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NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 WHO’S RUNNING THE HOSPITALS 9 Demographics matter when it comes to patient accountability. How our two hopsitals stack up POSTER CHILD 11 Santa Fe’s affordable housing woes stand out among NM stats, but the whole state has trouble COVER STORY 12 THE PEOPLE’S ATTORNEY New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in the state. A look at his performance and goals alongside his critics and friends THE INTERFACE 19 DEATH BECOMES HIM Entrepreneurship meets science meets a new way to deal with cremated remains

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EDUCATION In response to Lynn Allen’s question: The legislative branch enacts the law, the judicial branch administers the law, and the executive branch enforces the law. If one branch encroaches on the duties of another this is a violation of the separation of powers. The judicial branch does not make the law, so when choosing what judge gets your vote, choose based on which candidate best does the job—there is no Republican/ Democrat partiality to consider, only who best enacts the law, and is least involved in making or enforcing it.

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GOOD FOR ME I’ve always liked Gary Johnson. He got the ball rolling on medical cannabis in New Mexico, and potentially saved my life. I have been a cannabis patient since 2001 when the laws were still against us as patients.

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MORE PLEASE Appreciate this writeup! I’ve been looking for art spaces/galleries in town that are geared toward a younger generation (beyond Meow Wolf).

Cool to see some of this happening in town, nothing against the Southwest/modern art style permeating through town, but it does get a bit old after a while.

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CORRECTION Theodore Cale Schafer was a founding member of the DIY arts space Etiquette.

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Barber recently helped organize the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Standing on the shoulders of the Poor People’s Campaign organized by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, the 2018 program involved 40 days of direct action for racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice. Barber’s three books include The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement (2016). Cornel West says, “William Barber is the closest person we have to Martin Luther King Jr. in our midst.”

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Who’s Running the Hospitals?

Santa Fe’s two medical centers feature a similar composition of board members, but Christus St. Vincent is more versed in diversity

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ow that Presbyterian Healthcare Services’ new medical center in Santa Fe has officially opened, people around here have at least a couple of choices for hospital care. To gain a better understanding of the two medical centers, SFR took a look at their board memberships, which are posted online.

Why consider the makeup of a hospital’s board of directors? According to the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), hospital boards are the “ultimate authority” of the institution.

They’re responsible for ensuring quality of care for patients as well as the hospital’s financial standing—two things the organization says are intertwined.

These boards also serve the function of evaluating the performances of the hospitals’ CEOs. At both Christus and Presbyterian, a CEO is also a board member who acts as the board’s representative in the day-to-day functions of the hospital. But CEOs don’t have a say in their own evaluations.

ACHE says a key goal of hospital board membership should be to adequately mirror the communities they serve, but rarely, if ever, does this happen. According to the latest survey by the American Hospital Association’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, only 14 percent of hospital board members and 9 percent of CEOs are not white.

The business journal Modern Healthcare reported earlier this year that efforts to increase non-white representation among hospital boards and staff were largely failing due to institutional racism. Research has long shown cultural familiarity between patients and hospital staff promotes communication and understanding, leading to better health outcomes.

Race receives a lot of attention from institutions that track diversity among hospital leadership, but it isn’t the only identifier that can affect a person’s perspective. Gender, socioeconomic status and professional background can all play a role in guiding the direction of a hospital

board’s priorities and goals.

SFR asked both Santa Fe hospitals to arrange interviews with people who sit on their boards to discuss how much importance, if any, the hospital systems put on diversity among their ranks. Only Christus St. Vincent made CEO and board member Lillian Montoya available for an interview. Presbyterian submitted a brief statement by email and declined repeated requests for interviews.

Both hospitals publicly feature board members’ names and professional backgrounds on their respective websites.

According to SFR’s analysis, there are nine men and six women on Christus St. Vincent’s board, including CEO Montoya.

At least three members appear to based in Texas and affiliated with the broad-

er Christus network, including Christus Health CFO Randolph Safady. Presbyterian has five women and eight men on its board, including CEO Dale Maxwell.

More directors at Presbyterian come from non-hospital backgrounds, such as construction and finance, but there appear to be more similarities than differences among the two boards: Both feature at least one practicing doctor, as well as multiple people with experience in health care executive positions.

Many are deeply connected to other influential New Mexico institutions: Presbyterian board member Jennifer Thomas, for example, is the chair and CEO of the Bank of Albuquerque. Another Presbyterian board member, Frank Figueroa, worked for the military con-

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RANDY SAFADY

LILLIAN MONTOYA

KATHARINE WINOGRAD

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CHARLES GOODMAN

DAVID GONZALES

DALE MAXWELL

SANDRA BEGAY

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SISTER JEANNE CONNELL

JOEL ROSEN

LARRY CLEVENGER

EARL POTTER

MARK ANDERSON

MARY MACUKAS

ANGELA GALLEGOSMACIAS

KIRBY JEFFERSON

PETER BASTONE

AARON MARTIN

MICHAEL ARCHIBECK

CYNTHIA SCHULTZ

RISHI SIKKA

MELVIN GOERING

WENDY TREVISANI

FRANK FIGUEROA

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members who came from other fields (finance/ construction/ engineering/ etc):

members with experience practicing medicine/ heath care:

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tractor Lockheed Martin for over two decades, including as an executive at Sandia National Laboratories. And St. Vincent board member Earl Potter, owner of the Five and Dime, “participated in the creation of the Legal Aid Society of Santa Fe,” as well as the Eldorado Hotel and the Hotel Santa Fe. For both hospitals, a plurality of board members are white men. A Presbyterian spokeswoman wouldn’t agree to an interview and did not provide information about any organization policies on diversity. At Christus hospitals, one out of three hires for board or leadership positions are supposed to be a “diverse candidate,” an in-house metric that takes into account factors like gender, age, and professional background. The Christus network also annually reviews diversity reports for all hospital boards.

Montoya, the first Latina CEO at Christus St. Vincent, says when the hospital looks at board vacancies, they first consider a person’s knowledge and expertise before considering whether the candidate has “diverse interests or understandings [or] personal work experience that demonstrate they’re comfortable working with diverse communities.”

The hospital also provided SFR with a detailed summary of its 2,136 employees.

There are 1,543 self-identified women working at Christus St. Vincent compared to 593 self-identified men; 1,053 identified as Latino and 828 as white, with 55 Native American/American Indian, 44 African-American, 46 Asian and 96 non-specified or more than one ethnicity.

There is about a near-even split among Baby Boomers, Gen-X and Millennials: 739, 699 and 678, respectively.

Montoya says diversity in lower-level hospital staff starts with decisions and priorities made at higher levels. “The executive team is mentoring associates and minorities for leadership opportunities,” she says, adding that she’s mentoring three employees, part of a hospital-wide system to develop internal talent.

The Christus network also asks all its hospitals to identify as a priority an underserved “minority” population for increased outreach. This past year, Montoya suggested Christus St. Vincent intensify outreach to immigrants living in and around Agua Fría Village. As part of the effort, the hospital hosted free health screenings at San Isidro Catholic Church—which is also where she attends Mass.

“If we weren’t so focused on the acute awareness of how important diversity is, we wouldn’t have partnerships in the community that reach down deeper into Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico,” Montoya says.

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anta Fe is not alone in its troubles finding housing for lower- and middle-income earners. Across the state, and especially in Northern New Mexico, the housing divide is growing wider. Increasingly, the chasm between renting and owning is harder to cross.

According to a new report from the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority, just 14 percent of Santa Fe County renters can afford to buy a median-priced home. That’s second only to Taos County’s 10 percent. Affordability increases only slightly when considering the homebuying power of all households: 30 percent theoretically earn enough to buy a home in Santa Fe compared to a paltry 22 percent in Taos. The state agency warns that other factors mean even fewer people can afford a mortgage.

Among New Mexico’s urban counties—Santa Fe, Bernalillo, Sandoval, Valencia, Doña Ana and San Juan—Santa Fe stands alone in having below average housing affordability. Its struggles are similar to those found not only in tourist towns like Taos and Ruidoso, but to oil patch counties like Eddy and Lea. “Maintaining a healthy affordable market is really important,” the Mortgage Finance Authority’s Monica Abeita told a legislative committee Monday. She directs policy and planning for the agency.

“When prices go up, you don’t have anywhere to house your service workers unless your rents are fixed.”

That’s a familiar theme to state Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, D-Santa Fe, who chairs the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority Act Oversight Committee that Abeita spoke to this week. Aside from being a mouthful even for bureaucratic nomenclature, the group of legislators is in charge of monitoring the state’s effort to put roofs over the heads of its residents.

Much of that work happens through the finance authority—but it also happens at the local level.

At the meeting, Alexandra Ladd, the

city of Santa Fe’s affordable housing director, gave lawmakers a glimpse of how cities and counties can find ways to use a patchwork of state laws and federal programs to leverage construction of affordable housing, while still giving private developers the bottom line they demand.

Santa Fe is one of the relatively few communities around the country that has what’s called inclusionary zoning.

If developers want to build homes or apartments, they have to build and sell a percentage of them to income-certified residents. For single-family homes, it’s 20 percent of the development.

At Las Soleras, the city’s largest current development, builder Pulte Homes would have been required to build 60 affordable houses. That’s a big

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NM($190,900): 29% renters 48% all households

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ask; big enough that Pulte’s stockholders wouldn’t tolerate eating into profit margins that deeply. So, Ladd explained, the city applied a state law that lets the government donate resources to private companies if the donation addresses affordable housing needs.

So instead of building 60 houses for low-income owners, Pulte proposed buying 4.5 acres zoned for multifamily housing and donating it, along with infrastructure for the site. Instead of giving it directly to the nonprofit Santa Fe Housing Trust to build a planned apartment complex with 73 affordable rental units, it donated the land to the city of Santa Fe, which acted as a pass-through. Pulte got a 50 percent state tax credit for its charity and, because the land was then donated to the Housing Trust by the city, it meant the Soleras Station project scored higher on its application for a federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit, which it won.

Construction on the apartments began this fall.

Impressive though the Soleras Station solution might be, Santa Fe faces major challenges to home affordability. While owning a home is affordable for just three of every 10

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households in the county, 71 percent of households in the county own a home.

What that means is that a lot of people who have managed to buy a home in Santa Fe County spend more of their income on housing than is recommended—something that comes as no surprise to owners or renters. That number is generally considered to be around a third of household income.

The Mortgage Finance Authority says second homes like those in Santa Fe’s market play a huge role in pricing the market away from the middle class. “It really alters the housing market quite a bit,” Rodriguez said at the committee meeting.

The need for help is growing more evident. Last year, 2,500 families used mortgage products from the group. “And this year it’s going to be far more than that,” the authority’s executive director, Jay Czar, told lawmakers Monday.

Consider that prediction in light of the fact that, in most of New Mexico, population growth lags the rest of the US. In fact, all but two counties (Los Alamos and Sandoval) trail the rest of the country’s fiveyear growth rate. Coupled with low average income, New Mexico lands among the Mississippis and West Virginias when it comes to household poverty. In the last year, the state’s population has ticked up ever so slightly, but with more people comes more need for places to live.

New Mexico’s way out won’t come quickly and, in the eyes of many who are looking for solutions, not without some creative thinking.

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As Hector Balderas looks poised for a second term, SFR checks in on the highestranking law enforcement officer in the state

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BY MARGARET WRIGHT @margaretwrite

he prosecutorial style of New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is on display during a recent news conference in his downtown Albuquerque office.

A handful of journalists assemble in a room with folded chairs and posters depicting a motivational phrase about leadership and soft-filtered nature scenes. When the TV news crews are ready, Balderas and his staff arrive, flanked by mixed martial arts guru Greg Jackson and the family of Aaron Sieben, a 30-year-old Albuquerque man killed in 2017 outside a gas station during a confrontation with a stranger.

Balderas introduces his guests before announcing that over the course of nearly two years, they’d joined forces to promote personal safety in honor of Sieben.

“We as New Mexicans must be proactive about protecting families in

New Mexico, especially our loved ones, and prevent future tragedies,” Balderas intones.

He says “proactive” a lot, along with other words highlighted at the news conference, like “preventative” and “innovative.” They set the framework for what Balderas describes as a “new model” for public safety in a city with the state’s highest homicide rates— which are also some of the highest in the nation. Balderas took on the Sieben case when the local district attorney declared a conflict of interest, holding the news conference just two days after a judge sentenced the convicted killer to life in prison.

It’s clear Balderas thinks like a prosecutor, and not just in centering the import and weight of a well-crafted narrative. As the state’s highest-ranking law enforcement official and advocate for its best interests, he runs his office like a tightly wound clock. Image-maintenance staff churn out news releases heralding high-stakes battles against predators and violent offend-

ers, big corporations and corrupt public officials, as well as protective measures for New Mexicans and natural resources at risk of exploitation.

Balderas knows that if a trail of compelling evidence is presented to people sitting in judgment, they’re likely to align with the figure who guided them there. Four years into his first term and running for re-election, his campaign has maintained well-stuffed coffers and an apparent polling advantage. He’s favored to win a second term over Republican candidate Michael Hendricks and Libertarian Aubrey Dunn.

Unvarnished measurements of how well Balderas has lived up to a raft of lofty, self-imposed goals during his first term aren’t easy to come by. Many cases pursued by the AG over the past four years remain unresolved. And Balderas says he wants to do more.

He plans to ask lawmakers to extend his office’s authority to automatic jurisdiction in criminal cases, so his attorneys don’t wait for local district

the foundation of his work in public office, Balderas says. Now 45 and married with three kids, Balderas is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law. He’s worked in public service almost continuously since election to the state House of Representatives in 2004. Two years later, he began his first of two terms as state auditor, followed by a failed run for US Senate in 2012.

Criminal prosecutions have been a focal point of Balderas’ platform, and Doña Ana County District Attorney Mark D’Antonio, a longtime friend, told SFR that the AG’s office provides valuable technical assistance on cases outside its jurisdiction. He added that its spokesmen have been devoted contacts, dropping by his Las Cruces office for debriefings about how work is going and gathering updates about local issues.

Balderas says his criminal unit was built to win cases with scant evidence— cases in which defense strategies try to discredit victims. He bemoaned the state’s ongoing backlog of rape testing kits and emphasized the need for his office to take up cases for which other state and local resources are lacking.

Albuquerque attorney Brad Hall, who represents victims of Catholic Church clerical abuse with ties to New Mexico, says he and his clients met frequently with Balderas’ office about pedophile priests and the hierarchy shielding them from accountability. Hall says he was pleased when the AG’s office last month

initiated its own investigation of personnel in the three Catholic dioceses following the release of a grand jury report in Pennsylvania that included details about clerics transferred to New Mexico after abuse allegations.

