As Fiesta approaches, New Mexicans consider how evolving concepts of identity shape their lives, their communities and what they choose to honor
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Earlier this week, the Reporter printed an article about various issues at Siler Yard, the affordable housing complex for artists; the main issue being the extreme noise that first floor tenants experi ence from the floors above. I am in awe of my fellow first floor tenants for their articulate advocacy, as this noise is truly outrageous and it is virtually impossible to live with it. Many tenants have disabilities, as well. Unfortunately, tenants and management have not been able to work together to solve this problem.Tenants feel unheard and management seems to feel blamed. When people feel unheard, they have to get louder; when blamed, people start to scapegoat. It is very sad. Siler Yard’s vision is a wonderful one. When I moved in here, as a poet and a writer, I was so excited and grateful. I was fully behind this. Now, six months later, I am packing boxes because I need to move out. I have a neurological disability, and in the six months that I have lived here, my recovery has reversed tremendously. I spent the past weekend in the ER with an IV in my arm, trying to reduce the pain and pressure in my head. The weekend before I spent in urgent care. The noise in my apartment from above is like nothing I have ever experienced before. And I have lived in multistory apartments in inner city Philadelphia. There is crashing and running and banging and screaming for hours and hours at a time. I am certain the ceiling is going to fall in. It is like a herd of bison live above me. My head feels like it is going to explode. My 76-pound German shepherd (a service dog) hides under the bed. My doctor has said I must move out, if nothing is going to change.Management keeps saying the buildings “meet code.” And well they might; and it is not enough. People are suffering here. We need to stop speaking in “code” and speak in solutions. We need to come together as Siler Yard com munity—management and tenants—and fix this.
I count on SFR for diligent reporting and judicious editing. Even more, I expect greater community context and deeper comprehension than the dailies. Yet coverage of Siler Yard has countenanced continued misperceptions about how nonprofit development and affordable hous ing actually works and failed to enumerate the significant challenges in its creation. When the nonprofit housing developer explains how les sons from Siler Yard can be carried to Midtown, it’s not taken as an opportunity for context, but to tee up a pointlessly snide and wildly false final comment that serves no journalistic pur pose. I look forward to more well-considered and deliberative coverage in the future. And maybe a feature on our cringey local cultural predilection for belittling people who actually put themselves on the line to get stuff done.
We are currently facing the most acute housing crisis in our community’s modern history. In the last two years, 6% of Santa Fe’s population, mostly lower income families, left or were dis placed. This is an alarm bell moment. Since the ‘90s, our community has deployed some of the most innovative housing inter ventions anywhere, but we now find ourselves fighting against exponential challenges with out matched tools. In the last decade, we also seem to have lost the appetite to do “big things,” and Siler Yard is a product of that bygone era when we dreamed big and backed it up with action. Perhaps last week’s article, “Housing in the Balance,” is on some level a reaction to that unique vestigial status. SFREPORTER.COM/ Mail letters to PO Box 4910, Santa Fe, NM 87502; or email them to editor@sfreporter. com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to specific articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.
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I applaud SFR for taking seriously the concerns of some residents at Siler Yard. It requires bravery to speak out and our community relies on SFR to shed light upon credible issues. Unfortunately, I feel this reporting has only cast shadows. Not only are several allegations allowed a presump tion of truth without substantiation, but the arti cle conflates the complaints of two individuals with the sentiment of “the residents” of 65 units.
Editor’s note: Fischer is a former SFR staffer. The referenced story quoted three Siler Yard residents, not two.
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There are many bright, creative people here. We have to stop blaming and scapegoating and cre ate our home so we can all live here. The vision is a wonderful one. A lot of hard, hard work went into building it. Let’s make it finally happen.
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ZOZOBRA TO BURN FOR 98TH TIME SEPT. 2 Which also means there’s no denying summer is pretty much done. Drag. waiter... Great Scott, morty!
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WE ARE WAY MORE THAN WEDNESDAY HERE ARE A COUPLE OF ONLINE EXCLUSIVES:
WHITE HOUSE PATS SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ON BACK FOR COVID RELIEF SPENDING Meanwhile, a jury ordered the school district to pay $800,000 to a whistleblower who was retaliated against.
GOV’S OFFICE SAYS HOSPITALITY EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS ARE HIGHER THAN BEFORE PANDEMIC Which means the problem might be with you, people who turn eat ing out into a horrible nightmare for everyone around you.
FLOODING APPEARS TO BE GETTING WORSE ACROSS THE GLOBE Does this feel like the montage of TV news snippets at the beginning of the movie about the world ending?
ABQ JOURNAL POLL SHOWS LUJAN GRISHAM 7 POINTS AHEAD OF RONCHETTI Seems like cold comfort for an incumbent who is running against a weatherman.
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HOUSING CLARIFICATION: The story “Housing in the Balance” quoted Daniel Werwath as saying the situation was “actually very deeply disappointing.” He requested SFR clarify that his disappointment stems from resi dents’ complaints about living conditions, not the project as a whole.
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Zozobra. It’s ironic. I think how our traditions changed after his shooting. Zozobra was moved to Thursdays and now it’s back to Friday—but on Labor Day weekend instead of Fiesta weekend. Makes it so hard to go home for both. After that year I could not attend Zozobra or Fiestas after that fateful weekend. I hated Fiestas, hated the word Fiestas, hated Santa Fe, hated the shouts of “¡Que viva!” How could I? My brother lay dead on San Francisco Street, tape around him, while the party continued. The music never stopped, the drinking never stopped, the dancing never stopped! Four people shot and that Plaza was never cleared out. Still don’t understand that to this day. But I couldn’t go back. My girls missed out on our traditions for a decade. No Zozobra, no pet parade, no Fiesta parade, no Masses, no nothing. I tried to change that for his 10-year. We had a memorial on San Francisco Street in front of “his” tree. We will do that again this year and I will do what I’ve tried to do since the 10-year anniversary: Try to love the echoes of “¡Que viva la Fiesta!” throughout the city; try not to cry every time I hear the Fiesta song; try to celebrate him by decorating his tree and try to attend every Zozobra to “burn my gloomThisaway.”year we celebrate his 25th with our cousin Doug Nava as Don Diego De Vargas. He ran prior to this year and never won. But he won this year! A time it’s truly meant to be and it’s emotional! So many years I’ve hated this tradition of ours and so many years I’ve heard the same from others. They say “I hate Fiestas, I don’t go to Zozobra.” That also breaks my heart. My family has been involved in the Fiesta for years and I know that it’s about peace and all the people coming together. I know bad things have happened, not just to my brother, but in Santa Fe history—but this 25th year I hope that we all can remember what the Fiestas was meant to rep resent: peace. I want my Santa Fe gente to also try and love our Fiestas and remember the true meaning of it all. ¡Que viva!
It’s been 25 years since my brother Carlos Romero was killed on the Plaza in 1997. Twentyfive years since I remember walking past thou sands of faces on that Plaza trying to find out if what I heard was true, that my brother had just been shot. Too many people to find him. I’ll regret that for the rest of my life. I stare at a picture of him dressed up as
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Done right, journalism should create a plat form to objectively assess what did and didn’t work in a project with so many firsts (city-donat ed land, community-designed, net-zero energy, affordable live-work) and we encourage that. It could also inform what redevelopment at Midtown might look like and lead to more con structive housing discussions. But that can’t hap pen if we don’t move beyond anecdote, outrage and outdated tropes.
SFR will correct factual errors online and in print. Please let us know if we make a mis take: editor@sfreporter.com or 988-7530.
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But incomplete journalistic treatments of aspirational community projects only reinforce the perceived intractability of our affordabil ity problems and serves to make future proj ects harder. It tacitly emboldens the NIMBYs’ and naysayers’ counterfactual claims and the political apathy that accepts the inevitability of gentrification.Unrelenting, ungrounded, and perfectionist criticism of community development work is one of Santa Fe’s ugliest pastimes, and it’s not unique to housing. We don’t seem to know the difference between good growth or bad, altruistic developers or the dubious, it’s all change, and the people that bring it should be suspect. But the only solutions to our converging climate and housing crisis will be proactive, so we badly need to become more articulate in the housing space.
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—Overheard woman discussing ravens in downtown tree
“It’s a lot of smells for him to process.”
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The central portion of the Milky Way, rising before dawn in March 2022, as seen from Eldorado.
“Mymonths.guesswould be, we’ll probably be in business with a new conversion in January,” Wheeler says. For the Conservation Trust, the stakes are“Tohigh.me, what’s important about pre serving night skies is that it’s a natural re source that has been there forever,” Noss says. “If we can preserve the night sky, we look at the same stars that our ancestors looked at and revered and built their lives around.”Further, lighting impacts melatonin levels in humans, she says: The lighter the night sky, the worse sleep quality will be. And those are just the human impacts— she says it affects animals’ mating pat terns, how blooming plants open at night, feeding insects and more. The good news, she says, is that dark skies are “totally recoverable” by reduc ing certain kinds of lighting (like light that bounces off sidewalks from streetlights).
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Finn says the only data available now are from weather satellites, “but that data is crude and you have to make a number of assumptions in order to use it to make statements about changes in the light lev el,” he Theadds.trust is working with Santa Fe County Commissioner Hank Hughes to finalize the equipment’s placement. Hughes supports the project. “I’ve lived here 30-plus years, and we’ve already seen the sky get brighter from the lights in Santa Fe,” Hughes tells SFR. “There’s already some degradation, so that’s why I think it’s important not to let it get any worse and hopefully, maybe even make it a little bit better.” Noss says the group plans to gather 10 years’ worth of data with three monitoring stations—one to the north of the city, one to the south and one to the southeast—to track light pollution in northern Santa Fe County, including within city limits. The nonprofit will download the data every couple weeks and both study it lo cally and send it to the group in Flagstaff for“It’sanalysis.kind of a big deal, but it’s some thing that we feel like we can do and that we’re committed to because we really want to protect the night sky as much as we can,” Noss says. Noss estimates the startup cost at $7,000, with an annual cost of roughly $1,000 for data downloads and equipment maintenance—all paid through donations. The dark sky protections on the books “don’t really have teeth,” Noss says. “Our hope is that if we can show that things are changing fairly quickly in terms of our ability to see the night sky, it would help us strengthen the statutes that are already in existence.”SantaFe’slight pollution ordinances haven’t been updated since 2011, though the city did pass specifications for smart street lighting design in 2021 that will be be incorporated into the code when it’s updated.
The city’s next step is converting the PNM-owned lights. Wheeler expects to see a quote from PNM within the next couple
T he City of Santa Fe’s recent street light conversion project left some stargazers and night-drivers with more knowledge about kelvins and kilo watt hours than a layman might want to have. It brought up considerations of safe ty, energy efficiency and how best to pre serve a dark night sky.
Wheeler, too, would like to see more stringent ordinances, though she be lieves the city streetlight conversion has improved light pollution.“Through this whole streetlight process, we realized that we would really like to be a dark-sky community,” she says. “One of the phases of that would be really starting to talk to the private sector about how they can do better, and then making our ordinances stricter.”Thecity is rewriting the land use code, which Wheeler calls a “golden opportuni ty” for this type of work. But because the jobs of Engineering Division director, en gineering supervisors and other staff are vacant, she says it’ll be a slow process.
