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PNM/AVANGRID Merger Brings More Than $300 million of Benefits to New Mexico
Total Rate Benefits of $94 million • $67 million in rate credits to PNM’s customers over a 3-year period after closing; • $10 million for residential customer arrearages forgiveness within 90 days of closing; • $2 million for providing electricity to new customers in remote areas; • $15 million for low-income energy efficiency. • The total economic development benefit has been estimated to have a value in excess of $200 million; • $15 million in contributions to economic development projects or programs in New Mexico over the 3 years following closing; • $12.5 million ($2.5 million/year for 5 years) for the benefit of impacted indigenous community groups in the Four Corners region; • $1 million in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) scholarships for the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County metropolitan area over the 2 years following closing; •
$1 million in funding for new apprenticeships in the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County metropolitan area;
• AVANGRID will extinguish PNMR’s $1 billion debt within 90 days of closing; • AVANGRID will provide park street lighting and complete construction of a substation in southeast Albuquerque; • AVANGRID will work with the New Mexico Attorney General to initiate an effective Minority- and Woman-Owned Business Procurement Program; • AVANGRID commits to have one or more affiliates (other than PNM) work with the Navajo Nation toward the development of one or more renewable energy and/or energy storage projects on Navajo Nation land of no less than 200 MW within 2 years of the closing of the Proposed Transaction. AVANGRID is committed to New Mexico.
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NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 NM DRILLING PERMITS SKYROCKET UNDER TRUMP 8 The drastic increase in permits comes at a time when climate science shows that new drilling and production should be winding down FORMER FENN’S FOR SALE 9 With Nedra Matteucci Galleries on the market, a diverse crowd of would-be buyers leaves the eminent property’s future uncertain SLUGGISH JUSTICE 11 Santa Fe defense attorneys and prosecutors grapple with lingering, pandemic-driven jury trial backlog COVER STORY 12
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NM Drilling Permits Skyrocketed Under Trump of leases that could keep drills spinning for years. Then, in June, a federal judge declared the pause illegal and called for lease sales to be restarted. This week, the Department of the Interior said it would resume the leasing program, pending an appeal. While purchasers must begin production on leases within 10 years, drilling permits represent more imminent oil and gas activity—they give operators two years to drill a well, with the possibility of a twoyear extension. According to the BLM records, 107 operators applied for permits in New Mexico in the past four years, with five of them far outstripping the rest. EOG Resources of Houston—already New Mexico’s largest oil and gas producer—has nearly 2,700 of those 10,000 applications either approved or pending approval. Devon Energy of Oklahoma City—the state’s second-largest oil and gas producer—is a distant second with a little more than 1,100 permits either approved or pending. When asked about EOG’s plans in New Mexico and its thoughts on settled climate science, Kimberly Ehmer, a company spokesperson, writes in an email: “We have been building a backlog of permits in
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the Delaware Basin [within the Permian] for a number of years primarily to provide flexibility for future development planning as our operations in the basin expand over time.” Cowan says that while some of the smaller producers on the list might be gambling on whether the market and their land will bring them money, EOG is not. “EOG over the years has been a leader as far as operating margins,” he says. “And the only way you get to have good operating margins is by selecting good rocks to drill and doing it cheaper than your peers.” Tom Zelenka, a petroleum engineer with the BLM state office in Santa Fe, says companies plan well in advance to have drilling permits lined up when leases approach their expiration dates. These permits cost about $11,000 a pop, and companies aren’t collecting them by accident. Companies like EOG and Devon are “not some prospector on the back of a mule with a pickaxe,” says Tom Singer, senior policy adviser at the Western Environmental Law Center. “They know where the good geology is. They’ve already bought it.” And it’s in the top oil-producing region in the country, the Permian Basin.
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ver the past four years, producers have applied for more than 10,000 permits to drill for oil and gas on federal land in New Mexico. Recent data provided to Capital & Main by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) shows that Applications for Permit to Drill slowly rose quarter by quarter from 2017 through the start of 2020, then more than doubled in the last half of the year. And just a few companies are behind the jump. “We’ve already locked in decades of warming and catastrophic climate change,” says Jesse Prentice-Dunn, policy director at the Center for Western Priorities. “And when these permits are drilled, we’re locking in decades more of it.” He calls the number of permits “pretty much an all-time high.” If the BLM approves all those permits, and companies use them within their four-year maximum time limits, it would increase the total number of active oil and gas wells in the state by roughly 20%—and that doesn’t count new wells on private, tribal or state lands. The likely result: a major increase in fossil fuel production and carbon emissions at a time when climate science clearly shows that any new drilling and production should instead be winding down. Trey Cowan, an oil and gas analyst with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, says the dramatic increase in permits is “basically piling on ahead of the worry that they won’t be able to get them anymore” in light of possible future climate and environmental restrictions. And they piled on in the closing months of the extraction-friendly Trump administration.
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Drilling rigs dot the Permian Basin between Carlsbad and Loving.
New Mexico also has a large, self-imposed role to play in monitoring and regulating the more than 53,000 active oil and gas wells already in the state. When she first came into office, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham pledged to reduce the state’s carbon footprint by 45% by 2030. According to a report commissioned by the state, those wells and their associated transport and production operations leaked or burned the equivalent of 60 million metric tons of CO2 in 2018—more than half of all greenhouse gases emitted in the state. State regulatory agencies have new and pending rules to cut emissions, but their full impact is years away. Adding another 10,000 or more wells to the state’s inventory before the monitoring rules are fully enforced could be a significant blow to the state’s emission reduction goals. Pending and recently enacted state Oil Conservation Division and Environment Department rules should protect New Mexico from any future oil and gas development problems, the agencies say. “New wells coming online must meet the strict requirements laid out in the natural gas capture rules, which prohibit routine venting and flaring, require 98% gas capture and additional reporting and monitoring through every step of the process,” they wrote. Singer is unconvinced that the rules are enough. For example, the 98% gas capture comes in 2026 following years of incremental increases. He also says the drilling permit bonanza should prod Lujan Grisham to further increase oversight. The Oil Conservation Division reviews all permits approved by the BLM. And while the state agency cannot revoke the permits, it can require additional conditions and restrictions. But the division’s staff is tiny: six people for the entire state, compared to 64 BLM employees checking applications in its Carlsbad office. Zelenka at the BLM says the agency tries to clear applications within 60 days— but like a pig in a python, the permit application binge at the end of 2020 created a massive backlog, with more than 3,300 applications still pending review. This story is republished from Capital & Main, a nonprofit that reports on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time.
Former Fenn’s For Sale
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With Nedra Matteucci Galleries on the market, a diverse crowd of would-be buyers leaves the eminent property’s future uncertain Nedra Matteucci next to a piece she says traveled all over Mexico before landing in the library
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hen Nedra Matteucci and her husband, Richard, purchased Forest Fenn’s property at the corner of Paseo de Peralta and Acequia Madre in 1988, they knew it would come with the Greek-style stone wall, bright tile work and quarter-acre pond. They did not anticipate that Fenn would leave two live alligators as a welcoming gift. “He said he would take them when he finished his new house, but they had grandchildren and his wife said, ‘No,’” Matteucci tells SFR, adding that her insurance company didn’t like the alligators in the public gallery. “We kept them though still, for a few years,” Matteucci continues, “I tried to get any zoo all around to take them, and it didn’t happen, nobody wanted them. So eventually they went back to Louisiana where they came from.” In place of the two alligators, Matteucci’s lively pond is now surrounded by an elephant, scores of bears, a spitting toad and two ducks. Though all the animals—apart from the ducks—are cast in bronze, the enclosed garden toes the line between high-end gallery and Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. While circumnavigating the pond, rattling off artists’ names and anecdotes about each piece, Matteucci tells SFR that it’s time to move on. “The timing’s right for us,” Matteucci says. “Forest created a wonderful space and I think that we added on with the sculpture garden and things, so it’s going to be a good home or office or whatever it’s going to be for someone.” Thirty-three years after Matteucci purchased the esteemed gallery from the late, infamous, treasure-hunt-creating
off her gallery. The library is connected to one of five guest houses that may be converted into and art-dealing Fenn, the ionic 2-acre a private residence. campus is up for sale again—listed for a cool $9.995 million. “It’s a jewel,” he says, adding that the person who wants to do a coffeehouse and “It’s just a very unique and beautiful space, I hope it stays open to the public to compound’s listing has piqued an abun- painting studio because the grounds are so dance of interest. beautiful.” use,” Matteucci says. With Acequia Madre water rights and Another possibility Bobolsky thought As potential art buyers and admirers wander through a doorway between these five individual homes in the heart of Santa interesting: a boutique assisted living comspaces, lingering between oil paintings of Fe’s east side, the property has attracted plex. And there are less attractive options: “Developers who want to make it into a aspens and amorphous marble women, potential buyers from all over. “We’ve had billionaires coming to look condominium project.” Matteucci recalls Fenn’s reaction when “And that would chop it up.” she created a passageway between the ri- at it for a private residence,” Bobolsky Though the sellers don’t have any stipparian-esque garden and the staunch ado- says. “We’ve had small tech firms from San Francisco for a campus...We’ve had one ulations for what the buyers do with the be gallery. compound, Bobolsky says that what“He was very upset when he saw ever comes of the property, he hopes me tearing the wall down to make a the new owners create “something door to go out from the gallery; he where it’s loved but they maintain told me I was going to ruin it,” she the integrity of the space, and they says. don’t squeeze it all out.” It took Fenn 10 years to forgive For Matteucci’s next moves, she her for knocking down the wall, but plans to focus her efforts on her othhe ultimately agreed it was the right er gallery, Morning Star, off Canyon call. Road, where she plans to expand Kevin Bobolsky, the property’s without all the overhead that comes realtor, says he’s been working with with the Acequia Madre property. the Matteuccis for decades, describTwenty-five years ago, Matteucci exing them as “class-act people” and plains, she bought the property be“preservationists.” He tells SFR the hind Morning Star with the idea of property is a steal. creating another sculpture garden. “We have priced it under $500 a She says she hopes to continue square foot,” Bobolsky says. “There’s the tradition of showing large piecover 20,000 square feet of adobe, aues—like Dan Ostermiller’s life-sized thentic Santa Fe architecture, and a animal sculptures—to the public, lot of the architecture has artisans transforming that space into, “not a or artists who have done turquoise baby Nedra Matteucci gallery, but a mosaic sinks, or frescos in the walls.” smaller gallery.” The whole property carries hisThis change comes as Matteucci torical significance, he says: “The hopes to continue her work, albeit detail in these buildings—there’s art on a smaller scale. By no means is built into the architecture.” she planning to retire: “I’m very Bobolsky mentions his last big Dan Ostermiller’s Rearing Elephant stands over 12 proud of that gallery and all my sale, the Cerro Pelon Ranch, was feet tall, spouting water—when in operation—into the artists and I don’t want to leave sold privately, not in the Multiple koi pond that serves as the centerpiece of Matteucci’s them hanging without a place to Listing Services, which is how he inanimated sculpture garden. show.” tends to sell the Matteucci Galleries. WILLIAM MELHADO
