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APRIL 25-MAY 1, 2018 | Volume 45, Issue 17

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NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 PULITZER SURPRISE 9 Local author wins big—like, real big A HURTFUL HAND 11 How proposed changes to Medicaid and SNAP benefits may affect New Mexicans COVER STORY 13 NOT FORGOTTEN The use of solitary confinement in correctional institutions negatively affects mental health, though some agencies are looking to change their methods and guidelines THE ENTHUSIAST 19 SCIENCE FAIRNESS Los Alamos National Labs hosts a summer camp to encourage young women in STEM fields

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WEDNESDAY 2 MAY AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER This is not a book of warning; it is a book groping toward an understanding of what it means after 200,000 years of modern humans on a 4.5 billion-yearold Earth to have arrived at this point in history, the Anthropocene. I say “groping toward” because the change has come upon us with disorienting speed. . . . Most citizens ignore or downplay the warnings; many of our intellectuals indulge in wishful thinking; and some influential voices declare that nothing at all is happening, that the scientists are deceiving us. Yet the evidence tells us that so powerful have humans become that we have entered a new and dangerous geological epoch, defined by the fact that the “human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system.”

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Clive Hamilton is an Australian author, public intellectual, and professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is the founder and former executive director of the Australia Institute, a progressive think tank. Hamilton has published on a wide range of subjects. His most recent books include The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics, Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change, and Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene.

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Colson Whitehead is the author of The Underground Railroad, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal for Fiction. The book chronicles the life of Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia, and her quest for freedom through the Underground Railroad, no longer a metaphor but reimagined as an actual set of tracks, tunnels, and conductors lying just beneath the southern soil. His other novels include The Intuitionist, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; John Henry Days; Apex Hides the Hurt; and Zone One. His 2009 book Sag Harbor, described by the Washington Post as “a kind of black Brighton Beach Memoirs,” is a coming-of-age story of an African American teen who summers in the Hamptons. Whitehead has also written a book of essays about his hometown, The Colossus of New York. His book The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death, is a nonfiction account of the 2011 World Series of Poker. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Granta. A recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has taught at several universities, including Wesleyan, Princeton, and Columbia.

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NEWS, APRIL 11: “PATCHWORK OF CARE”

HELPING OUT I was engaged by Aaron Cantu’s recent article regarding maternal healthcare options in and around Northern New Mexico and access to a database of care options for pregnant women. ... [Las Cumbres Community Services] (lascumbres-nm. org) has two significant Santa Fe programs to assist pregnant women to locate and engage with prenatal and pregnancy-related care as well as with connection to community resources. Pregnancy advocate and family navigator Ana Morelos ...[and] program staff assist mothers-to-be and their families with connection to reliable resources, including prenatal care, access to doulas, and to other providers in the area, often even transporting clients to their medical or other appointments. ...

Know too that there are a variety of other agencies across Northern New Mexico that provide birthing, prenatal and parenting resources ... [including] Española’s Tewa Women United and, also in Española, Breath of My Heart Birthplace, and in Santa Fe, United Way of Santa Fe’s First Born Program.

Another resource to highlight would be the SHARE New Mexico Resource Directory (sharenm.org/nm-resources).

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TALK TO US, YO Economic Development Director Matt Brown cites an unnamed Fortune 500 CEO as he advocates for a busier airport. Next time, perhaps Brown might consider consulting with ordinary Santa Feans, too—the working-class people who actually populate this town. ... With only six commercial flights out of Santa Fe per day, the majority of air and noise pollution at our airport comes from those wealthy enough to afford private planes and jets. Clearly, the rich take priority when it comes to air transport in and out of Santa Fe. I’m curious why Brown, in his comments, perpetuates this discriminatory standard, acknowledging the desires of wealthy businessmen, but failing to solicit the input of the average community member, who benefits little from the airport’s initiatives.

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Pulitzer Surprise Santa Fe’s Caroline Fraser has one of the country’s most coveted awards

all the books. (Laughs) … I think that they had several thousand in reserve when this happened. I’m sure as needed, they’ll [print more] and then the paperback will be out next fall.

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Particularly journalists and those who write for magazines have said they learn they have a book when they’re researching a a topic for an article, and then they realize they’re passionate about it and there’s a lot more to what they’re writing. Is that what happens?

I’ve written several things about Wilder before I did the book. Years and years ago, I did a long piece for the New York Review of Books about this biography of her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, the journalist, that had basically claimed that Rose was the true author of the Little House books. And so, in examining that claim for that review, I looked at some of Wilder’s original manuscripts on microfilm. That sort of started the process, in a way, because that was so fascinating.

I didn’t imagine doing anything else at that point, but I was aware that it was a really rich topic.

And then, I later was the editor of Library of America’s edition of the Little House books. …

That was what really made me think of writing a new biography of her, because in writing the little footnotes for those volumes, I became aware of some of the history behind her books and her life, which opened up the fascinating opportunity to compare the myth with the reality.

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anta Fe’s Caroline Fraser just won the Pulitzer Prize. Her 2017 book, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, is an examination of the real life of the author of the Little House on the Prairie series.

The Pulitzer committee called it a “deeply researched and elegantly written portrait” of Wilder’s devotion to idealized self-reliance, despite challenges and failures which never graced the pages of the books.

Fraser will deliver the keynote address at the sold-out New Mexico Press Women’s annual banquet on Saturday night at the Lodge at Santa Fe. She spoke to SFR after returning home from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books last weekend.

SFR: How did you find out and what was your reaction? Were you watching the announcements online like the rest of us?

I was not watching. I was kind of aware that it was happening, but I wasn’t exactly sure what time it was. (Laughs) So, I was in my office doing something else.

But my husband, in his office, was watching, and saw it. He came to my office door with kind of a funny look on his face and said, ‘You just won the Pulitzer Prize.’

It was quite surprising. Shocking, even.

(Fraser’s publisher submitted the Pulitzer nomination on her behalf.)

How does this—or does it—change things for you?

I hope it brings the book to a wider audience. I feel that I’ve been very fortunate with the book so far. It did win a National Book Critics’ Circle award last month, which was wonderful. I just hope more people become aware of it and that that opens up more opportunities for the book.

Has your publisher said anything like ‘this is going to triple sales’?

I think publishers are kind of like doctors: They don’t ever want to give you an exact prognosis. But they have put stickers on

What have you discovered about the strength of the frontier myth?

It’s quite clear from the way that Wilder wanted to view

her path as opposed to how it actually unfolded; that it was a very strong desire among white American settlers, particularly, to view their experience as this sort of great unfolding of the American Dream. And this is all part of Manifest Destiny, that white settlers had been given this divine duty to spread across the country and “civilize” it. ... [She said many times that she] wrote her books to memorialize her parents, and she was always trying to cast them in the best possible light. So, it’s not surprising that the books portray her father as a successful homesteader and farmer, whereas in reality he struggled and mostly failed all of his life. He had to work at other jobs to eke out some kind of a living …

Most farmers like Charles Ingalls were significantly undercapitalized and they were trying to farm on land that just was not suitable for what they call dryland farming. It was actually pointed out to the government by one of their own scientists, John Wesley Powell, that

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this was going to be a disaster. He was well aware of not just the fact that there was less precipitation out on the Great Plains, but that it came in forms that were completely destructive to the kind of farming they wanted to do. … And they completely ignored him.

Did the era of Manifest Destiny parallel any other period in American history?

The thing that really leapt out at me from the history was that a lot of these settlers who came along just prior to the closing of the frontier, they were up against the fact that the country was really running out of high-quality farming land. They were getting pushed into an area that was really unsuitable. I think that most of them did not know that. The Wilders, as a young married couple, washed out and failed on their homestead. They had proved up on the land, but could not make a go of it and got into so much debt that they had to leave the region. You see [in that] an event that’s very much like the Dust Bowl; [it happened] in the 1890s in the northern part of the Great Plains and then that, of course, is going to be repeated in 1930s in the Dust Bowl in the southern Great Plains. And that was during the period in which Wilder wrote these books. … I think one of the sort of unique things about Wilder’s life story, and I hope that people find this interesting about the book, is that she did have an incredibly close relationship with her daughter and they worked together to produce these books. I believe Wilder was the author of them, but basically what you have is this unique motherdaughter, writer-editor team.

That is really unusual in the history of literature; I can’t think of anything else that was quite like it. … [Prairie Fires] is kind of a joint biography of the two of them. And I think at the core of the biography is that relationship between mother and daughter.

Congratulations. We hope you can really enjoy these next couple of months until you figure out what’s next. Do you know what’s next?

I don’t. I have some various ideas that I’m looking into, but I’m sort of looking forward to taking a little time off and I’m actually really looking forward to reading some of the other people who won Pulitzers this year. The novel that won for fiction—Less—is supposed to be really, really funny.

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A Hurtful Hand Political wrangling over benefits programs increase pressure on low-income New Mexicans

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ince last January, New Mexico and other states have faced a stream of threats to assistance programs by lawmakers looking to make deep cuts.

Advocates for accessible health care and nutrition don’t see an end in sight without a political sea change.

From the attempt by the federal government last summer to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid in the state, which has granted health insurance to an additional 200,000-plus New Mexicans since 2014, to a farm bill currently moving through Congress that would make it more difficult for people to obtain healthy foods and limit benefits overall, the possibility of New Mexicans being kicked off federal assistance rolls is real.

State programs have also tightened.

Last December, the New Mexico Human Services Department, which administers the state Medicaid program, scaled back some proposed surcharges on Medicaid enrollees, but kept others, which may go into effect next year.

And the number of people enrolled in both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, declined by 5.4 percent and 12.9 percent, respectively, over the course of one year.

One reason there are less people receiving assistance from the state, HSD spokeswoman Mary Robertson suggests, is because the federal government’s statistics show there are more employed people, though still fewer than before the Great Recession.

“As the economy improves, the need for public assistance, like Medicaid, declines,” Robertson writes in an email.

However, the department can’t provide causal proof to support the claim.

When asked for a jobs report showing how benefits and employment were linked, Robertson emailed SFR employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A more likely explanation is that HSD is coming out from under a court order that forbade automatically denying applicants for SNAP and Medicaid benefits.

In an April hearing, a federal judge said that HSD should start automating rejections of Medicaid and SNAP applications once again on May 1. That order reverses one from 2014 where a judge told the department to individually review each application because it had been “closing cases that had not been approved or denied within the appropriate federal timelines.”

In another public relations blow, HSD employees in 2016 admitted to faking information on emergency SNAP applications so the department would have more time to process them. HSD has operated under the oversight of a special master since November of that year to ensure it complies with federal law.

“The caseload declining is directly related to the court lessening their oversight over HSD, and them starting to close more cases for reasons they blame on applicants,” says Sovereign Hager, an attorney with the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty who is litigating a decades-old class action lawsuit over HSD’s processing of benefits applications.

Meanwhile, a farm bill wending through Congress right now would give HSD more leeway to limit nutrition assistance. The federal legislation would mandate anyone between ages 18 and 60 work or receive job training for at least 20 hours a week, and 25 hours a week by 2026. It would also reduce the ability of people to purchase food at a grocery store with an EBT card, and instead guarantee them boxes of non-perishable food.

If passed into law, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates the bill would reduce federal spending on SNAP by $260 billion over 10 years. The

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and link poverty reduction strategies with ensuring that people have enough to eat.”

Cuts to Medicaid, meanwhile, are certainly on the way for some of the ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN 855,000 New Mexicans insured through Congressional Budget Office esthe aid program, though they won’t aptimates 1 million people would pear with the severity that advocates leave the program over the once feared—at least, for now. same time period because of the Congressional Republicans last year stricter rules. initially wanted to replace a provision in As of February, 222,265 New the Affordable Care Act where the fedMexicans are receiving SNAP eral government matches dollars that benefits, and the lobbying some states spend on health care and group New Mexico Voices for replace it with single, inflexible block Children says 74 percent of grant.

SNAP participants live with The idea died as Congress’ attempts to repeal the ACA (also known as Obamacare) failed, though the Trump administration continues to undermine Medicaid expansion by allowing states to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients (something Gov. Martinez declined to do).

HSD has pro-James Jimenez, posed changes to executive director, the state’s MedicNew Mexico Voices for Children aid program that would fetaure additional costs for low-income patheir families. tients. These include new monthly preIn all states, the miums for certain adults and copays for federal government certain services, as well as a phasing-out pays for the benefits of three-month retroactive coverage for that SNAP enrollees new enrollees by 2020. The changes are receive, while HSD splits supposed to make up for a $32 million administrative costs of the shortfall in its fund for the state Medicprogram with the feds. aid program.

Gov. Susana Martinez’ adAbuko Estrada, an attorney for the ministration’s past efforts to New Mexico Center on Law and Poverimpose work requirements ty, says HSD submitted these proposed on SNAP recipients withchanges as part of a waiver for approval out dependents were halted to the federal government. If the waiver by a judge in 2016. I A bill is approved, he says, the state will then introduced by State Sen. “negotiate with the federal government Pat Woods that would the terms and conditions that will apply have added work requireto the waiver, [and] how the waiver will ments died in the 2018 be implemented.”

Legislative session.

After that, the second iteration of “It would be one thing the state’s Medicaid program, known as if the economy was boomCentennial Care 2.0, would go into effect ing and there were job opporJan. 1 of next year. But the chance of matunities,” says James Jimenez, executive jor cuts to the federal Medicaid program director of New Mexico Voices for Chilwill remain as long as Republicans have a dren, “[but] I think it’s bad policy to try majority in Washington.

I think it’s bad policy to try and link poverty reduction strategies with ensuring that people have enough to eat

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Not Forgotten Awaiting a murder trial, one inmate with severe mental illness has spent months isolated in the county jail B Y J U S T I N H O R WAT H justin.horwath@gmail.com

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egan Rodriguez tries to visit her brother Matthew every Friday at the Santa Fe County jail, where he’s awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge. She laments that a man is dead, yet she’s worried now about what’s happening to her brother as he waits in jail to be tried for the crime.

Matthew Rodriguez, then 34, told police he stabbed Mitchell Daniel with a steak knife in March of 2017 because he was “angry at the voices in my head.” Daniel, 64, had been living in a van and was found lying outside an apartment complex. After his arrest, Rodriguez began to punch himself in the face in the back of a squad car. Once officers restrained his hands, they say he banged his head against the protective barrier.

Police took him to the hospital to get treatment for those self-inflicted injuries, where he said that he did not mean to hurt Daniel.

He asked hospital staff about Daniel’s recovery. But Daniel died, setting in motion a criminal case against Rodriguez, who has pleaded not guilty and is now incarcerated in a jail unit where he’s alone 20 hours a day or more.

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then, unfortunately, we had that incident.

We had to go back to square one.”

While he has proven to be a faithful messenger for the county, highlighting in the press its efforts to reform mental health care in the year and half that he’s been at the helm, Williams also has to deal with the day-to-day realities of running a jail which, by its very nature, is detrimental to the mental health of anyone who ends up inside its thick concrete walls.

The ongoing care of inmates such as Rodriguez captures the difficult balance jails across the state must strike in protecting public safety without worsening the mental health of the inmates inside.

At any given time, about 2 percent of inmates, or about 12 people, are similarly situated in solitary housing in the Santa Fe County jail, according to figures from Williams. It’s impossible to tell how Santa Fe County jail stats stacks up to jails across the state; there is no requirement for them to track how they practice solitary confinement.

In fact, corrections officials no longer use the phrase “solitary confinement.” It is now “special management” or “restricted housing.” They say the shift in rhetoric surrounding the practice reflects a move to more humane practices. At the same time, the Santa Fe jail also stopped providing a unit for inmates transitioning from solitary units to general population (though Williams says the jail is trying to get it back up and running again). But experts agree that involuntary isolation, however you put it, can have devastating impacts on anyone’s state of mind.

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His sister and father maintain a weekly visiting schedule because, she says, “nobody wants to be forgotten.” Matthew Rodriguez has bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, his sister says, diseases that have put him into Northern New Mexico’s threadbare system of mental health care for years. That system’s diminished capacity to treat the most severe cases of mental illness has often landed people such as Rodriguez in jail—and when they get there, the illness often worsens.

A judge denied bail for Rodriguez, leaving him in the care of the jail as the criminal proceedings against him moved forward. Because of the legal complications inherent in a first-degree murder case, he has been one of the jail’s longer-term inmates. And since September, Fridays have been the only days he gets company— that’s when inmates housed in so-called segregation units can receive visitors.

A stocky 36-year-old with a beard, Matthew Rodriguez has been housed in a solitary cell since Sept. 21. That’s when, in the early morning hours in a general population unit, he kicked and punched two inmates in their heads, sending them to the hospital with severe injuries and faces marked with bruises and cuts.

Megan Rodriguez says she’s seen her brother’s condition deteriorate after months in a cell by himself. He receives at most four hours a day outside his cell for showers, recreation, visitation, phone calls and meetings with behavioral health staff.

“It’s not healthy for him to be stuck for that many hours alone,” Megan Rodriguez says. “My brother’s severely sick, and we’ve been complaining for a year.”

The public defender assigned to represent Matthew in court did not return a voicemail from SFR. Derek Williams, the jail warden, says Rodriguez “did good all the way to the point where he reached population. And

Matthew Rodriguez has bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, his sister Megan says, diseases that have put him into Northern New Mexico’s threadbare system of mental health care for years.

Megan (inset) visits him weekly.

