was in handcuffs.

Two days after that, reading her indictment, she realized the secret her boyfriend had kept from her.

ATF’s Albuquerque sting ran from April through August 2016 with an express purpose: Arrest people with lengthy violent criminal histories who were moving large quantities of guns and drugs in the city.

Lauding the operation as an unqualified success, that’s exactly who top federal officials say they nabbed.

Padilla didn’t fit either description.

Like scores of others identified by NMID, Padilla has past convictions for drug possession and property crimes, but no violent felonies—unlike Informant No. 9097. He spent time in prison in another state for drug trafficking, aggravated armed robbery, felony drug possession and possession of criminal tools, court records show.

And like many others, Padilla’s struggle with drugs centered around addiction, not trafficking.

Accusations of illegal “selective enforcement” have dogged the operation, too, with black people dramatically overrepresented among those arrested. Hispanic people also were arrested in disproportionate numbers; white people, including Padilla, were heavily underrepresented by population.

Legal and policing experts have criticized how ATF used out-of-state informants—three black, including Informant No. 9097, and two Hispanic—saying that tactic was likely to net lower-level defendants of color.

Padilla’s case highlights additional questions: How closely were ATF agents monitoring informants in Albuquerque, and was the agency following its own rules?

There have been problems before. A government watchdog recently criticized the agency for loose informant supervision in other stings across the country.

In Kansas City, an informant was having sex with targets and using and selling drugs during an operation, yet was allowed to follow ATF for a subsequent sting in St. Louis, according to one report by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General.

Padilla admits how her own decisions helped lead her to where she is now, and her family speaks in exasperated tones about her past.

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Jennifer Padilla’s family doesn’t shy away from her spotty past, but they say the ATF crossed a line. From left: Dan Sullivan, her father; Denise “Scooter” Sullivan, her mother; and Andrew Padilla, her eldest son.

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times with a trouble-prone crowd at says. “I was up. I was working, I was seeDel Norte High School. There were a ing my kids.” few trips to juvenile detention for runThe restaurant catered mostly to ning away, they say. black people. She would later learn At 21, her life began to stabilize when three frequent patrons were ATF inforshe married. She and her parents say mants. her 10-year marriage marked a period But she didn’t know that in May of relative calm, although that’s when 2016, when she caught the eye of one. she first discovered painkillers.

They exchanged telephone numbers.

After her divorce in 2010, a boy- Straight away, he seemed different friend introduced her to heroin, and from other men she’d known. she was hooked.

“It was the little things he did: show Drug possession charges followed, up to drive me to work in the morning then guilty pleas to 11 burglary counts, when it was only a block away,” Padilla for which she was sentenced to proba- says. “Little shit like that. I’m a female, tion. it works.”

Padilla couldn’t stay off heroin, He visited her at the halfway house however, and her probation was re- the first night they met and many voked after she earned another posses- nights thereafter. Sometimes, other sion charge in June 2014. She spent 15 men came. She later learned they were months in the state women’s prison in also ATF informants. The men drank, Grants. smoked marijuana and took ecstasy.

Wanting to continue the drug-free They shared the drugs with other womstretch she’d managed in prison, Pa- en at the house, Padilla says, although dilla applied for residence at Covenant she at first abstained.

House, a kind of way station for womATF can authorize illegal activity en leaving the corrections system, run by its confidential informants, or CIs,

by St. Martin’s HospitalCONTINUED ON PAGE 18 ity Center that offers behavioral health services, addiction treatment and other programs. She was accepted for a 90-day stay after her release on March 21, 2016.

She took a job at Bucket Headz, a soul food restaurant in the southeast Albuquerque neighborhood where, at about the same time, the ATF was beginning to focus its sting operation.

Bucket Headz is the Albuquerque soul food restaurant “I was the happiest I had where the informant first met Padilla. been in a long time,” Padilla

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A terrible Timeline

June: The two have sex several times at the halfway house. He spends time with her children. He gives her an ecstasy pill, ending nearly two years off drugs for Padilla. Early on, the informant asks if Padilla can introduce him to drug dealers. She refuses.

July 11: Padilla’s old acquaintance sells meth to an undercover ATF agent.

2016

Jennifer Padilla thought her new boyfriend would help bring her family together and get her life back on track; instead, he helped send her to jail.

July 9: Padilla introduces the informant to an old acquaintance for a drug deal. The same day, the informant tells his ATF handlers about Padilla: He’s known her two months and she lived at a halfway house.

March

April

March 21: Jennifer Padilla gets out of prison, checks into an Albuquerque halfway house.

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May: Padilla begins dating ATF Informant No. 9097, whose true identity she does not know.

“I’m not an attorney, but what you’re telling me raises a flag,” he says.

It is not clear whether agents knew the extent of their informant’s relationship with Padilla. But just before Padilla introduced Informant No. 9097 to her old drug dealer friends, he told his handlers he had known her for nearly two months and she had been living at a halfway house, NMID has learned.

Also unclear is whether the informant had been eyeing Padilla as a target from the beginning. She remembers a moment less than two weeks into their relationship that makes her question his motives now.

July July: The informant raises the stakes, telling Padilla he has been robbed and that she must arrange a drug deal so he can make money and pay back his Florida partners.

Wondering if she was connected to Los Padillas, the Albuquerque street gang, he asked her to introduce him to some bigtime drug dealers. She refused, saying she wasn’t a gang member and was on parole.

“I kind of feel that’s where he maybe tried to—‘Can’t you hook me up with your people?’—and I’m like, ‘No,’” she says.

A few weeks later, a party was in full swing outside Covenant House.

“He was like, ‘Take a couple drinks,’ and I did,” she says. “He popped [an ecstasy pill], and then he was like, ‘Do you want one?’” After a year and a half clean, the choice anguished her. “And he was all, ‘Well here, just take it, just take it.’ So I did.”

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during an operation, according to an agency manual obtained by NMID. That includes possessing and using drugs.

Supervisors must approve the activity and reauthorize it every 90 days. CIs are required to sign a form acknowledging they understand the constraints on their criminal activity.

It is unclear whether any of those safeguards were met in the Albuquerque operation—or whether agency officials cleared the informants to use drugs or share them with women in the halfway house—because ATF would not answer questions for this story.

Drug and alcohol use are forbidden at Covenant House, says Nevin Marquez, St. Martin’s director of behavioral health services. With few exceptions, residents are not allowed to have visitors either. Violations are managed by St. Martin’s staff, who are supposed to keep a near-constant presence in the house, and can result in expulsion.

Marquez declined to comment on Padilla, citing privacy laws. He would not confirm whether she had been a resident.

Speaking generally, he says staff do the best they can to enforce the rules— sometimes a difficult task, given the population they’re dealing with. That mission includes walking a fine line between privacy, an essential element of the program, and assisting law enforcement.

For example, residents agree to random searches of the house by state probation and parole officers before they move in.

An ATF informant bringing drugs into the house and having sex with a resident would be another matter, he says.

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An ATF informant took Jennifer Padilla and her children to Tingley Beach, a popular family spot.

July 12: ATF agents search Padilla’s criminal history in a national database.

Ecstasy, a popular party drug that leaves users euphoric, is often cut with heroin—Padilla’s drug of choice.

The pill had scratched an old itch, and a few hours later, she had a needle full of heroin in her arm.

The relapse came in waves, she says, with intermittent attempts at stopping.

The informant promised to help her quit.

He didn’t follow through.

Padilla moved out of Covenant House and in with her parents.

Dan Sullivan remembers meeting the new man in his daughter’s life in the driveway one night. He was suspicious, and neither he nor his wife wanted the man around.

That didn’t stop Padilla from seeing or scheduling outings with him and her children, including one to Tingley Beach where they played Pokémon GO. “He was really into it,” Jennifer’s 20-year-old son, Andrew, recalls. “He was really good with the kids; he hung out with the kids. ... It seemed like a normal type day.”

A few weeks later the informant came to Padilla with the story about the robbery and his needing quick cash. She made the call for the first deal.

Then, ATF Special Agent Carlos Valles stepped in, pretending to be the informant’s partner as he discussed the second transaction with her, NMID has learned.

She was never promised money for setting up the deals, she says, although Valles, working undercover, gave her $100 the day after the second one late last July.

After her arrest weeks later, she worried the man she believed was her boyfriend would be next. Her worry was mis-

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Around July 20: The informant again leans on Padilla, telling her he still needs to make more money. She calls another old acquaintance for a drug deal.

August 10: Padilla is arrested and charged with conspiracy to distribute meth. She remains in jail.

have pleaded guilty, most to drug charges, some to gun charges

August July 26: The second acquaintance sells meth to an undercover ATF agent.

placed. She discovered his lie Aug. 12 when she read her indictment, listing the dates of the two meth deals.

“I went: ‘Motherfucker,’” she says. “If he was working for them and he was being legit about it, that’s one thing. But he’s not.

He’s dirty. … I feel stupid and I feel used.

I feel, just, disgusted and taken advantage of.”

NMID knows some details about CI No. 9097 beyond his real name and criminal record. But Whitley, Padilla’s lawyer, wants to learn more about his work for ATF in Albuquerque and elsewhere.

Like numerous other law enforcement agencies, ATF relies heavily on CIs to make its cases. As of January 2016, the agency managed 1,855 informants who were working either for money or in exchange for leniency in their own cases.

According to a Justice Department Office of the Inspector General report published earlier this year, ATF spends about $4.5 million in taxpayer money each year on informants.

The informant Padilla knew as her boyfriend was paid for his work in Albuquerque, though it is not clear how much.

A review of court records and other documents show that another informant brought in for the Albuquerque operation earns an annual salary of $80,000 working for ATF, while another said he was paid $1,400 a week plus “bonuses.”

People interviewed for this story say CI No. 9097 seemed to enjoy his time in New Mexico.

He drove a slew of high-dollar rental cars around the city, including a Camaro, a convertible Mustang, a Lincoln Crossover,

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All this for making a couple of phone calls.

-Scooter Sullivan, Jennifer Padilla’s mother

a BMW and a Dodge Charger. The man never had cash, but carried a single credit card he used to make purchases and rent the cars.

He appeared to maintain a near-constant buzz.

“He would pop ecstasy, he’d drink and he’d smoke weed all day long,” Padilla says.

“All day.”

Andrew, Padilla’s son, who has a medical marijuana card, recalls smoking with the informant several times.

Dante Dellesite, Andrew’s friend, says he saw the informant purchase marijuana and ecstasy on several occasions—usually just $20 to $40 worth at a time—and saw him use the drugs. The seller was never arrested, court records show.

Dellesite also watched on Snapchat as the informant drove to Denver with another acquaintance to purchase marijuana. As they drove, they appeared to drink alcohol and continuously smoked marijuana, he says.

Dellesite says the informant stuck around in New Mexico after the operation ended. He saw the man at least one more

time after Padilla’s arrest. On that occasion, the informant was peddling Nike sneakers, belts, subwoofers and other wares out of the trunk of his car.

“Anybody can presume that something coming out of a trunk may not be legitimate,” Dellesite says. “After that, he was just, poof, gone in thin air like a magic trick.”

One of his destinations was Truth or Consequences. That’s where he was cited last fall for marijuana possession and reckless driving, court records show. The informant pleaded guilty to both misdemeanor charges, never hired a lawyer, paid $282 in fines and served 30 days of probation.

The informant use manual says all arrests of CIs must be reported for purposes of reassessing whether they should remain on the ATF payroll.

The man was still working as an ATF informant as of February 2017.

By early August 2016, Jennifer Padilla had decided to kick heroin again.

She completed a 10-day detox and was living at her parents’ home, waiting to get checked into an inpatient treatment center. Her probation officer had even agreed not to revoke her status for a previous dirty urine test.

She was scheduled to get an injection of Vivitrol, a drug that reduces cravings and the effects of heroin, on Aug. 10.

She never made it.

Scooter Sullivan, Padilla’s mother, remembers that morning: Three agents clad in black balaclavas and raid vests rushed through the backyard gate as she drank coffee.

Dan Sullivan answered the front door to see a larger group of agents there to arrest his daughter, a woman with no violent criminal record.

“Some of them had ARs on them,” he says. “They looked like a SWAT team. Absolutely overwhelming force.”

“All this for making a couple of phone calls,” Scooter adds.

The agents woke Jennifer up and told her she had a warrant. She was confused.

But reality set in when, handcuffed, she saw more agents in front of the house including Carlos Valles, who had been introduced as her boyfriend’s partner in the drug trade.

