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depends more heavily on his senses of smell and hearing to navigate the world in the dark. So one way to keep him active and engaged is to make feeding time into a game of hide and seek.

With Ollie, I’ll put his food down in a different place every time that is near enough for him to smell, but not so close that he doesn’t have to search for it. It keeps him moving around and he loves the hunt.

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Pets who have been in accidents or who are suffering from chronic illnesses such as arthritis may need help getting around, and for their own health and well-being, it’s important that they continue to get exercise. A few minor home modifications can ensure your pet is able to meet its most basic needs and keep its independence as long as possible.

Even though I was woefully unprepared for a special needs pet in the beginning, I have grown to see the wonderful blessing it has been in our lives. It’s kind of hard to sulk or feel sorry for myself after a bad day when I look down to see the obvious joy emanating from Ollie as he wags his tail like a dog having the best day ever even though he can’t see or hear the world he’s living in. He finds joy and adventure in every other one of his heightened senses as a result.

He’s happy just because. So it leaves me wondering, is it possible to find happiness in any circumstances? Ollie seems to think so. I think he’s onto something.

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joy and entertainment than I expected. I just had to figure out how to manage new rhythms and routines with a dog that needed a little extra help getting from “Point A” to “Point B” without running into a wall or down a flight of stairs.

Fortunately, in my line of work most of my colleagues at the shelter also have senior pets with strange, janky ailments. So it’s nice to have a community around me to commiserate with about all the adventures of caring for pets with special needs. And they often have great advice to share!

Here is a little about what they taught me along the way:

Inevitably, a special needs pet will require more of your time than an able-bodied one.

But the good news here is that in a fast-

From paralysis to loss of vision to epilepsy, your pet may have been born differently-abled, or it may have come into its struggle later in life. Whether the disability is related to old age, genetics, injury or disease doesn’t really matter. What matters is what your pet can still do, what senses they still have and what activities still bring them joy—and focusing on creating more opportunities for enrichment based on their strengths.

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hen I adopted my dog, Oliver, as a puppy, it wasn’t hard to imagine what he’d be like as an old man— because he basically started out as one.

From the moment he was put in my arms at 6 weeks old, it was obvious he had the slow pace, attitude and soul of a very old, unapologetically stubborn geezer.

Even his bark was old. From the very beginning, he had the gruff, raspy bellow of a 97-year-old coal miner living on a wholesome diet of whiskey and Marlboro Reds.

I was prepared for “old man energy.”

I wasn’t prepared to have a handicapped dog. Well into his teen years, Ollie has slowed down even more—and is now totally deaf and blind.

Life with a disabled pet can be challenging, sure.

Surprisingly though, having a senior “special needs” dog brings with it a lot more

Routine, routine, routine.

Routine is important for any able-bodied pet but is particularly important for pets with special needs. An established schedule for bathroom breaks, exercise, feeding and medication helps your pet to feel safe and mitigates stress from unexpected and unknown stimuli.

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paced world where you are running at full speed most of the time, enjoying the routines of your special needs pet can be a much needed trigger to slow down to a more leisurely pace and see the world from a more present view.

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Cassidy (ID#A156938), a 5-year-old Queensland Heeler mix is a sweet and happy fellow. He’s blind and walks with a limp as a result of an unknown injury. He’s looking for a home with someone who will take him for slow walks and give him lots of cuddles. Come by the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society and meet him today!

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Southside residents appeal environment department approval of asphalt company’s plan to consolidate operations 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

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outhsiders Linda Marianiello and Miguel Acosta have for about two years been trying to prevent Associated Asphalt and Materials from consolidating operations in Santa Fe under a new permit, citing community health concerns, particularly given the company’s history of possible violations.

The New Mexico Environment Department approved Associated Asphalt’s permit last summer to move its operations from both sides of Highway 599 to just the west side of the roadway.

Marianiello and Acosta, who’s the co-director of local nonprofit Earth Care, are undeterred.

They see the permit as part of a larger issue of low-income and non-white neighborhoods bearing the brunt of industrial pollution.

Represented by attorneys Maslyn Locke and Eric Jantz with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, they appealed the department’s order in August, and a public hearing on the appeal is set for later this month.

“We demand equity and believe that residents on the Southside deserve the same quality of life as all residents of Santa Fe,” Marianiello, a Tierra Contenta resident, tells SFR. “It’s an environmental justice issue because just imagine if Associated Asphalt had put in an application for a location on Bishop’s Lodge or Canyon Road. I wonder how far that would’ve gotten.”

She and Acosta first joined with other Southside residents at a neighborhood meeting to discuss the permit in February 2020, shortly after the company submitted its application, and are calling themselves the Santa Fe Southside Environmental Justice Coalition.

Locke and Jantz signed on to represent them pro bono a little over a year ago.

Under the approved permit, Associated Asphalt can move all operations across Highway 599 from 3810 Oliver Drive to 86 Paseo de River St., which pushes produc-

tion farther away from Tierra Contenta while maintaining about the same distance between the plant and Cottonwood Village Mobile Home neighborhood.

The consolidation, while not prohibited by the appeal, hasn’t yet begun, according to company spokeswoman Joanie Griffin. She says the company doesn’t have a firm timeline for the shift.

Residents have reasons to be worried about the company.

Reporting by SFR in spring 2020 revealed that an Air Quality Bureau investigator had found several potential problems at Associated Asphalt after a nearby resident complained about a foul odor and smoke in the air coming from the plant.

According to the inspection report, employees weren’t keeping consistent records of baghouse pressures—a measure of how many particles asphalt production is releasing into the air—and were only recording one set per day instead of the required two. The plant operator also didn’t know the proper response when a baghouse might be malfunctioning.

Since then, Associated Asphalt has “made improvements,” Griffin says.

In response to a question about how Santa Feans can trust that the issue has been resolved, Griffin writes in an email to SFR: “The new permit is more stringent with more transparency to the regulatory agency than the prior permit, and that should give the neighbors more comfort. We have been and will continue being a good neighbor.”

She says the new permit includes record-keeping conditions that will allow the environment department “to confirm that AAM is operating the way we are permitted to operate.”

Associated Asphalt also went 30 years without submitting a biennial emissions inventory, which is meant to monitor new trends in pollutants. (The company submitted an inventory in 2021.)

The submission failure “is likely a violation of the permit,” environment department spokesman Matt Maez writes in an email to SFR. But the department hasn’t enforced that

From left, Miguel Acosta, Linda Marianiello and Maslyn Locke stand outside Associated Asphalt’s plant on Oliver Drive. The group is appealing NMED’s decision to allow the asphalt company to consolidate operations on the Southside.

permit condition for a number of reasons, Maez writes, including “litigation risk associated with prior administration guidance on the topic of minor source emission inventory submission” and budget shortfalls within the department.

The company’s history aside, one of the main points of contention between the department and the Southside coalition centers around ambient air, which the US Environmental Protection Agency defines as “that portion of the atmosphere, external to buildings, to which the general public has access.”

The coalition argues in its appeal that the department’s decision to grant the permit allows Associated Asphalt “to exclude National Ambient Air Quality Standards exceedances found at nearby [private] properties,” not just its own. That’s an “inappropriate” definition of ambient air, Locke says.

The department disagrees, arguing in its response to the appeal that by definition, ambient air only exists in public areas, meaning that measurements found inside the property boundaries of other nearby industrial operations can be excluded from the department’s air quality modeling.

In the appeal, the coalition also alleges that the department curbed the ability of people with limited English proficiency to meaningfully participate in a hearing held in March 2021, which the department denies.

Those claims and a couple others are slated to be considered later this month.

The Environmental Improvement Board—the rulemaking body of the environment department—is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the appeal starting Feb. 23 (env.nm.gov/events-calendar). Anyone who wants to present technical evidence at the hearing must submit a statement of intent to the board by Feb. 8.

While it’s likely overturning the permit will be an uphill battle, Marianiello and Acosta say the stakes are high.

Marianiello’s involvement in the coalition is, in part, personal.She contracted COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic and has been dealing with long-term effects ever since. She says she saw a doctor last summer who told her that her lungs had been damaged by the virus but that asthma was likely an underlying condition.

“I said, ‘How is that possible? I’m 66 years old and I’ve never had asthma in my entire life,’” Marianiello says. “But I’ve lived in Tierra Contenta near the asphalt facilities and the airport and other polluting industries since 2009 and it’s possible that I developed asthma from the pollution that exists here in our area of town.”

Acosta points to the disproportionately poor health of those living on the Southside.

“It’s the unhealthiest part of Santa Fe primarily because of social determinants of health and well-being,” Acosta tells SFR. “We look at equity not just in terms of equitable or equal access to resources but also equal exposure to risk. And we’re carrying all the risk on the Southside and none of the access to the resources.”

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Burden Before Trial

Santa Fe’s district attorney weighs the pros and cons of New Mexico’s pretrial detention rules as a governor-backed reform effort stalls in the Legislature

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ew Mexico’s pretrial detention system has taken center stage as this year’s 30-day legislative session hits its halfway point and politicians, including Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, gear up for election season.

The debate over who should be held in jail before a judge or jury decides their guilt or innocence comes as the state struggles with violent crime rates higher than the national average. Albuquerque drives much of the brutality—the state’s largest city recorded 117 murders last year, eclipsing the previous grim record of 82, set in 2020.

But other cities have seen far too many victims in recent years as well. That includes Santa Fe, where prosecutors say they’re tracking a 43% increase from 2019 to 2021 in a class of crimes that includes homicide, armed robbery and aggravated battery.

There’s broad agreement among advocates, policymakers and frontline criminal justice system workers that government can and must do more to bolster public safety. Many have even agreed on some proposed fixes: increasing penalties for certain gun crimes, ending the statute of limitations for second-degree murder and spending $100 million to hire more cops.

That’s where the consensus ends.

Lujan Grisham’s signature public safety legislation, House Bill 5, has drawn support from police, some prosecutors and Republicans—and derision from public defenders, data analysts and members of her own party. Rep. Marian Matthews, an Albuquerque Democrat, and others are carrying the bill for the governor.

During its first legislative hearing in the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee on Jan. 24, Rep. Daymon Ely, D-Corrales, borrowed a phrase from his daughter to call the bill a “hot mess,” then vowed to pick it apart in the House Judiciary Committee.

