August 11, 2021: Santa Fe Reporter

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AUGUST 11-17, 2021 | Volume 48, Issue 32

NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 HIGHER NUMBERS 9 After historic dip, enrollment at some universities in Santa Fe and around New Mexico appears to be rebounding WASTE ON WHEELS 11 Santa Fe residents raise questions, get few answers about possible increase of nuclear waste transport through the county COVER STORY 12 BACK TO SCHOOL READING LIST FOR GROWN-UPS Our staff compiled 10 books for recommended reading now that no one is ready to admit summer is winding down. Great writers frame the troubles of the day in new ways and surge forward, even as they consider the past.

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Higher Numbers Morimoto chalks the especially devastating blow to community college enrollment up to the populations they serve.

“Predominantly for the four-year institutions, these are full-time, what you and I might consider ‘traditional’ students,” he explains. “If you look at community college enrollment, 75% or more...are part-time students, in part because they’re working at the same time.”

Total enrollment numbers across the state have declined since 2010, according to the state Higher Education Department, but the drop between 2019 and 2020 was more than twice the size of any previous change over one year.

Dan García, the University of New Mexico’s vice president for enrollment management, speculates this might be attributed to the slow, consistent growth of the economy since the 2008 recession.

“When the economy is good, a lot of people don’t go to college,” García tells SFR. Another factor stagnating enrollment over time, according to García, is New Mexico’s lack of a robust high-school-tocollege pipeline. By Garcia’s estimates, only about 13,000 high school graduates in New Mexico make plans to go to college each year—and that’s out of 20,000 total graduates.

In turn, universities are susceptible to enrollment swings.

After historic dip, enrollment at colleges and universities in Santa Fe and around New Mexico appears to be rebounding

BY WILLIAM MELHADO w i l l i a m @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

Every 1% that we may be down in [semester credit hour enrollment] it may mean $1 million in funding for us.

-Dan García, UNM

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ollege administrators have come to expect that a slump in the economy means an uptick in enrollment numbers. It follows that when there is less work available due to sluggish markets, more people seek out degrees for better future job security.

But as the economy continued to decline through 2020—driven into a deep hole by the coronavirus pandemic—administrators at Santa Fe Community College faced a grim reality when their enrollment numbers dipped below 4,000.

Despite the poor economy, the community college’s figures did not follow the trend they had come to expect: The economy took a downward turn, but students did not flock to the college seeking degrees.

SFCC had plenty of company.

Last year, institutions across New Mexico witnessed the largest drops in enrollment of any state, decreasing 9.5% from fall of 2019 to 2020, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Public two-year colleges reported the most significant dips— 10% .

At SFCC, there were 5,453 students enrolled in the fall before the pandemic and 3,904 taking classes at the college in the fall of 2020. That’s a drop of 28%. Last May the college announced it was cutting several disciplines, including the solar energy program, in response to the ongoing financial emergency.

“We serve the working population,” says Yash Morimoto, SFCC’s associate vice president for planning and institutional effectiveness. “What’s been unique about this particular situation is that the economy tanked but people were still hesitant to be in a classroom setting.”

Though the last year was rough in terms of enrollment for most New Mexico colleges and universities, numbers for the fall 2021 semester across the state hint at higher headcounts as administrators hold tentative hopes of returning to pre-pandemic levels.

“We’re trying to supplement enrollment with non-resident students,” García says, pointing to the significant number of high school graduates in Texas.

García says enrollment at UNM ticked up compared to this time last year. Firstyear, graduate and transfer students accounted for the increase.

García sees it as a hopeful sign for the college’s financial situation, which depends not only on headcount, but the number of credit hours enrolled students take. These two factors determine the amount of money that comes to UNM, both from the state, as a public university, and tuition revenue.

“Every 1% that we may be down in [semester credit hour enrollment] it may mean $1 million in funding for us,” García estimates. “Enrollment is very critical for

The SFCC campus remains mostly empty until students return for class on Aug. 23.

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the...fiscal health of the institution.”

Like other institutions, New Mexico State University saw similarly low enrollment rates, but school officials are “optimistic about enrollment this fall, and we anticipate similar numbers to what we saw last year,” Minerva Baumann, a spokeswoman for the state’s second largest university in Las Cruces, writes to SFR in an email.

Northern New Mexico College didn’t suffer the significant headcount decreases other colleges in the state saw, which Richard Bailey, the college president, attributes to strategic planning in previous years to expand career and technical education and collaborate with employers such as Los Alamos National Laboratory to maintain student interest.

Despite the consistent enrollment numbers, the pandemic did negatively impact the auxiliary services of the Españolabased college. Bailey says the college had to eliminate positions in the bookstore and cafeteria.

“We are exploring what the post-pandemic landscape for those services looks like,” Bailey tells SFR. Bailey says it’s difficult to predict how this year’s numbers will shake out. The positive early trend “shouldn’t stop us from continuing to innovate and continuing to find partners and collaborations and strategic initiatives that we are confident will pay dividends in the future,” he says.

Higher education institutions looking to beef up their numbers have pursued different avenues to win students back.

At New Mexico Highlands University, continuing students hesitant to return due to existing debts with the school can seek relief funds from the university.

“We’re using some of the federal relief funds to say, ‘Look, you have no debt, please come back to Highlands,’” says President Sam Minner. “We’re here waiting for you and anxious for you to return.”

Other schools are also using money to entice students back to campus.

SFCC has pushed various scholarships and funding opportunities, particularly among populations that have seen lower enrollment rates compared to years past. A new initiative providing universal basic income to 100 parents enrolled in classes will give families $400 a month and hopefully draw in more students this fall.

With over 2,600 students already enrolled, SFCC has almost 1,000 more people registered for the upcoming fall semester than this time last year.

After a particularly dire phase of low enrollment, college administrators breathe a sigh of relief to see the numbers correcting to historical figures—knowing that students are coming back.

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The Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 1,000th shipment of transuranic waste leaves the lab on its way to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad.

Waste on Wheels Santa Fe residents raise questions, get few answers about possible expansion of nuclear waste transport through the county B Y B E L L A D AV I S b e l l a @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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oncerns are mounting among Santa Feans who fear they could soon see more trucks barrelling down Highway 285 with large drums of radioactive waste.

Longtime anti-nuclear activists were among the 60 or so people who turned up for a town hall hosted by county officials last week—an event that featured more questions than answers and spotlighted the problems that come from years of secrecy surrounding the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, America’s only long-term storage facility for transuranic radioactive waste, located near Carlsbad.

Commissioners Anna Hamilton and Hank Hughes arranged the meeting with activist group 285 ALL, which takes its name from the highway that serves as a major WIPP transportation route from northern to southern New Mexico.

Nuclear watchdog groups have for years warned that WIPP is expanding beyond its original mission. And that likely means, in turn, more toxic, poten-

tially deadly nuclear materials rolling through Santa Fe, they say.

“This issue has really stuck with us because, first of all, most people don’t know about it and it’s new,” Cynthia Weehler of 285 ALL, said at the town hall. “What is happening right now is WIPP is entering a new mission, a completely new mission, and I keep trying to tell people, ‘It ain’t your daddy’s WIPP anymore.’”

County leaders couldn’t speak to many questions, saying much of the work at WIPP, run by a contractor for the US Department of Energy, is “classified,” meaning even local governments are often kept in the dark. On the other hand, County Emergency Management Director Martin Vigil said a spill was unlikely and, in the event there was one, the county is prepared to respond.

Later, in an interview with SFR, Vigil says he doesn’t know when shipments occur—much like he doesn’t receive a schedule from Walmart showing when its trucks will travel through town.

The watchdogs aren’t just reading tea leaves; there’s plenty to suggest that WIPP plans to expand.

The plant has courted controversy since before it opened in 1999. Public trust plummeted after two incidents in February 2014: a waste explosion and an airborne release of radioactive waste that exposed plant workers to small internal doses of plutonium, causing nearly a threeyear shutdown.

Operations have since resumed.

Several permit modification requests from DOE are pending approval from the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED): one to excavate a new shaft and another to build two new panels—the underground chambers that entomb containers of waste.

Also pending is an operating permit re-

newal application for WIPP. While renewal is required every 10 years, the current permit expired in December and has been administratively renewed for the time being.

The environment department anticipates holding a public hearing about the renewal next year, according to a spokeswoman.

Nuclear watchdogs like Don Hancock, director of nuclear waste safety for the Southwest Research and Information Center, say the permit modification requests are being used as a way to expand WIPP well beyond its original scheduled closure in 2024.

“The reason Congress said, ‘You can’t issue a permit for more than 10 years,’ is to look at how the thing has gone and what’s going to happen in the future,” Hancock tells SFR. “Let’s make bunches of changes if necessary at the time of the renewal rather than having to spend regulatory and permittee and public time on a little modification here, little modification here.”

Responding to residents’ concerns, state environment department spokeswoman Maddy Hayden writes in an email to SFR: “NMED prioritizes WIPP permitting actions based on regulatory requirements, the health and safety of New Mexicans and the WIPP workforce, available resources, and readiness to proceed.”

She adds that NMED will decide on the most recent permit request “based on the contents of the request and public input.”

Charisma Troiano, a spokeswoman for the Department of Energy, tells SFR the agency does not consider its applications as “expansion” and notes the permitted capacity of the facility has not changed since 1992.

In Santa Fe, most concerns are focused on transportation. Trucks hauling waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory to WIPP use Highway 599, Interstate 25 and Highway 285; shipments from else-

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where further north also travel through Santa Fe County along 285.

Weehler of 285 ALL says a broader WIPP expansion will result in more shipments and a more dangerous form of waste—plutonium oxide—being transported through the county. DOE confirms plutonium oxide has already been shipped to WIPP. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine published a report last year detailing the Energy Department’s plans to dilute and dispose of surplus, weapons-grade plutonium in WIPP that backs up Wheeler’s concerns.

“Putting this much concentrated plutonium waste in the WIPP is not what the citizens of New Mexico or their governor agreed to when the facility was built,” the National Academies report states.

At last week’s town hall, confusion and frustration were apparent.