AN OLD PROBLEM This year, the county jail reached a milestone: 10 years since it agreed to a settlement with the US Department of Justice, which claimed the jail was violating inmates’ civil rights in part by not providing basic mental health care.

The county denied the allegations, but nevertheless signed a 2008 settlement mandating certain staffing levels in mental health care and reforming some of its practices in that area.

“Incoming inmates who present with current risk of suicide or other acute mental health needs will be immediately referred for a mental health evaluation by a mental health professional,” the

agreement reads, in part. “Staff will observe such inmates until they are seen by mental health professionals. Incoming inmates reporting these conditions will be housed under appropriate conditions in the Health Services Unit unless and until a mental health care professional clears them for housing in segregation or with the general population.”

Yet in the decade that’s passed, what some (including Justice Department prosecutors) thought of as best practices for managing inmates’ mental health care have been upended; a slate of new research now shows that putting people in an isolated cell for long periods of time can send their mental health into a spiral.

Lack of human interaction and sensory deprivation can worsen conditions that

21ST-CENTURY SOLITARY But jail officials and others say segregation is not what it used to be; inmates are no longer thrown in the hole and “forgotten about,” Williams says.

County jails and state prisons have multi-disciplinary teams composed of security, behavioral health workers and case managers “who go through every day and visually and vocally correspond, check on that person to make sure that they’re getting those things. Making sure that every day they’re going out to yard, they’re communicating with their family and so forth,” he says.

Rodriguez is one of the jail’s inmates who, for a variety of reasons from discipline to protective custody, has been placed in one of the jail’s solitary housing units, according to Williams. The number fluctuates from roughly a dozen to about 24 in the segregation unit, largely because of the the nature of jail itself—people are accused of, not convicted of, crimes.

That’s a sliver of the total jail population, which typically hovers above 500, including federal inmates the US Marshals Service pays the county to house. The jail’s capacity is 612 inmates.

Last year, Rodriguez was housed in the transitional unit, and Anne Ortiz, a psychologist at the jail, says he showed enough progress to get him placed in general population.

Despite his improvement, transitional care ultimately did not work for Rodri-

guez. His case illustrates how jails across the state must balance the care of one inmate against the safety of others.

Rodriguez’ sister says the voices in her brother’s head worsened after his incarceration. “I could tell he was totally out of it,” she says.

Rodriguez brutally attacked two other inmates, according to video footage and incident reports released to SFR by Santa Fe County in response to public records requests.

Just before 3 am on Sept. 21, Rodriguez paced in the day room of the unit. Inmate Raymond Bernal walked to the bathroom.

Rodriguez approached Bernal and pushed him to the ground. Bernal struggled to keep Rodriguez at bay by kicking him. But Rodriguez overpowered Bernal, kicking him in the head until he lay motionless.

Other inmates in the pod intervened.

Rodriguez began pacing again, when another inmate, Jeff Spencer, walked up to a nearby window. Rodriguez approached Spencer and punched him in the head. Spencer fell to the ground.

A corrections officer wrote in an incident report that Rodriguez said he assaulted the two inmates because they “are mind-control freaks.” Bernal’s head and

gressive and assaultive behavior.”

On Feb. 19, jail staff reviewed Rodriguez’ placement in segregation; a jail sergeant wrote in a special management placement form that Rodriguez was being involuntarily placed in segregation because he “poses a threat to the security of the facility.” Williams says the jail cannot release him back into general population.

It’s not healthy for him to be stuck for that many hours alone.

-Megan Rodriguez

face were bruised, and he was bleeding from the mouth, according to the report, while Spencer sustained bruising on his face and a cut to his right eyebrow.

Both inmates declined to press charges against Rodriguez, and were taken to the hospital. A corrections officer handcuffed Rodriguez and took him to a segregation unit that morning, after the jail’s chief of security found that he “poses [a] direct threat towards others by displaying ag-

The Santa Fe County jail's mental health care team includes six therapists with masters degrees who conduct daily checks on inmates in each of the jail’s six pods. At capacity, that’s roughly one therapist for every 100 inmates.

SOURCE: SANTA FE COUNTY

already present significant challenges.

Speaking of Matthew Rodriguez’ months-long placement in segregation, Peter Simonson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, says: “Someone who has severe mental illness, the possible consequences of their experiencing long periods of isolation are pretty dramatic that, you know, an already serious illness can escalate pretty significantly in a pretty short period of time. So I think whatever conditions he’s kept under have to account for that.”

That’s why placing inmates in any kind of segregated housing poses legal risks for the county. Judges in New Mexico have awarded multi-million-dollar judgments to inmates who say in lawsuits that the devastating mental health effects of isolation, as well as lack of avenues for inmates to petition against placement in segregated housing units, violate their constitutional rights. In 2011, a United Nations expert argued solitary confinement practices in the United States can rise to the level of torture, and therefore should be banned in most cases, especially where the inmate already has a mental health condition.

POPULATION IN FLUX Wary of photographs, Williams nevertheless flashes a smile for the camera while sitting next to an American flag that hangs in his dimly lit corner office at the jail.

Early in life, he found a steady income to support his family in corrections administration; it’s been his chosen field for some two decades in county, state and federal jails and prisons.

He and other New Mexico jailers have come around to the notion that segregation will only worsen certain mental health conditions. The county hired Williams at a $95,000 annual salary in December 2016; he currently makes $103,000. He was selected in part for his prior work in behavioral health care units at state prisons. One assignment was oversight of a treatment team that helped transition more than a dozen of the state’s most dangerous inmates into general population from a mental healthcare unit.

The inmates were the “worst of the worst,” Williams says, requiring five-point restraints, suicide watches and seclusion rooms. But a spate of new programming, including group therapy, helped transition many of the inmates to the general population, according to Ortiz, who was a psychologist on Williams’ team in the state prison and who followed him across the highway to the county jail. She’s now the highest-paid employee there, making $280,800 annually. She called the inmates’ transition “miraculous.”

But while Ortiz and Williams were able to work miracles on long-term inmates in the state penitentiary, they both say managing the mental health care of a constantly changing jail population poses unique challenges. Ortiz oversees a team that includes six therapists with masters degrees who conduct daily checks on inmates in each of the jail’s six pods. At capacity, that’s roughly one therapist for every 100 inmates.

Ortiz says the treatment plan to move Rodriguez into general population “failed,” and so the jail had no choice but to put him in the special management unit following the attack. She notes that unlike a state prison, the Santa Fe County jail has no alternative placement unit for inmates with severe mental health issues.

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JAIL AS HOSPITAL In many ways, Rodriguez’ troubled tenure at the jail captures the nuances of both sides of a recent statewide debate about whether to severely restrict jails’ ability to place inmates in solitary.

State Rep. Moe Maestas, an Albuquerque Democrat, co-authored a bill that would do just that in the 2017 legislative session. Lawmakers passed the bill. But Republican Gov. Susana Martinez vetoed it, citing public safety issues with such restrictions.

Maestas argues that keeping inmates in segregation only exacerbates threats to public safety—particularly in jails, where inmates have not yet been convicted of crimes and where the vast majority of inmates will be released back into the community.

“Folks [who] are housed in 23-hour lockdown for an extended period of time, they are completely dysfunctional in society and they are more likely to offend,” Maestas says.

He says the county jails were some of the biggest opponents of the legislative measure, citing safety issues inherent in putting dangerous inmates into general population. Asked what jail wardens should do with inmates such as Rodriguez, Maestas says there’s a gamut of management tools for such situations.

Maestas could not name any specifics, but said jail wardens across the state should

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Rodriguez’ case has been particularly difficult for the jail to handle, Ortiz says, because of the complexity of his condition and the glacial pace of his criminal proceedings compared to that of most inmates.

“He’s a long-termer in a jail equipped for a turnover population,” Ortiz says of Rodriguez. “It’s a special case, no doubt.”

Williams says the goal with most inmates in segregated housing units is to transition them to general population.

“And that really makes sense,” Williams says. “Because when you think about it, if people are coming in here and you’re saying, ‘Oh you’re a sex offender, you should be over here. Oh, you’re from this group? You should be over here.’

You’re teaching them something that’s not going to be beneficial when they get released. Because when they get released, they don’t get to pick who their neighbors are going to be, who they go to the store with and who’s next to them in line. So in reality, you know, if we’re really serious about preparing people to going back into the community, we have to have enhanced diversity. We’ve got to get them used to living with people of different backgrounds, different cultures and different beliefs.”

Derek Williams, warden at the Santa Fe County jail, says a lack of resources led him to shut down the housing unit for for inmates transitioning from solitary units to general population.

There’s nothing humane in keeping someone in solitary confinement, especially when they’re diagnosed with a mental health condition.

-Miguel Chavez, mental health advocate

help provide solutions for the next legislative session with a new governor, when he’ll reintroduce the legislation.

“The counties come to the table with some strong solutions or else we’ll dictate the terms without their input,” Maestas says.

Simonson, the executive director of the ACLU, which supports such legislation, also concedes that jails are in a difficult position. “We’re not solving the

problem,” he says, adding that jails should take action to mitigate the impacts of segregated confinement through programming and social connections. “But keep in mind there’s also a price to be paid on the impact you’re having on his already-deteriorating state of mental health,” he says of Rodriguez.

Grace Philips, general counsel for the New Mexico Association of Counties, says counties across the state are already addressing the impacts of segregated housing with such programming. She says that the Santa Fe County jail is one of about eight across the state that’s accredited by the New Mexico Association of Counties. To attain such accreditation status, counties must have policies surrounding restrictive housing.

“Detainees with a known or suspected mental illness should be given a mental health assessment and their condition periodically reviewed to determine whether restrictive housing is affecting their mental health status and continues to be appropriate,” says one of the association’s auditing standards.

Philips argues that terms like “solitary confinement” and “segregation” do not do justice to the work accredited county jails do to care for inmates in such housing units through human contact, programming and other activities.

“The emphasis for someone who is separated from general population is to provide as much human interaction as can be,” Philips says. The Santa Fe County jail policy manual requires routine checks on inmates in special management units and workers must fill out logs noting inmates’ progress in daily living.

Miguel Chavez, a former Santa Fe County commissioner whose adult son’s mental health issues led to a stint in jail, has been helping Megan Rodriguez try to get her brother care. Chavez said he understands the need for certain inmates to be removed from general population.

“And that needs to be done in a humane way,” Chavez says. “But there’s nothing humane in keeping someone in solitary confinement, especially when they’re diagnosed with a mental health condition.”

Both Williams and Ortiz say the Santa Fe County jail has put much effort into providing Rodriguez with hospital-level care—far from the notion that he’s been “forgotten.” But Ortiz says the jail is not a hospital, nor is it a prison. And so officials had a meeting on Tuesday to determine another way to care for him. Ortiz will not say what that is, citing privacy concerns, but an entry in his court docket says a hearing will determine whether to take Rodriguez to the New Mexico Corrections Department for “safe keeping.”

Moving a jail inmate to the Behavioral Health Institute in Las Vegas or to a state prison is exceedingly rare because the county must pay the state for care, Williams says, as well as get lawyers involved to lay out the case for why the county jail cannot provide care.

Megan, Rodriguez’ sister, says, “We need him to be safe and we need other inmates to be safe.” The episode, to her, reflects that all people need adequate health care, even if they’ve committed a “horrible crime.”

“We should hold ourselves to higher standards,” Megan says, “and be humane to individuals in their worst times.”

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recent Atlantic magazine story asked in its headline, “When Will the Gender Gap in Science Disappear?” This was not mere rhetoric. The story went on to discuss a recent study that estimates it will take 16 years before women are publishing an equal number of scientific papers as men. Some disciplines might reach parity in fewer years.

And some, like physics, might take, say, 258 years to close the gap.

The story is one example of the increased scrutiny of the hurdles female scientists face in the field and reflects the larger systemic issues of bias in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math.) Over the last few years, this scrutiny has prompted a variety of positive changes: toy makers emphasizing

science-related toys for girls, movements such as Girls Who Code, and an uptick in education opportunities.

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Anna Llobet Megias heard the call and last year created a physics camp for young women, which is currently accepting applicants for its second season this summer. A scientist in the lab’s Neutron Science and Technology group, Llobet Megias said the camp grew out of the awareness of the need to provide STEM education opportunities for young women combined with an assessment of what specific needs exist in Northern New Mexico.

“What is well known and well researched is, culturally, girls start losing interest in STEM early-on,” she says.

“Whether it’s for play or the toys or society as a whole, they don’t see themselves [as scientists] … or when they study science, very often the achievements of women have been misrepresented or not reported, so the role models are lacking.” At LANL, she says, “we are working very hard to help change these perceptions. Many of us volunteer in the public schools, either as science judges … in science fairs, we volunteer in offering some specific classes to help build self confidence in these young women, so they can see women who are physicists or engineers and that we can do it all.”

The camp is ambitious, providing a variety of activities, talks and opportunities.

Last summer, Llobet Megias says, participants designed rockets, experimented

with optics, and learned about electromagnetism from super conductors. They had lectures on everything from the Mars rover to coding. Attendees also visit LANL on a field trip.

Llobet Megias says organizers surveyed and analyzed last summer’s 20 attendees’ responses to the camp, and were encouraged to offer it again. The vast majority of the young women who attended—a diverse group from Santa Fe, Pojoaque, Española and Los Alamos— were enthusiastic, writing feedback such as “‘the demonstration made things that are complicated and hard to understand into things that made me curious about physics,’ or ‘a wide range of topics from speakers made it very interesting’ and ‘the topics made me ask more questions about science and the intricacies that are required in research.’”

In addition to the science-centric talks and activities, the camp also provided talks on professional development, resume writing and LANL internship opportunities.

Most of the volunteers at the camp are women, Llobet Megias says, which leads to a comfortable environment in discussing issues such as how women can balance career and family. Moreover, the role models share the different paths they took to becoming scientists. “For some of us, it was early in life, others were late in life ... some of us did community college and then went to college; others did a straight shot—college, post college, PhD and post-doc and then we had children. Some [through the GI bill] … went to the military service, served this country, and through that commitment they had the chance to go to college. There are many ways to get to that point, and we made an effort to show that there’s not a right way or a wrong way.”

Llobet Megias grew up in Spain and attended an all-girls school. “My role models were all women and I never ques-

tioned myself about going into STEM,” she says. When she reached college, she began to realize the hurdles women face in the fields. That experience shapes her desire to provide young women in the area “a safe space to wonder, question and not be self-conscious.”

Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Consortium, and Pojoaque Valley High School hosts a two-week Summer Physics Camp for Young Women in Northern New Mexico. The camp takes place June 11-22 at Pojoaque Valley High School. The camp is free to students and lunch will be provided. Participants who complete the program will be provided a stipend. Transportation from NM Park and Ride depot in Pojoaque (Cities of Gold parking area) can be arranged.

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A THOUSAND WORDS Every year, your pals at SFR send out a dragnet for the best photography the shooters of the area can muster, and every year those shooters do not disappoint. We sift through hundreds of incredible landscape, wildlife, portrait and artsy photos, then we create large-scale canvas prints of the best ones and auction them off at the Violet Crown Cinema to benefit student journalism internships. All the winning pics appear in our Santa Fe Manual, which hits the stands May 2, so this is actually a sneak preview. Really, it’s just about finding a little moment of beauty in the everyday and … y’know what? We might just show up to try and outbid the public for some of these prints—they’re gorgeous. (ADV)

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ART OPENING FRI/27 BRUTAL Sculptor Debra Baxter’s propensity for crafting armor and weaponry-adjacent pieces from metal, stone and wood belies the subtly elegant touches rampant throughout her work. It’s a place where a necklace might recall chainmail, but sits so softly atop a collarbone we’re more taken aback by its beauty than its implied practicality. It’s a place where brass knuckles with jagged minerals jutting skyward are terrifying yet mesmerizing, and where wood and metal transpose yet complement one another with clean lines and bold shapes. Overtly representational this is not; intriguing and borderline dangerous it is. Good luck not getting sucked in. (ADV) Debra Baxter: Tooth and Nail Opening Reception: 5 pm Friday April 27. Free. form & concept, 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111.

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(ADV) Photographic Society of Santa Fe Meeting: 6:30 pm Tuesday May 1. Free. St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397.

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Closure Matron Records and CCA join forces In February, when the Center for Contemporary Arts opened the Ciel Bergman show, The Linens, SFR’s arts writer noted that the pieces—massive, looming linens emblazoned with abstract paint and symbols and hung in a flowing fashion throughout the Tank Garage gallery space—were “raw, strange and full of power.” These are also apt words when referring to the closing event this Saturday evening, which finds highlight acts curated by local label Matron Records performing among Bergman’s works as a statement on philosophy, feminism and artistry.

There are numerous acts set to appear; the big three, as it were, come in the form of local songstress PSIRENS, and Albuquerque-based weirdo projects Lady Uranium and Bigawatt. For PSIRENS’ part, Santa Fean Paris Mancini has graced our pages before thanks to her one-woman army of loops and vocals ranging from the sublime to the bizarre to the ethereal and back again. Lady Uranium, meanwhile, fields similar sounds, though with myriad effects and fearless experimentalism. Lady U’s Mauro Woody (also of Albuquerque’s bass-heavy indie act Chicharra) has consistently proven a boundless creativity. Bigawatt’s Marisa Demarco (also of Chicharra, also occasionally of SFR freelance journalist fame) writes songs like a robot in love with fu-

turistic hip-hop might, expansive and strange but cohesively dance-worthy and toe-tappy.