The extent of clerical abuse in New Mexico presented a public health issue long ago, Hall says. “I have no doubt Hector Balderas is conducting a thorough and independent evaluation, not based on whatever Pennsylvania did, but based on the work of his own team.”

I tell my staff that I don’t want to do a bunch of fake busy work where we’re processing paperwork.

I want us to take on powerful interests.

-Hector Balderas

CONSUMER AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS WIN OVER ‘BUSY WORK’ Other essential protections for New Mexicans’ natural resources, environmental health and hard-earned personal income require systemic reforms of how industry conducts business, Balderas said.

Ona Porter, founder and CEO of consumer protection nonprofit Prosperity Works, expressed concern back in 2016 when Balderas’ first years in office saw major staffing changes. Balderas describes those as shifts in operational approach and philosophy.

“We’ve tried to use our litigation to

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attorneys to fail or decline to act before they take over. He’ll continue marshaling civil litigation resources in what Balderas calls “big, impactful” national cases, like those against Wells Fargo, Google, Volkswagen, as well as suits taking on the federal government under President Donald Trump.

There’s plenty to do here at home.

Title and payday lenders still dot New Mexico’s neighborhoods despite known histories of predatory business practices.

Climate change is sucking local watersheds dry. Citizens have to resort to legal proceedings to pry loose records from public agencies. Even trumpeted cases languish for years. The attorney general is silent on policies to back up his transparency rhetoric, including whether police agencies should be allowed to keep discipline records secret.

Republican candidate Hendricks, an Albuquerque immigration attorney with a master’s degree in business administration, says he’s motivated to unseat Balderas in part because he hasn’t prioritized local concerns. “There’s been way too much focus—not just by Hector but by Republican and Democratic AGs alike— on going after administrations in Washington. … New Mexico needs an attorney general who’s willing to focus 100 percent on the needs of New Mexico.”

Balderas’ demeanor was calm yet firm in a phone interview with SFR last month.

His upbringing in the rural Northern New Mexico village of Wagon Mound set

MMA trainer Greg Jackson, left, attended a recent news conference with state Attorney General Hector Balderas—a classic image-making event from the elected official.

make the system better,” he says. “I tell my staff that I don’t want to do a bunch of fake busy work where we’re processing paperwork. I want us to take on powerful interests, where normal New Mexico families can’t take on these interest groups.”

When asked about $60,300 in campaign contributions his re-election campaign has received from local car dealers, Balderas says his office’s record of consumer advocacy sent them a signal. “I basically put a mandate to local dealers: You really will fix [consumer] complaints, or we will then take the case over.”

Michael Barrio, director of advocacy at Prosperity Works, says the group is today confident Balderas’ office takes unscrupulous lending seriously, having pushed for more transparency in the small-dollar lending industry and taken steps to strengthen regulation and enforcement of the state’s Small Loan Act. Yet ethically questionable companies find ways to work around the state’s protective measures.

In 2012, during Attorney General Gary King’s tenure, a District Court judge ordered payday lender FastBucks to pay New Mexicans millions of dollars in restitution for making illegal loans. Soon after, the company filed for bankruptcy.

An even bigger judgment was leveled against FastBucks in 2016, yet the company hasn’t paid up and is still conducting business in New Mexico.

Balderas sounds less primed for battle when asked what his office can do to make sure New Mexicans get what they’re owed. “There are some things that corporate America still does very effectively to shield assets. ... That’s an issue we have to talk to our governor and our congressional delegation about,” he says.

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Elected to four-year terms, limited to two consecutively The state Legislature allocated a budget of more than $25 million for the last fiscal year; more than $700,000 went to outside contracts

Oversees a staff of about 240 employees (33 positions are currently vacant) in divisions that include consumer and family advocacy, criminal prosecution, consumer protection, Medicaid investigations, open government and the environment

gy” rule on the basis that it ignores the EPA’s own research.

Camilla Feibelman, executive director of the Sierra Club’s Rio Grande Chapter, says she was encouraged when Balderas and California’s attorney general were the first to file suit against the Trump administration for suspending a federal rule that would have curbed methane pollution by oil and gas production on federal and tribal lands. The AG’s active defense of the rule is crucial, because private companies waste natural gas through accidental leaking and purposeful venting and flaring, Feibelman says.

“It costs the state a significant amount of royalties,” she says.

And health concerns are significant, with methane a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to smog and exacerbates respiratory diseases. Rules limiting methane emissions were part of the United States’ role in the Paris Agreement to blunt climate change progression.

While climate change propels what scientists predict will be further aridification of the greater Southwest, anxiety has surged over the state’s ongoing work before the US Supreme Court in the landmark Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado case concerning distribution of water from the Rio Grande. As journalist Laura Paskus has reported for SFR, the case carries severe local implications. If the Supreme Court determines groundwater wells New Mexico farmers use to water crops are hydrologically linked to the Rio Grande, and that the state owes more water to Texas, farmers will be forced to cut groundwater pumping. New Mexico taxpayers could be liable for millions, even billions, of dollars in damages.

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MORE ARID PROBLEMS LOOMING Balderas was unequivocal when asked whether his office aligns with the scientific consensus that climate change is manmade. “Absolutely. We also believe it’s a public health crisis,” he says.

His team pushes for solar and wind energy on the premise that in a state with high rates of poverty and poor health outcomes, such investments will have positive health impacts.

Steve Michel, deputy director of Western Resource Advocates’ Clean Energy Program and a former assistant attorney general, says that as climate change threats ramp up, New Mexico has cut resources for adequate utility oversight.

“At the AG’s office back in the ’80s, we had three full-time attorneys and a full-time economist, as well as a consulting budget to handle utility cases for the three electric utilities and the gas company. That budget has been continually decreased.”

The AG’s office works with the Public Regulation Commission to oversee deals with some of the state’s biggest companies in the utility industry. That work involves highly technical, specialized cases. “The AG has a very good attorney assigned to this work, but it’s just one attorney,” Michel says. “A lot of people with an eye toward the future would like to see more resources deployed.”

The AG’s environmental legal team tends to many fronts, including confrontations with the Trump administration. Balderas spokesman David Carl says the office joined multi-state litigation over the federal Clean Power Plan to compel the Washington DC Circuit Court to decide on the merits of the Obama-era rule. New Mexico’s position: The Environmental Protection Agency should abandon the Trump administration’s “Affordable Clean Ener-

Camilla Feibelman, executive director of the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club, says the AG’s environmental advocacy is encouraging.

Balderas’ update on the case is emphatic: He’s confident in and takes full responsibility for the state’s direction on the litigation and related technical investigations of hydrology tied to the case. The AG is also steadfast in explaining his office’s selection of private counsel for the case—led by his friend from law school, Albuquerque attorney Marcus Rael, a relative newcomer in the world of water law.

“This was the first time I had ever been associated with hiring that firm. In over 10 years of public service ... I’d never retained them,” Balderas says. He’d briefly shared office space, not partnership, with Rael’s firm, Robles, Rael and Anaya, PC, when Balderas conducted “a little bit of criminal defense work” prior to occupying the AG’s office. He also took issue with any suggestion that Rael and his firm weren’t qualified to defend New Mexico in a complex, cross-border water rights case.

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ney general, specifically his chairmanship of the LEAB. “It is his obligation to guarantee the independence of the board, and he is failing,” Mechels says. It also appeared to him a conflict of interest that Balderas hired former Department of Public Safety attorneys as legal counsel for his role as chairman.

Lack of transparency and policy uniformity when it comes to law enforcement conduct is an ongoing and statewide problem— one that Balderas’ office has a pattern of deflecting. For more than a year, SFR has pursued records

Balderas, a Democrat, is polling ahead of his two challengers with the momentum of the party’s top of the ticket candidate for governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, pictured in his arms at a party event earlier this year.

TRANSPARENCY AND THE UPHILL BATTLE AGAINST CORRUPTION Balderas says there was a big running joke when he entered New Mexico’s political scene: The feds would have to step in to halt corruption here. He said he “took it to heart” that Democrats—his own party—had for so long turned a blind eye.

The way Balderas sees it, if New Mexico is serious about curing its “horrific problem with corruption,” everyone has to take public records and government transparency seriously. His record on the topics is mixed. Among Balderas’ duties as AG are enforcement of the state’s Inspection of Public Records and Open Meetings Acts. He’s also chair of the state Law Enforcement Academy Board, which effects training and hiring standards for all law enforcement officers.

Balderas says he’s determined to investigate allegations of malfeasance by public officials, citing among other measures his office’s work on former Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz’ suspect deal with Axon, formerly known as Taser International. However, the AG’s office told New Mexico In Depth in March 2017 that after more than three years delving, “we anticipate a determination relatively soon” on the Schultz/Taser investigation. The wait continues.

The team in his office investigating police misconduct and malfeasance also investigates public corruption. If it uncovers something worthy of prosecution, Balderas says, “the public can rest assured, we’re not afraid to take down leaders of law enforcement organizations.”

He says former state Taxation and Revenue Department chief Demesia Padilla, indicted by his office in June on embezzlement charges, qualifies as one.

Los Alamos resident Chris Mechels says watchdogging the Law Enforcement Academy Board wasn’t on his agenda when he retired from the national labs.

But when the police shooting of Santa Fe resident Jeanette Anaya came to his attention in 2013, he was so disturbed that he started studying the board’s history and attending meetings. He’s less than impressed by Balderas’ record as attor-

I have no doubt Hector Balderas is conducting a thorough and independent evaluation, not based on whatever Pennsylvania did, but based on the work of his own team.

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But in weighing proposals from outside counsel, Balderas says that, compared to state solicitors general representing Colorado, Texas and the federal government, Rael’s firm demonstrated more years representing local governments, plus water law experience in the Taos Valley. Balderas downplayed the role of Rael’s firm, in the overall case, though Rael is the lawyer who argued on behalf of the state before the nation’s highest court.

On a list of outside legal counsel contracted by the AG’s office between January 2015 and September 2018, Robles, Rael & Anaya PC is named as counsel for “NM Rivers.” However, Marcus Rael’s professional biography says he “also represents the State of New Mexico against Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche as well as in numerous pharmaceutical cases and other consumer protection matters.”

When asked for clarification about what Rael and his firm’s roles are in legal representation outside of the water case, office spokesman Carl emailed that “[Rael] and his firm are one of SEVERAL firms and organizations and experts utilized on complex litigation cases that the state of New Mexico pursues in all areas.”

It’s not clear why the firm’s claim to additional state work wasn’t noted in the SFR’s original request for information about outside counsel. Rael deferred comments to the attorney general.

Albuquerque lawyer Brad Hall welcomes the AG’s investigation into priest sex crimes.

of disciplinary measures against Santa Fe police officers. The AG’s office response is essentially: “We’re looking into it.”

Another news outlet asked for help when the University of New Mexico tried to charge too much for records, and Balderas came through with a letter of reprimand in early September.

Asked why under his chairmanship the LEAB has not functioned independently from the state Department of Public Safety, Balderas counters that it needs more state funding and its own full-time staff.

Balderas also argues the state should pay for a public records division and pass a law to modernize and professionalize the state’s public records system. Balderas also plans to ask the Legislature to grant his office more power to fine non-compliant agencies without having to go through an overburdened court system. He also wants to create a public transparency officer who can impose fines.

Libertarian candidate Dunn, an attorney who won last year’s New Mexico Foundation for Open Government Dixon Award for open government advocacy, says he voted for Balderas four years ago.

He’s since sued the AG’s office, alleging IPRA violations. “He’s supposed to be the attorney for the state, and part of that is making sure the state’s following the law,” says Dunn. “He hasn’t really done that.”

Dunn was also disappointed when Balderas declined to investigate allegations of improper in-kind donations to Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller’s campaign on grounds that Balderas had endorsed Keller rival (and Robles law firm partner) Brian Colón. “[The AG’s] office shouldn’t be impeded from doing an investigation and potentially prosecuting a crime because he’s endorsing someone,” says Dunn. “It destroys the credibility of that office.”

While speaking about accountability for Catholic Church perpetrators of child sex abuse, Hall’s phrasing took on broader relevance: “An attorney general can leave something behind: a historical accounting of the failures of institutions.”

Balderas embraces that sense of duty.

“The challenge for me, though, is that the reforms I’ve asked for in government and across the board have come too slow,” he says. “There are not enough resources to go around to take on every important case. The urgency for me is much greater than the state has evolved in making the proper reforms to represent vulnerable populations. That’s what I have found the biggest challenge in governing.”

New Mexicans fervently wait to see how the next attorney general rises to that challenge.

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READINGS & CONVERSATIONS Lannan presents Readings & Conversations, featuring inspired literary writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as cultural freedom advocates with a social, political, and environmental justice focus.

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recent book is Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason (2017), and his A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005) is considered a primer on that critical topic across academic fields. He is the author of 27 other books. Harvey is responsible for transforming urban geography into a cutting-edge field that attracts leading scholars who ask big questions and study interconnected systems of power. Having received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, he is a fellow in the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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isclosure: For many years, I have served in some capacity as a judge for MIX Santa Fe’s bizMIX competition, an accelerator program for local entrepreneurs. I always enjoy reading the various pitches and proposals and, as an inherently lazy person, admire all the folks in Santa Fe toiling to create new restaurants, services and products for the rest of us.

One of the initial pitches that struck me last spring proposed a business to revolutionize cremation via new technology with help from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Always on the look-out for sciencemeets-world stories, as well as a sucker for anything that sounds like the premise for a zombie flick, I contacted Parting Stone founder Justin Crowe and invited myself over to his Second Street studio to learn more.

Crowe, 30, received a BFA in ceramics from Alfred University but, even as an art student, was just as drawn to the

forward. His current business, Parting Stone, takes cremated ashes, removes impurities, superheats them into molten remains and then creates “purified remains,” a solid object (or possibly many solid objects) that can be touched and displayed.

Crowe applied for and received help from the New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, which connects small businesses with technical challenges like his to either LANL or Sandia National Laboratory. Crowe was paired with LANL scientist Chris Chen, who described to me the technical problem of firing the ashes at a high temperature with a small amount of glass to create a solid object as a “very easy” problem to solve.

The science may not be complex (if you have a PhD in material science and engineering), but the disruptive nature of Crowe’s idea touches on a variety of complex issues regarding attitudes toward death and memorialization. Moreover, the rise of cremation versus burial created an opening for someone with an entrepreneurial spirit. “The death industry is so starved of innovation,” Crowe says, and “that’s created a situation where there’s a lot of opportunity.”

On Sept. 20, judges picked Purified Remains as the top bizMIX recipient and awarded it $5,000. Crowe also picked up a CEO through the bizMIX process (bizMIX mentor Kimberly Corbitt) and is on his way to launching what appears to be a very successful endeavor.