Castille Aguilar, an organizer with the activist group Youth United for Climate Crisis Action, many of whose members live on the Southside in close proximity to Highway 599, told the county officials: “My question is, and I don’t know if there’s going to be an answer, what are we doing to get nuclear out of our communities, not moving it to other communities but out all together?”

Aguilar said the transportation of nuclear waste through the Southside puts communities of color and low-income people “who are often sacrificed to these types of occurrences” at risk.

Later, Vigil told residents the County Fire Department is prepared to respond to waste shipment emergencies like traffic accidents, with preparedness efforts including a three-day exercise on how to respond to a transportation incident that was conducted in 2016. Vigil says having the WIPP transportation schedule wouldn’t change the county’s protocol.

“It sounds important but it really wouldn’t change a whole lot,” he tells SFR. “It would be similar to if we wanted to know every time a Walmart truck and their schedule, because, yeah, there’s some very real risks there, but would we change anything? Not really.”

Activists worry that if a breach were to happen during transportation—which Vigil said at the town hall is “pretty unlikely”—the county wouldn’t be able to respond in time “to stop the inhalation of particles,” Weehler said.

Vigil tells SFR that if WIPP does expand, the fire department would need additional, specialized training and different monitoring equipment.

“That [expansion] isn’t going to happen in a short amount of time, so I think we’re prepared for the stuff that’s out there now,” Vigil said.

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Back To School Reading List For Grown-Ups

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e will admit it. No one at SFR is ready for summer to be over. Not at all. While some of us detest the heat and some of us love to be steamy, our staff agrees on one salient point: This season seems to have flown by at an incomprehensible speed.

The Back to School Reading List for Grownups is a regular annual feature intended to counter those summer reading lists you clip out of magazines and noodle into your bullet journal. It’s meant to signal that reading to learn things and escape shouldn’t be relegated to sunshine and lounge chairs.

But, if you’ve read this far, we’re pretty sure you already know that.

Even if you’re not a 10-books-in-one-season kind of reader, there’s something here for you, too.

Choose a few titles from this compilation of new and newish books. Maybe try a graphic novel that grapples with the theme of loneliness? Some of the writers have long local and regional connections to Santa Fe and the Southwest (such as Gregg Turner’s memoir and Jamie Figueroa’s new novel), others take on topics that are deeply concerning for the nation and the world (think opioid epidemic, climate change, immigration.)

Take them all at your own speed.

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Hallucinations From Hell: Confessions of an Angry Samoan

By Gregg Turner August 2021, Rare Bird Lit For those rare few Santa Feans who don’t know bonafide punk rock royalty resides in Santa Fe, let it be known that Angry Samoans cofounder Gregg Turner has called our hamlet home since 1993—but before that, he was a driving force in the very

California band that waxed poetic about Hitler’s cock (among various other eyebrow-raising lyrical feats).

These days, Turner’s more of a retired math professor following a tenured stint at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, but just as he had a way with words in the 1980s, so, too, does Turner now in his debut book, Hallucinations From Hell: Confessions of an Angry Samoan.

Fair warning: It’s gonna get weird, but then, Turner’s editor Dave DiMartino tells us as such straight away in the editor’s foreward, simultaneously warning that Turner will indeed later present a story about (and titled) “A Cup of Pus.” Even this call to steel yourself won’t properly prepare you for Turner’s twisted words, but the surprising reality of his compendium of short tales—some of which may be true, some of which may have been embellished over time, some of which might actually belong to other people—is that they’ve got a lot of heart and a lot of humanity.

Think Vonnegut meets John Waters here, or at least a well-wrought take on gross-out, bad taste nonsense.

Just know you’re also in for strangely human insights. In particular, stories that present sleeping math geniuses, clumsy exterminators who formerly impersonated Elvis and skeptical teenaged punk purists shine in the earlier half of Turner’s opus, though don’t forget his abbreviated time as a public radio host enamored by S&M (he was fired) or tall tales from New Mexico’s underbelly. Later in the tome, find reminiscent pieces on Roky Erickson and Dogh Sahm (obviously musical titans themselves), the sad tale of an invalid diploma and, yes, that forewarned cup of pus.

Surely you won’t know exactly what to think, but then, the punk set never did much care about your comfort so long as they got their stories across.

(Alex De Vore)

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By Patrick Radden Keefe April 2021, Doubleday The opioid crisis has left no community unscathed. New Mexico’s health department in 2019 found that nearly two-thirds of those surveyed reported they knew someone who was or has been addicted to opioids, such as oxycodone, codeine, morphine, heroin and fentanyl. Just last month, DOH reported that provisional 2020 death data showed a rise in fentanyl-related deaths from the year prior, surpassing both heroin and prescription-opioid-related deaths in the state.

And last month, 15 states (not including New Mexico, which is pursuing its own litigation) struck an agreement with Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin, for a settlement of at least $4.5 billion and resolution of thousands of opioid cases (from 1999–2019, nearly 500,000 people died from an overdose involving opioids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

Empire of Pain delves into the history of the family behind Purdue Pharma: the Sacklers, a dynastic three-generation clan known for their wealth— Forbes listed them at $10.8 billion in worth last year—and philanthropy, particularly in the arts.

The New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, also the author of the

2019 book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction), begins his exhaustive tale in early 20th century New York—Brooklyn, to be exact—where Arthur Sackler was born, a first-generation American with seemingly endless ambition and wits. Arthur becomes a doctor, as do brothers Raymond and Mortimer, and develops an interest in psychiatry and a concomitant interest in pharmaceutical solutions to psychiatric problems (if reading about electroshock experiments on bunnies sounds upsetting, skip Chapter 2). Arthur also turns out to have a genius for marketing, so his combination of medical expertise and advertising prowess dovetails with the earliest specter of today’s pharmaceutical market; his marketing campaign for an early Pfizer antibiotic is “credited” with “revolutionizing the whole field of medical advertising.”

Spoiler alert: Arthur Sackler, about whom the first third of the book concerns, died nearly a decade before OxyContin came on the market, but reckoning with his legacy recurs throughout the book. After Purdue declared bankruptcy in 2019, amid the calls for the Sackler name to be removed from the myriad institutions that had received the family’s money (the source of which was once somewhat of a mystery—no more!), Arthur’s third wife and widow begins trying to “disentangle” his legacy from that of his brothers’ families, who ran Purdue (she even coined the term the “OxySacklers” in that effort).

Keefe set out, he writes, not to detail the opioid crisis, but to tell the saga of a family and “the ways in which it changed the world, a story about ambition, philanthropy, crime and impunity, the corruption of institutions, power, and greed.” In this, he succeeds, in a compelling if occasionally exhaustive narrative detail. But if one reads hoping for any sense of personal culpability among these people, one will be disappointed. (Julia Goldberg)

Under the White Sky

By Elizabeth Kolbert February 2021, Crown It’s a close tie between the electrified river and aerosolizeddiamond atmosphere for the winner of the most bizarre solution to an environmental crisis. As the natural world faces an onslaught of climate-related disasters, brought on by human activities, concerned scientists around the world are working doubletime to avoid environmental collapse. The stories of these wizards take center stage in Under the White Sky, another compelling climate-inspired book from The New Yorker journalist Elizabeth Kolbert.

Kolbert does a wonderful job of making her readers even more anxious about the climate crisis—if that was possible. She also excels at placing the crisis in context of global leaders’ insufficient efforts to address climate change.

The task gets support from genetic engineers, microbiologists, atmospheric entrepreneurs and others who understand that reducing emissions will not be enough to mitigate climate change and stop Louisiana from dissolving. Instead, these scientists have taken a DIY approach to engineering a future that looks different from the present, while trying to preserve some things that society holds dear: en-

dangered pupfish, the Great Barrier Reef and New Orleans.

Kolbert’s elegant, human reporting keeps readers hooked while she lays out some pretty sophisticated science. With over two decades of science journalism under her belt, breaking down complex concepts for a non-technical audience is her specialty. For the climate nerds out there, Kolbert glosses over some questions just a bit too quickly. For example, using trees to sequester carbon only works if trees are cut down, in a mature state, and buried—which seems less like a realistic climate solution and more like a fun science project.

Under the White Sky follows the same structure as her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction, tracing Kolbert’s travels to fancy labs and remote islands—though she notes that not all islands are surrounded by water—as she talks with the inventors behind the novel technologies and techniques. Through these vignettes, Kolbert slowly introduces readers to new ways of thinking about nature’s future.

The reproduced structure in this follow-up piece of environmental writing reads less interesting a second time around. But for fresh eyes, her narrative style goes down easy and reflects thoughtful structuring. Kolbert’s characterization of Icelandic geoengineers and Australian geneticists provides a much needed humanness to balance out the existential crisis facing the planet.

The inventors of these shoot-forthe-moon solutions—which Kolbert understands will read preposterous to the average person—don’t just see their mad science as essential to the future, they know altering nature is inevitable. Through the eyes of these futuristic thinkers, Kolbert encourages the public to imagine living under a not-so-blue sky.

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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

By Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford June 2021, Penguin/Random House “Screw you, we’re from Texas,” sings Ray Wylie Hubbard. That song seems to sum up the swagger our neighbors sometimes exhibit when they visit our fair city. Santa Feans’ most complicated relationship may be with Texan tourists, but our most difficult interior relationship is with our own bloody history. It’s one thing we have in common with the Lone Star State, which has wrestled with the legacy of the Battle of the Alamo since 1836.

In Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth, three sons of Texas confront the creation myth of the “shrine of Texas liberty.” For nearly two centuries, amateur historians, pop culture and Texans hell-bent on celebrating whiteness have helped propagate a heroic American tale: Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, William Barrett Travis and their AngloAmerican homies died after 13 days fighting the Mexican dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna at an old Spanish mission in San Antonio. They croaked so Sam Houston could defeat the Mexicans at the Battle of San Jacinto six weeks later,

securing Texan independence with the rallying cry of “Remember the Alamo!”

The true story is, of course, much more complex. In this freewheeling, breezily readable new history of the Alamo’s causes and effects, author Bryan Burrough (Public Enemies, Barbarians at the Gate), Houston Chronicle journalist Chris Tomlinson, and writer and political consultant Jason Stanford throw out the lies their Texan teachers taught them.