“I hadn’t really seen any of Ciel’s work prior, but it seemed like a fun thing to collaborate on—not just in terms of her work, but in terms of what CCA is trying to do with bringing in more performance art,” curator and Matron Records founder Eliza Lutz tells SFR. “I think this body deals a lot with her feminism through themes of sexuality and physicality; there are a lot symbols in the work I thought would be fun to explore—the [performers] also found what they wanted to explore within that.”

Lutz also performs within the duo Gender Flitters, a movement piece she describes as taking on the gender binary in a visual way. “We wanted to explore: What’s a female sound? A male sound? A female movement or a male movement?” she asks. Albuquerque arts collective GRAFT Gallery rounds out the night with a performance piece that embraces similar uses of symbology and linens as does the Bergman show. (Alex De Vore)

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DHARMA TALK BY KIGAKU NOAH ROSSETTER Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Kigaku Noah Rossetter of Upaya presents "Painting Boundlessness: Exploring Emptiness Through the Metaphor of Color.”

5:30 pm, free GUISES OPEN MIC SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 In conjunction with the exhibition by SITE Santa Fe’s Young Curators, Guises, young folk are encouraged to share and perform original work and enjoy FREE PIZZA. 5:30 pm, free

DANCE FOR ALL ABILITIES AND LEVELS Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St., 577-8187 An invitation to dance for flexibility, balance, grace, creativity, socializing and joy with dance therapist instructor Claire Rodill.

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BOK CHOY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Sizzlin' soul grooves.

8 pm, free DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 DJ dance tunes.

10 pm, free ERIKA WENNERSTROM Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Smoky, beautiful, gritty and vulnerable singer-songwriter tunes from the Austin-based songstress, notably of The Heartless Bastards.

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GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Irish and Celtic tunes from Gerry McCarthy meld with the Latin stylings of Chris Abeyta.

7:30 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, rock and contemporary favorites on piano with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free PAT MALONE El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Solo jazz guitar.

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The official ballot for the Best of Santa Fe 2018 NOMINATED! Local Living Best Business Downtown

Century Bank Doodlet’s Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Los Alamos National Bank Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar

Best Business in the Railyard/ Guadalupe District Boxcar Century Bank Fruit of the Earth Organics Santa Fe Farmers Market Second Street Brewery Violet Crown Cinema

Best Business in the Siler Road Corridor Big Jo True Value Hardware Java Joe’s & Groovy Bean Coffee Roasters Kitchenality Meow Wolf Second Street Brewery Rufina Taproom SolCore Fitness

Best Business on Cerrillos Road Artisan Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Jambo Café Los Alamos National Bank Santa Fe Climbing Center

Best Business on St. Michael’s Drive/ Triangle District Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Renewal Health & Wellness Club The Candyman Strings & Things

Best Business on the Southside

Century Bank Joe’s Dining Look What the Cat Dragged In Pet Suites Plaza Café Southside Tribes Coffeehouse

Best Hiking Trail Aspen Vista Atalaya Dale Ball Trails Galisteo Basin Preserve Picacho Peak Winsor Trail

Best Nonprofit Adelante Gerard’s House Kitchen Angels Renesan Institute for Lifelong Learning Smiles From Drew The Food Depot

Best Nonprofit for Animals

Assistance Dogs of the West Española Humane Felines & Friends Look What the Cat Dragged In New Mexico Center for Therapeutic Riding Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society

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Best Nonprofit for the Environment Commonweal Conservancy New Energy Economy New Mexico Environmental Law Center Santa Fe Conservation Trust Santa Fe Watershed Association WildEarth Guardians

Best Public Servant Javier Gonzales Martin Heinrich Peter Ives Ronald Trujillo Signe Lindell Tom Udall

Best Youth Program

Boys & Girls Club of Santa Fe Girls Inc. Ms. Cohen’s Homeschool Classroom Santa Fe Climbing Center Upstart Crows YouthWorks

Services

Best Acupuncturist Blue Lotus Integrative Healing Arts Dr. Alix P. Bjorklund Dr. Fiquet H Duckworth Dr. Jeffrey Meyer Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine We the People Community Acupuncture

Best Aesthetic Treatment

Dare to Bare Wax Den Eldorado Skin Care Glow Skin, Lash and Spray Tan Boutique Mist Skin Care Sterling Aesthetics Ten Thousand Waves

Best Alternative Healing Practitioner

Dr. Jeffrey Meyer Modern Aphrodite and Dr. Anne Ridley Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Renewal Health & Wellness Club Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Scher Center For Wellbeing

Best Art Frame Shop Fine Art Framers Frontier Frames Get Framed Justin’s Frame Design Wilkinson & Co. Fine Art Framers

Best Barber Shop

Dino’s Drive-In Barbershop Guadalupe Barber Shop Klean Cut Kenny Nick’s Barber Shop The Center Barber & Beauty Shop TNA Hair Salon

Best Cannabis Dispensary

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Fruit of the Earth Organics Kure Cannabis Minerva Canna New Mexicann Natural Medicine Sacred Garden Ultra Health

Best Car Repair

Ace Automotive Certified Experts Alex Safety Lane Honest Automotive Mora’s Auto Repair The Auto Angel Toyota of Santa Fe

Best Chiropractor

Blue Lotus Integrative Healing Arts Connerly Chiropractic, Acupuncture & Physical Medicine Group Dr. Windy Carter/ Winds of Choice Chiropractic Center ElleWell Josh Sinberg, DC Scher Center for Wellbeing

Best Computer and IT Services 4Leet Managed IT Services & Computer Repair Capitol Computer & Network Solutions Dotfoil Computers Hope Kiah Santa Fe Computer Works Synergy Tech

Best Dentist/ Dental Practice

Ahh Dental, Dr. Renae Moreschini Divine Dental of Santa Fe Dr. Patrick McQuitty, DDS Milagro Dentistry Eldorado Dental, Dr. Haley Ritchey Jensen Elledge Dental

Best Facial

Eldorado Skin Care Glow Skin, Lash & Spray Tan Boutique Mist Skin Care Santa Facials Shunay Mineral Cosmetics Ten Thousand Waves

Best Financial Institution

Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Guadalupe Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank New Mexico Bank & Trust State Employees Credit Union

Best Fitness Facility

ANK Santa Fe Muay Thai Da Vinci Body Studio Fitness Bootcamp Santa Fe Genoveva Chavez Community Center Railyard Fitness SolCore Fitness

Best Hair Salon

Chrome Salon and Blowout Bar Evolution Hair Design Rock Paper Scissors Salon Spa Salon del Mar The Center Barber & Beauty Shop Unique Expressions

Best Health Care Aspen Medical Center La Familia Medical Center Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Presbyterian Medical Group Scher Center for Wellbeing Southwest CARE Center

Best Insurance Agency

HUB International Insurance Reynolds & Rodar Insurance Group Rio Grande Insurance Services State Farm (James Armijo) State Farm (Bryan Doerner) State Farm (Garrett Seawright)

Best Landscaping Company

Cassidy’s Landscaping Chamisa Landscaping Glorious Earth Landscapes McCumber Fine Gardens Northern New Mexico Gardens San Isidro Permaculture

Best Law Firm

Clark, Jones & Pennington Dan Cron Law Firm Egolf + Ferlic + Harwood Katz Herdman MacGillivray & Fullerton Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid The Sommer Udall Law Firm

Best Lender

Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Gateway Mortgage Group Guadalupe Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank State Employees Credit Union

Best Lodging

Drury Plaza Hotel Inn of the Governors Inn on the Alameda La Fonda on the Plaza La Posada de Santa Fe Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi

Best Massage

Blue Lotus Integrated Healing Arts High Desert Healthcare & Massage Joy’s Hot Stone Massage Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Ten Thousand Waves

Best Nail Salon

CA Nails Chrome Salon & Blowout Bar Ivy’s Nail Spa Nail Experts Nail Time Serenity Nail Salon

Best Pet Grooming Barks & Bubbles Cheeky Bubbles Paws Plaza Pet Suites Shelby’s Pet Styles Turquoise Tails

Best Pet Daycare Barks & Bubbles Happy at Home Paws Plaza Pet Suites Santa Fe Tails Top Dog Pet Resort

Best Pilates Studio Aware Pilates Da Vinci Body Studio Pilates Bodies Pilates Santa Fe Rise Pilates The Movement Studio

Best Plumbing Company

Anytime Plumbing Aranda’s Plumbing, Heating & Supply Glenn’s Plumbing & Heating Pipeworks Plumbing Roadrunner Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration Inc. TLC Plumbing Heating & Cooling

Best Real Estate Agency

Barker Realty Keller Williams Realty Logic Real Estate Santa Fe Properties, Inc. Santa Fe Realty Unlimited Sotheby’s International Real Estate

Best Roofing Company

Brian McPartlon Roofing Fix My Roof Goodrich Roofing of Santa Fe Mike Lopez Roofing Northway Roofing Santa Fe Stucco and Roofing

Best Solar Energy Company

Amenergy Eclipse Electric GO Solar NM Solar Group Sol Luna Solar SunPower by Positive Energy Solar

Best Spa

Body of Santa Fe High Desert Healthcare & Massage Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort & Spa Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Sunrise Springs Spa Resort Ten Thousand Waves

Best Storage Facility

A-1 Self Storage AAA Self Storage Warehouse Extra Space Storage Santa Fe Self Storage St. Michael’s Self Storage Wagon Self Storage

Best Tattoo Shop

Dawn’s Custom Tattoo Four Star Tattoo Lost Cowboy Tattoo & Gallery Talis Fortuna The Dungeon Tattoo & Piercing Tina’s Ink

Best Urgent Care

Aspen Medical Center Urgent Care & Primary Care Christus St. Vincent MinuteClinic at CVS Presbyterian Urgent Care Railyard Urgent Care ultiMED

Best Veterinarian Cedarwood Veterinary Clinic Gruda Veterinary Hospital Happy at Home Northside Veterinary Clinic Santa Fe Animal Hospital Smith Veterinary Hospital

Best Yoga Studio

Blue Moon Hot Yoga Body of Santa Fe Fitness Bootcamp Santa Fe Paradiso Santa Fe Santa Fe Community Yoga Center YogaSource

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Best Bike Shop Bike n Sport Mellow Velo Rob & Charlie’s Sirius Cycles SpinDoc The Broken Spoke

Best Bookstore

The Ark Big Adventure Comics Book Mountain Collected Works Bookstore & Coffee House Garcia Street Books Op.Cit Books

Best Car Dealer Capitol Ford Lincoln Great Little Cars Honda of Santa Fe Lexus of Santa Fe Santa Fe BMW Toyota of Santa Fe

Best Children’s Store Doodlet’s Double Take Indigo Baby Merry Go Round Moon Rabbit Toys Toyopolis

Best Consignment

Double Take Indigo Baby Nina’s Closet Santa Fe Antiques and Flea Market Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery The Raven Fine Consignments

Best Floral Shop Amanda’s Flowers Artichokes & Pomegranates Barton’s Flowers Cutting Edge Flowers Pacific Floral Design Silene Floral

Best Garden/ Plant Supplies

Agua Fria Nursery Cedar Grove Nursery & Farm Newman’s Nursery Payne’s Nurseries Plants of the Southwest WATERWISE Gardening

Best Gift Store Curiosa Detours at La Fonda Doodlet’s Earthfire Gems Gallery Indigo Baby Nambe Trading Post

Best Hardware Store

Ace Hardware of Santa Fe Alpine Builders Supply Aranda’s Plumbing, Heating & Supply Big Jo True Value Hardware Eldorado True Value Empire Builders Supply

Best Head Shop

Concrete Jungle Smoke Shop Electric Gold Vapor Fruit of the Earth Organics Red House Smoke Shop Sacred Garden

Best Interior Home Store Design Warehouse Double Take Malouf on the Plaza Nambe Trading Post NEST Santa Fe Reside Home

Best Jewelry Store Diva Diamonds and Jewels Earthfire Gems Gallery James Kallas Jewelers Malouf on the Plaza Santa Fe Goldworks Wind River Trading Company

Best Mattress Shop Denver Mattress Company Mattress Firm Santa Fe Sachi Organics Sleep & Dream

Best Men’s Store Corsini Eternity of Santa Fe Harry’s Lancaster York Gentlemen’s Apparel Mavericks on the Plaza Red River Mercantile

Best Optical Shop Accent on Vision Eye Associates Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Ojo Optique Optical Shop of Santa Fe Quintana Optical

Best Pet Store

Eldorado Country Pet Jurassic Pets Pooch Pantry Bakery & Boutique Teca Tu A Pawsworthy Pet Emporium The Critters & Me Tullivers Pet Food Emporium

Best Shoe Store

Goler Malouf on the Plaza On Your Feet Street Feet The Running Hub Wind River Trading Company

Best Specialty Food/Cooking Store

Cheesemongers of Santa Fe Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Kitchenality La Cosas Kitchen Shoppe Santa Fe Olive Oil & Balsamic Company Santa Fe School of Cooking

Best Thrift Store

Barkin Boutique Double Take Kitchenality Look What the Cat Dragged In Savers The Hospice Thrift Store

Best Women’s Clothing Cupcake Clothing Double Take Get it Together Malouf on the Plaza Maverick’s of Santa Fe WearAbouts

Best Western Wear Back at the Ranch Double Take Kowboyz Lucchese Maverick’s of Santa Fe Santa Fe Hat Company

Arts and Entertainment Best Art Collective

City of Mud Meow Wolf Santa Fe Society of Artists Santa Fe Studio Tour Strangers Collective The Sculpture Union

Best Band

Cloacas Fun Adixx Hella Bella JJ and the Hooligans Nosotros The Hollyhocks

Best Bar

Bar Alto at the Drury Plaza Boxcar Del Charro Saloon La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room The Matador

Best Bartender

Clifford Pena, Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room Josie Mae Ortega, Jinja Leahi Mayfield, The Palace Leo Granados, La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Mark Kimble, Maize Zane Duffy, Violet Crown Cinema

Best Dance Company

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Nataraja Dance Company NDI New Mexico Pomegranate/ MOSAIC Dance Company The Saltanah Dancers Zircus Erotique

Best Date Spot

Boxcar Meow Wolf Milad Persian Bistro Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Ten Thousand Waves Violet Crown Cinema

Best DJ

DJ Dynamite Sol DJ Feathericci DJ Garronteed DJ John Edwards DJ Oskar Felix Cordova

Best Gallery

form & concept Kenny’s on the Plaza Nedra Matteucci Galleries New Concept Gallery Niman Fine Art Wow! Gallery

Best Hotel Bar

Agave Lounge, Eldorado Hotel Bar Alto, Drury Plaza Hotel Del Charro Saloon, Inn of the Governors La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Secreto Lounge, Hotel St. Francis Staab House, La Posada

Best Instagram Feed @fishbowlsoul_ @haydenfold @kurecbis @meowwolf @simplysantafe @strangerscollective

Best Live Music Venue

Boxcar La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Lensic Performing Arts Center Meow Wolf Plaza Bandstand Santa Fe Opera

Best Movie House

Center for Contemporary Arts Cinematheque Jean Cocteau Cinema Lensic Performing Arts Center Regal Cinemas The Screen Violet Crown Cinema

Best Museum

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Museum of International Folk Art New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors New Mexico Museum of Art SITE Santa Fe

Best Performing Arts Venue

Adobe Rose Theater Lensic Performing Arts Center Meow Wolf Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Playhouse Teatro Paraguas

Best Theater Group Adobe Rose Theater Santa Fe Playhouse Teatro Paraguas Theater Grottesco Upstart Crows Wise Fool

Food and Drink Best Artisan Chocolate

CG Higgins Confections Cacao Santa Fe Chocolate Maven ChocolateSmith Kakawa Chocolate House Todos Santos Chocolates

Best Asian Restaurant

Chow’s Contemporary Chinese Izanami Restaurant Yin Yang Chinese Restaurant Jinja Bar & Bistro Lu Lu’s Chinese Cuisine Saigon Café

Best Bakery

Boultawn’s Bakery and Café Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Dolina Bakery & Café Dulce Bakery + Coffee Sage Bakehouse

Best Breakfast Café Fina Clafoutis La Plazuela at La Fonda on the Plaza Tecolote Café The Pantry Tia Sophia’s

Best Breakfast Burrito Blake’s Lotaburger Burrito Spot Café Fina El Parasol The Pantry Tia Sophia’s

Best Brunch Café Fina Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Midtown Bistro Opuntia Café The Hollar

Best Burger

Blake’s Lotaburger Del Charro Santa Fe Bite Second Street Brewery Shake Foundation The Burger Stand at Burro Alley

Best Chef

Ahmed Obo, Jambo Charles Dale, New Mexico Fine Dining Mark Connell, State Capitol Kitchen Martin Rios, Restaurant Martín Nou Kimnath (Chef Nath), Sweetwater Xavier Grenet, L’Olivier

Best Chile

Atrisco Café & Bar Horseman’s Haven Café La Choza The Pantry The Shed Tomasita’s

Best Cocktails

Coyote Café & Rooftop Cantina Del Charro Saloon Radish & Rye Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room Secreto Lounge Tonic

Best Coffee

Betterday Coffee Iconik Coffee Roasters Java Joe’s Ohori’s Coffee Roasters Sky Coffee The Coffee Wheel

Best Curry

Annapurna Café India House India Palace Jambo Café Paper Dosa Thai Café and Noodle Treats

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Best Dessert

Chez Mamou French Bakery & Café Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Dulce Bakery + Coffee Harry’s Roadhouse The Teahouse

Best Fine Dining

The Compound Coyote Café & Rooftop Cantina Geronimo L’Olivier Radish & Rye Restaurant Martín

Best Food Cart/ Truck/Stand Bang Bite Bruno’s El Chile Toreado Jambo Hapa Palate SantaFamous Street Eats

Best Frito Pie

Chicago Dog Express Del Charro El Parasol Five & Dime Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Trujillo Family Farm

Best Happy Hour

Agave Lounge, Eldorado Hotel Boxcar Il Piatto San Francisco Street Bar & Grill Santa Fe Capitol Grill Santacafé

Best Ice Cream/ Gelato/Frozen Yogurt

Ecco Espresso and Gelato Freezie Fresh Frogurt Self-Serve Frozen Yogurt La Lechería Paleteria Oasis Santa Fe Espresso Company (Häagen-Dazs)

Best International Cuisine India House Izanami Restaurant Jambo Café L’Olivier Milad Persian Bistro Paper Dosa

Best Italian Restaurant Andiamo!