“The dream is that we’re creating a new form of human remains,” he says. “The results will be beautiful and touchable and clean, and they’re going to have a really good and beautiful user experience.”

commerce side of the endeavor. When he analyzed all the things he loved about pottery—an obsession from age 10—he soon realized he loved creating things and selling them: An entrepreneur was born.

“Building businesses feels like building art,” he says. “You start with nothing, you have an idea in your head … you have to figure out the tools that you need and the people you need and the funding you need and … slowly you take the world that’s in your head and get the rest of the world to see it like that. That was my process with art and that’s also my process with business.”

Crowe began creating products and selling them on the internet. One is named Paul, a giant torso whose crotch serves as a phone charger. Another iterates on the selfie-stick by allowing users to take photos in which they appear to be holding hands with someone else. Both were intentionally funny and designed as objects of both aesthetics and discourse.

But after Crowe’s grandfather died in 2015, the entrepreneur began thinking less humorously about society’s relationship to technology and more intently about the culture’s relationship to mortality. “I started to research death and mortality because I was facing my mortality for the first time watching him die,” he says.

He was thinking about how people inherently strive to remain connected to their loved ones after they die, and also Parting Stone founder Justin Crowe has set out to revolutionize the began mulling the average excremation industry.

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perience for those whose loved ones are cremated: The trauma of seeing a loved one reduced to ash and bone, followed by the challenge of deciding how to live with those remains. Crowe describes the entirety of the cremation industry as “an unfortunate user experience,” and set about improving it.

Knowing a bit about glaze chemistry, he began experimenting with adding ashes to glazes and from there launched Lifeware, a business that incorporated remains into jewelry and other objects. Crowe then began further investigating the funeral industry, a point of interest that became a new obsession.

Today, Crowe is the managing editor for connectingdirectors.com, a website for funeral industry professionals (yes, this is a thing and it’s pretty fascinating. Be sure to check out Crowe’s story, “DJ Khaled’s New Hit Song is a Major Milestone for Cremation.”) Through that work and additional research, Crowe began to expand on Lifeware’s original mission.

“We were making cremated remains beautiful and touchable and displayable,” he says, but nonetheless, people were still left with 12 cups of ashes. Crowe pushed

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WOAH-OH-OH, IT’S MAGIC We at SFR love magicians and know that Francis Menotti has 30 years in the biz. He’s performed at the Magic Castle (a big deal) and Obama’s second-term inaugural ball (a bigger deal)—plus he stumped Penn and Teller on their show Fool Us (the biggest deal of all). Yeah, Menotti’s got the goods. So when he comes to a theater like the Jean Cocteau with his bag of tricks, fans of the dark arts (jay kay, we know it’s all in good fun) oughta take notice and pop on by. Menotti has a couple shows and a workshop (bring a deck of cards), so plan accordingly.

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Magic and Whimsy with Franis Menotti: 7:30 pm Friday Oct. 5 and 2 pm Saturday Oct. 6. $10-$20. The Magic of Adulting (18+ show): 7:30 pm Saturday Oct. 6. $20-$25. Close-Up Magic Workshop with Francis Menotti: Noon-1 pm Saturday Oct. 6. $10. Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528.

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SUSIE-Q Y’all know Susan Hyde Holmes, right? She’s that celebrated local bassist for acts like Alpha Cats and the Santa Fe All-Stars? Well, it turns out that when you’ve had an illustrious Santa Fe music career, you make friends, and when you decide you want to put together an outdoor festival featuring said friends for your birthday, it’s pretty easy. Thus, meet Susapalooza, a gathering of Hyde-Holmes’ musical buds and the kind of thing that makes local music fans go, “Oh, damn.

That’s a lot of musical buds.” Find Hyde Holmes playing with Paul Pearcy, Jon Graboff and George Langston and, if you know Susan, wish her a happy b-day. (ADV) Susapalooza 3 pm Sunday Oct. 7. Free. Mine Shaft Tavern, 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743.

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MUSIC MON/8 ALONE FOREVER OK OK OK OK OK—we’ll admit to being a little torn. See, we’ve been asking our friends about Hobo Johnson and the Lovemakers following their explosively popular NPR Tiny Desk Concert Performance from earlier this year, and nobody can tell us one way or another if the band is good, bad, weird, problematic, emotionally unhinged or otherwise worth listening to. Front man Frank Lopes Jr. has a definite style, one of obsession and intensely open emotions, but for every moment we find ourselves annoyed, another moment feels redeeming; for every lyric that makes us cringe, another makes us think.

We’re beginning to think there’s no easy answer, but those who wish to know more can find the band at The Bridge this week. (ADV) Hobo Johnson and the Lovemakers: 6:30 pm Monday Oct. 8. $22.50. The Bridge @ Santa Fe Brewing Co., 37 Fire Place, 557-6182.

Synthesize This The sequel we’ve been dying for Fear not, zombie-puppet-musical enthusiasts; while the premiere for this long-awaited sequel sold out, more showings are slated for this week. In the first installment of The Love That Would Not Die, which debuted approximately two years ago, humanity’s preoccupation with positive thinking, pharmaceuticals and technology led, inevitably, to a zombie apocalypse in which people didn’t just become zombies—they also became rock stars.

In the sequel Synthesize Me, alkie hero Stan returns (along with the most adorable sock puppet in the history of sock puppets, Sock Dog) and fights to save the world, while providing important (maybe?) back story (no spoilers here). The sequel introduces new characters and many new songs and continues mining questions of contemporary society with humor.

While the first installment was shot on iPhones, Synthesize Me was created with equipment from the now-defunct Santa Fe University of Art and Design, where local puppet masters Devon Hawkes Ludlow, Brandee Caoba, Damon Griffith and Sabrina Griffith, along with a team of artists and creators, hunkered down to produce a film whose higher production value happily shows off the artistry of the sets and puppets. But the

movie is not just visually delightful—once again, the script and songs are gleefully sardonic about the ways in which people are destroying the world. “The first rule of science,” Stan notes as he discusses his role in the current calamity, “is even if we fail and die, at least we contributed valuable data.” The movie also expands its cast with the happy addition of local musician Jessie Deluxe as Stan’s longlost love, punk rock diva Lydia, and Space Lady, playing herself.

Hawkes Ludlow acknowledges the sequel is “a massive leap forward.” Following the success of the first installment, this time “we had a lot more tools in our storytelling chest,” but are nonetheless “still taking aim at apocalyptic thinking, Big Pharma, obsession with positive thinking, alcoholism …” He trails off. “There are too many targets in the target-rich environment we live in.” While future showings and perhaps another exhibition of the puppets and sets may happen down the line, catch this home-grown masterpiece while you can. (Julia Goldberg) THE LOVE THAT WOULD NOT DIE, PART 2: SYNTHESIZE ME 7:30 pm Wednesday and Thursday Oct. 3 and 4; Noon Sunday Oct. 7. $9-$11. Jean Cocteau Cinema, 318 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528; tickets here.

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Fur Friends Costume Contest Come and join the pooch parade of personalities from the red carpet in La Fonda to the bandstand on the Plaza!

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EspaĂąola Humane and La Fonda On the Plaza present Fur Friends Costume Contest

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4:30-5:30 pm, free DHARMA TALK BY SENSEI SOKAKU KATHIE FISCHER Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A talk by Fischer, a Zen Buddhist priest who worked at Tassajara and Green Gulch Farm Zen Centers. The evening begins with a 15-minute meditation, so arrive by 5:20 pm to be polite.

5:30 pm, free MIDDLE LENGTH LAM RIM Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second St., Ste. 35, 660-7056 In weekly classes taught

by Geshe Thubten Sherab, learn about Lam Rim—it means "Stages of the Path" in Tibetan, and refers to the entire Buddhist path to enlightenment.

6:30 pm, free NEW MEXICO, SLAVERY, AND THE CONFEDERATE CAUSE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Dwight Pitcaithley, professor of history at NMSU and retired chief historian of the National Park Service, discusses the election of 1860 and the expansion of slavery into the western territories, especially into the New Mexico Territory.

Noon, free PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Kids who are read to are generally smarter than kids who aren't. Get 'em learnt!

10:45 am, free

Julianna Coles’ “Sayyida Al Hurra,” depicts the Pirate Queen of Tetuoan—it, along with the rest of her new exhibit at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, Pirate Queen: Piracy is a Feminist Act, explores the overwritten and ignored history of renegade women of the high seas. See the full listing on page 24.

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ENTREFLAMENCO FALL SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Entreflamenco presents a dramatic new season. Doors open an hour before performances for authentic Spanish tapas, wine and beer (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25

THE ADDICTION GAME Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Apparently, you can learn to kick bad habits via a board game. Who knew? If you’re intrigued, clinical counselor Craig Thomas McAdams leads a three-hour workshop.

5 pm, $10 CHILDREN’S CHESS CLUB Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Join other kids to play against for quiet thought and roaring laughter.

5:45 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Do you basically know everything about everything? Put it to good use. Quiz results can win you drink tickets.

8 pm, free HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Locals and tourists alike can learn new things about Santa Fe on a walking tour led by folks from the history museum.

Meet by the blue gates; kids under 17 free with an adult.

10:15 am, $15

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS CANDIDATE FORUM Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 The LWV of Santa Fe County hosts candidates for Secretary of State and Commissioner of Public Lands. Bring your questions and concerns; it's in the Jemez Rooms.

6:30-8:30 pm, free LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE: UNM PHOTOGRAPHERS New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Learn more about the many artists affiliated with UNMs photography department.

1-4 pm, free

FILM THE LOVE THAT WOULD NOT DIE, PART 2: SYNTHESIZE ME Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 It’s a locally produced zombie puppet musical, fools (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $9-$11

MUSIC BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, Broadway tunes and contemporary bops.

6:30 pm, free

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HOUNDMOUTH Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Magicians of nostalgic indie push you back to times yonder and then pull you forward with pleasant melodies.

7 pm, $30-$33 JANA HORN, TREVOR BAHNSON AND DANCER IN THE SUN Ghost 2899 Trades West Road Horn brings the haunting 'n' literary stripped-down pop straight in from Texas. She's joined by local Americana-er Bahnson, as well as a mysterious new project called Dancer in the Sun. 7 pm, $5-$10 JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Soulful flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Signups start at 6:30 pm, and everyone who performs gets a recording afterward—just like the good old days.

7 pm, free REAL DOM, BELLY EATER AND MABOB Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Dystopian burlesque from Real Dom, midwest queerdos on the run (that's Belly Eater), and a solo experimental project from Nicholas Quintero (see Music, page 25).

8 pm, $5-$10 SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Golden Age standards.

6:30-9:30 pm, free SHANE WALLIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Soulful blues.

8 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free TINY'S ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Plug it in and rock out.

8:30 pm, free

THEATER ACTION AT A DISTANCE: A NEW THEATRICAL CREATION Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Transcend the bounds of time and space through theater. In short: Six plays happen simultaneously. Needless to say, there is only one company in Santa Fe that would dare take this technique on: Theater Grottesco. It’s more like dance than theater, and we’re reasonably sure this one’s gonna get weird.

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DEVELOPMENT PEER GROUP Santa Fe Community Foundation 501 Halona St., 988-9715 Nonprofit development staff are invited to share their knowledge and resources.

Registration is required, so head to santafecf.org.

8:30-10:30 am, free INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Everyone is welcome, newcomers and experienced practitioners alike, to a weekly class that explores the basics and finer points of good posture and finding a comfortable meditation position.

5 pm, free

ENTREFLAMENCO FALL SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Entreflamenco presents a dramatic new season. Doors open an hour before performances for authentic Spanish tapas, wine and beer (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40

THU/4 ART OPENINGS JACOB HASHIMOTO: THE DARK ISN'T THE THING TO WORRY ABOUT SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 The New York-based artist presents new and recent works and a site-specific installation that explores the intersections of painting and sculpture, abstraction and landscape. Through March 24, 2019.

6:30 pm, free PIRATE QUEEN: PIRACY IS A FEMINIST ACT Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 The Pirate Queens were women who donned male attire to live life on their own terms. Albuquerque artist Julian Coles tells these stories through art; bold colors, textual narrative and a hint of folk art. Through Oct. 30.

5:30-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES LEW WALLACE: THE ADVENTURER IN DEED AND SPIRIT St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Meet Territorial Gov. Lew Wallace (as performed by Noel Pugach); he was a Union general in the American Civil War and US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire—not to mention the author of Ben Hur. Presented by the Renesan Institute.

1 pm, $15 MARGARET RANDALL: TIME'S LANGUAGE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Selected poems from 1959 to today include works of witness as well as personal poems, and autobiographical prose pieces, recounting the life of a political revolutionary.

6:30 pm, free

EVENTS DINNER AND A-I-R OPEN STUDIOS Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Join IAIA's artists-in-residence Robert "Spooner" Marcus, Katie Dorame, Monty Little and Luanne Redeye for dinner in the Academic Building, then studio tours.

5 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Pub quiz!

7 pm, free O2 OPEN MIC Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar (Kaverns) 137 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Drink that mojito-style elixir and share your creative musings. Hosted by Noah Kass.

8 pm, $5 SOUND CEREMONY WITH SCOTT ISHIHARA AND LAURI WESTFALL YogaSource 901 W San Mateo Road, 982-0990 Drop into a deeper state of resonance—you don’t need to know or do anything besides show up, lay down and let the sound waves wash through your system.

7:30 pm, $20

FILM THE LOVE THAT WOULD NOT DIE, PART 2: SYNTHESIZE

ME Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 It’s a locally produced zombie puppet musical, fools (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $9-$11

MUSIC AIMA MOSES & NDKA Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Reggae, dub 'n' dancehall from New York City.

10 pm, free BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 There are few parties quite like a NOLA party. The Lensic might fall down from the funk.

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Too Real

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aving only observed Iowa native Dominic Rabalais’ Real Dom project via YouTube seems to be the perfect type of coincidence—a ferocious and intimate live performer seen through multiple layers of artifice and disconnect on the same medium that originally started Justin Bieber’s career.

Speaking to Rabalais by phone, it also seems to resonate perfectly with the themes at play in their all-encompassing persona that celebrates the realness of fakeness, and the absurdity of realness to begin with.

“It’s just the idea of how fraught and impossible it is for there to be a condensed, actual, full-on, real, un-changing version of ourselves,” Rabalais explains.

“The idea of realness being unchanging—like Descartes or different Enlightenment people who say the only thing that is real is what cannot be changed or whatever; I guess it’s just a weird embracing and rejection of that.”

Rabalais speaks almost exclusively in blocks of dense, excited thought, and in terms of Real Dom, the idea of challenging reality and identity comes in the form of what they describe as “the freak version of Chippendales,” with a burlesque-type show that marries their mash-up style of song-crafting and goth/ pop-inflected vocals with elements of erotic dance and revealing costuming that changes from show to show.