Among the facts scrubbed from the historical record? The “criminally overlooked” Tejanos of San Antonio and South Texas not only fought alongside the Anglo rebels, but were some of the first to spark the Texas Revolt. Just why were the white Texians—whose illegal immigration to Texas was a problem that Mexicans, in a 21st-century irony, were trying to limit—so hell-bent on fighting Santa Anna’s troops? Slavery, of course. The booming cotton industry down south represented a primo economic opportunity for the new residents, who needed slaves to work the land, and the Mexican government was anti-slavery.

Burrough, Tomlinson and Stanford’s book is just the latest salvo in a wave of Alamo “revisionism” that began 40 years ago. For some Texans, these kinds of factbased examinations amount to what a drunk Ozzy Osbourne was caught doing while wandering downtown San Antonio one day in 1982: pissing on the Alamo.

“Its legends comprise the beating heart of Texas exceptionalism, the idea, deeply held among generations of Texans, that the state is special, somehow a cut above the Delawares and Rhode Islands of the world,” the authors write.

That kind of pride is all well and good (and insidious and dangerous, too), and it has its own long history. As Isaac Asimov said, “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.” (Molly Boyle)

Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk

By Edison Eskeets and Jim Kristofic April 2021, University of New Mexico Press Books about running, even ones based in New Mexico, are easy to come by. But there’s nothing easy about what Edison Eskeets and Jim Kristofic have to say in their newest contribution to this genre. Besides that, it’s hardly fair to lump Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk into a single category.

Kristofic’s books about Rez life come from the perspective of an Anglo kid who grew up there (Navajos Wear Nikes) and Ekseets— well, he is there, born of the four directions that frame the sense of place for his Diné kin. The authors pass the baton back and forth, their relay race in book form crossing the finish line with aplomb. Its language observes the color of the modern world alongside the nuance of complex history. This is not a parachute job, but people who live and feel right here.

The book’s subtitle might suggest a retracing of the terrible steps upon which the US government sent

the Navajo people—from the land officials said would be theirs forever to a barren tract with poisoned water called Bosque Redondo, in what is now the southeastern reach of the state of New Mexico. Thousands of people died on the way there, after they arrived and on the treacherous return home in the late 1890s.

Eskeets, however, sets about to honor the lives of his forebears with what he called a “ceremonial run” from Canyon de Chelly in the Arizona side of the Navajo Nation to Santa Fe, staying far from Kit Carson’s Fort Sumner and ending with soft words at the Plaza (at the time still adorned with the obelisk).

At the age of 59, he will intensely feel each of the 330 pounding miles he maps out over 15 days. And along the way he’ll hear the voices of those who went before, and he’ll tell the story of the Long Walk right beside the stories closer to today—past lands made “wretched by cattle” and blonde mesas contaminated as their guts were extracted of uranium and radioactive tailings used for houses.

And yet, the book is about running too—not just the history of how running contributed to communication between tribal groups, but in a sprint right to the present.

The obligatory Runners’ World writeup in 2018, the year he completed the run, paints Eskeets as an accomplished ultrarunner who worked as a track coach for Native students. As an author along with Kristofic, the narrative flow about how he feels and what he thinks as his legs move beneath him feels authentic. He prays. He breathes. He listens. He shakes a rattle. He dances. He’s alive and, despite efforts to extinguish them, so are his people.

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After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made

By Ben Rhodes June 2021, Random House Six years of global chaos has left Americans asking what the hell is going on everywhere. After The Fall offers an explanation for the common person who might have a vague understanding of things outside our borders, but wants to dig a little deeper. In short, why does it feel like the world is falling apart?

Author Ben Rhodes (who worked in the National Security Administration under Obama) takes us down a handful of distinct regions in the world where democracy is backsliding into authoritarianism, blind nationalism and violent dictatorships with a dash of coup attempts to spice things up.

We begin in Hungary, where President Victor Orban has promised to bring back the halcyon days of the Hungarian Empire, to Russia where Putin has built an anti-Western empire of corruption. China and its subsequent crackdown on Hong Kong’s democratic system are a focus point, as is Egypt’s disturbing detain-and-tor-

ture system of pro-democracy prisoners. The book brings these worries disturbingly close to home, as the same vein of nationalism is clearly thriving here.

After the Fall is geopolitics made for everyone. Rhodes is an exceptional writer, taking interviews from various opposition figures around the globe who are fighting back against this violent tide flooding every corner of the planet. This is not merely theoretical, either—Rhodes makes it plain that cultural frenzies like we’re seeing have brought the world not-so-pleasant results (see the Wikipedia page for the entire 20th century).

The Great Recession of ‘08 is one of those consequential events we’re only now seeing results from. When the Cold War ended, we promoted capitalism in newly open countries—but a dangerous, deregulated form that gave new liberal democracies income inequality and government corruption.

Who wants to believe in something like that? When government and economic opportunity fail people, they tend to go insane.

The allure of a glorious and non-existent past is a powerful one, like dreams of an ancient orderly China, Imperial Russian days or 1950s Americana. We influenced the world to do our bidding and then threw it aside, and now we gasp that those leadership voids are filled by a bunch of ugly old men who take special joy in killing their own citizens.

Rhodes is openly critical of himself, his former boss and the decisions made by both political parties. This isn’t a feel-good #resistance read, but a clear cut explanation of why the world seems to be splitting apart at the seams and how we Americans set fire to a dried forest. (Riley Gardner)

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

By Kristin Radtke July 2021, Penguin/Random House Have you ever hired a professional cuddler for a snuggle? Have you dedicated a song on the radio to someone far away? Are your posts on social media a true representation of who you are? All of us experience alone time, but what makes us lonely? It’s our feelings and shame about being alone that impact how we perform for others—and the effort we make to connect. COVID-19 has amplified this experience for all of us with lockdown as we masked up, engaged in digital socializing and even feared one another because of the virus.

This is why Kristin Radtke’s Seek You is perfect for this moment; so we can understand our current feelings of social isolation.

Radtke’s graphic novel is a heartbreaking exploration of the rise of American loneliness and isolation.

She begins with her father: “He was obsessed with ham radio.” Radtke didn’t know her father was interested in that particular form of communication—he was stoic and orderly, she

writes. Yet he still sought out connection, he still looked to verify the existence of others.

Some people crave interpersonal contact while others prefer to be alone, but everyone needs connection somehow, Radtke hypothesizes as she chronicles research into the health repercussions of the chronically lonely. It’s a dire situation, she reports: “Loneliness will be classified as an epidemic by 2030.”

Perhaps especially now. After more than a year of COVID-19, people are finally truly considering the trauma of social isolation and the detrimental effects of loneliness on our health with grave seriousness.

How can we recover from this trauma and find our way back to each other? Radtke goes on to reveal how the myth of American individualism and the prevalence of lonely cowboy characters in popular film and television properties warp our sense of reality; the epidemic of loneliness also fuels aggression, terror and mass shootings.

Radtke even digs into the horrific social deprivation and attachment experiments conducted by psychologist Harry Harlow on young monkeys to illustrate the desperate need animals have to be touched and loved.

If it weren’t for these nightmarish experiments, perhaps children would still be raised without touch for fear they’d become weak and soft. My father still kisses me on the mouth to this day, probably a plus in Radtke’s world.

In the end, she posits, to gain a deeper understanding of love, we must understand its polar opposite.

Maybe we’ll always be lonely to some extent, but Radtke illustrates it’s vital for us to keep trying so we can find our way back to each other. (ADV)

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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer

By Jamie Figueroa March 2021 , Catapult In Santa Fe’s fictional twin, Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, Rufina and Rafa are haunted by the ghosts of their recently-deceased mother Rosalinda and the trauma of their childhoods. Rufina, trying to save her brother, conceives a bet: If they can make enough money to buy plane tickets by performing for tourists in the Plaza in a single weekend, Rafa has to go on living.

Jamie Figuero’s haunting debut novel Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer grapples with identity, grief and personal and cultural trauma, weaving in elements of folklore and magical realism. Although the novel is set over the course of three days, it flows back and forth in time and memory. It becomes difficult to distinguish what’s real, what’s in the past—especially as we’re introduced to the white man, called the Explorer, who was Rosalinda’s lover and exploited the family of three for his own profit and Rufina’s stillborn baby, along with a few other minor

characters, all compelling in their own right.

Particularly powerful is Figuero’s exploration of race and the dynamics between white people who view the inhabitants of the distant places they vacation in as “exotic” and people, like Rufina and Rafa, who are forced by economic circumstances to cater to these tourists. The first set of tourists the siblings interact with during the weekend is a married couple who are utterly captivated by the street performers. The wife watches Rafa as he plays a guitar with no strings, and the husband awkwardly dances with Rufina before accidentally breaking her microphone stand. It’s clear that Rufina and Rafa aren’t really people to this couple, just outlets for their pentup desires.

Figuero writes: “They are necessary guests, and yet, see how easy it is to resent them, to see all tourists as one tourist? Just as easy as it is for the tourist to see a price tag dangling from every visible thing, including from the wrist of every indiscernible brown arm.”

This story is heavy, something you’ll likely want to take your time with.

A longtime resident of Northern New Mexico, Figuero said during a Literary Hub interview with author Jane Ciabattari that Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer is, in a way, “a love letter of sorts, an act of appreciation for this place that took me in and gave me all that I longed for: a community to belong to, a deep connection and resonance with the land, and the reality of being a working writer.”

Her writing has appeared in Epoch, McSweeney’s, and American Short Fiction. (Bella Davis)

The Removed

By Brandon Hobson February 2021, Ecco An Oklahoman Cherokee family shatters after losing their teen son Ray-Ray to a cop’s bullet. No plot spoilers here: the preface of Brandon Hobson’s fourth book, The Removed, reveals it all. In the aftermath, the Echotas struggle individually to heal from their family tragedy.