If she’s convicted of two counts of conspiracy to traffic meth, she could face 10 years or more in federal prison. If prosecutors decide to pursue a mandatory minimum sentence based on her previous felony drug possession conviction, that could swell to 20 years or more.

The year in jail has further distressed Padilla’s children, who are living with their father and occasionally staying with their grandparents. Scooter says the younger children cry at night, asking for their mom.

Padilla and her family hope US District Judge William P “Chip” Johnson, a George W Bush appointee, will dismiss her case once he learns how ATF used CI No. 9097 to target her.

“He set her up,” Dan Sullivan says.

“Predatory is a very good way to put it.

That’s absolutely what he was doing: He was preying on her.”

This story is part of The Justice Project from New Mexico In Depth. Jeff Proctor is a contributing editor at SFR.

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The Tempest: 7:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday Aug. 23-27 and Tuesday-Thursday Aug. 29-31. $75 Wednesday Aug. 23; $10-$35 all other dates.

Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103.

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MUSIC FRI/25 ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER We know every writer out there putting together a blurb about The Fixx coming to their town probably used a very similar headline, but what are we supposed to do? Ignore it? Talk about songs like “Saved by Zero” or “Deeper and Deeper”?! Naw, we just thought we’d let you know they’re coming so you can plan accordingly—and we know a whole mess of you are now actively excited.

For real, though, The Fixx has had a decades-long career and penned some of the most enduring everyone-knows-’em songs in the history of music, and that’s nothing to joke about. (ADV) The Fixx: 7:30 pm Friday Aug. 25. $25-$30.

The Bridge @ Santa Fe Brewing Co., 37 Fire Place, 557-6182.

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EVENT SUN/27 OUTSIDE THE LINES Santa Fe now has more than one mobile gallery, and the boys of Axle Contemporary— who retrofitted an old bread delivery truck into an art exhibition truck—keep the ball rolling, this time by exhibiting the original works of 67 New Mexico artists who created different pages for a coloring book based on stories by New Mexico writers. For this particular event, held in a brick-and-mortar with the truck parked nearby, a number of artists (including, but hardly limited to, Anastasio Wrobel, Lisa Flynn, Jason Garcia and Israel Francisco Haros Lopez), come together to talk about their work, sign copies of the book and meet their adoring public. (ADV) Local Coloring Book Signing: 1 pm Sunday Aug. 27. Free. New Mexico Museum of Art courtyard, 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072.

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Tradition! Tradition!

New music festival spinoff kicks off in style What started out as the Santa Fe Banjo and Fiddle Contest in 1974 has a new tune this year in the form of not one but two festivals it birthed.

The Southwest Pickers Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival stalled out at the Santa Fe fairgrounds, then moved to Edgewood last year and Red River next month. But now, the first-ever Santa Santa Fe Traditional Music Festival will go down at Camp Stoney north of the city this weekend. The event is “an outgrowth of the old festival,” not meant to take the place of Southwest Pickers’ event, but to add to the landscape in a broader fashion, says Ron Hale, an organizer with the group Friends of Traditional Music.

In addition to old-time and bluegrass options, mariachi and Balkan performers are slated to play. This means that over three days, 27 performances, jam sessions and food trucks like Trinity Kitchen and Taqueria Gracias Madre are scheduled to descend upon the wooded rural setting, and the pickings are good.

“I’m looking forward to the diversity,” Hale says of the lineup, which includes acts like Lone Piñon, Round Mountain, Mariachi Buenaventura, Fast Peso String Band and many others. Hale also serves as the chair of the planning committee and on the board of nonprofit Outside

In, the festival’s fiscal sponsor (Outside In also produces the Santa Fe Bandstand summer series).

“The whole process of rekindling and re-envisioning this festival has been really exciting and everyone has been very receptive and excited,” Hale tells SFR. “We’re all people who have been involved in the [Southwest Pickers] festival for years, but we’ve never run one before.”

Attendees also have the option to camp out over the weekend should they so choose, and Hale says workshops on Balkan music, fiddle, ukulele and tin pan alley will cover lots of ground. “We’re trying to make them not just basic workshops,” he says. “It will be a little deeper than just bluegrass and old-time.”

Which is really the takeaway here— you’ll have your precious bluegrass and your beloved old-timey jams, but also the chance to broaden your horizons, all in a beautiful nearby forest. Not too shabby.

(Alex De Vore)

SANTA FE TRADITIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 5 pm Friday Aug. 25; 10 am-on Saturday Aug. 26; 10 am-4 pm Sunday Aug. 27. $15-$50. Camp Stoney, 7855 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-3166; sftradmusic.com

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WED/23 BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK BY SENSEI GENZAN QUENNELL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk, “Noble Silence, Right Speech,” is presented by Sensei Genzan Quennell. The evening begins with a 15-minute meditation, so arrive on time.

5:30 pm, free THE HIDDEN GIFT IN DISORIENTATION Academy for the Love of Learning 133 Seton Village Road, 995-1860 An evening of discussion about the ways in which disruption and disorientation open doors for new insight.

We can relate to the former in a big way; still lookin’ for the latter.

6:30 pm, free SOUTHWEST SAGA SERIES: HAMPTON SIDES Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Renowned author Sides reads from his work Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West, which should basically be required reading once your plane touches down in New Mexico.

6 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: 2017 SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Check out some original flamenco choreography that’s, like, so good and so hot you’ll be like, “Man. That’s so good.

And so hot.”

7:30 pm, $25

Fabio Napoleoni’s Strangely Loving It opens this Friday at Chuck Jones Gallery, so go get your nails did with Gossamer. He always was pretty lonely; we’re glad he made a little patchwork friend here. This, the title image, is available in a limited-edition run of prints on canvas, so get on it.

FLAMENCO AT THE LODGE The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Tapas, spirits and flamenco with a world-class lineup of artists.

8 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Happy hour and board games!

What's not to like? Bring your own or play one of the many on hand at George RR’s cinema-bar hybrid.

6 pm, free

MUSIC BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, jazz and pop on piano—it’s the Vanessie way, seven days a week.

7 pm, free

BOK CHOY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Classic rock! Band member Craig Small plays a bit on the side, too. They refer to their own shows as “rockin’, bokin’ fun,” and we are 100 percent on board with this language.

8 pm, free CATIE FRIEL, NEILL, SITARA SCHAUER AND MISS PAVLICHENKO Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Fierce female forces fashion ferocious ... uh, music. Friel is in Australia now, but she (and pretty much everyone else) went to the College of Santa Fe (RIP). CSF 4 lyfe.

8:15 pm, $5-$10 donation CLINT CHISLER Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Original acoustic folk music from a local musician—we like those.

6 pm, free

DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Electronica and dance tunes from the longtime local deej and founding member of Outstanding Citizens Collective.

10 pm, free FAST HEART MART AND GUNSAFE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Punk, country and folk with some rap and Indian styles thrown in. What? Fast Heart Mart gets his name from a heart condition (no really—he has a defibrillator), but thankfully that extra heart action translates to feeling in his tunes.

8 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco tunes. And tapas.

Don’t forget those.

7 pm, free

LAURA BLACKLEY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folky country and high lonesome Appalachian blues straight out of North Carolina.

8 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Get swank with standards and jazz on piano. We’d make “Stormy Weather” jokes, but the song’s too sad.

6:30 pm, free RAMON BERMUDEZ JR. TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Passionate Latin and jazz guitar.

6 pm, free SANTA FE BANDSTAND: FUTURE SCARS & BILL PALMER'S TV KILLERS Santa Fe Plaza Bandstand 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Progressive post-rock from Matron Records’ Future Scars, then Americana and rock.

6 pm, free

SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Swing music magic. And you know what they say—it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that ... magic.

7 pm, free SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Singer-songwriter jam-a-lama-ding-dongs.

5:30 pm, free THE ZIG ZAGS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock ‘n’ roll. Rolling papers.

Music. Party. Excelsior! The Indian Market tourists have all bounced, yet there is a LANL conference filling up downtown hotels now, and those folks are really interesting to talk to. So, a hotel’s the place to be. Good margaritas in fancy glasses too.

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THE CALENDAR OPERA ALCINA Santa Fe Opera House 301 Opera Drive, 986-5900 A sorceress has captured and mesmerized Ruggiero, her latest victim, on her enchanted island in this Handel opera.

Indeed, a story as relatable as any other of magic islands. In this one, though, dude’s fiancé wants to get him back— but if she fails, he’ll just live on Alcina’s weird sorceress island basically forever. That sounds like it would actually be OK, but, whatever, what do we know?

8 pm, $38-$310

THEATER THE TEMPEST Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Check out the inaugural Shakespeare in the Garden production, The Tempest.

Tonight features a special reception at 6 pm (that’s why it’s a little pricey, but it’ll be worth it, folks). Afterwards, for an extra $20, you can also join the actors for another reception and crack supersmart “O, brave new world!” jokes (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $75

THU/24 BOOKS/LECTURES SOUTHWEST SAGA SERIES: ANNE HILLERMAN Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Hillerman reads from her latest mystery, Song of the Lion, which begins with a deadly bombing at a Navajo Nation high school.

6 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: 2017 SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Original fleet-footed choreography.

7:30 pm, $25

EVENTS NEW HOMEBUYER NIGHT Homewise 1301 Siler Road, Bldg. D, 983-9473 Think you can’t own a home?

Think again, dorkus. Stop by and get to know the local nonprofit at this informal evening gathering.

5 pm, free

FILM HAROLD AND LILLIAN Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 This documentary tells the tale of storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian, and how the love affair between industry folks may have had an effect on some of your favorite classic films (think Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks). Arrive an hour early for a reception. Presented by the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival.

7:30 pm, $10-$20

MUSIC ALTO STREET Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk rock that pays tribute to everyone’s favorite local street. I mean, OK, so we don’t know that for sure, but it seems likely. Or maybe one of them lived over there?

Whatever, just go.

8 pm, free BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, jazz and pop on piano.

7 pm, free

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Sean Diediker’s “Tree of Life” is more than it seems—that’s pigment and fused glass. Check it out in his show of new work, Return to Star Lake, opening at Blue Rain Gallery on Friday.

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Left to right: Ben Wright, Brian Mayhall and Paul Feathericci of D Numbers ... Nice yard, nicer guys.

The Magic Number(s) Oh hey, D Numbers—we love you guys

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

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he last time I wrote about D Numbers was six long years ago, which is insane—especially since it was just a couple months ago in my mind. Of course, a lot’s changed since then, with members Ben Wright, Brian Mayhall and Paul Feathericci founding a record label, Mesa Recordings, each releasing critically-acclaimed solo albums (acclaimed, at least, by this critic) at one point or another and contributing to Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return’s ambient, passive soundtrack and sound effects.

In this six-year window, Wright and Feathericci have had children (not together; but they’re cute as hell and one time I saw Wright’s son hug another kid and I almost wept) and Mayhall moved to Old Mexico. Breaking up the band, however, never even occurred to them; D Numbers is practically in their DNA. “I was sort of like, ‘Hey guys, I’ve got this opportunity to move, can we still keep doing the band and the label?’ and they were just like, ‘Yeah,’” Mayhall says.

“And we’ve got the internet,” Feathericci adds of continuing collaboration across international borders. And new tracks have been sent—though, to be fair,

on the day I visited the band at their practice space at Feath’s home outside Santa Fe, they were mostly fine-tuning existing material. This is as much about them having not performed together since September of last year as it is about the audience; elements will be changed and reworked, time signatures will be simplified, tightness will be achieved. And since D Numbers plays maybe twice a year, it should all seem relatively fresh.

“It’s funny,” Wright says, “but we’ll have people come up to us after shows and say, “Oh wow, I really loved the new stuff!’ when it’s not new at all.” Of course, this could either be insulting or a perfect compliment, depending on how you look at it, but the boys stay positive.

Just don’t call them experimental. Lord knows they do technically experiment and also that I have called them such in the pages of this very publication, generally because it’s the easiest way to say there’s nothing else quite like them. “We’ve found in our touring experience, we’ll go play at a dance event, and we’re a little left field of that,” Wright says, “or we’ll go play at a more live music event and we’re a little left field of that.”

But “experimental” sort of sells the band short or, possibly, makes people

think they’re not as musically accessible as they are.

Not so. At its core, D Numbers is an indie/post-rock act, but with intricate layers achieved through an absolutely mind-boggling stage plot and probably the most wires you’ll ever see a band use. Tucked into the sound you’ll find electronica, techno, house and funk at play; analog and digital sounds merge; loops and samples in-

We like it weird, and we’re not going to be satisfied with something if it sounds ‘normal.’