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Santa Fe defense attorneys and prosecutors grapple with lingering, pandemic-driven jury trial backlog B Y B E L L A D AV I S b e l l a @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
Passage of time affects criminal cases more than it affects civil cases because things like people’s memories change or fade, witnesses move away, witnesses die. -John Day, defense attorney
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obert Serrano was arrested on suspicion of raping a child nearly four years ago and indicted on felony counts in late 2018. The 59-yearold man’s trial was set for July in First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe, but it’s been pushed back to September because he was exposed to COVID-19. His high-profile, anticipated trial is one of many throughout the state that’s been delayed, after the New Mexico Supreme Court ordered the suspension of criminal and civil jury trials, first from March 2020 to July 2020 and then again from November 2020 to February 2021. There’s been a significant decline in jury trials in the First Judicial District— which serves Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba counties—but not as severe as in some other districts, namely the Second Judicial District, serving Bernalillo County. In fiscal year 2019, there were 47 criminal and civil jury trials in the First, according to data the Administrative Office of the Courts provided to SFR. The next year, the total dropped to 32. Fiscal year 2021, running from July 2020 to June 2021, saw a mere 22. That compares to a reduction from 136 jury trials to 22 jury trials during that timespan in the Second. Criminal defense attorneys say the dip, while initially necessary to slow the spread of the virus, has violated defendants’ constitutional right to a speedy trial. Meanwhile, the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office says the reduction hasn’t resulted in more plea agreements or in the state losing many violent criminal cases, although delays are challenging. Since jury trials resumed at the start of this year, the First Judicial District Court has been limited to two courtrooms for 10 judges by the state Supreme Court’s guidelines, which mandate 6 feet between everyone in the room, including jurors and attorneys and their clients. The limitation means that during an average month, only a few jury trials are
under constitutionally mandated timelines, Burrill says. “Part of the problem is the Supreme Court hasn’t been very open to seeing it as a speedy trial issue because they’re just saying, ‘Too bad, it’s a community health problem.’ It was an afterthought,” Burrill says. “At some point we’re going to have to figure out how long COVID is going to strip people of their constitutional rights.” Asked for a response to Burrill’s comment, Arthur Pepin, director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, writes in an email to SFR: “Courts did suspend jury trials for a short time late in 2020 due to increased public health emergency restrictions on group gather-
Juror seats are marked in the First Judicial District Courthouse in one of just two courtrooms where there’s enough room to hold jury trials within the Supreme Court’s health guidelines.
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ings. Safe criminal jury trials resumed in February and we’ve recently expanded in-person proceedings such as preliminary hearings and plea and sentencing hearings.” Defense attorney John Day of Santa Fe tells SFR that on top of violating defendants’ right to a speedy trial, jury trial delays can cause a host of issues that make criminal cases more difficult to navigate. “Passage of time affects criminal cases more than it affects civil cases because things like people’s memories change or fade, witnesses move away, witnesses die,” Day says. “The conventional wisdom is that delays like that generally benefit the defendant and make things more difficult for prosecutors, but that’s not always accurate.” Chief Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Padgett Macias tells SFR that the office has been selective since jury trials resumed in February, taking only first-degree felonies before juries. She says a few cases have stopped and started, mostly due to coronavirus complications, which has been difficult for the District Attorney’s Office and the court’s schedule. As an example, Padgett Macias points to Serrano’s case. Serrano was arrested in October 2017 on suspicion of criminal sexual penetration of a minor. Charges were dismissed two months later due to failure by former District Attorney Marco Serna’s office to prosecute. A grand jury indicted Serrano in late 2018 and he was booked into the Santa Fe County jail in May 2020 for failure to comply with the conditions of his release. Serrano’s trial was scheduled for July but his COVID-19 exposure has led to a lengthy delay. “A couple of days before jury selection was supposed to begin, a defendant [Serrano] couldn’t pass the court screening to get into the courtroom,” Padgett Macias says. “That’s an older case and obviously that one was adversely impacted just recently by the court protocols...The court lost an entire week because there wasn’t another case that could just pick up and go.” Asked if there’s been an increase in plea agreements in an attempt to clear the case backlog, Padgett Macias says, “I think getting a case to trial under COVID hasn’t been a consideration for us to offer a plea, outside of standard guidelines.” Padgett Macias says while there won’t be anywhere near as dramatic a drop in jury trials this fiscal year as there was last year, getting through the backlog of cases—which she couldn’t place a number on—“is going to be really hard with the number of cases coming in on a day-today basis.”
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Dot-com Desert Perry’s home isn’t wired for broadband access. The school district, where Perry works as an education assistant, gave the family a hot spot in August 2020, but it didn’t function well. Cellphone access is also spotty on the Perry property. On some days she and her grandsons, ages 5 to 13, would pile into her white Chevy Trailblazer to find places with more reliable cell service. On other days, they just missed school. Perry’s home isn’t connected to the electrical grid either, so the family was also missing reliable electricity to power their devices. By the time school restarted in person in the spring of 2021, Perry estimated her grandsons had missed out on almost a full year of academic learning due to their lack of reliable broadband, which provides the infrastructure needed to access the internet.
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HOREAU—Even when clouds blanket the expansive skies of western New Mexico, the red sandstone of Owl Springs Mesa behind Sadie Perry’s home stands out. Every morning before she wakes the kids, Perry steps outside for a moment of quiet and prayer. “I think that’s the only thing that keeps me going, is praying,” she said. An enrolled tribal member, Perry lives in the southeast corner of the Navajo Nation on a property with three buildings, two horses and 11 family members, including her six grandsons and one of her daughters, who is ailing. When the coronavirus began sweeping across the world last year, Perry quickly loaded up on pandemic supplies, including food to feed her family, diesel to power her generator and water to fill her tank. But there is one essential that has always been scarce in this part of the country and that she couldn’t stock up on: broadband access. “The only time that [my grandchildren] get on computers is when they come here, to school,” Perry said in the principal’s office of Thoreau Middle School, which sits 4 miles from her home. “Because we don’t have internet at the house…where we’re at there’s no service at all.”
In New Mexico, 77% of households have a broadband subscription, according to a Census report released in April, though some industry observers say the numbers are lower. That compares with 85% nationally. And even for those who are connected, the service doesn’t come cheap. Just 13% of New Mexico’s population has access to a low-price internet service plan, according to Broadband Now, a research group. The state’s rugged landscape, its patchwork of state, federal and tribal land ownership, and the minimal coordination between internet providers and government agencies combine to keep New Mexico consistently near the bottom on national surveys measuring internet access in homes. During the period of remote learning, New Mexico’s Public Education Department made testing optional for
Thoreau Middle School, where Sadie Perry works and some of her grandchildren attend classes, effectively closed in March 2020 for the remainder of the school year.
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districts given the challenges of administering assessments during the pandemic. According to the department’s assessment participation data, only 30% of schools administered the state test. The education department explained, with the limited data, it’s difficult to measure the extent to which learning gaps widened across the state. When New Mexico’s children were suddenly required to attend school via the internet in March 2020, it went badly for many of them. Families spent the school day in fast-food parking lots, outside libraries or on top of mesas trying to catch a signal. Some students were never heard from for the rest of that school year. And those who could connect were often plagued by slow download speeds and frequently interrupted service. Versions of the same story played out across rural America, making the problem impossible to ignore. “It’s not so audacious to sit here and say that as we come out of this pandemic, we are going to decide that every student in this country gets the internet access that they need to fully support their education and succeed in school,” Jessica Rosenworcel, the acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which regulates US interstate and international communications, said in an interview. Under pressure to finally achieve the goals outlined in the 2010 National Broadband Plan, the FCC continues to roll out programs and dollars to get the whole country online. The most recent funding, $7 billion available to schools and libraries, came from the FCC’s Emergency Connectivity Fund and targets the “homework gap” that will persist long after kids return to in-person schooling. The Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill would invest an additional $65 billion, less than the $100 billion President Joe Biden initially proposed, toward the expansion of high-speed broadband across the country. Just this week, the House said it would vote before Sept. 27. Getting everyone online seems far off in Perry’s community, which also lacks universal access to running water and electricity. The absence of broadband access effectively ended the 2019-20 school year in March of 2020. By August 2020, the Gallup-McKinley County school district, where Perry works and her grandchildren attend school, had provided students with one-to-one devices and T-Mobile hot spots. But Perry said the hot spots worked only when the matching cellular network covered that area. Where she lives, a Verizon hot spot would probably have
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As students struggled to learn during the pandemic, the New Mexico Legislature took steps this year to show they had not forgotten rural kids and families. Legislators created a Connect New Mexico Council and an Office of Broadband Access and Expansion to oversee the new internet access projects. The council is in charge of overseeing the funding, and the office is or-
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TOP: Sadie Perry’s home runs off a diesel generator; she regularly drives 40 minutes to buy water from Gallup to fill her tank. It’s only 4 miles from the school where Perry works, but the family has virtually no internet access.