Hobson, assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University, a teacher at the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and a member of the Cherokee Nation himself, weaves a sad, dreamlike

Infinite Country

By Patricia Engel March 2021, Avid Reader Press “We’re all migrants here on Earth,” a father tells his daughter as he saturates her memories with Colombian fables of jaguars, snakes and condors. The legends that permeate Infinite Country, Patricia Engel’s most recent novel, reflect the tension of one family straddling North and South America.

But the pains one family endures to hold their fragile existence reveal that not all of Earth’s migrants suffer the same experiences—a theme of the story that resonates with history and current events.

The novel opens on 15-year-old Talia, planning her escape from a correctional school in the mountains of Colombia— where she finds herself after committing a morally dubious crime. The story keeps a quick pace as Talia races across the country, back to Bogotá, to meet her exiled father who holds her plane ticket to the United States. In this trip Talia hopes to reunite with her siblings and

story told by four voices of the Echota family: mother Maria, her eldest child Sonja, her baby Edgar and, in flashbacks, their ancestor, Tsala. Hobson writes each voice as distinctively as the troubles with which its speaker struggles.

Maria, wanting justice for her son’s killer, instead finds purpose as a caretaker. Sonja seeks love in stalking and seducing a violent younger man. Edgar escapes the family by hiding in Albuquerque, active in his drug addiction. Tsala rallies against the Trail of Tears.

Everyone hurts, but their external solutions don’t heal their internal wounds.

Each character also navigates unfair treatment from white men.

mother, who have lived in the US since her parents made the decision to pursue perceived better opportunities in the northern country.

Though Talia’s journey lasts only days, the rest of her family’s odyssey spans decades, beginning with her parents’ courting at a fruit stand and extending to the circumstances that lead to the splintering of mother and child, husband and wife.

Given the density of Engel’s subject matter and clocking in at less than 200 pages, Infinite Country is the perfect choice for readers who want to indulge in a family saga like One Hundred Years of Solitude, but simply don’t have the time.

The density of Engel’s writing, weaving in mythical tales of Colombia’s history, at times distracts from the more engaging narrative of each family member.

The crimes perpetrated against, and by, the relatives reveal how much more closely violence lives to this marginalized population—a common thread reflected in the book’s references to family separations and mass shootings.

The allusions to current events read as somewhat pandering, but these mentions also come from a place close to home for Engel. As a ColombianAmerican, and creative writing professor at the University of Miami, Engel sometimes uses a voice that reads less like a novel and more like a memoir.

There’s no dispute of Engel’s storytelling talents as she shifts between perspectives of family members, reminding the reader that the grass could always be greener, though her infectious optimism shines through the heartbreaking beauty of one family’s resilience. (WM)

Each racially charged incident stings more for how casual it is, how normalized. Hobson shows words, too, harm—racism need not be a bullet to a teen’s chest.

This well rendered perspective of mistreated people highlights what it means to be privileged; some can choose to consider the unfairness thrust upon their neighbor, others have no choice but to suffer the painful reality.

Throughout Hobson’s opus, mythology, symbolism and healing centered around nature and love lead the family members to peace. Each character finds solace outdoors, be it by walking naked through the rain or watching the wind through the trees. One can

tell Hobson surely turned his own eyes to these things as well, and passages about nature are among the most beautiful in The Removed.

But nature only leads, it does not solve. Hobson offers a true solution: when going through hell, keep going. The Echotas, despite their pains and fears, do just that. Yes, they fill the loss with various temporary solutions, but they keep moving along the path laid before them. As they carry on over rough terrain, they learn not to distance themselves from their problems, but to come together to heal from what broke them in the first place.

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WAY TO DRAW NEW MISCHIEF! Sure, everyone likes making jokes about Shakespeare and rap and all that, but did you know there are actual troupes out there that dismantle, chop and screw their way through The Bard’s works, rekajiggering them into fresh properties with a contemporary bent? Shakespeare’s messaging might be timeless, but his words and flow can maybe feel dated to some. Enter The Q Brothers and The Moor You Know Collective, a pair of outfits that take Othello and remix the tale of jealousy and name besmirching, transforming the show into that of dancing MCs hellbent on freshness and accessibility. And for any purists out there?

‘Tis neither here nor there. Enjoy! (Alex De Vore) Othello: The Remix: 7:30 pm Thursday, Aug. 12 and Friday, Aug. 13; 2 pm and 7:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 14 and Sunday, Aug. 15. $15-$25. Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262

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There will be puppets (and complementary contemporary works by other artists). (ADV) Go West Said a Small Voice: Gustave Baumann Dreams of New Mexico: All Day Saturday, Aug. 14.

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If this sounds like you (or if you’re bummed you missed it), dust off those 1940s-era pants and hats and such and head to Odd Fellow’s Hall on Monday evening to Charleston, jitterbug and Lindy Hop your way to the classics. You don’t have to tell your judgier friends it’s what you’re doing, but you do have to bring you vaccination card as proof that it’s OK for you to dance with others. (ADV) Santa Fe Swing: 7 pm Monday, Aug. 16, $3-$8 (includes dance lesson).

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(Guitar) Pick of the Week

Jono Manson returns with a cavalcade of buddies in tow The Lensic Performing Arts Center reopens its doors to live music this week with none other than legendary folk and rock troubadour Jono Manson—and 11 of his closest friends.

“It’s gonna be a fun, eclectic evening,” Manson tells SFR, “with some old veterans and some young newcomers that want to put together a show that takes the audience on a journey. There’s a subtext that runs through it about community and being here in New Mexico.”

Of the dozen musicians, 11 are from New Mexico. The one outlier—banjo genius Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose—met Manson here.

Now, that many musicians playing together might be a lot to handle, so Manson has devised a way to get everyone—from singer Hilary Smith and songwriter David Berkeley to slide guitarist Jay Boy Adams and Grammy-nominated artist Eliza Gilkyson—their fair share of stage time.

Here’s the plan: a core four featuring Ronnie Johnson, Paul Pearcy, Jon Graboff and Manson will be on stage all night, then, throughout the show, the other eight players will come and go in a rotating melange of Americana, country, folk, rock ’n’ roll and soul. It sounds challenging, but Manson is confident that, “every-

body involved is working hard to prepare something very special. A labor of love.”

But how did he assemble this extensive list of musicians?

“I’ve lived in New Mexico for 30 years,” he explains, “and I’ve had a chance at one time or another to collaborate with almost everybody.”

That spirit of togetherness is what made Lensic Executive Director Joel Aalberts immediately think of Manson as the right man for the reopening job, and it makes sense he was the chosen one—in addition to his musical talents (and extensive IRL friends list), Manson is a consummate showman who always keeps the audience involved.

“If I had a formula I could write down, I would make a manual and sell it,” he says, adding that he’s honored to play at the beloved local theater. “In this neck of the woods, the Lensic is the most beautiful indoor concert venue.”

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JONO MANSON & FRIENDS: BRING UP THE LIGHTS: 7:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 14. $10 Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 (Masks and proof of vaccination required.)

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With We Are the SEEDS co-founder and Director Tailinh Agoyo

Since its inception in 2016, Indigenous arts market We Are the SEEDS has proven a popular alternative to other Native arts events in Santa Fe. Since then, the organization has expanded (in size and geography—including a presence in Philadelphia) and bloomed, becoming one of the more popular events in town. Still, like everything, COVID-19 pretty much ruined SEEDS’ 2020 plans. But as we hit the latter part of 2021, you’ll find an abbreviated version/group exhibit running through Oct. 15, this time at downtown gallery form & concept (435 S Guadalupe St., 505-780-8312). We spoke with SEEDS co-founder and Director Tailinh Agoyo to find out more. (Alex De Vore) Given the shape of everything and COVID-19, how would you say SEEDS is faring this year, both in Santa Fe and Philadelphia?

We’ve been very successful at quickly being responsive and understanding what’s going on in the world around us and what the needs are, for both our artists and our community. We’ve been able to address needs, and the organization has really thrived.

First we grieved. We had planned for many programs and events to happen, and just like everybody else, there was this domino effect of things being shut down, canceled or postponed. We had a few moments where we had to freeze, honor and reassess, and then we jumped to action. We did a fundraiser and raised quite a bit of money, so we were able to offer COVID-19 relief to about 25 artists.

One of the things we did was to move some things from in-person to virtual, but I didn’t love that. It didn’t feel right to me. We Are the SEEDS is so much about personal connection and us being together as people in the same place. We shifted and did a program called Gathering SEEDS 2.0 with seven Indigenous artists, and the concept was that it was four weeks, and every week we’d have a series of short

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videos for people to enjoy. It wasn’t a Zoom call, it was recreating the way we communicated altogether, and it was really wonderful. And we were able to pay the artists, which is always important to do.

It gave them the freedom to do whatever they wanted. Eventually, we did decide to do a virtual workshop with Layli Long Soldier in November—a poetry workshop on Dadaism—and it was small, but it was great. We all felt like we didn’t want it to end, and it felt like the first time in a long time we were connecting, so we decided to do a year of that, and it’s called Gathering SEEDS 2.1. It’ll have all different Indigenous artists every month. It’s kind of like self care, just showing up and taking some time for yourself on a Saturday afternoon.

Why is form & concept the right fit for SEEDS? I just love working with [Director] Jordan [Eddy]. I’ve worked with Jordan a long time, and he has such vision and is such a lovely person. And form & concept stands out. The gallery is aesthetically beautiful. And the work…When I see the exhibitions that come through, the artists are groundbreaking. They take many steps beyond the expectations of what people think they’re coming to Santa Fe for, and they go so far beyond that to offer people a wider view of what the art world is. The artists they bring in have a lot to share and teach people. You’re getting so much depth, and the people [the gallery] works with offer all of that.

For We Are the Seeds, it’s an absolute honor to be working with the gallery.

I pinch myself all the time. We had a meeting with Jordan the other day, and we were going through the exhibit, which we curated together, and I got such chills.

We know these artists so well, and a lot of them are friends and SEEDS family, and we see them at SEEDS in the Railyard, but to have them through the lens of form & concept in such a sophisticated way, it’s very lifted. Elegant. Elevated. What we do in the Railyard is its own thing, but to see those pieces pulled out of that environment to where they’re presented in this way, and our story is being told in this way…I have all the feels.