The songwriting itself is built from an exhaustive digital library of samples.

Rabalais indexes books for a living, which makes sense when looking through the full list of samples on the most recent Real Dom album vs. Heaven, catalogued

DOM RABALAIS

BY LUKE HENLEY a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

Dominic Rabalais pierces the veil of illusion—and celebrates it—with freaked-out burlesque project Real Dom

“I would love to be Channing Tatum,” Real Dom says. “I also want to completely destroy the idea of Channing Tatum.”

in its entirety online at their website, domrabalais.com. The music does not sound typical of mash-up artists, many of whom seem to rely almost exclusively on the thrill of a listener recognizing one iconic pop jam grafted onto another.

There is an almost opposite thrill here. I listened to the eerie, effected guitar on track “Here Are the Materials” at least three times before learning the sample is

from someone’s tutorial on how to play Three Doors Down’s mega-hit “Kryptonite.” Rabalais pitch-shifts and abuses every sample to serve the impassioned, confessional vocals, creating aching, original pieces from familiar elements that are twisted beyond recognition.

Even though Real Dom is a solo project, Rabalais describes the use of samples and found object sound sources

as augmenting the music beyond simple singer-songwriter fare.

“I got really into gutting millions and millions of samples of CDs and ripping them all to my hard drive; finding CDs on the street, ripping those; my childhood CDs,” they say. “Just kind of having this big library of songs. … If I’m stumped on a track, I just listen to those and find parts to put on there. Even stuff that’s not an overt collaboration with another conscious thing, there are certain safety nets to fall into and collaborate with. Almost out of coincidence or something.”

While certain vocal hooks are definitely recognizable, the results are always phantasmagorical enough to keep listeners unsure of where they are in the vast landscape of pop music. These elements all contribute to a vision with a purpose which seems to rely on dualities and pluralities of self and intention to great effect. Even at its most bombastic, Real Dom expresses something deeply personal that is often as painful as it is celebratory.

“I have this weird mixed-bag feeling about my own masculine body—I both totally abhor this prison and, at the same time, I want to be a hunk. I would love to be Channing Tatum,” Rabalais tells SFR. “I also want to completely destroy the idea of Channing Tatum. I think there’s something about the combination of the songwriting and the performance of trying to reconcile both of those things. Like most facades, it’s both a facade, but it’s also the thing that it is pretending not to be. Here, I am really wanting to be desired—but kind of coming off like I’m making fun of the idea of being desired. But secretly also wanting to feel that way.”

REAL DOM WITH BELLY EATER AND MABOB 8 pm Wednesday Oct. 3. $5-$10.

Zephyr Community Art Studio, 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2.

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THE CALENDAR ERYN BENT Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Country and folky Americana.

7 pm, free JONO MANSON Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rootsy rock 'n' roll.

5:30 pm, free MATT BRADFORD Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk, blues, Americana, country and pop.

8 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free ROD WELLES Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Rock 'n' blues.

7:30 pm, free SEA AND SAND: HARP FROM IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND THE MEDITERRANEAN Congregation Beit Tikva 2230 Old Pecos Trail, 982-4931 Harpists Sunita Staneslow and Áine Minogue are in the Southwest from Israel and Ireland, respectively, and present their ethereal harp music for the evening.

6 pm, $20 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free SIMON LEE-PLUNKET La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 An eclectic assortment of original songs and American folk covers on guitar and harmonica, complemented by a high-lonesome voice.

7 pm, free SONIQUETE TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz and flamenco fusion featuring JQ Whitcomb on trumpet and Joaquin Gallegos on guitar.

7 pm, free TENNIS SOLO IN STEREO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Piano, electric guitar and a captivating voice. These tunes harken back to '70s folk, with a modern energy and polish.

Supported by Matt Costa.

7 pm, $18-$20

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BENCHWARMERS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Eight short plays by local playwrights are all set on a park bench. In a departure from tradition, one person (Hamilton Turner) directs all of the plays, and a single ensemble cast presents them (rather than having eight directors and eight casts).

7:30 pm, $15-$25

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FRI/5 ART OPENINGS AWB POP-UP GALLERY 333 Montezuma Arts 333 Montezuma Ave., 988-9564 Contemporary, abstract and action-based multimedia paintings and art by local artist AWB. Through Dec. 25.

7-9 pm, free ANGEL WYNN: ROUTE 66 THE MOTHER ROAD 7 Arts Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave., 437-1107 By painting over photographs with elements of collage, Wynn created a new body of work that highlights vintage vehicles, rusty road signs, honky-tonk music and the popular culture that animated Highway 66 through its half-century heyday. Through Oct. 30.

5 pm, free BILL TODINO: FAITH IN NEW MEXICO Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado, 466-7323 Todino, a native New Englander, now lives in Eldorado. He’s traveled widely throughout the state discovering how communities, families and individuals express faith, whether local, urban or rural, private or public, and exhibits 14 original archival photographs taken throughout the state. Through Oct. 30.

4-6 pm, free CARA BARER: SCULPTURES Belle Brooke Gallery 822 Canyon Road, 780-5270 Barer works with books as art, both in sculpture and photographic works in which she uses the sculptural object as the photographic subject. This special exhibition includes book sculptures in several formats: encaustic, gilded, bronze cast and raw, as well as a new collection of the photographic works in large format.

4-8 pm, free COLIN BARKER: ACROSS THE SPECTRUM Molecule Design 1226 Flagman Way, 989-9806 Some say that science and sculpture seldom work together. Barker, however, rejects this notion, combining steel and Plexiglas to create colorful, minimalist pieces inspired by the natural world.

Through Oct. 30.

5-8 pm, free DAVID SIMPSON: ILLUMINATION Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 While the colors entrance and bind the viewer with their spell, it is light more than color that Simpson celebrates and explores in his mono-pigment interference paintings.

Through Nov. 3.

5-7 pm, free

EDUARDO CHACÓN AND MOANA PONDER Santa Fe Art Collector 217 Galisteo St., 988-5545 New works from Chacón (oil paints) and Ponder (sculpture). The artists are around to talk with you about their work just today and tomorrow, so hop to it.

4-6 pm, free FOR THE LOVE OF TREES Globe Fine Art 727 Canyon Road, 989-3888 Artists Robert Striffolino, Reid Richardson, Amy Guion Clay and Tim Althauser come together in a display of sensual and thought-provoking images based on their individual vision of the tree. Through Nov. 4.

5 pm, free GOOD COMPANY: FIVE ARTISTS COMMUNITIES IN NEW MEXICO New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 The role of artist communities in New Mexico is explored through works by members of the Taos Society of Artists, Los Cinco Pintores, Transcendental Painting Group, Rio Grande Painters and the Stieglitz circle. Take a look at what makes each unique. Through March 10, 2019.

5 pm, free JEAN FOGEL ZEE: WIRED El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road, 982-0016 Zee uses visceral, moving forms and materials to create interesting kinetic sculptures, in addition to using the power of gravity and weight. She invites you to engage, touch, interact and experience them fully. Through Oct. 26.

5-7 pm, free JOEL-PETER WITKIN: SPLENDOR AND MISERY El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Witkin considers morality as central to his work; he explores perversion, erotica and religion, collaborating with people from the more extreme margins of society.

Through Nov. 4 (see AC, page 31).

6-8 pm, free LARRY D BLISSETT: OUT OF ALIGNMENT Goldleaf Gallery 627 W Alameda St., 988-5005 Drawing influence from Picasso, Paul Klee and Jean Michel Basquiat, Blissett creates witty, intriguing, renegade work that ranges from abstract to figurative, cartoonish compositions.

Through Nov. 30.

6 pm, free MARY ELLEN MATTHEWS AND ROXANNE TURNER La Sala de Galisteo 5637 Hwy. 41, Galisteo, 466-3541 The artists present assemblage, prints and wooden boxes that are beautiful, charming and quirky.

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Artivism

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hen the 3 Sisters Collective applied to be part of last year’s AHA Festival of Progressive Arts, they didn’t even have an idea in place.

“We had just been brainstorming, we had just been talking about Natives living in Santa Fe and how it’s such a crazy experience and different ways we feel marginalized or singled out or outright ignored,” co-founder and newly minted PhD Christina M Castro tells SFR. “Then AHA came around and we saw Ginger [Dunnill] was facilitating that, and we thought, let’s apply—we may not have a concrete idea, but we’ll come up with something.”

That something was the Un-Equal Exchange, a mock boutique with a subtle but powerful interactive statement on cultural appropriation. Inside the booth, the collective displayed pieces of kitschy Native-themed clothing and textiles bought at yard sales, and alongside these, they crafted cardboard cutouts of tribal garb akin to paper doll clothing that visitors could try on.

“And if people wanted to try out the cardboard cutout of ethnic clothes, they could, but they were big and uncomfortable,” Castro continues. “And it should be uncomfortable.”

Castro recently completed a doctoral program in justice studies at Arizona State University through its School of Social Transformation. 3 Sisters co-found-

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er Autumn Billie currently attends ASU as well but pops in on Santa Fe now and again; the final co-founder, Autumn Gomez, is training to become a doula. Together, the collective partners with organizations like Wise Fool, Tewa Women United and the Alas de Agua Collective to put on events like marches and protests.

For example, at the Women’s March in January, 3 Sisters joined with Tewa Women United on the Plaza to provide a more Indigenous point of view after it was discovered that no Native women had been invited to speak. They stormed the stage to speak.

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3 Sisters Collective holds space for Indigenous Peoples Day and beyond

“It was sad that in such an Indigenous-rooted area, there was a complete blankness,” Castro says. “Their defense was that they tried to contact Tewa Women United, but when Tewa couldn’t provide a speaker, they dropped the ball.”

Last October, following the events of the now-defunct Entrada that found peaceful protesters arrested, 3 Sisters, led

by Gomez, staged a peaceful reclamation of the Plaza and its surrounding areas.

“In the year since we’ve done that, the Entrada is gone,” Gomez notes. “We did it peacefully, we reclaimed the territory.”

And this is only the beginning.

3 Sisters, which operates under the fiscal sponsorship of Wise Fool, was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from the Kindle Project after being recommended by Alas de Agua’s Israel Francisco Haros Lopez.

Some of that money is already earmarked for screen-printing resources, and Cas Cas-

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tro is quick to mention that much of what they’ll print with and on will be purposefully secondhand. The bulk of the grant, however, is just waiting to be dispersed into future projects and ideas once Billie, Castro and Gomez identify them.

But what about right now? With Indigenous Peoples Day coming up this Monday Oct. 8, on the Saturday before, 3 Sisters plans to meet at the State Capitol and march to the Plaza raising awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW)—a crisis in North America that is all but ignored by the media.

“We’re coming to bring the information,” Castro explains. “We’re going to have speakers, I think we’re going to have some young poets, then we’ll make our way to the Plaza which is having existing events—but it needs to be everybody’s issue, not just our issue; we already carry so much. And I’m down with solidarity, I’m down with strategic planning, but I’m not down to do other peoples’ work for them.”

As such, 3 Sisters Collective is open to partnerships and allyships and the group hold is also looking for ways to continue holding safe, healing spaces for Indigenous San people and, overall, affect change on Santa Fe from the Native perspective.

“If it wasn’t for those spaces, I would not be where I am right now,” Gomez says. “It’s taken a lot of work to be social and to be in public, and I’d like to create those spaces for other Indigenous people and people of color.”

Castro echoes these sentiments, and acknowledges it’s important to try and help heal Santa Fe rather than leave it behind. “I want to be here. It’s a great, energetic place,” she says. “I like being here because I think there’s a lot of room for great ideas to blossom.”

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY MARCH FOR MMIW 11 am Saturday Oct. 6. Free.

The Roundhouse, 490 Old Santa Fe Trail.

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Rumi Concert Presented by The Storydancer Project (TSP)

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~ acclaimed poet and translator, COLEMAN BARKS ~ Storydancer, ZULEIKHA ~ world percussionist, GLEN VELEZ ~ Cello Man, EUGENE FRIESEN ~ harp-kora musician & vocalist, ZENA CARLOTA

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PEGGY IMMEL AND STEPHEN DAY Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 Surrounded by the unceasing spontaneity seen in nature, Immel and Day present distinctive yet complementary imagery inspired by their beloved Southwest. Through Oct. 31.

5-7:30 pm, free PETER BUREGA & TED GALL Hunter Kirkland Contemporary 200 Canyon Road, 984-2111 Burega's paintings aim to meld the organic natural world with more concrete grid systems; Gall's darkly fanciful sculptures portray meldings of animals and humans with flora and machinations that freak us out in the best way.

Through Oct. 21.

5 pm, free PETER HARRINGTON & GENA FOWLER: UP IN MY GRILL Ellsworth Gallery 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900 Harrington’s images, which could be biting, are soothed (but not muted) by the artist’s meditation practice.

Fowler, meanwhile, subverts common, household objects into a tongue-in-cheek satirical commentary. Think Andy Warhol, but in a confessional fever dream. Through Nov. 18.

5-7 pm, free STEPHEN WILKES: ELLIS ISLAND: GHOSTS OF OUR ANCESTORS Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800 With the the future of immigration and refuge in America in contention, Wilkes exhibits powerful, haunting images of the underbelly of Ellis Island; large-format color photographs depict the abandoned buildings that processed more than 12 million people as they immigrated to America in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES: THE LABORATORY’S TRIVIUM St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 Eric Poppele of St. John’s College discusses how science is not a simple body of facts, but a set of interpretations and understandings that rest upon experience and inquiry. Ya dig? Peterson Student Center, Great Hall.

7:30 pm, free PETER SMITH: FREE-RANGE LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 New technologies and data analytics are defining learning opportunities that were previously unimaginable. Smith's new book explores this new learning space.

6:30 pm, free

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DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO FALL SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Entreflamenco presents a dramatic new season. Doors open an hour before performances for dinner (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40 VARIETY DANCE Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. Dance the way you like!

Swing, salsa, ballroom and more—and funds go to Canine Companions for Independence (cci.org), so everyone wins.

7-9:30 pm, $5

EVENTS FIRST FRIDAY ART ACTIVITY Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 For art lovers of all ages, create your own drawings while exploring the use of color in modern artwork in the museum galleries. Free with museum admission, and New Mexico residents are free first Fridays (that's today!).

5-7 pm, $11-$13 GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 A hands-on program for 3-5 year olds and their caregivers.

10-11 am, $5 MAGIC AND WHIMSY WITH FRANCIS MENOTTI Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 The uber-talented Menotti presents illusions for the entire family (ages 5+). See SFR Picks, page 21.

7:30 pm, $10-$20

MUSIC ALPHA CATS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Blues, jazz and swing.