-Paul Feathericci

terweave with live instrumentation. According to Feathericci, “We like it weird, and we’re not going to be satisfied with something if it sounds ‘normal.’” D Numbers remains one of the grooviest bands, location irrelevant, operating today.

Although, Feathericci says, “Depending on what lens you’re looking through, we’re a dance band.”

So what does this mean for fans and soon-to-be fans planning on attending D Numbers’ Santa Fe Bandstand show

on Thursday Aug. 24? For one thing, everyone seems energized. Whether this is about being musically reunited with Mayhall remains unclear, but even just during our brief chat, excitement bubbles under the surface.

“We just do naturally what we do,” Wright explains. “We don’t try very hard at maintaining an aesthetic. … We’re thinking about our audience, to some extent.” He means they know how to make it work for y’all, and that they’re more interested in crafting clever songs that work for everyone than conducting math experiments or cramming in unnecessary parts.

Should you desire a deeper experience than just the Bandstand show, Wright, Mayhall and Feathericci also perform solo at a secret-ish, private-esque two-day event beginning the following evening in Glorieta. To work that out, simply ask someone who knows (there are lots of them hanging around).

In the meantime, Mayhall heads back to Mexico soon and Wright and Feathericci continue their efforts with Meow Wolf. They’re currently at work on new sounds for one-off MW satellite exhibits in other states that have yet to be announced and, according to Wright, the flagship location’s sounds have been sneakily updated here and there and will continue to receive attention for the foreseeable future.

SANTA FE BANDSTAND: D NUMBERS 6 pm Thursday Aug. 24. Free.

Santa Fe Plaza, 100 Old Santa Fe Trail

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Stamp your own tin medallion Try wool carding and spinning Make and eat your own tortilla Enjoy interactive storytelling Watch a magic show

Learn about New Mexico’s feathered friends with Hawks Aloft Make your own walking stick Enjoy traditional Spanish dancing And much more!

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DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA L'Olivier Restaurant 229 Galisteo St., 989-1919 Mediterranean gypsy jazz and, we hear, some pretty amazing dessert options.

6 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Geist, whom we love and who also worked with Stephen effing Sondheim in the past, plays standards, torch songs and, fingers crossed, some jams from Les Miz. 6 pm, $2 FREAKS OF THE INDUSTRY WITH DJ POETICS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, old-school, funk and disco from one of the longest continually-spinning DJs in Santa Fe history—though the name may have changed from time to time.

9 pm, $5-$7 GREG BUTERA & THE GUNSELS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Cajun honky-tonk.

6 pm, free KARAOKE Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, 984-8414 Thoughts about karaoke you should have: 1) “Don’t Stop Believing” is played, y’all.

2) Professional singers who go to karaoke and act like they’re just in on the fun are annoying. 3) Relax. Breathe.

Have fun.

7:30 pm, free LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 You know the drill. And if not, just see the above listing.

Michéle Leidig hosts.

9 pm, free LLIAM CHRISTY El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco, Cuban and Latin pop and bossa nova guitar.

7 pm, free MARC SANDERS Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Jazzy jazz and jazzy standards on a jazzy piano.

6:30 pm, free MIAMI NIGHT WITH VDJ DANY Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Bachata, merengue and reggaeton—Florida-style, which we assume means that alligators will be there, but there’s really only one way to find out for sure.

9 pm, $5-$7 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo acoustic jazz guitar and the kind of wine lists that make oenophiles go “Ooh!” 6 pm, free

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REBECCA ARSCOTT & ONE HEART FYAH Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Rebecca Arscott & One Heart Fyah belt out your favorite reggae, pop and soul covers.

Don’t be a dogheart, seen?

G’wan and lissin, rude-boys and rude-gals and rude non-binary folk!

10 pm, free SANTA FE BANDSTAND: D NUMBERS Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Instrumental rock and electronica from these local favorites for the first time since founding member Brian Mayhall moved to Old Mexico (see Music, page 25).

6 pm, free THE ZIG ZAGS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock ‘n’ roll, yo.

7:30 pm, free

OPERA LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Santa Fe Opera House 301 Opera Drive, 986-5900 Gaetano Donizetti tells a tale about a devilish brother's plan to increase his wealth and power by marrying his sister to the right man, instead of the man she loves. At their wedding his sister goes mad, murdering her new husband and attending their reception covered in his blood. Critics have loved this production.

8 pm, $41-$261

THEATER THE FIESTA MELODRAMA Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 A tradition in Santa Fe since 1919, the Fiesta Melodrama is where Santa Fe lampoons local news and politics. Book your tickets early, because this is tradition sells out fast.

7:30 pm, $15 THE TEMPEST Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Check out the inaugural Shakespeare in the Garden production, The Tempest.

Gates open at 6 pm, so bring a picnic and enjoy the gardens and enjoy live Renaissance tunes (see SFR Picks, page 31) 7:30 pm, $10-$35

FRI/25 ART OPENINGS DAVID ROTHERMEL: THE LIGHT WITHIN David Rothermel Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave., 575-642-4981 Rothermel uses his thorough understanding of Josef Alber’s color theory to satisfy his thirst for the sublime. If you’re into non-objective abstract art (see: colors and shapes and lines), check it out.

5 pm, free

FABIO NAPOLEONI: STRANGELY LOVING IT Chuck Jones Studio Gallery 126 W Water St., 983-5999 Nostalgia, sorrow and elation are captured in Napoleoni's use of vivid color and familiar cartoon characters in his pop art paintings.

6 pm, free JAMIE BRUNSON AND NINA TICHAVA: NEW NEW MEXICO ABSTRACTION Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road, 986-9800 Brunson presents large-format paper collages and vibrant oil paintings; Tichava combines printmaking and painting techniques in her borrowed landscapes.

Through Sept. 12 (see 3 Questions, page 29).

5 pm, free RETURN TO STAR LAKE: NEW PAINTINGS BY SEAN DIEDIKER Blue Rain Gallery 544 Guadalupe St., 954-9902 Diediker interprets classical subjects as thoroughly modern symbolic language that is fresh and visually striking. His emotional pieces are simultaneously contemporary and timeless.

5 pm, free SHELLEY MUZYLOWSKI ALLEN: NEW GLASS SCULPTURES Blue Rain Gallery 5544 Guadalupe St., 954-9902 Washington-based glass sculptor Allen presents her new body of work, featuring super-surreal and super-cool animals and strange, seacreature-like space ships.

Stop whatever you’re doing and get there.

5 pm, free TRANSITIONAL HORIZONS The Globe Gallery 727 Canyon Road, 989-3888 Oil and cold wax works convey colorful, changing horizons.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES SOUTHWEST SAGA SERIES: MICHAEL McGARRITY Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 McGarrity reads from his book, The Last Ranch, which tells a lengthy tale about life and love spanning four generations. McGarrity’s crime novels, based in New Mexico, are exemplary examples of the new-millennium version of the classic Western.

6 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: 2017 SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Antonio Granjero, Estefania Ramirez and Antonio Hidalgo Paz co-direct this summer series featuring Granjero and Ramirez performing original choreography.

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Resident Equal

Santa Fe Art Institute kicks off a year devoted to Equal Justice

BY LIZ BRINDLEY a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m @lizbrindley_artwork

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he Santa Fe Art Institute enters its 32nd annual residency this week, a program created when SFAI opened its doors back in 1985 and altered to a thematic approach four years ago with a focus on food justice. Creatives have since explored topics such as immigration and water rights, among others.

For the upcoming 2017-2018 residencies, SFAI kicks off Equal Justice, a title chosen before the 2016 presidential election, when social movements like Black Lives Matter and the protest at Standing Rock spearheaded dialogues that still call for action today.

“We were really looking for something that grounded all of these topics of structural inequity,” Jamie Blosser, SFAI’s executive director, explains. “‘Equal justice under law’ is on our Supreme Court building, and yet, that has not been the case for all citizens.”

The institute received a record 230 applications this year, a number that a team of jurors whittled down to 124 residents (comprised of individuals and collectives). Those accepted will now spend between one and three months in Santa Fe proposing creative solutions to the question: “How can art be used to engage systems of power and foster social and racial equity?”

Seventeen percent of those accepted are New Mexico residents, while the rest hail from 21 states including Hawaii, Montana and New Jersey, as well as 21 countries such as Australia, Singapore and Syria. Residents are not limited to visual artists, either, and represent everything from anthropologists to lawyers to linguists to foster an environment wherein people from diverse backgrounds can rub elbows for moments of collaboration.

“When we think of creativity in the broad sense, that opens up more possibilities,” SFAI Development and Communications Director Robert Gomez Hernandez says. “If we expand the definition of art and community, we are able to ask, ‘How can we have really strong grips in creating positive social change?’”

We don’t know what’s going on with La Pocha Nostra here, but we like it. A lot.

The Santa Fe community is encouraged to keep an eye on the SFAI calendar to contribute to the conversation through public gatherings, but Gomez Hernandez chose three to highlight: Next month, New York City-based artist and designer Mary Miss conducts a City as Living Laboratory (CALL) workshop to explore sustainability through artistic practice (7 pm Wednesday Sept. 20. Free. Santa Fe Art Institute).

In addition, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, former leaders of radical activist group the Weather Underground, host Radical Imagination, a dialogue and performance to explore how collective creativity can propose solutions for an alternative world (6 pm Sunday Sept. 24. Free.

James A Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Road).

To kick off the residency year, however, Los Angeles collective La Pocha Nostra hosts the five-day Performance Art Intensive, which begins this Sunday.

Formed in 1993 by artist-activists Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes and Nola Mariano, La Pocha explores immigration, the politics of language and cross-cultural issues through collaborative performance. According to their website, this is a means to “erase the borders between artist and spectator;” in doing so, it questions the borders placed on society by “professional institutions, religious and political beliefs and pop-cultural affiliations.” The group poses these questions through participatory productions in which people can cross the threshold from viewer to artist and explore answers through movement-based exercises.

“La Pocha is all about unpacking identity around an individual’s personal experience,” says Toni Gentilli, SFAI residency program manager. “They address empathy through embodied experience.”

Twenty-four artists, actors and activists of all ages are scheduled to attend the intensive and explore the body “as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism,” according to SFAI’s promotional materials. The art collective creates different characters for participants to

embody another person’s story, a practice that connects diverse histories through performance.

Though the intensive had a signup deadline of Aug. 10, it concludes with a free public “open pedagogical session” for the Santa Fe community to get a taste of the experience.

The SFAI staff explains that this experimental performance is just a taste of the public events residents will lead throughout the year. “We’re fortunate to have these leaders share their expertise with SFAI,” Gomez Hernandez shares, “and we’re aware that our community has a lot to say as well. So it’s a meeting of worlds.

We believe not in working on or for a community, but with a community. It’s our responsibility to come together and say what is relevant here and what can work moving forward.”

OPEN PEDAGOGICAL SESSION 7 pm Thursday Aug. 31. Free; RSVP required at sfai.org/lapocha. Santa Fe Art Institute, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 424-5050

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A few years ago, my dad was busted by the cops for using an online forum to solicit escorts. The arrest and infidelity destroyed his marriage to my mom. My brother and I were in our mid-teens at the time and were angry enough with him that we asked him to not seek custody. He obliged, and neither of us has seen him since. I miss my dad—or the man I thought he was. I know part of my anger comes from how badly he hurt my mom. As I mature, I’m wondering if I was unfair to my dad by cutting off all contact. I don’t think sex work is immoral. I don’t think people who see sex workers are bad. But because my dad was involved in this bust, and because I had to become aware of the double life he led, I felt uncomfortable around him. It doesn’t help that some of the girls were not much older than I was at the time. I think I’d like to get to know my dad again, but I’m not sure what kind of relationship I’m ready to have. He was a wonderful father—and on some level, I recognize I cut him off when he showed me he was human. How do I reach out to him?

-Please Help Each of us is a writhing mass of contradictions, PH. We all have public personas and private personas, and there are always gaps between the two. And while those gaps, when exposed, can be mutually negating, that’s not always the case. It is possible for someone to be a good dad and a shitty husband. The good dad you knew your dad to be? That wasn’t a lie. It was one of your father’s truths. That he failed as a husband and hurt your mom—with an assist from laws criminalizing sex work—is another of your father’s truths.

You don’t say why your dad was seeking sex outside the marriage, PH, and I can’t imagine that was a conversation you wanted to have with your dad in your mid-teens—and it may not be one you ever want to have. But it’s possible your parents’ marriage was more complicated than you know. (“The victim of an affair is not always the victim of the marriage,” as Esther Perel says.) But you’re not an awful daughter for refusing to see your dad during a contentious, confusing, and most likely humiliating time. (I imagine there was press).