Last October, city officials began in stalling LED luminaires in streetlights. The $2.9 million project, part of the city’s effort to go carbon-neutral by 2040, has the added benefit of saving $556,000 an nually in electricity bills, and 2 million kilowatt hours of energy per year (an electric dishwasher uses roughly 2 kilo watt hours per load). The city owns about 3,000 of the more than 5,000 streetlights in town; Public Service Company of New Mexico owns the rest, which have yet to be converted.Nowthat the city has completed its portion, members of the Santa Fe Conservation Trust believe the switch has increased sky glow, but they don’t know for sure because there’s no baseline against which to compare the new lights. Now, they’re looking to change that by installing light-monitoring equipment on Santa Fe County buildings, including fire stations, which would collect light pollu tion data every five minutes throughout theAtnight.its inception, Mayor Alan Webber and other city officials touted the project as reducing light pollution—but not ev eryone agreed. The nonprofit working to protect culturally and environmentally significant landscapes was concerned the new lights would be too far on the blue spectrum, “which creates more light pol lution and has more impact on all living beings,” says Executive Director Sarah Noss. The group lauded the city for its ef forts to save energy, but advocated for the new LEDs to be more amber in hue. The new streetlights are “the warmest and dimmest design you could do,” with in certain parameters, city Public Works
Division Director Regina Wheeler tells SFR, citing a 10-year warranty, a tier-one manufacturer and lights that meet nation al safetyRetiredstandards.astrophysicist
“It’s not the hardest thing in the world to do if everybody’s aware of the reasons to do it,” Noss says.
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Sam Finn intro duced the group to the monitoring equip ment, and the nonprofit will be part of a long-term light pollution study with the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition. Replicating that work will help “keep an eye on the light pollution,” Noss says.
“If we had that kind of information in our quiver, we could more forcefully under stand if we needed to improve our laws protecting the night skies.”
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From KSFR to New Mexico In Depth to the Las Cruces Sun-News to Griswold’s editor at Source New Mexico, a metaphorical layup line formed to dunk on the campaign for such an obvious affront to press freedom. The lo cal chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists jumped in, as did the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, the state’s leading transparency organization. A web site called The Conservative New Mexican appears to have offered the campaign’s lone publicGriswolddefense.had tried to obtain a press cre dential for the event, but the campaign denied him access on account of perceived unfair coverage by Source New Mexico. That’s why he bought the ticket—to attend as a regular joe. Campaign staff, apparently marshaled by spokesman Enrique Knell, were ready: They had a photo of Griswold handy and, on seeing him, threw the kibosh. Why all the angst about Griswold, who has worked in print, digital and television news in New Mexico and Colorado for a decade? Albuquerque Journal reporter Dan McKay asked Knell. Ronchetti’s crew froze Griswold out because Source New Mexico is “a leftwing advocacy group, not a legitimate news organization,” came Knell’s reply. The phrasing sounded familiar to SFR. That’s because Knell has used it before. What did he mean, exactly? Knell did not respond to messages seeking an interview for this sto ry, but there’s some puzzling history on what “left-wing” means to him. Knell has been part of the political ma chine for years, working as a spokesman for former Republican Congresswoman Heather Wilson and, later, as the head flack for Susana Martinez’s 2010 GOP gubernatorial cam paign and for her administration after that. He has once again joined forces with politi cal operative Jay McCleskey—a top Martinez adviser—to control the politics and messag
ing for Ronchetti’s run against Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham. Knell was Martinez’s spokesman when SFR sued her administration for claims of serially violating the Inspection of Public Records Act, most of which the newspa per prevailed on at trial, and for “viewpoint discrimination,” essentially arguing that Martinez had violated the New Mexico con stitution by elbowing SFR out of the rou tine flow of information because she didn’t like our coverage. Then-state District Court Judge Sarah Singleton ruled against SFR on the latter claim, which may offer some insight as to why Knell thinks it’s OK to pick which journalists get to cover his boss. When SFR filed suit in 2013, reporters around the state asked Knell for comment. He sent five of them the same statement: “It’s not a surprise that a left-wing weekly tabloid that published stolen emails containing the Governor’s personal underwear order would file a baseless lawsuit like this. Their public records requests are treated the same as ev ery other citizen in New Mexico.”
But the noise grew louder in the com ing days, after the New Mexico press corps homed in on the Ronchetti campaign’s refus al to allow journalist Shaun Griswold into the event, even though he had a ticket.
“Not necessarily,” Knell testified. “I mean, I thought that—I thought it was a—you know, came out of nowhere, was wrong, was inac curate, was misleading. And I think I had the right to express that, express that on behalf of the governor’s office.” Knell repeated several times that he was referring to the lawsuit, not SFR, when he issued the statement. (Never mind the refer ence to a “left-wing tabloid.”)
(By way of explanation: Some emails the governor sent using a private server includ ed personal shopping; others showed public business conducted in private.)
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Knell concluded that portion of the depo sition by saying he didn’t consult McCleskey before writing the statement, but he may have gotten input from Martinez higher-ups Keith Gardner or Scott Darnell. (He didn’t know whether either of them received feed back from McCleskey.) Knell testified he was neither reprimanded nor praised in the office for making the statement. He’s now used similar language to jus tify tossing a journalist out of a campaign event. And the episode raises an important question: If Ronchetti wins, his job will be to govern all New Mexicans—but how would he treat those his advisers consider “left-wing,” regardless of whether that refers to politics or a section of a baseball diamond?
The rumbling began in Carlsbad on Aug. 14 at a campaign rally for Republican gubernatorial candidate and former television weatherman Mark Ronchetti that featured an appearance by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely 2024 presidential hopeful. The sound was somewhat faint at first, unless you were looking at Twitter, with news of the event largely focused on the political tightrope Ronchetti walks in a state where Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans juxtaposed against the now-familiar, redmeat rhetoric DeSantis frequently serves up to the MAGA crowd.
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Ronchetti campaign flack has a long history of painting unfavored journalists as “left-wing,” but what does he mean by that?
The last of the five to receive the state ment: Shaun Griswold, then of KOB-TV. SFR counsel Daniel Yohalem pressed Knell for context under oath in a deposi tion. “I remember reading through the law suit, thinking it was kind of out in left field, and characterizing it that way,” Knell said. Yohalem probed deeper, inquiring about Knell’s understanding of the difference be tween “left-wing” and “right-wing” from a politics perspective. Had Knell meant “politi cal left field” when describing SFR?
* * * Nicolasa Chávez is a 14th-generation New Mexican and the deputy state historian since 2021. Her great uncle, Fray Angélico Chávez, was also a historian, artist and poet, and was responsible for “one of the earliest genealog ical studies of all the Spanish names in New Mexico,” Chávez says.
“Any New Mexican that goes back to Spain, the first thing you notice is there’s no chile—their idea of spice is garlic,” she
“There’s a lot of things that come into play in identifying as a New Mexican,” she says. “To me, it’s very much a cultural thing, more so than your bloodline. I come from 14 gen erations of the original Spanish families that settled here, but over the centuries we have become New Mexican.”
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It’s a complex identity that isn’t necessar ily defined by your ancestry, she says.
Chávez herself has more Celtic blood than anything else through the Roybal side of her family, which came from Galicia, Spain, as she discovered after taking a DNA test.
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P eople shape the representations of theSopast.”writes cultural anthropologist and former New Mexico State Historian Estevan Rael-Gálvez in his 2017 project, Decolonizing New Mexico: Remembering, Reimagining and Recovering, conceived as an effort to “under stand and address the various manifestations of historic trauma that have continued to divide the community of Santa Fe.” Fiesta—and its associated celebration of the conquest and “peaceful reoccupation” of Santa Fe by Don Diego De Vargas—has been a point of contention in town for decades. Even a brief cruise through local social media groups demonstrates that strain, and illus trates that there are as many perceptions of the celebration’s meaning and implications for personal, historical and religious identi ties as there are Santa Feans. (For the record, I’m a born-here-all-my-life Santa Fean, but as a guera, Fiesta has never been a big part of myIt’slife.)been four years since the Entrada was abolished—or “lost,” depending on who you ask. If people shape representations of the past, how is Fiesta being shaped today? And who is doing the shaping? SFR sat down with some Santafesinas who will celebrate—and some who won’t—to tell their stories, largely in their own words. (Fiesta officially opens with the 6 am Pregón de la Fiesta at Rosario Chapel on Friday, Sept. 9.)
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The New Mexican history of the Spanish side of her family can be traced back to 1598, when the Chávezes arrived with Don Juan de Oñate on orders from King Philip II to colo nize the northern frontier of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and spread Roman Catholicism by establishing new missions, and to 1693 when the Roybal side arrived with De Vargas’ reconquest.ButChávez doesn’t believe in the narra tive of “pure Spanish blood” in New Mexico, or even in Spain.
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The Spanish kept detailed records of mar riages, deaths and baptisms, which allow her family to trace their background to Spain—but Chávez identifies primarily as a New Mexican.
Anyone who lives here knows there’s a fierce debate over what qualifies a “local.” For Chávez, it’s chile.
“I feel there’s no such thing as a pureblood Spaniard, because what does that even mean?” Chávez says. “Do you have Muslim ancestors, Jewish, Celtic?”
“Growing up, people would always say, ‘Well, are you Spanish or Mexican?’” Chávez says. “I would always reply, ‘I’m New Mexican.’ We have been here for all this time, along with the Pueblo and Native American communities here.”
“That’s when I really learned the histo ry of the Pueblo Revolt and Po’pay,” Ortiz says, “and that’s when I started advocating for the removal of—well, back then, it was the entire Fiestas.”
“We were there for 10 months. When we came home, my mother picked us up at the airport and the first thing she says is, ‘Where do you guys want to eat?’ And we’re like, ‘We wanna go to Garduños, we wanna go to Papa Felipe’s. We want New MexicanChávezfood.’”grew up attending Fiesta, and one of her great aunts—now in her 90s—al ways threw a huge party.
Nicolasa Chávez, deputy state historian
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“Art tends to be categorized as Native American, Spanish, contemporary…but there’s a lot of crossbreeding. What’s re ferred to as Spanish colonial art, the tradi tions and the heritage may have come from Spain, but they changed when they came here. The Spanish learned natural, local dyes from Native Americans. I feel that anything that is New Mexican heritage has that beautiful cross-cultural blending.”
* * * Elena Ortiz is an Ohkay Owingeh tribal member who grew up in Santa Fe, where she still lives. She’s a member of The Red Nation, an Indigenous activist coalition, and was integral in getting the Entrada— the Fiesta pageant that depicts De Vargas’ reconquest of Santa Fe after the Pueblo Revolt—“put to rest.”
Nicolasa Chávez stands outside the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, where she works as deputy state historian.
“Two hundred people would come,” Chávez says. “We’re talking every walk of life—people would show up in their Fiesta dresses; a friend from Hopi Pueblo would come in full-on Hopi regalia. Fiesta was a time when everybody came out and showed pride in their heritage and cul tures. The divide we really are seeing these past few years, I didn’t have that in my family growing up.” She feels grateful that her family was inclusive, but recognizes this isn’t charac teristic of New Mexico history.
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Oritz was also on stage when dem onstrators tore the obelisk down on Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 2020. As for Fiesta, even though the Entrada has not been performed publicly since 2017 and the Fiesta Council has added the names of area Pueblos to the Spanish family crests it hangs on the public square for the event, Ortiz sees no change in the narrative.
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“We call this place O’gah Po’geh Owingeh,” she says. “I’ve started refer ring to it as ‘Mordor,’ if I’m being face tious, because this is the center of all evil in Northern New Mexico. Santa Fe pro motes, protects and encourages the racism and the vitriol that we see come out when Native people stand up for issues like the Fiestas, the Fiesta Court, the school vis its and the Entrada, which basically cele bratesGrowinggenocide.”up,the only part of Fiesta her family participated in was Zozobra. Her first encounter with the Fiesta Court came when she was in elementary school at Acequia Madre.
“I was terrified of them,” she says. “I went home and I told my parents about it, and my mother was appalled. My father took me aside and said, ‘This is not some thing that we celebrate. This is not part of yourHeculture.’”never forbade Ortiz from cele brating Fiesta, but as she grew older and learned more about it, she made her own decision. In 1980, when Ortiz was in high school, Ohkay Owingeh celebrated the Pueblo Revolt Tricentennial.
I feel like people will relate Oñate to every Spanish family. If you read the history, two-thirds of the colonists left because he was so evil and brutal. He was horrible to his own people, and to Native Americans. He was not a good leader.
“My two loves are dance and histo ry,” Chávez says. “I grew up dancing and went into Flamenco at age 11 with Vicente Romero, who is like Santa Fe’s godfather of Flamenco.”