6 pm, free BAHAMAS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Electric folk about love 'n' loss 'n' happiness 'n' sadness.

7 pm, $22-$25 BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Adult contemporary with a dab of dharma.

10 am, free BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Reggae meets hip-hop.

8 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 First-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends.

6 pm, free

CLOACAS Black Bird Saloon 28 Main Street, Cerrillos, 438-1821 Local desert-folk weirdos.

5 pm, free DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, funk, reggaeton and hip-hop.

10 pm, free DK AND THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Jump-and-swing bluesy rock.

8:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Bob takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free HOT BOX Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Acoustic Americana.

7 pm, free JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

9 pm, $5 LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n' roll for dancin' to.

8 pm, free LUCY BARNA Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana tunes on the deck, complete with soaring vocals, guitar and banjo.

5 pm, free MARIO REYNOLDS Sunrise Springs 242 Los Pinos Road, 471-3600 Traditional Norteño tunes and folk songs on guitar, charango and flute.

6 pm, free NOSOTROS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Everyone's favorite Latin jammers.

10 pm, $7 THE PORTER DRAW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock and roll and indie tunes from Albuquerque.

8 pm, free REGIONAL/LIQUID Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 Get two clubs under one roof: Regional with VDJ Dany has your cumbia, huapangos, Norteñas and more; Liquid with DJ Poetics has hip-hop, top 40, dancehall, EDM, reggae, old-school, funk and more.

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

7 pm, free THE RUMI CONCERT: GREAT RIVER OF KINDNESS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 An evening of poetry, dance and music featuring Coleman Barks, the eminent poet and translator of Rumi; internationally known storydancer Zuleikha; drumer Glen Velez, cellist Eugene Friesen, and Zena Carlota, singer and instrumentalist.

7-9 pm, $45-$125 TGIF RECITAL: DAVID SOLEM First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The organist presents works

by Josef Rheinberger.

5:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A swinging jazz trio features a special guest.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER BENCHWARMERS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 For the 17th year in a row, the Santa Fe Playhouse presents its collection of eight short plays by local playwrights all set on a park bench.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SAT/6 ART OPENINGS EDUARDO CHACÓN AND MOANA PONDER Santa Fe Art Collector 217 Galisteo St., 988-5545 New works from Chacón (oil paints) and Ponder (sculpture). The artists are around to talk with you about their work for the day.

10 am-5 pm, free MARK WHITE: PATHS LESS TRAVELED Mark White Fine Art 414 Canyon Road, 982-2073 The painter invites the viewer to interpret the work—which is figurative scenes of nature—as one would when viewing abstraction, to bring a sense of serenity through color and energy. Through Oct. 22.

5 pm, free MARY ELLEN MATTHEWS AND ROXANNE TURNER La Sala de Galisteo 5637 Hwy. 41, Galisteo, 466-3541 The artists present assemblage, prints and wooden boxes that are beautiful, charming and quirky. They're only on view through tomorrow, so check them out.

4-7 pm, free

THE CALENDAR with JoAnne Tucker

JOANNETUCKER

JoAnne Tucker is an advocate with many hats. She’s a filmmaker, a fund raiser and president of Healing Voices - Personal Stories, a nonprofit aimed at spreading awareness of domestic violence through film.

Tucker and her organization’s films have appeared at festivals across the country, such as LA’s Awareness Festival and the New Mexico Women in Film Festival, and can be accessed year-round via their website (hvps.org). We spoke with Tucker about the problem on a local scale and what everyday people should keep in mind when addressing domestic violence, particularly now, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

(Layne Radlauer) How would you describe your role in the charity?

What is Healing Voices, exactly?

Healing Voices - Personal Stories is a nonprofit with the mission of raising public awareness of domestic violence through film and showing how survivors have successfully rebuilt their lives. I, along with Lynette Montoya, Regina Ress and Lindarose Berkley, founded the organization in 2010. Since then we have made seven films and our films have been included in Film Festivals throughout the US from coast to coast. ...We help spread awareness by making our films available to stream and download online, doing presentations for organizations which includes showing one of our short films (our films run between eight and 15) followed by a discussion of domestic violence and using social media to let people know about us.

Is domestic violence a particularly serious problem in New Mexico?

Yes, domestic violence is a serious problem in New Mexico. The national statistic is that one in four women will have an incident of domestic violence in their life, while here in New Mexico it is one in three women. New Mexico ranks third among states in incidents. The death rate from intimate partner violence is also very high.

What can ordinary people do to help combat domestic violence?

What people can do is first of all not to be afraid of talking about it. Most often women keep it a secret. Providing awareness programs starting in middle school would also be very important.

Girls and young women need to know the warning signs. One of our films, Cheyanne’s Story, talks about teen dating violence and how Cheyanne recognized it, ended the relationship and rebuilt her life. Another important thing for us as a community is to realize that it is not easy for a woman to leave a relationship. She is threatened and often fears for her life. Organizations such as Esperanza can help women build a plan to leave.

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THE CALENDAR BOOKS/LECTURES JOSEPH OLSHAN: BLACK DIAMOND FALL op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Olshan pens a mystery based on two real events that occurred at Middlebury College: the disappearance of a student at winter break and the vandalism of the Robert Frost homestead.

2 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO FALL SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 A dramatic new show by Entreflamenco. Doors open an hour before performances for dinner (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25 NOCHE DE FLAMENCO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 EmiArte Flamenco presents a performance. Reservations are needed for this puppy, so call in. Pay cash at the door; seating's at 5 pm.

7 pm, $20

EVENTS ABIQUIÚ STUDIO TOUR Town of Abiquiú, 257-0866 The 25th annual Abiquiú Studio Tour brings together more than 50 professional artists and the general public. Plan your self-guided tour at abiquiustudiotour.org, or pick up a map at any Abiquiú business or studio.

10 am-5 pm, free BIRD WALK Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road, 983-4609 A guided birding hike with experienced bird nerds.

8:30-10 am, free CLOSE-UP MAGIC WORKSHOP WITH FRANCIS MENOTTI Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Menotti teaches some tricks focusing on coins, cards and borrowed items. Bring a fresh deck of cards; they're also available for purchase (see SFR Picks, page 21).

Noon-1 pm, $10 COCHITI LAKE ART FAIR Cochiti Lake Fire House 6515 Hoochaneetsa Blvd., Cochiti Lake, 465-0217 Head down La Bajada to visit art booths in the firehouse and on the green under the big pines, a stage tent with live music, raku demonstrations and a youth pottery exhibit in the library.

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DIA DEL RIO: PECOS RIVER CANYON CLEANUP Monastery Lake 16 Guadalupe Lane, Pecos, 757-6415 Meet at the lake (a charming little picnic spot if ever we saw one) for donuts and coffee. Get your team assignments and a safety briefing, get blessed by Benedictine Monastery Father Coleman, then clean up the area til 1 pm—at which time there's a free lunch (score!). Cleanup supplies provided, plus demos and fun contests.

9 am-3 pm, free EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures.

8 am-3 pm, free FALL ACTIVITIES AT SKI SANTA FE Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Head up the hill for chairlift rides, disc golf, live music, a beer garden and a sports shop sale, plus discounts on advance lift tickets. CS Rockshow plays classic rock.

Get info at skisantafe.com.

10 am-3 pm, free GOLONDRINAS HARVEST FESTIVAL El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Taste syrup from the burro-driven sorghum mill, help make cider by cranking a traditional apple press, pick a pumpkin; children can stomp grapes by foot, make a cornhusk doll or roll a tortilla.

10 am-4 pm, $6-$8 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY MARCH FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN State Capitol Building 490 Old Santa Fe Trail Calling all sincere activists and true allies: Wear red or, if you are Native and feel so compelled, dress in Native regalia. Bring signs, drums, songs and strong spirits. After speakers and music, march to the Plaza (see AC, page 27).

11 am, free MAGIC AND WHIMSY WITH FRANCIS MENOTTI Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Known as the magician that fooled Penn and Teller, Menotti presents illusions for the entire family (ages 5+).

See SFR Picks, page 21.

2 pm, $10-$20 THE MAGIC OF ADULTING WITH FRANCIS MENOTTI AND LINDSEY NOEL Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Menotti did a couple family-friendly performances this weekend—so join him for an adults-only show full of mischief and innuendo (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $20-$25

NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER OPEN HOUSE New Mexico Wildlife Center 19 Wheat St., Española, 753-9505 Live animal demonstrations, games and activities for kids and adults, garden and hospital tours, Frito pie and more.

There's a suggested donation of $5 per vehicle—you can also bring items from the wish list (see newmexicowildlifecenter.org).

11 am-3 pm, free NEW MEXICO ARCHAEOLOGY FAIR Jemez Historic Site 18160 Hwy. 4, Jemez Springs, 575-829-3530 Presented by the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, the 18th annual fair is a chance for children and adults to participate in hands-on demonstrations and activities; yucca fiber bracelet-making, painting with bee weed, corn grinding, atlatl throwing, and tour the Giusewa Pueblo.

10 am-3 pm, free POKER RIDE/RUN Galisteo Basin Preserve Morning Star Ridge, Galisteo Support Commonweal Conservancy's stewardship of the GBP. Ride, run, or hike to five checkpoints and draw a card at each checkpoint to make up your poker hand.

Here, you can buy additional hands, which is kind of cheating but also totally OK because the money goes to a good cause. Get more info: newmexicosportsonline.com.

9 am, $15-$40 SFWC FLEA MARKET Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 Find bargains, food 'n' fun at the annual market to benefit the Woman's Club.

8 am-4 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more from juried local artists.

8 am-2 pm, free TUMBLEROOT HARVEST FESTIVAL Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. At a family-friendly all-day event, hit up an artisan market, pickling and beer classes, a homebrew demo, plenty of live music all day, petting zoo and caramel apple stand, plus the usual food truck treats.

1 pm, free WELLS PETROGLYPH PRESERVE PUBLIC TOUR Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project 1431 Hwy. 68, Velarde, 852-1351 Docents lead visitors through an insightful two-hour tour representing Archaic, Ancestral Puebloan and Historic Period rock art. Preregistration is required at mesaprietapetroglyphs.org.

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when I make a photograph like that one, we’re hysterically laughing. We’re basically evolving the whole image, and even though I have the props and the lighting, I rely on the most critical factor—and that’s what the subject of the photograph or my colleague is going through. It becomes a very momentous period of discovery. The penis was made in a garage, but it got so big we had to break the testicles part off, and I liked that. I was gonna repair it, but I liked the split. In a sense, it means all men are really schizophrenic. I photograph very quickly; it’s going to happen right away, usually within one roll of film, 10 frames. I get it in the first or the last shot. I’ll know I got it. In my very long career, making photos … no one bats 1000, but I bat about 800.

Joel-Peter Witkin’s “The Raft of George W Bush,” circa 2006.

A Legacy Photographer Joel-Peter Witkin shows in New Mexico for the first time in four years

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hroughout the decades of his career, 79-year-old photographer Joel-Peter Witkin’s body of work has been described as shocking, controversial, dark, moody, poignant, terrifying—the list goes on. But there is also humor in Witkin’s corpses, amputees and otherwise stark subject matter; and hope.

As CENTER, Santa Fe’s preeminent (and internationally recognized) photo-driven organization, gears up for the Witkin retrospective, Splendor and Misery, we tracked the Albuquerque-based artist down to question him on the elements behind the work, his response to modern politics and the role of the artist in contemporary society.

SFR: One thing that comes up a lot when you’re written about is this idea of happiness. Granted, misery is often at the heart of a lot of your work, but there is also hope. Would you say this is fair?

JPW: Yes—because we make a decision, personally, all of us in life, to either be overcome by the world or to overcome the world. I think, as an artist, artists have to find the soul of their originality of themselves, whatever medium they choose to create from. We have to personally see the world in a new way and change the world. I think that old saying about ‘by their works, you’ll know them’—that to me conveys the fact that the artist has two responsibilities: to purify the notion of what reality is in their time and life, and to express through their instincts whatever images that show what the world is or was. I think it’s a very optimistic position.

You’ve also said in interviews that you’re not trying to shock, but rather trying to leave something meaningful behind. Do you feel you’ve achieved this? Is there some moment when an artist can say they’ve done “enough”?

Coming from the back side of that, I’ve read about and heard about artists retiring, but I don’t think an artist can; for a visual artist, that’s pretty hard. There’s an immediate factoring of knowledge and what we receive and what we give to life.

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So no, I would never, in my mind, think of that. In fact, I say I’ve been an artist from the egg.

Speaking of which, with your body of work and output, you must work nonstop.

The approach to what I see that I respond to instinctively and passionately—that’s the beginning point of a particular photograph, all the photographs—or if there’s a particular person I respond to that I see that I feel must record as a process of reproduction of reality, that moment has to be from my spirit connecting to their spirit. I don’t call the people subjects; they’re colleagues. I think it’s a kind of spiritual or cosmic blessing that people I photograph somehow appear in my life or my existence, and I can’t deny them.

Do you find yourself particularly influenced by these dark times or the politics of the day?

I just did a photograph of the current president riding a penis. It’s a kind of take on the myth of the cowboy and the pseudo realities we’re sucking down like vomit.

I found a [Trump] lookalike in Chicago, I flew him here and paid him a lot of money, and I was very pleased. I’m a romantic. I think about the aesthetic grace that comes my way, and this guy was incredible. He was open to be posing nude, so it was really a wonderful experience. In my studio,

I’m told you haven’t shown in New Mexico since 2014. Is there any reason behind that?

I’m always open to sharing what I do. It isn’t a question of I don’t promote myself, it’s a question of if a gallery or a curator [wants to show the work], they’ll get in touch.

It’s just that simple?

It is.

What’s in the future for you?

If something emerges not directly from something I’m reading, but a metamorphosis … if something is meant to come together as a concept, then I go with it.

It’s something that is kind of a vision that is made for me by way of, I think, the spiritual attributes that exist or a form of aesthetic grace. When it does happen, it’s self-evident. My job is to edit as I’m photographing. I really think an artist prepares themselves for that moment. They have to stay original to themselves or honest to themselves. The wildest, strangest concepts—that, I believe, is information that’s coming from above, spiritually, and we then can birth that into an aesthetic that’s more comfortable to the way we feel. When you’re hit by something, you go with it. … As I’m getting older, I’m more nonchalant as far as banging my head against the wall, but I’ve always been driven. I’m driven now. And wise. By wise, I mean the wisdom of age is a very important part. I feel as though what I’m making could be my last photograph, so I put everything into it as opposed to when I was younger and felt like the song would never end. The song is still there for sure, but I’m not sure if the time, my time, in this life is going to be cut short at any given moment.