Opponents say the bill aims to fix an Albuquerque problem with a statewide law that wouldn’t reduce violent crime and is likely unconstitutional, besides. Civil rights lawyers have promised litigation if the proposal becomes law.

Government, Elections and Indian Affairs passed the bill on a 7-2 vote. It’s headed to House Judiciary next, and its path forward appears fraught.

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So, what would this bill, which has garnered so many headlines and heated opinions, do? Essentially, it would force defendants accused of certain violent crimes to prove to a judge that they should be allowed to await trial outside of a jail cell.

That would mark a massive shift in that burden of proof, which lies with prosecutors under the existing system.

If passed and signed into law, HB5 would weaken a huge change in New Mexico’s criminal justice system that was years in the making. For decades, the cash bail system—think of it as money for freedom—had enriched bondsmen, swelled the populations of the state’s county jails and trampled people’s rights.

But in 2014, then-state Supreme Court Justice Charles Daniels authored an opinion saying that the state had set bail too high for a murder defendant named Walter Brown. The seminal ruling admonished judges to use bail only for its original, intended purpose: to ensure people’s appearance in court.

Two years later, 87% of voters pulled the lever for a change to the state constitution that did two things: It etched in stone that no one could be jailed before trial simply because they didn’t have money for a bail bond, and it allowed judges to incarcerate felony defendants pretrial, so long as prosecutors could make a case for it.

That’s what set up the current pretrial detention system.

Bernalillo County District Attorney Raúl Torrez has complained about that system since it took effect and, more recently, has tirelessly pushed the notion that bail reform has created a “revolving door” in the criminal justice system and freed dangerous people he’d tried to jail pretrial, allowing them to commit new, violent crimes.

Torrez penned a scathing, 19-page letter to lawmakers and the governor, challenging a Legislative Finance Committee analysis that found the pretrial detention system was not a primary driver of the violent crime rate in Albuquerque—even as his office failed to respond to numerous inquiries from committee analysts.

Fifth Judicial District Attorney Dianna Luce, a southeastern New Mexico DA who is also president of the New Mexico District Attorneys Association, and other prosecutors have often joined Torrez in advocating for HB5.

First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies has not been among them. The top prosecutor for Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos counties, who just finished her first year in office, is a

RISING RATES FOR SANTA FE The First Judicial District Attorney’s Office says it’s tracking a 43% increase in certain violent crimes in Santa Fe County, one of three counties in the district.

Overall, there were 153 such cases in 2019 and 220 in 2021. Here’s how they break down:

SFR: Did you support the constitutional amendment back in 2016, and did you vote for it?

Mary Carmack-Altwies: Yes and yes. I did.

And I still do. The idea of getting rid of cash bail, I think, is absolutely necessary. I was a public defender contractor as well as a private attorney, so I really saw how cash bail held people in custody for relatively minor offenses for months and months and months, and that just completely upends people’s lives.

Can you walk me through the other piece of the amendment...the piece giving judges the constitutional ability to hold folks pretrial, without bail, provided that prosecutors were able to make that showing by the standard of clear and convincing evidence. What was your thinking [when you were a public defender contractor] on that piece of the amendment?

I actually supported that as well. There are some people that, even as a defense attorney, I recognized that they’d committed certain crimes or their history was such that they should not be out walking amongst us. And I felt that way when we still had cash bail. Judges sometimes would deny those people bail altogether, or they would set it so high that there was no way they were gonna get out. The problem with that is that it swept up a whole lot of people that didn’t need to be in jail. So, I thought putting the burden on the prosecution instead of on the defendant’s wallet made a lot of sense.

progressive—representing a relatively progressive district—who has advocated for and launched programs to emphasize rehabilitation and community justice over incarceration and pressed for police accountability.

Despite not taking a front seat in the HB5 debate, Carmack-Altwies doesn’t believe Torrez and the rest of the bill’s supporters are completely off base. She has some trepidation about the bill’s particulars and takes long pauses when answering questions about it.

But Carmack-Altwies says interpretations of the constitutional amendment reforming the bail system have amounted to an over-correction and left prosecutors, in some cases, unable to protect the community. The system, she says, badly needs changing.

SFR caught up with Carmack-Altwies to discuss the pretrial detention system.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity:

So, I thought putting the burden on the prosecution instead of on the defendant’s wallet made a lot of sense.

-Mary Carmack-Altwies, district attorney

In terms of what you thought the amendment was supposed to do, as a defense lawyer and as a prosecutor, was the system functioning as you thought it would when you cast your ballot?

What I thought I was voting for was that non-violent, low-level offenders—people charged with misdemeanors, people charged with third- and fourth-degree felonies, even some people charged with firstand second-degree felonies that didn’t have criminal histories—would no longer be held, particularly those lower on the socioeconomic ladder, would no longer be held because they couldn’t come up with $50 for a $500 bail...Over my career as a criminal defense attorney for 13 or 14 years, I can’t tell you how many times I had private clients accused of armed robbery, drug trafficking or worse that were out walking the streets—they always got out. But a guy who is picking up shoplifting because he’s trying to feed his family or even someone kind of violent but not super bad, they were CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Are some of the requirements under the current scheme unrealistic for even the best law enforcement agencies?

I cannot in any way blame the police for the way the system has evolved and is continuing to evolve. They have to make arrests when they think they have probable cause for a felony charge, but oftentimes they’re making those arrests when they have several cases happening at the same time. So, it takes a few days for them to write their reports, and I do not blame them for that at all...The way the rules have been interpreted, we, prosecutors, have to prove two prongs.

One is that the person is dangerous and the other is that no other conditions of release will ensure a person’s appearance in court.

The thing is, we almost never have a problem proving prong one. Where we very often lose is on ‘no reasonable conditions,’ because that’s been interpreted—particularly by the Supreme Court, and that has filtered down to our District Court judges—basically to mean almost no one has to be held in jail because there’s GPS or an ankle bracelet or house arrest. So, it’s asking us almost to prove a negative by clear and convincing

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IN AND OUT OF JAIL First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies points to a recent case in her district as an example of what she calls a “system that needs reform.” Prosecutors believed they had strong evidence that the defendant would pose a danger to the community if released before trial on violent felony charges—and that no conditions of release would protect others or ensure the man came back to court. (Those are the two things prosecutors must prove to have someone locked up before trial.)

The judge disagreed. Here’s how the case played out: Erick Martinez, 44, was arrested in January 2021 on suspicion of aggravated stalking, burglary and other charges after police say he broke into his 74-year-old mother’s Española home and disabled her vehicle.

Prosecutors sought to have Martinez locked up pending trial, but on Jan. 28, 2021, First Judicial District Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer denied their motion, ruling that they hadn’t proven their burden to show Martinez was dangerous. Three times during the next seven months, Martinez was arrested on suspicion of violating his conditions of release; twice, he was released and reinstated to electronic monitoring. In July, he again allegedly violated his conditions, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. On either Aug. 1 or Aug. 2, Martinez allegedly beat his mother to death in her home.

He is awaiting trial on first-degree murder and other charges.

evidence. That’s where we have the hardest time in the First. And we have a relatively good win rate: We’re at about 58% in Santa Fe…And there are plenty of cases in which, for example, we agree with the defense that GPS is appropriate for someone, particularly after more evidence comes in. When you take those out, our win rate goes up to 65, 70%. I think that the system needs reform because I cannot tell you the amount of resources we have had to switch to intake and pretrial detention in order to handle these.

We are basically expected now to have almost everything except for scientific evidence within about [five] days.

Some readers are going to say, ‘Suck it up, buttercup, and you need to have your shit together within that timeframe.’

We talked earlier about the notion of realism—what’s realistic and what isn’t.

When you were a criminal defense lawyer would you have thought differently

about the realism of a timeline like that, or would you have just been licking your chops?

Oh, as a defense lawyer, I was licking my chops because I can get my people out. Does that mean, as a citizen, my community is safer? Does that mean I felt good about it? No. Are you losing because the ‘no-reasonable-conditions’ provision is not well defined in the constitution and the case law that’s developed?

You hit the nail on the head. It’s not defined by the statute or even particularly in the court rules. You’re absolutely right to say some people will have the attitude of ‘suck it up, buttercup,’ and we do. And that’s why you haven’t seen me leading the charge on reforming the system. I absolutely agree that this needs to be reformed, it needs to be looked at. The system has turned out to be an unfunded mandate on prosecutors’ offices across the state. There’s not one DA that BELLA DAVIS

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always in custody. I really felt like the system was backwards, it was not fair, and it was not working...The way that the amendment has been interpreted, I think what that has done—as a prosecutor, I am all about proving my burdens, and I have no issue with that.

But the timelines and the things that we are expected to produce within a very short period of time that we sometimes simply cannot do because the investigation is not done or the police don’t have it finished. And so we’re kind of having to use this crystal ball, and we try to use it very judiciously in the First [Judicial District] and really only try to use it against people that we truly believe should be held in custody and, based on the rules, that we think we can actually win a motion to keep them in custody.

A canine officer walks near the booking area at the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Center.

Legislators are considering whether to change the state law that spells out who should be in jail before trial.

Do you support HB5—is it going to address the concerns you’ve raised during our conversation?

[20-second pause] I absolutely believe that reform to this system needs to happen…There are concerns that I have heard. I watched the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee, and I’ve seen the criticisms, and I’ve seen the support. I understand both sides of that.

Dianna Luce, the president of the New Mexico District Attorneys Association, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she has the full support of all 14 elected DAs in the state for HB5. Is that true for you?

Yes, the elected district attorneys, all of us, voted to support HB5.

Are you confident that the data show that the pretrial detention system is causing crime?

The data that’s being used comes from the [association of district attorneys] and that system is not meant as a data repository...

Our office is working to purchase software to actually mine our data to see which programs are working and which aren’t...Raúl’s argument that the criticism is based on flawed data is right. It is...I cannot say what is causing the increase in crime. We are seeing it here in Santa Fe. We pulled stats the other day, and we’re looking at about a 43% increase in violent crimes. That’s scary, and we are also seeing that nationwide. Is it just the pretrial detention system in New Mexico or in Albuquerque? No. Clearly not. But I do know that from our experience in this jurisdiction that we’ve got people charged with the most heinous crimes, including murder, that we can’t hold in jail.