Café Grazie Il Piatto Osteria D’Assisi Piccolino Trattoria a Mano

Best Locally Brewed Beer

Blue Corn Café & Brewery Duel Brewing Marble Brewery Rowley Farmhouse Ales Santa Fe Brewing Company Second Street Brewery

Best Margaritas

Del Charro Saloon La Choza La Fonda on the Plaza Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen The Shed Tomasita’s

Best New Mexican Restaurant Atrisco Café & Bar Café Castro La Choza Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen The Shed Tomasita’s

Best New Mexico Winery Black Mesa Winery Casa Rodena Winery Gruet New Mexico Hard Cider St. Clair Winery Vivac Winery

Best New Restaurant

Dolina Bakery & Café Maize Milad Persian Bistro Opuntia Café Paloma Restaurant Trattoria a Mano

Best Patio

Harry’s Roadhouse Iconik Coffee Roasters La Casa Sena Santacafé The Bell Tower Bar at La Fonda on the Plaza The Hollar

Best Pizza

Back Road Pizza Bruno’s Il Vicino Pizza Centro Rooftop Pizzeria Upper Crust Pizza

Best Sushi Restaurant Kai Sushi & Dining Kohnami Masa Sushi Shohko Café Sushi Land East Tokyo Café

Best Tacos

Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill El Chile Toreado El Parasol Felipe’s Tacos Palate Taco Fundación

Best Taproom

Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom Rowley Farmhouse Ales Santa Fe Brewing Company Second Street Brewery Violet Crown Cinema

Best Tea

ArtfulTea Chocolate Maven Iconik Coffee Roasters Opuntia Café Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar The Teahouse

Best Vegetarian

Love Yourself Café Annapurna Café Renewal Life Bar Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen Vinaigrette

The official ballot for the Best of Santa Fe 2018 NOMINATED! Local Living Best Business Downtown

Century Bank Doodlet’s Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Los Alamos National Bank Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar

Best Business in the Railyard/ Guadalupe District Boxcar Century Bank Fruit of the Earth Organics Santa Fe Farmers Market Second Street Brewery Violet Crown Cinema

Best Business in the Siler Road Corridor Big Jo True Value Hardware Java Joe’s & Groovy Bean Coffee Roasters Kitchenality Meow Wolf Second Street Brewery Rufina Taproom SolCore Fitness

Best Business on Cerrillos Road Artisan Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Jambo Café Los Alamos National Bank Santa Fe Climbing Center

Best Business on St. Michael’s Drive/ Triangle District Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Renewal Health & Wellness Club The Candyman Strings & Things

Best Business on the Southside

Century Bank Joe’s Dining Look What the Cat Dragged In Pet Suites Plaza Café Southside Tribes Coffeehouse

Best Hiking Trail Aspen Vista Atalaya Dale Ball Trails Galisteo Basin Preserve Picacho Peak Winsor Trail

Best Nonprofit Adelante Gerard’s House Kitchen Angels Renesan Institute for Lifelong Learning Smiles From Drew The Food Depot

Best Nonprofit for Animals

Assistance Dogs of the West Española Humane Felines & Friends Look What the Cat Dragged In New Mexico Center for Therapeutic Riding Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society

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Best Nonprofit for the Environment Commonweal Conservancy New Energy Economy New Mexico Environmental Law Center Santa Fe Conservation Trust Santa Fe Watershed Association WildEarth Guardians

Best Public Servant Javier Gonzales Martin Heinrich Peter Ives Ronald Trujillo Signe Lindell Tom Udall

Best Youth Program

Boys & Girls Club of Santa Fe Girls Inc. Ms. Cohen’s Homeschool Classroom Santa Fe Climbing Center Upstart Crows YouthWorks

Services

Best Acupuncturist Blue Lotus Integrative Healing Arts Dr. Alix P. Bjorklund Dr. Fiquet H Duckworth Dr. Jeffrey Meyer Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine We the People Community Acupuncture

Best Aesthetic Treatment

Dare to Bare Wax Den Eldorado Skin Care Glow Skin, Lash and Spray Tan Boutique Mist Skin Care Sterling Aesthetics Ten Thousand Waves

Best Alternative Healing Practitioner

Dr. Jeffrey Meyer Modern Aphrodite and Dr. Anne Ridley Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Renewal Health & Wellness Club Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Scher Center For Wellbeing

Best Art Frame Shop Fine Art Framers Frontier Frames Get Framed Justin’s Frame Design Wilkinson & Co. Fine Art Framers

Best Barber Shop

Dino’s Drive-In Barbershop Guadalupe Barber Shop Klean Cut Kenny Nick’s Barber Shop The Center Barber & Beauty Shop TNA Hair Salon

Best Cannabis Dispensary

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Fruit of the Earth Organics Kure Cannabis Minerva Canna New Mexicann Natural Medicine Sacred Garden Ultra Health

Best Car Repair

Ace Automotive Certified Experts Alex Safety Lane Honest Automotive Mora’s Auto Repair The Auto Angel Toyota of Santa Fe

Best Chiropractor

Blue Lotus Integrative Healing Arts Connerly Chiropractic, Acupuncture & Physical Medicine Group Dr. Windy Carter/ Winds of Choice Chiropractic Center ElleWell Josh Sinberg, DC Scher Center for Wellbeing

Best Computer and IT Services 4Leet Managed IT Services & Computer Repair Capitol Computer & Network Solutions Dotfoil Computers Hope Kiah Santa Fe Computer Works Synergy Tech

Best Dentist/ Dental Practice

Ahh Dental, Dr. Renae Moreschini Divine Dental of Santa Fe Dr. Patrick McQuitty, DDS Milagro Dentistry Eldorado Dental, Dr. Haley Ritchey Jensen Elledge Dental

Best Facial

Eldorado Skin Care Glow Skin, Lash & Spray Tan Boutique Mist Skin Care Santa Facials Shunay Mineral Cosmetics Ten Thousand Waves

Best Financial Institution

Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Guadalupe Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank New Mexico Bank & Trust State Employees Credit Union

Best Fitness Facility

ANK Santa Fe Muay Thai Da Vinci Body Studio Fitness Bootcamp Santa Fe Genoveva Chavez Community Center Railyard Fitness SolCore Fitness

Best Hair Salon

Chrome Salon and Blowout Bar Evolution Hair Design Rock Paper Scissors Salon Spa Salon del Mar The Center Barber & Beauty Shop Unique Expressions

Best Health Care Aspen Medical Center La Familia Medical Center Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Presbyterian Medical Group Scher Center for Wellbeing Southwest CARE Center

Best Insurance Agency

HUB International Insurance Reynolds & Rodar Insurance Group Rio Grande Insurance Services State Farm (James Armijo) State Farm (Bryan Doerner) State Farm (Garrett Seawright)

Best Landscaping Company

Cassidy’s Landscaping Chamisa Landscaping Glorious Earth Landscapes McCumber Fine Gardens Northern New Mexico Gardens San Isidro Permaculture

Best Law Firm

Clark, Jones & Pennington Dan Cron Law Firm Egolf + Ferlic + Harwood Katz Herdman MacGillivray & Fullerton Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid The Sommer Udall Law Firm

Best Lender

Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Gateway Mortgage Group Guadalupe Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank State Employees Credit Union

Best Lodging

Drury Plaza Hotel Inn of the Governors Inn on the Alameda La Fonda on the Plaza La Posada de Santa Fe Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi

Best Massage

Blue Lotus Integrated Healing Arts High Desert Healthcare & Massage Joy’s Hot Stone Massage Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Ten Thousand Waves

Best Nail Salon

CA Nails Chrome Salon & Blowout Bar Ivy’s Nail Spa Nail Experts Nail Time Serenity Nail Salon

Best Pet Grooming Barks & Bubbles Cheeky Bubbles Paws Plaza Pet Suites Shelby’s Pet Styles Turquoise Tails

Best Pet Daycare Barks & Bubbles Happy at Home Paws Plaza Pet Suites Santa Fe Tails Top Dog Pet Resort

Best Pilates Studio Aware Pilates Da Vinci Body Studio Pilates Bodies Pilates Santa Fe Rise Pilates The Movement Studio

Best Plumbing Company

Anytime Plumbing Aranda’s Plumbing, Heating & Supply Glenn’s Plumbing & Heating Pipeworks Plumbing Roadrunner Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration Inc. TLC Plumbing Heating & Cooling

Best Real Estate Agency

Barker Realty Keller Williams Realty Logic Real Estate Santa Fe Properties, Inc. Santa Fe Realty Unlimited Sotheby’s International Real Estate

Best Roofing Company

Brian McPartlon Roofing Fix My Roof Goodrich Roofing of Santa Fe Mike Lopez Roofing Northway Roofing Santa Fe Stucco and Roofing

Best Solar Energy Company

Amenergy Eclipse Electric GO Solar NM Solar Group Sol Luna Solar SunPower by Positive Energy Solar

Best Spa

Body of Santa Fe High Desert Healthcare & Massage Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort & Spa Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Sunrise Springs Spa Resort Ten Thousand Waves

Best Storage Facility

A-1 Self Storage AAA Self Storage Warehouse Extra Space Storage Santa Fe Self Storage St. Michael’s Self Storage Wagon Self Storage

Best Tattoo Shop

Dawn’s Custom Tattoo Four Star Tattoo Lost Cowboy Tattoo & Gallery Talis Fortuna The Dungeon Tattoo & Piercing Tina’s Ink

Best Urgent Care

Aspen Medical Center Urgent Care & Primary Care Christus St. Vincent MinuteClinic at CVS Presbyterian Urgent Care Railyard Urgent Care ultiMED

Best Veterinarian Cedarwood Veterinary Clinic Gruda Veterinary Hospital Happy at Home Northside Veterinary Clinic Santa Fe Animal Hospital Smith Veterinary Hospital

Best Yoga Studio

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Agave Lounge, Eldorado Hotel Boxcar Il Piatto San Francisco Street Bar & Grill Santa Fe Capitol Grill Santacafé

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Blue Corn Café & Brewery Duel Brewing Marble Brewery Rowley Farmhouse Ales Santa Fe Brewing Company Second Street Brewery

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Back Road Pizza Bruno’s Il Vicino Pizza Centro Rooftop Pizzeria Upper Crust Pizza

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Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill El Chile Toreado El Parasol Felipe’s Tacos Palate Taco Fundación

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Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom Rowley Farmhouse Ales Santa Fe Brewing Company Second Street Brewery Violet Crown Cinema

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THE CALENDAR PHYLLIS LOVE Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

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

6 pm, free REVEREND JUSTIN HYLTON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Melodic and honest singer-songwriter tunes.

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

6:30-9:30 pm, free SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Folky Western tunes.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free

FILM ZERO WEEKS: AMERICA'S FAMILY LEAVE CRISIS AND THE COST OF DOING NOTHING Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Weaving powerful stories together with insightful interviews from leading policy makers, this documentary explores America's paid leave crisis. Followed by a discussion panel and presented by the Santa Fe Community Foundation.

6-8 pm, free

FOOD SIT, STAY, SUPPORT Santacafé 231 Washington Ave., 984-1788 Enjoy free hors d'oeuvres and wine, sponsored by Española Humane and learn a little about the work of spay/neuter and adopting animals in Northern New Mexico.

4-6 pm, free

THU/26 BOOKS/LECTURES

EVENTS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE DINNER AND STUDIO TOURS Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Join IAIA artists-in-residence Ian Kuali'i and Monte Yellow Bird, Sr. for dinner in the academic building followed by tours of the A-i-R studios.

5-7 pm, free ASK JEFF APODACA, CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Join an open conversation with Jeff Apodaca, Democratic candidate for governor. His campaign website is apo18.com, if you're curious.

6 pm, free COMEDY NIGHT: MARC YAFFEE AND CHAD MILLER Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 Yaffee, of Showtime’s Goin’ Native: The American Indian Comedy Slam, is joined by Miller, who gave up on marching band to start his comedy career in 1997.

6:30 pm, $10

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MUSIC BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Original dharma songs.

10 am, free

BRETT NEWSKI AND VONNIE KYLE Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Post-emo jams and thoughtful yet not precious singer-songwritery rock 'n' roll (see Music, page 27).

8 pm, $8 DJ INKY The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Punk, funk, soul, rock 'n' roll, old-school country and modern alternative.

9 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA AND JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Gypsy jazz and flamenco fusion tunes borne of traditional subculture.

7 pm, free FREE RANGE BUDDHAS, DJ TRES MARTINEZ AND SUNBENDER Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 A spirited blend of Americana, folk, rock, blues and indie pop from the Buddhas, plus ambient tunes from Martinez and then rock 'n' roll from Sunbender.

10 pm, free GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Irish and Celtic tunes from Gerry McCarthy meld with the Latin stylings of Chris Abeyta.

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PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Get yourself and your kid out of the house.

11 am, free THOMAS CLAGETT: LINE OF GLORY Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 986-0151 In Clagett's new historical fiction, the final 13 hours at the Alamo play out from the perspectives of four people.

5:30 pm, free

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Catch the New Mexico Dance Coalition’s 31st annual Choreographers’ Showcase on Friday and Saturday.

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10/10 Vonnie Kyle’s Santa Fe takeover

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

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t probably started when I was 6 years old,” musician Vonnie Kyle says. “I wanted to be a singer.”

Kyle, who works for Meow Wolf and has called Santa Fe home for less than two years after an upbringing in Minnesota, says she started with a little church singing, but that the majority of her practice came from singing along with bands like Nirvana and Green Day on the radio. “I was writing my own songs by the time I was 14 and I’m sure they were super emo,” she tells SFR. “Even by the time I was 10 years old and listening to my Hanson CD I was like, ‘Oh! These kids are writing music and that’s really cool!’”

Kyle, of course, surpasses the likes of “MMMBop” (not that it’s hard) with both her solo efforts and her band Ten

Ten Divison. Maybe this speaks to a lifetime love of singing and guitar, or maybe it speaks to a sort of innate talent. Kyle’s voice is unusual, a little more raw than her heroes like Liz Phair or Jewel, but still firmly planted in the same kind of emotional autobiography for which both are known.

Either way, her projects couldn’t be more different from one another. “As far as my solo project goes, that’s more mellow, singer-songwriter type stuff,” she says. “The band is a little more on the side of garage pop—it’s louder, a little heavier than emo.” But it still contains those self-reflective lyrics and borderline self-loathing that we’ve come to associate with emo jams. The good ones, anyway.

On her most recent EP release, 2017’s Cold and Bitter Girl, Kyle provides a brief tour through shoegaze, pop and even doo-wop, all with an obvious reverence for ’90s alterna-rock. Musically, Kyle embraces pretty sounds and bright guitars layered under her own

Vonnie Kyle hails from Minnesota, plays guitar, has lots of feelings.

lead and backup vocals. Lyrically, however, she’s pissed. And maybe at herself?

Like on “Stupid Little Mouth,” wherein she announces, “I don’t know why I won’t back down with this stupid, silly little mouth of mine,” or “Cold and Bitter Girl,” an altered perspective piece that explains “he won’t allow himself to despise her.” The best songs are always those that provide some level of transparency from the songwriter, even if it makes the writer look less than great.

She’s been making moves locally as well, with live shows and a 2017 project in which she challenged herself to write a song a week for the whole year.

With 52 fully completed songs, she says, “It’s how I have all these songs for Ten Ten Division and for Vonnie Kyle.” She also formed a band of local heavy-hitters like Daniel Mench-Thurlow of Snaggletooth and Dylan Blanchard, newly of Future Scars. Not bad for a musician like Kyle who thought about hanging up the guitar as recently as 2016. “I was hitting this point in my life where I wasn’t even

sure I could keep doing music,” she says.

“I was feeling defeated and exhausted, and when I came out here I thought my music career would be completely over.”

With a new Ten Ten Division album in the works through local studio Kabby Sound (man, that dude Kabby Kabakoff has a hand in everything lately) and upcoming shows, she’s been reinvigorated. And with two shows this week representing both her solo catalog and her full band, everyone else can find out what they should probably already know— homegirl means it.

VONNIE KYLE WITH BRETT NEWSKI 8 pm Thursday April 28. $8.

Second Street Brewery Rufina Taproom, 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 TEN TEN DIVISION WITH DREAM DECAY AND FUTURE SCARS

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8 pm Friday April 27. $5-$10.