JOEL-PETER WITKIN: SPLENDOR AND MISERY 6 pm Friday Oct. 5. Free. Through Nov. 4.

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591

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THE CALENDAR YEAR OF THE BIRD GLOBAL BIG DAY Bandelier National Monument 15 Entrance Road, 672-3861 Meet at the visitor center at 8 am for a bird walk down the Falls Trail to kick off this important birding day; bring water, wear comfortable shoes or boots and tote some binoculars if you have them.

8 am, free

FILM THE MOSSAD The Screen 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6494 In this documentary, a dozen of Israel’s former spies give viewers a firsthand recount into their inner work and moral dilemmas with personal accounts of top-secret operations.

4 pm, $8-$12

MUSIC

BEPPE GAMBETTA GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. A guitar-based revival of old forgotten roots music from around the world.

7:30 pm, $20 BILL HEARNE La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Country and honky-tonk.

7 pm, free BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Reggae meets hip-hop.

10 pm, free CALI SHAW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk nuevo on the deck.

3 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 First-rate, interactive piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends.

6 pm, free D'SANTI NAVA AND THE BRUJO TRIO Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Acoustic nuevo flamenco.

6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Bob takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free

FIRE SATURDAYS Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 VDJ Dany spins cumbia, reggaeton, bachata, salsa y más; DJ 12 Tribe has your hip-hop, top 40, EDM, R&B and more.

10 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Americana ‘n’ honky-tonk.

6:30 pm, free HARTLESS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Classic rock.

10 pm, $5 THE JAKES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Southern rock ‘n’ roll.

8 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free KARAOKE Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 Ask the bartenders for the "Karaoke Kourage" drink special. What could go wrong?

9 pm, free LEFT BANK Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Ragtime jazz.

6 pm, free

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ANNA DIORIO, DIZZY SENZE, ART OF RHYME AND SPACEMOB SPACECADETS Ghost 2899 Trades West Road A varied evening of hip-hop from acts both national and local. Diorio brings the jazz-influenced emcee'ing from New York City; Dizzy SenZe started in slam poetry and brings her NY-based hiphop too, and awesome locals round it all out.

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Over 35 interactive indoor and outdoor exhibits, including , our . portable planetarium

COME PLAY WITH US! 1050 Old Pecos Trail

www.santafechildrensmuseum.org

505.989.8359

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Ted Gall’s sculpture blends humans and animals with various machinations and flora for fantastic, sometimes unsettling juxtapositions. See full listing on page 28. This is “Flight Plan.”

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LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n' roll.

8 pm, free LOS PRIMOS MELØDICOS Eldorado Hotel and Spa 309 W San Francisco St., 988-4455 Afro-Cuban, romantic and traditional Latin music.

8 pm, free NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Santa Fe Brewing Eldorado Taproom 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 466-6938 Outlaw country.

7 pm, free OMAR SOULEYMAN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Arabic techno.

8 pm, $30-$35 PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic songs from the '60s, '70s and beyond.

5:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SANTA FE BLUES DIVAS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Blues from some divas.

9-11 pm, $5 SANTA FE MUSIC COLLECTIVE: ALI RYERSON Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 The acclaimed jazz flutist swings through town. For rezzies, call 946-7934.

7 pm, $20-$25 STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues 'n' rock.

1 pm, free ZOOGA MALAGA Sunrise Springs 242 Los Pinos Road, 471-3600 A veteran of busking throughout the NYC subway system, the Brazilian musician busts out a blend of bossa nova, samba, hip-hop, funk and classical—truly something for everyone.

6 pm, free

OPERA OPERA BREAKFAST LECTURE SERIES: VERDI'S AIDA Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Lecturer Tom Franks discusses Verdi's Aida (scheduled for broadcast at the Lensic this morning and evening).

9:30 am, $5

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THE MET LIVE IN HD: AIDA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The classic Giuseppe Verdi opera takes place in ancient Egypt and is packed with magnificent choruses, complex ensembles and elaborate ballets. Broadcast from The Metropolitan Opera in New York City. It runs four hours, but there are two intermissions to stretch your legs.

11 am and 6 pm, $15-$22

RACHEL BATE & REBECCA JACOB: TURQUOISE TAIL Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 986-0151 The new book, written by Bate, is full of positive messages for young children about how to treat others and themselves. With colorful illustrations by Jacob, this story is the perfect book to read as you tuck your children in at night.

5 pm, free

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THEATER BENCHWARMERS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Eight short plays by local playwrights all set on a park bench.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 DIFFERENT FESTIVAL READINGS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Outraged by a novelist’s unwanted misappropriation of her persona, a fed-up woman sues to stop his book's distribution—but then she goes much further. A new play

by Richard Lyons Conlon is based on true events.

2 pm, $10

SUN/7 ART OPENINGS MARY ELLEN MATTHEWS AND ROXANNE TURNER La Sala de Galisteo 5637 Hwy. 41, Galisteo, 466-3541 Assemblage, prints and wooden boxes that are beautiful, charming and quirky.

11 am-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES ENLIGHTENED COURAGE Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second St., Ste. 35, 660-7056 Explore the ideas in The Way of the Bodhisattva.

10 am-noon, free JEFF BERG: HISTORIC THEATRES OF NEW MEXICO op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Berg, author of New Mexico Filmmaking, delivers his latest book about New Mexico film history.

2 pm, free JOURNEYSANTAFE: ABBY BORDNER Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Bordner, of United Way of Santa Fe County, presents "Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood: How it Affects Learning," with host Miranda Viscoli of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence.

11 am, free

ABIQUIÚ STUDIO TOUR Town of Abiquiú, 257-0866 The 25th annual Abiquiú Studio Tour brings together more than 50 professional artists and the general public. Plan your self-guided tour at abiquiustudiotour.org, or pick up a map at any Abiquiú business or studio.

10 am-5 pm, free THE CANDYMAN MUSIC GEAR SWAP The Candyman Strings & Things 851 St. Michael’s Drive, 983-5906 Rent a booth space for $25 or just shop for your newest treasure. Swap, sell, and buy anything pertaining to music, get free Frito pie, make friends, enjoy yourself. Info’s at candymansf.com.

Noon-5 pm, free DHARMA DISCUSSION GROUP Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Meet with fellow practitioners and share thoughts, feelings, and experiences related to Buddhist practice.

7 pm, free EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures.

9 am-5 pm, free FALL ACTIVITIES AT SKI SANTA FE Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Head up the hill for chairlift rides, disc golf, live music, a beer garden and a sports shop sale, plus discounts on advance lift tickets (because this winter can't possibly be worse than last, right?).

Sean Lucy y los New Mexico Playboys play honky-tonk and swingin' goodness, and the chair lift is $12-$16. Get info at skisantafe.com.

10 am-3 pm, free GOLONDRINAS HARVEST FESTIVAL El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Taste syrup from the burro-driven sorghum mill, help make cider by cranking a traditional apple press, pick a pumpkin from the scarecrow-guarded patch; children can stomp grapes by foot, make a cornhusk dolls or roll their own tortilla by hand.

10 am-4 pm, $6-$8

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LOUIS MONTAÑO CITY PARK MURAL RESTORATION Louis Montaño Park 730 Alto St. Help restore the historic murals along the river located below the Boys and Girls club on Alto Street. Bring your favorite paintbrush! Park near the Boys and Girls Club at 730 Alto St. Noon-6 pm, free MAKING HISTORY: IT’S NOT MAGIC, IT’S SCIENCE! New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Join science educators Liz Martineau and Gordon McDonough for a show that compares magic tricks and science processes, and practice scientific magic of your own. Free with admission, and New Mexico residents are free the first Sunday of the month (that’s today!).

1:30-3:30 pm, $6-$12 MEDITATION & MODERN BUDDHISM: BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY FOR MODERN LIVING Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Explore how and why we need to understand our own mind and so be able to replace negative thoughts, feelings and actions with beneficial ones—instead of experiencing the frustration of trying to change others.

10:30 am-12 pm, $10 NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER OPEN HOUSE New Mexico Wildlife Center 19 Wheat St., Española, 753-9505 Enjoy live animal demonstrations, games and activities for kids and adults, garden and hospital tours, Frito pie and more. There's no charge for the event, but there’s a suggested donation of $5 per vehicle—you can also bring items from the wish list at newmexicowildlifecenter.org.

11 am-3 pm, free SANTA FE WOMAN’S CLUB FLEA MARKET Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 Find bargains, food 'n' fun at the annual market to benefit the Woman's Club, scholarships and local nonprofits.

8 am-4 pm, free TUMBLEROOT HARVEST FESTIVAL Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Artisan market, pickling and beer classes, a homebrew demo, a petting zoo, plus the usual food truck treats.

Today's musical acts include DK and the Affordables, LA Edwards, the Porter Draw and Stephanie Hatfield.

Noon, free ZEN MEDITATION INSTRUCTION Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Get acquainted with Upaya, Zen meditation, and temple etiquette. RSVP to be polite.

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BAILE DOMINGUERO Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 Get dancing to the best cumbia, Norteña, pasito satevo and reggaeton with DJ Quico.

9 pm, free BORIS McCUTCHEON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Gothic Americana from everyone's favorite local farmer-cum-musician.

12 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free HARVEST HOEDOWN Santa Fe Brewing Eldorado Taproom 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 466-6938 Bluegrass from Kitty Jo Creek and plenty of barbecue chicken and ribs make the day a whole lot smokier. Bring a camp chair and get comfy.

1-4 pm, free J REYNOLDS AND THE HIGH VIBES Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Psychedelic funk rock.

6:30 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Flamenco guitar.

6 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted takes on Latin music from around the world.

7 pm, free ORIGAMI GHOSTS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 We think this Seattle band would be best described by their BandCamp metatags: alternative, antifolk, funky, weirdos, hypno-folk, mind-bending and twee.

8 pm, free PAT MALONE TRIO El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazz guitarist Malone and bassist Jon Gagan are joined

by JQ Whitcomb on trumpet.

7 pm, free SUSAPALOOZA Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Susan Hyde Holmes, the local Americana upright bass master who’s played with every New Mexico group ever, invites all her friends to the deck (see SFR Picks, page 21).

3 pm, free TRUCKSTOP KILLERS Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 They succeeded in halting the truck stop construction, but they will never halt playin' those Americana tunes.

3 pm, free

BENCHWARMERS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 For the trillionth year in a row, the Santa Fe Playhouse presents its collection of eight short plays by local playwrights all set on a park bench.

2 pm, $15-$25 DIFFERENT FESTIVAL READINGS: WHERE IS EVERYBODY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 A retiring high school physics teacher attempts to connect with his two adult sons by engaging in his oldest son's imaginative entrepreneurial ideas. Through this lens, this new play by Kevin Daly asks big questions about the universe and our place within it.

7:30 pm, $10

WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION TO IMPROV Santa Fe Improv 1213 Mercantile Road, Suite D, 395-0580 Join a 2.5-hour workshop designed to help you be present in the moment, sharpen your creativity, communicate more effectively and have a great time. Reserve your spot: kita@santafeimprov.com.

1-3:30 pm, $25 WRITING IN PROGRESS Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 If you're having a hard time putting pen to paper (or hands to the keyboard), join a structured group writing session led by Bucket Siler. Bring your work-in-progress, a new idea, or just do some freewriting to get your motor turning.

These are popular, so sign up at livingroomsantafe.com.

1-2:30 pm, $10

MON/8 BOOKS/LECTURES DAWN OF MAYA CIVILIZATION: AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION AND MONUMENTAL CONSTRUCTION Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Takeshi Inomata, professor at the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, speaks as part of Southwest Seminars' Native Culture Matters lecture series.

6 pm, $15

EVENTS ABIQUIÚ STUDIO TOUR Town of Abiquiú, 257-0866 More than 50 professional artists open their studios to the general public. Plan your self-guided tour at abiquiustudiotour.org, or pick up a map at any Abiquiú business or studio.

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rightly colored prayer flags adorn the clean, well-lit interior of Tibet Kitchen, which filled up so quickly when I visited for lunch on a Tuesday there was a line out the door for a table.

Formerly occupied by Maki Yaki, a sushi joint which closed about a year ago, the new casual eatery enjoys a prime location with ample parking next to the Albertson’s off of South St. Francis Drive and West Zia Road, well off the beaten trail— at least as far as Santa Fe’s more wellheeled restaurants are concerned.

Tibet Kitchen is owned by Gonpo Trasar. His Tibetan family fled Chinese occupation by moving to his birthplace in India, along with thousands of other refugees—including the Dalai Lama—after the 1959 Tibetan uprising. He emigrated to the United States 20 years ago, working in restaurants in Chicago and Salt Lake City before settling in Santa Fe and starting his own business.

As a tribute to the impact of relocation on Tibetan culture, Trasar’s food bears an unmistakable Indian stamp. There are crispy pakoras ($3.99), chicken in a mild yellow curry sauce ($9.99) and a subtly spiced, fragrant lentil soup ($2.99)

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that bears a resemblance to dahl, a classic Indian stew.

It’s smoothly textured and delightfully aromatic, and it especially pops when served next to the spicy and soft baked potatoes ($7.99) coated in a rich cilantro, onion and tomato sauce. Tibet Kitchen seems to have opened at that perfect time when light summer flavors are put away in favor of the cravings for homey cooking that come with fall.

Outside of the Indian influence, there’s plenty on the menu that resembles the trappings of typical Chinese food, such as fried rice with peas, carrots and corn ($8.99) and thin chow mein noodles ($8.99) cooked in ginger and soy sauce, served with sauteed carrots and cabbage. But Tibet Kitchen also serves regional specialties for the more adventurous eater. There’s gyuma ($9.99) a sausage typically made from yak or sheep’s blood, here rendered with beef and fried to a striking black color. Or try the laphing ($3.99) an appetizer portion of cold, starchy mung bean noodles warmed by the house chile sauce. Hearty plates of floury noodles and dumplings play a major role in Tibetan food, as evidenced by the steamed bread buns called tingmo ($2.99), and the filled version known as momos, which are an easy snack to become completely obsessed with. There’s a chive and vegetable version (each $8.99) and a beef option ($9.99) as well. The beef had a strange sourness that I didn’t enjoy,

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Santa Fe’s one and only Tibetan restaurant is uniquely suited to high-altitude appetites

in less than 45 minutes. The restaurant was quick and efficient, the service friendly and professional, and the clientele decidedly down-toearth.

On a chilly autumn day, Trasar’s tribute to high-country cuisine provides a soothing, warm escape. Perhaps his food is uniquely suited to Santa Fe’s mountainous setting, since Tibet has average elevations of 4,000 feet or more.

In this context, its cuisine is designed to sustain energy and warm the core in extreme conditions.