As for how to reach out, I think e-mail is the best way to reestablish contact after an estrangement. You can take your time crafting what you want to say, and your dad can take his time crafting a response. And you’ve already written a good opening line for your first e-mail to your dad: “I’d like to get to know my dad again, but I’m not sure what kind of relationship I’m ready to have. But I’d like to start talking—via e-mail, for now.”

Give your mother a heads up, PH, so she doesn’t feel blindsided. Good luck.

I’m a female masochist and super subby—I see nothing wrong with that. For the last couple of months, I’ve been pursuing “death wish” fantasies. When I start feeling low, I seek out guys on hookup sites who are sadistic enough that they might potentially help me carry it out. I’ve even gone so far as to put together a “blackmail package” for them, in case they start feeling like I might tell on them. I honestly wouldn’t want anyone to get in trouble just because I’m not thinking right. My therapist knows about the masochist end of things, but I’m afraid to tell her this other part because I don’t want to be put on any crazy pills. Is there a way for me to switch my brain from thinking about this and somehow find my way back to normal BDSM or something else entirely without turning off my sexuality completely?

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victim/sub and a reckless perp/Dom. And any person who pushes a woman’s “death wish” fantasy into potentially-carrying-it-out territory deserves whatever trouble comes their way.

Murder is wrong, even if the person wants it.

And taking advantage of someone who clearly isn’t in their right mind doesn’t magically make manslaughter not criminal—“blackmail package” or no “blackmail package.”

You must open up to your therapist about the risks you’re taking, RNSMN. Some people with extreme and/or dangerous sexual obsessions have been successfully treated with talk therapy and low-dose antidepressants—meds, not “crazy pills.” A good therapist and/or the right low-dose medication could help you find your way back to safer and saner BDSM practices without shutting off your sexuality completely.

I’m a woman in my early 30s having sex with a guy in his early 20s. The sex is more than casual, and we really care about each other. My concern is this guy has some alt-right sympathies that reveal themselves in our political discussions. He’s a Trump guy, but hesitates to admit it because he knows I’m anti-Trump. He shares memes created by Mike Cernovich and Milo Yiannopoulos, he gets his news from hardright publications, and his sister and brotherin-law are Holocaust deniers. This concerns and confuses me because he’s such a sweet guy and, honestly, so goddamn good in bed. He might be the best lay I’ve ever had. I can’t reconcile these two sides of him, but I also can’t help trying to enlighten him a little bit. One of his best features is his open-mindedness. He’s read books and watched documentaries I’ve recommended. I feel a responsibility to this young, confused, and frankly not-too-bright person who’s surrounded by bad influences.

I want to be understanding and gently guide him in a better direction, but sometimes his ignorance is aggravating. I can also sense that he’s beginning to feel a little judged, which can only make things worse. I keep thinking of your Campsite Rule, and I wonder at what point does one give up throwing logic and articles at someone who thought Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor? Can I continue to have sex with someone who thinks the left is conspiring to turn everyone communist?

-Conflicted Lover Don’t fuck Nazis.

If someone you just met tells you they’re a Nazi, don’t fuck that Nazi. If you’re already fucking someone and they reveal themselves to be a Nazi, stop fucking that Nazi. If someone tells you they’re a Nazi and you fuck that Nazi anyway and keep fucking that Nazi because they’re good at sex (for a Nazi), your effort to “gently guide” that Nazi away from being a Nazi doesn’t make it okay for you to fuck that Nazi.

Okay, okay: This guy might not be a Nazi at all—although it sure as fuck sounds like his family is, and they probably have more influence over him than you do. It’s possible this young, confused, and not-too-bright boy is merely a Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist and maybe I’m still too upset about Charlottesville to be impartial. Or, hey, maybe this guy is already a Nazi and hasn’t revealed the full extent of his odious political beliefs to you, CL, because the sex is good and he’s hoping to fuck the Nazi into you before you can fuck the Nazi out of him.

Finally, good people don’t worry about making Nazis “feel judged.” Nazis should be judged—à la Judgment at Nuremberg, an old film with a feel-good ending that’s worth watching right about now. Another thing good people don’t do? They don’t fuck Nazis.

There are fantasies that are simply too dangerous to realize, RNSMN, even with a willing

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EVENTS FORE KIDS GOLD TOURNAMENT Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe 205 Caja Del Rio Road, 955-4400 Dig deep in the pockets and support local kids with the 19th annual fundraiser and golf tournament. Golfers enjoy all-day access to golf greens, lunch and prizes.

9 am-2 pm, $100-$750 THE REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT JOURNEY Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 Speakers Rebeca JassoAguilar (New Mexico Faith Coalition for Immigrant Justice), Tarrie Burnett (director, Lutheran Family Services Refugee and Asylee Programs), and refugees themselves speak about the state of immigration and asylum in New Mexico.

5 pm, free

FILM ATOMIC ARTIST AND EL SALVADOR: ANOTHER VIETNAM Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Filmmakers Glenn Silber and Claudia Vianello screen Atomic Artist (about artist Tony Price, who created from the scraps from LANL) and El Salvador: Another Vietnam (about the state of El Salvador’s civil war in 1981).

See Movies, page 39.

7 pm, $9-$10.50

MUSIC BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, jazz and pop on piano.

7 pm, free BOXCAR GOES CLUBCAR: DJ MAVERICK & ORPHEUS DIGITAL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 On Friday nights, Boxcar transforms into the dancing-est dance music dance club that ever danced.

10 pm, free CHRIS ABEYTA QUARTET Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Latin jams from the local institution, musician and educator.

5:30 pm, free CLIFFORD BROWN AND MAX ROACH JAZZ TRIBUTE Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 Locals JQ Whitcomb, Kanoa Kaluhiwa, Bert Dalton, Michael Olivola and John Trentacosta pay tribute to jazz greats Brown and Roach. Presented by the Santa Fe Music Collective.

7 pm, $20-$25

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DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs and pizzas with stuff on them that don’t sound great, but then they are.

6 pm, free DANCE MONSTER: MARK FARINA, DJ OONA AND DJ ELDON Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Get down with the get-down provided by this threesome of electronica acts. Plus, monsters.

9 pm, $20-$25 DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Acoustic jazz, swing, Latin and Italian classics singing in Italian, English and Spanish.

7 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano standards and Broadway faves.

6 pm, $2 THE FIXX The Bridge @ Santa Fe Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, 557-6182 Rock. You know the guys.

“One thing leads to anooooooother...” (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $25-$30 HALF BROKE HORSES Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 Country and Americana.

6 pm, free HUSKY BURNETTE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Dirty blues and rock 'n' roll from Colorado. Is he also a husky brunette? ‘Cause we like those ... (Culture Editor’s note: Indeed, the Calendar Editor does like dudes like that, and bless her for that because that’s basically my whole ... uh, gestalt, and we need more women like that).

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JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 R&B, rock and dance tunes.

Covers, too.

8:30 pm, free MUSIC AT THE MUSEUM: JESSE VENIER New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Jesse Venier performing romantic Hollywood theme songs on the patio.

5 pm, $7-$12 NOAH MURO Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Standards on piano.

6:30 pm, free PULL PUNCH ‘N PRAY, RED SIX AND SKERRICK The Underground 200 W San Francisco St. Punk rockers from Southern California roll through, plus local support from Skerrick.

9 pm, $5 RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free RYAN HUTCHENS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk-indie originals.

5 pm, free SANTA FE BANDSTAND: MEOW WOLF MONSTER BATTLE PARTY Santa Fe Plaza Bandstand 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Battle it out on the dance floor in your scariest, weirdest monster costumes. We realize that might not sound real, but seriously—go dressed like a monster. All ages are welcome.

6 pm, free THE RUDE BOYZ Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, 984-8414 Country-Western.

8:30 pm, free SANTA FE TRADITIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Camp Stoney 7855 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-3166 The fest kicks off with a performance by the Fast Peso String Band, The Bluegrass Collective with guest Jean-Luc Leroux and Mariachi Buenaventura.

There's camping, bath houses, workshops jam sessions and more (see SFR Picks, page 21).

6 pm, $15-$45 SCOTTY AND THE ATOMICS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Jazz, rock, reggae and funk.

10 pm, $5 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock ‘n’ roll.

8 pm, free

OPERA THE (R)EVOLUTION OF STEVE JOBS Santa Fe Opera House 301 Opera Drive, 986-5900 If you don’t yet know that this is an electronica opera about a guy who never wore deodorant (yes, the word “antiperspirant” is in the libretto), we can’t help you, and neither can its composer and Pope of Opera-town Mason Bates.

8 pm, $43-$251

THEATER THE 23RD LETTER Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 When God tells you, “You’ll go to the Hebrew texts and paint” ... You’d better do it.

That’s just what Analesa Berg did, then created a one-woman show about her journey to find inner peace.

8 pm, $10-$12 THE FIESTA MELODRAMA Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 A tradition is Santa Fe since 1919, the Fiesta Melodrama is where Santa Fe lampoons local news and politics.

Written by locals in the know, it’s about as Santa Fe as it gets. Book your tickets early, because this tradition sells out fast.

7:30 pm, $15 THE TEMPEST Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Check out the inaugural Shakespeare in the Garden production, The Tempest (see SFR Picks, page 21).

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STILL CLOSED FOR REPAIRS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Rock and original tunes.

6 pm, free SUMMER FLING WITH DJ POETICS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Top-40, hip-hop, reggae, Latin and house muzaks.

9 pm, $5-$7 THE TANGENTS Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Rock und roll, as they say in Germany. (Editor’s note: We aren’t sure why the Calendar Editor chose to point out this German thing, but we’re OK with it.)

8:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz by this swinging trio, which welcomes a different special guest each Friday night. Would that make it The Four Faces of Jazz?

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Artists who represent landscapes are many. It’s almost a default position, though we can’t blame anyone in that there are so many ways to go about it. Enter Nina Tichava, an artist born in Vallecitos, New Mexico, who trained in the Bay Area but always felt the call of home. Abstraction tends to be Tichava’s focus, though her mother—whom she describes as an artist who doesn’t consider herself an artist—instilled a certain crafty (think weaving) style into her ethics and aesthetics. Tichava’s work can be seen in galleries and spaces around the country, but for these-here 3Qs, we reached out about the upcoming show New, New Mexico Abstraction, opening this Friday evening at Turner Carroll Gallery (5 pm. Free. 725 Canyon Road, 986-9800) in which Tichava shows self-described “borrowed landscapes,” actual postcards of infamous places and momuments made new through Tichava’s abstract practices. (Alex De Vore) Why landscapes?

Trying to approach something as traditional as landscapes in a fresh way is challenging. I’m not a landscape painter, and when you get closer [to my landscape], it becomes more abstracted. I was never very interested in them, but now I’m starting to see the nuance and skill.

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It’s a term I totally made up. This is a new project and new vein for me. After the last election cycle, I was really freaked out and was trying to think of commonalities—landscapes was such an obvious one. It was something small I could keep myself busy with. I wasn’t happy with the results of the last election. I was excited to have the first female president. I was shocked, and the environment was one of the first things I was worried about. Climate change is so important right now, and I felt like it was pushed to the side. It’s about shared perspectives; the idea was I didn’t want to take pictures and make landscape paintings—I’m an interloper in the world of landscapes. They’re beautiful in person. They’re cool and magnetic and sexy and there’s subtle political commentary. I have an atomic bomb, that’s my favorite one I made. I did the White House in gold, the Supreme Court in gold. My goal was to mimic the first 100 days of the presidency and trying to understand, ‘Why did people vote for this person who’s a miogynist and has no interest beyond his own ego?’

Were you on the lookout for specific scenes or ideologies with the postcard imagery?

Initially it’s because I’ve always collected old stationary and postcards. So when I was like, ‘How can I talk to people through art about politics?’ I thought it was an interesting idea. I’d go on eBay and search for vintage postcards, and a lot of them are just what I happened to find.

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GROWING ROSES IN SANTA FE Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Bob Pennington of Agua Fría Nursery teaches the basics of growing roses in Santa Fe, from selecting the best varieties to how to care for them.

1-3 pm, $30 JUDY COSTLOW: BIKING IN NORTHERN PORTUGAL Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Hear about Costlow's cycling adventures through Portugal in this lecture with photos.

Great for bikers and non-bikers alike (thanks to the pics, us lazies can live vicariously through her).

5 pm, free MARJORIE MARTINEZ: GOD'S INTERVENING TOUCH op.cit. books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Author Marjorie Martinez reads from her book.