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worked for online schooling, she said— but that’s not what was provided. “That’s the mistake they made,” said Perry. (The district provided only T-Mobile hot spots, an official said, because it received a discount for buying in bulk.) Quick fixes like the hot spots were common during the last school year. There were roaming buses fitted with wireless signals, tables set up outside buildings so students could access the schools’ internet and federal assistance to help families pay for prohibitively expensive internet plans. But these stopgap measures were mostly paid for by the CARES Act and other short-term funding. Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, among other states, have similarly dire internet access issues. Even if families living in rural areas are lucky enough to have reliable broadband infrastructure in their communities, they’re usually priced out of plans. Counties where less than 50% of the population has access to affordable and reliable internet, and more than 30% live below the poverty line, are called “broadband deserts,” according to Broadband Now. In New Mexico, eight of 33 counties are deserts. “I think they forgot us out here,” said Perry, a desert-dweller in more than one sense.
MIDDLE: Perry pulls out a textbook she used for the associate degree in early childhood education she is pursuing so she can secure a higher-paying teaching position in the district. BOTTOM: Three of the five Perry grandchildren who live with their grandmother.
ganizing the projects. In Colfax County in the northeastern section of the state, where wide swaths of grass stretch between hills, broadband access is among the lowest in New Mexico, and the students living here are suffering the consequences. The 950-student Raton school district covers 1,000 square miles of rolling ranchland. Many students here didn’t have access to the bandwidth needed to join virtual lessons live, especially when others in the house were also online, said Christopher Bonn, who recently stepped down as district superintendent. The town’s existing telecommunications infrastructure couldn’t support the much larger numbers of hot spots connecting to its lone cellular tower. In fact, Bonn said, the deluge taxed the tower to the point that the hot spots provided download speeds up to four megabits per second, about one-sixth of the standard speed recommended by the FCC. This internet speed, enough to use email and host a small group video call, accommodates just a fraction of the tools needed for online learning. Despite these challenges, Bonn doesn’t see last year as a complete loss. “Covid has provided us some opportunities that we probably should have been looking at in education 20 years ago,” he said. “All of my students right now have a mobile hot spot. All of my students now have one-to-one technology.” Learning to work independently provided students with a valuable educational experience, Bonn added. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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creasing productivity and enabling local companies to access larger markets. “That’s why we’re here and they’re not,” said Briesh, referring to the lack of development by big national providers. “And we’re getting beat up pretty hard by the feds and the state and locals and everybody and all the residents saying, ‘Why aren’t you putting in more fiber?’” Briesh said he is putting in more fiber. But the process is expensive and slow.
Covid has provided us some opportunities that we probably should have been looking at in education 20 years ago.
Paul Briesh Jr. checks connections at one of the Baca Valley facilities outside Raton, connecting fiber cables around town to larger data centers in Denver and Albuquerque.
network. Despite the frequent use of the term “wireless,” the internet relies primarily on physical cables—underground, in the air, even underwater—to send data from one computer to another. And even though most people no longer plug their computers into the wall to get online, a physical connection, preferably with fiber-optic cables, provides the most consistent signal. Towers connected to the cables can send and receive signals within a designated range, but fiber lines must still be run to the towers, if not to individual homes. And that fiber, made of hair-thin glass wire, needs to stretch across the nation to connect the schools and homes of families still offline. Fiber shortages in the market add another layer of complexity to the task, said representatives of several small internet providers interviewed for this story. In New Mexico, the work of expanding broadband access falls to small internet service providers, because they have a vested interest in the economic development of rural communities. As residents themselves, they see their businesses thrive when customers can get online, in-
-Christopher Bonn, former superintendent, Raton school district
Back on the other side of the state, Lynnea Smith pulled up a map of the eastern region of the Navajo Nation—one
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Still, he sees last year’s internet-access problem as a call to invest in the region’s telecommunications infrastructure. In the parking lot of Domino’s Pizza in Raton, Paul Briesh Jr. sat in a white pickup, listing the businesses and schools that rely on the company he manages, Baca Valley Telephone and Sierra Communications, for internet access. “Domino’s is on our fiber, that’s one of our customers,” he said, pointing to the shop on the corner. “Most of the businesses in Raton are ours.” After the Telecommunications Act of 1996, large companies that had a monopoly in areas like Raton, where there was little investment in infrastructure, suddenly faced competition from local exchange carriers who were more willing to build the infrastructure themselves. Briesh is still building. After checking on his customers in the farthest corner of the state one late-spring morning, he spent the afternoon on a backhoe helping to bury fiber. “It’s an 80-hour-a-week job,” he said. That’s because the best way to provide customers with reliable internet is to connect them, physically, to the broadband
“In Raton alone, to put aerial fiber down all the alleys and stuff, just for a tiny portion of Raton, is about $25,000 a mile,” Briesh said. “We charge $39 for internet, and so do the math.” Baca Valley recently applied for a grant from the state for 8 miles of new fiber, but it will serve only 50 to 100 customers. At $39 a month for 100 customers, the best-case scenario, it will take more than four years to earn back the $200,000 spent to lay the fiber. The state grant means Baca Valley will begin to see a profit a little sooner, but it’s a long-term investment rather than a fast buck. It’s not quick enough for most banks, which means providers are dependent on government loans. And getting the money to lay the new lines is just one part of the challenge. Before they can even start digging trenches or putting up utility poles, companies need to secure rights of way and other permits, which eats up time. “It’s just insanity,” Briesh said.
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Devona Juan and her three children live just east of Thoreau, still within the Navajo Nation, where juniper and sagebrush spot the arid landscape. Juan said her children were in online classes on time almost every day during the school year. If she wasn’t at home because she was running errands in nearby Gallup, she would receive a notification from teachers at
Rural New Mexico has low rates of broadband penetration—defined as the percentage of households with access to fixed or mobile broadband— creating “broadband deserts,” often in areas with higher rates of poverty.
band internet. In addition to creating the state offices in the 2021 session, the New Mexico Legislature allocated $133 million toward broadband expansion projects. Along with money from the state, New Mexico lawmakers hope to use money from existing and new federal broadband initiatives to connect more families. Clarke, the DoIT official, said he doesn’t yet know how much of that money might flow to New Mexico, but his department estimates that up to an additional $647 million may be needed to reach all locations in the state. Both the Office of Broadband Access and Expansion and the Connect New Mexico Council are in a state of flux, said Clarke. He and his department are still waiting for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, to appoint a director to the broadband office. “We’re hoping that these monies are being spent with due diligence,” he said. “We’re here to help, but the thing is we’re not set up yet with this new legislation, which is too bad.” Clarke thinks that ultimately, more innovative broadband technologies will be necessary to connect rural areas where laying miles of fiber cable is not realistic. One FCC grant recipient, SpaceX, launched low-orbit satellites that provide customers with high-speed internet. When the program reaches its full capacity, the company hopes to provide near global coverage, though in the current phase, costs remain high. Other new broadband technologies—mesh networks, tethered drones, microwave radio links— could be part of a mosaic of solutions for rural areas if the funding ever arrives to support them.
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she occasionally uses when teaching her students about the history of land in New Mexico—to explain why securing permission to lay fiber is so difficult. Smith’s map showed a large chunk that belongs exclusively to the tribal government. Surrounding it is a checkerboard of different colors signifying the dizzying number of land distinctions in this part of the state that Gallup-McKinley County Schools serves. Crownpoint High School, which Smith attended and where she now teaches, is on that checkerboard map, not far north of tiny Thoreau. “There’s BLM [the federal Bureau of Land Management], there’s tribal trust, there’s government trust, there’s state land, private land—you got a whole bunch of land jurisdictional issues,” she said. “How do those get addressed? When do we get these entities working together?” In the past, New Mexico has relied on providers like Baca Valley to slowly build the infrastructure in the most hard-toreach places, said Gar Clarke, a geospatial information officer with the state’s Department of Information Technology (DoIT). “They’re a business, they’re into making some cash, and if they don’t have a good return on investment, they’re not going to go and provide services to that ranch or farm out there, or that cluster of homes,” Clarke said. But even though the state needs small companies to do this work, subsidies are hard to come by, he said. Clarke pointed to the anti-donation clause in the New Mexico Constitution—a provision that prevents the state government from giving money to an individual or organization. The law prohibits internet service providers like Baca Valley from receiving money directly from the state to undertake development projects without navigating the bureaucracy to apply for legal loans or grants. “It’s kinda crazy because this is our tax dollars, which we cannot spend to improve our communities,” said Clarke. “What we are talking about is streamlining it...get everybody in a room and put together a rightof-way permitting plan that incorporates federal, state and local entities.” Despite the newly created broadband council and office, that plan has yet to materialize.
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Thoreau Elementary School when her kids didn’t show up to class. “If they’re not in class, I automatically call [my son] on the phone,” she said, laughing. “I really get on them every day.” Devlin, 13, Juan’s oldest, enjoyed learning at home, using an iPad to attend classes, but his mom acknowledged their living situation is less than ideal for online schooling. Like Perry, she relies on a generator, which makes charging devices needed for online learning challenging. But she and her kids did have a reliable internet connection. Sacred Wind Communications, an internet service provider that works largely in rural, tribal communities like Juan’s, set the family up with a wireless router powered by a dining table-sized solar panel behind their home. John Badal, CEO of Sacred Wind, knows many homes in tribal communities get power from generators, and he understands these electrical supplies couldn’t reliably support a router to send and receive signals necessary to get online. So the company began using the sun to help address the issue of broadband inaccessibility. While the service helped Juan’s children get an education last year, it costs $70 a month, which is a significant burden for many rural families. Funding from an FCC program helps Juan cover $50, but that funding is one of the stopgap measures that will soon run out. Rosenworcel of the FCC, a Biden appointee, said that even before the pandemic, seven in 10 teachers assigned homework that required internet access. When schools went online and millions of kids didn’t have the internet needed to at-
By the numbers • 77% — portion of New Mexico households with broadband access • 85% — portion of US households with broadband access • 8 — New Mexico counties that are “broadband deserts” • $65 billion — amount of possible federal funding for broadband expansion if infrastructure compromise passes • $133 million — allocated this year by the Legislature toward broadband expansion projects • $657 million — additional amount estimated to cover the whole state
tend class and complete assignments, the “homework gap” widened. “And it could be a long-term opportunity gap if we don’t do something,” Rosenworcel said. “To be successful in school right now, every child needs a consistent and reliable internet connection, and in the United States of America we should find a way to make that happen.” In recent months, states have committed to just that. California recently announced a $6 billion investment in public broadband development. Virginia will invest $700 million in American Rescue Plan funding, and South Dakota has approved $100 million for the expansion of broad-
When the internet finally reaches Perry’s home, she’ll be happy to have it. But she’s not waiting for that day to come. Her daughter just graduated from law school, and her grandsons are training bucking bulls. They are also back to playing basketball and have taken over responsibility for the family’s barn full of horses and cattle. Only after the kids are in bed does Perry crack open her textbooks for the associate degree in early childhood education she’s pursuing. She plans to get a teaching position that allows her to share her knowledge of Native traditions and teach young people to speak Navajo. There are online study options, but she sticks with pen and paper—more reliable in these parts. This story was produced in collaboration between SFR and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.
