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Councilors propose rebuilt obelisk for Santa Fe Plaza
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The Soldiers’ Monument on Santa Fe Plaza may not be going anywhere.
Four city councilors will propose Wednesday night to begin rebuilding the obelisk, which was partly toppled by demonstrators on Indigenous Peoples Day in 2020, though it would not look exactly as it did.
Backers say a new design and several new plaques will give additional context to the monument that was built in the 19th century to honor soldiers who fought in the Civil War as well as soldiers who fought against Indigenous people, who were described in racist terms on the monument.
“We want to see the original pieces of the obelisk bonded together with some sort of modern material that shows in an artistic way, I think, the fractures,” District 2 Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth, one of the resolution’s sponsors, told reporters at a news conference Friday on the Plaza.
But while backers argue the resolution follows through on proposals from a lengthy public engagement process known as CHART—Culture, History, Art, Reconciliation and Truth—that report was inconclusive about the monument’s fate, acknowledging a split in the community that remains unresolved while calling for more dialogue that hasn’t happened.
“Without continued public dialogue and engagement, the work that was at the heart of the CHART project is not reflected in this resolution,” Valerie Martinez, founding partner of the group that authored the report, tells SFR.
Nearly 32% of Santa Feans surveyed as part of the report wanted the monument restored with its original signage and additional language that “encourages it to be fully understood and assessed.” About 12% simply wanted the monument restored with its original signage, another 11% wanted the monument restored with different signage, and 33% called for replacing what’s left of the monument with something else.
The report recommended the city begin the process of reaching a resolution between those who supported the two most favored options—getting rid of the monument and re-
storing it with original as well as supplemental signage.
“They’re not hearing from the communities they need to hear from,” says Carrie Wood (Diné), a member of the Santa Fe Indigenous Center’s board of directors.
Wood says the city has contacted the center on issues such as the Midtown campus, but hasn’t involved it in recent discussions of the monument’s future.
“Who are they doing this for?” Wood asks. “If the goal is just aesthetic, just say that. Don’t use all this language about healing.”
Councilors contend the resolution starts a new process for Santa Feans to weigh in on the future of the site.
“With this work that we’ve done collaboratively, it’s an attempt or goal to really balance the various community interests and perspectives pertaining to the Soldiers’ Monument,” said District 1 Councilor Renee Villarreal, who is cosponsoring the resolu-
tion with Romero-Wirth, District 3 Councilor Chris Rivera and District 4 Councilor Amanda Chavez.
The resolution calls for installing four new plaques. One would include an Indigenous land acknowledgement and another would describe the circumstances that led to the monument’s toppling. A third plaque would restate the Entrada Proclamation from September 7, 2018, written after lengthy discussions among the All Pueblo Council of Governors, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, the Caballeros De Vargas, the Santa Fe Fiesta Council and the city government.
And a fourth plaque would “describe a complete history of the obelisk as the soldiers’ monument.”
Asked whether the fourth marker would include wording from the original monument—some of which was chipped away years ago because it used derogatory language in reference to Indigenous people—RomeroWirth said the wording is “probably still to be determined.”
“But I think we want to be more sensitive and more inclusive and capture broader perspectives,” she added.
The resolution calls for current plaques
at the site to be moved and placed “in a location accessible to the public,” suggesting a future museum display or exhibit on the city’s history.
While the city considers proposals for the obelisk, the box and fence surrounding it would be removed if the resolution passes. A light would be installed temporarily to shine into the sky, “to the extent permitted under the city’s code,” the resolution says.
The measure has early support from four of the council’s nine members. And Mayor Alan Webber—who previously called for removing the monument—tells SFR he wants to co-sponsor the resolution, too.
“I think the monument as it stood would have been best safely put in a museum or a public space where it could be studied and regarded in its historic context. The suggestion in this resolution is to do just that but not move it—to reframe the historical context,” he says.
The resolution also calls for creating an Office of Equity and Inclusion in city government, following on another recommendation from the CHART report. The office would work on crafting language for the new plaques and undertake a host of initiatives inside and outside city government, such as coordinating bias training for city staff and working with community groups.
District 1 Councilor Signe Lindell, who represents the Plaza area along with Villarreal, says the proposal took her by surprise. Lindell also supported removing the obelisk in the past but was noncommittal when asked about the resolution on Monday.
“It doesn’t have anything to do with what I would want or wouldn’t want personally,” she says.
Instead, Lindell says the CHART report should have resolved the issue. But now that it hasn’t, the council needs to make a decision.
“I don’t want us to get used to a plywood box on the Plaza,” Lindell tells SFR.
Martinez says the city did not specifically task the CHART process with deciding the monument’s fate, however. Instead, she says, the city gave CHART a much broader mandate that led to participants offering up several ideas for the site. That’s where further dialogue should come in, she says.
The resolution is slated for introduction at the council’s regular meeting on Wednesday and faces committee hearings in the weeks ahead at City Hall.
It also enters potentially tricky legal territory, as the city is facing a lawsuit from the Union Protectiva de Santa Fe that seeks to force the local government to restore the monument under historic preservation laws. A scheduling conference in that case is set for later this month.
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ABOVE: From left to right, city councilors Chris Rivera, Amanda Chavez, Carol Romero-Wirth and Renee Villarreal hold a news conference Friday to discuss their resolution to redesign the Soldiers’ Monument on Santa Fe Plaza. BELOW: Demonstrators tear down the obelisk on the monument on Indigenous Peoples Day in 2020.
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City officials propose a clunky change to ease zoning requirements for tribal nations looking to open cannabis shops
BY ANDY LYMAN andy@sfreporter.com
The Santa Fe City Council is set to consider legislation that would create an exception for tribal-owned cannabis companies, easing requirements for how much space must exist between pot shops.
The governing body didn’t arrive at this point on its own.
Mayor Alan Webber’s proposal, rife with byzantine, conditional language, comes after a Picuris Pueblo-owned business encountered long delays with the state’s license approval process. The pueblo’s lawyer says the situation echos a long history of government harassment in the cannabis space.
The proposed amendment would take a grammatical scalpel to a portion of a city ordinance that requires 400 feet between cannabis retail businesses. The particulars are ultra-confusing and oddly specific, so buckle up: If a tribal-owned cannabis company applies for a state license before another, non-Native-owned company, but the tribal company isn’t approved first, the distance requirement would be effectively waived.
The proposal represents the city’s attempt “to be a good neighbor” to Picuris Pueblo, Webber tells SFR, and follows an out-of-state company winning state license approval fast-
er than the time it took for Picuris.
“The pueblo and the governor have been very patient and his tribal leadership has been patient as we try to make something that went wrong for them go right for them,” Webber says.
The pueblo’s lawyer, Richard Hughes, tells SFR Picuris Smokes got verification from the city that the company’s preferred dispensary location—an old bank building on the corner of West Alameda Street and Sandoval Street—fit within the local cannabis zoning requirements, then went to the state for a license. The state’s Cannabis Control Division requires business applicants to show they have local approval before a state license is issued. Most New Mexico cities—Santa Fe included—won’t provide an official business license for dispensaries until the state issues a license, creating a bureaucratic ouroboros.
Picuris Smokes began the application process for a state license in December 2021, then waited for approval. Unbeknownst to the pueblo, officials had not formally submitted the application, so it sat in limbo until they followed up the following May, according to the state. From there, a series of technical issues slowed down the application before it was approved in August 2022.
Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Cannabis applied in February and was quickly approved for a location about 300 feet from Picuris’ bank building.