Interesting enough that the entire movement behind the bail reform amendment was built around a murder case, the Walter Brown case.

It’s a really interesting constitutional and societal debate that’s happening. But my perspective has changed as a prosecutor.

I have victims here in Santa Fe who are leaving because we can’t get their abusers held—or people that are calling us and

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thinks this is a system that is working all that well. And I would posit that most of our community looks at your paper, looks at the New Mexican and says, ‘how is this person not being held in jail?’ And we have tried.

So I would think that most of your readers would think, ‘OK, suck it up, buttercup,’ but also ‘this system is not working if we have first-degree murderers that are walking around when the case against them is pretty darn strong.’

Burden Before Trial if this gets passed into law and you proceed under the new statute and win one of these hearings? Do you think there are going to be constitutional challenges?

Oh, yeah. Because every defendant, if they’re held, they have an automatic right of appeal.

A lot of them appeal under the current system when they’re held. So, sure. And it’ll go up to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court will tell us whether it’s constitutional.

SEEKING JAIL UNTIL TRIAL A change to the New Mexico Constitution approved by voters in 2016 allowed prosecutors to petition judges to hold felony defendants in jail until their trials.

Prior to 2021, the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office, which includes Santa Fe, used an older case management system that didn’t precisely track how pretrial detention motions were resolved. Last year’s statistics are far more detailed. Here’s a look at the numbers:

Do you have an opinion whether this statute would be constitutional?

I think Raúl and the legislators have put a lot of thought into trying to make it as constitutional as they can.

2018: 42 motions filed; 28 granted

Even under this new scheme, if it’s passed into law, wouldn’t those quick, five-day timelines to get ready for a pretrial detention hearing you talked about earlier, still be a problem?

Absolutely. To me, this reform would be a step in the right direction. I don’t know that it fixes all of the ills of the system.

2019: 88 motions filed; 48 granted

2020: 83 motions filed; 38 granted (The DA’s office agreed to home confinement in many of these cases due to COVID-19)

Regardless of how you feel about the intricacies of HB5, do you welcome the debate around this issue?

I think that most people would agree that the system as it has been interpreted and written into case law is flawed. I’m not saying that I know or that anyone knows the lightning bolt that will fix it. So, having a debate about it and talking about the constitutional issues, which are so, so, so important—but also talking about the victims of these crimes who do not feel protected by the system is also so, so, so important. And prosecutors are trying their best to work under the current system.

It’s working a little better for us here in Santa Fe than it is down in Albuquerque. But that doesn’t mean that it’s working great in Santa Fe or in Clovis or in Doña Ana County.

2021:125 motions filed, of which 58 were granted, 49 were denied, 15 were dismissed or withdrawn by prosecutors, and 3 are either pending or have no status

saying, ‘That guy who pulled a gun on me last week and stole my car, I just saw him at Blake’s.’ And we’re like, ‘Yeah, we tried.’

There are constitutional issues that I fully and totally support, and I’m not saying that we have the solutions, but reform is absolutely needed.

Do you believe that the pretrial detention system is among the drivers of those increased violent crime rates you mentioned in your district?

I do think it is among the drivers, yes.

If it is among the drivers, would HB5, as it’s written, reduce its impact in your district?

[30-second pause] Every tool that we can get in our arsenal to combat this is helpful.

If HB5 is passed and signed into law, do you anticipate an increase in the number of pretrial detention motions that you would file?

No, I really don’t. We’ve always tried to be very judicious and discretionary in what we file. We recognize that defendants have constitutional rights, and one of those is to live under conditions of release if there are reasonable ones. We review every single case, every single day and we try to be very discerning about who we file on.

Do you anticipate that you would win more of those motions if HB5 becomes law?

I think that our rate of wins would increase.

Do you expect that you’re gonna get sued

It sounds like you do have some concerns, some trepidation and like you have thought quite a bit about how to change a system you see as not working entirely as planned, particularly for the entire state.

Do I have that right?

Yes, you do. Since the system came into being and with every new case that comes out, the frustration level keeps going up across the state for judges and prosecutors and police and certainly for victims...I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. I was a practitioner in District Court around the state for 13 years, and I want to see this system changed.

I am sometimes frustrated by the loudest voices in the debate that maybe overshadow other potentially good solutions, but I also know that happens in every debate. But the best thing is we are shining a light on it and seeking solutions.

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BEAT IT, KIDS Locals are always telling us how they’d love Meow Wolf so much more if there were hours set aside just for them. Like, nobody wants anything bad to happen to your kids, people with kids, we just like to have some time away from them...and their screaming.

The local arts corporation heard your pleas, too, Santa Fe, and it now offers special adults-only hours.

That means booze, slower exploration, none of that aforementioned screaming and, we hope, F-word after F-word uttered through the hallowed neon halls and rooms that have things that look things but are really other things (like that fridge that’s really a door, for example). Go wild, just don’t get lax about COVID. (Alex De Vore) Adulti-verse: 6-10 pm Thursday, Feb. 3. $35 Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

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Strata Gallery’s new showcase is crumpled and torn, just like all of us Paper is the way to the soul. Don’t you see all those Valentine cards currently lining the grocery store shelves? Or wait, maybe it’s the representation of the soul. Either way, if you’ve never seen what a talented paper artist can do, you’re in for a real treat this week, Santa Fe. Enter Phillip Byrne, a California-based artist and current MFA candidate at UC Davis who takes root at Strata Gallery to promote his new show, Sacred Wound. As a creator, Byrne’s work is built around his personal dealings with Crohn’s Disease and Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Syndrome— two diagnoses that robbed him of bodily agency. In Sacred Wound, paper is a metaphor for human physicality. The paper on display is fragmented, crumpled, cut, torn and yet rehabilitated to form a new kind of whole.

In his artist statement, Byrne describes his inspiration as, “placing my own metaphysical body on the dissection table and exploring its interior contents.”

We haven’t heard something so surgically thrilling since high school anatomy class, and rarely in the fine art sense.

“Phillip was a student of mine, and I’m very familiar with his work,” David Olivant, artist and president of the board of directors at Strata Gallery, tells SFR. “It’s really stimulating stuff. The condition of the human body is in all his works. He dunks paper into dyed water and sculpts that into expressive forms, mimicking wounds from mythologies.” # 16

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Have you ever wondered how the body examines its own wounds, and what the physiological impact of that might be? For Byrne, such looming questions are a part of every day. What are the metaphysical limits to our boundaries, and what’s all this impermanence about anyhow? In short: If you’ve ever been overwhelmed by life’s fluidity and your own lack of control, as Byrne has, there’s a chance this show will resonate. His previous work has included light drawings which built patterns of awesome geometric madness, light veils that gave an X-ray glow to sculptural installations and, of course, paper-based unravellings representing human frailty.

“And it goes beyond paper,” Olivant adds. “There will be a 35-foot canvas with crimson ink stains streaming down, reflecting into this controlled environment.

Windows will be darkened, sound and light elements added, and molded plexiglass works hanging from above.”

Byrne’s showcase runs through Feb. 19, so there are plenty of opportunities to check it out. But hey, don’t you wanna get your decorative N95s out, get a little February mingling in and see some art to make you remember the fragility of the body? (Riley Gardner)

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SACRED WOUND OPENING 5 pm Tuesday, Feb. 8. Free Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403

SCREENING We understand it’s a little confusing to differentiate between the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival and the Santa Fe Film Festival, but while the indie version starts in October, February’s all about the older of the two and its more films than we could possibly list here (it’s seriously dozens). For 10 days this month, find SFFF offerings at various theaters around town, just don’t forget that you’ll have to get vaxx’d and boosted—and be able to prove it—to attend. Masks are also required. Is this the spot where we mention how Santa Fe has better movie-going options than cities thrice our size? Because we do. In other words, if you’re a fan of film and want to be in the know about what the indie champs are doing, here’s a good start. (ADV) Santa Fe Film Festival: Various times Thursday, Feb. 3-Sunday, Feb. 13 $10-$212.50. Various locations, santafefilmfestival.com

MUSIC FRI/4 WESTWARD, HO! If’n you’ve lived around these parts for any period of real time, you’re sure to have heard the name Joe West whispered from the lips of many a Santa Fean.

Yeah, that countrified-meets-citified acoustic guitar slingin’, time travelin’, throat warblin’ songwriter just can’t seem to quit, and that could be why he’s hosting a jam night at Beer Creek Brewing Co.—or maybe he’s just looking to party. West adopts a “no amps allowed” policy for his ongoing open mic nights/ jam sessions, plus, given the caliber of musician he works with one the reg, could be you see something amazing in some configuration that never connected before and never does again afterward. If all else fails, remember West’s sage words of wisdom that we discovered on the social media invite: “Not too many harmonicas, please.” (ADV) Joe West Acoustic Jam: 5 pm Friday, Feb. 4. Free Beer Creek Brewing Co., 3810 Hwy. 14, (505) 471-9271

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ONGOING ART ABIGAIL SMITH: COLLAGE No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Twelve recent works on paper by the Santa Fe-based collagist.

During No Name Cinema events or by appointment, free ANSEL ADAMS: PURE PHOTOGRAPHY New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 An exhibition of 16 prints from the museum’s collection concentrating on the photographs Adams shot around 1932 before he became a household name.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12 AWAKENINGS ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 Works channelling the inner creative spirit, ranging from oil, acrylic, glass, sculpture, mosaic and contemporary mixed media.

Artists who know these feelz will feel themselves a kindred spiritual something.

10 am-5 pm, free COME SEE THE CATS Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Dr. (505) 955-2820 Santa Fe’s Bobbie Ferrell is inspired by her cats. Thus, a love of big shapes and folk art emerges.

10 am-6 pm, Tues-Sat, free

Work by Bella Marie from the show Frequency and Archetype, Spirit and Matter, opening Friday, Feb. 4 at El Zaguán.

CROSSROADS Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 Landscape paintings inspired by the West, with works from Jeremy Mann, Francis DiFronzo and Jay Bailey.