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ONE MORE TIME If you’ve been repeatedly pushing back a potential trip to the Santa Fe Opera, might we remind you there’s not a whole lot of time left to catch the current season? As in, you’re staring down the barrel of the last week, so listen well because we’re gonna recommend Eugene Onegin—because it’s freaking Tchaikovsky, yeah, but also because everyone we know who has an informal review to relate says it slaps. The tale of spurned love, regret and, like, life and stuff, Tchaikovsky’s work endures and SFO’s lavish stage production brings the justice. Prefer a different show this week? SFO has plenty to choose from. (ADV) Eugene Onegin: 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 26 $42-$286. Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive, (505) 986-5900
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THEATER VARIOUS DATES SO DRAMATIC Hi, friends, Culture Editor Alex De Vore here to say that even though the anonymous writers/ monsters at the Santa Fe Playhouse refuse to base the villain on me in their productions year after year, the annual Fiesta Melodrama is always a pretty good time when it comes to lambasting all things Santa Fe. This year’s show goes a little more broad as villain Covidio Ninetinez faces the likes of Moderna La Choza and CDC de Baca in a battle for our souls! If you’re from here, you’re gonna love it. If not, well, I’ve had to sit through more than my fair share of college improv troupes cracking wise about the most specific of things, so...get real, I guess. (ADV) A Streetlight Named Santa Fe: 7 pm Thursday, Aug. 26-Sunday, Aug. 28; 2 pm Sunday, Aug. 29. $15-$25. Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262
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LECTURE TUE/31 NEVER THOUGHT TONIGHT COULD EVER BE SO CLOSE TO THEE Yeah, we all like to act like we’re freaking Shakespeare geniuses whenever it comes up (which, honestly, is kind of a lot for a dude who has been dead for hundreds of years), but it seems that even the most studious fans of that wacky playwright have lots to say about how his words work. Thusly, a whole mess of actors and directors and theater folk like Mairi Chanel, Antonio Miniño, David Stallings and others will gather on Tuesday to dig into the central and pivotal relationships of Macbeth (that’s the sad one, right?). We double dog dare any participants to show up with Weird Sisters questions. Naw, jay-kay—this one’s about the titular Scot and his wife, what’s-her-face. Go and lay on, ya n00bs. (ADV) Pivotal Relationships in Shakespeare: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth: 7:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 31 $10. International Shakespeare Center 3209 Calle Marie, (505) 466-3353
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B!tch, Please Prism B!tch is back, thank God Look, dear readers, we wouldn’t normally try to send folks out of town when it comes to the picks o’ the week. But if you’ve been living your life without being aware of Albuquerque’s Prism B!tch, you’ve been living your life wrong and should get on the highway to the Launchpad down in ABQ as early as is reasonably possible come Sunday. For a lot of reasons, too. See, Prism B!tch is one of the most fun live bands operating in the state, for one thing. A wild melange of punk, indie rock and good old fashion rock ’n’ effing roll, that fearsome foursome of Teresa Cruces, Liliah Rose, Lauren Poole and Chris Walsh not only know how to write an infectiously catchy song, they know how to present it in the most exciting ways possible. No, seriously— this band is out of control live, and it’s the kind of thing that even caught the attention of Built to Spill in the before times, resulting in some pretty sweet opener spots for our hometown(ish) heroes.
Did we mention the music videos? ‘Cause, they’re good, too—particularly 2018’s “Ya Ya,” wherein the vocalists declare “You know me, I’m your fucking nightmare/You know me, the one you fucking love!” The band gets kudos as well for this year’s “One Shot,” a strangely dreamy spaghetti Westernish number paired with a more restrained song than we’re used to from the band, but still a slapper in the most ’90s garagey kind of way. If that’s not enough for you peasants, Big Girls’ power chord punk goodness should pair well with the indie-esque soundscapery of Byland. With as much respect as we can afford to those bands, though, just make sure you’re there for Prism B!tch whatever else you do. Cool? Cool. (Alex De Vore) PR!SM BITCH WITH BIG GIRLS AND BYLAND 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 29. $10. Launchpad 618 Central Ave., Albuquerque (505) 764-8887
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EXPOSURE: NATIVE ART AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Artists including Hilda Moodoo (Pitjantjatjara) and Kunmanara Quema (Pitjantjatjara) explore how nuclear weapons affect Native populations. 10 am-4 pm, free GO WEST SAID A SMALL VOICE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Landscapes, woodblocks and marionettes by Gustave Banmann. All day, $0-$12 HORSE Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie Raven Halfmoon's solo show HORSE [Di'i'tamah, Issuba, Iichíile] presents horse sculptures to express their importance to Indigenous cultures over time. All day, free MAGICAL BEINGS Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road (505) 983-0433 Molly Heizer’s Native-inspired kachinas and animals and Bob Brubaker’s stoutly built beings. All day, free NATIVE VISIONS Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 Chiaroscuro’s 15th Annual Contemporary Native Show. All day, free NAVIGATORS Vital Spaces 220 Otero St. Diagrams, infograms, drawings and sculpture. Open by appointment. Contact jerrywellman1@gmail.com. All day, free PATTERNS OF EXPRESSION Nuart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 Group exhibition featuring new works by Rose Masterpol and Sunny Taylor. Expect bold geometrical patterns. All day, free ONE TRICK PONY GF Contemporary 707 Canyon Road (505) 983-3707 Tiny horses on huge canvases. Tiny, as in 2” by 2”, on a canvas as large as 5’ by 5’. All day, free
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ONGOING ART RAVEN @ THE BIG BANG TAI Modern 1601 Paseo de Peralta (505) 984-1387 Ramona Sakiestewa is a central figure among contemporary Native American artists. This exhibition features artistic renditions of ravens, a prevalent animal in many Native American cultures. All day, free YOU ARE STANDING EXACTLY WHERE MEANING IS 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Oil and graphite works on roughly torn canvas paper from artist Allan Graham. All day, free ISOHI SETSUKO TAI Modern 1601 Paseo de Peralta (505) 984-1387 Japanese bamboo art in geometrical patterns. All day, free STORY PAINTINGS IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Artist Rebecca Lee Kunz' paintings tell stories. In her work, Cherokee mythology is re-imagined from the perspective of animals living in the modern world. All day, $0-$10
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PEOPLE Southside Public Library 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Black and white portrait studies, with many subjects from Santa Fe. All day, free SHE Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 Exhibit about young women in the US and in the Middle East leaving their cocoons and entering adulthood. All day, free BALANCING CULTURES Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 Show displaying the impacts of the incarceration of Japanese-Americans and legal residents during WWII. All day, free PLAY THE GAME Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Art from Juan Manuel Sanabria, whose work explores “dis-connection” in a digital world. All day, free PRESTON SINGLETARY: NEW WORKS IN GLASS Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 A blend of European glass-blowing traditions and Northwest Native design. All day, free THE HOMESTEAD AND THE HIGHLANDS Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road (505) 983-0433 Paintings which explore the feeling of Western life on the move. All day, free
WED/25 BOOKS/LECTURES THOMATALKS: ART ACQUISITION Online thomafoundation.org Discussions on innovative video game art, electronic light sculptures and the latest art acquisitions from South America. 4 pm, free ENGAGING THE FUTURE: CONVERSATIONS WITH GOODMAN FELLOWSHIP ARTISTS Online bit.ly/3mh0weF With Abraham Peina (Zuni Pueblo), a self-taught silversmith. 10 am, free
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EVENTS HOTLINE BINGO Desert Dogs Brewery & Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Bingo like you've never bingoed before—a new theme every other week! $2 buy-in per round. Fun prizes and cash jackpot. If you come in costume, you get a free round. 7 pm, $2-$10 JOB FAIR Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail (505) 455-5555 Looking for something to do and make money while doing it? That's called a job, and this fair has them in plenty. Hospitality, transportation, government, childcare and beyond. 10 am-6:30 pm, free GOVERNOR'S MANSION DOCENT TOURS Governor's Mansion One Mansion Drive (505) 476-2800 A docent-led tour of the historic New Mexico Governor's Mansion. See beautiful art, period furnishings and explore the history of New Mexico through its artistic achievements. For the history lovers and history-curious. Noon-2 pm, free
MUSIC ELIZABETH AND A PIANO The Hollar 2849 Hwy 14 (505) 471-2841 Elizabeth plays Otis, Etta, Nina and originals. 5 pm, free PUNK ROCK IN THE SOUTHWEST Española Public Library 313 Paseo de Oñate (505) 747-6087 Lecture exploring punk’s deep roots in the Southwest (see 3 Questions, page 20). 6 pm, free GERRY CARTHY La Posada de Santa Fe 330 E Palace Ave. (505) 986-0000 Traditional Irish music on tin whistles, fiddle, banjo, concertina, saxophone and guitar. 6-9 pm, free THE MAVERICKS HIPICO Santa Fe 100 S Polo Drive ampconcerts.org Country/rock/Tex-Mex. Outdoor concert on a grassy field where you can spread out, be COVID-19 safe and still rock out (or whatever the kids call it these days). 7 pm, $59-$64
THU/26 ART RIO BRAVO FINE ART Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. 428-1000 Exhibition showcasing 28 featured artists. Paintings, prints, sculpture and fiber art. All day, free
BOOKS/LECTURES AUTHOR TALK: RENÉE GREGORIO Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 Gregorio will discuss her new book Abyss & Bridge. Introduction by poet Anne Valley-Fox. Zoom links available for those with an online preference. 6 pm, free HAPPY HOUR AUTHOR'S CLUB Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail Author Sallie Bingham joins to present her book, The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke. 5-6:30 pm, $30 THE STATE OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT Online sfcir.org Amb. Vicki Huddleston and guests discuss the Biden administration’s response to events in Haiti, Afghanistan and Russia. Livestream with Q&A. 10 am, $10
DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 It’s flamenco. Look it up and get yourself cultured, why don’t you? 6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Olé and whatnot. 8 pm, $20-$50
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Española-based writer, scholar and educator Tara Martin López came up in Albuquerque enamored by the punk rock world, but it wasn’t until she caught legendary act Bikini Kill at Berkeley’s fabled 924 Gilman venue that it all made sense: The true ethos of punk rock runs in parallel with that of feminism, and women’s place in the genre is both long-standing and vital. She then picked up a bachelor’s from the University of New Mexico, a master’s from UC San Diego and a freaking sociology PhD from the University of Manchester, a school which has some excellent programming on subcultures. Today, López teaches sociology at Northern New Mexico College, and with an article about El Paso punk titled “¡Vamanos pa’l Chuco!” in the Journal of Texas Music History last year—and a forthcoming book about punk rock in the Southwest—López kicks off a pair of bitchin’ free lectures this week dubbed, aptly, Punk Rock in the Southwest (6 pm Wednesday, Aug. 25. Española Public Library, 313 Paseo de Oñate, 505-747-6087; 1 pm Saturday, Aug. 28. Santa Fe Public Library Southside. 6559 Jaguar Drive, 505-955-2820). Featuring punk panelists Erica Ortegon and Lindy Hernandez, López will get into the music, the community, the region and the love—so what were we supposed to do about this? NOT call her up? Fuck outta here. (Alex De Vore) OK, so why a lecture on punk rock and why now? Because for so long, academia has unfortunately had limited ideas about what is valuable in regards to what we study, and it’s changing. That’s why I went to school in Manchester. Punk is an artistic expression of ordinary people, in particular women. Right now we need inspiration, so it’s a perfect time to start talking about the role of women in punk. So often, women, especially women of color, are set to the side. So while I’m going to mainly talk about El Paso punk, there are many connections to women, and not only women who were in the punk scenes, but in the communities around them. Communities of color would especially support the punks and, in many ways, we need that right now. Our communities are so disjointed, and that’s the thing about punk—it’s inspiring. It’s do-it-yourself, it’s anybody-can-do-it. There are some really great artists and really great bands, but ultimately it’s about community. People are thirsty for that,
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especially women of color. We need to see ourselves in punk. In many ways, we’ve always been there, but it’s time to bring it to the forefront. Do you think there’s something about the Southwest that particularly fosters punk rock? I think there is a lot of cool subcultural artistic activity around here. I think about my grandma from Taos, she was a maid with an 8th grade education, and she was a punk. There’s a whole bunch of people of color, and the Southwest has its own subculture. I think it’s just a whole…The Southwest is, of course, a place of great expression, and punk rock is a community of great expression. Unfortunately, in mainstream understandings of art and subcultures, punk from the Southwest always seems like it’s erased except for in places like California. But look at Colorado, in Denver, and in Texas, like El Paso—and yes, in New Mexico. We have the historic traditions, but one of the ways of still expressing those traditions is through punk rock music. Was there anything you learned while prepping that struck you as particularly interesting? Oh gosh, there’s so much. I’m going to have to start with the first thing, which is that I’m not personally expected to have a punk past, but when something like that is broadcast, people who I never would imagine having a connection to punk come up and tell me ‘Oh, I’m a punk rocker!’ People start giving me their confessions of punk, I think. I’ve become, I dunno, like, maybe you could almost say I’m like a punk priestess or something, which is great. I’m also finding more and more people of color who are involved in the communities. My next project is going to be all about subcultures from [New Mexico] and the Chicanos and Chicanas and Natives and Black people who were all a part of them. Two more things would be that I think it’s so important to tell women’s stories. There’s a process of making women realize how important they really are. I’ve noticed that the women I interview are more likely to cancel interviews, or more likely to reschedule them, and oftentimes they’ll tell me something like ‘Well, I don’t really know much, and I’m not sure what I can tell you or why you want to talk to me,’ which is unfortunate. But then once they do start talking to me, the floodgates come open, and it’s beautiful. Punk is about love and community, not only the ways [punks] describe interacting with themselves, but in how loving that community has been to me. And you know, none of this stuff is archived. Thankfully, [people] will come to me and say ‘Hey, I scanned 200 flyers for you, here you go, here you are!’ But how can you really go about preserving this? Either way, I know people through the punk identity that we have in common, and...that’s why half of the royalties from my book are going to go to El Paso. I’m still trying to figure out what nonprofit that money will go to, but I owe that city, and even if I only end up making $5, I’ll still give.
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GRUPO FANTASMA Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail ampconcerts.org Grammy-award winning Latin music group on the Plaza. 6 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St. 989-1166 Jazz guitar to add some zest to your wine night out. Whether one glass or three, Malone’s melodies will sweeten the night. 6-8 pm, free
OPERA SANTA FE OPERA: EUGENE ONEGIN Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Tchaikovsky's operatic rendition of Pushkin's love story. Tickets must be purchased in advance (see SFR picks, page 17). 8 pm, $42-$214
THEATER A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 A Santa Fe tradition since 1919, the Fiesta Melodrama is written to poke fun at local events and politicians (so come with the ability to laugh at yourself, elected officials). This show will involve broad comedy, improvisation and audience participation (see SFR picks, page 17). 7 pm, $15-$25
FRI/27 ART RECONCILIACIONES Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road (505) 916-1341 In Alberto Cruz’s first solo show in the US, where inspiration comes from Shinto and Mexican tradition, ranging from the fantastic to the solemn. 5-7 pm, free URBAN NATIVE: OPENING RECEPTION Ellsworth Gallery 215 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-7900 Everton Tsosie brings his own personal style of abstraction, made up of colors inspired by the New Mexican landscape and the turbulent rhythms of the city. 5-7 pm, free
DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Flamin’ flamenco, but only metaphorical flames. 6:15 pm, $25-$40
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LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Olé, but in Santa Fe. 8 pm, $20-$50
EVENTS DJ PYGAR Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 2797 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135 Drinks, dancing and outdoor air. Tunes from all over the multiverse. 6-9 pm, free ZIA REGIONAL RODEO AND HOEDOWN Rodeo de Santa Fe 3237 Rodeo Road (505) 471-4300 New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association hosts the 29th Annual Zia Regional Rodeo and Hoedown. Riding, plus an exhibit of artifacts, memorabilia, objects, artwork and photographs from the 40-year history of gay rodeo. 6 pm-12 am, $10-$15
FILM MADRID FILM FESTIVAL Oscar Huber Memorial Ballpark State Hwy. 14, Madrid theaterofdeath.org Under the stars, for one night only! Fans encouraged to bring blankets, chairs and refreshments to enjoy the very best short films made in New Mexico. Drama, comedy, animations and more. (see A&C, page 25) 6:30-10 pm, $10 THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road ampconcerts.org July’s screening was canceled, but no one can cancel the fictional town of Milgaro. Cipriano Vigil will play a few songs beforehand. 7 pm, free
MUSIC BERT DALTON TRIO C3's Bistro 4940 Corrales Road (505) 398-9449 Live jazz every Friday. No cover, but expect to be generous and tip your musicians and waiters. 5:30-8:30 pm, free BLUE RHAPSODY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Husband and wife musical duo play sultry jazz, R&B, soul and blues for Vanessie patrons. 6:30 pm, free JOHN FULLBRIGHT St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Grammy-nominated Americana artist plays the stage. 7:30 pm, $29-$50
KARL DENSON'S TINY UNIVERSE Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa Streets ampconcerts.org Singer and saxophonist Karl Denson fronts the Tiny Universe band, bringing energy and spirit with a larger message of universalism within music. 7 pm, free TGIF VIRTUAL CONCERT Online fpcsantafe.org/tgiftube/ Music this week is Suite in C-major by Louis Couperin as played by Michael Brazile. 5:30 pm, free THE SANTA FE TRADFEST Camp Stoney 7855 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 820-3166 Featuring Old Time music from Seattle favorites: The Onliest plus Maddy Mulling & Clarke Williams. All day, $0-$75 TONY O AND THE GREATEST BAND EVER Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Rolling Stones covers. 8-11 pm, $15
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OPERA SANTE FE OPERA: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Mozart’s classic opera where a woman fights back against unwanted advances from her employer. Purchase tickets in advance. 8 pm, $129-$334 MEET THE ARTIST: ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO Online conta.cc/37YIENx Renowned countertenor and star of The Lord of Cries at the Santa Fe Opera will be in conversation with Santa Fe Opera’s Chief Artistic Officer David Lomeli. 2 pm, $10
THEATER A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Round two of the Fiesta Melodrama. (see SFR picks, page 17). 7 pm, $15-$25
SAT/28 ART COMMOTION MOTION EMOTION & COLOR Roadrunner Studio and Gallery 2861 Highway 14, Madrid (612) 201-2317 Two-person show featuring the work of Muller Davis and Melissa Merritt, the former with multimedia and the latter with watercolors. All day, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 23