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THE CALENDAR GOT SOUL El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Catch soulful jazz from the house band with lauded local singer Hillary Smith.

7 pm, $10 GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, rock and contemporary favorites on piano.

6:30 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Americana and honky-tonk.

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

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

6 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 SOLTRIBE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Reggae from San Antonio, Texas.

10 pm, free UNDERGROUND CADENCE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 An eclectic group of musicians with a blend of rocking, bluesy, eclectic, funky tunes that keep you dancing with edgy musical rhythms.

8 pm, free

THEATER THE PASSION OF ETHEL ROSENBERG Studio Center of Santa Fe 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Edward Morris’ one-woman play, performed by maven Talia Pura, is based largely on actual letters exchanged in prison between Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, famously executed for espionage in 1953. The play imagines Ethel’s agony at the prospect of being executed and leaving her two young sons behind.

This is the opening gala performance, so you gotta RSVP to reinbold.grace@gmail.com.

7:30 pm, $50

WORKSHOP TRANSGENDER 101 EMR Bear 922 Shoofly, #203 Check out a workshop about issues facing those in the transgender community and how to be a better ally to them. The workshop is free, but space is limited, so reserve a space by emailing jay@emrbear.com.

2 pm and 5:30 pm, free

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FRI/27 ART OPENINGS DEBRA BAXTER: TOOTH & NAIL form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Baxter aims to fearlessly create elegant and sometimes dangerous objects. Informed by her passion for armor and weaponry, her show includes breastplates and metal throwing stars. Through June 16 (see SFR Picks, page 21).

5 pm, free EMILY MASON: INNER RESOURCES LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Mason, called an icon of American lyrical abstraction, has created vital new works at age 86 (see A&C, page 29). Through June 3.

5 pm, free KIYOSHI NAKAGAMI: LIGHT FROM AFAR LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Nakagami’s powerful canvases burst with an elemental tension between light and darkness rendered in gold mica-enriched acrylic paint.

Through June 3.

5 pm, free MATTHEW SZÖSZ: MINIMAL TENSION form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 For Szösz, setting up just one glass art experiment takes half a workday in some cases, and up to four weeks in others. It all leads to the moment when the sculpture either takes its final shape or shatters into a million pieces.

Through May 19, 2018.

5 pm, free PRIMAVERA natasha Santa Fe 403 S Guadalupe St., 913-9236 Art and fashion meet through the work of many local artists.

The evening also features model Hannah Elise Bowman as a "live mannequin." The show hangs through June 26.

5 pm, free SURREALISM GROUP SHOW Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., 954-9902 Surreal paintings by Joshua Franco, Randall LaGro, Carrie Pearce and Evgeniya Golik.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES NEW MEXICO PRESS WOMEN STATE CONFERENCE The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 At 5 pm, catch a happy hour with a pasta or taco bar; then, at 7 pm, New Mexico Press Women’s Sherri Burr interviews author Hampton Sides. He's best known for his gripping nonfiction adventure stories.

5 pm, $10

DANCE NEW MEXICO DANCE COALITION CHOREOGRAPHER'S SHOWCASE Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 The 31st annual event showcases some of the finest choreographers working in Northern New Mexico.

7:30 pm, $10-$15

EVENTS CHRISTUS ST. VINCENT JOB FAIR Christus St. Vincent 455 St. Michael's Drive, 820-5202 Catch an opportunity to connect with managers and explore clinical and non-clinical positions available at the hospital.

9 am-3 pm, free CIRCASPIRE: GLOW UP Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Rd. Suite B, 992-2588 Wise Fool's annual pre-professional circus spectacular is back at it again. A cast of 27 local performers presents a multi-generational performance featuring aerial and acrobatic feats, clowning, stilt-walking, unicycling, juggling, music and poetry.

7 pm, $5-$20 GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Weather permitting, head to the outdoor classroom for a hands-on program for 3-5 year olds and their caregivers.

Listen to a book and participate in interactive nature and garden-related activities.

10-11 am, $5 PATRICIA MICHAELS & FRIENDS SPRING 2018 SHOW SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Get a look at Taos fashion designer Patricia Michaels' new spring collection and celebrate Native designers Orlando Dugi, Loren Aragon and Violet Dawn Ahmie. The evening will be filmed for a TV series, and all guests will be asked to sign an NDA. If you don't want to be on film, let 'em know at check-in (see A&C, page 33).

7 pm, $25

FOOD ANGEL'S NIGHT OUT Various locations Head to more than 35 restaurants for breakfast, lunch or dinner (depending on location), and 25 percent of your bill is donated to meal-delivery nonprofit Kitchen Angels.

Simple as that! A list of participating restaurants is at kitchenangels.org. Make a rezzie if you can. Pro-tip: The calendar editor is a Kitchen Angels Ambassador for dinner at Cowgirl tonight, so ...

You know what to do.

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Palette Envy Painter Emily Mason is as sublime as ever

BY IRIS MCLISTER |

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

EMILY MASON, “HAPPY ENDING”; COURTESY LEWALLEN GALLERIES

rtist Emily Mason was born in New York City in the early 1930s, which means that when she was coming into her own as a mid-century abstract painter, the art scene was largely dominated by dudes. Today, the huge canvases of some of Mason’s male colleagues can seem almost dick-measurey: Barnett Newman’s shaft-like zips, Clyfford Still’s brutally toned, jagged stalactites, Robert Motherwell’s squickily phallic forms. (Seriously, Google his “elegy paintings.”)

Whether she set out intentionally or not to do so, Mason’s dreamily hued, lushly abstract paintings are delicious counterpoints to the work of some of her more macho peers. As abstract as they are, Mason’s process belies intention and remarkable control, even when paint is spilled, smeared or dribbled across a surface. After around five decades in the studio, she’s still producing lyrically abstract paintings whose deftly arranged elements never feel forced or rigid. The show Inner Resources, opening Friday at LewAllen Galleries, offers a chance to see what makes the work of Emily Mason so beloved.

The majority of the show’s 40 or so paintings were made in the last few years, which is frankly astonishing, given the artist’s age; Mason turned 86 in January. She still paints at a vigorous clip, both in her Brattleboro, Vermont, studio as well as in a large, sunny space in New York’s Flatiron District. Unsurprisingly, Mason’s work ethic, according to longtime studio assistant Steven Rose, is inspiring. “Emily sees art-making not really as work, but as part of life,” Rose tells SFR, “and she’s committed to coming to the studio every day she can, usually by 10, and sometimes staying until 7 or so.”

Mason’s mother Alice Trumbull Mason was also a New York painter, and encouraged artistic impulses from an early age.

Alice’s mid-century abstractions—with their olives, taupes and reds arranged in painstakingly abstract formations—could have been plucked off of Don Draper’s office wall.

Emily has a far more gentle take, though for her, too, abstraction is the ticket. She’s always been besotted with color, and for me, her most successful compositions contain tropical ones: vivid pink, parrot-beak yellow, oranges the color of a papaya. Warm colors dominate many paintings here, which are often accented by cool blue, violet or turquoise.

This combination of fire and ice makes a canvas racy, juicy; Mason’s work is downright blush-inducing sometimes, glowing with a buzzy sensuality. Works like 2016’s

“Avery Island” feel quintessentially, joyfully of this ilk, with its thick, vertical panel of tangerine, bordered on either side by turquoise and capped above with luminous, melting yellow. In “Geranium Lake,” from 2008, swaths of orange and coral pink spread across the canvas, covering it entirely. The painting’s parallel bolts of turquoise act as a cooling technique—at least that’s how my eyes read it: a way to temper the inferno of boiling oranges and reds which, if unchecked, might bloom across the painted surface like a rash. (In-

cidentally, this is what happens in “Keepsake,” a newer work whose all-over maroon and petal pink surface isn’t enhanced by a smudgy apparition of white.)

“Truth be told,” LewAllen Galleries’ Modernism Director Louis Newman says, “Emily’s art has only gotten better in time.”

Last year’s “Fall Migration” seems to bolster the claim. Toward the right of the painting, a gently curved, wiggly violet veil offsets an area to the left filled with feverish orange, which is overlaid with a splintery segment of purple, manifesting in a composition of alternating whispers and shouts of color. In a recent short film about Mason produced by PBS, her husband, the painter Wolf Kahn, remarked that his wife “paints the way a bird sings … or like children sing, without having any plan.” It’s a lovely sentiment which readily applies to a recent work like “Up From Under,” filled to bursting with canary yellow, washes of orange, and a central, commanding streak of pale, sea-glass teal.

Comprising just under half of the show are cool-toned paintings, dominated by shades which range from navy to pale robin’s egg. When Mason’s blue appears bolting across predominantly warm-toned surfaces, it’s exciting; those same hues, though, when dominant, don’t have the same impact. Why? Next to the warm ones, the cool paintings, though no less structurally excellent, seem chilled, which Mason fundamentally is not.

Still, by and large and consistently throughout not just this show but Mason’s career at large, I have to agree with Newman: “There’s a magic to her work. There is something about Emily Mason’s painting that allows you to fall in love with her without your ever meeting her.” This triumphant exhibition presents a fantastic opportunity to do just that.

EMILY MASON: INNER RESOURCES 5 pm Friday April 27. Free. LewAllen Galleries, 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250

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I’m a straight male in my 30s. I’ve been with my wife for 12 years. I have had several affairs.

Not one-night-stand scenarios, but longer-term connections. I didn’t pursue any of these relationships. Instead, women who knew I was in an “exclusive” relationship have approached me. These have included what turned into a one-year affair with a single woman, a threeyear affair with a close friend of my wife, a seven-month affair with a married coworker, and now a fairly serious four-months-and-counting relationship with a woman who approached me on Instagram. On the one hand, I do not regret my time with any of these women. On the other hand, I have been deceitful and manipulative for almost my entire adult life. I am a terrible husband in this respect. Also, I’m going to get busted eventually, right? Finding out about this would crush my wife. I love her, we get along great, and the sex is good—if I wasn’t such a lying piece of shit, you could even say we make a pretty good team. We are also very socially and financially entangled. I don’t want to leave, but I suspect I should. And if so, I need help considering an exit strategy. Part of my motivation for writing is that I am particularly attached to the woman I’m having an affair with now, and both of us fantasize about being together openly. I’m a liar, a cheat, a user, and a manipulator— and it just keeps happening.

-A Seriously Shitty Husband On Losing Everything P.S. I’m expecting you to rip me to shreds.

It doesn’t “just keep happening,” ASSHOLE, you keep doing it. And these women didn’t “turn into” one-year, three-year, seven-month, and four-months-and-counting affairs on their own.

You turned them into affairs by continuing to show up. And while you claim that each of these women pursued you despite knowing you were in an exclusive relationship, it doesn’t sound like you ran from any of them. At best, you broke into (or slowed to) a trot, which allowed each one of these lady predators to overtake you.

The first step toward holding yourself accountable for your appalling actions—a close friend of your wife? really?—is doing away with the passive voice. Don’t ask yourself, “How’d that happen?!?” as if the universe were conspiring against you somehow. You weren’t hit by a pussy meteor every time you left the house. You did these things. You had these affairs. You. Zooming out: If all it takes for some rando to get her hands on your otherwise committed cock is to DM you on Instagram, you have no business making monogamous commitments. If you’d sought out a partner who wanted an open relationship—a wide-open one—you could have had concurrent, committed, nonexclusive relationships and avoided being “a liar, a cheat, a user,” etc.

Seeing as you’re a reader, ASSHOLE, I suspect you knew an honest open relationship was an option—that ethical nonmonogamy was an option—but you didn’t pursue that. And why not? Maybe because you don’t want to be with a woman who is free to sit on other dicks. Or maybe the wrongness and the self-loathing—the whole bad-boy-on-the-rack routine—turn you on. Or maybe you’re the wrong kind of sadist: the un-self-aware emotional sadist. You say you love your wife, but you also say she’d be crushed— destroyed—if she discovered what you’ve been doing. Be honest, ASSHOLE, just this once: Is the destruction of your wife a bug or is it a feature? I suspect the latter. Because cheating on this scale isn’t about succumbing to temptation or reacting to neglect. It’s about the annihilation of your partner—a (hopefully) subconscious desire to punish and destroy someone, anyone, fool enough to love you.

The tragedy is how unnecessary your choices have been. There are women out there who aren’t interested in monogamy, there are female cuckolds out there (cuckqueans) who want cheating

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husbands, and there are masochistic women (and men) out there who get off on the thought of being with a person who would like to crush them. So long as those desires are consciously eroticized, fully compartmentalized, and safely expressed, you could have done everything you wanted, ASSHOLE, without harming anyone.

So what do you do now?

It seems like you want out, and your wife definitely deserves better, so cop to one affair, since copping to all of them would crush her—or so you think. People are often way more resilient than we give them credit for, and convincing ourselves that our partners can’t handle the truth is often a convenient justification for lying to them.

But on the off chance it would crush your wife to be told everything, just tell her about Ms. Instagram. That should be enough.

P.S. Get your ass into therapy, ASSHOLE. I’m a 42-year-old gay man. I’ve been with my husband for 21 years. We met in college and, except for a six-month break, we’ve been together ever since. I made an open relationship a requirement at the start. While my husband had jealousy and trust issues, he hooked up with others regularly. After a few tense years, we started couples therapy. During therapy, my husband revealed that he was never in favor of the openness. After trying some new arrangements—only together, only at sex parties, DADT—he realized he wasn’t comfortable with any situation. He told our therapist that every time I hooked up with someone, he was retraumatized because it reminded him of the time I broke up with him for six months 20 years ago.

I agreed to a monogamous relationship, and I’ve gone a year without hooking up with anyone else. He seemed genuinely relieved and said he felt more secure. But almost immediately, he began talking about how he wanted to hook up with others. I’m at a loss. I feel tremendous guilt for even thinking about splitting up, so I keep hoping we’ll stumble on the thing that will work for us. I don’t know what to say when he says I should be monogamous to him while he gets to hook up with others. He says this would be best, since my hooking up triggers him. We are at an impasse. It sucks that we could break up over this.

-Gay Marriage Having Crisis I’ve written about a few gay couples—and a few straight ones—where one half gets to hook up with others while the other half doesn’t. But they were cuckold couples, GMHC, and the half who didn’t “get to” hook up with others didn’t want to hook up with others. The cuck half of a cuckold couple gets off on their partner “cheating” on them. While people outside the relationship might perceive that as unfair—one gets to cheat, the other doesn’t—what’s more ideal than both halves of a couple getting just what they want?

But if an eroticized power imbalance—an honestly erotized one—doesn’t turn you on, the creepily manipulative arrangement your husband is proposing certainly isn’t going to work.

Which means it’s both ultimatum and bluff-calling time. So long as your husband thinks he can dictate terms by pointing to his triggers and his trauma, GMHC, he has every incentive to continue being triggered and traumatized. So with your couples therapist there to mediate, tell him your marriage is either open or closed. You’re not interested in being his cuckold and he can’t point to his trauma to force you into that role.

You’re a handsome couple—thanks for enclosing the lovely picture (sometimes it’s nice to see the face of the person I’m responding to!)—with a long history together, and here’s hoping things work out. But if they don’t, GMHC, neither of you is going to have a problem finding a new partner.

He can get himself a guy who likes being dictated to, if that’s really what he wants. And you can find a guy who wants an open and egalitarian relationship, which is what you deserve.

P.S. If your therapist is taking your husband’s side in this, GMHC, get a new therapist.

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MUSIC CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, local musician Charles Tichenor and pals get together for a musical evening.

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

10 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail Santa Fe, NM, 87501, 984-7997 Smooth crooning in Italian, English and Spanish and gypsy jazz guitar.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards on piano: Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free DREAMDECAY, FUTURE SCARS AND TEN TEN DIVISION Ghost 2899 Trades West Road Dreamdecay is too punk for psych, too far-out for punk.

They're joined by post-rockers Future Scars and indieers Ten Ten Division (see Music, page 27).

8 pm, $5-$10 E CLAYTON WEST Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Solo soul from a sole soul.

5-7:30 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, $5 JAKA Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Afro-pop.

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

7 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free KEHAR KOSLOWSKY First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The mezzo soprano performs selections by Handel, Schumann and Ravel.

5:30 pm, free NOCHE EXTREMA Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 Get your fill of Latin, cumbia and salsa tunes.

8:30 pm, free

ROBIN HOLLOWAY Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano standards.

6 pm, $2 RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Classic country and rock 'n' roll.

8 pm, free STEPHEN AND THE TODDLERS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Local singer-songwriters bust out the folk on the deck.

5 pm, free STRING DINNER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana, folk, country and bluegrass.

8 pm, free THE SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana 'n' rock 'n' roll 'n' folks who know how to party.

8:30 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 TONIC JAZZ SHOWCASE Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Get some late-night stylings with with host Loren Bienvenu (drums), featuring Chris Ishee (piano) and Casey Andersen (bass).

9:30 pm, free VINCENT COPIA Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Original and traditional Americana.

6 pm, free

THEATER THE PASSION OF ETHEL ROSENBERG Studio Center of Santa Fe 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Edward Morris’ one-woman play, performed by maven Talia Pura, is based largely on actual letters exchanged in prison between Ethel and Julius Rosenberg; it imagines Ethel’s agony at the prospect of being executed and leaving her two young sons behind. It also traces her transition from an aspiring and talented singer to a fervent political activist and focuses on a love for her husband so passionate that she unhesitatingly followed him to the electric chair.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SAT/28 BOOKS/LECTURES ARCHAEOLOGY 101: UTILIZING MODERN TECHNOLOGIES TO UNDERSTAND THE PAST Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Amy Thompson discusses how remote sensing technologies are used in everyday life, including in apps like Google Maps and Pokémon Go. These technologies can also be used in archaeological research to not only visualize and map ancient sites, but to model past community relationships and social organization. Free with museum admission.