2 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: 2017 SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Original flamenco choreography.

7:30 pm, $25

EVENTS BIRD WALK WITH ROCKY TUCKER Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road, La Cienega, 471-9103 Tucker, an accomplished birdwatcher, guides a walk to find the creatures of the preserve.

Its pond attracts a wide variety of water birds—even the occasional gull—plus songbirds and swallows.

8-10 am, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St., 982-3373 See works by local artists representing a ton of different mediums.

8 am-4 pm, free

FILM ATOMIC ARTIST AND EL SALVADOR: ANOTHER VIETNAM Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Filmmakers Glenn Silber and Claudia Vianello screen Atomic Artist (about artist Tony Price, who made art from the scraps from LANL) and El Salvador: Another Vietnam (about the state of El Salvador’s civil war in 1981).

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UNDERFIRE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRIVATE FIRST CLASS TONY VACCARO Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 See the true story of Vaccaro, a lifelong photographer who risked his life to document World War II, developing his film in army helmets. He went on to have a career as a professional photographer after the war, and photographed some of the most important in the world. An exhibit of his work is on display at Monroe Gallery (112 Don Gaspar Ave.) through Sept. 17.

3:45 pm, free

MUSIC ANDY KINGSTON JAZZ TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Kingston takes the lead on piano, Justin Bransford plays the bass and Milton Villarubia does the percussion.

7:30 pm, free THE BARBWIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues. Jim Almand is in this band, and we love his style so so much.

3 pm, free BENZO III Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Home-grown hip-hop from one of our favorite local rappers (and yet another member of music/arts superfriend group, Outstanding Citizens Collective). Benzo’s hot on the heels of his first solo release, so show him some love.

10 pm, free BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, jazz and pop on piano.

8 pm, free

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THE BUS TAPES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk rock and powerful lady vocals and more Tanners than you even know what to do with. We’ve known bassist Case Tanner for about a bazillion years, and he’s incredibly talented. Singer Heather Tanner ain’t too shabby herself.

8 pm, free THE BUSY McCARROLL BAND Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Power jazz and pop noir. Can somebody start a pop noir literary genre? It could be like, “I was watching Star Wars when the dame walked in...”

6 pm, free CHANGO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll covers with Greg “Shreddy Mercury” Lopez and Andy “No Nickname” Primm.

8:30 pm, free DADOU L'Olivier Restaurant 229 Galisteo St., 989-1919 Accordion, guitar and vocals.

5:30 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Hear piano standards performed by Geist, who had a 20-year career composing Broadway tunes.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano.

6 pm, free GARY PAUL Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Clever and insightful lyrics, accompanied by subtle finger-style guitar playing, tell wonderful narrative tales of life and love.

6 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Honky-tonk and Americana.

1 pm, free I LOVE THE '90S Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, 984-8414 DJ Flo Fader spins all the ridiculous music that you hate to admit you love. Please to be pushing it real good, yes.

8:30 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Standards on the pye-anna.

6:30 pm, free NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Southwestern outlaw rock that’s almost 2 good 2 be true.

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Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Marthas are all made up of each participant contributing a single phrase—no building dialogue yet, that’s in the intermediate class—and there are very few rules (it just has to more or less build from something someone else has offered, and it’s never allowed to be a dream or a movie or some other easy copout from reality).

Taxy founded Santa Fe Improv in 2009. He’s a former screenwriter for Family Guy, a ghostwriter now, and has a degree in psychology (“from Harvard and who cares,” as his website bio reads). Santa Fe Improv is an opportunity for Santa Feans with every kind of goal to come and CHARLOTTE JUSINSKI

ifteen barefoot adults are lined up against a wall. Ben Taxy, in track pants and a fandom T-shirt, sits in a chair against the opposite wall, elbows on his knees, and faces the line of people. There is a dramatic pause before he says: “Show me a scene in a barn.”

A man breaks from the line and goes to the middle of the room. “I am a ’68 Chevy!” he says, and spreads out his arms to appear hulking.

A woman runs to bend over next to him. “I am a mechanic working on the ’68 Chevy!”

A third person goes to stand about six feet away. “I am Harrison Ford.”

The group giggles, but doesn’t pause.

Someone runs and holds a hand next to the last person’s ear. “I am an earring in Harrison Ford’s left ear, because he wants to look hip.”

One by one, class members add to the scene’s growing fractal. Each new element is either a spinoff of one that had been previously added, or an internal look into something that could be mined deeper. Eventually, we know more about Harrison Ford’s psychology and the mechanic’s intentions for fixing the car—and that there’s a whip involved. Of course.

This is just 10 minutes or so of a meeting of Santa Fe Improv’s introductory class. Another scene (they’re called Marthas, by the way) involves a shaman performing a ritual on a horse that had jumped into a cactus; yet another features a Mexican snowmobile dealer bartering for 50 snowmobiles on the

play. “Play” is the operative word here.

“The way that improv is typically taught is suited to actors who want to perform at a professional level,” Taxy says.

“But the source of improv, the core of it, is play. And every kid can play. Not every kid can be a professional actor, but every kid can play—and that instinct is in us as adults.”

As such, Taxy designed his classes specifically for Santa Fe. He says improv classes held somewhere like Chicago or New York are flooded with professional actors (or wannabe professional actors), and they can come with a means-to-anend feel—participants want to be onstage, to get the audition, to make it big. Santa Fe’s community, he says, is different.

“There are so many creative, fun people in Santa Fe who do not want to be professional actors, but who still have the play instinct, and still are really good improvisers,” he says. “So, what would a program look like that was sourced from the same material that’s used to develop actors, but also would have the benefits of better listening skills, better negotiating skills, more self-confidence?”

Taxy’s classes, then, are full of people who already have careers as lawyers or massage therapists or college admissions counselors. While professional actors are absolutely welcome, and the classes are as useful to newbies as they are to veterans, Taxy doesn’t focus on those folks.

Kristina Paider, a screenwriter (like Taxy, but that’s a coincidence) who is based in the Dominican Republic, decided to get away from hurricane season and spend a few months in Santa Fe. She was

excited to fulfill a lifelong dream and take what she referred to as a “comedy class”— but she did much more than laugh.

“One of the things that really struck me about these classes and this process was the emphasis on truth,” she says.

“Tell your truth in the moment and don’t try to be funny … even if that led to darker, weird stuff, versus lighter, funnier, crazy stuff.”

Indeed, these classes really don’t have much to do with being funny; they’re more about interacting, listening, reacting and working with others. Out of this kind of environment can come some hilarious moments, of course, but when someone tries to be funny, or enters the class with an agenda item of “Make People Laugh,” it becomes inorganic and forced. The best quips come from honesty and genuine reactions, and if you flub or say something that doesn’t fit—well, if the team is good, they’ll fix it for you. And that’s half the fun. (Example: In the intermediate class, when a growling claw-handed character that was clearly a bear inexplicably became “a waterfall” to a fellow actor, the team went with it—and soon, all bodies of water made animal noises. And it made sense, with this nonsensical insta-logic.)

These skills can be extrapolated, of course. “I am so intrigued by the emphasis on teamwork, truth, listening and the sharpening of your own skills,” Paider says. “Those skills, being candid and in the moment, the emphasis on the team … especially in today’s political environment.

Be a team. Listen. Be truthful. Some of it is even learning how to be truthful with yourself.”

WHAT: Santa Fe Improv auditions for classes WHERE: Teatro Paraguas (3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601) WHEN: Sunday and Wednesday Sept. 17 and 20 HOW: For a spot, email ben@santafeimprov.com OMG: Don’t stress out. The audition is basically a miniclass where a bunch of people just act goofy THEN WHAT: If you get in, the once-a-week, eight-installment class is $200 Santa Fe Improv’s introductory class with Ben Taxy (far right) is designed for people who have never taken an improv class before. It’s great for folks who like to interact with others, want to be better at it, or both.

MORE: All the info you need is at santafeimprov.com

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REPLENISH WITH DJ INFREQUENCY Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Even though the title of this listing makes it sound like listening to DJs less often is a path to replenishment, don’t do that—instead, watch in awe as Northern New Mexico's best DJs dig deep into their archives and present their favorites from underground dance.

10 pm, $5-$7 RICKY SKAGGS AND KENTUCKY THUNDER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Ricky Skaggs struck his first chords on a mandolin more than 50 years ago. Fourteen Grammys, eight CMAs, and dozens of number-one hits later, he’s a country and bluegrass legend and a leader in the roots revival movement.

7:30 pm, $46-$75 RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish-style classical guitar.

7 pm, free SANTA FE TRADITIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Camp Stoney 7855 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-3166 Celebrate the end of summer with traditional music of the Southwest, food vendors, family activities and camping (see SFR Picks, page 21).

9 am-10 pm, $15-$45 THE SHINER’S CLUB Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Jazz originals and covers of classics with Westin McDowell and crew.

6 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 You know the drill, guys. As far as we know, this is the only karaoke in Santa Fe on a weekend, so sing it like you’re that dude we always see do Aerosmith’s “Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing.” That dude means it.

8:30 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock and/or roll. Probably both.

8 pm, free STILETTO SATURDAYS WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 It’s a dance party! And sure, we could make shoe jokes, but we’re gonna go with knives: Cut a rug. Boom. In your face, grandma.

9 pm, $5-$7

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OPERA DIE FLEDERMAUS Santa Fe Opera House 301 Opera Drive, 986-5900 Champagne and sin!

Hedonistic Vienna never was so ridiculous as in this Strauss opera, which—by the way—is sung in English.

8 pm, $43-$310

THEATER THE 23RD LETTER Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 When God tells you, “You’ll go to the Hebrew texts and paint” ... You’d better do it.

That’s just what Analesa Berg did, then created a one-woman show about her journey to find inner peace.

8 pm, $10-$12 THE FIESTA MELODRAMA Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 A tradition in Santa Fe since 1919, the Fiesta Melodrama is written in the style of those from the Wild West, but with a twist—this one lampoons local news and politics to no end. It’s the opening weekend gala, so get dolled up.

7:30 pm, $30 THE TEMPEST Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Check out the inaugural Shakespeare in the Garden production; gates open at 6 pm, so bring a picnic for beforehand. Afterwards, for an extra $20, you can join the actors for a reception (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $10-$35

WORKSHOP FARM TO CANVAS INTERACTIVE ART EXPERIENCE form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Weave together mindfulness, making, and the farm-totable mentality. The morning includes gallery visits, a trip to the Santa Fe Farmers Market and a hands-on printmaking workshop.

10 am-noon, $50

SUN/27 BOOKS/LECTURES FRED R KLINE: LEONARDO'S HOLY CHILD op.cit. books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Kline discusses his book Leonardo's Holy Child: A Connoisseur's Search for Lost Art in America. Kline purchased an unassuming little sketch from a Christie's catalog a decade ago, and his instincts about the work were correct: It was actually a Leonardo da Vinci drawing.

Suddenly your kid’s art seems empty and pointless.

2 pm, free

JOURNEYSANTAFE: JERRY ORTIZ Y PINO Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Ortiz y Pino, a veteran Democratic state senator, gives insights about the political, social and budgetary state of New Mexico.

11 am, free LOCAL COLORING BOOK SIGNING New Mexico Museum of Art courtyard 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Fill in the line drawings of 67 New Mexico artists as they illustrate stories by five New Mexico writers in this coloring book. Meet the artists at a book signing event (see SFR Picks, page 21).

1 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: 2017 SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Antonio Granjero, Estefania Ramirez and Antonio Hidalgo Paz co-direct this summer series featuring Granjero and Ramirez performing original choreography.

7:30 pm, $25 JUAN SIDDI ARTE FLAMENCO SOCIETY Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Artistic Director Juan Siddi and Arte Flamenco Society features a cast directly from Spain in celebration of their 10th anniversary season.

7:30 pm, $25-$65

EVENTS BODHICITTA MINDFULNESS NATURE WALKS Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second St., Ste. 35, 660-7056 Set an intention and head out on this mindfulness walk led

by Cinny Green.

2 pm, free DHARMA DISCUSSION GROUP Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Join a discussion on topics around Buddhist practice.

7 pm, Free FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH: A LABYRINTH WALK Aldea Community Labyrinth Vista Precioso and Avenida Frijoles, 989-8231 Join the Labyrinth Resource Group for a meander to ponder. Check out labyrinth resourcegroup.org for detailed directions to the site.

4 pm, free THE GATE OF SWEET NECTAR LITURGY Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Come chant and seek love, wisdom, and transformation.