Given the usual scope of SEEDS, how did you even decide what would go into a smaller exhibit?

We chose about 25 artists. SEEDS in the Railyard has anywhere between 60 to 100, but we really thought about which artists have been a part of the SEEDS community: The supportive advocates, the people giving us the love and who have participated more than just having a booth.

It’s people who we have stories with and about. It’s not a transactional thing, this is a community we built. In curating this show, we were really thinking about why SEEDS was important, why we had to create it and why it’s important for it to continue. Telling these artists’ stories is part of that.

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INSPIRATIONS Sage Creek Gallery 421 Canyon Road (505) 988-3444 Experience the magic of harmony with the natural world through this celebration of Indigenous culture.

All day, free NAVIGATORS Vital Spaces 220 Otero St. Mythopoetic shrine and installation dedicated to a just future. Diagrams, infograms, drawings and sculpture. Open by appointment. Contact jerrywellman1@gmail.com.

All day, free LIANA YORK Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555 Bronze animal sculptures by Star Liana York. She crafts bronze mountain lion cubs to puppy love to turtles and horses.

All day, free OTHER EARTHLINGS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 Vivid portraits of animals that blend the provocative and the surreal through characteristic wit and exquisite detail.

All day, free PAINTING IN THE NATIONAL PARKS 7 Arts Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave. (505) 437-1107 Sketches from 7 Arts Gallery’s artist in residence, Nancy Silvia, ranging from Acadia National Park to Aztec Ruins National Monument.

All day, free BALANCING CULTURES Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 Jerry Takigawa is the winner of the Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award. His show displays the impacts of the incarceration of JapaneseAmerican citizens and legal residents during WWII. All day, free

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PRESENT TENSE Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave. (505) 992-0800 A significant exhibition documenting recent extraordinary political, social and economic events, including the never ending COVID-19 pandemic.

All day, free RICARDO ESTRADA AND KRISTEN EGAN Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Estrada’s portraits encompass his connections to his Indigenous heritage and Mexican-American identity, while Egan presents a collection of totemic figurines and ritual masks.

All day, free RON COOPER: CARS & BARS Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Cooper uses plexiglass, resin and lacquer to capture and manipulate the perceptual phenomenon of light. His vintage cars on display add another “whoa, this is cool“ aspect.

All day, free URBAN ECOLOGIES Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596 Eco-inspired art installations. An awesome way for kids to learn about ecology.

All day, free WE ARE THE SEEDS form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 25 Native artists whose work ranges from traditional beading, steel and textile practices to contemporary painting and wearable art (see 3 Questions, page 22).

All day, free YELLOW USED IN ART Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355 Over 25 artists responded to to the Placitas Community Library Art Committee’s challenge to make art referencing the color yellow.

All day, free TENDONITIS Southwest Annex, Midtown Campus 1600 St. Michael’s Dr. Solo show from artist Osiel Gonzales, where shelter is constructed from discarded matierials. RSVP at ogonzalez1495@gmail.com. (read more at sfreporter.com) All day, free FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART Iconik Coffee Roasters (Lupe) 314 S Guadalupe St. (505) 428-0996 Illustrations, paintings and stained glass mosaics themed around being a woman in the modern world. From artist Alison Hixon.

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FIREBRANDS: JUDY CHICAGO, SWOON, AND HUNG LIU Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 Rarely seen pieces from three legendary artists.

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6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 La Emi and company take you to the world of high flamenco.

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EVENTS BREWING & DISTILLING TOUR Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 32 Bisbee Ct. (505) 393-5135 Take a tour of Tumbleroot's production center to learn how the goods get made.

4:30 pm, free

FOOD GIN AND AMARO TASTINGS Sassella 225 Johnson St. (505) 982-6734 Gins and amaros for you to sample. Call to RSVP. 4-5 pm, $45

MUSIC ELIZABETH AND A PIANO The Hollar 2849 NM Hwy 14, Madrid (505) 471-2841 Covers and originals.

5 pm, free GERRY CARTHY La Posada de Santa Fe 330 E Palace Ave. (505) 986-0000 Traditional Irish tunes. Yes, it’s okay to tear up when you hear “Danny Boy.” 6-9 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 25

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SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSICAL FESTIVAL: BRITTEN, GRUBER AND BRAHMS St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Britten's Phantasy Quartet, HK Gruber's Frankenstein!! and Brahms’ String Sextet in G Major, Op. 36 6 pm, $40-$80

OPERA SANTA FE OPERA: THE LORD OF CRIES Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 A mixture of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Euripides' Bacchae. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

8 pm, $52-$329

WORKSHOP MAC OS/MAC COMPUTER CLASS Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323 Class looking at the macOS computer, specifically some of the logic behind how it operates and how you can be more efficient on your computer.

10-11:30 am, free

ART CREATIVE RESIDENCIES: MEGAN GOLDBERG SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Exploring creativity inherent in American Sign Language.

4-6 pm, free YOU ARE STANDING EXACTLY WHERE MEANING IS 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Oil and graphite works on canvas from Allan Graham.

All day, free SITE SCHOLARS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 A dozen regional students from St. John’s College, the University of New Mexico, the community college and other New Mexico schools have artwork on display.

4-6 pm, free SOUTHWEST MONOCHROMES: CLOSING RECEPTION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1501 Last chance to see this collection of black and white photographs by Jim Wysong, featuring landscapes, ruins, Indigenous life and beyond.

Masks required to attend.

4:30-6 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 It’s like walking into a portal that opens onto Spain, but alas—it’s just the authenticity of Entreflamenco, which is equally as awesome.

6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 More flamenco. More joy.

8 pm, $20-$50

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MEET ROUTE 66 HISTORIAN WILLIE LAMBERT El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Lambert retraces most of Route 66 through New Mexico and created a plethora of work, including postcards and hand drawn maps. Come by to learn awesome factoids about the nation's most famous route and those who travelled it.

11:30 am-3 pm, free

OTHELLO: THE REMIX Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Described as an "AdRapTation" of Shakespeare's play, this is a 85-minute, non-stop dazzling rap showcase. Book and music by the Q Brothers (see SFR picks, page 19).

7:30 pm, $15-$25 AS YOU LIKE IT Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103 "All the world's a stage!" is taken quite literally here, but what better setting to watch Shakespeare's pastoral comedy than a garden? Come for the setting, stay for the characters.

6:45 pm, $35-$45

MUSIC AL ROGERS WITH JON GAGAN Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Pianist Al Rogers and bassist Jon Gagan bring joyful music to Vanessie patrons (which could include you).

6:30 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St. (505) 989-1166 Delicious food, tasty wine, and cool jazz guitar.

6-8 pm, free SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSICAL FESTIVAL: WEILL, EISLER AND SHEPHERD St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Sean Shepard's Old Instruments, a festival commission, has its world premiere. Selected songs from Weill and Eisler included.

Noon, $35-$40

OPERA SANTA FE OPERA: EUGENE ONEGIN Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Tchaikovsky’s rendition of Pushkin’s love story wherein Onegin rejects Tatyana, only to realize it was a mistake, probably because he’s a stupid boy with commitment issues, probably. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

8 pm, $70-$329

WORKSHOP IMPROV FUNDAMENTALS Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Unit A This six-week, daytime, beginner’s class is open to all.

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Come to learn the basics.

10 am-Noon, $150

FRI/13 ART EXPOSURE: NATIVE ART AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 An international collection of Indigenous artists' responses to the impacts of nuclear testing, accidents and uranium mining on Native peoples and the environment.

All day, free AFRICAN ART Intrigue Gallery 238 Delgado St. (505) 820-9265 Showcasing vintage African masks, figures, miniatures and trade bead jewelry.

All day, free

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MADE WITH SERENDIPITY Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 From Artworks, the exhibit features visual art and poetry created by students in the year of virtual education. In the CCA Tank Garage.

All day, free OBJECTS OF ART SANTA FE SHOW El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591 A global melding of fine art paintings and sculpture, folk and tribal art, rare books, ethnographic jewelry and textiles, historic American Indian, Asian and African art and more.

11 am to 5 pm, $15-$25 POTEET VICTORY: NEW WORKS Victory Contemporary 124 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-8589 New Cherokee/Choctaw influenced works.

5-7 pm, free SUMMER SOIRÉE Kay Contemporary Art 600 Canyon Road (505) 365-3992 Origami sculptures, canvases featuring ephemera, ethereal landscapes, mixed media works and a ton more.

5-7 pm, free TERMS & CONDITIONS Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Porter Lara is a conceptual artist who is interested in the ways humans use ideas about what is “natural” to naturalize political constructs through sculpture, printmaking, and sign-making, as well as sewing and embroidery.

All day, free WESTERN BLUE: OPENING RECEPTION form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Thais Mather introduces an immersive installation of 100 “evil eye” paintings, with interactive wax sculptures, four pointillist drawing studies of “spirit masks” unearthed from the Judean Hills.

5-7 pm, free

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave (505) 209-1302 Flamenco in downtown Santa Fe? Sign us the eff up.

6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 The summer is flooding with flamenco.

8 pm, $20-$50

EVENTS AXLE CONTEMPORARY REMEMBERS JOE HILL Santa Fe Railyard 332 Read St. axleart.com Joe Hill was a songwriter and activist active across the US in the early 20th century. He was executed because of his activism. Santa Fe’s The Willies cover his tunes.

5-6 pm, free DJ PYGAR Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 2797 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135 Drinks, dancing and outdoor air. Tunes from all over the multiverse, guaranteed surprises and some classics.

6-9 pm, free

FILM I AM Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Poems and spoken word performances centered on hope, written by eight young New Mexicans.

7 pm, free

FOOD COOKING CLASS: MEXICAN CUISINE Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 Learn to prepare salsas, chipotle rellenos, arroz a la Mexicana and tres leches.

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TGIF VIRTUAL CONCERT Online fpcsantafe.org/tgiftube/ Music this week is from trombonist Richard Harris.

5:30 pm, free NOSOTROS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Have you heard of Nosotros?

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MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Al Rogers brings joyful music to patrons with his legendary piano skills.