1 pm, $6-$12 ARTIST TALK: MATTHEW SZÖSZ form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Hear from artist Szösz and see videos of his process in conjunction with his unique and volatile glass artwork.

2 pm, free BARBARA ROCKMAN AND KYCE BELLO op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 National Poetry Month is winding down, so join local poets Rockman and Bello for a reading. Rockman is coordinator for Wingspan Poetry Project, bringing poetry to victims of domestic violence. Bello holds an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts.

2 pm, free GARDEN MAINTENANCE: HOW TO BE A GOOD STEWARD Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Now that you have plants in the ground, it is time to learn some maintenance tricks to keep your landscape looking beautiful. Learn what to plan for, plant, prune, maintain, plus weed and pest control strategies through this garden maintenance class.

9 am-noon, $25

DANCE CONTRA DANCE Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join the New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society for a contra dance. If you're rusty (or new to contra dance), get a lesson at 7 pm; the dance starts at 7:30 pm.

7 pm, $8-$9 FLAMENCO FIESTA: CARMEN LA GOLONDRINA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Based on a true story, local flamenco guitarist Chuscales tells the story of his grandmother, Carmen La Golondrina. With dancers Sveta Backhaus, Monze Diaz and Mina Fajardo.

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NEW MEXICO DANCE COALITION CHOREOGRAPHER'S SHOWCASE Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 The 31st annual event showcases some of the finest choreographers working in Northern New Mexico.

7:30 pm, $10-$15

THE CALENDAR with Bruce Berlin

EVENTS ACHIEVING A FAIR POLITICAL SYSTEM: BUILDING A GRASSROOTS COALITION TO REVIVE OUR DEMOCRACY Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Join the leaders of several organizations to focus on how New Mexicans can work together to remove the corrupting influence of money in politics and look to slightly to the right (at 3 Questions, just over there! >>) for more.

8:30 am-4:30 pm, free BIRD WALK Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road, 983-4609 Head to the hills for a guided birding hike with experienced bird nerds.

8:30-10 am, free CIRCASPIRE: GLOW UP Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Rd. Suite B, 992-2588 Wise Fool's annual pre-professional circus spectacular is back at it again. A cast of 27 local performers presents a multi-generational extravaganza.

2 pm and 7 pm, $5-$20 FUNDRAISER: WOMEN TO BE Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road, 986-9800 His Majesty ChitimukuluSosala Kanyanta Manga II of Zambia, Women to Be, and Turner Carroll Gallery host a reception celebrating efforts to support women’s education in Zambia. That $20 suggested donation supports one girl for two years. RSVP: info@turnercarrollgallery.com.

4-6 pm, $20 GLOBAL CITIZEN SUMMIT St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 Celebrate the global identity through world music, word, art, performance, food and games. Dinner available (that's $25), or eat at home and come for $16.

Great Hall, Peterson Student Center; hosted by the Santa Fe Council on International Relations. Info at sfcir.org.

4:30 pm, $16-$25 GREYHOUND MEET 'N' GREET Teca Tu DeVargas Center, 165 Paseo de Peralta, 982-9374 Join the Greyhound Adoption League of New Mexico and Texas for a meet ‘n’ greet with their adoptable dogs.

11 am-1 pm, free

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The issue of big money in politics has been pervasive throughout much of human history, and it spirals out into nearly every issue facing America today. Bruce Berlin, president of New Mexicans for Money out of Politics and author of 2016’s Breaking Big Money’s Grip on America, knows this better than most and discusses the goals of his organization at its conference this Saturday (8:30 am-4:30 pm Saturday April 28. Free. Santa Fe Community College, 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000); get full details at nmmop.org/conference. (Pema Baldwin) When did you get involved in this issue?

I think it started in the early 2000’s with the Iraq war.

It wasn’t a war for freedom or liberating Iraq; it was a war for Iraqi oil. It was started because [George W] Bush and Cheney were oil people, and the oil industry wanted to get ahold of Iraqi oil. So we, as a country, went to war to liberate the oil, not the people.

That was clearly a war for profit. And then the same thing happened with Obamacare; it was partly about getting better healthcare. Obama negotiated from the very beginning—three months into his administration—with the healthcare industry, the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry to find out how far he could go in getting some kind of healthcare provision without interfering with their profits, and actually multiplying their profits. And then with the Great Recession. Obama didn’t do anything about punishing all those people on Wall Street who created the big bubble in the housing market that ending up costing a lot of people their homes and their jobs.

It was because he got a lot of donations from Wall Street. He made sure that they were protected more than the American people were protected. It’s not partisan. It’s everybody.

How did the 2016 election influence the movement to get money out of politics?

There wasn’t much of a focus on getting money out of politics until recently. There was focus on health care, on the environment, on climate change, on immigration reform—but in terms of money in politics being a big issue … it wasn’t a big issue. Even now, it’s not the number one issue. In my view it should be, because all the other issues are affected by it. The fact is, it’s just beginning to gain momentum as a major issue.

What’s the goal of Saturday’s conference?

We’re trying to create a coalition of all the different organizations, like Common Cause New Mexico, New Mexico Working Families Party and New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence, that deal with various issues and help them realize that they’re all hindered by the same problem: big money. Unless they spend some of their time and energy on this issue, they’re always going to be one step forward, two steps back. We’re trying to not just get an understanding, but a strategy to get big money out of politics. It has to be a priority.

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THE CALENDAR THE LINENS CLOSING RECEPTION & PERFORMANCE Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Vignettes in response to the trajectory of feminism (see SFR Picks, page 21).

5 pm, $5 SPRING ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR Santa Fe Elks Lodge 1615 Old Pecos Trail, 920-9550 The Benevolent Patriotic Order of Does presents an arts and crafts fair, perfect for picking up a Mother's Day gift for your mom, someone else's mom, someone you wish was your mom, or someone you wish was someone else's mom.

9 am-3 pm, free

FILM GIRLS NIGHT OUT FILM SERIES: STEEL MAGNOLIAS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Check out the 1989 ultimate girl-gang movie about ladyfriends in Louisiana. Boys are totally invited, by the way; good taste does not discriminate by gender.

8 pm, $8-$10

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ALTO STREET Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Folk-pop.

6 pm, free CW AYON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A one-man blues band up on the deck.

3 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 A musical respite from the outside world.

6 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Country-tinged folk songs.

6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards on piano: Doug starts, Greg is up at 8 pm.

6 pm, free EDDIE MONEY Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 Apparently, two tickets to paradise will get you to Pojoaque and cost you $70$90.

8 pm, $35-$45 HALF BROKE HORSES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Americana ‘n’ honky-tonk.

6 pm, free

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HIGH ON THE HOG Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Boris McCutcheon and Bard Edrington play Americana.

8:30 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

9-11 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluegrass.

1 pm, free MAX MANZANARES AND BERT DALTON Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Jazz.

6 pm, $2 MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free MOZART AND FRIENDS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Santa Fe Pro Musica presents works by Mozart, Stravinsky and Missy Mazzoli. Get to the Lensic one hour early for a pre-concert talk with Music Director Thomas O’Connor and conductor David Felberg.

4 pm, $20-$80 NOSOTROS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Latin jammers.

10 pm, $7 ORNETC. El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Funky jazz.

7:30 pm, free PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free PERFECT STRANGR Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 Country 'n' Western.

8:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 You know the drill. Today’s suggestion from SFR: Something by some California jerk-rockers. Carry a longboard. No one will hate you, we promise.

8:30 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country and rock 'n' roll made for dancin’.

8 pm, free

SKERRICK AND THE IMPERIAL ROOSTER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Gonzo roots and rock 'n' roll.

8 pm, free SOUL FOUNDATION Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Classic rock, R&B and Latin jazz.

10 pm, free

OPERA MET LIVE IN HD: CENDRILLON Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Massenet's operatic take on a storybook classic (Cinderella, that is).

11 am, $20-$28 OPERA BREAKFAST SERIES: MASSENET'S CENDRILLON Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Lecturer Desirée Mays discusses Massenet's Cendrillon, scheduled for broadcast at the Lensic at 11 am.

9 am, $5

THEATER THE PASSION OF ETHEL ROSENBERG Studio Center of Santa Fe 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Edward Morris’ one-woman play, performed by maven Talia Pura, is based largely on actual letters exchanged in prison between Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, famously executed for espionage in 1953. It also traces her transition from an aspiring and talented singer to a fervent political activist and focuses on a love for her husband so passionate that she unhesitatingly followed him to the electric chair.

2 pm and 7:30 pm, $15-$25 SPEAK WHAT WE FEEL: KING LEAR WORKSHOP Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Upstart Crows presents 23 Shakespearean actors, aged 10-18, who take multiple roles in a performance of scenes from King Lear.

7 pm, $10 WILD Santa Fe Performing Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-7992 Inspired by Where the Wild Things Are, SFPA's student performers have created an original poignant and comedic story. Get in for $5 if you dress up like a Wild Thing.

2 pm, $8 WATER Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Head to IAIA's new black box theater for an original performance about threatened rivers.

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Trojan Clothes Horse Designer Patricia Michaels poised to return to TV

BY C H A R LOT T E J U S I N S K I c o p y e d i t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

W

hen she was in second grade, Patricia Michaels imagined being a famous fashion designer. “I was picturing my gowns going down the slide,” she says, making a swishing sound, mimicking billowing fabric with her arms.

Growing up on Canyon Road in Santa Fe in the 1970s, she loved the galleries full of expensive paintings, but knew she needed to find a niche in order to hobnob with the art world elite. “I felt like Canyon Road had to change; that they had to know that Native Americans were sophisticated, fabulous and fun people,” she says. “And I was going to address the most shallow consumer out there: people who loved fashion, because half of them only follow trends. I was going to create a trend, and they were going to wear something that had meaning behind it.”

Like a Trojan horse, Michaels sought to bring a Native American aesthetic to the mainstream.

Thus sparked Michaels’ foray into the world of clothing and fabric design, which brought her to a formal education at the Art Institute of Chicago and a 2012 stint on Project Runway, the addictive elimination-based competition reality show (on which she was first runner-up, and also appeared on the All Stars season in 2014). As CEO of her company (pmwaterlilyfashion.com), she has studios in Santa Fe and Taos, designed linens last year for Akin Home (akinhome.com), and is constantly creating new work.

This Friday marks a fashion show featuring her Spring 2018 designs, as ever bold but feminine. Draped hand-painted silk and chiffon turn models into walking

canvases of organic and geometric forms; the garments function as clothing and paintings both. All designs, too, have ties to Michaels’ Taos Pueblo heritage.

Michaels draws a lot of her inspiration from nature and from the inherent forward-thinking fashion mindset of Native people; she’s quick to remind us that, when Europeans brought beads and ribbon to the Americas, they were brandnew materials at the time. That didn’t stop Indigenous people from making quick work of integrating them into traditional garments; Michaels asserts, too, that Native looks are still chic—someone in a pre-Columbian garment still can look fly as hell. “What they did was so brilliant,” she says of her ancestors, “and [Native fashion] is the longest run of fashion and style in history.”

Her ethereal hand-painted designs, then, are faintly reminiscent of antlers, have a visual texture like tree bark, wisp across the body like feathers; but they’re not a costume. “You don’t want [someone who’s non-Native] to look like they’re trying to emulate being Native. That’s also been my goal. … I wanted to make something that was modern and contemporary. But, that being said, most of my stuff, you have to have balls to wear it. Don’t be afraid of making a statement.”

Michaels’ latest designs are on display this Friday at SITE Santa Fe. The event,

I was going to create a trend, and they were going to wear something that had meaning behind it.

-Patricia Michaels, fashion designer

which features hors d’ouveres and cocktails, is also a fundraiser for a new venture from local producer Catherine Lynch and Boldly Untitled Productions—an unscripted show, Patricia + James, based on Michaels’ life in New Mexico and the way in which she exists in multiple centuries at once—alternately designing silk gowns and building an adobe house by hand.

At the event, a trailer for the pilot of the

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Patricia Michaels prepares for Friday’s fashion show in her Santa Fe studio.

show gives a taste of what’s to come.

Lynch, who has a background in film production and theater, happens to be friends with Michaels’ son Gabriel Abeyta; she conceived of the idea while simply hanging out with the family. The contrast of Michaels’ high-fashion sensibilities with the hearty Northern New Mexico Puebloan lifestyle she lives with her partner James Duran, and the deep love they have for their families and their community, inspired Lynch to get the camera rolling.

“I want Santa Fe and Taos to be a character in the series … but I’m not really trying to do anything to prove to an audience what Native American culture is,” Lynch says.

“I’m trying to showcase a beautiful family.”

One story they tell, in particular, involves Duran bursting into the studio upon returning from a hunting trip; he needs Michaels’ help getting the animal. “I’ll leave all my beautiful silk and chiffon and I’ll get my snow boots and my big old jacket,” Michaels says, “and before you know it I’m in the deep snow in the mountains, helping them pull out a deer or an elk or something.”

Conversely, Michaels says, she gets Duran to help her days before a big fashion show. “He’s all, ‘Don’t tell me to do

any small work, because my hands are too big. My thumbs are too big,’” Michaels says, laughing. “And I’m all, ‘But if you can thread all these needles, because I’m gonna need all this hand sewing done.’ So he’ll thread, like, 12 needles for me.” (She always tells him it’s “just one more” needle, 200 needles later.)

If all goes according to plan, after the fundraiser, Lynch and Abeyta will take the concept of Patricia + James and its pilot episode to Los Angeles to pitch it to networks. Santa Fe gets a glimpse of Michaels’ aesthetic on Friday at SITE, and the event will be filmed for the series to highlight Michaels in her element. She’s joined by up-and-coming Native designers Orlando Dugi, Loren Aragon and Violet Dawn Ahmie.

The budding series is exciting—but the clothes, as ever, remain the focus. In her daily life in Taos Pueblo, Michaels says, “there will be those moments [in nature] where you stop, and you’re in this euphoria, and you’re in that moment—how do I put this in a capsule and take to my studio and add water and dye and thread and cuts and everything and it becomes a garment? It just magically does.”

PATRICIA MICHAELS & FRIENDS SPRING 2018 SHOW 7 pm Friday April 27. $25. SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199; tickets at patriciamichaels.bpt.me

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SUNDAY 4/29 Friends of the LibraryTrivia Smackdown 3-5 PM

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FIXIT CLINIC MAKE Santa Fe Studios 2879 All Trades Road, 819-3502 Is something in your house busted, and you want to fix it—but aren't sure how?

The Fixit Clinic is an all-ages, do-it-together activity where people bring their broken household things and learn how to assess, disassemble and hopefully repair them instead of sending them to the landfill.

1-4 pm, free MARCELLA KROLL: CUTTING THE CORD 101 The Ark 133 Romero St., 988-3709 Cut out the stuff that is weighing you down. Kroll helps you let go of what is not serving you anymore and to lighten your spirit in a twohour workshop.

6 pm, $25 NATIVE BEE BASICS Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road, 983-4609 The Santa Fe Master Gardener Association presents a workshop on building bee houses and selecting plants that attract residents. Head to the Audubon Center's education classroom.

10 am-noon, free TELLING YOUR TRUTH: MEMOIR WRITING The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N. St Francis Dr. As part of the New Mexico Press Women Conference, catch a workshop on telling your story. Instructor Lauren Camp works in the confluence of sound, psychology and language.

2:45-4:15 pm, $25

GRAND OPENING Belle of the West Gallery 2860 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 471-4966 Proprietor Susan Fischer invites the public to hobnob with the 30-plus artists that make up her new gallery.

From gourd art and stone sculpture to oil paintings and sterling jewelry, there's something for everyone.

2-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE EDUCATION OF A JICARILLA APACHE CHIEF’S FAMILY Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 A panel comprising six of the seven children of Albert Velarde Jr. from the Jicarilla Apache Nation. They discuss their college experiences from their perspectives, then host a question and answer session with plenty of time for queries from the audience.

1-3 pm, free

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CAROL MOLDAW op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Critically acclaimed poet and Santa Fe resident Carol Moldaw presents her newest collection of poetry, Beauty Refracted.

2 pm, free JORDAN WOLFE: LIMBO BY BERNARD WOLFE Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Jordan Wolfe discusses her father Bernard’s first science fiction novel.

4 pm, $10-$18 JOURNEYSANTAFE: PAT LONGMIRE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Longmire is the principal aqueous geochemist at the New Mexico Environment Department.

11 am, free YOUNG ADULT BOOK CLUB: THE WRATH AND THE DAWN Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Teens are invited to discuss the book by Renee Ahdieh.

4 pm, free

DANCE DREAMING OF CADIZ FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 St Francis Drive, 992-5800 A show from the renowned EmiArte Flamenco company, plus silent auctions before and after the performance, is a fundraiser for Flamenco Youth de Santa Fe. 2 pm, $10-$25 FLAMENCO FIESTA: CARMEN LA GOLONDRINA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Through music and flamenco dance, learn the story of his grandmother, Carmen La Golondrina, who had a gypsy cave in Spain.