Bernice Geiger, a spokeswoman for the Regulation and Licensing Department, which oversees the Cannabis Control Division, would not make anyone available for an interview to explain what happened with Picuris’ application. Instead, Geiger answered some of SFR’s questions in an email, writing that
once the tribe inquired about the status of its application in May 2022, the wheels started moving.
The division still needed a “location attestation” and authorization from the state Department of Public Safety, which required Picuris Gov. Craig Quanchello to provide fingerprints, Geiger writes.
By August, the pueblo had addressed the technicalities, and the state issued a license, she adds.
“Our view is the process was initiated on Dec. 23,” 2021, Hughes tells SFR. “Yes, it took months for people to get clear as to how it should be handled, but I believe [the pueblo’s finance director] that he was trying to follow-up diligently to comply with RLD’s requirements and it just took that long to get it all together.”
The Cannabis Regulation Act allows, but does not require, cities to create proximity laws such as the one Santa Fe adopted. Webber acknowledges he was present when the City Council passed Santa Fe’s cannabis rules, but he does not recall the specific reasoning.
Instead, he hypothesizes that zoning officials and city councilors based the idea of spacing out dispensaries on how the city code applies to bars and liquor stores.
Delayed or denied approval would no doubt be a setback at best for many cannabis business hopefuls, but for the Picuris Pueblo the hangup is just the latest in years of attempts at economic prosperity, despite pushback from the feds.
Most recently, Hughes says, a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer confiscated cannabis seeds intended to start a legal grow, spurring the pueblo to try an operation off sovereign land.
“The idea of trying to get a dispensary here in Santa Fe was one that seemed like it had some real promise for generating revenue for the pueblo,” Hughes says. “Of course, it’s always important to remember, this is not money that goes into somebody’s pocket [unlike cannabis companies with CEOs and shareholders]. This is money that is intended to provide funding for governmental services for a pueblo whose members are largely below the poverty line.”
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If Mayor Alan Webber’s proposal is approved, Picuris Pueblo would be granted an exception to open a dispensary downtown, across the street from Rocky Mountain Cannabis.
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With President Joe Biden reportedly gearing up to announce the emergency health order for COVID-19 is kaput come May, the world just kind of feels different now. We don’t think the pandemic is over, but we do think people have learned to operate a little differently, and in no arenas does that seem more apparent than love and sex. Relationships ended during the pandemic, and they flourished—people started to embrace sides of themselves they’d long left dormant.
And so, as we do every year around this time, we turned to the community to see what’s up in the love and sex spheres: Herein, you’ll gain insight into how polyamorous people operate (opposite page), why teens are having less sex now than they used to (page 12) and how the power dynamics of BDSM are actually super-hot (page 13). You’ll meet locals who embraced their solitude, changed their perspectives or met a more meaningful partner (page 14); you’ll learn why sometimes it makes sense to pack it all up, head to the country and learn to live homesteader style—y’know, so long as love’s involved. (Read author bios on page 14.) We’re coming out of the dark winter months and out into the light again, we’re getting ready to laugh and love and live and bone. It’s about damn time.
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vulged his poly propensities. As he explained how being able to love multiple people at once is fundamentally no different than loving multiple family members or friends, Liu says, it hit them how the newfound language summed up exactly what they had been feeling, been searching for. In the past, Liu had experienced guilt over partner-hopping; today, Liu’s husband remains their most ardent cheerleader when it comes to dating other people. Additionally, like Chapman, their husband and partner are great friends— “homies,” Liu says—but do not have a romantic relationship with each other. That’s one stereotype they’d like to see put out to pasture.
Of course, within the world of romantic relationships, poly is relatively new, at least for Americans. According to joint research conducted by Chapman University (no relation to Mim) and the Kinsey Institute in 2021, roughly 4 to 5% of Americans are engaged in some form of polyamory, but both Chapman and Liu believe most people have experimented with non-monogamy in some way.
“You can fumble your way through monogamy,” Chapman explains, “but you cannot even begin to stumble your way through polyamory.”
In their private practice, Chapman says, the key for poly folks, including those still only talking about opening their relationships, boils down to reaching agreements and navigating them. These agreements can be about money, time spent together, time spent with other people; they are always subject to change, Chapman says, but a few include prefixes such as safer sex. They’re
also often on the lookout for “compersion,” a term coined by the poly community to describe the radical joy associated with the romantic and/or sexual fulfillment a partner has with another person. Jealousy, however, can also come up, but Chapman advises regarding those feelings like a reminder to take your temperature and find out what’s at the root of what you’re feeling. Is it abandonment? Needing more time with your partner? Comparing yourself to other partners? Learning to embrace compersion seems to be a helpful antidote for jealousy, according to Chapman, and whether you can reach it might also be a meaningful way to measure if poly is for you.
The road to that discovery is long and personal, though, Liu advises, “Polyamory and polyamorous relationships can look all kinds of different ways and no one is more or less valid than another.”
Take the biggest misconception—that being poly is all about sex.
No one is born thinking they’ll one day grow up to engage in multiple relationships at once, but, says Mim Chapman over tea at Pyramid Café, “What I always wanted was a family of more than two.”
Chapman, a relationship coach and sex educator in Santa Fe who has a PhD in educational leadership, has been polyamorous—that is, at least in its simplest definition of someone who engages in multiple relationships at a time—since before it had a name. Chapman’s first husband sadly died before they could achieve their dream of meeting another couple to form a communal marriage, but these days, Chapman has a primary partner (a husband they met at a poly conference), and a long-term lover out of state, who has a primary partner as well. Both men are co-executors of Chapman’s trust and both share medical and financial power of attorney. They are a family, the educator, counselor and author tells me, and a solid one at that.
Annie Liu, a former Santa Fe resident who now lives in Seattle with their husband, partner and pets, tells a similar story about polyamory.
“I didn’t really realize there was a word for it,” they say, “that it was really a thing that I was allowed to identify as or identify with.”
When Liu met their now-husband in Santa Fe some years ago, he quickly di-
At their upcoming March class titled Ethical, Consensual, Non-Monogamy at the Renesan Institute for Lifelong Learning, for example, Chapman will discuss how “85% of the world’s population live in cultures that accept non-monogamy.”
Why, then, has polyamory become a sticking point for Americans?
Chapman chalks up monogamy’s accepted role as “the standard” to misguided belief in American exceptionalism. Liu agrees.
“To me, it’s almost like polyamory is the norm,” Liu says, “and you can choose to be monogamous within that.”
Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s easy to embrace a poly lifestyle, particularly within a society like ours, where the concept of “the one” is so commonplace in media. According to Chapman, phasing into or even experimenting with polyamory is all about consent, communication and agreements—there are no half measures, at least for those hoping to find success.
“It’s almost like how when homophobic people think that queerness is all about sex, monogamous people think that polyamory is all about sex, when it’s, y’know, about love.” says Liu.
Albuquerque resident Matt Sanchez, for example, says poly people are “not orgy-seeking weirdos.”
“We are normal people having fulfilling real relationships with people other than our partners,” Sanchez tells SFR. “For a lot of us, this isn’t just about sex.”
Chapman agrees, noting how sex is a bonus when it comes to otherwise fulfilling relationships. And it makes sense. One person can’t be all things to another; one person can’t consistently be a shining beacon of love and understanding. On some level, it would be akin to having one friend and turning to them for every emotional need, a ludicrous conceit to say the least. Some people have a lot of love to give—too much for just one person, even.
“Polyamory is the fullest expression of love for yourself and love for another person,” Champan says.