Flavors are approachable, rustic and typically mild, with more earthy and herbal spices than outright hot ones. However, Tibet Kitchen serves a sauce based in New Mexican red chile and tomatoes, flavored with garlic and cilantro, that provides an essential spicy kick. After all, Tibetan food is adaptive and open to influences, continuing to evolve outside of its original traditions.

This is partly by necessity, as Tibetan people must share their cuisine from a position of displacement, as refugees campaigning outside their homeland against the human rights violations that continue within. So really, it’s not so unusual to see a little piece of local flavor, a simple chile sauce, find a place within the unique menu of Santa Fe’s newest—and only—Tibetan restaurant.

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If you’ve never had a vegetable momo, have you even really lived?

but the vegetable momos, shaped like little puckered balls, were plump, stuffed with potatoes, peas, onions and chopped greens. All of it can be washed down with oily Tibetan butter tea ($3.99), a savory blend of butter, black tea, milk and salt.

I envisioned packing a thermos of it for a trip up in the mountains and sipping it on a cold winter’s day spent playing in the snow.

If the selection sounds overwhelming, Tibet Kitchen also features a lunch buffet from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, where a rotating selection of dishes from the menu are available to pile on a plate for $9.99.

On the afternoon I visited, the restaurant became so packed I feared service would be slow. Normally I’m not a huge buffet fan, but it certainly expedited my lunch hour—I had the option to stuff my face with a pile of pillowy momos, zingy cabbage salad, and warming lentil soup

TIBET KITCHEN 3003 S St. Francis Drive, Ste. C, 982-6796 11:30 am-2:30 pm and 4-9 pm Monday-Saturday; closed Sunday

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Pub quiz!

7 pm, free NEW MOON WATER WHEEL CEREMONY Frenchy's Field Osage Avenue and Agua Fría Street Pray for moisture, bless the waters and offer up items for blessings and in hopes of rain.

5 pm, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group for good ol’ activism.

7 pm, free

MUSIC THE BARBEDWIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck.

1:30 pm, free BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana.

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Today’s suggestion: “Wicked Game.” Don’t get naked.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery provides the standards on piano, and Young joins in on violin.

6:30 pm, free HOBO JOHNSON AND THE LOVEMAKERS The Bridge 37 Fire Place, 557-6182 Strange hip-hop and stream-of-consciousness lyrics (see SFR Picks, page 21).

6:30 pm, $22 JAMIE RUSSELL Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Americana, pop and rock originals and covers.

7 pm, free TREVOR BAHNSON Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Folky Americana singer-songwriter tunes.

6 pm, free

THEATER ACTION AT A DISTANCE: A NEW THEATRICAL CREATION Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Theater boundaries of time and place are transcended by an unconventional theatrical form. In short: Six plays happen simultaneously. Needless to say, there is only one local company that would dare take this on: Theater Grottesco.

7 pm, free

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TUE/9 BOOKS/LECTURES IS NEW MEXICO READY TO BE THE NEXT SAUDI ARABIA? Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The oil boom in the Permian Basin has grown to rival international players. After a screening of a film by CAVU (cavu.org) that explores the benefits and consequences of this phenomenon, a panel discusses it further. Moderated by sometimes-SFR contributor and journalism superhero Laura Paskus.

7 pm, $10

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Put on your best tango shoes and join in (or just watch).

7:30 pm, $5

EVENTS FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS Friendship Club 1316 Apache Ave. For those who are underweight, overweight, or otherwise struggling with food, a new faith-based 12-step group is available.

6:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This quiz can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Locals and tourists alike can learn new things about Santa Fe with a walking tour led by guides from the New Mexico History Museum.

10:15 am, $15 METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A Buddhist support group for sharing life experiences of illness and loss in a variety of its forms, and an opportunity for the sharing of life experiences in a setting of compassion and confidentiality.

10:30 am, free PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF SANTA FE MEETING St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Stan Ford, a professional photographer nationally known for his landscape photos, speaks about his photography experience in a number of National Parks. Attendees are invited to bring up to two digital images or prints for peer review.

6:30 pm, free

SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group to put into action the planning you did last night.

8:30 am, free SANTA FE NOW MONTHLY MEETING Del Charro 101 W Alameda St., 954-0320 Head to the back room of the bar for the monthly meeting, learn what's happening locally, and what you can do to further social justice for women—and everyone, for that matter.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana.

7:30 pm, free BILL PALMER Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rock 'n' roll, dirty country and beautiful ballads galore.

5-8 pm, free BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Yup, it's a bluegrass jam.

6 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Sign up to sing or play if you desire, but be forewarned— this ain't amateur hour. It’s fun to watch, too.

8 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free DAVID WOOD Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, Broadway tunes and classical faves.

6:30 pm, free THE IMPERIAL ROOSTER Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Gonzo roots, country-punk and rock ‘n’ roll.

8:30 pm, $5 JOHN PAUL WHITE The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, 557-6182 Folk balladry, swampy southern rock, lonesome campfire songs and dark acoustic pop.

8 pm, $21 LONE PIÑON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Ranchera, cumbia and all kinds of Norteño swing on the deck.

1:30 pm, free PAPADOSIO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Rock, jazz and electronic wizards bring dem beats and dat sound. Supported by Frameworks Live Band.

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PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free PAUL CATALDO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 To be a self-proclaimed “reclusive nature enthusiast” as well as a performing musician seems like a paradox, but Paul has it covered. Lush vocals in his singer-songwritery folk music might make you want to hole up in the woods—but in a good way.

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ACTION AT A DISTANCE: A NEW THEATRICAL CREATION Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Theater boundaries of time and place are transcended by an unconventional theatrical form. In short: Six plays happen simultaneously. It ends up being more like dance than theater, and the audience is invited to just go with the flow and not think too hard. It could get weird.

7 pm, free

ART + YOGA: ART FOR MIND AND BODY Canyon Road During a two-hour tour, through close looking, reflection and conversation, discover insights and create connections with the work on view—then, in a tucked-away gallery space, practice gentle yogic movements. RSVP is required, so visit santafearttours.com to register.

10 am, $55

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St.,946-1000 The Black Place: Georgia O’Keeffe and Michael Namingha. Through Oct. 28.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12; Rafa Tarín: For Now. Harnessing Light: Marietta Patricia Leis, Debbie Long, and Mary Shaffer. All through Oct. 7.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 CineDOOM: Narratives of Native Film and Beyond.

Through Oct. 29. Holly Wilson: On Turtle’s Back; Rolande Souliere: Form and Content. Both through Jan. 27, 2019. Darren Vigil Gray: Expanding Horizons; Meeting the Clouds Halfway.

Both Through Feb. 16, 2019. Action/Abstraction Redefined. Through July 7, 2019.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Melting Pot/Melting Point.

Through Oct. 21.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West. Through Dec. 30. Maria Samora: Master of Elegance. Through Feb. 28, 2019. What’s New in New: Selections from the Carol Warren Collection. Through April 7, 2019. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans.

Through July 7, 2019.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Beadwork Adorns the World.

Through Feb. 3, 2019.

Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. Through March 10, 2019.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 GenNext: Future So Bright.

Through Nov. 25.

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Stuart Walker’s “Composition No. 57” is part of Good Company, a show that defines and illuminates the artist colonies of 20th-century New Mexico at the New Mexico Museum of Art. NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 The Land That Enchants Me So: Picturing Popular Songs of New Mexico. Through Feb. 28, 2019. Atomic Histories.

Through May 26, 2019.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives. Through Nov. 4. Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art. Through Nov. 25.

Good Company: Five Artists Communities in New Mexico.

Opening Friday; through March 10, 2019.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Closed for renovations.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road,

Pojoaque, 455-3334 In T’owa Vi Sae’we.

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history. This weekend: Harvest Festival 10 am-5 pm Saturday and Sunday. Get dat sorghum.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Dan Ostermiller: Gardens Gone Wild! Through May 11, 2019.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Casa Tomada (House Taken Over). Through Jan. 6, 2019.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry.

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Ethan Hawke proves he has serious writing and directing chops with Blaze, his new biopic about the life of musician Blaze Foley, a contemporary and friend of Townes Van Zandt, a songwriter whose work was recorded by Willie and Merle, and a struggling sufferer of mental illness who was shot and killed in 1989.

Setting aside Hawke’s script—which is mostly stellar despite a few cliche lines here and there— the bulk of Blaze is carried by newcomer Ben Dickey, an actor who so effortlessly conveys the dizzying highs and terrifying lows of Foley’s life that he all but disappears into the role. We feel like we really get him at his best and want to save him at his worst, and the beautiful songs of Foley and Van Zandt permeate most scenes in one of the most effective uses of music we’ve seen in a film in ages.

Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development) stuns as Foley’s one-time wife Sybil Rosen, who penned the screenplay along with Hawke. This alone

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sets Blaze apart from other biopics—Rosen was there from the meager beginnings in a literal treehouse to Foley’s eventual descent too far into boozing which, of course, lends authenticity to the tale. And while the film celebrates the man and unequivocally proves his gift for songwriting, it never shies away from the uglier moments.

Actor/musician Charlie Sexton (Boyhood) deserves a special nod, as well, for his portrayal of Townes Van Zandt (and for his work on the soundtrack), but not simply because he bears a striking resemblance to the Texan hero. Still, there are moments that lead us to believe the filmmakers (and, by extension, Rosen) feel less than enthralled with Van Zandt’s contributions

to Foley’s life, but they’re never fully explored.

We also don’t get an idea of how certain events came to pass and are instead thrust into the middle of scenes that end without any particular resolution. Perhaps it’s a case of having too much information in too short a time. But if the end goal was to foster a deeper appreciation for Blaze Foley and his impact on country music, Blaze ought to work wonders.

BLAZE Directed by Hawke With Dickey, Shawkat and Sexton Violet Crown, R, 129 min.

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Ever heard of the International Science and Engineering Fair, or ISEF? It’s the big fat international science fair that high-schoolaged budding scientists from around the globe think about almost every waking minute, and documentarians Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster take a closer look at a number of kids from various countries who competed in 2017 in Science Fair.

On the one hand, it’s fascinating to get a look at just how massive ISEF is and how many wildly impressive projects it spawns.

On the other, however, it’s mildly terrifying to get to know teenagers who subject themselves to such levels of work and stress and who think of little else. Costantini and Foster introduce us to youths from smalltown American schools alongside their contemporaries from Brazil and Germany, and while we get a basic idea of their projects, their personalities, their teachers and parents, as well as the broad appeal of the fair, we don’t get a clear idea of how it

This young lady is developing a device to detect arsenic levels in drinking water. Find out just how serious she is (like, a little too serious) in Science Fair.

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actually affects them save some late-film text scrolling about what they’re up to today.

Take Robbie, a competitor fascinated by machine learning who taught a neural net to write rap songs based on the style of Kanye West. We know he struggles in school and nearly fails math in the time leading up to his ISEF appearance, but we never learn how he’s actually feeling when he gets rejected from colleges aside from a few flippant and age-appropriate remarks. It’s a similar story with young Ivo from Lorscht, Germany, who pioneers incredible aerodynamic tech but whom we never really get to know—they don’t dig too deep into his project, either.

The same can be said for the other kids, even if they’re looking for fixes or improvements to issues like Zika, arsenic poisoning, the humble stethoscope and so on.

But it is strangely fun to peek into a world about which most know very little, and we’ll definitely admit to reassessing how smart we thought we were. And anyway, it’s probably important for these youngsters to have such, um, Type A personalities … y’know, for the good of humanity and all.

(Alex De Vore) Center for Contemporary Arts, PG, 90 min.

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We can’t decide if everyone knows Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama or if not enough people do, although we hear tell that over 5 million fans on social media regularly check up on the contemporary art mastermind. She probably wouldn’t care, however, and in the new documentary Kusama: Infinity from filmmaker Heather Lenz, we learn that lesson repeatedly.

Kusama, for those who don’t know, has a career-spanning fascination with dots, soft sculpture and conceptual weirdness that dates back to early letters penned to Georgia O’Keeffe, the eschewing of familial expectations and a daring move to New York City in the late 1950s— after which everyone from Oldenburg to Warhol shamelessly ripped her off. From the 1966 Venice Biennale (where she arrived, without invitation, to sell mirrored balls she labeled as “narcissism”) to arguably being the first artist to craft a mirrored room containing countless colored lights in a quest to represent the infinite, Kusama has been one step ahead of everyone practically always.

And yet she struggled—as a woman, as a Japanese person living in America, as an attempter of suicide and as an underappreciated force of nature. Lenz shows this brilliantly, mash-

ing up film footage and decades of photography with modern-day interviews with gallerists, curators, Kusama’s friends and contemporaries and the woman herself. She calls Japan home again these days, living in a hospital but marching the two blocks to her studio almost every day.

The process is fascinating and the story itself enraging, but we also catch a glimpse of how Kusama influenced and continues to influence the world of art throughout the ages. The tale is hardly pretty and the trials and tribulations were many, but genius always seems to come with a hefty price.

And while we won’t pretend to understand Kusama’s thought processes and motivations entirely, we do know we appreciate them and her efforts; us and about 5 million others.

In other words, if you even think you like art, you must see this film. It’ll change how you think about everything.

(ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 76 min.

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Director Lisa Dapolito digs into the life of comedian Gilda Radner with newly discovered journal pages, audio diaries and home movie footage alongside interviews with Saturday Night Live and Second City alums for Love, Gilda, a charming if incomplete look at Radner’s life, career and ultimate death from cancer in 1989.

To many, Radner was the extremely funny character creator known for her work with National Lampoon and SNL. But those who weren’t alive (or old enough) during her ’70s and ’80s heyday might not realize she was about the most famous person on the planet for a time. In Love, Gilda, we learn her journey to such fame and sense of humor stemmed from deep insecurities such as struggling with her weight and concerns about her appearance, but we also discover the deep healing powers of humor and the pitfalls of notoriety and how these things fed into Radner’s concept of love up to and including her marriage to Gene Wilder.

Though it’s certainly interesting to hear from the likes of Amy Poehler, Melissa McCarthy, Bill Hader, Lorne Michaels and others on the topic, we get a much better idea of how Radner affected other people than we do about the woman herself. Snippets of letters home and journal entries provide some context, but we never really know if she was close with her family after she became famous, if she was unsure of her ability or if she was proud of what she accomplished—though these questions do get raised.

Instead we scratch the surface, picking up just enough information to know Radner was always

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“on,” but not getting a clear idea of the specifics.

Clips from television and theater performances round out the film nicely, however, reminding us without question that Radner was immensely talented even as she was often tortured. They don’t really make ’em like that anymore, folks, and it’s nice that she gets the spotlight again, we just would have liked to learn more about the nitty gritty. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 88 min.

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We could really sum this movie up in two sentences: The world is hard. Watch these puppies.