“When the Oñate statue had the foot cut off, I think that was a big instigator: We’re not telling the full history,” she says. “But I feel like people will relate Oñate to ev ery Spanish family. If you read the history, two-thirds of the colonists left because he was so evil and brutal. He was horrible to his own people, and to Native Americans. He was not a good leader.”
For Ortiz, Santa Fe Fiesta is an annu al reminder of the hypocrisy of a city that “prides itself on being liberal, inclusive and diverse,” while perpetuating a celebra tion of the erasure of Indigenous people, their voices and histories.
Having kids rekindled her opposition, and she and her daughter worked to abol ish the Entrada and get the Plaza obelisk removed. She was on stage June 18, 2020 with the Three Sisters Collective when Mayor Alan Webber promised to remove the Plaza and Kit Carson obelisks.
“He lied,” Ortiz says. “We’ve been lied to for 500 years.” She sees the city’s handling of the re moval of the Plaza obelisk as symbolic: “Whitewashing something is not solv ing the problem, it’s covering it up. And that’s what Santa Fe does—it’s nowhere more evident than in the fact that they have a cardboard box around where the obelisk used to be.”
She sees Fiesta as an opportunity to show pride in multiculturalism. “We know there are many cultures within the Native American tradition, there are many cultures within the Anglo tradition, and the same with the Spanish and Mexican traditions. I grew up with Fiesta being this really fun time of year because you got to experience all these dif ferentChávezthings.”has a special interest in the arts, particularly Spanish Flamenco and Argentine Tango. She sees the way art is typically delineated—See: Santa Fe’s three famous summer arts markets—as a reflec tion of the oversimplification of identity.
She developed an interest in the gender frameworks expressed in Flamenco and Tango.“[Tango songs] always blame the wom an: She left you, she did evil, ran off with another guy—real tragic songs.” But the tangueras of the early 20th-cen tury pushed against that. Chávez recalls one song, where a woman describes her self as a milonguera—one who frequents the dance halls. “She sings, ‘I’m free. Nothing’s ever gonna tie me down. I won’t be la cincha del amor—I’ll never be held down by love.’”
Mayor Alan Webber watches as local Hispanic and Pueblo leaders sign a proclamation effectively ending the Entrada in July 2018.
When the Spanish returned under De Vargas, her ancestor, Juan de Dios Lucero de Godoy, was El capitán segundo—the sec ond captain under De Vargas’ campaign.
“They’re still celebrating the conquest of Pueblo people,” she says. “It’s an insult to Native people, to those who struggled with these issues growing up in Santa Fe, who struggled with the racism that’s en demic in the schools, who struggled, like I did, like my kids did, with feeling margin alized and erased—as people, our history, ourAsculture.”long as the symbols of La Conquistadora and De Vargas are part of Fiesta, it will never be inclusive, Ortiz says.
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Her uncle, Rudy Rivera, was president of the Caballeros De Vargas in the 1980s, and her aunt, Mary Louise Lucero-Rivera, was president of La Sociedad Folklorica. When her aunt died, her father, Henry Lucero, became deeply involved with the Caballeros De Vargas and also served as president.
Celebrations in the Pueblos are all about giving thanks to the earth and giving thanks to the sun and the rains and the corn. And that’s really what we should be celebrating—life, and what gives life and not what brought death.” Ortiz declined to be photographed for this story. * * * Jessica Lucero-Muñiz served as Santa Fe Fiesta Queen in 2006. Her fam ily name—Lucero—originated with the Lucero De Godoy clan, who first arrived in New Mexico in the 1600s with Pedro Lucero de Godoy, a military leader of Spanish troops in New Mexico. “He and his family cultivated the land,” Lucero-Muñiz says. “They spoke the Tewa languages and assisted the Pueblo Native Americans in defense against Apache raid ingHertribes.”family is steeped in the traditions of Fiesta.“When the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 oc curred,” she says, “Josefa López Sambrano was the sacristana in the old parochia, which is the Cathedral now. She is re sponsible for obtaining the oldest Marian image—La Conquistadora—rescuing her from the burning buildings and fleeing to El Paso del Norte.”
This year, her husband, Antonio Muñiz, is portraying El capitán segundo, a figure in De Vargas’ entourage, known as the Cuadrilla. It’s important to Lucero-Muñiz that he carries on the family’s involvement in Fiesta.Shesees La Conquistadora as a symbol of unity.“Itruly believe that the Native American and Spanish cultures integrated,” she says.
“We know that our great-great grand mother came from Bernalillo and spoke the Tewa language. That, I think, is the beauty of how we’ve grown in the culture and uniqueness of New Mexico.”
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“They brought back Our Lady,” LuceroMuñiz says. “So every year when the new De Vargas is selected and representatives of the Cuadrilla are portrayed, the Lucero name is always represented.”
“They bring out La Conquistadora and thank her for allowing them to conquer and murder people,” Ortiz says. “They call her nuestra señora de la paz, which means our lady of peace. I speak Spanish, and I know La Conquistadora does not translate as peaceful.”ForFiesta to truly become a celebra tion of all the people and cultures of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico, she says, “we need to remove this elevation of con quest. It does matter who and what we cel ebrate. If we don’t remove those things, it’s still celebrating conquest and excluding the original inhabitants and rightful care takers of this land.” For these reasons, Ortiz doesn’t cele brate“WhatFiesta.I do celebrate,” she says, “is that we are coming into harvest season.
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“I think fulfilling the role of the Santa Fe Fiesta Queen is a beautiful op portunity to inspire the youth to con tinue to preserve the culture,” she says. “It’s an important story to tell, because if we don’t tell our history, we really have no future.”
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Lucero-Muñiz wanted to be Fiesta Queen since she was a little girl. When she decided to run, she had to prepare a speech in Spanish and English. Hers was about faith:
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“My first experience observing the faith that Don Diego had, but from my own eyes, was when I went with my father and Don Pedro Ribera Ortega to take the traveling image of La Conquistadora to Vadito as a young girl, to a morada, which is a small chapel made by the Penitentes. We had a minivan, and we had the image of Our Lady with us. I was just speechless that I had the opportunity to actually sit next to the image.”
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Jessica Lucero-Muñiz, who served as Fiesta Queen in 2006, posed with the Fiesta princesses at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.
“I do have a strong discontent over what Mayor Webber did to remove the statue of De Vargas,” she says. “There was no communication at the time with the Caballeros de Vargas, and there’s been no action to put that statue back. It’s demonized, and it’s very hurtful to the Spanish-surname families to be categorized in 2022 in the same misconception.”Shesays:“It’s heartbreaking to know that statue is unaccounted for and it was just removed in the middle of the night—it should be returned to the Caballeros De Vargas for proper placement in the New Mexico History Museum.”Shealso sees the discontinuation of the Entrada as a “loss.” In 2006, her fa ther played the role of the cacique, the Indigenous leader who “welcomes” De Vargas in the pageant.
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“There is this perception that Don Diego De Vargas was responsible for atrocities,” Lucero-Muñiz says. “We can see from my family’s lineage that we lived together in peace and harmo ny, supporting each other during raids, during times of famine, loving our neighbors as ourselves regardless of race, creed or Lucero-Muñizreligion.”seesthat tension re flected in the removal of monuments, including the statue of De Vargas from Cathedral Park.
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That history, she says, is “painful.”
Deborah Rael-Buckley, who now lives in Santa Fe, was born in Albuquerque, the eldest of six. She’s a ceramic sculptor whose work excavates identity, but under standing her own was no simple matter. Her father was born Ricardo Alonzo Rael, yet after he endured racism grow ing up, he changed it to Richard Alvin
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» Desfile de la Gente – Historical Parade: 1 pm - 3 pm Sept. 11, Santa Fe Plaza, 63 Lincoln Ave.
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On Aug. 26, the City of Santa Fe announced that Artful Life, LLC—the lead consultant for Santa Fe’s Culture, History, Art, Reconciliation and Truth (CHART) initiative— released its final report after 11 months of community engagement. The 138-page report responds to community concerns surrounding the felled Plaza obelisk, and looks to the future of public art and cultural events in town with a view toward addressing racism in Santa Fe. Artful Life will present the report to the City Council at its Aug. 31 meeting, but there will be no action. View the report at santafenm.gov/chart
She speaks of her time as Fiesta Queen as transformative.
“That’s the story of how the peace was formed, and I think that that story still needs to be Lucero-Muñiztold.”sees Fiesta as a time of camaraderie.“Fiestasbrings a sense of pride in community, but also preserving the promise that was made 310 years ago,” she says. “Being in the Fiesta Queen role was really special—going to the schools, to the nursing homes. That is so powerful—we bring Fiestas to them.” She and her siblings have connec tions to the narrative of Fiesta through the Catholic Church. Her sister is the archivist for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, and her brother sews outfits for La Conquistadora.“TheLucero name holds great pride for me, especially because it’s so very close to the preservation of Our Lady of Peace,” Lucero-Muñiz says. “The name itself means light—the morning star, the first light you see at dawn. When they put an outfit on her that’s made by my brother, there’s a different sense of light. Maybe it’s in my eyes, but I know that’s the Lucero light.”***
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The piece “recalls the lovely mem ories of times spent at the Santa Fe Fiestas,” Rael-Buckley says. “Zozobra stands while the spectators gather ‘round and the children light him up… clouds and fireworks fill the night sky above the female form.” Zozobra is the part of Fiesta she celebrates.“Ilove the community aspect—how people come together to build it. It’s also about the transience of life—burn it all up, start over.”
The knowledge began to inform her work. One piece—titled “Edicto”—shows a female torso with her arms raised in surrender. She wears a yellow mantle like the ones worn by conversos in Spain during the Inquisition, marked by a red ‘X,’ another symbol of Spanish Jews’ forced conversion to Catholicism. The mantle is inscribed with text from the Alhambra Edict of 1492.
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Flames curl up from the base of the torso.“They would burn you at the stake if you refused,” Rael-Buckley says. Blue trees on the torso’s sides seem to support the figure, and their leaves are Hebrew words describing terror, family, loss.
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She recalls that “there were al ways murmurs that my family was part Jewish,” but as staunch Catholics, they never really discussed it.
“At the end of it people were saying, ‘Are there any names associated with that background?’ And he said, ‘I only knowSheone—Rael.’”tookaDNA test, which confirmed her Jewish background in the Iberian peninsula.“Myfamily were Jews and they were forced to convert, so they were conver so,” she says.
“It says that all Jews who reside in the state must relinquish their land, their belongings, their children and their slaves to the state, and must convert on pain of death,” Rael-Buckley explains.
“As far as my father was concerned, we were Catholics, forever and ever, amen.”But Rael-Buckley pursued the ques tion. She remembers attending a lecture by Stanley M. Hordes, who had recently published a book about New Mexico’s converso community.
“It was really painful to work on,” Rael-Buckley says. “I knew about the inquisitions and everything through history, but I hadn’t linked it to my background.”Rael-Buckley thinks of her work in layers of memory.
“You have a cultural memory, a his torical memory, a familial memory, a personal memory.” She also has a sculpture entitled “Zozobra’s Fire” that features similar vi sual themes—the flames, of course, and inscriptions that symbolize the burning of gloom: fear, hunger, war, debt, envy.
Deborah Rael-Buckley outside her Santa Fe home with her sculpture, Zozobra’s Fire.
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KEEP BREATHING It used to be that when people suggested meditating, many of us would make jokes about droning “Om” man tras and move on to louder, less thoughtful things, like action movies and metal bands and throwing televisions off rooftops. Now, though, in a world of pandemics and scary politicians, it only makes sense to long for peace, to long for quiet, to long for stillness. In Santa Fe, that’s easily done at Zoetic’s weekly Art of Meditation ses sions. “If we train in meditation, our mind will gradually become more and more peaceful, and we will experience a purer and purer form of happiness,” reads the website. Uhhhh, yeah. We want some of that. (ADV) The Art of Meditation: Developing a Joyful Practice: 6 pm Tuesday, Sept. 6. $10. Zoetic 230 S St. Francis Drive, (505) 292-5293
Of course there’s no telling the actual tone of that old show, and today’s version promises to be a little more caring in how it addresses things. As Primm says, “The idea is that it lets us all laugh at ourselves.”