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To me, it’s almost like polyamory is the norm and you can choose to be monogamous within that.
-Annie Liu ,poly enthusiast
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Everything you think you know about poly relationships is probably wrong
The Kids Are Alright
BY GWYNETH DOLAND | @GWYNETHDOLAND
“The quick high-level look is that alcohol use is down, tobacco use is down...substance use across the board [is down],” following a long trend.
Here’s an intriguing data point that bobbed up in the torrent of bad news flowing from my phone: Teenagers are having less sex.
Like, a lot less. WTF?
The number of New Mexico high school students who say they’re sexually active decreased by 38% between 2011 and 2021, according to recent data the state Department of Health previewed in late January. At first glance, this drop is a bit of a mystery for some people, particularly Gen-X parents who were the OG Netflix and chill generation (if by Netflix you mean a Betamax tape of Better off Dead). Did you know 1991 was peak teen sex? That year more than half of 9th-12th graders said they had ever had intercourse and more than a third said they were currently sexually active. But those numbers have been steadily dropping like a geriatric boner; today, less than 20% of New Mexico high schoolers say they’re doing it.
And sex isn’t an anomaly in the results of the Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey, says NMDOH epidemiologist Dan Green.
At the same time, parental supervision is up; 85% of high schoolers said their parents usually know where they are when they’re not home. These are major societal shifts for the latchkey teens of the late ’70s through early ’90s. Vigorously ignored by their working parents, many naughty Gen X teens spent their free time pilfering cigarettes from the cabinet over the fridge, skimming booze from the bottles in the liquor cabinet and bumping uglies in the back of the Taurus.
I mean, I’m just telling you what the statistics say. I can understand how it wouldn’t be surprising if some of you who look back on your early post-drivers-license days with golden-hued fondness might wonder: What is wrong with these kids today? Can they not put their phones down long enough to get busy? Obviously, this is not the perspective of public health officials, who are delighted by the stats.
“This is a real success story!” Green says, echoing the comments of several health experts I interviewed for this story.
If you put the snark on pause for a minute it becomes clear that this is, in fact, good news. Birth control use is up, teen pregnancy is down and “enthusiastic consent” is on the syllabus. Green specifically credits schoolbased health centers for many of the positive
outcomes, saying they’re doing a “phenomenal job” in educating kids about sexual health.
Lizzie Small worked as a sex educator with Planned Parenthood for five years before starting in 2022 as the director of education and outreach at Self Serve in Albuquerque. She says access to comprehensive sex ed often results in young people delaying the first time they have sex.
“That’s not because they’re scared out of it,” she says, “but because they’re given the tools they need to make those decisions themselves.”
Poor Gen X got notoriously bad sex ed, if we got it at all. So many film strip photos of chancres and closeup diagrams of tubes with Latin names. (To my mom’s credit, she did put a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves on an eye-level shelf in the den. So I learned how to perform a menstrual extraction in case I... spent too much time rubbing my copiously flowing body hair against a man’s copiously flowing body hair? The connections weren’t 100% clear.)
“Efforts to scare kids don’t work because as soon as they see those scary risks aren’t going to happen or didn’t happen that one time, they tune out,” Small says.
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Often the best sex ed happens in combined-gender classes where everyone talks about it together, according to Small, who describes those conversations as “building empathy so people have a better understanding of what the other person is going through and what they may want or need.”
Something I managed to extrapolate from the DOH’s data: The teens who are most likely to be having sex, and most likely to be using condoms (to prevent STDs, not just pregnancy) are the ones who have the strongest relationships with their peers. They have friends they can talk to and they’re better equipped to have honest conversations with their partners. Parents are having more honest conversations with kids, too, and the icky stigmas around sex are receding, schools are reaching out in relatable ways and now, thanks to Obama, everyone gets a free IUD! Now it’s on the codgers to keep up the momentum.
“Most of us did not grow up getting this information and say, ‘I wish I learned this differently,’” Small says. “Now with young people, we have the opportunity to make that happen...to keep ensuring that youth have access to quality, comprehensive and inclusive sex ed. It’s a sign that more open conversation has an impact.”
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Hurt (So Good)
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between both of these methods, the masochist in me longs to get my hair pulled (at the crown, not the back of the head, please) and my absolute favorite is contrasting melting wax with ice for delicious waves of burning hot and frigid cold—particularly if bondage is incorporated.
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Ican’t recall the first time I engaged in any form of bondage, but it was likely an unintended moment during sex. Maybe my partner pulled my ponytail or held me down, but whatever scenario sparked my interest in BDSM, it was like getting the key to an inner world wherein I could explore the precarious lines of pain and pleasure and their fantastic gifts. Over the years, the practice has peppered my intimate life and given me room to play and explore the shadow side of my sexual longings in a structured and safer way than any casual en counters might have pro vided. Oh, and it’s just plain hot, too.
An acronym for bondage/ discipline, dominance/submis sion, sadism and masochism, BDSM is a form of sex play (aka kink) in which people use a variety of methods to explore physical and emotional release through inflicting or receiving exchanges of power in, ideally, a structured and controlled environment. There are recognizable hallmarks that have been stereotyped in media (cue 50 Shades of Bullshit), but BDSM is a rich and vibrant practice that encompasses many aspects, including creative positioning, foreplay and non-traditional emotional connections.
Bondage, for example, is used to heighten sexual stimulation by restraining movement in practices like Shibari (literally “to bind”), the Japanese art of intricate and patterned knot-tying used for restricting movement and suspension, with the designated roles of “rigger” (rope tier) and “bunny” (the recipient). Discipline encompasses a set of rules that, when broken,
are met with predetermined “punishments.” It sounds restrictive to be tied up, but I enjoy the freedom afforded me when I don’t have to be in control or even an active participant and can fully have space to receive whatever pleasure or punishment comes my way. One of my goals for 2023, in fact, is to find an outlet to learn Shibari and other specific sects of rope-tying art. You should try it.
With dominance/submission, the dynamic involves a “dominant” partner (dom) whose role is to explore and fulfill the desires of the “submissive” (sub), who, ironically, holds the most power. I enjoy
These are the basic forms, and they certainly co-mingle, but there are myriad philosophies in BDSM communities surrounding how to engage in these practices. The tenet “SSC,” for example, covers three questions: Is it Safe? Sane? Consenting? Risk-Aware Consensual Kink, or RACK, acknowledges the risks of the activity, consent to participate and an understanding of the chosen activity. Lastly, some refer to themselves as a PRICK, where Personal Responsibility and Informed, Consensual Kink puts the onus on each individual to comprehend and consent to what they are about to enjoy.
No matter the acronym, the hallmarks of kink participation are always consent, deliberate communication, clear boundaries, safety and knowing the benefits/
• You enjoy surrendering control—or being in control
• Pain and pleasure are similar for you
Curious, but not sure where to start?
Being tied up in various positions can be a low-stakes exploration of bondage, assuming trust with a partner; costumed role-playing can provide an experience of dominance and submissiveness; light spanking or increased pressure along body parts rich in nerve communication, such as nipples, can allow for a taste of sadomasochism.
For the tepid who aren’t ready for more physical play, I recommend the book Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliot, a philosophic take on how we mentally torture ourselves through our patterns of thinking and feeling, and the ways we can release such subconscious thoughts by recognizing our intellectual kinks and acknowledging we get off through a form of mental BDSM.
both roles, depending on circumstance or mood, which makes me a “switch.” This last form lends well to fantasy play and costuming; gratification is only limited by the imagination. Whether it’s donning a dominatrix corset, or taking it back to my pleated skirts days from Catholic school, I love the theatrical element of suspending who I am and my everyday existence to let my inner child play.