Tues-Sat, 10 am-5 pm, free 10 am-5 pm, $0-$12

HELEN PASHGIAN: PRESENCES SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Get yourself an introductory course into Pashigan’s astonishing works.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

JUDY TUWALETSTIWA: SOURCE, PROCESS, TRANSFORMATION Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 A tribute to our guiding materials, ranging from kiln-fired glass to hand-crafted paper.

Tues-Sat, 11 am-5 pm, free

KATE JOYCE: METAPHYSICS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 The passing of time, all from above. Inspired by Joyce’s plane travels, she finds subject matter within the sky and clouds.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

SENSE MEMORIES Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 Marietta Patricia Leis’ reflections of trees and abstractions bring your good old-fashioned senses into the game.

Fri-Sun, noon-5 pm, $10 NEVADA WIER: INVISIBLE LIGHT Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 A photographic exploration into making the invisible visible through the unusual and haunting light of infrared photography. AKA, these photos look really cool.

11 am-5 pm, free HOPE DIES LAST: A TRIBUTE TO STUDS TERKEL Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St. Artist and graphic designer, C. Sullivan displays a new public art installation as part of the Railyard Art Project; an homage to Terkel—the late, great oral historian—and the everyday people he turned into inspirational legacies.

All day, free SECRET GARDEN Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 David Simpson’s latest exhibition brings together a mix of new and older works, plus light wells and flower paintings.

Tues-Fri, 10 am-5:30 pm Sat, 10 am-5 pm, free TRANSFORMING THE DESERT Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915 Christa Stephens has a peculiar vision for the Southwestern sky—her art displays fragments of dust and vapor as geometric patterns, and dang if it doesn't look really cool.

10 am-5 pm, free VIBRANT POOL Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 Vibrant Pool is the work of New Mexico-based artists. Sound installation, experimental photography and light sculpture, the work in Vibrant Pool showcases Kirsten Angerbauer, Emily Margarit Mason and Zuyva Sevilla.

Thurs, 9 am-5 pm Fri and Sat, noon-6 pm Sun, 11 am-5 pm, free

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THE CALENDAR WHAT THE HELL'S GOIN ON HERE Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 This might be SFR’s favorite show title in ages. Larry D Blissett loves the wild and free part of his work, which is so memorable you can’t help feel it could only have been made here in New Mexico.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm, Sat, free THIS IS THE SHAPE OF ME Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888 An interactive thread installation from Jen Pack featuring sewn fabric wall sculptures and framed works on synthetic vellum that explore light, color and space.

Manipulating whimsical threads to create architectural shapes, Pack illustrates the changing genders assigned to craft and optical art. Now that’s rad.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free GLIMPSES OF THE PAST: HISTORIC NEW MEXICO PRINTS 1880-1950 Couse-Sharp Historic Site 138 Kit Carson Road, Taos (575) 751-0369 A presentation of more than 50 Northern New Mexico themed graphic media works.

Noon-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

FILM THE SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL Various locations santafefilmfestival.com You know the drill. We love ourselves some cinema in our cute lil cinematic village. Check out the website for locations and prices to see all the upcoming filmmakers! (see SFR picks, page 16) All day, various prices

WED/2 EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278 Trivia night. Drink or don't, and get to the library to get yourself a new card and some facts (and a love of literature so we can defeat the book banners! #MausForever!).

8 pm, free HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 We’ve never understood what exactly a hotline bling is (there have been online think pieces, but we’ve never been satisfied with the answers). But you know what we always understand? Classic bingo. And drinks. And joy. In that order of importance.

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MAINSTREET 2022 WINTER CONFERENCE La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511 An opportunity to network with other MainStreet leaders, learn from special guest speakers and visit one of New Mexico’s unique MainStreet districts.

8 am-noon, free OPEN MIC Honeymoon Brewery 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139 Open Mic hosted by Kyle Perkins. Bring your talents out, kids. We know you're hiding them.

6-8 pm, free

MUSIC NEIL FRANCES Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 The electronic duo is a fave amongst the Los Angeles crowds. Don’t be suprised if you’ve already heard their music without knowing—these are beats with a soul.

7 pm, $16 RISING APPALACHIA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 As world travelers for nearly two decades, Rising Appalachia have merged multiple global music influences with their own Southern roots to create inviting new folk music.

7:30 pm, $30-$35

THU/3 EVENTS ADULTI-VERSE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Ever see a child and think, "Eww what is that?!" Well, at Meow Wolf's adults-only nights, such thoughts will never occur to you. 21+, at your own pace. (see SFR picks, page 16) 6-10 pm, $35 CHESS AND JAZZ CLUB No Name Cinema 2013 Piñon St. nonamecinema.org Chess matches and jazz... batches. Open to all skill levels. Free herbal tea. Vax required. Get boosted and defeat your enemies on the chess board.

6-8 pm, free (but donate) SCHMOOZE TIME Honeymoon Brewery 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139 A cute community gathering.

Bundle up and feel free to bring a blanket and schmooze with fellow Santa Feans. Sip your kombucha and munch on some delicious New York or Detroit style pizza from Cosmic Pie Pizza.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC CEDRIC BURNSIDE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 At once African and American and Southern and Mississippian, these blues tunes tell of love, hurt, connection and redemption.

7:30 pm, $27-$30 THEO KUTSKO Social Kitchen + Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, Ste. A (505) 982-5952 Check out Santa Fe’s rising piano star Kutsko perform show tunes and take requests.

6:30 pm, free

FRI/4 ART FREQUENCY AND ARCHETYPE, SPIRIT AND MATTER (OPENING) El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Artist Bella Marie recreates visions of the inner spirit and formless world, revealed to her in meditation, expressed through frequency and archetypes.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES POEMS OF ART & ARTISTS: JANE SHOENFELD AND DONALD LEVERING Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Strata Gallery artist Shoenfeld reads from her new poetry book Petals in the Tunnel and Levering reads and discusses his poetry inspired by works of art from his long career.

6 pm, free

FILM SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER (1492-)/SAY HER NAME Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 780-5403 Both documentaries by tribal filmmaker Rain Bear Stands Last are noted worldwide for their impact. Rain and Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca) host a Q&A afterwards. (see A&C, page 23) 3 pm, $5

FOOD JACK'S MAGIC BAKERY Route 66 Café 1704 Lena St. (505) 780-8249 Watch Root 66 Café convert into Jack's Magic Bakery.

You’ll find baked goods that include challah, babka loaf/bun, rugelach and Jerusalem bagels, along with brownies and oatmeal raisin cookies. All 100% vegan, all the time.

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DANCE SWEETHEART DANCE Cities of Gold Casino 10 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-4232 21+ event. Grab your sweetheart (or platonic friend, that's cool too) and dance the night away to Cuarenta y Cinco and DJ Art at the Cities of Gold Hotel.

7 pm-midnight, $15-$25

WORKSHOP METALSHOP AND MIG WELDING BADGE: PART I Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 Embark on the exciting journey of creating with metal. Get hands-on training with the many tools required for cutting, bending, shaping, grinding, drilling, and welding steel in the MAKE metal shop. And yes, you can pretend you’re a metal-bender from Avatar or even Bender Bending Rodriguez as you do it.

Noon, $135

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EVENTS STAND-UP COMEDY NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Y’all best come and laugh. It's winter—we're all depressed and need to laugh.

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SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Weekly swing dance in Santa Fe with different teachers and DJs every week. Class starts at 7 pm and the open dance at 8 pm. $8 for the class and the dance, $3 for just the dance. Masks, proof of vaccination, a good attitude and those cute lil dancing shoes hiding away in the back of your closet from your college days are requested.

7 pm, $3-$8

SACRED WOUND (OPENING) Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403 Paper as a metaphor for the body—crumbled and torn. (see SFR picks, page 16) 5-7 pm, free

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DANCE ECSTATIC DANCE BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road (505) 986-0362 Whoa! Your arms just flung out in a celebration of movement and connection and you don’t know why? Yeah, we know. Time to get some ecstatic dancing in.

Each week you’ll learn to love the movement of the body.

7-9 pm, $12

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MUSIC ELIZA GILKYSON St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. tinyurl.com/2p8rzw4r Gilkyson’s new album, Songs From the River Wind, is what she calls her love letter to the Old West. It's composed of snapshots of the people and places, lives and loves lost and found over her years of wandering the West.

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VALENTINE ART WITH MICKEY AND LAURA Artful Soul 227 Don Gaspar, Ste. 6B (505) 398-9448 You’ll have two instructors at this class, who specialize in advanced painting techniques, mixed media and collage. Pick your artistic poison and go forth, brave soul.

6 pm, $60

METALSHOP AND MIG WELDING BADGE: PART II Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 Having your very own ornamental steel table at the end of all this seems pretty nice, doesn’t it?

Noon, $135

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NM LISTENS: SANTA FE STORIES YOU'VE NEVER HEARD St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail tinyurl.com/2mf8kpjb A panel of five community members from the Santa Fe area share their stories and unique perspectives on the culture of Santa Fe. In sharing and listening to stories of our past and present, we discover our future. In-person and online options available.

7 pm, free

THE MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON/THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Double feature night at No Name Cinema! Doors open at 5:30 pm. The Murder of Fred Hampton is a doc focused on Chicago's Black Panther movement and Hampton's murder by the Chicago PD, while The Spook Who Sat By The Door looks at the Black militant movement post-Civil Rights.

5:30 pm, free

BEER CREEK BREWING COMPANY TAP TAKEOVER Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475 (505) 982-4429 Good old mountain brews.

Perhaps winter ain’t so bad after all... jk it’s still awful, but Ski Santa Fe makes it tolerable when they give us guest brewers.

11 am-6 pm, free (but, like, pay for your drinks and tip)

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MUSIC SWING SOLEIL La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Acoustic swing-jazz from right here in New Mexico, Swing Soleil shares their unique arrangements, great musicianship and raw love for music far and wide.

5:30 pm, free

MUSIC CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 A reigning jazz vocalist.

7:30 pm, $35-$155

THEATER THEATRE LOVERS CLUB TALK Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Artistic Directors Chris Leslie of Pandemonium Productions and Marilyn Barnes of Tri-M Productions teach us what it takes to put on a musical.

Performers will give a taste of what’s to come this spring, too, which may be Guys and Dolls and Cabaret. So willkommen, bienvenu, Nathan Detroit. Or something.