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BOOKS/LECTURES RIVER TALK: VEGETATIVE MANAGEMENT IN THE RIVER CORRIDOR Santa Fe River East Alameda St. (505) 955-6840 Want to learn how to responsibly manage vegetation to improve riparian health? Well, obviously. Athena Beshur of Seeds of Wisdom will tell you how on this little downtown walking tour. Meet at the corner of Cathedral Place and East Alameda. Email zrisaacson@santafenm.gov to reserve a spot. 9:30-11 am, free VOLUNTEER FAIR 2021 Milagro Middle School 1720 Llano St. (505) 467-2024 Volunteer opportunities abound! The Santa Fe Public Schools, Santa Fe Community Foundation, Communities in Schools of New Mexico and Big Brothers Big Sisters are all coming together for all you folks to find the right fit for your volunteering desires. 10 am-Noon, free
DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 It’s like musical theatre, but better and without the incessant pop music. 6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 What can we say, we like flamenco here at SFR and we think you should too. Isn’t it nice just to like nice things? 8 pm, $20-$50 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Indigenous youth dancing from the Lightning Boy Foundation. 3:30-5 pm, free (but tip, don’t just gawk and take pictures)
EVENTS PLACITAS STUDIO TOUR Over 50 Placitas Artists Studios Highway 165, Placitas placitasstudiotour.com Over 50 Placitas artists open their doors and welcome guests to their fascinating spaces. 10 am-5 pm, free COWBOY CHUCKWAGONS Wildlife West Nature Park 87 W Frontage Rd, Edgewood (505) 281-7655 Stage show featuring the fast-paced Watermelon Mountain Jug Band. Dinner is at 7 pm. Enjoy a hayride and walk around the wildlife zoo. 6 pm, $0-$28 SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET The West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Local craftworks for sale. 8 am-2 pm, free
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Barbarian Breach by Everton Tsosie, part of Urban Native at Ellsworth Gallery ZIA REGIONAL RODEO AND HOEDOWN Rodeo de Santa Fe 3237 Rodeo Road (505) 471-4300 All day event from New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association. Riding, roping, a collection of artifacts from the Gay Rodeo’s history and a dance to cap it off. 10 am-midnight, $10-$15
FILM THE OTHER MADISONS: THE LOST HISTORY OF A PRESIDENT'S BLACK FAMILY form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256 Join author Bettye Kearse for a screening of a short documentary following the author’s journey in building her book. Staggered showings are scheduled at noon, 1 pm and 2 pm, followed by a panel discussion with Kearse and Collected Work’s Cecile Lipworth at 3 pm. Noon-5 pm, free
FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Sometimes you’ve just got to bit the bullet and get yourself some farm kale, farm eggs and farm fancy cheeses. 7 am-1 pm, free
MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Piano music for patrons (which you are more than welcome to be). Expect smooth melodies from Rogers’ expert skills. 6:30-9:30 pm, free
BEATS ANTIQUE The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182 Middle Eastern sounds with a modern mix. Wear a costume and prepare to belly dance. 6-10 pm, $27-$30 PUNK ROCK IN THE SOUTHWEST Southside Public Library 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Outdoor interactive presentation with Tara López, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Northern New Mexico College. It explores punk’s deep roots in New Mexico and beyond. (see 3 Questions, page 20). 1 pm, free STRANGERS FROM AFAR Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Folk music for brunch. Noon-3 pm, free BILLY D & THE HOODOOS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Hardcore blues. 8-11 pm, $10
THEATER JULESWORKS FOLLIES END OF MONTHLY SHOWCASE Online youtu.be/70kZqKYmr3s Santa Fe-based variety show hosting their usual end of the month showcase (until, you know, next month). All the delights of local talent on display. 5 pm, free A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Comedy, improv and joy (see SFR picks, page 17). 7 pm, $15-$25
WORKSHOP SELF-DEFENSE CLASS Santa Fe Girls' School 310 W. Zia Road (505) 820-3188 From Resolve New Mexico— this self-defense class is open to all genders, age 13 and up. All participants MUST be fully vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination. 1-5 pm, free
SUN/29 DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Have you ever heard of flamenco? Idk, sounds like the hot new thing. 6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 If COVID-19 canceled your European vacation plans, you can get a smidge of what you lost here. Please save your tears for afterwards. 8 pm, $20-$50 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Indigenous youth dancing from the Lightning Boy Foundation. 3:30-5 pm, free
EVENTS YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. Cobra pose your way into victory. Bring your own mat and expect the beautiful melody of popping joints. 10 am, $10
ZIA REGIONAL RODEO AND HOEDOWN Rodeo de Santa Fe 3237 Rodeo Road (505) 471-4300 Rodeo, queer style. 10 am, $10-$15
YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. Energizing Vinyasa Flow class. Noon, $10
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SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 You need a break from Lotaburger anyways. 7 am-1 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET DEL SUR Presbyterian Health Park 4801 Beckner Road (505) 983-7726 Here’s hoping the chile guy is there. 3-6 pm, free
TWO PERFORMERS AT FENIX Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Doug Montgomery starts off the evening, followed by Al Rogers at 7:30 pm to enthrall with his energetic piano performance. 6-9:30 pm, free PRISM B!TCH, BYLAND AND BIG GIRLS Launchpad 618 Central Ave SW, Albuquerque launchpadrocks.com Join local indie-rock weirdos Prism B!tch for a night of heavy “mom-rock” to close out your weekend. Expect a high energy live show full of catchy hooks and crunchy riffs (see SFR picks, page 17). 7-11 pm, $10
THEATER A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 You’ve got a lot of chances to see this show, just saying. Plus, making fun of local drama and elected officials is what keeps us going (see SFR picks, page 17). 2 pm, $15-$25
MON/30 DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Lindy hop your way into an energetic start of the week. Classes start at 7 pm, open dance at 8 pm. Vaccinated folks only, please. Bring your vax card on your first visit. 7 pm, $3-$8
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MUSIC SIM BALKEY Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Balkey describes his sound as “George Strait vocals over an Eric Church track.” If you know country, you know that means business. 6 pm, free ZIA SISTERS AUDITIONS St. Bede's Episcopal Church 550 W. San Mateo Road theziasingers.com Auditions for all choral sections for a women's community chorus. Sign up for an audition slot at their website above. Note that proof of vaccination is required. 9 am-Noon, free
THEATER PIVOTAL RELATIONSHIPS IN SHAKESPEARE: MACBETH AND LADY MACBETH International Shakespeare Center 3209A Calle Marie (505) 466-3533 A close examination, discussion and demonstration about the intricacies of the central relationship in the play with a diverse group of actors (see SFR picks, page 17). 7:30 pm, $10
MUSIC FROGVILLE PRESENTS Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail ampconcerts.org Frogville brings rock, country, Indigenous sounds and beyond. 6 pm, free
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here’s something in the historic nature of Madrid’s Oscar Huber Memorial Ballpark that makes it appealing as a gathering place decades after its heyday. It’s 102 years old, for one, with a past of hosting the minor league and the Negro league way back in the day. It survived Madrid’s period as a ghost town (with a restoration) and, for more cred, was the first electrically illuminated baseball field west of the Mississippi. New Mexico’s first baseball games after the sun went down were played here. This field (2895a Hwy. 14) that centered community life in the coal mining days is once again calling people back. It’s here that the socially-distant crowds will gather and the coveted “Le Palme d’Coal” will be awarded to a winning short film, filmmaker and team—the prize of the still-growing Madrid Film Festival. “There’s been less work for people in film, and some have finally had the time to pursue passion projects of their own,” Andrew Wice, a producer and co-host of the festival, tells SFR. “A lot of these films have technical proficiency because we’ve got a highly trained crew here [in the state]. So you can expect a great deal of originality [in the program].” Wice is no stranger to the things that make Madrid, well, Madrid. If you’re new around here, the small hamlet outside Santa Fe is an old company town turned ghost town turned alternative enclave for hippies, artists and the occasional major film productions. It’s so small it’s considered “census-designated” rather than a full-on town. Wice sees the 4th annual Madrid Film Festival as another part of the town’s long and unusual story line— one he holds a deep passion for, to the point he’s developed an oral history tour you can self-guide from your phone. The festival is the brainchild of Wice and local musician and event organizer Joe West, both of whom have a long history in the arts and a deep respect for film.
“We had no idea what was going to happen,” Wice tells SFR, recalling the early days of the festival. “We kept finding it selling out even though we expanded it three nights [in 2019] with seating for 100 people.” West echoes that sentiment, noting that even under their limited pandemic-induced screening last year, there were no signs of the community missing out. “It was an offshoot of my theater company, the Theater of Death where we did horror-related shows, which evolved into a production company,” West explains. “It’s hard to gauge growth sometimes, but last year [under COVID-19 restrictions] we sold tickets four times as fast as we usually do.” This year, the short films on the docket range from all sorts of genres and styles: animation, comedy, drama and documentary with one caveat—they all had to be produced within the state and within the last year. That’s a notable shift from most film festivals, which often curate regional programming but keep general submissions open to the wider film world. The event wasn’t ever envisioned to be entirely stable. As the program began to build up steam, the vision that Madrid— the idea of Madrid-ness, that is—could be brought to places outside of its enclave began to be a real possibility. The festival held screenings at the Jean Cocteau here in Santa Fe and up in Las Vegas, with eyes on Taos and beyond.