Those who enjoy sadism, meanwhile, take pleasure in inflicting pain, whereas the masochist lives to endure it. This practice can include devices that produce sweet agony, such as whips, clamps, paddles and electric stimulation—or manual methods, such as asphyxiation and spanking. On an emotional level, acts of verbal and physical humiliation can be part of the exploration. Even though I enjoy moving
risks. Communication is the foundation, and without transparency and honesty, it’s difficult to provide the consent so desperately needed for effective and enjoyable BDSM. When trust is violated, when emotional safety is compromised, fulfillment and partnership suffer in turn. Safety is, of course, a priority, and sound practices such as agreeing upon safe words—ideally one for when approaching limits and one when they are reached—allow participants to enjoy themselves without the mental worry of interruption or disappointment. Maintaining clear boundaries is integral to a successful practice; understanding the benefits of the engagement, such as the kind of stimulation and expanded arousal it could provide, are as important as knowing any risks, which can include physical and emotional trauma.
But how do you know if BDSM would be
Some might still wonder why I would desire to feel pain or powerlessness during sex when we are fed a social norm of intercourse as an act of benign romanticism. Although research is still fairly limited when it comes to BDSM, there are indicators that practicing this sexual art lowers stress, enhances communication in relationships and fosters increased trust between partners. Due to the nature of required consent and detailed communication, BDSM provides incredible structure while allowing for a deep vulnerability. By honoring our authentic selves, by grabbing as much bliss as we can in a world and society wherein most of us are non-consensual submissives to begin with, we can dictate a healthier approach to pleasure autonomy, our bodies and those with whom we share these connections.
I manage so much in my career and personal life that sexual surrender can give me room to breathe, whereas dominance helps release frustrations over what I can’t control. BDSM keeps me more aligned with my selfworth and more picky about who I engage sexually—an incredible act of radical selflove in a world that constantly tells us who to be, how to behave or how and whom we should love and fuck.
In the words of John Cougar Mellencamp, “Sink your teeth right through my bones, baby/sometimes love don’t feel like it should/ you make it hurt so good.”
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D id the pandemic change how we date?
Local artist Kit Evans says he feels pretty lucky about how the pandemic shook out. He often works at home, he’s a solitary guy; his life didn’t change much. All things considered, he’s grateful he wasn’t coupled when the shit went down.
“I feel like the pandemic really tried a lot of relationships, and I think in hindsight, it seems those of us who were rocking solo were more content,” he tells SFR. “I feel like I’m the kind of person who might not have made it through a relationship.”
He brings up an interesting point, one we’ve had to consider as a society kind of a lot over the last few years: How many people found themselves untenably trapped in new, flailing or otherwise imperfect relationships in March of 2020? And how many people managed to make that work?
For Evans, it was like the punctuation to a sentence he wrote a long time ago: Being in relationships is hard enough without the impending threat of global demise. As a society, we’d never lived through anything quite like the lockdowns. How the hell were we supposed to navigate that stuff?
“To my mother’s great disappointment, there definitely was not a behavioral change,” Evans continues. “If anything, [the lockdowns] made me realize my solitude is my peace.”
Still, we long for human interaction, and Evans did spark a brief romance with a friend.
“We ended up hanging out here and there, and it was your pretty run-of-the-mill hookup,” he explains. “It was a no-strings thing which turned into spending more time together, probably because of the circumstances—it was like, I feel safe with you, you feel safe with me; but it gets complicated because people are weird.”
Santa Fean Marguerite Scott knows all about that, too. Well into her 60s, she tells SFR she’d resigned herself to a quiet single life when the pandemic had her second-guessing life, the universe, everything.
“I got COVID in March 2020, and I was actively sick for months,” she says. “The isolation was intense, but once I finally got the first round of vaccines, I started to feel my health coming back.”
Newly un-sick and grappling with the concept of mortality, Scott says she might have let her standards relax, just a smidge.
“I wasn’t actively looking for a partner or anything, but the isolation and the loneliness really made me question whether I wanted to live the rest of my life alone,” she says.
Just before the pandemic, Scott had dated a “dude who turned out to be a 100%
About the Authors
Layla Asher is a local sex worker on a mission to spread radical self love to her community and the world. She writes SFR’s Naked Truth sex column.
Gwyneth Doland is a former SFR columnist who now teaches UNM students how to make dumb jokes about important statistics.
card-carrying gun and Trump supporter,” so she was understandably gun shy. Still, when a former almost-flame popped his head up last year, she reacted differently than she might have sans-COVID.
“This guy I’d known when I was 16...we’d never dated, but he posted a picture of me on the beach in some group, and somebody in that group recognized me and pointed it out. So I friended him, we talked on the phone, we quickly bonded over grief,” Scott says. “We talked for months, and...the pandemic taught him that he didn’t want to be alone, either.”
So she went to see him in New Hampshire, and all seemed well right up until the overturning of Roe v. Wade, when Scott’s would-be lover displayed some misguided patriarchal leanings. She describes them as “red flags,” Scott says she chose to continue the relationship, at least for a time. Eventually, her new beau came to Santa Fe to visit, though it became clear that “he had a much more con-
servative attitude about abortion than me,” Scott says.
And so it fizzled out, though the friendship remains.
Of course, there are success stories, too. Take Cecilia Romero, a Santa Fean who met their current partner, Rob, through Tinder, the dating app.
“I think it depends on the person, because there are absolutely people who are on there just to bang it out,” says Romero. “But there are no guarantees. I met someone on [dating app] Hinge, and that’s supposed to be the relationship one, and...I think there’s a vibe. You can tell when somebody just wants to take it to pound town if the profile is sparse or the photos are like, ‘Look at my chest!’”
There was something different about Rob, though, and they’ve been together for six months. Still, before that, Romero says, they took things more slowly, not just because of the pandemic, but because this is Santa Fe, where dating is garbage.
“I was tired of being like, ‘I have to be in a relationship,’” they say. “I was just looking to meet people, but there were times I thought, ‘Do I really want to meet a person in an enclosed space?’”
The third vaccine booster galvanized Romero’s spirits, and a series of outdoor group events gave them the safe space and time to get to know Rob on a more intimate level. Today, things just feel a little better.
“It’s felt half-normal,” Romero notes. “And he’s really great.” So then. Is there a moral to these disparate tales?
“Keep your options open, regardless of the vehicle, the app,” Romero says.
“If it happens, it happens,” Evans says.
“I’m still open,” Scott says. “I know I’m open, but I know that I’m not going to settle.” In other words, just be cool, OK?
Holly Lovejoy is a Santa Fe artivist, wordsmith, intimacy coach, orgastronomist and queer, unapologetic badass in search of her Shibari sado. She dishes about love and relationships on the podcast Shadow of Love, and blogs about the intersection of food and sex at hollylovejoy.com.
Alex De Vore has been culture editor at SFR since 2016. He loves you, probably, or at least doesn’t wish you any harm.
Siena Sofia Bergt edits the SFR online and print calendar and writes for the culture section. A filmmaker and green chile matzo ball soup enthusiast from Agua Fría, Siena moved back after graduating from Columbia University and has been living the acequia life ever since.
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Soil Webs
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ueerness and querencia
Aiko usually starts this story with The Mold: a velvety, dark mass which had almost covered our bathroom ceiling by the time we noticed it last January. My steadfast girlfriend decided to scrub the colony away herself while I was at work—only to discover that our bathroom “skylight” was just a removable plastic panel, opening onto several inches of dripping fungus and then the white Tesuque sky. But I needed more persuading.