6 pm, free

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MUSIC ALTO STREET MUSIC Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St. (505) 982-3030 Alt-country, Americana and good ol’ rock ’n’ roll. Plus beer and pub food—it's just a good time, folks, and you know it.

6-9 pm, free (no cover) ISORROPIA DEEP HOUSE La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 House music so deep you'll think you're in the 2003 cinematic masterpiece Holes.

Liliana Salas is an esthetician, yoga practitioner and music curator who involves these three passions to create an enjoyable environment with each set.

7 pm, free (no cover) TGIF CONCERT First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 The Thank God It's Friday concert series keeps on keeping on. February kicks off with Johanna and Scott Hongell-Darsi doing what they do best: Medieval music.

5:30 pm, free (but donate plz) JOE WEST: ACOUSTIC JAM Beer Creek Brewing Co. 3810 Hwy. 14 (505) 471-9271 West’s gathering is an acoustic paradise, where heaven is a place banning amps and overzealous horn instruments.

Simple and to the point. Plus, you can type words like “jam with Joe.” (see SFR picks, page 16) 5 pm, free

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WORKSHOP BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE CLASS Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 Belly dance as a movement practice cultivates our capacity for pleasure, releases tension, increases strength and suppleness. With care, it even helps us heal from injury and loosen old scar tissue. In short? Super good for you.

Check it out.

1-2 pm, $15 BUDDHIST MEDITATION CLASS: LEARNING TO BE CONTENT/ FEEL SATISFIED Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 292-5293 Find inner peace, contentment and satisfaction within your mind. It’s not in the people, places or things around us. Only by training in meditation on Buddha’s profound wisdom can we find the inner space and clarity that gives us the kind of life we really want.

10 am-11:15 am, $10

From Ansel Adams: Pure Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art. IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Experimental exPRESSion: Printmaking at IAIA, 1963– 1980. Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass. A Place in Clay.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5052 Storytellers: Narrative Art and the West. Poetic Justice: Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard and Jaune Quick-To SeeSmith. Ansel Adams: Pure Photography.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St. (505) 946-1000 Spotlight on Spring.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon $20 NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 In Search of Domínguez and Escalante. The Palace Seen and Unseen. The First World War. Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month.

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NEW MEXICO MILITARY MUSEUM 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 474-1670 New Mexico’s Civil War. Art! Of War. 10 am-3 pm, Mon-Fri, free WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636 Indigenous Women: Border Matters (Traveling).

Portraits: Peoples, Places, and Perspectives.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8 EL MUSEO CULTURAL DE SANTA FE 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591 Permanent Collection: Local Generational, Native Contemporary, Latin America, Latino Urban, Slide Collection.

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With Archbishop John C Wester

When John C Wester returned to Santa Fe after visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2017, he noticed a jarring juxtaposition between the atrocities committed by the United States government and the proximity of his work to the birthplace of the nuclear bomb. It opened his eyes to the line that had been crossed. As the Archbishop of the Santa Fe Archdiocese, Wester called for a renewed conversation for nuclear disarmament in a pastoral letter published last month. (William Melhado) You call for a serious conversation about nuclear disarmament here in New Mexico, but two of the key players in that discussion, Los Alamos and Sandia nuclear weapons laboratories, have been pretty quiet. Have you spoken with representatives from either of the labs and, if not, do you have an idea about how to get them to the table?

The letter is addressed to all in the archdiocese and beyond so by default the letter was meant for everybody and certainly for them. I do include the labs in my letter because I realize many of our Catholics, and many people beyond the Catholic Church, obviously worked at the labs. That’s their livelihood, so I recognize their involvement. For example we have a parish, Immaculate Heart [of Mary], in Los Alamos and I’ve already talked to the pastor there…and he was very eager to engage in this conversation that the letter calls for. So my understanding is that he is working, talking with parishioners and there’s a group of Catholic scientists there.

I want to hear what they have to say.

It’s not for me to debate it, it’s to have a conversation about it. What are our mutual concerns about atomic weapons?

What are our mutual concerns about the arms race that we’re in now? What are

our mutual concerns about developing pit cores and modernizing the nuclear arsenal?

My belief is that people of goodwill will recognize that, A) we don’t want war—nobody wants war, and that, B) nuclear arms have ratcheted war into a whole other arena that we’ve just really never experienced except for the bombs dropped on Japan.

With so many pressing humanitarian issues in front of us (climate change, the pandemic, etc.), why is now the time to be discussing nuclear disarmament?

I think that nuclear disarmament really is a part of many of the conversations and issues we’re already dealing with. So for example, the Catholic Church is very concerned with the sanctity of human life, from conception to natural death.

And this is a human life issue. This is the sanctity of life because nuclear arms, in fact, could wipe out life as we know it. It can wipe out the planet. It’s an issue of poverty. What are we gonna do in New Mexico? We have a huge issue in poverty.

We’re spending, the next 10 years, $1.7 trillion on our nuclear arsenal; that money could go to the poor.

Many say that the Catholic Church has crossed numerous humanitarian lines, including rampant sexual abuse by clergy and a decades-long cover-up of it. How do you differentiate between the dangers of nuclear proliferation and the damage caused by the church’s own failures when it comes to human rights, and why should the public consider the church a moral authority on human rights?

From my point of view the Catholic Church, I think, has come to grips with the terrible evil of child sexual abuse, the terrible victimization of children through sexual abuse. And I think that the church, especially since 2002, when we had our bishop’s meeting in Dallas, Texas, have come to grips with that. It’s going to be an ongoing thing. It’s not like you just do it once and you’re done. We continue to work very hard on this issue.

We could apply the same thing to nuclear disarmament. I think that all of us have to come together, as much as the church is trying to do, in order to do something about this terrible evil and this terrible problem we have of nuclear proliferation. And so, you know, I think it shows that we can do something, that we can roll up our sleeves and work [on] this problem. Is it going to be perfect?

No. We’re human beings. We’re always learning. The two issues that you bring up are connected in that they’re both terrible things, but we mustn’t feel that we’re powerless.

Italiano Redux Pranzo is back and so much better

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

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here were, I think, many Santa Feans who, upon hearing Pranzo Italian Grill would close in 2018 following the purchase of the Sanbusco Market Center by the New Mexico School for the Arts, just kind of didn’t care. In the pantheon of local eateries, this particular Italian restaurant seemed to occupy a place between thoughts like, “Oh, right. That place,” and, “I ate there once years ago, but I’ve got others at the top of my list.”

Still, it was a mostly beautiful location with regular music from the likes of pianist David Geist and, I’m told, a regular haunt for a certain type of diner. So, when owner/ chef Steven Lemon shortened the name to simply Pranzo (pranzoitaliangrill.com) and reopened in the former Shohko Café location at the corner of Guadalupe and Johnson Streets last year (321 Johnson St., (505) 984-2645), those folks probably sighed with relief.

Others, however, have been putting it off. Don’t get me wrong—Pranzo has never strictly been what we’d call a bad restaurant, more like one starts to wonder about a place’s markup on pasta or why the dark and cave-like environs of a certain era needed to live on. Those things and others have been addressed at the new Pranzo, and it has become a must-visit culinary destination once more.

Lemon, it seems, is at the height of his powers. Perhaps a case of a shift in location causing a shift in inspiration? Originally, he’d come on board with Pranzo in the late-1980s. He’d leave by ’96 to run a meat company called Pinnacle, but by 2014 he owned Pranzo outright. Now, in the new and decidedly brighter space, things operate a little differently. Gone are the heavy curtains and dimmed down lighting of yore, replaced with a flood of natural light and a more casual atmosphere.

On the day I visited, Lemon himself was running food (and you’ve never seen a more star struck diner than me during the brief moment he sat and conversed with fellow restauranteurs Bonnie and John Eckre of Santa Fe Bite), which was no small feat giv-

en the packed bar area that formerly housed Shohko’s sushi chefs—and the opposite dining area brimming with patrons.

Service came with a smile, both from the busser, who kindly fielded annoying questions about olive oil and warm bread (which come gratis), and the server, a lovely woman who announced the bread was

by Albuquerque-based Fano, and that I could get some for my home if I simply visited Albertson’s Market Street store in the DeVargas center. Not only that, but she didn’t engage the no-wine stink eye for a non-drinker like myself, a thing that is very real, I know, because I’d deploy it strategically during my own foodservice days.

Looking over the menu was a challenge, however, mainly because everything sounded phenomenal. Lemon has edited offerings down to choice appetizers like arancini with peas, prosciutto, sun dried tomatoes and pesto ($10) and meatballs of beef, pork and padano cheese ($14) among others. I selected the frito misto, a seafood medley of calamari, shrimp and scallops, all lightly fried and served atop a bright tomato sauce with a refreshing aioli on the side ($14). Elsewhere such a dish has proven too greasy—at Pranzo, the items were fried just right: crisp and crunchy where you want those things and no flavor lost to thick breading or sauce.

Next came a pair of pizzas: The margherita ($14; because if a restaurant can’t nail the simpler things, what hope has it for a more complex dish?) and the funghi, a mushroom-forward number with a roasted garlic puree, mozzarella, shiitakes and truffle oil, all served under a bed of fresh arugula ($18). I opted to forego the truffle oil as it is a flavor which tends to dominate all others and is often, as I’ve read, not made from actual truffles. Now, I’ll never be able to say whether it would have aided

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A pizza covered in arugula? The best! BELOW: The frito misto at Pranzo offers seafood excellence.

or hurt the personal-sized pizza, but without it, the dish was a triumph. Mushrooms seemingly never go bad, but you can still tell whether you’re eating them fresh. At Pranzo, they’re the freshest, and they possess that satisfying chewiness we all crave when eating fungus. The arugula, which seemed a strange choice at first, added crisp textures and, in tandem with the puree, an earthy factor that just plain works.

Lemon deserves kudos as well for crafting a thin crust pizza that didn’t err into that all-too-familiar cracker territory common with over-baking. As for the margherita?

Well, we tend to shy away from terms like “perfect” in food writing, but as a pizzeria staple and co-star of lunch, it was utterly perfect from the fresh mozz to the light marinara. If you’re reading this, Steve, you really perfected the ratio of sauce to cheese.