“It was my baby,” West says of the traveling festival. “I had this image in my head of Madrid hippies emerging off a bus with a projector and a bunch of music. But obviously, with the pandemic, that didn’t really work out—but it’s still something I want to do.” Short films are often how wannabe-di-
A lot of the films explore questions of authenticity and responsibility, and finding strength within community amidst peril,” Wice explains. “It feels like people have had a lot of time to reflect. -Andrew Wice, a producer and co-host of the festival rectors and creatives enter the business and how below-the-line crew get to build up their resumes and make connections. Wice notes this, but also hopes for the festival to continue being a place where seasoned filmmakers and newer filmmakers submit in tandem. “We really want to encourage all kinds of filmmaking in New Mexico,” he says. “Both for the professionals and the fresh ideas from one person and their iPhone. So in the programming, we have high
quality professional productions and first time filmmakers coming from different artistic mediums.” Organizers limited the festival to one night this year as a two-hour showcase. West tells SFR the cream of the crop were chosen—there were over 50 submissions and seven hours of material to judge and he and Wice say they’re seeing a lot of overarching themes to this year’s submissions. “A lot of the films explore questions of authenticity and responsibility, and finding strength within community amidst peril,” Wice explains. “It feels like people have had a lot of time to reflect.” No matter where or how it evolves, whether it includes a busload of traveling hippies or a condensed screening on a dirt baseball field (friendly reminder, bring something to sit on), staying focused on what makes Madrid Madrid and encouraging New Mexicans to tell their stories through the medium of film is the key. For West, wherever it leads is wherever it leads. “You don’t do this stuff to be huge, you do it to do it and to make it cool,” West adds. “I’m a go with the flow kind of guy, so I know that there’s a hump with these things—you build it, you sustain it, and after that it just keeps on going.” MADRID FILM FESTIVAL: 6:30 pm Friday, Aug. 27. $10 Oscar Huber Memorial Ballpark 2895a Hwy. 14 , Madrid theaterofdeath.org/2021-film-festival
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Tomasita’s In the pantheon of classic, local New Mexican foods, Tomasita’s has the pedigree and the 45-minute wait to earn its top spot. A down-home melange of all things chile, onion, avocado, tortilla and beyond, it’s also the only place in town where one can slather honey butter within their sopaipilla—and it was good. Did we mention the stellar bar area with the seemingly endless margarita menu? We meant to, just be aware. For our money, there’s no better way to start than sharing the nachos grande ($12.50), a plate of housemade tortilla chips swimming in melty queso, taco meat, refried beans (a strangely rare menu item in Santa Fe) and sour cream. It’s brilliant for sharing and pairing with a nice marg or cocktail. When it’s time to hit the entrees, one can’t go wrong with enchiladas with cheese, ground beef, chicken (or some combo of those things; $10.95$13.95), and even a grilled veggie variety. Tomasita’s also boasts one of the most delicious chile rellenos dishes we’ve ever encountered ($14.50), and that’s without mentioning sinfully good chalupas ($11.95$13.95), the vegetarian tamale plate ($15.95) or the Randy Travis plate (sadly off the menu for the moment due to a staff shortage)—two grilled pork chops with refried beans smothered in green chile and cheese ($15.95 when available and Travis himself apparently loves it). If you’re simply dying for similar fare during Sunday’s dark hours, remember Tomasita’s sister eatery Atrisco in the De Vargas Center is open that day. (Alex De Vore)
Back Road Pizza This unpretentious Midtown joint sports friendly counter service and tasty pizza available by the pie or by the slice. There’s no reinventing the wheel here, just consistently good food. The particularly fresh-tasting sauce is housemade and tangy, and the thin, crispy crust is whipped up and rolled out in-house, too. The New Mexican pizza ($22.75 for a large) is a familiar assemblage featuring pepperoni and green chile, with the addition of slightly sweet red onion. The Veggiefest arrives with spinach, mushrooms, Roma tomatoes, the same red onions and black olives, and the trick here seems to be the proportions; there are plenty of toppings, but the pie isn’t laden. You still taste the cheese, the sauce, the crust. Toppings are spread all the way to the edge, too, which means you’re not loading up on dough—unless you want to, then garlic knots ($5) and pesto cheese rolls ($6.50) are there for you. You can build your own, too ($16.50, large), plus, awesomely, certain grocery items—both for curbside pickup. Even better, during our visits, the staff have been uniformly friendly. Bonus: there are a couple of pool tables in the loft upstairs and a great patio (though proprietor Piper Kapin tells us they’re unsure when they’ll open up for seating this summer)—and they’ll even make you a vegan pizza if you supply your own vegan cheese—not perfect, but something. In warmer months, Kapin takes her show on the road with a bright red Back Road food truck, making for a pleasant surprise or a handy pizza run if it’s parked nearby. (Matt Grubs)
Dumplings Tea & Dim Sum There are more than 20 dumpling dishes on the menu that fall into three general categories: pinched with a paper-thin dough that becomes crispy and golden when fried or light and noodle-like when steamed; fluffy buns made with a thicker, chewy, slightly-sweet dough that also come either steamed or fried; and soup dumplings that either come in a large bowl of steaming broth and veggies or are filled with broth that bursts into your mouth at the first bite. There are even a few sweet dumplings, which go well with passion fruit smoothies or mango bubble tea ($5.50 each). Our best advice is to bring a friend along, order at least one dish from both the bun and the dumpling category and share. Fried dumplings are a great choice, satisfyingly crispy at the edges with a juicy, flavorful filling. But if you want to venture beyond the classic pot sticker, explore the many variations of the bun. Our favorites are the steamed pork bun and the red bean bun, each a fantastic combo of sweet and salty. When dining alone, try the chicken wonton soup—a generous serving as comforting as the homemade variety, but the shaved jalapeño, cucumber and cilantro courtesy of chef/owner Fen Wang make it more of a refreshing choice than a comfort food. You can watch Wang work, by the way, which ups any visit into a straightup experience—plus, dumplings are a rare sight in Santa Fe, and one we’re glad to have. (Leah Cantor) 66 E San Francisco St., 646-945-5000 Lunch and dinner daily dumpling-tea-dim-sum.business.site
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Did you see the 1995 sci-fi flick Strange Days, wherein Ralph Fiennes is a drug dealer whose product is memories that users can experience? Did you see Christopher Nolan’s Inception, wherein the concept of manipulating dreams and memories is explored? Ever catch Dark City? Blade Runner? Minority Report? Have you ever heard of or played the Lovecraft-inspired video game The Sinking City? If you answered yes to any of these, you’ve already seen what the new Hugh Jackman movie Reminiscence is about—and you’ve seen it done better. From Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy comes the latest steaming pile of sci-fi wherein Jackman is Nick Bannister, a former soldier and current memory...uh...guy living in a future-esque flooded version of Miami. The oceans rose, buds, and Bannister’s business is all about folks using a sciencey water tank and headgear to literally relive their favorite memories. Bannister does this iffy science with his good buddy Watts (Westworld alum Thandiwe Newton), and when the most beautiful nightclub singer/dresses with high leg
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I can’t remember the last time a Taiwanese film didn’t try to rip my guts out by the end, and even though Man in Love is a remake of a 2014 Korean film with the same name, it still gives that ol’ Taiwanese gut-ripping try. A-Cheng (Roy Chiu of the well-admired Dear Ex) lives a conundrum. He’s a brutal, violent debt collector with a major handicap in his line of work: empathy. A-Cheng often gives debtors breaks, pays for their financial difficulties himself and doles out much-needed life advice. When he develops a crush on one of his debtors (Tiffany Hsu), however, he tries to win her over using his gangster persona, much to her obvious displeasure—and Hsu does deadpan comedy well. Yeah, yeah, it’s not even remotely close to original territory. The same plot was getting tired in the silent film era. But in fairness, Man in Love offers a good example of directorial confidence that seems to shout “Sure, I’m dated! But look at how cute I am!” And oh boy, is it cute romantic escapism even if the massive tonal shift from rom-com to emotional melodrama might leave some nonplussed. It almost feels like director Chen-Hao Yin was fired mid-way through production, and like all films with confidence, it can taken a bit far. Man in Love is a film that stays too long, like a cat who begs to go outside and then just sits there after you open the door, but even with its dated con-
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slits enthusiast wanders in and kicks off a relationship with our hero, something, something, something—who cares? The lady is Mae (Rebecca Ferguson), and she promptly disappears, leading Bannister to get hooked on his own science tank as he searches for answers, walks places very slowly and makes stern faces at good guys and bad guys and regular guys and anyone else around. Jackman’s newest might get points for being pretty (flooded Miami does look pretty cool), but in the originality and enjoyment departments, it leaves a lot wanting. Joy’s noir-lite thriller would surely work a lot better if it wasn’t so obsessed with checking off tired detective movie tropes: the dirty cop, the dame with the tortured past and the dogged lead with the struggling business who just wants answers. Let’s not forget the wise-cracking best pal and the contemptible robber baron who you just know has a deeper connection to every-
cepts, it’s easy to invest in the thing, and it’s even pretty funny. This is Bollywood-esqe, bright and wild, and an exploration of how men’s inability to understand performative violence never makes them desirable. Its heart makes it worth a watch, even if its expression is off. (Riley Gardner) Netflix, NR, 115 min
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Old age for Pat Pitsenberger (Udo Kier of Bacurau) is seemingly about little more than wasting away in a nursing home. It’s just as drab as you can imagine until the retired hairdresser (nicknamed the “Liberace of Sandusky”) gets a chance for one more do-up when he learns a former estranged client has died and needs to look her best before she’s put in the ground. To get to the funeral home, he takes a long walk through Sandusky, Ohio—but oh, how the city has changed. Pat inhabits an overcast world, and his long sojourn is almost like a metaphor for the devolving Rust Belt itself. Half the locations he passes are shut down, boarded up, decaying or outright vanished, and director Todd Stephens’ desire to produce an ode to queer safe spaces that, like the region itself or the memories of old age, dissipate as time chugs along, catches the viewer off-guard. Pat’s dual fascination with what’s lost alongside his internalized mourning present a careerhigh for 76-year-old Kier, a German native who jumps from relatively obscure cinema to
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thing. Let us also not forget it’s hard to care. Jackman’s fine as Bannister, as is Newtown on the periphery. Ferguson does what she can with ham-fisted dialogue, but in the end it feels better that she’s not around so much. When veteran character actor Cliff Curtis shows up, it’s easy to think things might get better. They don’t, however, and when the big reveal finally happens, it’s easy to wonder why we were supposed to be surprised, let alone invested. Be glad you can stream this one on HBO, but know there are plenty of films out there to scratch a similar itch without all the tedium and chewed scenery.
embodying an Ohio hairdresser with a mountain of empathy. Swan Song often leans into pure camp, too, and never apologizes for its outlandish moments. Like most festival circuit works, Stephens’ opus is not the cleanest film, nor is every directorial decision the most coherent. In fact, its low-budget vibe and supporting roles aren’t even close to convincing much of the time. There is a strong screenplay, however, anchored by a deep thematic core, and in moments wherein Swan Song’s melancholic scenes are well-balanced and tempered with rumination on life’s inevitabilities, a tear or two might fall. For all of its obvious limited production values, Swan Song does stand out within the indie world and holds its own as one of the most heartfelt films of 2021 thus far—its selection into festivals like SXSW are well deserved. (RG) VoD, NR, 101 min
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Ruby (Emilia Jones) is a CODA—Child of Deaf Adults—and as the only one in her family who can hear, she’s essential in operating the fishing business and helping her folks navigate daily life. But when Ruby joins the high school choir on a whim and learns she’s a heck of a singer, she’s at odds with her financially struggling family as they can’t, for obvious reasons, connect with her blossoming passion for music.