The dead possum couple we found floating bloated and entwined in a storage container outside our front door didn’t do it either, despite the grim symbolism. Somehow, neither did the exploding washing machine/toilet disaster, although it claimed several of my most beloved Double Take finds along with any sense of mutual dignity that remained after two years of pandemic cohabitation.
In fact, I wasn’t fully convinced we needed to leave until the afternoon of the summer solstice (by which point the process had already begun). Turning onto our dirt road that day, I saw what looked like a twisted tree stump in the middle of the intersection. I parked and walked back to investigate.
It was a freshly severed ram’s head, perfectly centered and pointed at our house.
I paced obsessive little circles around it. The blood had pooled, not dripped; the thing clearly hadn’t fallen from a farmer’s truck. Besides, how could it have landed so symmetrically by chance? I snapped more than 50 photos, thinking hazily that Aiko might want it as cover art for a goth album someday. An hour later
the head had vanished, leaving only a dark stain on the turnoff. When we theorized about it that night, she was the one to voice our shared fear. We rented the only casita on a row of stuccoed mansions, and seemed to be the only queer couple for miles around. We weren’t out to the neighbors, but they’d likely seen enough to catch on. Maybe it was mold-induced paranoia. But it felt like time to go.
Even if we could have afforded to live within city limits, we needed space to plant things. Aiko studied aquaponics and makes worm tea; my Three Sisters garden is a talisman against an assortment of depression-related diagnostic acronyms. And I’d started to feel homesick for Agua Fria Village. For the annual San Isidro Water Blessing. For the reciprocity of living on—and tending to—the land that raised me.
So when we found an acre and a half we could (just barely) afford in Chimayó, with a small adobe house and water rights to the active acequia twining across its field, I became consumed. I dreamed about that land. Fantasized about the acequia’s curves. Imagined spreading jewel corn seeds over red loam. Sexy, sexy stuff.
And I grew increasingly anxious. The severed head urged us to go—but was this the destination? Neither of us had family in the community. We’d be living next to the biggest pilgrimage site in the country. And places like Chimayó have very good reasons to be wary about the intentions of outsiders. What if this land didn’t want us? The feeling had to be mutual if this was going to work.
So I went looking for Roger Montoya.
Growing up, Roger and his partner, Sal, were my patron saints of rural queer Nuevomexicanismo. Roger had moved back to Velarde after receiving his HIV diagnosis—and now devotes himself to creating artistic opportunities for Española youths and painting the giant sunflowers he and Sal rear in their backyard. They
know mutuality with place. So I drove to meet Roger at the end of an acequia rights meeting, hoping he’d somehow know how to calm me down. He reminded me of the concept of querencia—a word I hadn’t heard since I was a child. A kind of homesickness in reverse, querencia means devotion to the communal land you inhabit. And as Roger reminded me, it is dependent on what you offer: to both place and people. Like mycorrhizae, sharing resources through soil.
A month later, Aiko and I attended the Chimayó Water Blessing. Our soon-tobe-neighbor explained the acequia gates there in the plaza hadn’t been opened in decades. That the village had prepared a communal plot to teach the youngest Chimayosos about traditional irrigation. That it was time to welcome the water back in. We tossed handfuls of dried petals into the prodigal current as it passed, then followed the others downhill to watch the shared plot flood. Aiko and I took turns plowing the field, sweating as we scattered sunflower seeds and black beans.
Then we wound our way back to the plaza. Too shy to talk much before the ceremony, hunger now pushed us towards the crowded food tables. We mutually gravitated towards a Krispy Kreme box. Instead of donuts, we found apricot cobbler inside, tart and perfect from the village trees. Another table held packets of Three Sisters seeds. I took one, along with a pot of Chimayó Red Chile sprouts. Maybe this time next year, the seedlings’ fruits will be stewing with pork and jewel corn on our stove—ready to bring to the Water Blessing. A small offering of querencia
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It’s not like Santa Fe has faced some kind of jazz shortage over the years, but that doesn’t mean the faithful or the curious aren’t always on the lookout for something good. In this instance, that something good comes in the form of vocalists Jasmin Williams and Loveless Johnson
III, who, along with pianist Tom Rheam, drummer Mark Clark and trumpet maestro Rodney Bowe, bring a dash of jazzy class to downtown’s Palace Prime restaurant. “We sing the best of pure, straight-ahead jazz like no other team of singers in New Mexico, let alone Santa Fe,” Johnson tells SFR. “We leave all the love and passion we have for the music on the playing field, and are committed to delivering an impeccable audience experience in every single show and song.” Your ticket comes with a three-course meal, too! (Alex De Vore)
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GET A JOB, HIPPIE!
Getting work over the last few years has been tough—we all know the pandemic story. But as the economy comes out of the sadsies and humankind emerges into whatever we’re now living, local and federal assistance is drying up. Still, the world keeps acting like all that stuff didn’t just happen and, we bet, you’ve got bills to pay. To that end, know that the City of Santa Fe will host a rapid hire event this weekend at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center. Once there, you’ll hear about part-time, seasonal and full-time opportunities for paint, sign and street workers as well as in parks and other outdoor spaces. Plus if you time it right, you could probably go ice skating the same day. We know it’s not easy out there, but maybe this is the start of something new for you?(ADV)
City of Santa Fe Rapid Hire Event: 10 am-noon Saturday, Feb. 11. Free Genoveva Chavez Community Center, (505) 955-4000
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Black Panthers: Varda Forever
Anti-profit cinema space screens French feminist classics for abortion fundraiser
No Name Cinema has a history with experimentation. But its benefit for the Albuquerque-based Mariposa Fund—a group working to improve abortion access for undocumented folks—draws the local collective into unexpected territory. After all, how does a “no profit organization,” a theater without hard ticket fees, put on a fundraiser? In line with the Agnès Varda feature screening at its upcoming event, No Name takes a vagabond approach.
AS IF!
Let us now consider the triumph of director Amy Heckerling’s timeless 1995 cinematic masterpiece Clueless, and how it gifted the world Alicia Silverstone. Now let it be be known the Lensic Performing Arts Center shall play it on Valentine’s Day, for free, no less. Based on Jane Austen’s Emma, the film that also launched Paul Rudd into the hearts and minds of millions tells the tale of Cher (Silverstone), a Southern California rich kid with a heart of gold who gets into the matchmaking game when a new kid shows up at her fancy high school. Conflict and laughs and Donald Faison ensue, and Cher learns a thing or two about love (which includes a big ol’ crush on her former step brother, Rudd). Make sure you reserve your spot ASAP, and maybe we’ll see you around—hope not sporadically. (ADV)
Clueless: 7 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14. Free Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234
“No one is turned away for lack of funds. I’ve never found people on the whole to be rude and stingy,” co-founder Abby Smith notes. “That said, donations alone aren’t enough to cover the cost of renting and heating the space, so we are always on the grant hustle or selling T-shirts.”
That means the double bill of Vagabond and Black Panthers isn’t looking to hit a dollar target—it’s more about highlighting the shared concerns connecting the theater, the Mariposa Fund and Varda’s onscreen subjects.
“There’s very little tolerance for transgressive behavior in our society. A woman managing her own health care is considered transgressive. With this program we’re showcasing a filmmaker and subjects that counter that narrative,” Smith continues. “I think as women, we’re constantly receiving
some form of instruction, whether that’s ‘you can’t have sex with that person,’ or, ‘you can’t get drunk in your van,’ and to see someone completely reject that…is empowering.”