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The way we hear it, protesters outside the opening night of this year’s Fiesta Melodrama at the Santa Fe Playhouse may or may not have been part of the show. And though co-director Andy Primm tells SFR that audiences had no trouble attending the sold-out show, one could be forgiv en for wondering what’s up at the oldest continually operating theater west of the Mississippi.Without wanting to spoil anything, Primm, co-director Eliot Fisher and the Playhouse’s crack team of anonymous writers have put together a real thinker of a show this year. Intact are the annual show’s sensibilities—namely a bit of the old sticking it to our fair city’s notable people and perhaps more notable foibles—only this time, they’ve aimed the focus inward. According to Primm, this year’s Melodrama puts the show itself on trial, examining and addressing its 100 years of history and dig ging into some of its more troubling content from ages past. In other words, a 100-yearold theater is bound to have made some missteps, particularly in the, shall we say, more overtly racist periods of time, but with a willingness to declare mea culpa, plus the show’s trademarked surrealism and absur dity, there will be no finger-wagging. “What really knocked me out is that Eliot, my co-director, found a review of the actual 1922 first Melodrama in a New York theater magazine from 1923,” Primm says. “This play was called The Sorcerers of Nambe —and this is real—it was about a trial from 1675, when the Spanish territorial governor of New Mexico put all these regional Indigenous leaders on trial for sor cery and witchcraft. So we had kind of our own Salem Witch Trials in New Mexico, and apparently, as far as we know, one of those Indigenous leaders was Po’pay, who led the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. That play in 1922 was about those trials.”
Santa Fe Playhouse’s 100th Fiesta Melodrama gets self-referential
HOVDECOLINLIKE, BURN HIM We weren’t sure if you’d need a reminder that the annual burning of Zozobra is upon us, but as the event is both a de-facto reminder that summer is pretty much done-zo, and also sometimes out-of-towners read our paper, here we are. For those not in the know, Zozobra, aka Old Man Gloom, is the physical embodiment of everyone’s strife, pain, suffering, et al—a gargantuan puppet that we burn to the ground while ghosts dance and the crowd screams like Paganistic new gods. Feels good, man, and if you’re reading this and have never been, maybe just check it out as no words can properly explain the may hem. Don’t forget this year finds the looming monstros ity adopting ’90s flair as part of the ongoing Decades Project from its Kiwanis Club organizers, which has thus far adorned Zozo in the looks and gestalts of various de cades. We bet they play Nirvana at the burning. (ADV) 98th Burning of Zozobra: 4 pm Friday, Sept. 2. $20 Fort Marcy Park, 490 Washington Ave., burnzozobra.com
ROLL IT Santa Fe sure has a lot of film festivals for our relatively tiny size, but we also seem to have a lot of things, so... word? Enter the Fifth Annual Madrid Film Festival, a rain or shine event in the bucolic village of Madrid outside Santa Fe that finds a veritable gaggle of local filmmakers showing their stuff through the auspices of organizers/ professional weirdos Andrew Wice and Joe West. The little fest has grown over the years to become an outdoor affair covering numerous filmmaking categories. And unlike stuffy old festivals such as Cannes or whatever, the whole thing’s way more about having fun and making movies than being an art snob. Hit Madrid’s Oscar Huber Ballpark this weekend to get a better idea of what we’re talking about. It’s affordable! It’s fun! We once had an amazing burger at Madrid’s Mine Shaft Tavern! (ADV) Fifth Annual Madrid Film Festvial: 6:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 3. $10. Oscar Huber Ballpark 2895a Hwy. 14., madridfilmfestival.org
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2018 Arroyo 11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 In addition to his paintings of urban settings, Ben Aronson contributes images of more rural landscapes, still-lifes and human figures to his exhibition. 10 am–6 pm, free BRICK X BRICK: ARTWORKS INSPIRED BY ARCHITECTUREEARTHEN
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Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie 820-1888 Belen-based artist Paula Castillo's statues represent the intersections of New Mexico's identity, languages and the unique local environment. Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free CREATURELY KINDNESS Globe Fine Art 727 Canyon Road (505) 989-3888 Cutesy paintings done in defense of animal rights and the rights of nature. Proceeds go to orgs providing conservation efforts. Sat-Thurs, 10 am-5 pm, free DEBBIE LONG 5. 2351GalleryFoxRoad, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 See new creations from a Taosbased glass artist. Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free DEEP IN THE HEART OF SUMMER Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 Artist Chantel Foretich presents a set of mechanized and illuminated sculptures inspired by literature, all of which draw from scenes and passages in fiction by authors from the '30s through the '50s. 10 am-8 pm, Tues-Thurs 10 am-6 pm, Fri & Sat, free
ABSTRACTION AND FIGURATION Pie 924BProjectsShoofly St. (505) 372-7681 Eugene Newmann is well known in the Santa Fe art community for being a “painter’s painter.” This selection of his works includes paintings from ‘76-’78 and abstractionslandscape-inspiredsuchasthe
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Peyton Wright Gallery 237 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-9888 Berkowitz’s masterful use of color, lines and depth are on full display here. 9 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free
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Artes de Cuba 1700 A Lena St. (505) 303-3138 Cuba's vibrant contemporary art scene is featured here. That includes woodblocks, silkscreens, collagraphs, collages and unique constructions. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free
INTERNAL LOGIC photo-eye Gallery 1300 Rufina Circle, Ste. A3 (505) 988-5152 x202 Artist Maggie Taylor works in photomontage. Her new show is just that—glorious photomontage! Plus, she'll be signing copies of her new book naturally called Internal Logic 10 am-5:30 pm, Mon-Sat, free
LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 Through subtle colors and a layered, expressive use of line, Mark Pomilio’s art references the forces and geometries of the natural world over a career that spans more than two decades. 10 am – 6 pm, Mon-Fri, free 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free
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ROOTS Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Roots explores the body’s relationship to the Earth, detailing intimate connections. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
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Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 Will Wilson’s solo show displays 19th century tintypes he’s developed over the past decade. Noon-5 pm, Thurs & Fri, free CLEMENTINA AND GENIOSOS, MANITOS Y MONOS (OPENING)
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Santa Fe Community Gallery 201 W. Marcy St. (505) 955-6707 Artists consider the form, function, aesthetic, innovation and future of earthen architecture. The exhibit examines the role of the adobe aesthetic in New Mexico. 10 am-3 pm, Wed-Fri, free CIPX: CRITICAL PHOTOGRAPHICINDIGENOUSEXCHANGE
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For those who’ve always thought their cup of coffee didn’t come with enough history talk. Quaff a cup and chat with a bonafide history expert. Kinda cool, right? Noon-2 pm, free EVENTS HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 It’s not your grandma’s bingo. You know the one we mean, right? Like, where your grandma would bite people? 7 pm, $2 per round
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THE COLONIAL SPANISH HORSE Santa Fe Sheriff's Posse 3213 Rodeo Road (505) 469-2968 Watch and learn about the legendary Spanish Barb horse breed with Kathleen Bellemare. 6 pm, free YOUTH CHESS CLUB Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 As we’ve all learned through TV and movies about chess, knowing how to checkmate some fool is as good as it gets. 5:30-8 pm, free MUSIC BKS RINGS El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Americana and metal, which sounds like a werid combo, but we’re down. 8-10 pm, free JOHNNY LLOYD 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Country tunes in that classic, pre-’90s style. See you in hell, Alan Jackson! 4-6 pm, free JOHNNY WAYNE LLOYD 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 9(82-2565 Cowboy blues and country music. We’re a big fan of such tunes, here in Santa Fe. 4-6 pm, free KARAOKE NIGHT 530BoxcarSGuadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Clasically trained singers need not apply. Karaoke is almost always better when people are pretty bad at singing. 10 pm, free YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND The Bridge at SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182 With their latest album Get Yourself Outside, Coloradobased quintet Yonder Mountain String Band once again echoes out into the universe their place as not only a pioneering jam-grass act, but also one of the most innovative, intricate groups in the live music scene. 7:30 pm, $30-$35
WORKSHOP BEGINNING FABRIC Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B (505) 992-2588 This course includes climbing, wraps, foot locks and poses. From conditioning and basic skills to explorations in choreography, fabrics are a fun way to build core strength and flexibility while defying gravity. It’s like Wicked, but with no singing, thankfully. 5:30-7 pm, $28-$132
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THE QUALITY OF BEING FLEETING Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 Multimedia installations, projections and video work. Noon-6 pm, Thurs-Sun, free THERE ARE NO ENDINGS Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 A solo exhibition of recent work from Duane Slick (Meskwaki/ Ho-Chunk Nations), including paintings and works on paper. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free DANCE EL SPANISHFLAMENCO:CABARET
STILL LIVES Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Penelope Gottlieb appropriates and alters existing digital prints, depicting invasive species and how they harm our regional environments.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free TACK ROOM Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Paintings, drawings and mixed media works by Patrick Dean Hubbell. Staged as a typical tack area of a ranch barn, the installation recasts art as equine equipment. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free THE BODY ELECTRIC SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 A solo exhibition for artist Jeffrey Gibson, presenting a multi-decade practice. Gibson’s merging of artistic styles and historical and contemporary cultural references synergizes to create vibrant, multilayered works of art that express the complexities and relationships between injustice. 10 am-5 pm, Mon, Thurs, Sat & 10Sunam-7 pm, Fri, free THE BOSQUE DEL APACHE Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555 Star Liana York draws inspiration from her many visits to the Bosque del Apache. These animal sculptures are a tribute to the natural world. 9:30 am-5:30 pm, Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun, free PAINTING DEADLINES 7 Arts Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave. (505) 437-1107 Oil sketches by Deborah Allison, featuring people, places and the landscapes we call our home. 11 am-5 pm, free
El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Tapas, wine and dance. 7:30 pm, Wed-Sun, $25-$43
LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 La Emi and company have an updated show for the season. 8 pm, Wed-Sat 2 pm, Sun, $25-$55
THE PICTURE POSTCARD No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon nonamecinema.orgSt. An exhibition of 20th century photo postcards curated by Justin Rhody. On view during events or by appointment, free
ART JAM WEDNESDAYS Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 alasdeagua.com One of the city’s most important collectives wants to art with you. Bring your own supplies if you’ve got ‘em, but Alas will provide some too if needed. 5:30-7:30 pm, free BOOKS/LECTURES COFFEE AND CONVERSATION 35 Degree North 60 E San Francisco afternoonswithchristian.comSt.