6 pm, $25-$30

EVENTS CIRCASPIRE: GLOW UP Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Rd. Suite B, 992-2588 Wise Fool's annual pre-professional circus spectacular is back at it again.

4 pm, $5-$20 FULL MOON WATER WHEEL CEREMONY Frenchy's Field Osage Ave. and Agua Fría St. Pray for moisture, bless the waters and offer up items for blessings and in hopes of heavy rains.

6 pm, free FUSATSU: BUDDHIST CEREMONY OF ATONEMENT Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Ritual chanting is accompanied by the ringing of bells.

5:30 pm, free

MEDITATION & MODERN BUDDHISM: A BETTER, HAPPIER YOU Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Take a deeper look into your attitudes with Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Inchug.

10:30 am-noon, $10

MUSIC BORIS AND FRIENDS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana from Boris McCutcheon and his crew.

Noon, free CHRISTIAN VINCENT La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Classical and flamenco guitar.

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

6:30 pm, free JULIE PRICE & HOWARD HALL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues.

8 pm, free KEY FRANCES BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck.

3 pm, free MOZART AND FRIENDS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Santa Fe Pro Musica presents guest conductor David Felberg and acclaimed pianist Benjamin Hochman; also, get to the Lensic one hour early for a pre-concert talk with Music Director Thomas O’Connor and Felberg.

3 pm, $20-$80 NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted takes on Latin music.

7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A jazzy duo.

7 pm, free ZIGTEBRA Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Bright and spooky lo-fi indie pop all the way from Chicago.

9 pm, free

THEATER SPEAK WHAT WE FEEL: KING LEAR WORKSHOP Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 The troupe Upstart Crows presents 23 Shakespearean actors, aged 10-18, who take multiple roles in a performance of scenes from King Lear. The cast has been exploring the play in workshop format since February.

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THE PASSION OF ETHEL ROSENBERG Studio Center of Santa Fe 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Edward Morris’ one-woman play, performed by maven Talia Pura, is based largely on actual letters exchanged in prison between Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

2 pm, $15-$25 WILD Santa Fe Performing Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-7992 Inspired by Where the Wild Things Are, SFPA's student performers presebr an original story. Get in for $5 if you dress up like a Wild Thing.

2 pm, $8

MON/30 BOOKS/LECTURES LIGHTNING STRIKES: ROCK ART AND THE INDIGENOUS WORLD VIEW Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 A lecture by John Pitts, research associate at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

6 pm, $15

EVENTS SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group for group activism.

7 pm, free THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 699-6922 Have you been itching to start singing again? The local choral group invites anyone who can carry a tune to its weekly rehearsals.

6:30-8 pm, free

MUSIC A STARRY NIGHT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 In a benefit for arts and music programs, Santa Fe Public Schools presents performances by 200 students, all inspired by the paintings of Van Gogh.

6:30 pm, $10-$25 BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana from a Santa Fe legend.

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Today’s reco: “Ring of Fire.”

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards and pop on piano; Young joins on violin.

6:30 pm, free

MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 DJ Sato spins some chill jams.

10 pm, free METAL MONDAY The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 DJ Lady Strange spins hard rock and heavy metal on vinyl.

9 pm, free

WORKSHOP INDEX: INFORMATION FOR STARTUPS Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Representatives from the Santa Fe Business Incubator meet one-on-one with interested community members in 30-minute individual sessions. For info, contact the SFBI at 424-1140 or soshea@ sfbi.net.

5-7 pm, free

TUE/1 BOOKS/LECTURES GARDENING IN YOUR GOLDEN YEARS: HOW TO OVERCOME PHYSICAL ISSUES IN THE GARDEN Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Feeling the aches and pains of being a gardener? Get strategies to help to minimize common physical woes and keep you in your garden.

1:30-3:30 pm, $15

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 HEALING HEARTS, BUILDING HOPE: MULTIFAITH SERVICE FOR IMMIGRATION JUSTICE San Isidro Catholic Church 3552 Agua Fría St., 471-0710 A bilingual multifaith healing service celebrates the inherent dignity, humanity and belovedness of immigrant communities living in Northern New Mexico, while also honoring the oppression that continues through a broken and unjust immigration system nationwide.

7 pm, free KATIE BESSER CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 At a celebration of new talent, Santa Fe Community College’s emerging writers showcase their work. More than a dozen writers representing the diverse community at SFCC will read from their winning works.

6 pm, free

METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A Buddhist gathering for people who are struggling with 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 Attendees are invited to bring up to five digital images or prints for peer review (see SFR Picks, page 21).

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.

Divide and conquer!

8:30 am, free WHAT’S BLOOMING TOUR Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Join Ken and Susan Bower in a walk on the paths through the orchard garden and Ojos y Manos to identify and describe the plants that are in full bloom.

9:30-11 am, $10 ¡VÁMONOS! SANTA FE: WALK WITH A DOC Santa Fe River Trail W Alameda Street and Placita de Oro The Santa Fe Walking Collaborative wants to help Santa Feans walk more, so do it with someone interesting.

Head to the Santa Fe River Trail to go for a stroll with Dr. Ken Stewart, a family medicine practitioner at the Southwest Care Center.

5:15-6:15 pm, free

Poetry of Kabir and Zen Explore the radical, powerful, and humorous poetry of ancient China, Japan and India.

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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 Fria St., 87507 Rock 'n' roll y más.

5-7 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Music and camaraderie.

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

7 pm, free DANIIL TRIFONOV Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Performance Santa Fe presents pianist Daniil Trifonov playing Bartók, John Adams, Copland and many more.

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Towering cottonwoods and lovely close landscaping lead diners over a bridge and onto a grassy lawn. On the heels of closing his culinary school downtown, chef Rocky Durham is spreading out with his quiet, kind cuisine. The kitchen has access to a farm operated on the spa’s sister property in Ojo Caliente, and Durham makes use of seasonal ingredients to build beautiful, healthy

plates. His desserts are also remarkable, yet there’s nothing too rich or fatty on the menu. Plus the chef includes tempting vegan options like the lunch menu’s Three Sister Tamales with white beans, English peas and mild red chile sauce ($15). Though dinner leads to stargazing and we love that, we recommend a lunch or brunch foray, followed by a soak in a private tub and a few minutes on a swing that hangs from a tree. No regrets. (JAG)

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How the West was Sold If imitation is the highest form of flattery, there is plenty of it to go around when it comes to local food

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t is a sad truth: Southwestern food in the national consciousness is stripped of everything that makes it special and unique. Part of this comes with the territory of operating a chain restaurant which, by its very nature, must offer food that is quick to make and universally palatable in order to sell. It is always broken down into the most standardized ingredients, so most people eating burritos at Chipotle across the country have no idea what one with New Mexican green chile might actually taste like.

Not that New Mexico in particular can claim to be the origin point of the burrito—it evolved in Mexico, out of the eating habits of the Mesoamerican people who wrapped beans and meat with corn tortillas as early as 10,000 BC. Now it is a staple food in Mexican, New Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine across the country. But it’s hard to deny the close connections between Mexican and New Mexican cuisine, and the options for the best possible iterations of foods that can’t exist in the same way anywhere else in the country.

It’s also hard to deny that since the 1980s, marketing a menu item as “Southwestern” inauthentically associates it with the great food traditions of this part of the country. Maybe that explains why many chain restaurants have trouble establishing themselves here; because the

local options are just too good. So, if you ever find yourself craving something that is undecidedly Santa Fe, as opposed to the bastardized corporate versions sold elsewhere, maybe these selections will offer some consolation.

Recently, Boathouse Beverages came out with a spiked seltzer water in prickly pear flavor. It is a faintly sweet, low-calorie concoction with a slight fruity flavoring. But there are plenty of quality prickly pear-flavored drinks floating around the area; for example, Marble Brewery recently came out with an excellent small-batch Prickly Pear Gose that sold out fairly quickly, although a new batch is in the works. The best choice for a local New Mexican prickly pear-flavored drink would be the Desert Wanderer ($10), a recipe from locally owned Santa Fe Spirits, available seasonally at the Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room (308 Read St., 780-5906). It’s a drink made with their Wheeler’s Western Dry Gin, orange-infused apple brandy and prickly pear juice.

Santa Fe Spirits frequently incorporates uniquely Southwestern flavors into their bottlings, such as how their Colkegan single-malt whiskey substitutes mesquite for peat to a powerfully successful effect. In fact, all of their small-batch cocktails at the tasting room are worth a try, although I wouldn’t recommend drinking through them all at once.

There is no Chipotle in Santa Fe, probably because the competition in this category is too stiff. It’s hard to narrow down just one place for burritos and tacos that reigns supreme, but with countless locations across the country, Chipotle has become synonymous with food thanks

in part to that the current selection of meat fillings including barbacoa, sofritas and carnitas. If multiple meat fillings are your thing, think Adelitas (3136 Cerrillos Road, 474-4897), which has one of the most varied selection of taco fillings in town. Barbacoa and carnitas are avail-

The taco salad at Valentina’s is layers of meat, green chile, beans and salad greens all wrapped up together in a crusty, lightly fried shell.

able by the pound for $16.50 and $15.50, respectively, and taco fillings include buche, lengua and tripas (those would be pork stomach, cow tongue and various livestock intestines), all for $9.95 a pound.

The menu is extensive and full of gems for the more adventurous eater, and though prices run a little more expensive than Chipotle (only by a few dollars) the experience is well worth the upgrade.

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bean “Mexican-inspired” salad has been ever-present. Try the taco salad at Valentina’s (945 W Alameda St, 988-7165), available with vegetables, chicken or beef ($11.25). For a little restaurant in the Solana Center next to a laundromat and a grocery store, Valentina’s cooks up some of the most enjoyable New Mexican and Mexican food in town. Owner Alberto Aboytes, originally from Querétaro, Mexico, offers options ranging from enchiladas and tortas to menudo and beyond, and the results are undeniably satisfying. While everything at Valentina’s is consistently delicious, if you’re looking for something that satisfies a Southwestern salad craving in all the right ways, you won’t be disappointed here. Bonus factors include some of the best green chile in Santa Fe and fresh sopaipillas for dessert.

I have no problem with Taco Bell in a pinch—like when the bills are due, or I need a quick fix late at night and there are no options anywhere else. Or even for no reason other than craving cheap, fast junk food. But their version of a chalupa borders on propaganda designed to trick the nation into thinking that a chalupa is a glorified taco.

There was even a Santa Fe Gordita option available at one point, which again speaks to the instant marketability of associating a menu option with our fair city. If you ever have the yearning to experience a fried mold of corn tortillas stuffed with meat or vegetable fillings, the chalupas ($13.25) at Mucho Gusto (839 Paseo De Peralta, 995-8402) scratch that itch admirably.

Unfortunately not nearly as cheap as Taco Bell’s, they are well worth springing for the extra cash for the right occasion. They come stuffed with veggies, creamed chicken or shredded pork, and even manage to satisfy some of the ever-present cravings for delicious junk food.

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DARRIN KOBETICH Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 The prolific guitarist's talents range from improv jazz freakout to skunkgrass to bluegrass 'n' rock, so he's bound to show us what he's made of when he visits from Fort Worth.

8 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND AL ROGERS Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards on piano: Doug starts, Al takes over at 8 pm.

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THE GARDEN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Californian twin brothers Fletcher and Wyatt Shears create energetic, aggressive and off-the-wall “vada vada”—that’s a genre they named themselves that generally falls into the fast punk drum-and-bass world.

7 pm, $18 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free

SFCC SPRING CHORAL CONCERT Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Head to the Jemez Rooms on SFCC's campus for a concert featuring folk songs from the US and Wales, music by Benjamin Britten and the New Mexico State Song.

6 pm, free VINTAGE VINYL NIGHT The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 DJs spin the best in garage, surf, country and rockabilly.

8:30 pm, free

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Celebrating 40 years as Santa Fe’s source for all things literary TUESDAY, MAY 1 6PM

TUESDAY, MAY 15

Santa Fe Community College Katie Besser Writing Awards - students read their works

An Evening with LAMBDA Award Finalists – local Santa Fe authors, Ariel Gore (We Were Witches), Hida Viloria (Born Both), and Candace Walsh (Greetings From Janeland)

THURSDAY, MAY 3

Josh Wheeler, Acid West

THURSDAY, MAY 17

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 6PM

Mary Morris (author), Gateway to the Moon

SANTA FE OPERA SPOTLIGHT SERIES:

FRIDAY, MAY 18 6:00PM

Lecturer, Oliver Prezant, Funny Music (Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri.)

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SANTA FE OPERA SPOTLIGHT SERIES:

Lecturer, Oliver Prezant, Comedy Meets Drama, Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos

MONDAY, MAY 7 AND TUESDAY, MAY 8

Readings by Creative Writing December 2018 Graduating Seniors from Santa Fe University of Art and Design (SFUAD)

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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Journey to Center: New Mexico Watercolors by Sam Scott. Through Nov. 1.

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We really weren’t expecting much. But for the same reason that tens of thousands of diehard fans flocked to the eighth Star Wars movie or the decades-later sequel to Blade Runner, we were kind of excited about Super Troopers 2.

Yes, we laughed when the opening scene showed a bus getting tailed by a car with bubblegum lights—even before a single glimpse of the old gang of goofy highway patrol officers—and yes, the laughs kept coming. But the groans came too. Along with sneak peeks at the phone to see how much longer it would last.

The drug-smuggling plot of the long-awaited sequel closely mirrored the first Troopers flick from Broken Lizard in 2001, only this time it stars unidentified pills rather than bricks of weed. And instead of infighting between city and county cops, this one was about a turf war between Canadian Mounties and US patrolmen. It’s also more than remarkable that the same core cast of char-

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acters came through for continuity—though an insane multimillion-dollar crowdfunding campaign is mostly responsible for that.

Yet, it’s disappointing the jokes are pretty much the same, too. Right down to the liter’a cola. Everybody still hates Farva, and this time the schtick from Kevin Heffernan saves the show; the script from writer-director-actor Jay Chandrasekhar doesn’t give any of the other characters much to remember. Chandreskhar’s amazing mustache as patrolman Thorny just isn’t enough this time to make him the fan favorite. And his main storyline is full of annoying sexist tropes.

We loved the idea that Linda Carter would make an appearance, but her actual performance

is wonderless. Thank goodness, then, that Rob Lowe’s bigger role as the mayor of a Canadian town is sharp and funny.

This movie is mostly worth seeing for the nostalgia. And we’re sure we know some people who will quote it over shots for the next 17 years, too.

SUPER TROOPERS 2 Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar with Chandrasekhar, Heffernan, Carter and Lowe Regal, Violet Crown, R, 103 min.

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Amy Schumer continues with her oh-so-cool-girl shtick in I Feel Pretty, a nominally funny twist on the Big/Freaky Friday-esque formula wherein a young woman named Renee (Schumer) injures her head, which somehow causes her to see herself as super good-looking while the rest of the world still perceives her as the perfectly normal, actuallyprobably-a-little-bit-more-attractive-than-mostpeople person she is.

Seems Renee’s wildest dreams have been to attain unapproachable beauty. Dating’s been rough, but her “normie” friends (a dimensionless Busy Philipps of Freaks and Geeks and the ultracharming and tragically underused Aidy Bryant) have stood by her despite how she’s not a supermodel.

What good people they must be!

Anyway, once Renee thinks she’s beautiful, her confidence skyrockets, landing her a cushy job at the makeup company where she works and a dorky-hot boyfriend named Ethan (Rory Scovel) with absolutely no character development whatsoever outside of a singular line about how he wants to be a cameraman.

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winning personality tricks him into falling in love. The gorgeous family that helms the makeup empire also gives her a chance, though in a kind of mean-spirited way and more because they’re launching a line aimed at women who shop at Target (y’know, who are apparently hideous and poor).

Of course, though, she sustains another blow to the head, sees herself regularly again and we’re given a final act wherein she realizes the real problem was probably hers. Sacre bleu! But of course she was gonna learn to love herself. Obviously. What more adequately sums up film’s problems is that almost anyone who interacts with Renee is, like, flabbergasted that she’d find herself attractive and isn’t afraid to show it. And then they don’t learn anything or change their ways. In fact, it seems they’re really only psyched on her because she knows just how to market to everyday makeup consumers. Ugh. From there on out, it’s a beyond-predictable happy ending with a 40-second speech from Renee about how people really should be nicer to each other. OK, so there’s obviously truth to that, and Michelle Williams is actually pretty funny as the CEO of the makeup empire. It’s just that everyone else is so horrible, the jokes are so stale and the themes at play are so under-analyzed that one can’t help but wonder what the point was. Stop judging people? Cool. Thanks, I guess. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 110 min.

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OK, hear me out: Rampage, based on the ’80s arcade game of the same name, ain’t that bad.

Oh, it’s dumb alright, no question, from beginning to end. But at its core you’ll basically find an overthe-top Godzilla-like movie—and there’s nothing wrong with that, at least not in the summertime blockbuster sense.

Dwayne Johnson is Davis Okoye, a soldier-turned-primatologist for the San Diego Zoo. Davis doesn’t much care for people because of something-or-other about poachers he used to hunt for the Army in his previous life (morality!), but he totally gets along with his albino gorilla pal George (friendship!), possibly because George knows ASL and has a weird sense of humor (complexity!), possibly because Johnson is not entirely unlike a gorilla himself (muscles!). Either way, it’s bad news when a black ops science project carried out in space (not kidding) crash lands to Earth, transforming George into a towering behemoth of an ape with rage issues who—get this—goes on a total rampage across heartland America and Chicago.