Lastly, our server only got so far as the “creme brulee with piñon,” section of her desserts speech before I nearly flipped

over the table in excitement. “I love both those things,” I said, probably a little too loudly. “Fire up the sugar torch!” Now, while this particular creme brulee ($9) could have gone a little heavier on the piñon—though I theorize it only contains a few so as to not throw off the texture of the custard—it was once again perfection. Pranzo torches the thing when you order and not before, making for a creamy and flavorful sweet treat that is warm at the top and pleasantly cooler toward the bottom. Is this a remnant of the ’90s when it comes to restaurant dessert lists? Honestly, no one should care; though I’ll probably need to return for the tiramisu.

Of note is the $4 kitchen gratuity added to the check. First off, I am very pro-this.

Kitchen staffs work harder than anyone, and while it’s a mere $4 to a guy who just had one of the best pizzas of his life, it’s the kind of small fee that adds up and changes lives behind stoves. Upon announcing my support of this measure, the server explained how other diners of late were perhaps still adjusting to the change. Allow me to say it out loud, since Pranzo’s staff probably won’t: This is a good thing, you shouldn’t complain to them, enjoy your pizza and pasta.

But I digress; to thoughts of the eggplant parm ($24) and the cioppino sea food melange farther down the menu ($26). Will I return for those? Oh, just as as soon as possible. And will I order pizzas to go from Lemon and crew? An inevitability. No, I never did much care about Pranzo before now, but it has since become a top new favorite. Get there soon.

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“A Coalition of Conscience”

From Somebody’s Daughter (1492-), screening this week in Santa Fe.

Films highlighting missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls come to the Jean Cocteau

BY RILEY GARDNER r i l e y @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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he reality is this has been happening since 1492,” Tribal filmmaker Rain Bear Stands Last tells SFR. “Tribal people have been confronting this since the first reported European contact. Tragedy was authored through the doctrine of discovery.”

In today’s environment, there’s far more awareness of the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIW) than ever before. And yet, there’s silence—the symbol of a red hand over a mouth displays the complicity of those with knowledge who do nothing about it. It also becomes a striking poster image for Somebody’s Daughter (1492-), Stands Last’s documentary powerhouse examining the tragedy through Indigenous eyes.

For many viewers, it’s their first exposure outside of online discussion.

Somebody’s Daughter and the accompanying short Say Her Name both tackle the crisis with an examination into historical, economic and social aspects involved, as well as the bureaucratic messes that have allowed them to fester. The result is

shaky data and even fewer resources, and the numbers are staggering. A major study from 2016 from the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI), for example, found 5,712 cases of MMIW in that year alone. For context, that’s more than double the number of American service people killed in 20 years of the war in Afghanistan, 9/11 or the Iraq War. Yet within the United States, where Indigenous women go missing again and again on an annual basis, media coverage is sparse and justice is rare.

Of those 5,712 who went missing in 2016, the UIHI says, the US Justice Department logged just 116 into its database. The study, which examined MMWI in urban areas, found New Mexico led the nation with 78 cases that year, with Santa Fe counting six known cases.

A New Mexico-focused task force report released in 2020 noted little change, and bureaucratic jurisdictional questions—and a lack of urgency on the part of lawmakers—have left families stonewalled for years at a time.

“Tribal people are largely invisible to general society,” Stands Last explains.

“They live within stereotypical constructs that provide the point of reference. If they disappear, they become ‘invisible,’ and then it doesn’t resonate among the dominant society. The media has a responsibility when it comes to this existential threat.”

Somebody’s Daughter notes issues such as male-dominated extraction industries

near reservations and a culture of victim blaming. The UIHI study also found an epidemic of violent language, with common references to victims’ proximity to drugs and alcohol, sex work or mis-gendering trans women. Both the study and task force found Indigenous women are a common target for sex traffickers, whether on reservations or in urban centers. “[There are] drug cartels, gangs and human trafficking rings. Women on reservations are more vulnerable than in urban areas,” Stands Last notes. “Production of synthetic drugs, such as meth, is a big problem in many tribal communities... and it’s being distributed to the reservations. Then women and girls are trafficked out. What’s the federal government doing to counter this? They are doing nothing.

They are completely unprepared, or taking incremental, inadequate steps.”

Stands Last had been working with the late US Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia) on a bill titled the Reduce, Return and Recover Act which, among many aspects, was meant to break down the jurisdictional labyrinth while also providing highly localized tribal liaison offices. Confidential information could be safely shared between such offices, plus survivors and their families could find mental health services that blend traditional tribal healing practices with the Western medicine paradigm. Stands Last describes this as, “a full cultural competency point of reference, relative to the tribal nation.”

With Lewis’ death in July 2020, he continues his search for a new congressional sponsor.

The Jean Cocteau screening is part of numerous events planned for New Mexico’s American Indian Day on Feb. 4. A gathering kicks off on the Plaza at 2 pm with organizers planning to march to the Roundhouse to urge legislators to take action. Post-screening, Stands Last and Reservation Dogs actress/activist Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca) are slated to speak in depth and answer questions from participants. Both are leaders in the grassroots movement House of the Moon, an Indigenous women’s empowerment organization that trains tribal women in self-defense. Proceeds from the screening will go directly to support the organization.

“To address this human rights tragedy is going to take a coalition of conscience and has nothing to do with your ethnic identity, it’s about your common humanity and connecting with compassion,” Stands Last says. “It’s about understanding what’s happening is a direct correlation to what’s happening with the

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destruction of our Mother Earth, and to understand how everything is connected.

Politicians don’t want to make the connections and want to compartmentalize.

So it’ll take all of us to come together.”

SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER (1492-) AND SAY HER NAME. 3pm, Fri, Feb 4. $5 Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Louder Than Whispers Local activist, artist, actor and filmmaker Ricky Lee Regan (Cree and Lakota) premieres his first-ever directorial effort this week, the narrative short Whispers in the Wind. Regan’s 22-minute film follows Star, an Indigenous girl investigating the disappearance of her sister while trying to avoid becoming MMIW herself. Staring Sapphire Persinger (Diné) and filmed with local crew on-location in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Regan’s film is a born-and-bred experience for Indigenous people—or what he describes as a part of their everyday reality.

“We had to be very conscious when making the film, how to tell this without making it a horror and to be sensitive to families dealing with this,” Regan explains. “But we had so much support during production from Las Vegas, from the National Indian Gaming Association, Southwest Office of MMIW and more. It really evolved into a community effort. We’d be filmmaking and everyone would be crying—it felt so real to us.”

The film was funded entirely through social media channels, with Regan giving particular praise to the late Tammy Bigday (Crow), an executive producer on the project who worked with him for over a year. The production was a place for Indigenous peoples to come together to express their fears and realities, but also to add to the collection of impressive Native cinema movements gaining strength throughout the country.

“This is an epidemic few people know about,” Regan continues. “This film is to give our stolen sisters a voice, so they aren’t just whispers in the wind.”

WHISPERS IN THE WIND 7pm, Wed, Feb. 9. Free Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

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Make Me Famous Review There’s no place like 1980s NYC

BY RILEY GARDNER r i l e y @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

There’s a growing American mythology surrounding New York City’s artistic crowds in the ’80s—those anti-Reagan, queer-loving, frozen garret-dwelling disruptors who blew open the arts scene with their anger at the establishment. Painter Edward Brezinski was one such artist who, with a cargo train worth of emotional baggage, died mostly forgotten in the South of France. What a way to stick the landing.

If it feels like a familiar story, that’s because it absolutely is. In Make Me Famous, the new documentary on Brezinski from filmmaker Brian Vincent, the focus rests on the artist’s rough personality and hardscrabble life, as well as his forceful methodology and knack for regularly decrying other artists’ works—the kinds of things that make success hard to come by for sure.

Brezinski proves a fascinating subject on screen due to sheer force of will, but you’d never really want to spend more than a few minutes with the guy in person. As a result, Make Me Famous is powered by its intensity even as we struggle to identify with

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It’s tough to be a Ukranian teenager these days, what with all the who-likes-who, what-does-thefuture-hold questions, plus that growing will-mycountry-exist-in-a-few weeks thing. At a time when Ukraine’s sovereignty is on shaky ground, it feels almost counterproductive to focus on the most typical problems teenagers face, but Stop-Zemila from writer/ director Kateryna Gornostai dares to suggest otherwise, providing a film so familiar yet unexpectedly mesmerizing.

Masha (Maria Fedorchenko) is a loner who is isolated from her social peers. She holds intense loyalty for her two best friends, punk-rocker Senia (Arsenii Markov) and quiet depressive Yana (Yana Bratiychuk). Meanwhile, Masha’s crush Sasha (Oleksandr Ivanov) navigates a closed-off relationship with his mother that keeps him dependent on friends for expression.

What makes Stop-Zemila unique is its relation to current events. Instability hovers over youthful vices, even if the kids don’t talk about it, and Senia is a refugee from Eastern Ukraine, where the proxy wars pushed him out. The kids go to military training as part of their high school curriculum (military conscription is mandatory for men in Ukraine). They train with guns and the piano and learn battlefield medicine, but also the science behind love. Irony is the point: They are desperate for a sense of permanency in this faux-stable world—something director Gornostai is certainly familiar with given her background documenting Ukraine’s political turmoil nearly a decade ago in Euromaidan. Rough Cut. 24

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Bresinski. But then, are we trying to connect or simply observe?

Vincent’s breakneck pacing and transitional choices could benefit from more clarity, but he does mine a ton of energetic fun from Brezinski’s NYC, even if a little breathing room would have helped.

Still, Jeremiah Bornfield’s score triumphs throughout, capturing the artistic spirit as his electronic beats offer a rough but hopeful world wherein squalor is a bump in the road should you get lucky enough.

Creative decisions aside, a skilled documentarian like Vincent knows just how to make a subject interesting, not that he didn’t have help. Brezinski is equally fascinating, insufferable, tragic and bizarre; a fully realized human swept up by life’s random flows

You’ll still find chinks in the armor among her deep commitment. Stop-Zemila lacks needed clarity and charm and relies too heavily on montage and dreamscape imagery. By its conclusion, it might feel pointless, but cinema’s great gift is to see life in far away places not as a gawking tourist, but more quietly and accurately. Gornostai finds brilliance within young Ukranian society, but also the looming threat that it could all be snatched away from them. (RG) CCA. NR. 122 min.