But while Vagabond (which opens Sunset Boulevard-style on the abandoned body of its titular nomad) is disturbingly connected to the real-life dangers the Mariposa Fund addresses, Black Panthers is the true star of the program.
For one thing, it’s ridiculously under-seen: Marvel movies have all but drowned it out in search results. But it’s also a direct call to action for the attendees on Friday night.
“By showing this film I hope our audience can understand themselves not as individuals, but as members of a community—and to take a look at what they are or could be doing to strengthen that community,” Smith concludes.
From where we sit, tossing a few bucks to your local microcinemas and reproductive health care orgs is a pretty good place to start. (Siena Sofia Bergt)
ABORTION FUND BENEFIT SCREENING: VAGABOND + BLACK PANTHERS 7:30 pm, Friday, Feb. 10, $5-$15 suggested No Name Cinema, 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org
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9TH ANNUAL GUADALUPE
GROUP ART SHOW
Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery
222 Delgado St.
(928) 308-0319
Get your Guadalupe fix.
11 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat, free
ANNUAL MEMBERS’ SHOW
Foto Forum Santa Fe
1714 Paseo de Peralta
(505) 470-2582
More than 50 local photogs. Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Fri;
12:30-5 pm, Tues, free
CALL FOR ENTRIES: MINIPRINT!
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Submit hand-pulled prints for Hecho a Mano’s juried show.
All Day, free
CAROLYN WHITMORE
Prism Arts & Other Fine Things
1300 Luisa St., Ste. 3A
(248) 763-9642
Chromatic, dynamic abstracts.
11 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free
CARRIED IMPRESSIONS:
LITHOGRAPHS AND MONOPRINTS
Gerald Peters Contemporary
1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700
Archiving 1960s print works.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
CONFLUENCE: BEN DALLAS AND JONATHAN PARKER
Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681
Angular, abstract 2D pieces.
11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688
Extraordinary abstract pieces made from ordinary materials.
10 am-5:30 pm, Tues-Fri;
10 am-5 pm, Sat, free
FOTO CUBA
Artes de Cuba 1700 A Lena St. (505) 303-3138
Nine contemporary Cuban photographers document life on the island.
10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free
IMMORTAL
Santa Fe Community College
6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000
Honoring seven recently deceased ceramic artists.
8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free
INTERPLAY
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199
Immersive, interactive digital art.
10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, free
INTRODUCING:
GARY GOLDBERG
Hecho Gallery
129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882
Textiles with patterns pulled from photos of aging Oaxacan walls.
10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free
INVENTORY OF REFLECTION:
C ALEX CLARK form & concept
435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256
Holograms embedded into glass explore past and future.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
JOE DUNLOP
Java Joe’s (Siler)
1248 Siler Road (505) 780-5477
Abstract paintings inspired by Richard Diebenkorn.
7 am-1 pm, Mon-Sat, free
MARLA LIPKIN & SALLY HAYDEN
VON CONTA: CHASING THE LIGHT
El Zaguán
545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016
Two former New Yorkers present painted perspectives on NM.
9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free
MICHAEL ROQUE
COLLINS: BLUR
LewAllen Galleries
1613 Paseo de Peralta
(505) 988-3250
Oil paint applied to black-andwhite landscape photographs.
10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;
10 am-5 pm, Sat, free
MOVING IMAGE FILM CO-OP: VINTAGE EPHEMERA 1971-72
No Name Cinema 2013 Piñon st. nonamecinema.org
Posters and programs from Santa Fe’s ‘70s DIY film scene.
During events or by appt., free
NMSA PRESENTS: CONVERGENCES
New Mexico School for the Arts
500 Montezuma Ave., Ste. 200 (505) 310-4194
Students share poems alongside responding visual artworks.
8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free
OUTRIDERS: LEGACY OF THE BLACK COWBOY
Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., Taos (575) 758-9826
Images of drovers and bronc busters with African heritage.
11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free
PEGGY IMMEL & STAR LIANA YORK
Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555
Painting and sculpting the local landscape.
9:30 am-5:30 pm, Mon-Sat; 10 am-5 pm, Sun, free
PRESENT | EVOKE GROUP ARTIST EXHIBITION
Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902
A group exhibition of affordably-sized artworks.
10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free SANTA FE 2023 PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD CALL FOR ENTRIES
Online fotoforumsantafe.com/award
Share your best snaps by March 5 to win a solo show at Foto Forum. $25-$45
SEASONS AND LIGHT OF NEW MEXICO
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Tonalist local landscapes. 10 am-8 pm, Tues-Thurs; 10 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat, free
SHARING THE PROCESS
ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320
Examining the relationship between artist and audience. 10 am-5 pm, free
SPONTANEOUS INSPIRATION
Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915
The aesthetics of decay. 11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free
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STILL BEAUTY
Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta
(505) 577-6708
Shooting the quiet of winter.
11 am-5 pm, free
SWOON: SEVEN CONTEMPLATIONS
CONTAINER
1226 Flagman Way
(505) 995-0012
Large-scale installations addressing the cycles of life.
11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free
THE NEW VANGUARD:
EXPLORATIONS INTO THE NEW CONTEMPORARY IV
Keep Contemporary
142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574
Mixed media artists pushing the boundaries of genre.
11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat; Noon-5 pm, Sun, free
URBAN GODDESS
Alberto Zalma Art Shop
407 S Guadalupe St. (505) 670-5179
Pyara Ingersoll explores nature and the feminine.
11 am-7 pm, Tues-Sat, free
WINTER FESTIVAL PART ONE
LewAllen Galleries
1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250
A group show of abstract painters.
10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;
10 am-5 pm, Sat, free
FOOD
SANTA FE VEGAN CHEF
CHALLENGE
Various locations
veganchefchallenge.org/santafe
Local eateries share special vegan menus to vote on. free
WED/8
BOOKS/LECTURES
HORTICULTURE
HAPPENINGS: BLOOMING
HOUSEPLANTS
Stewart Udall Center
725 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1125
Learn to care for indoor-friendly plant species.
Noon-1 pm, $20-$25
EVENTS
BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES
Santa Fe Public Library
Main Branch
145 Washington Ave.
(505) 955-6780
Tots cumbia their way to better language comprehension.
10-10:30 am, free
BINGO FOR THE FUZZ FOUNDATION
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid
(505) 473-0743
Get your gringo lotería on for a good cause: free veterinary care for Madrid pets.
7 pm, free
HISTORY CHAT
35 Degrees North
60 E San Francisco St. (505) 629-3538
Gather to discuss local history and world geo-politics.
Noon-2 pm, free
OPEN MIC COMEDY
Chile Line Brewery
204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474
Wayward Comedy welcomes you to the stage weekly.
8-10 pm, free
SING ALONG WITH TEACHER B
Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596
Queen Bee Music Association invites kids up to age 5 to jam.
10 am, free
TEEN LOUNGE
La Farge Library
1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292
An after-school oasis with art supplies and more on offer.
1:30-3:30 pm, free
WEE WEDNESDAYS
Santa Fe Children's Museum
1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359
As part of a pirate-themed month, the tots’ topic this week is “working the waves.”
10:30-11:30 am, free
YOUTH CHESS CLUB
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch
145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Check your friends.
5:45-7:45 pm, free
MUSIC
HALF BROKE HORSES
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery
2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
Two-steppin’ and honky tonkin’.
7-10 pm, free
JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES
El Rey Court
1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931
Acoustic storytelling songs.