But there’s actually a lot more to the story of Pick of the Litter than puppy distraction. The documentary follows a litter of Labrador retrievers from birth through training as guide dogs, as well as the people along the way who teach them and kiss them on their irresistible little heads. Meet Patriot, Potomac, Poppet, Primrose and Phil.

Guide Dogs for the Blind breeds roughly 800 puppies each year, but only about 300 pass the rigorous standards to become workers. Others get “career changed,” freed to have normal dog lives because some part of their demeanor isn’t suited for the important job.

The training process starts right away, while puppies are still taking adorable naps. After two months, they go home with puppy raisers who live with them for up to a year and teach them expected obedience skills with tutelage and regular check-ins with the program. Then, the dogs have to buckle down for 10 weeks of intensive training with professionals. One of the most impressive segments features cars that hurtle toward blindfolded walkers to test the dogs’ ability to keep the pedestrian safe. They end up better at this than your average human with a cell phone. Way better. The dogs are also really good at going to the airport, using an escalator and an elevator, and watching for steep drop-offs.

The narrative tension in the work is that, of course, of five puppies born at its start, not all make the cut. Cue tear-jerking moments when trainers have to say goodbye or get hard news from the clinical precision under which the program operates. Yet, the real climax happens when successful dogs are matched with sight-impaired people who need their help. Some of them have been waiting for more than a year for the chance. How often do you know the very moment you’ve met your new best friend? (Julie Ann Grimm) Violet Crown, NR, 81 min.

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(ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, R, 107 min.

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Director Shane Black jumps into the Predator franchise with yet another sequel or, like, entry in the universe. It’s a dumb sequel, too, but it’s dumb in all the ways you want an action movie to be, and given Black’s pedigree as director or writer for movies like Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout and far too many more to list, we were kind of betting on overthe-top action as opposed to high cinema.

It is the present, and one of those terrible, horrible, no-good, sometimes-invisible Predator aliens crash-lands on Earth with its dreadlocks in tow, and Army sniper Quinn McKenna (Narcos’ Boyd Holbrook) finds its stuff and mails it home. Why? Because, umm, he knows he’ll be detained by the shadowy alien hunter arm of the government and he wants to be able to prove he’s not crazy. Following us? Word.

So anyway, McKenna totally does get detained, whereupon he winds up joining forces with a bunch of other reportedly crazy soldiers played by Thomas Jane and Keegan-Michael Key and a few others who’ve also been classified

as crazy. And then in turn they join up with a scientist who mostly just shoots guns instead of doing science (Olivia Munn), and everyone sets about fighting the Predator. But, ruhroh—an even crazier Predator shows up, and starts Predator-ing even harder; bullets, alien weapons, explosions and gore abound.

The Predator mainly suffers from a lack of exposition. Perhaps Black thinks we’ve been following the movies and comics since the 1980s or something, but those who go in cold will probably feel lost. Beyond that, there are scenes that leap jarringly to or from others that make little sense, and the comic relief feels more like the result of focus testing than it does an organic addition to the mayhem.

Holbrook is fine as the easily forgettable sniper caught between his bad luck and family, but we’re pretty ashamed for Munn, who has proven quite capable in other films and TV shows but here feels like a pointless addition.

Ditto for McKenna’s kid, a negligible character who may as well have been named Motivation in the script. There are also space dogs; literal space dogs. Ugh. Still, spines get ripped and faces get shot and the bigger, crazier Predator does make for some enjoyable fight scenes. Hold off until you

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It’s been well over 20 years since a mainstream American-produced film featured an entirely Asian cast (the last one was The Joy Luck Club in 1993, by the way, and Asians still remain the least-represented ethnicity in movies)—but with the release of the explosively popular Crazy Rich Asians from Now You See Me 2 director John M Chu, this alarming issue may change. Or at least be addressed better by Hollywood? Fingers crossed.

Representation matters—even if the underlying plot of the Kevin Kwan book-turned-movie follows a relatively formulaic plotline. Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat) is Rachel Chu, a young NYU econ professor who has fallen for the uber-charming Nick Young, heir to bazillions of family dollars, but who hasn’t told Rachel that he’s rich despite their year-long relationship—an interesting factoid she only discovers once the pair heads to Nick’s homeland of Singapore for a wedding. A seriously fancy-ass wedding.

Cue mild drama (she forgives him for not mentioning the rich thing pretty quickly) and jokes about how things sure are different over there.

Wu asserts her leading-lady position brilliantly, a comedic actor with a knack for sublime timing and who has proven her chops on television for years. Here she portrays a cool and up-for-anything type who bravely fields Young family drama from Nick’s mother (the talented and graceful Michelle Yeoh of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame), vindictive, jealous exes and petty rich types; get this woman in more projects immediately, someone.

Elsewhere, B-plot elements feel shoehorned in at best, particularly the crumbling marriage of Nick’s sister Astrid (Gemma Chan) and a wildly pointless role portrayed by Silicon Valley’s Jimmy O Yang. Henry Golding (who you probably don’t know yet) is serviceable as the handsome and apparently magnetic Nick (he hangs out at the YMCA and borrows Rachel’s Netflix password so, like, he’s not one of those rich people). As is the case with most characters, we get a primer in his deal within the film’s early minutes, though nobody outside of Rachel really develops beyond their baseball card stats. Community vet Ken Jeong is, as almost always, underused, even if his daughter (played by rapper Akwafina) does provide some of the most organically funny moments of the film. Nico Santos (of NBC’s Superstore)

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And then eventually we’re fed a rom-com trope about Rachel and Nick’s undying love having nothing to do with money or status or making overbearing family members happy.

The sorta-kinda-twist, however, lies in the stark reality of drastically differing social stations. This feels perhaps more true-to-life than plenty of the genre’s other examples, but still—wouldn’t you know it—love conquers all.

Thank goodness, then, for the fantastic music found throughout Crazy Rich Asians that generally comes in the form of hit American or British songs covered in Chinese. This really sets a tone that makes non-Asian viewers feel welcome but still out of our element, a seemingly small yet clever touch in a film that is definitely aiming for fun rather than high art. Hopefully, though, it won’t be another two decades before Asian filmmakers and actors get another shot at the big screen of this scope. Frankly, it shouldn’t have to be a novelty—and if Hollywood’s concern is that (white) audiences won’t get it, let this be a lesson to them: If you make it, we will come. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 120 min.

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FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO No. D0101 CV 2018-02705 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT In re the Change of Name of COURT OLIVER RIVERA a/k/a JOHN STATE OF NEW MEXICO MAX OLIVER RIVERA a/k/a COUNTY OF SANTA FE MAX RIVERA a/k/a JUAN IN THE MATTER OF A MAXIMILIANO RIVERA, PETITION FOR CHANGE OF Petitioner NAME OF Ronald Richard NOTICE OF HEARING FOR Talaske Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-02685 PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME NAME Notice is hereby given that Oliver Rivera will apply TAKE NOTICE that in to the Honorable Raymond accordance with the proviZ. Ortiz, District Judge of the sions of Sec. 40-8-1 through First Judicial District, Santa Fe Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et County Judicial Complex at seq. the Petitioner Ronald 10:00 A.M. on the 16th day Richard Talaske will apply to of November, 2018 or as soon the Honorable RAYMOND Z. thereafter as the matter may be ORTIZ, District Judge of the heard for an Order to change First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Petitioner’s name to Oliver Max Rivera. Hearing shall take place Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, at the Santa Fe County Judicial New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m. on Complex. the 19th day of October, 2018 STEPHEN P. PACHECO for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Ronald Richard District Court Clerk By: Jorge Montes Talaske to Ron Magic Suntree.

Deputy Court Clerk STEPHEN T. PACHECO, Date of Issuance: 9/25/2018 District Court Clerk Submitted by: By: Bernadette Hernandez Jerome M. Ginsburg Deputy Court Clerk Attorney for Petitioner Submitted by: 121 Sandoval Ronald Richard Talaske Santa Fe, NM 87501 Petitioner, Pro Se (505) 670-0753 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT jmginsburg@yahoo.com COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE SANTA FE COUNTY No. D-0101-CV-2018-02347 No. 2018-0107 IN THE MATTER OF A IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF ESTATE OF Marjorie Young, NAME OF MARIA VIOLA CONCHITA LOPEZ DECEASED. NOTICE TO NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME CREDITORS NOTICE IS TAKE NOTICE that in accordance HEREBY GIVEN that the with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 undersigned has been appointed through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, personal representative of this et seq. the Petitioner Maria Viola estate. All persons having claims Conchita Lopez will apply to the against this estate are required to Honorable David K. Thomson, present their claims within four District Judge of the First Judicial (4) months after the date of the District at the Santa Fe Judicial first publication of this notice, or Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., the claims will be forever barred. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at Claims must be presented either 9:00 a.m. on the 26th day of to the undersigned personal repNovember, 2018 for an ORDER resentative at the address listed FOR CHANGE OF NAME from below, or filed with the Probate Maria Viola Conchita Lopez to Court of Santa Fe, County, New Connie L. Maestas.

Mexico, located at the following STEPHEN T. PACHECO, address: 102 Grant Ave., Santa District Court Clerk Fe, NM 87501.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Electra is an action-packed story written by ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. It features epic characters taking drastic action in response to extreme events. In contrast to that text is Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, which draws from the sensitive author’s experiences growing up, coming of age, and falling in love, all the while in quest for meaning and beauty. Author Virginia Woolfe compared the two works, writing, “In six pages of Proust we can find more complicated and varied emotions than in the whole of the Electra. In accordance with astrological omens, I recommend that you specialize in the Proustian mode rather than the Sophoclean. Your feelings in the next five weeks could be as rich and interesting and educational as they have been in a long time. Honor them!

things.” Novelist Tom Robbins provides us with one more nuance: “When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson offers this observation: “When you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock.

[But] the most successful people in life recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.” I think Tyson’s simple wisdom is exactly what you need to hear right now, Libra. You’re primed for a breakthrough in your ability to create your own fate.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Japanese entrepreneur Hiroki Terai has created a business that offers crying therTAURUS (April 20-May 20): Researchers in Maryland apy. His clients watch short videos specially formulated have created a new building material with a strength-toto make them weep. A professional helper is on hand to weight ratio that’s eight times better than steel. It’s an gently wipe their tears away and provide comforting effective insulator, and in some forms can be bent and foldwords. “Tears have relaxing and healing effects,” says an ed. Best of all, it’s biodegradable and cost-effective. The Okinawan musician who works as one of the helpers. stuff is called nanowood, and is derived from lightweight, Hiroki Terai adds, “It has been said that one drop of tear fast-growing trees like balsa. I propose that we make it your has the effect of relieving stress for a week.” I wish there main metaphor for the foreseeable future. Why? Because I were a service like this near where you live, Scorpio. The think you’re primed to locate or create your own version of next two weeks will be a perfect time to relieve pent-up a flexible, durable, robust building block. worry and sadness and anxiety through cathartic rituals GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The U.S. Secretary of like crying. What other strategies might work for you?

Defense paid an official visit to Indonesia early this year.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Fling out friendly feelThe government arranged for him to observe soldiers as ers! Sling out interesting invitations! Figure out how to get they demonstrated how tough and well-trained they noticed for all the right reasons! Make yourself so interestwere. Some of the troops shimmied through broken ing that no one can resist your proposals! Use your spunky glass, demolished bricks with their heads, walked riddle-solving powers to help ease your tribe’s anxieties. through fire, and bit heads off snakes. I hope you won’t Risk looking odd if that will make you smarter! Plunk yourtry stunts like that in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will be self down in pivotal places where vitality is welling up! a favorable time for you show off your skills and make Send out telepathic beams that say, “I’m ready for sweet strong impressions. You’ll be wise to impress important adventure. I’m ready for invigorating transformation!” people with how creative and resourceful you are. But there’s no need to try too hard or resort to exaggeration. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth,” writes poet Doeianne Laux.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): i confess that i have a fuzzy “I knew I should make myself get up, write it down, but self-image. With odd regularity, i don’t seem to know it was late, and I was exhausted from working. Now I exactly what or who i am. For example, i sometimes remember only the flavor.” I offer these thoughts, think i’m so nice and polite that i need to toughen up.

Capricorn, in the hope that they’ll help you avoid Laux’s But on other occasions i feel my views are so outramistake. I’m quite sure that crucial insights and revelageous and controversial that i should tone myself down. tions will be coming your way, and I want you to do Which is true? Often, i even neglect to capitalize the whatever’s necessary to completely capture them so word “i.” You have probably experienced some of this you can study and meditate on them at length. fuzziness, my fellow Cancerian. But you’re now in a AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a young man, favorable phase to cultivate a more definitive selfimage. Here’s a helpful tip: We Cancerians have a natu- Aquarian poet Louis Dudek struck up a correspondence ral talent for inspiring people to love us. This ability will with renowned poet Ezra Pound, who was 32 years older. Dudek “admired him immensely,” and “loved him come in especially handy as we work on making an for the joy and the luminosity” of his poetry, but also enduring upgrade from i to I. Our allies’ support and feedback will fuel our inner efforts to clarify our identity. resented him “for being so magnificent.” With a mix of mischief and adulation, Dudek wrote a poem to his hero.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I am a little afraid of love, it It included these lines: “For Christ’s sake, you didn’t makes me rather stupid.” So said author Simone de invent sunlight. There was sun dazzle before you. But Beauvoir in a letter she wrote to her lover, Nelson you talk as if you made light or discovered it.” I hope his Algren. I’m happy to let you know, Leo, that during the frisky tone might inspire you to try something similar next twelve months, love is likely to have the opposite with your own idols. It would be healthy to be more effect on you. According to my analysis of the astrologplayful and lighthearted about anything or anyone you ical omens, it will tend to make you smarter and more take too seriously or give enormous power to. perceptive. To the degree that you expand your capacity for love, you will become more resilient and a better PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his book Till We Have decision-maker. As you get the chance to express love Faces, C. S. Lewis writes, “Holy places are dark places. It is with utmost skill and artistry, you will awaken dormant life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in potentials and boost your personal power. them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.” In that spirit, and in accordance VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your theme in the coming with astrological omens, I suggest you seek out dark holy weeks is the art of attending to details. But wait! I said places that evoke wonder and reverence, even awe. “the art.” That means attending to details with panache, Hopefully, you will be inspired thereby to bring new beaunot with overly meticulous fussing. For inspiration, medity into your life. You’ll be purged of trivial concerns and tate on St. Francis Xavier’s advice, “Be great in little become receptive to a fresh promise from your future life. things.” And let’s take his thought a step further with a quote from author Richard Shivers: “Be great in little Homework: Want to enjoy my books, music, and videos things, and you will be given opportunity to do big without spending any money? http://bit.ly/LiberatedGifts..

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