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Albuquerque artist Vicente Telles has been making waves in recent years with his contemporary take on Spanish arts traditions. From retablos and santos to paintings, political statements and even collaborations with perennial SFR favorite Brandon Maldonado, Telles seems to be hitting a peak point of creation, statement and, frankly, skill. Telles both curated and will show at the upcoming exhibit Son de Aqui, Son de Aca (5 pm Friday, Sept. 2. Free. Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave., (505) 455-6882) alongside new works from artists Sabina Zarco, Augustine Romero, Frank Zamora, Lorena Salaz and others. We’ve been following Telles for years and simply had to learn more about what he’s been working on, what he’s hoping to say and how curating and exhibiting in one new show comes together. (Alex De Vore) What can you tell us about why you selected these artists? I think it’s quality of work, the message that they’re saying—and that I’ve never seen them in a gallery in Santa Fe or in Albuquerque. I’ve never seen them outside of institutions. And it happened kind of organically, I think. A couple of the artists I grew up with, but before...I created art, they’ve always been doing it. They’ve done really good things, so then when I started doing my art, I also noticed that, until recently, some of these artists haven’t been exhibiting in New Mexico. This is a perfect opportunity to bring these people together. The idea of the institutions...they serve their purpose, right? But bringing these people together in a gallery, I feel, is a part of giving back to the community and recognizing those I think are amazing artists.You think about why you don’t know these names, you think about the quality of work they do, and that’s the exact reason this kind of show needs to happen; there isn’t a lot of familiarity with these artists, and it’s an awesome opportunity for the them to create a dialogue [with galleries], to maybe get some more attention for the work that they’re doing. You’ve been known to be political in your work—for example, pieces from a few years ago that featured gallon bottles of water, like the kind that get left in the deserts for immigrants—though, I think, there’s an argument for all art being political in some way. With that in mind, what’s up with your new stuff? It’s political as well, and more personal. The idea of the piñata head, for example, is the idea of being Nuevo Mexicano/Mexicano/ Latino in this country: We’re always taking a beating for whatever, right? On an even more personal level, the idea of me wanting to be a professional artist or just any kind of artist, and then taking the hits like, ‘Why do you want to do that? Don’t you want a real job?’ The idea of constantly being bashed by all these negative ideas, stereotypes; taking the brunt of it and still saying this is what I’m gonna do. You know how Mexicanos are treated. They’re OK, but as soon as something goes wrong, we become the scapegoat, somebody to bash. The little pigeon on my shoulder is my idea of how people view these living beings. I’m using the pigeon as a stand-in for the idea that there’s this creature that’s in every city in the country, that performs a function, but it’s not valued. It’s omni-present; it’s never valued. It’s still political, but it’s also about how I wrap these personal feelings with the general mood at the time I was painting. How do I create something that’s a self-portrait, but that people can see themselves in? How did you find intersection of curation and showing your own work? Have you learned anything you’ll take with you moving forward, either as an artist or curator? I think it kind of happened from visiting these different cities and seeing the idea of Brown creatives and contemporary artmakers, and then coming back home and not seeing that here. A few things have opened up for me since the pandemic—a show about La Milenche, becoming a part of the permanent collection at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. I feel like I have eyes looking at me, now let me bring into the fold the people I surround myself with who have a certain level of creativity, quality and craftsmanship, but who I don’t think are getting that same shine.
It’s like, you had Nirvana, and then you had the grunge scene. If you didn’t have the larger scene, would we have had more of it? Nirvana was the powerhouse, but they weren’t the scene. If you don’t create a scene, why do you think you‘ll bark loud enough for people to hear? You need a bunch of badass people creating. You need a bunch of little barks. It’s at the point where I started thinking a lot about it. Artists are already getting written out, and it’s only going to get worse, but I think, why take a backseat and hope somebody is going to do this for us rather than just trying to do it. Even if you fail, you’re working toward something.
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Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B. (505) 992-2588 If fabric ain’t your thing, bring out your inner-child and learn hula-hoop movements. Practice basic and beginner hula-hooping tricks and learn hooping sequences to see how different skills can be linked. Then try to say “hoop” a million more times. Hoop. 5:30-7 pm, $22-$108
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THE US AND THE HOLOCAUST: PREVIEW SCREENING santafejff.org/tickets/Online New Mexico PBS and the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival present a 40 minute preview of Ken Burns' new three-part, six hour documentary. The preview is followed by a live discussion with Daniel Greene, who has curated Americans and the Holocaust at the US Holocaust Memorial, and was a consultant to the PBS series. Tickets are free, but an RSVP is required. Try using that link up above. See it? 5-6:30 pm, free MUSIC BOB MAUS Cava Lounge at Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Classic singer-songwriter tunes like Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Carole King and more. 7-10 pm, free DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858 A Broadway master performs The Great American Songbook, pop songs and even originals. Maybe he’ll even put on a mask for his Phantom of the Opera covers? Who knows. Naw, just kidding, he won’t. 7-10 pm, $5
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FIRST THURSDAYS AT EL REY El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Soak up the summer nights. Enjoy live music, signature cocktails, wood-fired pizza from Tender Fire Kitchen and goods from local makers. 6-8 pm, free FOLK MUSIC KARAOKE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Karaoke with a live band? Yup. Folk fans join Loren Bienvenu, Carl Davis, Brian Nelson and Alex Reiser for exactly that. 7-9 pm, free JIM ALMAND 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Country tunes at the 'ol Cowgirl from a guy who once told SFR he loves Faulkner. We love Faulkner, too! 4-6 pm, free KARAOKE NIGHT Reunity Farms 1829 San Ysidro reunityresources.comCrossing Sing your heart out, Linda. It's your time to shine. 7-9 pm, free NUESTRA MUSICA: MARIACHI SONIDOS DEL MONTE Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail ampconcerts.org Mariachi Sonidos del Monte was established in Santa Fe in August of 2008. Driven by love and passion for Mariachi music, the band has performed throughout New Mexico and southern Colorado, entertaining thousands, and now they’ve come for you. THEY ARE RIGHT BEHIND YOU! 6 pm, free ROBERT WILSON The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712 Jazz, blues, alt.country and other genres. 5:30 pm, free THEATER HURRICANE MEGAN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 An aspiring actress hits NYC, turning every inter action into a delightful screwball comedy. This performance also includes the short play Necking 8 pm, $25 SANTA FE MELODRAMAFIESTA Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Wherin the town is lam basted humourously. (See SFR Picks, page 19) 7:30-9:30 pm, free WORKSHOP ACRO BALANCE Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B (505) 992-2588 Use your context clues to work out what this is all about. Got it? Good. 5:30-7 pm, $22-$108 METALSHOP AND MIG WELDING MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 Embark on the exciting journey of metal! Not the music, but you’ll get hands-on training with the many tools required for cutting, bending, shaping and all that stuff. 2-6 pm, $180 CONTINUED ON PAGE 27
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You know when you just want to go out and drink a few beers and look at neon lights and contemplate the absurdity of the reality of being—but then a bunch of kids are right there screaming and doing stuff with sticky hands? In a nutshell, this is Meow Wolf, sans-kids. Enjoy. 6 pm, $35 CHESS AND JAZZ CLUB No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon nonamecinema.orgSt.
PORN: HELPFUL OR HURTFUL? Ah, yes. The magical internet land of BBW, BBC, DP, ATM—you name it; where uncensored content designed for the sole purpose of getting you off (yes, just you!) is at your fingertips. That’s what it is these days, but porn, aka depictions of a sexual nature, actually date back to prehistoric times. Or so says Wikipedia, anyway. Clearly the desire to see others express themselves sexually has always been around. Dare we call it primal? But “porn” is a word we still tend to whisper or, on rare occasions, we say it out loud—or we claim we’ve never seen any at all (cool story, bro). Wherever you tell people you land, a May study put out by the Institute for Family Studies says that “roughly six in 10 Americans report having watched porn at some point in their lives, including more than one in four who have watched it in the lastEssentially,month.”
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Layla Asher is a local sex worker on a mission to spread radical self love to her community and the world. Have further questions after reading this? Want to ask your local sex worker their expert opinion on something? Let’s start a sex positive conversation that keeps respect and confidentiality at the forefront and judgment a thing of the past. Please submit your questions to thenakedlayla@gmail.com and include an alias that protects your anonymity
My friend shared a great little morsel about getting titty-fucked by this dude a few years ago. He was straight up fucking her sternum, not paying attention to any of her erogenous zones, and when all was said and done on his part, he had the audacity to ask if she came. It’s OK. You can laugh. I did. Talk about unrealistic expectations! Yet, if you’ve ever seen titty-fucking in porn, you know exactly why he thought that would happen. Porn is a great tool to increase sexual pleasure and to experience fantasies, but it should come with the disclaimer that it by no means depicts reallife sex. A playful yet illuminating exercise might be to sit down with your partner, or friend even, and watch an X-rated video together. Compare notes at the end about what felt realistic, silly, scary, comfortable and so on. Keep in mind, this exercise isn’t about showing off what you know, it’s about leveling the playing field and shedding light on disparities you might never have known were there. I’m a big believer in opening up lines of communication in a lighthearted way every time you can. Also, I’m SO jazzed you used the term “mainstream porn” in your question. Regular readers know I’m a sex worker and proponent of platforms like OnlyFans, which puts consent—and money—in the hands of creators. Negative things like violence, human trafficking and lack of consent are much more common in the mainstream porn industry. As simple as it sounds, if we all chose to start paying for porn on platforms that pay creators and value consent, the demand for the mainstream stuff could potentially evolve, as well as some of its more fantastical and negative effects. Paying for porn is the future. What about porn, along with sex toys, makes people less incentivized to go search for connection?-CRAVING CONNECTION IN A DISCONNECTED WORLD
I think porn is both a helpful tool and hurtful reality check. It can feed a primal desire, but it can also ignite some deep insecurities. It is not your enemy, but don’t get it twisted—it’s not your best friend, either. And don’t forget, the mainstream porn industry is and has always been catered to the male experience, so if you find yourself wondering why your girl didn’t cum from getting titty-fucked, it might just be time to come back down to Earth.
most of us watch porn, but is this oh-so-accessible fantasyland making our real sex lives feel like some sort of dystopia? Let’s see what the readers have to ask about that. What negative effects do you think mainstream porn has on “real life” sex, i.e., violence, unrealistic expectations, and so on? -ARE WE ALL DOING IT WRONG
You can have all of it. A connection with a real-life human is something that cannot be duplicated, but it certainly can be enhanced with tools like sex toys and porn.
This generation has two new drugs of choice: convenience and instant gratification. Ask a millennial. Shit, ask me! I’m currently trying (and failing) to end my yearsssss-long addiction to DoorDash. (I’m literally DoorDashing right now). But really, why put yourself out there when you don’t need to? Why carve out the time, make the effort or even worse— expose yourself to being hurt when you can just get your sexual needs met by modern-day technology? I totally get it, but you might be missing out. Have you ever experienced that comedown period after watching porn or having a meaningless hookup? Sure, you just got your rocks off, but suddenly the happy hormones are gone and replaced by a feeling of emptiness. It’s OK to listen to that feeling. There isn’t much more fulfilling in this life than human connection, so it’s OK to give yourself permission to seek that out. And remember, this isn’t about choosing one or the other.
Funny story: I just got back from a weeklong girl’s trip, and one night we were sitting around the campfire, had a little too much to drink and were reminiscing about disappointing sexual experiences.
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LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 In his latest body of work, Skip Steinworth builds upon his notably lucid approach to still life in a remarkable collection of master draw ings. 10 am-6 pm, free SON DE AQUI, SON DE ACA (OPENING) Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882 New Mexican artist Vicente Telles brings artists from all over the Southwest, with a big focus on POC artists. (See 3Qs, page 24) 5-7 pm, free MORTAL (OPENING)HIGHWAYS El 545ZaguánCanyon Road (505) 982-0016 Powerful and poignant photography of descansano culture in Northern New Mexico. 5-7 pm, free THE CHANGING WEST (ARTIST RECEPTION) Victory Contemporary 124 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-8589
Terry Gardner’s “Boss,” part of The Changing West at Victory Contemporary,
THEATER HURRICANE MEGAN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 An aspiring actress hits the town in New York City, turning every interaction into a delightful screwball comedy. This performance also includes the short play Necking We remember when we were all about necking. We’d just be out there all like, “Pshssht—ya’ll like necking?” 8 pm, $25
Terry Gardner captures the land and the impres sions left by man in an ever-evolving American West. Gardner will be on hand during this artist reception to discuss his work further with patrons. 5-7 pm, free
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A caribbean concert in honor of Fiestas. Brotherhood Sound and special guest Lilly Melody, a fantastic veteran reggae singer from Jamaica. 8 pm, $10 FUCKED UP Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Oh, just one of the most badass punk bands of our time? Sick! 7:30 pm, $22-$27
YOGA FOR KIDS La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292 Join the library for children’s yoga! Parents required, FYI. Like, don’t be that guy who shows up without a kid. Ever. 10:30 am, free
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KAREN YANK (OPENING) Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800 One of the West’s leading public artists, Yank has formulated and fabricated sculpture for outdoor sites throughout the land. 5-7 pm, free MAGNUM (OPENING)OPUS
Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 A dual exhibition with new works by painters John Tarahteeff and Willy Bo Richardson that shows a rather enjoyable contrast between surrealist figuar tive work and abstracted light and color pieces. Frankly, the show looks killer, so get onboard or get real. 5-7 pm, free TRANSITIONS (OPENING) Peyton Wright Gallery 237 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-9888 An exhibition of new works by Donald Roy Thompson, who focuses on the relationship of colors to one another. 5-7 pm, free EVENTS 98TH BURNING OF ZOZOBRA Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington burnzozozobra.comAve.