6:30-9:30 pm, free BERT DALTON TRIO C3's Bistro 4940 Corrales Road, Corrales (505) 398-9449 Live jazz, Cajun & Creole cuisine, plus a full bar. Make reservations.

5:30-8:30 pm, free (but tip your musicians and your waiters) FREE CHOIR, VIOLIN AND OPERA CONCERT St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-5397 The Choir of Hope & Harmony, joined by local star violin and opera talents, performs.

4-5:15 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN Ojo Santa Fe Spa Resort 242 Los Pinos Road (877) 977-8212 Pat Malone and Jon Gagan play relaxing jazz. They play outdoors, near big trees, a lagoon and ducks. And everyone likes ducks.

5-8 pm, free

SANTA FE OPERA: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 This is an operatic version of Shakespeare's famous play, complete with the usual romantic drama and Kings and Queens. This one’s sung English, which is a thing that can happen in the opera world! Tickets must be purchased in advance.

8 pm, $103-$197

THEATER OTHELLO: THE REMIX Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Shakespeare, but in rap form and probably a lot cooler than you might be thinking (see SFR picks, page 19).

7:30 pm, $15-$25 AS YOU LIKE IT Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103 Botanical Garden + Shakespeare = neat.

6:45 pm, $35-$45 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Art on Barcelona (Unitarian Universalist Church) 107 W Barcelona (917) 566-0708 Overwhelmed by the amount of Shakespeare being produced this summer? Too bad. Here’s another chance to see more, this time by the Upstart Crows (aka theater youth).

6:30 pm, $12

SAT/14 ART WESTERN BLUE form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Solo show by feminist artist Thais Mather, who was inspired by western bluebirds and their ability to thrive even in a harsh climate.

Noon-1 pm, free AMERICAN INDIAN + TRIBAL ARTS: CLASSIC TO CONTEMPORARY Santa Fe Art Auction 932 Railfan Road (505) 954-5858 Exhibition of historic and contemporary Native American art, including an important collection of historic Hopi canteens. Also textiles, beadwork, pottery, basketry and a ton more.

All day, free GO WEST SAID A SMALL VOICE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Landscapes, woodblocks and marionettes. (see SFR picks, page 19).

All day, $0-$12

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Fine dancing and fine wine.

Dinner-and-a-show options included.

6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Más flamenco y más joy.

8 pm, $20-$50 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Awesome skills on display from the Lightning Boy Foundation.

3:30-5 pm, free (but bring money to tip ‘em)

EVENTS SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Local craftwork for sale.

8 am-2 pm, free SANTA FE WINE FESTIVAL El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 Wine on the ranch. Advance tickets required this go-around.

Noon-6 pm, $5-$18 POP-UP FOLK ART FLEA MARKET Santa Fe Place 4250 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5191 Treasures from countries ranging from Morocco, Kenya, China, Thailand, Mexico, Peru and more, plus Indigenous art from across the Americas.

In the tent Outside Travelers Market.

8 am-3 pm, free

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Tomatoes, craft-soap, honey, leafy greens, smoked meats and on and on the wonders go.

7 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC JONO MANSON AND FRIENDS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Jono Manson curates an evening of live music with Jon Graboff, Paul Pearcy and Ronnie Johnson. (see SFR picks, page 19).

7:30 pm, $10 BLUE RHAPSODY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Jazz, R&B, soul and blues.

6:30 pm, free CHATTER: CHAMBER MUSIC AND POETRY SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505)989-1199 Traditional and contemporary chamber music programs.

10:30 am, free

JON GAGAN AND PAT MALONE Santa Fe Spirits Downtown 308 Read St. (505) 780-5906 Gagan on upright bass and Pat Malone on guitar.

6-9 pm, free MOUSTACHIO BASHIO The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182 Dance to the mishmash of jam band and electronic dance music. Moustachio Bashio and Colorado's SunSquabi help to dance your way into the ether. Also, live painting and a mustache competition.

5-10 pm, $25-$30 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSICAL FESTIVAL: MARCELLO AND THE BACHS St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Flute Concerto in D Minor, H. 426 and Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049?

We must be dreaming.

5 pm, $45-$58 SOUL, BLUES AND FUNK Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Ron Crowder, Hillary Smith and Chillhouse come together for an special evening of soul, blue and funk.

8-11 pm, $20

AS YOU LIKE IT Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103 More Bard in the gard.

6:45 pm, $35-$45 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Art on Barcelona (Unitarian Universalist Church) 107 W Barcelona, (917) 566-0708 Theater youths wielding snakes and daggers and political misery sounds fun.

6:30 pm, $12

SUN/15 BOOKS/LECTURES FREETHINKERS FORUM: ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND BATTERY STORAGE Online meetup.com/freethinkersforum Ryan Baggett will be sharing information about progress in developing efficient electric vehicles.

8:30-10 am, free SECULAR ALLIANCE: A CULT OF IGNORANCE Online meetup.com/freethinkersforum In this post-truth world of dis/misinformation. Is it possible there’s a way out?

Join the discussion.

Noon-1:30 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Awesome dancing is just a short-ish drive away.

6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Hey, did you know flamenco is happening in town?

8 pm, $20-$50 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Another chance to check out the Lightning Boy Foundation’s super talented dancers.

3:30-5 pm, free

OPERA SANTE FE OPERA: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Mozart's classic about a bride and the unwanted advances from her employer. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

8 pm, $70-$329

THEATER OTHELLO: THE REMIX Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 More rap, more music, still Shakespeare (see SFR picks, page 19).

2 pm, $15-$25

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EVENTS BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 For beginners and intermediates who want to brush up on their technique. or learn the ropes.

1-2 pm, $15 SANTA FE WINE FESTIVAL El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 Just as winey as it sounds.

You must buy advance tickets for this event.

Noon-6 pm, $5-$18 YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. All levels vinyasa flow class.

Bring a mat or be content with the grass.

10 am, $10

MUSIC BOB MAUS Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive (505) 471-1111 Piano, vocals and pizza.

5:30-8:30 pm, free SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSICAL FESTIVAL: BARTOK, DVORÁK AND WALLIN St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Rolf Wallin's Twine, Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, and 'ol Dvorák's Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 6 pm, $72-$98

OPERA SANTA FE OPERA: APPRENTICE SHOWCASE SCENES Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 The opera's singing and technical apprentices get their night to shine on the big stage.

8 pm, $5-$21

OTHELLO: THE REMIX Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 The Q Brothers are America's leading re-interpreters of Shakespeare through hip-hop.

Here is a high energy spin on Othello as performed by The Moor You Know Collective (see SFR picks, page 19).

2 pm, $15-$25 AS YOU LIKE IT Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103 It really is S-boy summer.

6:45 pm, $35-$45

MON/16 DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Lindy Hop, West Coast swing, shag and more. Classes start at 7 pm, open dance at 8 pm.

Vaccinated folks only, please.

Bring your CDC card as proof on your first visit (see SFR picks, page 19).

7 pm, $3-$8

EVENTS LINDY VISION AND SIHASIN Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Lindy Vision, an Indie rock trio and Sihasin, an indie punk band, play for all you punk rockers still missing the ‘90s (but we love you).

6-8 pm, free

MUSIC GERRY CARTHY Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 982-0000 Pizza with traditional Irish tunes to soothe the digestion and tear up remembering the green hills of ‘ol Ireland.

5:30-8:30 pm, free SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSICAL FESTIVAL: BARTOK, DVORÁK AND WALLIN St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Encore of Sunday’s show.

6 pm, $72-$98

TUE/17 EVENTS AUTHOR TALK: WILLIAM DEBUYS Online collectedworksbookstore.com William deBuys wrote about climate change and extinction before taking two trips to Nepal to seek solace. His new book The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss details these journeys.

6 pm, free

MEET ROUTE 66 HISTORIAN WILLIE LAMBERT El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Another chance to learn facts about long gone road culture.

11:30 am-3 pm, free YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. Certified yoga instructor Kristyn Arnold leads an energizing Vinyasa Flow class. Bring a mat if you want.

Noon, $10

FOOD COOKING CLASS: GREEN CHILE WORKSHOP Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 Chile, chile, chile. Learn how to wield this incredible crop by making corn tortillas, green chile sauce and roasted tomatillo and cilantro sauce.

2-4 pm, $84 SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 It’s like the Saturday market, but on Tuesday. Crazy!

7 am-1 pm, free FARMERS MARKET DEL SUR Presbyterian Health Park 4801 Beckner Road (505) 983-7726 Greens and other goods, but on the Southside, which makes it special.

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4-6 pm, free SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSICAL FESTIVAL: KIRILL GERSTEIN St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 983-2075 Piano recital with Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49 and Debussy's Complete Études for Piano.

Noon, $35-$40

OPERA SANTA FE OPERA: THE LORD OF CRIES Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Dracula plus Euripides, making for what could be a thrilling or frightening opera show. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

8 pm, $47-$309

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BY DA R RY L LO R E N ZO W E L L I N GTO N a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ne of the lingering aftereffects of my Georgia childhood is a habit of saying “Yes, sir,” and “Yes, ma’am.”

I became awkwardly aware of the habit 10 years ago when I moved to Santa Fe. People responded: “You don’t have to call me ma’am,” because the habit was embarrassingly old-fashioned.

I thank them for calling my attention to it, because I realize as I grow older the habit was never truly benign. Sure, I still say “sir” and “ma’am” to the elderly (unless they correct me), but even during my 20s in the 1990s, I instinctively yesma’am-ed people who were my own age and, looking back, I especially and hurriedly yes-ma’am-ed anyone who was white. It was a kind of psychological genuflection reinforced by the Georgia educational system which promulgated a version of history that subliminally (and sometimes not so subliminally) justified Black inferiority.

I thought about my Georgia childhood spent yes-ma’am-ing given recent controversy surrounding Critical Race Theory (CRT); Georgia is one of the Southern states that has joined the conservative bandwagon, harping on the sinister CRTinfluenced education that may let con-

ity in America—after Emancipation—was the 1954 Supreme Court decision that decided segregated facilities were unjust. It made little sense. My high school was overwhelmingly Black and segregated. So were most other Georgia schools and neighborhoods; so indeed was a big portion of the United States.