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Astrology Santa Fe PRESENTS:

An Astrology Marathon

15 minute Power Readings to interpret the impact of the Eclipse on you. $20

Thursday, August 31 • 9 am until 4 pm 103 Saint Francis Dr., Santa Fe Please call 505 819 7220 for appointment

Submissions don’t guarantee inclusion.

For help, call Charlotte: 395-2906.

SANTA FE COMMUNITY FARM STAND Santa Fe Community Farm 1829 San Ysidro Crossing, 983-3033 Local produce! ‘Nuff said.

Noon-2 pm, free SOL SUNDAYS Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St., 982-3373 A healthy day of fun. Yoga starts at noon, and the Santa Fe Animal Shelter will have adoptable dogs to meet from 1-3 pm, plus a raffle drawing with great prizes at 6 pm.

Noon, free ZOZOBRA NEW BRIDGE DEDICATION PARTY Fort Marcy Park 490 Bishops Lodge Road That tiny bridge at Fort Marcy seemed awfully small to hold Zozo crowds. Not that it was flimsy, but that’s just a lot of people. Check out this dedication of a big huge brandnew bridge, just in time for the celebration.

2-4 pm, free

MUSIC BLUEGRASS SUNDAY BRUNCH: KITTY JO CREEK Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Bluegrass. Happy Sunday!

11:30 am, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Swanky piano standards.

6:30 pm, free GUSTAVO PIMENTEL La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Classical Latin guitar.

6 pm, free HILLARY SMITH AND THE CHILL HOUSE BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 The big tent by the locomotive has food and funk music.

Music is $10; a homestyle dinner and a cocktail with said music is $25.

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JOE WEST Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana and country originals.

Noon, free LEE WEST Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Americana rock originals.

1 pm, free LONE PIÑON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Traditional New Mexican and Norteño roots music.

1 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free RYAN HUTCHENS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Did you miss him at the Mine Shaft on Friday? Catch folk originals by this one-manband from South Carolina.

8 pm, free SANTA FE TRADITIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Camp Stoney 7855 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-3166 Celebrate the end of summer with traditional music of the Southwest, food vendors, family activities and camping (see SFR Picks, page 21).

9 am-5 pm, $15-$45 SEAN HEALEN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock 'n' folk 'n' roll ’n’ hats ’n’ a songwriter who has so many jamzorz in his catalog it’s, like, pretty impressive.

1 pm, free SUNDAY JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Play music with your buds, or just enjoy the camaraderie.

Hosted by Mike Montiel.

3 pm, free WESTIN McDOWELL & FRIENDS Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Americana and vintage jazz.

1-4 pm, free

THEATER THE FIESTA MELODRAMA Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 A tradition in Santa Fe since 1919, the Fiesta Melodrama is written in the style of those from the Wild West, but with a twist—this is all about Santa Fe and all about making fun of people who maybe take themselves a bit too seriously. Book your tickets early because this is tradition sells out fast.

2 pm, $20-$25

THE TEMPEST Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Check out the inaugural Shakespeare in the Garden production, The Tempest.

The gates open at 6 pm, so be classy and bring a picnic dinner to enjoy in the garden before the show and be serenaded while you do it (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $10-$35

MON/28 BOOKS/LECTURES A GABRIEL MELÉNDEZ: THE BOOK OF ARCHIVES AND OTHER STORIES FROM MORA VALLEY NM Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Meléndez chronicles the history of Mora through historical documents, including military records and travelers' diaries.

6 pm, free KARL LAUMBACH: APACHE LAND FROM THOSE WHO LIVED IT Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Laumbach, an archaeologist based in Las Cruces, speaks as part of Southwest Seminars' Native Culture Matters series about the archaeology and history of the Hembrillo Battlefield.

6 pm, $15 MONDAY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid’s Books 328 Montezuma Ave., 780-8051 Perfect for the wee ones, this story time will also probably also be extremely soothing for adults too. Just borrow a friend’s kid so you don’t look weird. Whatever you do, don’t go without a kid.

10:30-11 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: 2017 SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Antonio Granjero, Estefania Ramirez and Antonio Hidalgo Paz co-direct this summer series featuring Granjero and Ramirez performing original choreography.

7:30 pm, $25

EVENTS INDIVISIBLE SANTA FE MONDAY NIGHT MEETINGS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Be part of a community of intelligent activist citizens and become powerful advocates for progressive ideas at local, state and national levels.

Learn and practice skills for effective political action and, most importantly, ¡fuera Trump!

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Thank You, Alice B Toklas

A Turkish delight...

BY MICHAEL J WILSON t h e f o r k @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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lice B Toklas, partner of author Gertrude Stein, was mostly fame-adjacent. She would find a sort of prominence as the lens through which Stein wrote in the book The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. The two held weekly salons at their home in Paris that became cultural touchstones in the years leading up to World War II and, in general, supported Modernist and abstract arts in their early days.

Toklas would gain a sort of second wind after Stein’s death in 1946. In 1954, Toklas wrote her own version of the events of Stein’s Autobiography with The Alice B Toklas Cookbook, an odd blend of memoir and recipes. It’s an engrossing read. Full recipes are woven seamlessly into the lives of Toklas, Stein and their inner circle. There’s even a fascinating dinner party involving Pablo Picasso.

The cookbook has a reputation for being eccentric. The recipes are notoriously difficult—they feature expensive, hardto-find ingredients and instructions like rotating a full pig on a spit continuously for 24 hours. But hidden in the back of the book is a recipe given to Toklas by

artist Brion Gysin that garnered both attention and controversy—so much so that it was deleted from the US edition of the book. How does a 77-year-old woman garner controversy with a recipe? Well ... here it is: Take one teaspoon black peppercorns, one whole nutmeg, four average sticks of cinnamon, one teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of Canabis [sic] sativa can be pulverized.

This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walwal nut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.

This is hashish fudge; the classic recipe led to Toklas being associated with the counterculture of the ’60s and even being invited to cooking parties and book readings where she would read the text of her recipe. It also ended up in the 1968 Peter Sellers movie I Love You, Alice B Toklas, about a businessman being tempted by pot and hippies. Somewhere the recipe

would become brownies instead of fudge, and history would do the rest.

This is the origin of edibles in the modern sense. To a lesser degree Toklas’ last name has also become associated with pot smoking in general. The word “toke” has its origins in the Spanish word “tocar,” but the resemblance in the name and the word reinforced each other.

You might have noticed the recipe is hardly easy to follow. And that it is not “fudge.” There are no measurements or times included, and it’s vague how these things become “fudge.” I’m guessing she used the word to indicate that you caramelize the sugar and butter because these treats resemble the classic Turkish candy majoun more than anything. I decided to attempt it anyway (without marijuana— it’s illegal outside of the state’s Medical Cannabis Program). Here is my version:

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Not pictured: the cannabis you could put into this thing. LEFT: the final product.

INGREDIENTS: • ¾ cup peanuts • ¾ cup almonds

• Heat the sugar in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly so it does not burn. It will clump then melt into a thick brown/amber-colored liquid. Keep stirring. Add the butter, it will spit and get angry so be careful. Stir 2-3 minutes until the butter is melted. Allow the mixture to boil for 1 minute, it’s going to rise in the pan.

• 1 tsp. black pepper • 1 tsp. coriander • 1 tsp. cinnamon • 1 tsp. nutmeg • 1 cup dried Turkish figs • 1 cup dried dates • 1 cup sugar • 4 oz. butter • (If you live in Colorado or have a green card ... it needs to be ground up) Directions: • In a food processor, chop up the peanuts and almonds. You want these fine, not pulverized. Add in the pepper, coriander, cinnamon and nutmeg (and perhaps the cannabis). Mix this up well.

• Finely chop the figs and dates. Mix these into the nuts. You can use a food processor or knead with your hands. You want the fruit to break down a bit.

• Remove from heat add the nut and fruit mixture. Stir vigorously. It’s going to thicken fast. Lay out some parchment and use a metal spoon to form balls the size of large marbles. The mixture will be quite hot. You should end up with a few dozen.

Assuming it went well, you’ll have something that resembles a nut cluster or date ball. They taste like granola and are a great treat. Alice’s notes say that one or two are more than enough. Depending on your optional ingredient choices, this is definitely true.

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ZEN AND THE ART OF DYING Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 The documentary is about activist and educator Zenith Virago, who sought to find a more creative engagement with death and dying. This event features a post-screening Q&A with end-of-life care expert Denys Cope. Our advice? Don’t work as much as we do, because we’re def gonna regret that one day.

6:30 pm, $10

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 The darn king of honky-tonk and award-winning flat-pickin’ kick-assery. He’s also been playing the lounge at the La Fonda for longer than some of you readers have probably even been alive, so it’s gotta be good. (Hint: It is.)

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke. Like Healen, she’s also a hat fan and we love her.

We truly do. Once we broke the cord off a microphone by accident while singing Prince and she dashed up and replaced it in 10 seconds flat.

True story, ask anyone.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano. This could be one of the prettiest dining rooms in town, and Vanessie always attracts killer talent.

6:30 pm, free MELLOW MONDAY Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 DJ Sato hits the floor with chill tunes. It’s mellow, bro.

10 pm, Free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free

WORKSHOP THE VISION WORKSHOP Montezuma Lodge 431 Paseo de Peralta, 670-3068 Professional women over age 50 (or “50 and forward,” if that feels better to say— ’cause it does) are invited to visualize the life they would love to live by developing it, designing it and defining how it will look. Presented by the Santa Fe chapter of the Transition Network.

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TUE/29 BOOKS/LECTURES GEOFFREY WEST: THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Join the Santa Fe Institute for "The Future of the Planet: Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies," a talk with theoretical physicist Geoffrey West. At 6:45 pm, West will also be available to sign copies of his latest book, which deals with sustainability and innovation.

7:30 pm, free ROBERT LEONARD REID: BECAUSE IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Reid, a mountaineer and mathematician, presents Because it is so Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West, a lyrical meditation on the duality of wilderness and poets who have explored it.

6 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Head to the downtown Spanish tapas-style restaurant and show off your best tango moves.

7:30 pm, $5

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Pub trivia can win you drink tickets for next time. As ever, it's hosted by the kindly Kevin A. And remember—it’s not just pop culture. Your thermodynamics and literature to full-on geography knowledge will help, too.

8 pm, free INDIVISIBLE SANTA FE ACTION TUESDAY Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Did you miss the Monday night meeting? If you’re an early bird, or if you just don’t sleep (like us), get up in the morning and join this community of intelligent, activist citizens to become effective progressive advocates.

8:30 am, free METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Struggling with illness and loss in any form is an isolating experience; don’t go it alone.

This is an opportunity for the sharing of life experiences in a setting of compassion and confidentiality.

10:30 am, free

SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET: EL MERCADO DEL SUR Plaza Contenta 6009 Jaguar Drive, 550-3728 A mega farmers market offering health screenings, food demonstrations and healthy, low-cost meals.

3 pm, free

MUSIC ANDY PRIMM Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Rock originals from the local super-weirdo with whom you’re undoubtedly familiar even if you think you aren’t.

8 pm, free BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Lush standards, jazz and pop on piano.

8 pm BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk from the dude who basically invented it, or at least excels in it to the point everyone knows his name like he’s Norm or something. But no, he’s Bill.

7:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano from Montgomery who, by the way, has appeared at the downtown restaurant cum wine bar cum piano zone for 30-plus years.

6 pm, free THE FRIGHTS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Rock with vintage influences gives their sound a 1950s vibe.

8 pm, $10 JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Get through your Tuesday with roots and blues by Almand whom, if you’ll recall, is a guy whose aesthetic we’re just really down with. It is soooo almost Wednesday.

8 pm, free MARC SANDERS Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Got something to sing? Take it out of the bedroom or garage or wherever and do it here.

7:30 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo acoustic jazz guitar.

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VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St. Garage, surf, rockabilly and old-school country.

9 pm, free

THEATER THE TEMPEST Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Shakespeare in the Garden presents The Tempest (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $10-$35

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WORKSHOP TUESDAY FAMILY MORNINGS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Fun, hands-on activities for families. Play in the garden, weed, plant, do art and learn about plants, animals and Northern New Mexico.

10-11:30 am, $10

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Wax poetic, and a little milky, with the work of Douglas Mehrens at the Museum of Encaustic Art. EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 O’Keeffe at the University of Virginia. Through Oct. 28.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Seventy Years of Painting: Cliff Harmon and Barbara Harmon. Through Aug. 27.

The Errant Eye: Portraits in a Landscape.

Through Sept. 17.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 American Traditional War Songs: The Ethnopoetic Videos of Sky Hopinka.