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It's a '90s dance party this go-around. It'll be a fun addition to watching our old friend get burned alive. (See SFR Picks, page 19) 4 (gates open)-11 pm, $20 POTTERY THROW DOWN Paseo Pottery 1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687 Live pottery demos, libations, music and a chance for newbies to try their hands at the wheel with the help of volunteer teachers. Did you know Paseo Pottery donates most of its income to local charities and nonprofits? 5-8 pm, $20 MUSIC CHANGO 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 So so so so so many cover jamz to go with your drinks and BBQ offerings. 8-11 pm, free FIESTA REGGAE 530BoxcarSGuadalupe St. (505) 988-7222
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ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace lacasasena.com/clublegato/Ave. Local jazz trio that’s more than likely going to rock the house. 6-9 pm, free TGIF CONCERT First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 David Solem plays piano for us and Melissa Colgin Abeln brings the flute home. 5:30 pm, free
Levity and lighthearted ness will be on full display with the Notever-popularmind-bending,MOMIX.seeninSantaFefor a decade, this unparalleled troupe creates surreal and fantastical worlds with light, shadow, props and the human body. A unique theatrical experience for the whole family—thanks, founder Moses Pendleton! 8 pm, $36-$94
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Oil sketches by Deborah Allison at that downtown gallery where the artists are all friends and do cool work, but they support each other instead of it being this whole weird big thing. We love to see it. 5-7 pm, free
10 am-5 pm, free DANCE MOMIX Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234
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Explore the many artist stu dios in-and-around the Taos area. Check out the website link above for more info.
SANTA FE FIESTA DE LOS NIÑOS El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 Play games, do hands-on activities and kid stuff. 10 am-4 pm, $6-$8
Big Brothers Big Sisters teams up with Wicked West Harley Davidson for a com munity fair. 11 am-3 pm, free HARVEST & FIBER FESTIVAL Wildlife West Nature Park 87 W Frontage Rd, Edgewood (505) 281-7655
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More than 20 artists from around the region demon strate yarn spinning, knitting and lace making. 10 am, $20
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FIESTA FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS MARKET Santa Fe Plaza 63 Lincoln santafefiesta.orgAve. Art, food, music, food, cul ture, FOOD. That’s the good stuff. That and those hugeass turkey legs. 9 am-5 pm, free FULL CIRCLE: RETURNING TO THE RECLAIMINGLAND,OURSELVES El Museo Cultural 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591
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Three Sisters Collective and the Alas de Agua Art Collective join forces for a panel discussion on their artist communities—plus food, music and an open mic. 11 am-3 pm, free FILM MADRID FILM FESTIVAL Oscar Huber Memorial StateBallparkHwy.
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SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Check out the weekly out door art market. Under the white tents is a wonderland of fine arts and crafts by local artists. Pottery, jew elry, paintings, photogra phy, furniture, textiles and more. It’s right north of the Railyard water tower. 9 am-2 pm, free TAOS ORGANIZATIONARTIST'S OPEN STUDIO TOUR Town of taosartistorg.orgTaos
SANTA FE MELODRAMAFIESTA Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 A theatrical tradition for 100 freaking years during which an anonymous panel of local writers rip apart all the Santa Fe stuff they can. And we do a lot of weird stuff. We hope there are a lot of funny hats in there to represent that weird down town...aesthetic. (See SFR Picks, page 19) 4-6 pm, $15-$25 WORKSHOP MAKE SANTA FE TOUR MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 Want to check out a cool local makerspace? Stop by for a free tour of MAKE Santa Fe, where all the questions in the universe will be answered! EVERY SINGLE ONE! Or the MAKE-related ones, at least, though we guess it is possible they have some answers to your existential ist dilemmas. Ohmygod, do we have ennui? 6-7 pm, free SAT/3ART BRUTALLY SENSITIVE NO LAND 54 1/2 E San Francisco St., Ste. (216)7 973-3367 From handmade objects to computer-based encryp tion systems, Ranran Fan’s invented devices are each a matter of necessity. Also, NO LAND is cool Noon-4 pm, free MILAGRO PAINTERS PAINTED STORIES SHOW (OPENING) Abiquiú Inn 21120 Hwy. 84, Abiquiú (505) 685-4378 Award winning New Mexico Plein Air Painters exhibit up to 75 original works in the gallery at the Abiquiu Inn. The exhibition is inspired by Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu and Northern New Mexico— which are some of the most beautiful places on Earth. 4-6 pm, free PAINTING (OPENING)DEADLINES 7 Arts Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave. (505) 437-1107
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14 Madrid (505) 474-4893 Hosts Joe West and Andrew Wice open the historic ballpark to see films under under the stars. (See SFR Picks, page 19) 7-10 pm, $10 FOOD FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market 1607PavilionPaseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 Food, glorious food. Local roots, chiles, maize, nuts, fruits and whatever the heck else grows out here. It’ll be winter soon, might as well get in on the goods before it’s freezing in the morning. 8 am-1 pm, free MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZAMARIACHI DE SANTA FE Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Swirling dresses, stamping feet and ringing trumpets welcome participants to a passionate musical expe rience. People don’t throw around the word “extrava ganza” for nothing. 7:30 pm, $18-$58 Want to see your event listed here? We’d love to hear from you. Send notices via email thecalendar@sfreporter.com.toMakesureyouincludeallpertinentdetailssuchaslocation,time,priceandsoforth.Ithelpsusoutgreatly. Submission doesn’t guarantee inclusion.
FIESTA FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS MARKET Santa Fe Plaza 63 Lincoln santafefiesta.orgAve.
12:30 pm, free EVENTS HARVEST & FIBER FESTIVAL Wildlife West Nature Park 87 W Frontage Rd, Edgewood (505) 281-7655 Sheep, knots, harvests and wool. If you’ve got an itch for fibers, this outghta scratch it just right. 10 am, $20
More Fiesta. We need more Fiesta. God help our arteries but we need more Fiesta. Also it’s a holiday weekend, go a little crazy. 9 am-5 pm, free FOOD ROWLEY FARMHOUSE ALES: ANNIVERSARY6-YEAR
Celebrate Labor Day with crafts! 9 am-5 pm, free MUSIC BILL HEARNE 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 A flat-pickin’, honky-tonking legend. 4-6 pm, free TUE/6BOOKS/LECTURES
SOIL STORIES: ANNE BIKLÉ AND MONTGOMERYDAVID tinyurl.com/2u3me23aOnline
A presentation detailing the emissions of the single largest institutional source of greenhouse gas emis sions on the planet, the US Military. Veteran Jim Janko leads the discussion.
VETERANS FOR PEACE: THE ROLE OF THE US MILITARY IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe 107 N. Barcelona Road uusantafe.org
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WORKSHOP YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St. 60-minute Vinyasa flow class. Pop them joints and get them points and then tell everyone in your life how much more flexible you are now. No more shoes, right? And you sleep in yoga pants. You’ve seen behind the farce of existence, and its name is bendiness. 10 am, $10-$15 MON/5DANCE
Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Let’s make fun of Santa Fe some more! (See SFR picks, page 19) 2 pm and 7:30 pm, $15-$25 WORKSHOP QUANTUM LANGUAGING SALON Fruit Of The Earth Natural 909HealthEarly eventbrite.comSt.
EVENTS TAROT TUESDAYS AT EL REY El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 We’ll admit we’ve dogged on tarot before, but we’ve since come around. Ask the cards. 6-8 pm, free YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community 701RoomCallejon St. (505) 316-3596 Lend a hand in the Railyard Park, by which we mean do some yardwork. Do it! 10 am-noon, free FOOD FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 A laid-back chance to get your favorite (and local!) farm fresh goods. 8 am-1 pm, free MUSIC GOOD TROY EDWARD 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Country rock. 4-6 pm, free WORKSHOP THE ART OF PRACTICEDEVELOPINGMEDITATION:AJOYFUL 230ZoeticSt. Francis Drive (505) 292-5293 Training in meditation on Buddha’s timeless wisdom causes our mind to become more & more peaceful and we experience a purer form of happiness both in and out of meditation. (See SFR Picks, page 19) 6-7:30 pm, $10 YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St., 87501 60-minute Vinyasa flow class. Downward that dog. Noon, $10-$15
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MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence and the Architecture of John Gaw Meem. Trails, Rails, and Highways: How Trade Transformed New Mexico. 1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12 NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063 Transgressions and 10Amplifications.am-5pm,Tues-Sun, $7-12
POEH CENTERCULTURAL 78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041 Di Wae Powa: A Partnership With the Smithsonian. Nah Poeh Meng: The Continuous 9Path.am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$10
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ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace lacasasena.com/clublegato/Ave.
AMERICANMUSEUMWHEELWRIGHTOFTHEINDIAN 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636 Rooted: Samples of Southwest Baskets. Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8
SANTA FE FIESTA DE LOS NIÑOS El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 Family fun out at the living history ranch. Many games, hands-on activities and live youth entertainers. Also, the kids can learn about history. So they have fun and can be smart. That’s cool, right? 10 am-4 pm, $6-$8
Quantum Languaging Practice Salon is a space devoted to up-leveling our languaging habits to repro gram our reality. 3:30-4:30 pm, free SUN/4BOOKS/LECTURES
SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Old fashioned swing dance moves to big band and blues DJs. $8 for the class and for the dance, $3 for just the open dance (which starts at 8 pm), and might we recom mend you learn a move or two if you think you’re too smart for the class. 7 pm, $3-$8 EVENTS HARVEST & FIBER FESTIVAL Wildlife West Nature Park 87 W Frontage Road, (505)Edgewood281-7655 Artists from around the region demonstrate yarn spinning, knitting and lace making. Visitors can feel the coats of Cashgora goats, llamas, alpaca and two types of sheep: Debouillet and Ramouillet. 10 am, $20
Authors David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé will talk about their latest book. 5:30-6:30 pm, free
EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 Colonial living history ranch. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sun, $4-$6
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108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux. Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers. Art of Indigenous Fashion. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) Grounded476-1200inClay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery. ReVOlution. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM FOLKINTERNATIONALOFART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia. Fashioning Identities: A Companion to Dressing with Purpose. Yokai Ghost & Demons of Japan. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12
Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed-Media Photography of the 1960s and 1970s, New Mexico Museum of Art
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NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy. The First World War. WORDS on the Edge. The Palace Seen and Unseen. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month
Jazz, jazz and more jazz. Did we mention jazz? There’s some jazz happening. 6-9 pm, free THE STRANGE 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Desert rock from a bunch of rockin’ rock nerds. 8-11 pm, free TIHO AND MYRHINNE 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Powerhouse vocal blues. 1-3 pm, free THEATER HURRICANE MEGAN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 A modern screwball comedy. 8 pm, $25 SANTA FE MELODRAMAFIESTA
FIESTA FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS MARKET Santa Fe Plaza 63 Lincoln santafefiesta.orgAve.