Black and white neighborhoods were no more on an equal social and economic footing back then than if two plus two equalled five; if de jure segregation was immoral, then de facto segregation in America

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cepts like systemic racism enter the school curriculum. Conservative mania spreads attacks, like a recent screed by rightwing radio host Buck Sexton, calling CRT “identity politics indoctrination.” Meanwhile, the Georgia Board of Education in June passed a resolution that prohibits educational materials that imply “an individual bears responsibility for actions committed in the past,” or that could cause students to “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.”

But what is CRT really? It’s a scholarly practice that traces the specific impact white privilege has had on American law and jurisprudence since the end of slavery. Although conservatives hijacked the CRT name for a scare-tactic campaign, books written by CRT scholars are not being taught in primary schools—in Georgia or anywhere else. Then why are conservatives raging?

They’re raging to preserve the biases that have characterized American education. They’re raging with complete intellectual cowardice against high schools updating texts to present facts such as the story of the Tulsa Race massacre, the history of slave patrols (which led to the modern police force), the violent overthrow of Black elected officials during Reconstruction or the post-war GI bill that excluded most Black veterans.

CRT, then, is a historically accurate body of facts that lead to the logical conclusion America is a systemically racist nation, and conservatives are raging to preserve primary school systems like those in my own Georgia youth.

I remember the biased limitations of a Georgia education became apparent when we studied Brown vs the Board of Education. We learned in a perfunctory way that the next major step toward equal-

was immoral. If so, why were we not allowed to interrogate it? The necessary facts such as detailing housing discrimination, job discrimination or redlining, were taboo. Lacking these concepts, the sum effect of teacherly exhortations to “just work hard” was to backhandedly inform Black children that while white Americans worked hard and reaped rewards, Blacks, over 100 years after slavery, were shiftless, lazy or less than true citizens.

And sometimes the racist messaging was blatant, the white supremacist underpinnings revealed. I probably won’t ever forget what happened after my 7th grade social studies teacher led the class in an exercise representing the Constitutional

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Convention in Philadelphia. Hubert Middle School was overwhelmingly Black, but this particular group with high IQ scores (and high-income parents) was 90% white. We had been instructed to creatively reenact the making of the US Constitution, using our own debates, arguments and resolutions. Everything proceeded well until we debated slavery. By majority vote, we decided the United States would be governed by three presidents (a three-headsare-better-than-one-philosophy).

The exercise was intellectually stimulating, as I noted, until...

The class unanimously voted slavery down, and the decision clearly upset the social studies teacher. She promptly lectured us that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery; besides, she claimed, the decision we made was unrealistic.

She insisted we vote again.

Influenced by her chagrin, the white students changed their votes. The Black students, in shock (like myself ), had no intention of changing. We persevered in making a moral point. We lost the subsequent vote.

And what was the point? I believe I was looking at nothing less than the construction of prejudice and white identity.

The teacher impressed upon the white students that they must not appear to apologize for slavery and instilled them with a sense that, when a subject makes whites uncomfortable, or guilty, they can use power to shut down the argument.

Conservatives engaging in an anti-Critical Race Theory campaign don’t want to live in a multicultural world. They want a world where Black students given biased information still politely respond “Yes, sir,” and “Yes, ma’am.” Whether they believe it or not, their mindless desperation is proof they’re losing the argument.

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An Apricog in the System Albuquerque-based nonprofit sets eyes on Santa Fe’s apricots to prevent food waste

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he sun beats down on a dozen or so volunteers from food-based nonprofit Food is Free Albuquerque (FIFABQ). It’s a hot day, and there are so many apricots laying on the dusty road one can practically smell them baking in the summer heat. Nearby lay hundreds more of the stone fruit, rotting away or crushed by passing vehicles. Today is one of FIFABQ’s first runs in Santa Fe, and co-founder Erin Garrison hypothesizes they’ll wind up with hundreds of pounds of fruit by the time they’re finished—an eye-openingly regular occurrence for the relatively young organization.

“Harvesting every year really depends,” Garrison tells SFR, “but usually we can get up to 700 pounds from one tree.”

Garrison can eyeball an apricot and know its next step. She considers the fruit’s texture and color to determine if it needs to be instantly cooked and preserved, or if it has a few extra days left to be given out as fresh as possible. It’s just something she and FIFABQ

co-founder Trista Teeter have picked up since they started the organization in 2014. Today’s harvest turns out so bountiful, in fact, crates are filled to the brim and stacked tightly into a transport van.

It’s only the middle of the day at this point, but Garrison, Teeter and their volunteers— which include their children—aren’t close to being done.

It’s a long way from what began as a fruit canning hobby for Garrison and Teeter. Wanting to do more, the pair put up a Craigslist ad in search of overwhelmed property owners looking for help with unruly fruiting trees. As soon as they began, Garrison recalls, they were netting roughly 200 pounds of fruit per tree. That number has only grown, as has the overall scope of FIFABQ “When we first started doing this, I believe in our first year, we weren’t really even an organization,” she explains. “We used to hibernate just like the trees.

As we’ve grown, that [slowdown between harvests] has become a shorter and shorter timespan. We’re scheduling around Mother Nature, not around our calendar.”

Since then, a combination of regional networking and word-of-mouth has turned Garrison and Teeter’s hobby into full time work.

“First it was only fruit trees, now it’s farms, small gardens and fruit trees. We do home pick ups now, too,” Garrison tells SFR. “Sometimes for farmers, their crop is so abundant that they call us to help get the food out. Or there’s a freeze coming, and we’ve got to go in...so it doesn’t go to waste.

Sometimes they just want to donate.”

Mother Nature, of course, also brought along the events of 2020, during which FIFABQ partnered with the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women to build garden boxes available free to the public with enough seeds for a potential 80,000 pounds of produce. With supply lines strangled by COVID-19, fresh foods were harder to come by at the height of the pandemic, especially, as always, for minority communities.

The National Resources Defense Council finds roughly 40% of all the food in the United States isn’t eaten, while the EPA estimates wasted food makes up 24% of all landfill materials, the largest block of any in-

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dividual grouping. To top that off, a 2010 study from the United States Department of Agriculture found 18.4 billion pounds of fruit goes to waste each year. FIFABQ’s leading philosophy is that fresh foods are a human right—especially in a time where food insecurity is on the rise, and one out of four children in Santa Fe County are classified as food insecure.

“Money and time are both barriers to families trying to make healthy food choices,” writes Derek Lin in his report Ending Childhood Food Insecurity from March.

The report was commissioned by New Mexico Voices for Children, an advocacy nonprofit dedicated to addressing childhood hunger and well-being. “Fresh, nutritious foods take more time to prepare and are generally more expensive than processed foods,” Lin continues, “which can make them impractical choices for low-income families. Those facing cost constraints purchase less fresh produce.”

That’s where FIFABQ comes in.

According to Garrison, property owners who have apricot trees often find themselves overwhelmed when the fruiting season rolls around. While ripe and fallen fruit provides sustenance for birds, bugs and other creatures, humans often miss out. FIFABQ wants to fill that gap, though oftentimes, Garrison tells SFR, property owners don’t even understand fresh fruit can be donated. However they get the fruit, the nonprofit’s donations to charities and organizations such as The Food Depot, various mutual aid groups and religious organizations such as the food pantry at St. John’s Methodist Church help address what Garrison describes as a “genuine fruit emergency.” More than anything, the goal is simply to get food to people as fresh as possible.

“We’re sharing with people, and people are sharing with us,” Garrison says.

“We’re just sharing with one another, because there’s a bounty all around us.”

Get more info, schedule harvests and volunteer at fifabq.org

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This is not Suicide Squad 2—this is The Suicide Squad. T-H-E. And rather than follow in director James Ayer’s too-dour Suicide Squad footsteps circa 2016, director James Gunn recycles characters from the non-T-H-E version for something that feels a little more new, even if it is a mid-summer comic book blockbuster kind of thing.

Other movies reside on its superblock— Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy live right next door. And like the proverbial milkman impregnating two neighboring rival housewives, Gunn wrote Guardians for Marvel (Disney) and this for DC (HBO, maybe? Warner? Both? Who cares?). He even brought his Guardians bag o’ tricks over to DC from the house of mouse (which fired him for old rapey tweets then rehired him later). Squad’s soundtrack of indie, country and classic rock songs courtesy of bands like The Decemberists and Johnny Cash adds to the mood—or at least tells us how to feel—and its ensemble cast, which is practically a character-to-character overlay with Guardians, makes

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The Truffle Hunters is the story of men, their dogs and their fungi.

These men live in a deep autumnal world where they’re forever, stepping over dewy, dying leaves in the heavy fog of an early November. It’s so quiet, speaking feels like a violation of village ordinance, and you can’t help but wonder if life for these octogenarian mushroom chasers is eternally this way— quiet with a deep but unspoken reverence for the natural world. These old men search for truffles, sell them and go home. That’s all their lives are, and they couldn’t be happier. Well, most of them.

Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw break from traditional documentary setup and forgo classic genre exposition like interviews, instead presenting the world of truffle hunters via conversations and shooting from distances that feel less personal. It’s as if we’re peeking from behind a tree or sitting at nearby table and overhearing a portion of a stranger’s life—we never hear a thing that isn’t dogs and truffles.

The humanism Dweck and Kershaw gift us is an impressive sensitivity for such early filmmakers, its simplicity its selling point and its fanciest gimmick a GoPro camera strapped to a truffle-sniffing dog. The film’s pacing is almost

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for fun interactions centering around the film’s ultimate selling point: it’s bold, brash and stupid funny. Not stupidly funny, but stupid, cartoonish, ridiculous funny.

In short, a small country revolts and, surprise, the US secret ops, led by Viola Davis (Fences), needs to intervene. She assembles a team of prisoners who must choose between more jail time or—get this—a suicide mission. Margot Robbie (Bombshell) performs her day job as psychotic hottie Harley Quinn and earns her paycheck, while Idris Elba drives the plot and John Cena plays the comic relief in beef. An unrecognizable Sylvester Stallone shocks as the sympathetic CGI King Shark, while Daniela Melchior (Parque Mayer) steals scenes as Ratcatcher 2, the only nuanced character in the movie. Pete Davidson is in there, too, for the youths.

absurdly patient, and its lack of cuts keeps your eyes darting to catch each person’s deep expressions.

