April 07, 2021 at 4:14pm
Visionary media arts theorist and critic Gene Youngblood, whose prescient 1970 book
Expanded Cinema reshaped the fields of art and communications, predicted technological advances in filmmaking, and offered the first serious recognition of video and software-based works as cinematic art forms, died on April 6 in Santa Fe at the age of seventy-eight.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1942, Youngblood spent most of the 1960s in Los Angeles variously working as a reporter and film critic for the
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, as a reporter for KHJ-TV, and as an arts commentator for KPFK. In 1967, he was hired at $80 a week as associate editor at the
March 10 New Mexico has its first four cases of COVID-19 one year ago today: March 11, 2020. You know what happened next. We all do. Still, it s hard to remember, given the twists and turns, stops and starts, health orders, closures and losses that ensued. SFR covered the pandemic from the get-go, and will continue to do so, as it s not over yet. A complete recounting of 365 days of COVID-19 coverage is beyond us, so we present an encapsulation of some of the touchstone moments. You can find all of our COVID-19 coverage here. Lastly, COVID-19 has involved a lot of data, charts, numbers and the like. One figure stands out: As of yesterday, 3,839 New Mexicans had died from COVID-19.
March 1 New Mexico health officials today reported 166 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the statewide total so far to 185,297. The health department has designated 147,446 of those cases as recovered. Of the state s 33 counties, 21 had reported new cases: 55 in Bernalillo County, followed by Doña Ana County with 38 and Sandoval County with 10. Santa Fe County had two new cases. The state also announced 13 additional deaths; there have now been 3,729 fatalities. As of today, 186 people are hospitalized with COVID-19. New cases 8 new cases in Cibola County 1 new case in Colfax County 3 new cases in Curry County 38 new cases in Doña Ana County 5 new cases in Eddy County
The Greer Garson Theatre stands on the city-owned Midtown Campus. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
As Mayor Alan Webber said when a national development company recently pulled out of trying to remake the city-owned Midtown Campus site, Santa Fe now faces making some “really hard decisions” about what to do with the 64-acre property.
For the past couple of years, there’s been excitement about what the campus could become after its former tenant, the for-profit Santa Fe University of Art and Design, closed two years ago. Much public comment was collected and conceptual designs, most of them innovative and futuristic, were submitted for what was described as an unprecedented opportunity to create a new neighborhood in the city’s geographical center.