8-10:30 pm, free
LOVELESS JOHNSON III AND JASMIN WILLIAMS
Palace Prime
142 W Palace Ave. (505) 919-9935
Local jazz legends serenade your meal. (See SFR Picks, page 19)
5:30 pm, 8 pm, $90
OSCAR BUTLER
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St.
(505) 982-2565
Easy listening hits and originals.
4-6 pm, free
WORKSHOP MANIFEST IT!
Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health
909 Early St., (505) 310-7917
Life coach Ryan Glassmoyer introduces techniques to help you manifest more fully.
6:30-8 pm, $11-$44
THE CALENDAR
THU/9
BOOKS/LECTURES
MARLA LIPKIN AND SALLY HAYDEN VON CONTA
El Zaguán
545 Canyon Road, (505) 982-0016
The two painters discuss depicting the local landscape.
3 pm, free
SIGFRIED S. HECKER: HINGE POINTS
Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse
202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226
The former LANL head discusses his book on North Korea's nuclear program.
6 pm, free
THE WAR ON BOTH SIDES
New Mexico History Museum
113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100
Examining the “drug war” from the viewpoints of a Northern NM village and a working-class neighborhood in Mexico City.
7 pm, free
EVENTS
BEDTIME STORIES: LONELY HEARTS
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369
The neo-burlesque revue is back—and this time, the Exodus Ensemble is joining in.
8 pm, $27
OPEN MIC POETRY AND MUSIC
Chile Line Brewery
204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474
Be a modern-day bard.
8 pm, free
PAJAMA STORYTIME
Santa Fe Public Library Southside
6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Cozy family time. This week's theme is "city and country."
6:30-7:30 pm, free
SEEDS AND SPROUTS
Santa Fe Children's Museum
1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359
Kiddos make natural paper and use plants to paint Valentines.
10:30-11:30 am, free
STORY SLAM
Second Street Brewery
(Rufina Taproom)
2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068
Join the Botanical Garden to share five-minute stories on the topic of “roots.”
7-8:30 pm, free
FILM
CINEMA + CONVERSATION: AFERIM!
Center for Contemporary Arts
1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 216-0672
The Romanian neo-Western is followed by an in-depth audience discussion.
6 pm, $15
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with Legislative Finance Committee Analyst Amanda Dick-Peddie
Born in the Wrong Century?
It sounds like fate.
Last month, Amanda Dick-Peddie’s bosses at the Legislative Finance Committee assigned her a deep dive on a bill that looks to adopt “the aroma of green chile roasting in the fall” as the Land of Mañana’s official aroma. Growing up in Alamogordo and later moving to Las Cruces, where bragging about Chimayó chile could land you in fisticuffs, she knows well the distinct, smoky bouquet of blistering pods. Creating fiscal impact reports (FIR), the aptly named documents that can also serve as legislative crib sheets, are part of the 9-to-5 for DickPeddie, who has been an analyst for the committee for four years. But she wasn’t supposed to get this assignment.
“I was accidentally assigned an FIR for SB 188 (declaring the state aroma the smell of roasting green chile)& asked if I could write a ~fun~ analysis on it,” she wrote on Twitter.
And fun, she made it. Dick-Peddie’s Twitter followers already know about her dry wit, but now her clever words and keen eye are documented in perpetuity. She notes in her analysis that the official aroma might pull tourists from Colorado “which, for some reason, thinks it has green chile comparable to that of New Mexico.”
She adds that, if passed, the bill might encourage New Mexicans to answer the state question (Red or Green?) as green, when we all know it’s “red and green or Christmas.”
“Further comment on the definitive answer to the ‘Red or Green?’ question is (unfortunately) beyond the scope of this analysis,” she writes.
Dick-Peddie took some time out of her busy schedule the day after her 28th birthday—and while recovering from COVID-19 at home—to give SFR a peek at what it’s like to be a Roundhouse analyst. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. (Andy Lyman)
You wrote on Twitter that the fiscal impact report for the state aroma bill was accidentally assigned to you, so you asked to make it ‘fun.’ How ‘fun’ can writing an FIR really ever be?
Yeah, it was accidentally assigned to me. Typically, for bills like that, we just don’t do a fiscal impact report. So it was kind of a fluke that I got it. I was really excited about getting it, so I wanted to write it. I would say that, that is about the most fun writing a fiscal impact report can be—writing about green chile. There is something kind of interesting, and I guess fun, about doing research about something that you didn’t know much about before and learning. But sometimes we’re so busy that it doesn’t feel fun to write a fiscal impact report.
You wrote that one of the technical issues with the aroma bill is its specificity—the state aroma would be chile roasting in the fall, leaving out the fragrant and occasional summer roast. What kind of tips do you have for the average engaged citizen to catch seemingly little issues that might actually change the intent of legislation?
My biggest tip would be to read a bill more than once. A lot of times, the first time you read a bill, you’re so focused on getting through the jargony format of a bill. And if you read it more than once, you might pick up those things. In this case, it says chile roasting in the fall. So if something sticks out to you, it might be worth looking into to see if it could maybe cause problems down the line.
Legislative fiscal analysts are often reduced to initials on a page and mostly sequestered away from the public eye at the Roundhouse, likely by design. What should people know about the work you do?
I think people should know that fiscal analysts, and LFC staff in general, we’re year-round staff. We’re some of the only year-round staff that the Legislature has. We’re a resource to all members, not just LFC members. But we’re also a good resource to the public. And we produce a ton of stuff. All year round, we travel the state, and we do these interim committee hearings, and we write tons and tons of reports that are all online. If you have a question about state government, because there’s a lot of things that can be really confusing in state government, our office is usually a pretty good resource. I would also say that maybe it is by design that we’re hidden away from the public, because our offices are in the basement. So it does definitely feel like we’re kind of in the bowels of the Capitol.
FEBRUARY 8-14, 2023 • SFREPORTER.COM 22 Time travel every day as a volunteer at El Rancho de las Golondrinas Living History Museum. Bring your diverse talents and interests to life at this 200+ acre Living History Museum. Whether you’d like to interpret history and demonstrate period skills or assist with special events and office projects, there is a place for you at El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Join the 2023 Volunteer Team! Volunteer training is scheduled for four Saturdays: March 4, 11, 18, & 25. For more information, contact the Director of Education at laura@golondrinas.org
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BEVERLY MCIVER: RETROSPECTIVE (OPENING)
Turner Carroll Gallery
725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800
The vulnerable and empathetic portraitist brings her touring museum show to town.
5-7 pm, free
LET US COUNT THE WAYS
LewAllen Jewelry
105 E Palace Ave. (505) 983-2657
Celebrating love through jewelry.
5-7 pm, free
NOW AND THEN: SUE
LLEWELLYN (OPENING)
Susan Eddings Pérez Galley
717 Canyon Road (505) 477-4ART
YOUNG PROFESSIONAL PHILANTHROPISTS KICK-OFF CHOMP Food Hall
505 Cerrillos Road casafirst.org/ypp
Volunteers ages 22-40 gather to share information about Court Appointed Special Advocates’ work with kids in foster care.
5-7 pm, free
FILM
ABORTION FUND BENEFIT
SCREENING: VAGABOND + BLACK PANTHERS
No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org
An Agnes Varda double feature, with profits benefitting abortion access. (See SFR Picks, page 19)
7:30-10 pm, $5-$15 suggested FRIDAY (SCREENING)
Jean Cocteau Cinema
FRIDAY (SCREENING)
Jean Cocteau Cinema
418 Montezuma Ave.
(505) 466-5528
Ice Cube at his best.