Yet, the crux of the story surprisingly ends up being the dogs and the symbiotic relationships forged between them and their owners.

With such talent finding the best rare truffles, however, we discover an obsessive market that actively harms the men and their dogs. But despite that tension simmering underneath, The Truffle Hunters ultimately becomes about the unabashed joy of being alive and doing something beyond hedonistic pleasures: A life for autumn mornings, for shaved truffle atop an egg, for the 87-year old man who wants to hunt by night so he can listen to the same owl.

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After her excellent 2017 directorial debut Band Aid, writer/actor/director Zoe Lister-Jones took a bit of a misstep with last year’s The Craft: Legacy. Not to worry, though, because ListerJones seems to have righted course, this time joining forces with her husband, the filmmaker Darryl Wein (White Rabbit), for How It Ends, a neo-Odyssey kind of thing wherein our heroine Liza (Lister-Jones) spends her last day on Earth trekking Los Angeles to right her wrongs, say

But it’s a gratuitous penis and what it symbolizes that pushes this movie forward. For no reason but our pleasure, an extra gets shot to death while Porky Piggin’ it (that’s pants-free, folks).

His penis represents childish humor brought to the big screen, not in a kids’ movie way, but in an R-rated one, and the over-the-top violence, terrible jokes and physical humor mix together to make a caricature for capital-A adults. Squad lacks some fundamentals, sure, but everything that crosses the line set by Deadpool helps put the comic back in comical.

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her piece and, hopefully, attain some form of growth right under the wire.

Filmed in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, How It Ends upends the apocalypse genre by presenting a motley cast of characters, all seemingly at peace with the massive meteor barreling toward the planet.

They know it’ll end all life around 2 am, but most folks go about their lives (with maybe a little more drug use), including Liza’s friend Mandy who announces she’s throwing an End of the World party that night.

Liza, meanwhile, plans to while away her last hours smoking weed and eating whatever, a plan derailed by the metaphysical representation of her younger self (Craft: Legacy alum Cailee Spaeny) who insists she attend the party, but only after they make peace with Liza’s mother and father (Helen Hunt and Bradely Whitford), an estranged best friend (Olivia Wilde), the ex who didn’t deserve her love (the always-glorious Larmone Morris of New Girl and Woke fame)—and the one who did (Logan Marshall-Green). Along the way, Liza and her younger self meet a veritable cavalcade of neighborhood weirdos played from 6 feet apart by what must have been whatever actors weren’t busy that day: Paul Scheer, Colin Hanks, Charlie Day, Whitney Cummings, Sharon Van Etten, Marry Elizabeth Ellis, Rob Huebel, Ayo Edebiri, Fred Armisen, Glenn Howerton and others, all of whom seem to be operating on a higher plane of existence than usual—likely because of the impending death—

all of whom are strangely calm and accepting of the meteor.

How It Ends is as simple as it gets, a film that leans into its words and messaging rather than flash. Most of the film’s poignant moments are doled out in walking scenes wherein Liza and her younger self reflect and bicker or dissect what it means when we forget our own value. “You don’t count,” Liza repeatedly tells herself. How often do we all have that thought when addressing ourselves? This makes for quality dramatic moments among the otherwise silly comedic ones; nihilism is laced throughout, though it’s hard to identify the goings on so neatly as the moral, if there is one, feels like it’s more about how it’s important to care about the right things, even if we spend most of our time fretting over the wrong.

Lister-Jones and Spaeny are glorious together, perhaps from a connection formed while filming The Craft, but nonetheless a notable one. They eke out the most impressive performances in the film (though hats off to Charlie Day for a befuddlingly charming speech about losing one’s shoes), but how they play off the expanded cast feels the most meaningful.

How It Ends is thus the quirky kind of indie gold your film nerd friends are always raving about—a quiet and simple story told well with a handful of big laughs and a healthy dose of that cinematic something that sticks with us after, gently guiding us toward our own forms of contemplation and reflection. Just try to be nicer to yourself. (ADV) Amazon, R, 82 min.

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Week of August 11th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Consecrate” isn’t a word you often encounter in intellectual circles. In my home country of America, many otherwise smart people spurn the possibility that we might want to make things sacred. And a lot of art aspires to do the opposite of consecration: strip the world of holiness and mock the urge to commune with sanctified experiences. But filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) expressed a contradictory view. He wrote, “I am not interested in deconsecrating: that’s a fashion I hate. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.”

In accordance with astrological omens, Aries, I invite you to look for opportunities to do the same.

ities influenced people to be emotional, Plato thought, and therefore represented a threat to rational, orderly society. Wow! I’m glad I don’t live in a culture descended from Plato! Oh, wait, I do. His writing is foundational to Western thought. One modern philosopher declared, “The European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”

Anyway, I’m counseling you to rebel against Plato in the coming weeks. You especially need experiences that awaken and please and highlight your feelings.

Contrary to Plato’s fears, doing this will boost your intelligence and enhance your decision-making powers.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Anais Nin wrote, “I don’t want worship. I want understanding.” George Orwell said, “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” Poet Marina Tsvetaeva declared, “For as long as I can remember, I thought I wanted to be loved. Now I know: I don’t need love, I need understanding.” Here’s what I’ll add, Taurus: If you ask for understanding and seek it out, a wealth of it will be available to you in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The English idiom “playing hard to get” means “pretending to be unavailable or uninterested so as to make oneself more attractive or desirable.” Psychologists say this strategy often works, although it’s crucial not to go too far and make your pursuer lose interest. Seventeenth-century philosopher Baltasar Gracián expressed the concept more philosophically. He said, “Leave people hungry. Even with physical thirst, good taste’s trick is to stimulate it, not quench it. What’s good, if sparse, is twice as good. A surfeit of pleasure is dangerous, for it occasions disdain even towards what’s undisputedly excellent. Hard-won happiness is twice as enjoyable.” I suggest you consider deploying these strategies, Gemini.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) sometimes worked alongside painter Claude Monet (1840–1926) at Monet’s home.

He sought the older man’s guidance. Before their first session, Sargent realized there was no black among the paint colors Monet gave him to work with. What?!

Monet didn’t use black? Sargent was shocked. He couldn’t imagine painting without it. And yet, he did fine without it. In fact, the apparent limitation compelled him to be creative in ways he hadn’t previously imagined. What would be your metaphorical equivalent, Cancerian: a limitation that inspires?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to Leo author Guy de Maupassant, “We are in the habit of using our eyes only with the memory of what people before us have thought about the things we are looking at.”

That’s too bad. It causes us to miss a lot of life’s richness. In fact, said de Maupassant, “There is an element of the unexplored in everything. The smallest thing contains a little of what is unknown.” Your assignment in the next two weeks, Leo, is to take his thoughts to heart. In every experience, engage “with enough attention to find an aspect of it that no one has ever seen or spoken of.” You are in a phase when you could discover and enjoy record-breaking levels of novelty.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly wrote a poem I want you to know about. She described how, when she was a child, she stayed up all night picking peaches from her father’s orchard by starlight. For hours, she climbed up and down the ladder. Her hands “twisted fruit” as if she “were entering a thousand doors.” When the stars faded and morning arrived, her insides felt like “the stillness a bell possesses just after it has been rung.” That’s the kind of experience I wish for you in the coming days, Virgo. I know it can’t be exactly the same. Can you imagine what the nearest equivalent might be? Make it happen!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A biography of Nobel Prizewinning Scorpio author Albert Camus noted that he had two modes. They are summed up in the French words solidaire (“unity”) and solitaire (“solitary”). When Camus was in a solidaire phase, he immersed himself in convivial engagement, enjoying the pleasures of socializing. But when he decided it was time to work hard on writing his books, he retreated into a monastic routine to marshal intense creativity. According to my astrological analysis, you Scorpios are currently in the solidaire phase of your rhythm. Enjoy it to the max! When might the next *solitaire* phase come? October could be such a time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): During the 76 years since the end of World War II, Italy has had 69 different governments. That’s a great deal of turnover! Is it a strength or weakness to have so many changes in leadership? On the one hand, such flexibility could be an asset; it might be wise to keep reinventing the power structure as circumstances shift. On the other hand, having so little continuity and stability may undermine confidence and generate stressful uncertainty. I bring this to your attention, Sagittarius, because you’re entering a phase when you could be as changeable as Italy. Is that what you want? Would it serve you or undermine you? Make a conscious choice.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn actor Nicholas Browne testifies, “My heart is too full; it overflows onto everything I see. I am drowning in my own heart. I’ve plunged into the deepness of emotion, and I don’t see any way back up. Still, I pray no one comes to save me.” I’m guessing that his profound capacity to feel and express emotions serves Browne well in his craft. While I don’t recommend such a deep immersion for you 24/7/365, I suspect you’ll be wise to embark on such an excursion during the next three weeks. Have fun diving! How deep can you go?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In accordance with current astrological omens, I’m calling on author Byron Katie to offer you a message. Is it infused with tough love or sweet encouragement? Both! Here’s Katie: “When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.” Get ready to dive deeper than you’ve dared to go before, Aquarius. I guarantee you it will ultimately become fun and educational.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In August 1922, author Nikos Kazantzakis wrote this triumphant declaration: “All day today I’ve had the most gentle, quivering joy, because I’m beginning to heal. Consciously, happily, I feel that I am being born anew, that I am beginning once again to take possession of the light.” On behalf of the cosmic powers-that-be, I authorize you to use these words as your own in the coming weeks. They capture transformations that are in the works for you.

By speaking Kazantzakis’s declarations aloud several times every day, you will ensure that his experience will be yours, too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Ancient Greek philosopher Plato mistrusted laughter, poetry, bright colors, and Homework: Name what you’re most eager to change artists who used bright colors. All those soulful activ- about your life. Newsletter@freewillastrology.com

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. © CO P Y R I G H T 2 0 2 1 R O B B R E Z S N Y 38

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