REMINISCENCE Directed by Joy With Jackman, Newton, Ferguson and Curtis HBO Max, PG-13, 116 min.
CODA wobbles throughout its runtime, wavering between a typical coming-of-age tale with all the corresponding young adult tropes we’ve come to expect in a story about an art kid and nuanced (read, far more interesting) family drama. Even so, clichés can be tolerated, and CODA’s most vulnerable moments are knock-outs with roaring performances from veteran deaf actors Troy Kotsur and Marlee Matlin as Ruby’s parents. Still, the film is a bit of a conundrum and is equal parts annoying even while it does resonate. It’s never quite dull, yet it never holds much in the way of surprise. Ruby’s eccentric choir director (Eugenio Derbez) inhabits a space and feel akin to what might have been a side character in some facile 2004 film with Hillary Duff and Chad Michael Murray—one wherein comedic elements, extreme personas and dramatic elements feel far more down-to-earth—or maybe just lackluster. Despite the frustrations, CODA’s screenplay attempts to do good and delve into an honest portrayal of the complexities of a deaf household, and that gives it at least a little bit of cred. That is, moments remind those of us with the privilege to hear that we all need to think against the notion that the deaf community is helpless. Oftentimes we can forgive stories when they go down well-trodden paths so long as there are newer or more enlightened truths. Once the credits roll, it’s clear CODA’s strength is in its heart rather than its tropes, but then, can’t that be said of most movies? What it does well, it does well, and what it does poorly—well, it ain’t the worst. (RG) Apple TV+ and Violet Crown, PG-13, 112 min
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries mythologist Joseph Campbell advised us to love our fate. He said we should tell ourselves, “Whatever my fate is, this is what I need.” Even if an event seems inconvenient or disruptive, we treat it as an opportunity, as an interesting challenge. “If you bring love to that moment, not discouragement,” Campbell said, “you will find the strength.” Campbell concludes that any detour or disarray you can learn from “is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!” Few signs of the zodiac are inclined to enthusiastically adopt such an approach, but you Aries folks are most likely to do so. Now is an especially favorable time to use it.
belongs to the other. Dear Libra, I hope you will employ these tender actions with greater frequency than usual in the coming weeks, Libra. Why? In my astrological opinion, it’s a ripe time to boost your Affection Quotient with the allies you care for the most.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Naturalist Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal, “I feel slightly complimented when nature condescends to make use of me without my knowledge—as when I help scatter her seeds in my walk—or carry burs and cockles on my clothes from field to field. I feel as though I had done something for the commonweal.” I mention this, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to carry TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The brilliant Taurus dancer out good deeds and helpful transformations in nature’s and choreographer Martha Graham spoke of “a vitality, behalf. Your ability to collaborate benevolently with a life force, a quickening that is translated through you plants and animals and elemental forces will be at a into action,” adding that “there is only one of you in all peak. So will your knack for creating interesting connectime.” She added, “It is not your business to determine tions between yourself and all wild things. how good it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may have never directly, to keep the channel open.” But even if you do heard of Sagittarian artist Baya Mahieddine (1931–1998). this very well, Graham said, you will nevertheless always At age 16, she experienced a splash of acclaim with a feel “a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest” that will show in Paris. Famous artists Pablo Picasso, Henry fuel you. This is the perfect message for you Tauruses to Matisse, and George Braques came. They drew inspiraembrace in the coming weeks. tion from Mahieddine’s innovative use of color, elements from her Algerian heritage, and her dream-like images. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There’s growing scientific Picasso even invited her to work with him, exulting in evidence that we make ourselves stupid by complaining the fresh perspectives she ignited. But her art never too much—or even by listening to other people comreceived the full credit it warranted. In accordance with plain a lot. Excessive negative thoughts drain energy astrological omens, this horoscope is a small way of profrom our hippocampus, a part of our brain that’s essen- viding her with the recognition and appreciation she tial to problem-solving. This doesn’t mean, of course, deserves. It also authorizes you to go out and get the that we should avoid dealing with difficult issues. But it recognition and appreciation you deserve but have not does suggest we should be discerning about how many yet fully received. disturbing and depressing ideas we entertain. According to my reading of the omens, all this will be especially CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Who knows what is useful advice for you in the coming weeks. unfolding on the other side of each hour?” asked Capricorn poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (translated by CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your brain contains one Capricorn poet Robert Bly). “How many times the sunhundred billion nerve cells. Each cell has the potential to rise was there, behind a mountain. How many times the be linked with tens of thousands of others. And they are brilliant cloud piling up far off was already a golden body always busy. Typically, your grey matter makes a million full of thunder!” Your assignment, Capricorn, is to imagnew connections every second. But I suspect your num- ine what is unfolding just beyond your perception and ber of connections will increase even beyond that in the understanding. But here’s the twist: You must steer your coming weeks. Your most complex organ will be working mind away from inclinations to indulge in fear. You must with greater intensity than usual. Will that be a bad imagine that the events in the works are beautiful, interthing or a good thing? It depends on whether you foresting, or redemptive. If you’re not willing to do that, mulate an intention to channel your intelligence into skip the exercise altogether. wise analysis about important matters—and not waste it in careless fussing about trivial details. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Better than any arguLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “You should have a sticky soul,” counsels author Elizabeth Berg. “The act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.” I especially endorse that attitude for you during the next four weeks, Leo. Your task is to make yourself extra magnetic for all the perceptions, experiences, ideas, connections, and resources you need most. By September 23, I suspect you will have gained an infusion of extra ballast and gravitas. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I sing like the nightingale whose melody is crowded in the too narrow passage of her throat,” wrote author Virginia Woolf. That was an insulting curse for her to fling at herself. I disapprove of such behavior—especially for you in the coming weeks. If you hope to be in alignment with cosmic rhythms, don’t you dare say nasty things about yourself, even in the privacy of your own thoughts. In fact, please focus on the exact opposite: flinging praise and appreciation and compliments at yourself.
ment is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup,” wrote author Wendell Berry. I mostly agree with that sentiment, although I will also put in a good word for certain kinds of arguments. There are moments when it’s crucial for your psychological and spiritual health that you initiate a conversation about delicate issues that might lead to a dispute. However, I don’t think this is one of those times, Aquarius. In my astrological opinion, picking dew-wet red berries is far more sensible than any argument. For further inspiration, read this testimony from actor Natasha Lyonne: “I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For painter Vincent van Gogh, love wasn’t primarily a sentimental feeling. Nor was it an unfocused generalized wish for health and happiness in those he cared for. Rather, he wrote, “You must love with a high, serious, intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence.” His love was alert, acute, active, and energized. It was animated with a determination to be resourceful and ingenious in nurturing the beloved. For van Gogh, love was always in action, forever moving LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The blogger at www-wlw. toward ever-fresh engagement. In service to intimacy, he tumblr.com says the following are the top tender said, “you must always seek to know more thoroughly, actions. 1. Fastening clothes or jewelry for your companbetter, and more.” I hope you’ll make these meditations ion. 2. Letting them rest their head on your shoulder. 3. a top priority during the next seven weeks. Idly playing with their hands. 4. Brushing a leaf out of their hair. 5. Locking pinkies. 6. Rubbing their back when Homework: This is what I do to earn a living. Let me know what you do. Newsletter@FreeWillAstrology.com you embrace. 7. Both of you wearing an item that
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT NO. D-101-PB-2021-00150 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMIE S. SAMS, deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that DAVID A. GRADY has been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of JAMIE S. SAMS, deceased. 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 to the Personal Representative at GRADY LAW & MEDIATION LLC (DAVID A. GRADY) 5106 Comanche NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 STATE OF NEW MEXICO Fax 505.814.7722 COUNTY OF SANTA FE Or filed with the FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT First Judicial District Court COURT IN THE MATTER OF 225 Montezuma Avenue A PETITION FOR CHANGE Santa Fe, NM 87501 OF NAME MARIAN LOUANA GRADY LAW & MEDIATION PRADA LLC Attorney for Personal Case No.: Representative D-101-CV-2021-01741 BY /s/ David A. Grady NOTICE OF CHANGE OF DAVID A. GRADY NAME TAKE NOTICE that in 5106 Comanche NE accordance with the provisions Albuquerque, of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. New Mexico 87110 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. Telephone 505.814.7720 The Petitioner Marian Louana Email: david@dgradylaw.com Prada will apply to the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the First Judicial FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT District at the Santa Fe Judicial COUNTY OF SANTA FE Complex, 225 Montezuma STATE OF NEW MEXICO Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Case No. at 10:00 a.m. on the 21st day D-101-PB-2021-00142 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF John Allen Turnbull, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mary Frances Mott and Guy Anthony Turnbull, Whose address is c/o The Wirth Law Firm, P.C., 708 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, have been appointed as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of John Allen Turnbull, deceased. Creditors of the estate must present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or within sixty (60) days after mailing or other delivery, whichever is later, or the claims will be forSFREPORTER.COM
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