Rowley Farmhouse Ales 1405 Maclovia St. (505) 428-0719 In honor if the beloved Rowley Farmhouse Ales’ birthday, there will be Sanctuario Nectarine beer mosas, limited Release 375ml Grandissant 4-packs, featuring 4 different vari ations, special lobster and clawbster rolls (must be pre-ordered) plus limited edition merch. 11:30 am-9 pm, free MUSIC BILL HEARNE La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511 Old school country tunes in the heart of downtown Santa Fe. It meshes better than you think, trust us. 7-9 pm, free THE RON CROWDER BAND 319CowgirlSGuadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Rock 'n' soul '60s-style tunes from a popular local band. Noon-3 pm, free LUCY BARNA The 2849HollarNM Hwy 14, Madrid (505) 471-2841 Country-folk tunes from a seasoned local artist. Noon-3 pm, free THEATER HURRICANE MEGAN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 An aspiring actress plans to take on NYC, but very little seems to be going right for poor ‘ol Megan. Also the short play Necking, to further celebrate the magic of theater. 2 pm, $25
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We began with chips and guac, obviously, be cause the promise of house-made chips is al ways alluring. Other than what I’d consider an imbalanced level of spiciness, the guacamole was creamy and flavorful. Perhaps it’s my own preference that every dip not be anoth er burning hot dish in an endless sea of Santa Fe’s spicy dishes; hear me now, chefs—it’s OK for some of your dips and sauces to not burn my tongue off. The chips, as we had hoped, were marvelous, which I know seems odd to point out, but they were thick yet crispy and seasoned well. Sometimes the little things are everything, though I admit I was baffled the only cup of coffee available at dinner was a $3.75 Americano. Gimme some nighttime drip, y’all! As for the entrees, my com panion said he found his bowl a mite over-brothy, which soon seemed to make the dish soggy. His plan to eat half and take the rest home was aborted, though I didn’t have the heart to ask if that’s because he forgot or be cause he just plain didn’t want it. My salmon tacos, however, were su perb. Not only was the salmon grilled to a satisfying exterior crisp, the salsa and pickled onion never overpowered the fish’s flavor. Two proved the magic taco number, as well, and since I was pretty much cramming chips and guac into my face with lightning speed, I was more than sated. We saved room for dessert, of course, and selected both the cardamom rice pudding ($8) and mango créme brulee ($10). I want to give a special shoutout to our server, who kindly and quickly handled my panic attack over thinking I’d ingested a peach, to which I am allergic, with my créme brulee. I was straight up whining and scared, and I wish to publicly apologize and thank her for taking me seriously. Turns out it was indeed mango in that brulee, I survived, and it was phenom enally good, particularly given its included fresh strawberries and blueberry compote. My companion’s rice pudding was decidedly less thrilling and far more grainy than you’d expect even a rice pudding to be. When I think rice pudding, I think thick and sticky, though any restaurant can change and inno vate however they want. This one bordered on watery, however, and was left unfinished. Days later, Spitzer told me Executive Chef Kim Müller has been developing a new din ner menu we’ll likely see this fall, and hats off to Chef de Cuisine Antonio Caballero for those kickass tacos. Opuntia is so close to great I can taste it. It’ll just take a little time. I’m totally good with that.
The salmon tacos at Opuntia are a satisfying combo of flavors and textures, plus expertly grilled fish.
Nevertheless, our food arrived as ordered, and as expediently as was possible given the throngs (there was a line at the host stand). My companion ordered the Japanese bowl, a combination of jasmine rice, kale, car rots, edamame, yams and shiitakes in a miso mushroom broth ($18), and I opted for a pair of salmon tacos with pickled red onion, jala peño, avocado an a housemade salsa ($13).
“We like to think it’s like throwing a party and inviting everybody,” Gienke told me in 2020.
VOREDEALEX Opuntia Café remains a beautiful space, but still has kinks to iron out BY ALEX DE alex@sfreporter.comVORE + STELLAR AMBIANCE; SOLID MENU; SERVER DIDN’T MAKE ME FEEL BAD ABOUT PANIC DINNERATTACK RUSH COULD RUN MORE SMOOTHLY OPUNTIA CAFÉ 1607 Alcaldesa St., (505) 780-5796
For those who’ve never worked foodservice, that’s a horrible place to be, particularly on a Friday evening when some yahoo from the local free rag appears unannounced to qui etly judge you. Like most servers I’ve had at Opuntia, she was kind and working with what appeared to by Sisyphean conditions. Regulars will know Opuntia previously op erated with counter service, but now that it’s aiming for more of a sit-down vibe, one can’t help but wonder if the switch to table service isn’t working as intended just yet. It’s quite far from the kitchen to the hybrid indoor/ outdoor space where every patron wants to sit, for example, and the bulk of the tables are in a small area near the aforementioned garage door, which makes moving around or
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The Japanese bowl is vegan and gluten-free, but its brothy contents turned out soggy.
Now, I wouldn’t call myself an Opuntia regular, but it has indeed felt like a bustling party when I’ve met friends for coffee or lunch or dinner. Again—no one is calling the ambiance into question. Though, after hav ing visited several times in recent months at various times of the day, I must admit that I think Opuntia is still finding its rhythm, both in terms of service and dish consistency. I grant you, we’re still in the midst of a sticky era for employment. People no longer want to put themselves in danger for so-so pay, health is still a major issue and supply chain issues persist. This is, of course, the subtext to any story critical of the restaurant industry. Keeping that in mind, our server from last weekend was obviously in the weeds.
In the summer evenings, when the ga rage-like door on the side of the building is opened up and a soft breeze blows in from the Railyard, it’s a downright magical place to be; and whether or not there’s free live music on the plaza below—or within the café itself—you’ll still find gorgeous views of the mountains, the Railyard and such. That Opuntia re-opened at all during the pan demic seems mirac ulous, and that it has been able to amass such a local following feels similarly notable.
Full disclosure: My brother worked at Opuntia Café for a super long time. So, outside of a story from two years ago (From a Balcony, Oct. 21, 2020) about how owners Todd Spitzer and Jeanna Gienke were moving the teahouse and restaurant from its original location in the Baca Street Railyard area to the Railyard proper, I’ve always felt a bit of a conflict when it came to reviewing the local spot. With my brother having moved on to other employment some time ago, howev er—not to mention Opuntia opening up its hours to include dinner service and extended weekend hours—the timing felt right. And so I visited last weekend with a buddy to check out what’s on offer and how things are going for the popular eatery. First we must give kudos to the stellar second-story interior, a combination mini malist/flora-laden open concept with a koi pond at its center, smartly appointed Janet Russek photos standing in for windows on window-less walls and numerous cacti and succulents strewn throughout. In the day time, it’s one of the more beautiful spaces in town to grab a coffee, a tea, a bit of granola or breakfast tacos; at lunch, find tasty grilled cheese or Cubano sandwiches, plus other items (though a search on the restaurant’s website only heralds the breakfast menu, so you’ll have to visit in person to learn more).
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If the fourth season of Stranger Things left you thirsting for even more kitschy and gripping ’80s nostalgia, you might celebrate the release of the fourth and final installment of local screenwriter, actor and producer-turned-graphic novelist Shawn Boyd’s series, Winona Forever
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Shawn Boyd’s Winona Forever evolves from movie pitch to graphic novel series, and now to its own reality BY ANNABELLA annabella@sfreporter.comFARMER
The series follows four nerdy eighthgraders—Darby, Boots, Sci-Fi and Pretty Boy—in Boyd’s hometown of Winona, Minnesota. On Halloween 1987, they join forces with a group of popular kids to hunt down a mysterious relic. Things get creepy.
The series was originally conceived as a screenplay, but when the pandemic hit in 2020, throwing the film industry into chaos, it turned out to be kismet. Boyd’s idea lent it self almost seamlessly to graphic novel form, so he teamed up with LA-based illustrator Elijah Henry. Winona Forever was born. Now, the series is coming to a close. We won’t spoil it, but we promise it’s worth the read (and, at a hefty 52 pages, a satisfying finale).Boyd says there are many parallels between writing for the screen and his experience producing the series, but doing it in comic form has given him more control than he would’ve had otherwise—the pacing and style are in his hands rather than a director’s, for example; with Winona Forever, “the pages are the shoot,” Boyd says. He’s gained confidence directing on the page, too, and the illustrations have changed subtly over the course of its run. As the series progressed, he’s noticed another parallel be tween movie-making and comicking: “Acting is much like being an illustrator,” Boyd says. “As an actor when you first get the role, or an illustrator who’s coming to the characters for the first time, you’re just put ting on their clothes or drawing their clothes, feeling what their energy is.” But as he and illustrator Henry progressed through the series, Boyd noticed an evolution. “[Henry] really knows the characters more clearly, how they would respond in a certain situation. It’s probably subtle—I don’t know that anyone but the two of us may no tice that, but for certain I feel it’s different.” Boyd built a couple of soundtracks for himself when he was writing the series, me ticulously curating them with music that came out in 1987 or before. Some of those made it into references in the book—like Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me” and Mister Mister’s “Kyrie.” Other songs simply inspired him during the process, and he de scribes them as “little treasure boxes” that he opens to transport himself back to the feeling of the time, and his own memories. The finale drops this week, and Boyd will be celebrating with a book party at George RR Martin’s Beastly Books on Friday, Sept. 2. We’re told there will be a cash bar, snacks and an art installation showcasing three years of work on the comic series: in-progress illus trations and sketches, pages from the origi nal movie pitch (which was going to be called Winona Forever: Unless Satan Gets Us First, referencing the Satanic panic of the 1980s) and“Imore.want to do something that puts an ex clamation point on the completion of this,” Boyd says. On Saturday, Sept. 3, he’ll hold a book signing and reading at Beastly Books. What’s next? Boyd is working on collating the series into a compendium, which he plans to release for Halloween 2023. He’s now working with a book designer to give it a spe cial twist—while the four installments are de signed to look like kids’ yearbooks, complete with inscriptions and doodles, the compendi um will have a fresh look. For Boyd, the most surprising part of the process is the fan base he’s built since the series’ beginnings. Total strangers ask him when the next installment will come out.
WINONA FOREVER PARTY AND INSTALLATION 5:30-6:30 pm Friday, Sept. 2. Free WINONA FOREVER SIGNING AND READING Noon Saturday, Sept. 3. Free. Beastly Books,418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 395-2628
Winona Forever’s illustrations have changed subtly over the course of its run. Shawn Boyd crafted ’80s playlists while working on the closer to his graphic novel series.
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“They were talking about the characters as if they’re real,” Boyd tells SFR. “That was a very cool experience because as a writer, it’s very real to you, but when other people see it and reflect it back to you, it’s really hum bling.” a Close
“They’re fully in it,” Boyd says. “These characters are really real to them.” He did a book event in Winona in the spring, for example, and some of the kids from his alma mater—the very same that’s featured in the series—attended.