Through Oct. 27. Daniel McCoy: The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia; New Acquisitions; Desert ArtLAB: Ecologies of Resistance; Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art. All through Jan. 2018.

Action Abstraction Redefined.

Through July 27, 2018.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 623 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Global Warming is REAL. Through Aug. 20.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art. Through Oct. 22. Jody Naranjo: Revealing Joy. Through Dec. 31. Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture. Through Jan. 7, 2018.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Through Sept.

2017. Sacred Realm. The Morris Miniature Circus.

Under Pressure. Through Dec. 2017. Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate: Strategies Folk Artists Use in Today’s Global Marketplace.

Through July 16, 2018.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Mirror, Mirror: Photographs of Frida Kahlo. Through Oct. 29.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Out of the Box: The Art of the Cigar. Through Oct. 14.

Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest. Through Feb. 11, 2018.

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SNL cast member Kyle Mooney moves into the cinema-sphere with Brigsby Bear, a mildly contemplative glimpse at the pitfalls of obsession and the power of friend-propelled art directed by former SNL writer Dave McCary.

Mooney plays James, a 20-something obsessed with a cheesy Barney-esque children’s program called Brigsby Bear that sports low production values yet incredibly deep high-concept science and mathematics content. There are literally hundreds of episodes but, as James soon learns, they’ve been produced for him and him alone— and then the show suddenly ceases to be. Thrust into unfamiliar new environs, James sets out to complete the Brigsby Bear fiction with a self-produced film while grappling with new-to-him ideas like friends, family, sex and interpersonal politics.

Mooney, who also co-wrote the script, is outstanding as the innocent and confused James;

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a man-child who flat-out ignores the absurdly tragic and painful events of his life up until now. It’s charming to see him learn on the job, so to speak, about making movies, existing in the world and navigating the ups and downs of his newfound relationships. Greg Kinnear proves endearing as well as a one-time high-school actor turned detective who has a special interest in James and his ideas for the fate of Brigsby Bear.

Ditto for James’ parents (played by Veep’s Matt Walsh and former SNL star Michaela Watkins) who deftly ride the line between grieving adults and vulnerable human beings.

It’s a winning combination that ultimately

falls a little flat by never digging deep enough into the questions it poses. No spoilers, but James is either unable or unwilling to face the reality of his own situation—which edges on irresponsible, given the ideas of post-traumatic stress and repression that take center stage. Having said that, Brigsby Bear is funny enough and heartfelt enough as to be enjoyable—it just doesn’t quite hit the mark it was aiming for.

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Pop culture and school cirriculum have long collided to make sure modern Americans know the visual landscape of the jungles of Vietnam and the olive drab of the US fighting men during its protracted and life-taking involvement there.

But not everyone is mindful that a few years later, our nation’s ceaseless thirst for control led to extensive US support for military leaders in El Salvador amid a vast rebellion from the peasant class.

This documentary double feature from the way-back machine leads off with El Salvador: Another Vietnam which, during its 1981 debut, was an edgy firsthand look at the Central America civil war over the economic stronghold of the coffee oligarchy. Catalyst Media’s crew shot much of the 53 minutes of footage as the story was breaking, from refugee camps and urban warfare campaigns to the streets of Washington, DC, and the halls of Congress.

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These 27 minutes from 1982 are interlaced with footage from atomic test sites and artfully presented with the movement and sounds that convey Price’s vision from three sensory paths.

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Prepare yourself for white-hot rage, because we’re all screwed. The ice caps are melting, the ocean levels are rising, developing nations are stuck in a poverty-driven pollution cycle and, as you may well know, Trump has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord like some kind of asshole. We hear this so constantly, usually in the form boiled-down pseudo-scientific jargon—but from cities in America like Miami, to Tacloban in the Philippines and relatively human-free areas of Greenland, the planet is in CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Re-enter Al Gore and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. You’ve known Gore for years and, chances are, you’re at least somewhat aware of his climate crusade—which dates back to the 1980s—but not since An Inconvenient Truth more than a decade ago has the information been so accessible and bite-sized, nor has the situation been more dire.

Yes, the inmates are currently running the asylum, and yes, the information seems bleak, but among the stark realities exposed or revisited in Sequel comes hope in the form of small American cities going 100 percent renewable (even in a tiny red town in Texas). A seemingly revitalized Gore is continuing to offer training to like-minded climate crusaders, and there’s evolving tech and ideals that lean more toward solar and wind power (they’re the best ones, you know). It’s good to see the former vice president getting pissed off, but he’s also got the patience and resolve of a saint. Not since his guest spots on Futurama (his daughter Kristen was a writer) have we been so enamored with his grace and ethics, and we definitely agree it’s time to start worrying, if you haven’t already.

To paraphrase something Gore says in the film, future generations will have every right to look back on us and wonder why we didn’t listen, why we didn’t strategize, why we didn’t act.

(Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, PG, 98 min.

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Director Amanda Lipitz has come a long way from her days as producer for the Legally Blonde musical. Now she presents Step, a documentary examining the lives of young women juggling their step dance team and the pursuit of college acceptance during their final year at a Baltimore school for girls.

Lipitz zeroes in on three disparate and distinct voices: Cori, the over-achiever hoping for a full ride to Johns Hopkins University; Tayla, a relatively average student with an intense mother; and Blessin, the founder of the step team with a fiery personality that hides great sadness.

Lipitz sets the stage against the backdrop of the 2015 police murder of Freddie Grey, but other than some peripheral mentions of the tragedy and an emotionally flat field trip to Grey’s memorial with the step coach leading the way, the underlying theme is lost in the shuffle.

We do, however, understand that as young black

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women living at or below the poverty line, the doc’s main subjects are at a disadvantage—but we’re left to simply know that, as Lipitz never digs much deeper into the matter than “They’ve got it hard; step dance is the escape, college the light at the end of the tunnel.”

It’s a bleak picture and an often-heavy experience as we come to know the young girls and root for both their step team during competitions and their potential successes as students. When 100 percent of their senior class graduated from the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, the reaction feels exaggerated, but the college counselor and principal of the school care so much and try so hard that we can’t help but get swept up in their ethics and efforts.

It would have been nice to find out where the girls are today or even to have gotten a clearer idea of their home lives or trials and tribulations, and Step does come perilously close to emotionally manipulative. Still, there is an ultimate message of positivity and hard work that’s impossible to deny, and ample sentimental satisfaction that comes from knowing even those who struggle with intense adversity and systematic oppression can make their way and make their mark. (ADV)

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A moment comes towards the end of The Dark Tower—Stephen King’s eight-novel series come to life on the big screen—when a thought occurs: “Are they really ending this already? What the hell?” Indeed, the long-percolating project from director Nikolaj Arcel (better known as writer for the original Swedish production of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) crams so very much into so very little time that practically everything suffers, not least of which is the pacing.

We follow a young boy named Jake (Tom Taylor) who, in the wake of his father’s death, has started having dream visions of a man in another world who’s hell-bent on destroying this mysterious dark tower that, like, stops demons from breaking into the multiverse somehow … or something. Of course, everyone from his mom to his therapist to his shit-heel stepdad (or mom’s boyfriend or whatever) doesn’t believe that the visions are real. Jake sure is persistent, though, and when he busts into that other world through some

sci-fi portal machine, it turns out he was right the whole time and he’s got psychic superpowers that amount to some sort of telepathic communication ability.

An ancient battle was fought and lost here between the Man in Black (a seemingly bored Matthew McConaughey) and the Gunslingers, an ancient order of knights. It is eluded to that they might be related to Arthurian legend somehow … or something. Roland (aka the Gunslinger; Idris Elba, who makes a sincere go of it) is the last of the order, and having also lost his father (plus his buddies), he identifies with and joins Jake to stop the destruction of the tower and kill the Man in Black.

If it sounds cool, that’s because it could have been. But with so much source material and a relatively short running time, we don’t have a chance to care for anyone before the Man in Black’s cartoonish super-villainy gets out of hand. McConaughey plays this in a too-calm-and-collected sort of way, which could say something about how he’s so evil he doesn’t even bother with emotions, but mostly it feels lacking in drama.

Oh, there are neat little visual tricks that show how the Gunslinger is super-good at reloading his guns in various ways, but the threats never seem particularly perilous and the Man in Black’s motives boil down to “he’s just evil” … or something.

The Dark Tower could have easily been twoplus hours and far more awesome; hell, it could have been two or three movies. In fact, it should have been. But if we had to guess, it’ll probably do pretty poorly and wind up on the cinematic ash heap forgotten to time ... or something. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 95 min.

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Based on the 1989 Antony Johnston/ Sam Hart graphic novel The Coldest City, the film Atomic Blonde follows MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) who is sent to Berlin to recover “the list,” highly coveted intel naming double-agents. Among that list is “Satchel,” a double agent for the Queen and for the Soviets, wanted by the Allies for treason.

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fellow agent who indulges in the hedonistic underground culture of East Berlin. The two work together to evacuate Spyglass (Eddie Marsan), the good-guy Stasi officer who has committed the list to memory, and is the Allies’ last shot at obtaining the information.

With a steel-gray and neon palette accompanied by classic ’80s music from the likes of Depeche Mode, David Bowie and The Cure, Atomic Blonde is aesthetically a lot of fun.

But while the production gets a lot right about the ’80s (as a millennial I can only assume), the hair, makeup and costumes felt more contemporary. But maybe that’s not a bad thing; there’s only so much pleather you can wear before it gets tacky.

Theron plays an excellent heartless and calculating spy while McAvoy is her scruffy, ambivalent, wayward counterpart. And while Atomic Blonde is certainly entertaining, it’s a bit predictable. However, the fight choreography and and gorgeous cinematography make up for some of the substance the plot lacks. Atomic Blonde is a treat on the big screen, but it’s not a necessity. Maybe save a few bucks and enjoy Theron’s ass-kicking at home in a few months.

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stream film that deviates from the cinematic formula, but Nolan doesn’t let up for an instant.

From the terrifying desperation of those stranded on the beach to a shell-shocked soldier (Cillian Murphy of Netflix series Peaky Blinders as well as Nolan’s Batman films) too broken to return to battle and a selfless dogfighter (Tom Hardy) barely hobbling along in the sky, dialogue becomes sparse compared to the frantic reality of sinking ships, dropped shells and the cruelty of the human survival instinct.

Of course, there are only so many times you can see a bunch of soldiers abandon a ship, and the jarring nature of the heaving seas becomes nearly as difficult to watch as the violence. Still, moving performances from Mark Rylance and Kenneth Branagh—not to mention a surprisingly natural turn from Harry Styles (yeah, from One Direction)—remain a joy to watch, and the utter unfairness and brutality of war hang heavy over every last scene.

This isn’t just one of the best war movies in recent memory, it’s one that will no doubt be shown in schools and referred to forever as an artful depiction of one of the ugliest chapters in human history. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, R, 106 min.

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In 1940, near the start of World War II, the Allied forces suffered a tremendous defeat against German troops in the town of Dunkirk in France. Subsequently, 300,000 soldiers would be evacuated by military and civilian watercraft, but not before immeasurable losses. It’s a harrowing tale not known to many who aren’t WWII buffs before now, but in Christopher Nolan’s sprawling yet concisely told Dunkirk, we see the tragic events play out with a relentless pace and attention to detail.

We follow three main narratives; that of soldiers stranded on a beach waiting for rescue over the period of a week, an hour in the lives of British fighter pilots, and a single day for a civilian pleasure yacht captain who helps retrieve said soldiers alongside his son and his son’s friend. Nolan presents an off-kilter look at each timeline, weaving in and out of the stories, though Dunkirk never feels disjointed. Rather, as bits and pieces from each angle are revealed, we begin to understand the incredible scope of the evacuation and just how lucky the survivors really were, though we’re faced with some hard truths before the credits roll.

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VALLECITOS MOUNTAIN RETREAT CENTER - Applied Mindfulness: Learning how to bring the benefits of mindfulness into everyday life and the work place. October 5-8. Always wanted to go on retreat or learn more about meditation? Find your way to the stunning wilderness landscape of Vallecitos deep in the majestic Tusas Mountains outside of Taos NM. Register Today at www.vallecitos.org

JOHREI CENTER OF SANTA FE. JOHREI IS BASED ON THE FOCUS AND FLOW OF THE UNIVERSAL LIFE ENERGY. When clouds in the spiritual body and in consciousness are dissolved, there is a return to true health. This is according to the Divine Law of Order; after spiritual clearing, physical and mentalemotional healing follow.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Welcome to Swami Moonflower’s Psychic Hygiene Hints. Ready for some mystical cleansing? Hint #1: To remove stains on your attitude, use a blend of Chardonnay wine, tears from a cathartic crying session, and dew collected before dawn.