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Old Oxford pals Hugh (George MacKay of 1917) and Paul (Jannis Niewöhner, Cortex) have long been separated due to their politics—one finds solace in Neville Chamberlain’s (Jeremy Irons) appeasement strategy and the other in the the nationalism of Nazi Germany. They aren’t on speaking terms, but for reasons unknown Paul has joined the resistance to Hitler (Ulrich Matthes in one of the worst portrayals of Hitler put to screen). MI6 requests Hugh meet with Paul as a contact, but Paul’s got his own plans. As expected, they go through run-of-the-mill Nazi spy scares set during the 1938 Munich Conference.

Both Hugh and Paul are intolerably bad spies.

Horror-movie-lead-running-right-into-the-murderer bad. Each looks panicked anytime they do anything, even when they walk, and they’re overheard far too often to help the fates of their respective nations—a set of squirrel spies on the job would yield better results, making emotional beats in Munich akin to a roller coaster. Characters scream, for example, seemingly due to director Christian Schwochow’s fear the

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and a deep-rooted desire for recognition. An artistic presence who can’t—or won’t—navigate the commercialism of the art world isn’t anything new, but it is a recipe for trouble. Often what creators produce is far more effective once they’re out of the picture, anyway.

Sorry, artsy types.

Make Me Famous may not always hit the marks, but it does overflow with passion over its subject and a reverence for its niche era. Those with an interest in art scenes will be enchanted, and for folks on the outside? Well, it ain’t a half-bad way to spend 92 minutes.

MAKE ME FAMOUS Directed by Vincent Center For Contemporary Arts and VOD, NR, 92 min.

audience might get bored. It’s also a never-ending collection of chaotic quick-cuts that try and fail to distract from the badly constructed screenplay from Ben Power and Robert Harris, who penned the book on which it is based.

A pro-Chamberlain film isn’t on anyone’s bucket list, is it? Munich portrays him as the hidden genius whose actions allowed the UK to triumph in WWII. Uh, OK. Brave opinions aside, we’re stretched between a bargain bin knockoff of Darkest Hour, plus a bad try at Tarantino, plus astonishing homoerotic tension. Make that movie next time, geez!

Even so, Munich is semi-enjoyable in the way one might still enjoy monster-smash movies. It’s a stupid bad-spy movie with no restraint where it needs it and all the restraint where it doesn’t. Even still, some sequences are genuinely tense, the actors are all good looking and it’s a period piece fan’s delight. Just don’t try to dig deep. (RG) Netflix, NR, 130 min.

THE TENDER BAR

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JR (Tye Sheridan/Daniel Ranieri) wants to be a writer.

He wants to write because he’s, y’know—special. You won’t see him writing much or discover a thing about his passions, but remember: He’s special. The people who make up JR’s crowded home love and encourage him, Uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck) in particular, who becomes a guiding light in opposition to JR’s deadbeat father (Max Martini). Still, our hero wonders if he has what it takes to be a writer, plus there’s some girl drama. There you go—that’s The Tender Bar from director George Clooney (yes, that George Clooney),

a film with a decidedly un-clever title which portrays itself as a sprinkler spouting truth when it’s really as murky as polluted lake water.

You’ll probably wonder why you’re watching JR at all, especially as the writer-riddled-with-self-doubt story has been told ten gazillion times in film. Most kids are told they’re special by their families, what’s unique about this one? You won’t ever find out, save for something or other about daddy issues, but you will get a ’70s/’80s nostalgia-fueled tale with the weakest kinds of evocation, from then-ubiquitous pop tunes and a sepia tone filter, as if that’s supposed to mean anything. C’mon, Clooney.

Amazon Prime’s new film is a tonal trainwreck, its focus as unsteady as the camcorder-like cinematography. Find here an inexplicable abundance of snap-zooms, as if Clooney had a fever dream and thought he might be making an action flick. But then, Clooney’s directorial history is littered with one stumble after another (remember The Midnight Sky? Suburbicon? Sheesh). At least those stumbles are a source of consistency, but maybe we can all collectively agree that, moving forward, the majority of memoirs can stay within pages rather than digital frames?

The Tender Bar, most curiously, promotes the notion that real America is the folks at the bars who passively watch the world and its people go by. They are content with their lot and recognize brilliance, however; they give grandfatherly advice to the special smarties like JR. Uh, OK. Such weird working class romanticism hovers over this story, all while encouraging the not-so-special normies to be cool with what they have. Clooney, one the highest paid Hollywood actors, maybe isn’t one to tell us about working class truths, though.(RG) Amazon Prime, R, 104 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries actor Bette Davis said that if you want to improve your work, you should “attempt the impossible.” That’s perfect advice for you right now. I hope to see you hone your skills as you stretch yourself into the unknown. I will celebrate your forays into the frontiers, since doing so will make you even smarter than you already are. I will cheer you on as you transcend your expectations and exceed your limits, thereby enhancing your flair for self-love. Here’s your mantra: “I now have the power to turn the impossible into the possible and boost my health and fortunes in the process.”

Angelou. Author Toni Morrison said, “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” Author and activist Nikki Giovanni wrote, “Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.” I hope the wisdom of these women will be among your guiding thoughts in the coming weeks. As your own power and freedom grow, you can supercharge them—render them even more potent—by using them to help others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu wrote, “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” You’ll be wise to make that your motto during the next five months, Taurus. Life will conspire to bring you more and more benefits and invitations as you take full advantage of the benefits and invitations that life brings. The abundance gathering in your vicinity may even start to seem ridiculously extravagant. Envious people could accuse you of being greedy, when in fact, you’re simply harnessing a crucial rule in the game of life.

To minimize envy and generate even more benefits and invitations, be generous in sharing your plenitude.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “’Because there has been no one to stop me’ has been one of the principles of my life,” wrote Gemini author Joyce Carol Oates. “If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere,” said Gemini actor Marilyn Monroe. “Play the game. Never let the game play you.” So advised Gemini rapper and actor Tupac Shakur. “Who I really am keeps surprising me,” declared Gemini author Nikki Giovanni. I propose that we make the previous four quotes your wisdom teachings during the next four weeks.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself,” testified Miles Davis, one of the most unique and talented jazz trumpeters and composers who ever lived. Popular and successful author Anne Lamott expressed a similar sentiment: “I’m here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.” If those two geniuses found it a challenge to fully develop their special potentials, what chance do the rest of us have? I have good news in that regard, Scorpio. I believe 2022 will be a very favorable time to home in on your deepest, truest self—to ascertain and express more of your soul’s code. And you’re entering a phase when your instinct for making that happen will be at a peak.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the course of human history, three million ships have sunk to the bottom of the Earth’s seas. At one extreme have been huge vessels, like the Titanic and naval cruisers, while at the other extreme are small fishing boats. Many of these have carried money, gems, jewelry, gold, and other precious items. Some people have made it their job to search for those treasures. I believe there could and should be a metaphorical resemblance between you and them in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Now is a favorCANCER (June 21-July 22): Your animal symbol is usual- able time for you to hunt for valuable resources, ideas, ly the crab. But I propose we temporarily change it to the memories, and yes, even treasures that may be tucked tardigrade. It’s a tiny, eight-legged creature that’s among away in the depths, in hidden locations, and in dark the most stalwart on planet Earth—able to live everyplaces. where, from mountaintops to tropical rainforests to the CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It is astonishing what deepest parts of the sea. In extreme temperatures, it force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being thrives, as well as under extreme pressures. Since it to keep clear of falsehoods,” wrote author Margaret emerged as a species half a billion years ago, it has surFuller. That’s the bad news. The good news is that your vived all five mass extinctions. I believe you will be as capacity for exposing and resisting falsehoods is now at hardy and adaptable and resolute as a tardigrade in the coming months, Cancerian. You will specialize in grit and a peak. Furthermore, you have a robust ability to ward resilience and determination. PS: Tardigrades are regard- off delusions, pretense, nonsense, inauthenticity, and ed as a “pioneer species” because they take up residence foolishness. Don’t be shy about using your superpowers, Capricorn. Everyone you know will benefit as you zero in in new and changed environments, paving the way for and focus on what’s true and genuine. And you will benthe arrival of other species. They help create novel ecosystems. Metaphorically speaking, you could be like that. efit the most.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I regularly ask myself how I can become more open-minded. Have I stopped being receptive in any way? What new developments and fresh ideas am I ignorant of? Have my strong opinions blinded me to possibilities that don’t fit my opinions? In accordance with astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to adopt my attitude in the coming weeks. For inspiration, read these thoughts by philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin: “If things speak to us, it is because we are open to them, we perceive them, listen to them, and give them meaning. If things keep quiet, if they no longer speak to us, it is because we are closed.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “All things are inventions of holiness,” wrote poet Mary Oliver. “Some more rascally than others.” I agree. And I’ll add that in the coming weeks, holiness is likely to be especially rascally as it crafts its inventions in your vicinity. Here are the shades of my meaning for the word “rascally”: unruly, experimental, mischievous, amusing, mercurial, buoyant, whimsical, and kaleidoscopic. But don’t forget that all of this will unfold under the guidance and influence of holiness. I suspect you’ll encounter some of the most amusing and entertaining outbreaks of divine intervention ever.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Like all the rest of us, Virgo, you have limitations. And it’s important for you to identify them and take them into consideration. But I want to make sure you realize you also have fake limitations; you wrongly believe in the truth of some supposed limitations that are, in fact, mostly illusory or imaginary. Your job right now is to dismantle and dissolve those. For inspiration, here’s advice from author Mignon McLaughlin: “Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The year 1905 is referred to as Albert Einstein’s “Year of Miracles.” The Piscean physicist, who was 26 years old, produced three scientific papers that transformed the nature of physics and the way we understand the universe. Among his revolutionary ideas were the theory of special relativity, the concept that light was composed of particles, and the iconic equation E = mc squared. With that information as a backdrop, I will make a bold prediction: that in 2022 you will experience your own personal version of a Year of Miracles. The process is already underway. Now it’s time to accelerate it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else,” counseled poet and activist Maya

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SFR CLASSIFIEDS LEGALS IN THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF EDDY COUNTY STATE OF NEW MEXICO CLAYTON DEAN STAMBAUGH, PETITIONER, VS. DEDRA K. WARWICK, RESPONDENT No. D-503-DM-2020-383 NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF CIVIL ACTION THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO: DEDRA K. WARWICK NOTICE IS GIVEN that in the above styled cause, that the Petitioner has filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage. Unless you file an answer to the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage on or before the 28th day of February 2022 with the Eddy County District Court Clerk’s Office at the Eddy County Courthouse a Final Decree of Dissolution of Marriage will be entered against you by default.