Elsewhere, other fallout from the space-based experiments winds up mutating a wolf and a crocodile. They also rampage, with their particular mutations providing them with super powers, like flight or spikes they can shoot out of their bodies or super speed; George, meanwhile, just gets huge. What a ripoff.

Turns out the culprit is some mega-corp run by an evil sister-brother team (Watchmen’s Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy of The Office), who both suck so hard in this movie it’s particularly notable.

Lucky, though, a beautiful geneticist named Kate (Naomie Harris) who was tricked into developing the rampage-inducing experiment (which was in space, remember) teams up with Johnson to stop the, um, rampaging. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) also appears as some shadowy government operative, but his role is literally just him saying stuff like “whirlybird” and “grandpappy” and “this old cowboy” while The Rock is busy asking monsters if they can smell what he’s cooking. You bet your ass they can.

Explosions ensue. Everyone runs places.

Helicopters are flown, guns are fired and, like the game itself, buildings are punched into piles of rubble. And then, in a way that isn’t so much subtext as it is a tacked-on, barely-there sentiment, we get the idea that humans don’t always treat animals very nicely. We probably should, lest we become victims of a rampage.

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Giant gun in hand, The Rock carefully navigates the wreckage of a once-beautiful city in search of his prestine original 1995 Bowflex workout device. Heads are gonna roll in Rampage. see gigantic beasts tear shit up. Rampage, if you will. (ADV) Note: Rampage also comes in 3-D, though SFR saw the standard version.

Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 107 min.

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John Krasinski dons his writer, director and actor caps for A Quiet Place, a sort of hybrid horror/sci-fi flick set in post-apocalyptia that finds a man and his family forced into constant silence to stay alive. Mysterious creatures have appeared in Farmland, USA, and seeing as they’re blind, they navigate and hunt by sound— kind of like bats, only not adorable. Krasinski’s clan thus adopts a million neat survival tricks to stay ahead of the game. It’s a simple but smart idea, from the clever pathways laid with sand to the series of color-changing lightbulbs strung up around the farm to soundlessly warn of imminent danger.

Krasinski plumbs surprisingly moving emotional depths as a father facing loss who must also prepare his kids for the new world order. Ditto for Emily Blunt, also his real-world wife, who conveys terror sans dialogue in very meaningful and downright stressful ways. The children (Noah Jupe, Suburbicon, and Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck) are another story

altogether, both in terms of the hammy expressions they lean into and the annoying plot lines with which they’re saddled.

Jupe is fine as the token “I’m a-scared!” kid, but Simmonds is particularly bothersome as a melodramatic pre-teen who is deaf (handy, though, since the entire family knows sign language because of it) and definitely blames herself for the film’s harrowing opening sequence. While believable that a young girl would be defiant and moody and self-absorbed, it feels false that she would prioritize these feelings over, say, continuing to breathe. Regardless, both Krasinski and Blunt nail the family dynamic, demonstrating just how far a parent would go to protect their brood.

The creature, meanwhile, is the true star of A Quiet Place—a spookily designed monstrosity that harks back to creature-feature horror while asserting its own identity, even if it does owe a debt of gratitude to movie monsters from classics like Alien and Predator. Krasinski and company must be commended for keeping the monster under wraps in the trailers, and trust us—it’s definitely scary.

Still, the ultimate resolution isn’t quite as satisfying as it could be, and the no-sound shtick comes perilously close to outstaying its welcome, even if it is relatively inventive. As far as simple, atmospheric horror goes, though, you could do a hell of a lot worse than A Quiet Place. Just be prepared for them jump-scares. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 90 min.

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Wes Anderson’s shtick can come across as cutesy or far too awash in pastel precociousness. However, his stop-motion features—such as 2009’s Fantastic Mr. Fox—don’t succumb to this problem, at least not in the same ways. Cue Isle of Dogs, Anderson’s newest animated effort and one of the most clever and entertaining films of the year.

In the not-too-distant future, the Japanese city of Megasaki is overrun with dog flu, an affliction that has made its way to the vast majority of canines, which results in the mayor decreeing every last one be sent to Trash Island, an offshore trash dumping ground otherwise lost to natural disasters.

Most of the city’s denizens have been brainwashed by propaganda, save the idealistic students of a local high school’s newspaper and the mayor’s young nephew Atari (Koyu Rankin), who sets off in search of his own dog Spots who was marooned on the island some months ago. There, formerly domesticated dogs, show dogs, stray dogs and mutts eke out a bleak existence, fighting over trash scraps and contaminated water, all while pining for their former lives and loves. Favorite meals are remembered, cushy living situations are recounted and the desperately formed packs observe primitive democracies, unable to choose a singular alpha.

Perhaps the greatest moment of Isle of Dogs comes with the realization that the dogs are far more human than those who’ve placed them on Trash Island. Stellar voice work from Ed Norton, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray and Bob Balaban truly sells the concept, but Bryan Cranston as Chief is untouchable. Cranston’s ability to sell proud-yetbroken with just his voice speaks volumes about his acting skills, though the design of the dogs is also brilliant, right down to the way their fur blows in the wind. Trash Island itself is smartly designed, conveying utter loneliness despite a population that consistently reveals itself across varying locales such as an abandoned amusement park, an overgrown golf course and the barren coast.

Only the dogs speak English and, other than a few scenes with interpreters, the Japanese dialogue is not subtitled. This is a genius move, as we can use context to derive meaning without being led by the hand and it preserves the dogs as the story’s true heroes.

We fall in love with Cranston’s Chief and root tirelessly for Atari, all while culturally impactful and tactfully represented moments highlight Japan’s art, food and daily life with subtlety and grace.

It might be too soon to say this is the best film of the year, but Isle of Dogs is a strong contender and should not be missed under any circumstances. (ADV) Violet Crown, PG-13, 111 min.

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For nerds, it’s going to be hard to not feel personally attacked, capitalized upon or made fun of by the next-level pandering at play in Spielberg’s Ready Player One, adapted from the Ernest Cline novel of the same name. Somehow, though, among the literally countless Easter eggs and cutesy reminders of the nerd properties loved by children and (as the film beats us over the head with) supposedly stunted adults, lies one of the finest uses of CGI in modern film bogged down by a simplistic paint-by-numbers story about how love was the real treasure the whole time.

In futuristic Ohio—which is somehow the most advanced place on the planet— young Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan, X-Men Apocalypse) lives out his Charlie Bucket-esque existence by escaping into the OASIS, a bonkers virtual reality world created by a couple of nerds who are, respectively, dead and missing. One such nerd (the dead one) announced there was a secret game within the game upon his death, the winner of which would take over the OASIS and be so totally super-rich it’s nuts.

Thus, Wade—who goes by Parzival online—and the other Gunters (a term that sounds filthy as fuck, but simply applies to Easter egg hunters and players of said secret game) spend their days searching for clues. Of course, over the years since the creator’s death, no one has found anything—until now, when everybody starts finding everything all the damn time, thrusting Wade into a shadow war with the IOI, a shady company that wants control of the OASIS for itself.

The rest plays out like a combination of Willy Wonka and a fashion nerd’s wet dream as licensing from dozens of gaming, film, music and toy properties pops up everywhere. At all times. Relentlessly.

Sheridan is A-OK as the young Wade though, since we mostly spend time with his anime-like avatar, we never really get a feel for him. Same goes for the clan (a gaming term; Google it) he reluctantly joins, which includes flat performances from no-name kids and Master of None star/scribe Lena Waithe. No matter, though, since their dialogue is generally a bunch of pap about how hard their lives have been and/or references to nerd stuff. Wade’s love interest, Art3mis (Olivia Cooke, Bates Motel), is just fine as well, though we’ll hand it to her for being a mostly strong character with clear-cut motivations of her own … y’know, outside of Wade.

Yes, Ready Player One looks incredible, and yes, those of a certain age will feel that pang of nostalgia when they see characters from Gundam, Godzilla, Halo, Overwatch or The Iron Giant doing crazy crap to hit songs of the 1980s while toys like Madballs or things like Monty Python’s Holy Hand Grenade pop up.

But when certain nerds are diluted into clumsy-with-women, gaming-obsessed and antisocial weirdos who shit on their friends for having dared to miss out on any pop culture reference whatsoever, one can’t help but feel Cline, and by extension, Spielberg, have a fairly narrow, mainstream view of the culture.

Methinks Cline wanted to convey Wade (or himself) heroically, when he’s really just onedimensional at best.

Ah well, at least they gave one character a gun from Gears of War without making a big-ass deal out of it. And it’s pretty. The end. (ADV) Jean Cocteau Cinema, Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 140 min.

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Veep creator Armando Iannucci has certainly proven his affinity for dark and savvy political humor, but whereas his HBO program does occasionally provide redemptive moments for its seemingly heartless characters, his new feature film, The Death of Stalin—which may just be one of the darkest comedies ever made—doesn’t even bother.

We join the top brass of Russia circa 1953, a time when comrade Stalin’s lust for power made him paranoid and kill lists were the nightly norm. Here, his top men work hard at assuaging the man, staying up too late watching cowboy movies and enlisting their wives as sounding boards for what drunken banter plays well with their fearful leader. But when Stalin takes ill and the likes of Kruschev (Steve Buscemi), Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor) and Beria (Simon Russell Beale) enter a power vacuum, hilarity and all hell break loose, making for some of the most cringe-worthy and excellently funny writing we’ve ever seen.

Stalin ultimately proves a wild and capable farce, with powerful and self-absorbed yet pitiful and ridiculous men each attempting to grasp power before their colleagues. An early sequence that finds various Russian ministers forced to admit they’ve either imprisoned or killed their country’s best doctors, thereby making suitable aid for Stalin impossible, is particularly hysterical as each flounders to justify the absurd shape of things. Buscemi shines particularly in these moments, a bit of a toad whose story we all (of course) know, but a terrified boob grasping for self-preservation. Tambor wows as well, taking a more idiotic yet soft tack as Stalin’s deputy who maybe just wanted to fly under the radar but obviously can’t anymore.

And the madness grows and twists until we hate pretty much everyone even as we might understand how they created such dire straits for themselves. All the while, Iannucci’s keen sensibilities throttle the movie forward, rarely taking a beat and relentlessly bringing the laughs. Will you feel guilty for some of the things you find funny? Absolutely. But so enjoyably you won’t much care. Do not miss this movie. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, R, 107 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Imagine you’re one of four porcupines caught in frigid weather. To keep warm, you all have the urge to huddle together and pool your body heat. But whenever you try to get close, you prick each other with your quills. The only solution to that problem is to move away from each other, even though it means you can’t quell your chill as well. This scenario was used by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as a parable for the human dilemma. We want to be intimate with each other, Freud said, but we hurt each other when we try. The oft-chosen solution is to be partially intimate: not as close as we would like to be, but only as much as we can bear. Now everything I just said, Aries, is a preface for better news: In the coming weeks, neither your own quills nor those of the people you care about will be as sharp or as long as usual.

be a favorable time to build up your hunger for vivid adventures and bring your fantasies at least one step closer to becoming concrete realities. Whisper the following to yourself as you drop off to sleep each night: “I will allow myself to think bigger and bolder than usual.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Simpsons is the longest-running American TV sitcom and animated series.

But it had a rough start. In the fall of 1989, when producers staged a private pre-release screening of the first episode, they realized the animation was mediocre. They worked hard to redo it, replacing 70 percent of the original content. After that slow start, the process got easier and the results got better. When the program completes its thirtieth season in 2019, it will have aired 669 episodes. I don’t know if your own burgeoning project will ultimately have as enduring a presence, Taurus, but I’m pretty sure that, like The Simpsons, it will eventually become better than it is in the early going. Stick with it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks might be an interesting time to resurrect a frustrated dream you abandoned in a wasteland; or rescue and restore a moldering treasure you stopped taking care of a while back; or revive a faltering commitment you’ve been ignoring for reasons that aren’t very high-minded. Is there a secret joy you’ve been denying yourself without good cause? Renew your relationship with it. Is there a rough prize you received before you were ready to make smart use of it? Maybe you’re finally ready. Are you brave enough to dismantle a bad habit that hampers your self-mastery? I suspect you are.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The bad news is that 60 percent of Nevada’s Lake Mead has dried up. The good news—at least for historians, tourists, and hikers—is that the Old West town of St. Thomas has reemerged. It had sunk beneath the water in 1936, when the government built the dam that created the lake.

But as the lake has shrunk in recent years, old buildings and roads have reappeared. I foresee a comparable resurfacing in your life, Libra: the return of a lost resource or vanished possibility or departed influence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope the next seven weeks will be a time of renaissance for your most engaging alliances. The astrological omens suggest it can be.

Would you like to take advantage of this cosmic invitation? If so, try the following strategies. 1. Arrange for you and each of your close companions to relive the time when you first met. Recall and revitalize the dispensation that originally brought you together. 2. Talk about the influences you’ve had on each other and the ways your relationship has evolved. 3. Fantasize about the inspirations and help you’d like to offer each other in the future. 4. Brainstorm about the benefits your connection has provided and will provide for the rest of the world.

astrological opinion, you need to deepen and refine your skills at lounging around and doing nothing. The cosmic omens strongly and loudly and energetically suggest that you should be soft and quiet and placid. It’s time for you to recharge your psychospiritual batteries as you dream up new approaches to making love, making money, and making sweet nonsense. Please say a demure “no, thanks” to the strident demands of the status quo, my dear. Trust the stars in your own eyes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I believe it’s a favorable time for you to add a new mentor to your entourage. If you don’t have a mentor, go exploring until you find VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You sometimes get supersti- one. In the next five weeks, you might even consider mustering a host of fresh teachers, guides, trainers, tious when life is going well. You worry about growing coaches, and initiators. My reading of the astrological overconfident. You’re afraid that if you enjoy yourself too omens suggests that you’re primed to learn twice as much, you will anger the gods and jinx your good fortune. much and twice as fast about every subject that will be Is any of that noise clouding your mood these days? I important for you during the next two years. Your hope not; it shouldn’t be. The truth, as I see it, is that your future educational needs require your full attention. intuition is extra-strong and your decision-making is Homework: Choose two ancestors with whom you’d especially adroit. More luck than usual is flowing in your vicinity, and you have an enhanced knack for capitalizing like to have closer relationships. Contact their spirits in your dreams. Testify at Freewillastrology.com. on it. In my estimation, therefore, the coming weeks will

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Simone de Beauvoir was a French feminist and activist.

In her book A Transatlantic Love Affair, she made a surprising confession: Thanks to the assistance of a new CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Hollywood film industry lover, Nelson Algren, she finally had her first orgasm at relies heavily on recycled ideas. In 2014, for example, only age 39. Better late than never, right? I suspect that you, one of the ten top-grossing movies—Interstellar—was not too, are currently a good candidate to be transported to a sequel, remake, reboot, or episode in a franchise. In the a higher octave of pleasure. Even if you’re an old pro at sexual climax, there may be a new level of bliss awaiting coming weeks and months, Cancerian, you’ll generate maximum health and wisdom for yourself by being more you in some other way. Ask for it! Seek it out! Solicit it! like Interstellar than like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Can you afford to hire Transformers: Age of Extinction, X-Men: Days of Future Past, someone to do your busy work for a while? If so, do it. If and the six other top-ten rehashes of 2014. Be original! not, see if you can avoid the busy work for a while. In my LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Long ago, in the land we now call Italy, humans regarded Mars as the divine protector of fields. He was the fertility god who ripened the food crops. Farmers said prayers to him before planting seeds, asking for his blessings. But as the Roman Empire arose, and warriors began to outnumber farmers, the deity who once served as a kind benefactor evolved into a militant champion, even a fierce and belligerent conqueror. In accordance with current astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to evolve in the opposite direction.

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COUNTY OF SANTA FE Amy Lashway, Personal FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Representative COURT c/o Barry Green IN THE MATTER OF A Law Office of Barry Green PETITION FOR CHANGE Suite 7 OF OF RUMALDO FRANCIS 200 West DeVargas Street GARCIA. Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-996 505/989-1834 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY No. 2018-0018 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Victor Lopez Herrera, DECEASED. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe, County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501.

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STEPHEN T. PACHECO, District Court Clerk By: Victoria Martinez Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Marcus Nicholas Garcia Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Maria Roberta Martinez Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-01231 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Maria Roberta Martinez will apply to the Honorable Gregory S. Shaffer, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m. on the 23rd day of May, 2018 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Maria Roberta Martinez to Roberta Martinez. STEPHEN T. PACHECO, District Court Clerk By: Leah Martinez Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Roberta Martinez Petitioner, Pro Se

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE D-101-CV-2018-01273 IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF HONEY WARD, aka STATE OF NEW MEXICO LENORE SUZANNE WARD, aka COUNTY OF SANTA FE L. SUZANNE HONEY WARD FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT HEARING ON CHANGE COURT IN THE MATTER OF OF NAME TAKE NOTICE A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF that in accordance with the NAME OF Marcus Nicholas provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 Garcia through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA Case No.: D-101-CV-2018-01189 1978, et seq. the Petitioner

Honey Ward will apply to the Honorable RAYMOND Z. ORTIZ, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m. on the 18th day of May, 2018 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Honey Ward, aka Lenore Suzanne Ward, aka L. Suzanne Honey Ward to Lenore Suzanne Honey Ward.

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