Hint #2: To eliminate glitches in your love life, polish your erogenous zones with pomegranate juice while you visualize the goddess kissing your cheek. #3: To get rid of splotches on your halo, place angel food cake on your head for two minutes, then bury the cake in holy ground while chanting, “It’s not my fault! My evil twin’s a jerk!” #4: To banish the imaginary monkey on your back, whip your shoulders with a long silk ribbon until the monkey runs away. #5: To purge negative money karma, burn a dollar bill in the flame of a green candle.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Psychologist James Hansell stated his opinion of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud: “He was wrong about so many things. But he was wrong in such interesting ways. He pioneered a whole new way of looking at things.” That description should provide good raw material for you to consider as you play with your approach to life in the coming weeks, Libra. Being right won’t be half as important as being willing to gaze at the world from upside-down, inside-out perspectives. So I urge you to put the emphasis on formulating experimental hypotheses, not on proving definitive theories. Be willing to ask naive questions and make educated guesses and escape your own certainties.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A reader named Kameel Hawa writes that he “prefers pleasure to leisure and leisure to luxury.” That list of priorities would be excellent for you to adopt during the coming weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you will be the recipient of extra amounts of permission, relief, approval, and ease. I won’t be surprised if you come into possession of a fresh X-factor or wild card.

In my opinion, to seek luxury would be a banal waste of such precious blessings. You’ll get more health-giving benefits that will last longer if you cultivate simple enjoyments and restorative tranquility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks will be an excellent time to cruise past the houses where you grew up, the schools you used to attend, the hotspots where you and your old friends hung out, and the places where you first worked and had sex. In fact, I recommend a grand tour of your past. If you can’t literally visit the locations where you came of age, simply visualize them in detail. In your imagination, take a leisurely excursion through your life story. Why do I advise this exercise? Because you can help activate your future potentials by reconnecting with your roots.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be likely to receive gifts at a higher rate than usual. Some gifts could be big, complex, and catalytic, though others may be subtle, cryptic, or even covert. While some may be useful, others could be problematic. So I want to make sure you know how important it is to be discerning about these offerings. You probably shouldn’t blindly accept all of them. For instance, don’t rashly accept a “blessing” that would indebt or obligate you to someone in ways that feel uncomfortable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are currently under the influence of astrological conditions that have led to dramatic boosts of self-esteem in laboratory rats. To test the theory that this experimental evidence can be applied to humans, I authorize you to act like a charismatic egomaniac in the coming weeks. JUST KIDDNG! I lied about the lab rats. And I lied about you having the authorization to act like an egomaniac. But here are the true facts: The astrological omens suggest you can and should be a lyrical swaggerer and a sensitive swashbuckler.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I invite you to eliminate all of the following activities from your repertoire in the next three weeks: squabbling, hassling, feuding, confronting, scuffling, skirmishing, sparring, and brawling.

Why is this my main message to you? Because the astrological omens tell me that everything important CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of my favorite you need to accomplish will come from waging an Cancerian artists is Penny Arcade, a New York intense crusade of peace, love, and understanding. The performance artist, actress, and playwright. In this bickering and grappling stuff won’t help you achieve horoscope, I offer a testimonial in which she articulates success even a little—and would probably undermine it. the spirit you’d be wise to cultivate in the coming AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Stockbrokers in Pakistan weeks. She says, “I am the person I know best, inside out, the one who best understands my motivations, my grew desperate when the Karachi Stock Exchange went struggles, my triumphs. Despite occasionally betraying into a tailspin. In an effort to reverse the negative trend, they performed a ritual sacrifice of ten goats in a my best interests to keep the peace, to achieve goals, or for the sake of beloved friendships, I astound myself parking lot. But their “magic” failed. Stocks continued to fade. Much later they recovered, but not in a timely by my appetite for life, my unwavering curiosity into the human condition, my distrust of the status quo, my manner that would suggest the sacrifice worked. I urge you to avoid their approach to fixing problems, espepoetic soul and abiding love of beauty, my strength of cially now. Reliance on superstition and wishful thinkcharacter in the face of unfairness, and my optimism ing is guaranteed to keep you stuck. On the other hand, despite defeats and loss.”

I’m happy to inform you that the coming weeks will be LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Witwatersrand is a series of a highly favorable time to use disciplined research and cliffs in South Africa. It encompasses 217 square miles. rigorous logic to solve dilemmas.

From this area, which is a tiny fraction of the Earth’s PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming days, maybe total land surface, humans have extracted 50 percent of you could work some lines from the Biblical “Song of all the gold ever mined. I regard this fact as an apt metaSolomon” into your intimate exchanges. The moment is phor for you to meditate on in the next 12 months, Leo. ripe for such extravagance. Can you imagine saying If you’re alert, you will find your soul’s equivalent of things like, “Your lips are honey,” or “You are a fountain Witwatersrand. What I mean is that you’ll have a golden in the garden, a well of living waters”? In my opinion, it opportunity to discover emotional and spiritual riches wouldn’t even be too extreme for you to murmur, “May I that will nurture your soul as it has rarely been nurtured. find the scent of your breath like apricots, and your VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What I wish for you is a toasty coolness. I pray that you will claim a messy gift.

I want you to experience an empowering surrender and a calming climax. I very much hope, Virgo, that you will finally see an obvious secret and capitalize on some unruly wisdom and take an epic trip to an intimate turning point. I trust that you’ll find a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart. These wonders may sound paradoxical, and yet they’re quite possible and exactly what you need.

whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly to welcome my caresses.” If those sentiments seem too flowery, you could pluck gems from Pablo Neruda’s love sonnets.

How about this one: “I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.” Here’s another: “I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

Homework: Each of us has a secret ignorance.

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PERSONAL PROPERTY AS DESCRIBED IN THIS COURT’S JUDGMENT, together with all and singular tenements, hereditaments, COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO and appurtenances thereto FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE PROBATE COURT Case No. D-101-CV-2015-00547 belonging or any wise SANTA FE COUNTY JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. appertaining thereto. If No. 2017-0146 personal property of Ms. Plaintiff, v.

IN THE MATTER OF THE DeHaven, her agents, or JYL DEHAVEN, ESTATE OF Frank Paul representatives, or of any INDIVIDUALLY AND AS Perniciaro, DECEASED. other person or entity ANCILLARY PERSONAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS separately ordered to vacate REPRESENTATIVE OF NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN and quit possession of the THE ESTATE OF JAMES that the undersigned has Property on or before the date been appointed personal WAYLAND ROBERTS, of the sale, remains on the real representative of this estate.

DECEASED; JYL DEHAVEN, All persons having claims property after the date of the AS ANCILLARY PERSONAL against this estate are required REPRESENTIVE OF THE sale, such personal property to present their claims within ESTATE OF ARCHIE LEE is deemed abandoned and four (4) months after the the purchaser may dispose of ROBERTS, DECEASED; THE date of the first publication the property in any manner BOARD OF DIRECTORS of this notice, or the claims pursuant to applicable law.

OF PUEBLO ENCANTADO will be forever barred. Claims CONDOMINIUM UNIT The property will be sold must be presented either to subject to a nine month right OWNERS ASSOCIATION, the undersigned personal of redemption; easements, INC., A New Mexico representative at the address reservations and restrictions nonprofit corporation. listed below, or filed with the of record; taxes and Defendants.

Probate Court of Santa Fe, governmental assessments NOTICE OF SALE County, New Mexico, located NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN including unpaid utility bills; at the following address: 102 any liens or encumbrances not that the undersigned Special Grant Ave., Santa Fe, NM foreclosed in this proceeding; Master, in accordance with 87501. the valuation of the property the terms of the Order Dated: August 2, 2017. by the County Assessor as real Granting Summary Judgment Frank Thomas Perniciaro or personal property; affixture (“Order”) entered on June 20, 10 Sierra Dawn Rd. of any mobile or manufactured 2017 in favor of the Board of Santa Fe, NM 87508 Directors of Pueblo Encantado home to the land; deactivation (505) 217-5258 of title to a mobile or Condominium Association manufactured home on the (the “Association”), will on STATE OF NEW MEXICO property; environmental Wednesday, October 11, 2017, COUNTY OF SANTA FE contamination, if any; any at the hour of 9:45 a.m. MT, FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT homeowners’ association at the entrance of the First COURT IN THE MATTER OF Judicial District Court, located or condominium dues, A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Bobby Markus at 225 Montezuma Ave, Santa assessments, declarations, rules, requirements and Trujillo-Lopez A CHILD. Case Fe, New Mexico 87501, offer No.: D-101-CV-2017-02212 restrictions and the for sale and sell at public NOTICE OF CHANGE OF Association’s continuing auction to the highest bidder NAME TAKE NOTICE that in for cash the following described assessments and recorded accordance with the provisions property located in Santa Fe rights as set forth in the of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. Declaration and other matters County, New Mexico: The 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et of record; any requirements property to be sold is located seq. the Petitioner Patricia imposed by city or county in Santa Fe County, New Salazar-Trujillo will apply to Mexico, and is a condominium ordinance or by state law the Honorable SARAH M. affecting the property; and unit within the Pueblo SINGLETON, District Judge zoning violations concerning Encantado Condominiums, of the First Judicial District at generally described as Pueblo the property, if any. No the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, Encantado Condominium, representation is made as to 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Unit K-2, 15 Mesa Encantado the validity of the rights of Fe, New Mexico, at 8:30 a.m. ingress and egress. Transfer #227 and more particularly on the 13th day of September, described as: Unit K-2, Pueblo of title to the highest bidder 2017 for an ORDER FOR shall be without warranty Encantado Condominium CHANGE OF NAME of the or representation of any (“Condominium”), created by child from Robert (Bobby) the “Declaration of Covenants, kind. ALL PROSPECTIVE Markus Trujillo-Lopez to PURCHASERS AT THE SALE Conditions and Restrictions Bobby Markus Trujillo.

ARE ADVISED TO REVIEW for Pueblo Encantado STEPHEN T. PACHECO, THE DISTRICT COURT FILE, Condominiums”, recorded on District Court Clerk TO MAKE THEIR OWN December 30, 1980, in Book By: Victoria Martinez EXAMINATION OF TITLE 412, pages 824-841 in the Deputy Court Clerk AND TO CONSULT THEIR office of the Santa Fe County Submitted by: Patricia SalazarOWN ATTORNEY BEFORE Clerk (“Declaration”). (the Trujillo BIDDING. This sale is “Property”).

Petitioner, Pro Se subject to a motion hearing The Sale of this Property scheduled for September 27, includes ANY AND ALL CLASSY@ 2017 on Plaintiff’s Motion for IMPROVEMENTS, FIXTURES, Reconsideration.

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satisfy an indebtedness awarded and owed to the Association secured by the Real Property as set forth in the Order. In the Order the Association’s judgment as secured by the Real Property as of April 5, 2017 was $34,053.16 (“Association’s April 5, 2017 Judgment”).

The Association’s April 5, 2017 Judgement has and will continue to accrue interest, and additional costs and expenses and reasonable attorney’s fees arising from collection of it until satisfied plus any remaining attorney fees and costs accruing prior to the date of sale.

The Association and/or its assignee may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.

The Association and/or its assignee has the right to bid at such sale and submit its bid verbally or in writing.

Proceeds of the sale shall first apply to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fee, for any costs incurred for the maintenance and protection of the property, including those not included in the Association’s judgment, and then to the Association for its judgment, which will include additional amounts from the Association’s April 5, 2017 Judgment.

If the sale results in a winning bid that exceeds the Association’s judgement, then those amounts will be put into the Court’s registry and paid to all remaining parties as their respective interests may appear. The Plaintiff or other lien holders at the time of the sale may have obtained judgments against the Property which may authorize them to bid in judgment amounts in lieu of cash but to date no such judgments have been entered.

The sale will or may be affected by the Court’s Order after hearing on September 27, 2017 and may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the undersigned Special Master. The sale is subject to the entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of this sale. The purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to Defendant Jyl DeHaven’s nine month right of redemption. /s/ Jonathan Morse Jonathan Morse, Special

Master P.O. Box 8387 Santa Fe, NM 87504-8387 (505) 982-3305 Address inquiries to the Attorneys for the Association: Walcott, Henry & Winston, P.C. Charles V. Henry 200 West Marcy St., Suite 203 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 982-9559 (505) 982-1199 fax charlie@walcottlaw.com

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