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In the middle of nowhere, near a small lake— likely in Colorado, though the film doesn’t specify—a woman named Faye (a career-best Dale Dickey) occupies campsite 7, where she whiles away the hours catching crawdads, listening to the radio and engaging in light reading from her impressive collection of exactly two Audubon Field Guides (one on the birds of the day, one on the stars of the night). An unknowable number of days passes as nearby residents and campers pop by for things as mundane as dinner invitations or as amusing as wanting to dig up a dead father they buried beneath the campsite back before the oil pump went up, when the view was still nice. Eventually, we learn, Faye has been waiting for someone, a man from her youth with whom she shared a relationship of some kind. When the man, Lito (Wes Studi) does finally show, his visit is fleeting, but Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” might as well underscore the couple’s moving, heartfelt, disappointing time together. Faye leaves in better emotional shape than when she arrived, though subtly so; Lito leaves only the slightest trace that he was there, though his imprint remains indelible. We never explicitly learn what went down between them as kids, but we do know they both married others who have since died. Is it better, then, to take a chance on love and know for sure, or do you hold onto the thrill of what might have been? Does courage fade over time, or does it morph into a different version altogether? Results may vary from person to person, but WalkerSilverman at least starts the conversation. It’s fun to catch hometown hero Studi stretching his legs into a simple and humanist role through which he cuts a handsome and sympathetic figure. He’s natural and suave as Lito, even if he stumbles through old guitar licks in an apparent bid to impress Faye. We immediately learn she doesn’t need much, though, and even his awkward attempts at filling the silence don’t go unnoticed. Dickey, however, defines the film and conveys more by nervously tucking her hair behind her ear than lesser actors deliver in full-on speeches worth of dialogue. She is open to personal evolution, perhaps cautiously, but not timid. When played against Studi’s boyish charms and beaming smile, her regression into restrained adolescent giddiness feels like yearning in the best way. Their time together reads like a dream, though an impossible one that seems only sillier by the light of day. Some things aren’t meant to last, it seems. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. (ADV) Violet Crown, PG, 81 min. THE PRINCESS
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The spike in media re-examination of the Princess of Wales has become a little much, don’t we think? After Kristen Stewart’s admit tedly glorious portrayal in last year’s Spencer, the abysmal Diana: The Musical and more doc umentaries than one can count, we might want to give it a rest. Yet new HBO doc The Princess manages to tread at least a little new territory as it tells the same story. Director Ed Perkins (Tell Me Who I Am) might even be the first film maker to succesfully portray a cogent transition from the cultural figurehead of Lady Di to the historical Princess of Wales. Still, to nail it whol ly would require a much more thorough delve into a country that allowed Diana’s ill-fated celebrity to reach critical mass. The Princess is thankfully free of talking head interviews, which gives Perkins the space to make the decidedly more clever move of presenting Diana’s greatest hits through archival footage. But there’s less of her than one might expect. A big chunk of this doc umentary isn’t even about the woman, but rather the court of public opinion. Even more interestingly, The Princess opens with footage of various ’80s riots, which creates a novel foundation for the rest of the documentary: national doubt in the form of economic reces sion, the last breaths of colonial-esque wars and Thatcherism. A “woman of the people” emerges in Diana. It’s populism, but it has a crown.The British Royal Family remains interesting to a select few, unless we’re talking drama. Yet, The Princess keeps a grip on its own charisma, even as it descends into duller, well-trod tabloid gossip. Perkins’ film could have gone deeper into the socio-economic factors that built Diana’s mythos, but he steers the ship into the safer waters of accountability in the wake of her sudden death. I also wish he had more footage of Princess Anne hanging around the College of Santa Fe, where he features her learning of Prince William’s birth as she exits a gala at the Greer Garson Theater as part of a “goodwill tour.” Yup, that abandoned campus is part of the Princess Di story, folks. While The Princess loses sight of its original thesis of a trembling nation searching for a new North Star, it is a fitting entry-level watch. Perkins helps bring a little more sense to things by which American brains seem flustered. Those who already know anything likely won’t learn anything new, but the biggest royal-skep tic in your life might still be enchanted by the narrative. (Riley Gardner) HBO Max, NR, 109 min.
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All things considered, Aussie Mad Max director George Miller has been a fairly minimalist creative type. He’s the sort of filmmaker who lives in the visuals of his work, and that’s how he’s churned out some of the most memorable action films of the last 40-plus years. In Three Thousand Years of Longing, based on the the short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by AS Byatt, however, Miller delves deep into myths and fables, marrying them with a bit of magical realism and an enduring love letter to the history of storytelling to boot. Its results are a canny and wildly enjoyable throwback tale that recalls the likes of Princess Bride and 2006’s The Fall, but which treads stylis tic heights and grounded realities among its more fantastical elements. Simply put, it’s one of the more fun movies to come out in ages, and it is most defi nitely made for the big screen. In Longing, Tilda Swinton is Alithea, an intro verted British narratologist with a penchant for the history of storytelling. During an academic jun ket to Istanbul, she begins to hallucinate terrifying creatures, but these are only a prelude to the crux of the matter: She buys a bottle in a shop from which appears a djinn (Idris Elba). Fascinated by how she came into possession of such a magical creature, she wonders how he was imprisoned, and so begin a number of tales of love, fate and the machina tions of powerful and powerless women and men. Miller, who also co-wrote the script with newcomer Augusta Gore, leans into the pitfalls of the unreli able narrator as well as the tropes found in mytho logical cautionary tales. You’ll find real Turkish history mixed within myths here, though told from perspectives not just belonging to the victors; other than a stilted final act which too subtly asks us too suddenly to consider how love is gained and given, Miller crafts a lovely, magical world where instruments play themselves, families come apart and violence changes people forever.Swinton presents an oddly adorable character who slowly learns to embrace her emotions. Elba, meanwhile, finds a magnetic and sympathetic in tersection as the djinn, a being who seems perfect ly comfortable addressing and unpacking his flaws. The moral, then, is somewhat open-ended, but it’s fun to consider one’s own take for days after seeing the film. And what a time it is.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Zadie Smith praised Sagittarian writer Joan Didion. She says, “I remain grateful for the day I picked up Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem and realized that a woman could speak without hedging her bets, without hemming and hawing, without making nice, without sounding pleasant or sweet, without deference, and even without doubt.” I encourage Sagittarians of every gender to be inspired by Didion in the coming weeks. It’s a favorable time to claim more of the authority you have earned. Speak your kaleidoscopic wisdom without apology or dilution. More fiercely than ever before, embody your high ideals and show how well they work in the rhythms of daily life.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his poem “Autobiographia Literaria,” Aries-born Frank O’Hara wrote, “When I was a child, I played in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. If anyone was looking for me, I hid behind a tree and cried out, ‘I am an orphan.’” Over the years, though, O’Hara underwent a marvelous transformation. This is how his poem ends: “And here I am, the center of all beauty! Writing these poems! Imagine!” In the coming months, Aries, I suspect that you, too, will have the potency to outgrow and transcend a sadness or awkwardness from your own past. The shadow of an old source of suffering may not disappear completely, but I bet it will lose much of its power to diminish you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): To be the best Aquarius you can be in the coming weeks, I suggest the following: 1. Zig when others zag. Zag when others zig. 2. Play with the fantasy that you’re an extraterrestrial who’s engaged in an experiment on planet Earth. 3. Be a hopeful cynic and a cheerful skeptic. 4. Do things that inspire people to tell you, “Just when I thought I had you figured out, you do something unexpected to confound me.” 5. Just for fun, walk backward every now and then. 6. Fall in love with everything and everyone: a D-List celebrity, an oak tree, a neon sign, a feral cat.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Now that I’m free to be myself, who am I?” Virgo-born Mary Oliver asks that question to start one of her poems. She spends the rest of the poem speculating on possible answers. At the end, she concludes she mostly longs to be an “empty, waiting, pure, speechless receptacle.” Such a state of being might work well for a poet with lots of time on her hands, but I don’t recommend it for you in the coming weeks. Instead, I hope you’ll be profuse, active, busy, experimental, and expressive. That’s the best way to celebrate the fact that you are now freer to be yourself than you have been in a while.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As a Scorpio, novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was rarely guilty of oversimplification. Like any intelligent person, he could hold contradictory ideas in his mind without feeling compelled to seek more superficial truths. He wrote, “The causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” I hope you will draw inspiration from his example in the coming weeks, dear Scorpio. I trust you will resist the temptation to reduce colorful mysteries to straightforward explanations. There will always be at least three sides to every story. I invite you to relish glorious paradoxes and fertile enigmas.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn novelist Marcia Douglas writes books about the history of her people in Jamaica. In one passage, she writes, “My grandmother used to tell stories about women that change into birds and lizards. One day, a church-going man dared to laugh at her; he said it was too much for him to swallow. My grandmother looked at him and said, ‘I bet you believe Jesus turned water into wine.’” My purpose in telling you this, Capricorn, is to encourage you to nurture and celebrate your own fantastic tales. Life isn’t all about reasonableness and pragmatism. You need myth and magic to thrive. You require the gifts of imagination and art and lyrical flights of fancy. This is especially true now. To paraphrase David Byrne, now is a perfect time to refrain from making too much sense.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In her book Tales From Earthsea, Libra-born Ursula K. Le Guin wrote, “What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” I trust you’re embodying those truths right now. You’re in a phase of your cycle when you can’t afford to remain unchanged. You need to enthusiastically and purposefully engage in dissolutions that will prepare the way for your rebirth in the weeks after your birthday. The process might sometimes feel strenuous, but it should ultimately be great fun.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In his poem “Auguries of Innocence,” William Blake (1757–1827) championed the ability “to see a World in a Grain of Sand. And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Taurus, you are primed to do just that in the coming days. You have the power to discern the sacred in the midst of mundane events. The magic and mystery of life will shine from every little thing you encounter. So I will love it if you deliver the following message to a person you care for: “Now I see that the beauty I had not been able to find in the world is in you.”
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time,” said philosopher Bertrand Russell. I will add that the time you enjoy wasting is often essential to your well-being. For the sake of your sanity and health, you periodically need to temporarily shed your ambitions and avoid as many of your responsibilities as you safely can. During these interludes of refreshing emptiness, you recharge your precious life energy. You become like a fallow field allowing fertile nutrients to regenerate. In my astrological opinion, now is one of these revitalizing phases for you.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “My own curiosity and interest are insatiable,” wrote Cancerian author Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). Inspired by the wealth of influences she absorbed, she created an array of poetry, plays, novels, essays, and translations—including the famous poem that graces the pedestal of America’s Statue of Liberty. I recommend her as a role model for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. I think you’re ripe for an expansion and deepening of your curiosity. You will benefit from cultivating an enthusiastic quest for new information and fresh influences. Here’s a mantra for you: “I am wildly innocent as I vivify my soul’s education.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A blogger who calls herself HellFresh writes, “Open and raw communication with your partners and allies may be uncomfortable and feel awkward and vulnerable, but it solves so many problems that can’t be solved any other way.” Having spent years studying the demanding arts of intimate relationship, I agree with her. She adds, “The idea that was sold to us is ‘love is effortless and you should communicate telepathically with your partner.’ That’s false.” I propose, Pisces, that you fortify yourself with these truths as you enter the Reinvent Your Relationships Phase of your astrological cycle.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Blogger Scott Williams writes, “There are two kinds of magic. One comes from the heroic leap, the upward surge of energy, the explosive arc that burns bright across the sky. The other kind is the slow accretion of effort: the water-on-stone method, the soft root of the plant that splits the sidewalk, the constant wind that scours the mountain clean.” Can you guess which type of magic will be your specialty in the coming weeks, Leo? It will be the laborious, slow accretion of effort. And that is precisely what will work best for the tasks that are most important for you to accomplish.
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INCOURTTHE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF SHARON CHRISTINE NOTICECaseSTEVENSONNo.:D-101-CV-2022-01207OFCHANGEOFNAME
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INCOURTTHE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF VIRGINIA MICHELLE VALDEZ Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-01377
KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Johnny Enriquez-Lujan Submitted by: Virginia Michelle Valdez Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INCOURTTHE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF MALINDA NASH AKA MALINDA NOTICECaseSALAZARNo.:D-101-CV-2022-01214OFCHANGEOFNAME
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 Dana G. Hale 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 3:000 p.m. on the 31st day of August, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Dana Gudrun Hale to Daniela Gudrun Hirsch.
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Case No. D-101-PB-2022-00063 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOSE ARTHUR RIVERA, NOTICEDeceased.TO CREDITORS Francine Morgan has been appointed as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Jose Arthur Rivera, deceased. All persons having claims against this Estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the Personal Representatives at c/o Jay Goodman & Associates Law Firm, P.C., 2019 Galisteo Street, Suite #C-3, Santa Fe, NM 87505, or filed with the District Court of Santa Fe County, P.O. Box 2268, Santa Fe, NM 87504-2268. Francine Morgan 12432 S.E. Boise St. Portland, OR 97266 By:/s/ Peter L. Bruso Peter L. Bruso, Esq. Jay Goodman & Associates, Law Firm AttorneyP.C. for Francine Morgan 2019 Galisteo St., Suite #C-3 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 989-8117 Fax: (505) 247-2390 Email: pb@jaygoodman.com
TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Sharon Christine Stevenson will apply to the Honorable Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 8:50 a.m. on the 20th day of September, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Sharon Christine Stevenson to Shaza Christine Stevenson. KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Johnny Enriquez-Lujan Submitted by: Sharon Petitioner,StevensonProSe
TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Malinda Nash aka Malinda Salazar 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 3:50 p.m. on the 31st day of August, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Malinda Nash aka Malinda Salazar to Melinda Salazar aka Melinda Nash.
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