WITNESSED my hand and seal of the District Court of Eddy County, New Mexico, this 13th day of January 2022.

KAREN CHRISTESSON

By Renee Lopez Deputy

a small subspecies of butterfly that is only found in the Sacramento Mountains in Otero County, New Mexico. Documents associated with this proposal are available on the Internet at http://www. regulations.gov at Docket No. FWS–R2–ES–2021–0069, or by contacting the New Mexico Ecological Services Field Office, 2105 Osuna NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113; telephone 505-346-2525.

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A-1 Self Storage New Mexico Auction Ad Notice of Public Sale Pursuant to NEW MEXICO STATUTES – 48-11-1-48-11-9: Notice is hereby given that on the 17th day of February, 2022 At that time open Bids will be accepted, and the Entirety of the Following Storage Units will be sold to satisfy storage liens claimed by A-1 Self Storage. The terms at the time of the sales will be Cash only, and all goods must be removed from the facility within 48 hours.

A-1 Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any and all bids or cancel sale without notice. Owners of the units may pay lien amounts by 5:00 pm February 16, 2022 to FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT avoid sale. The following units are COURT scheduled for auction. Sale will be COUNTY OF SANTA FE beginning at 09:00 am February STATE OF NEW MEXICO 17, 2022 at 3902 Rodeo Road No. D-101-PB-2021-00280 Unit#C018 Elaine McDonald 720 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE Chesapeake Ct #106, Fostoria, OF LUCY DIPONZIO, DECEASED OH 44830; Appliances, furniture, NOTICE TO CREDITORS totes, pet carrier. Unit#A144 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Josh Karp 645 Palace Ave, Santa that the undersigned has been Fe, NM 87501; Painting, boxes, appointed Personal Representative totes, birdcage. Unit#D054 of the Estate of LUCY DIPONZIO, James Yeager 10 Camino Real, Deceased. All persons having Glorieta, NM 87535; Signs, fence claims against this Estate are posts, gun case, totes, boxes. required to present their claims Followed By A-1 Self Storage 1311 within four (4) months after Clark Road Unit#1036 Masamba the date of the first publication Mboup 838 Sierra Bonita, Los of this Notice or their claims Angeles, CA 90036; Artwork, will be forever barred. Claims lamp, boxes. Followed by A-1 Self must be presented either to Storage 2000 Pinon Unit#805 the undersigned Personal & #320 Karen Solski 5349 Van Representative at P.O. Box 1575, Ness Ct, Bloomfield, MI 48302; Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87504, Boxes, furniture, artwork, sled, and or filed with the First Judicial vacuum, cooler. Unit#433 LaVonn District Court, P.O. Box 2268, 225 Tafoya 32 Vista Alegre, Belen, Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87002; Bike, vacuum, totes, New Mexico, 87504. metal rack. Unit#333 Richard DATED: January 2, 2022.

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COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Case No. D-101-PB-2022-00009 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOANN GRANOBLE KELLEY, DECEASED. NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JOANN GRANOBLE KELLEY, DECEASED, AND ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO HAVE OR CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF JOANN GRANOBLE KELLEY, DECEASED, OR IN THE MATTER BEING LITIGATED IN THE HEREINAFTER MENTIONED HEARING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following: 1. JOANNA GRANOBLE KELLEY, deceased, died on February 16, 2021; 2. JASON KELLEY filed a Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirship, and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative in the above-styled and numbered matter on January 10 .2022, and a hearing on the above-referenced Petition has been set for March 11, 2022 at 11am normally held at the Santa Fe County First Judicial Courthouse located at 225 Montezuma Ave., Santa Fe, New Mexico, before the Honorable Judge Matthew J. Wilson. Until the current operating guidelines for the New Mexico Courts have been put in place concerning the Coronavirus are modified, parties and attorneys are to appear remotely for all hearings.

Parties and attorney may appear by video at meet.google.com/ bbu-aujx-qfx . (video appearance is preferred) or by calling 1-336-949-8079 and entering pin number 862702640#. As changes are being made frequently, please visit the court web site firstdistrictcourt. nmcourts.gov the day before your hearing. Once at the court website, click on the District Court Judges and scroll down to Judge Matthew J. Wilson, Division IXZ, then click on View Calendar for up to date information on how to appear remotely.

3. Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, notice of the time and place of hearing on the above-referenced Petition is hereby given to you by publication, once each week, for three consecutive weeks.

DATED this 26th day of January 26, 2022.

Kristi A. Wareham, Attorney for Petitioner KRISTI A WAREHAM, P.C. Attorney for Petitioner 708 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 Telephone: (505) 820-0698 Fax: (505) 820-1247 Email: kristiwareham@icloud.com Person/Attorney Filing: Robert D Stachel MAILING ADDRESS: 333 W. WILCOX DRIVE STE. 205 CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE: SIERRA VISTA, AZ 85635 PHONE NUMBER: (520)452-1006

E-Mail Address: svlaw@ stachellaw.com Representing Self, Without an Attorney (If Attorney) State Bar Number: 018643, Issuing State: AZ IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF COCHISE Case No. S0200CV202100693 Cody Fox Plaintiff(s), V. E. William Swan, et al. Defendant(s).

SUMMONS To: E. William Swan WARNING: THIS AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT FROM THE COURT THAT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS. READ THIS SUMMONS CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT, CONTACT AN ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ADVICE. 1. A lawsuit has been filed against you. A copy of the lawsuit and other court papers were served on you with this Summons.

2. If you do not want a judgment taken against you without your input, you must file an Answer in writing with the Court, and you must pay the required filing fee.

To file your Answer, take or send the papers to Clerk of the Superior Court, PO Drawer CK, Bisbee, Arizona 85603 or electronically file your Answer through one of Arizona’s approved electronic filing systems at http://www.azcourts. gov/efilinginformation. Mail a copy of the Answer to the other party, the plaintiff, at the address listed on the top of this Summons. Note: If you do not file electronically you will not have electronic access to the documents in this case.

3. If this Summons and the other court papers were served on you within the State of Arizona, your Answer must be filed within TWENTY (20) CALENDAR DAYS from the date of service, not counting the day of service. If this Summons and the other court papers were served on you outside the State of Arizona, your Answer must be filed within THIRTY (30) CALENDAR DAYS from the date of service, not counting the day of service.

Requests for reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities must be made to the court by parties at least 3 working days in advance of a scheduled court proceeding.

GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of the Superior Court of the State of Arizona in and for the County of COCHISE SIGNED AND SEALED this date: December 13, 2021 Amy Hunley Clerk of Superior Court By: ATRUJILLO Deputy Clerk Person/Attorney Filing: Robert D Stachel Mailing Address: 333 W. Wilcox Drive Ste. 205 City, State, Zip Code: Sierra Vista, AZ 85635 Phone Number: (520)452-1006 E-Mail Address: svlaw@stachellaw.com Representing Self, Without an Attorney

(If Attorney) State Bar Number: 018643, Issuing State: AZ IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF COCHISE Case No. S0200CV202100693 Cody Fox Plaintiff(s), V. E. William Swan, et al. Defendant(s).

SUMMONS To: Carolyn K. Reyes WARNING: THIS AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT FROM THE COURT THAT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS. READ THIS SUMMONS CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT, CONTACT AN ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ADVICE. 1. A lawsuit has been filed against you. A copy of the lawsuit and other court papers were served on you with this Summons.

2. If you do not want a judgment taken against you without your input, you must file an Answer in writing with the Court, and you must pay the required filing fee.

To file your Answer, take or send the papers to Clerk of the Superior Court, PO Drawer CK, Bisbee, Arizona 85603 or electronically file your Answer through one of Arizona’s approved electronic filing systems at http://www.azcourts. gov/efilinginformation. Mail a copy of the Answer to the other party, the plaintiff, at the address listed on the top of this Summons. Note: If you do not file electronically you will not have electronic access to the documents in this case.

3. If this Summons and the other court papers were served on you within the State of Arizona, your Answer must be filed within TWENTY (20) CALENDAR DAYS from the date of service, not counting the day of service. If this Summons and the other court papers were served on you outside the State of Arizona, your Answer must be filed within THIRTY (30) CALENDAR DAYS from the date of service, not counting the day of service.

Requests for reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities must be made to the court by parties at least 3 working days in advance of a scheduled court proceeding.

GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of the Superior Court of the State of Arizona in and for the County of COCHISE SIGNED AND SEALED this date: December 13, 2021 Amy Hunley Clerk of Superior Court By: ATRUJILLO Deputy Clerk STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT LAURA SANCHEZ, BIALQUIN BACA, Petitioner(s) No. D-101-DM-2021-00639 IN THE MATTER OF THE KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF S.G., (a) Child(ren), and concerning Allyssa Baca and Ryan Garcia, Respondent(s).

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Respondent(s).

Greetings: You are hereby notified that Laura Sanchez, Bialquin Baca, Petitioner(s), filed a Petition To Appoint Kinship Guardian(s) for S.G. against you in the above entitled Court and cause.

Unless you enter your appearance and written response in said cause on or before 30 days after 3rd publication (date), a judgment by default will be entered against you.

Name and Address of Petitioner or Petitioner’s Attorney: Bialquin Baca and Laura Sanchez, 57 Reata Ro, Santa Fe NM 87507 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Raquel Annalise Cordova Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-00023 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Raquel Annalise Cordova will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:10 a.m. on the 15th day of February, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Raquel Annalise Cordova to Raquel Annalise Ryker.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Edith Suarez-Munoz Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Raquel Cordova Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Andrea C. Ortiz, DECEASED. No. 2021-0229 NOTICE OF CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: P.O. Box 1985 Santa Fe, NM 87504 Dated: November 1, 2021.

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