7 pm, 9 pm, $13-$26
MUSIC
BOB MAUS
Cava Lounge, Eldorado Hotel
309 W San Francisco St.
(505) 988-4455
Soulful takes on classic rock.
6-9 pm, free
DAVID GEIST
Osteria D'Assisi
58 S Federal Place
(505) 986-5858
Piano originals, pop hits and American Songbook standards.
7-10 pm, $5
HIGH DESERT TRIO
Altar Spirits
545 Camino de la Familia
(505) 916-8596
Bluegrass, Americana and jazz.
7:30-9:30 pm, free
LOVELESS JOHNSON III AND JASMIN WILLIAMS
Palace Prime
142 W Palace Ave.
(505) 919-9935
Prix fixe dinner and prime jazz.
(See SFR Picks, page 19)
5:30 pm, 8 pm, $90
TERRY DIERS
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St.
(505) 982-2565
R&B, funk and country.
4-6 pm, free
THE MARCH DIVIDE
Mine Shaft Tavern
2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid
(505) 473-0743
Singer-songwriter indie tunes. 7 pm, free
THEATER
THE DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE
The Lab Theater
1213 Parkway Drive
(505) 395-6576
Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross from Family Ties perform the Mark Twain classic.
7:30 pm, $35-$60
The illustrator's final five largescale works go on display.
5-8 pm, free
ON LOCATION: THE PLEIN AIR EXPERIENCE (RECEPTION)
Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403
Cassandra Black captures ephemeral moments in oil.
5-7 pm, free, masks required
RED | A VALENTINE'S DAY EXHIBITION (OPENING)
Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888
Paintings honoring the color red and its connection to love.
5-7 pm, free
RESONANCES (OPENING)
Currents 826
826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953
A multi-media showcase of 13 Southwestern artists experimenting with futuristic techniques.
5-8 pm, free
EVENTS
ALL AGES CHESS
Vista Grande Public Library
14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323
Checkmate that king.
3-5 pm, free
BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES
La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292
It’s not just adults that learn new languages best through music. 10-10:30 am, free
CRASH KARAOKE
Chile Line Brewery
204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474
How many places in Santa Fe let you do anything this late? Go sing your sleepy heart out.
9 pm-1 am, free
FINE ART FRIDAYS
Santa Fe Children's Museum
1050 Old Pecos Trail
(505) 989-8359
Israel Francisco Haros Lopez of Alas de Agua Art Collective shares a creative project. 2-4 pm, free
TROY BROWNE
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Dextrous Americana.
4-6 pm, free
YHETI
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369
Psychedelic EDM.
9 am, $25
THEATER
MATILDA, THE MUSICAL
Duane Smith Auditorium
1300 Diamond Drive, Los Alamos (505) 663-2616
Tim Minchin sets the Roald Dahl classic to music.
7:30 pm, $15-$20
THE DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE
The Lab Theater
418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528
Ice Cube back on the big screen.
7 pm, 9 pm, $13-$26
FOOD
INAUGURAL FOOD MUSEUM
FUNDRAISER LUNCHEON
Cafecito
922 Shoofly St. (505) 310-0089
Snack on guest chef Mark Miller’s creations in support of the MAIZE Food Museum (opening in 2024).
1 pm, $125
MUSIC
BOB MAUS
Cava Lounge, Eldorado Hotel
309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Blues and soul.
6-9 pm, free
DAVID SOLEM
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe
208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544
Samuel Barber and John Cage on organ and piano.
5:30 pm, free
BALKAN BRASS BAND
KORVIN ORKESTAR
Honeymoon Brewery
907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139
Lively Balkan and Turkish brass.
6:30-9:30 pm, free
LUCY BARNA
Mine Shaft Tavern
2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
Folk and Americana originals.
5 pm, free
SANTA FE REVUE'S
VALENTINE'S DAY DANCE
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery
2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
Bring a sweetheart and boogie to Americana and outlaw folk.
7 pm, $10
SILVER SKY BLUES BAND
Mine Shaft Tavern
2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
Believe it or not, it’s blues!
8 pm, free
1213 Parkway Drive (505) 663-2616 Steven and Elyse from Family Ties take on Mark Twain.
7:30 pm, $35-$60
SAT/11
ART OPENINGS
BRENDA BIONDO: PAPER SKIES (OPENING)
Assaf-Plotek Fine Art
102 W San Francisco St., #6 (505) 690-4825
The gallery celebrates its official opening with an exhibit of abstract geometric photos.
5-7 pm, free
GRAND OPENING
Rock + Feather
1235 Siler Road, Unit E (505) 780-5270
The former Canyon Road jewelry gallery opens its Southside digs.
11 am-5 pm, free
WES MILLS: DRAWINGS (OPENING)
5. Gallery
2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417
New works on paper.
5-7 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES
BEVERLY MCIVER: CONVERSATION AND BOOK SIGNING CONTAINER
1226 Flagman Way (505) 995-0012
McIver discusses and signs her retrospective monograph.
1 pm, free
DIAGNOSIS: DEMENTIA
Vista Grande Public Library
14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323
Addressing how to show up for loved ones with dementia.
1-3 pm, free
DANCE
CONTRA DANCE
Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road (505) 690-4165
Bring soft-soled shoes and your vax card and learn to contra.
7 pm, $9-$10
EVENTS
ADULTI-VERSE
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369
See the corporation's latest room updates—no kids allowed.
6 pm, $35
BEACON BASH SOUTHWEST
Ski Santa Fe 1477 NM-475 (505) 982-4429
A combination fundraiser and avalanche safety event, featuring new gear demos and more.
9 am, free
BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Teach little ones new language sounds through song.
10-10:30 am, free
CITY OF SANTA FE RAPID
HIRE EVENT
Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road (505) 955-4000
Multiple city divisions share info about upcoming job openings.
(See SFR Picks, page 19)
10 am-12 pm, free
EL MUSEO MERCADO
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591
Art and antiques. 8 am-4 pm, free
FLORECITA VALENTINE'S
FUNKY FLORAL BLOOM BAR
El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931
Build custom dried bouquets while sipping rosé.
4-6 pm, $65-$120
KILL YOUR DARLINGS: AN ANTI-VALENTINE’S
BURLESQUE AND CABARET
Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333
A dark, sexy alternative to the usual Valentine’s Day offerings.
21+. 8 pm, $15-$20
MEET CORNELIUS
Santa Fe Children's Museum
1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359
The town’s cornsnake king greets his pint-sized subjects.
1-2 pm, free
NATURALLY FROM THE HEART
Santa Fe Botanical Garden
715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103
Make valentines with materials from Mother Nature.
11 am-noon, $5-$12
SCIENCE SATURDAYS
Santa Fe Children's Museum
1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359
A stargazing excursion in the museum’s portable planetarium.
2-4 pm, free
SUSAN ELNORA
Hecho a Mano
830 Canyon Road, (505) 916-1341
Elnora visits for an artist talk and pop-up sale of her "Extra" jewelry collection.
2 pm, free
SWEETART SERENADE Canyon Road
bit.ly/40wSbW5
A trunk show and gallery walk with live painting and snacks.
12-4 pm, free
FOOD
TO BRAZIL WITH LOVE
Dave's Jazz Bistro
Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 North Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511
Brazilian food and Bossa Nova.
6:30 pm, $175
MUSIC
B.A.B.E.S.
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
B.A.B.E.S. brings the local beats. 9 pm, $13
BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531
Bluesy Beatles and beyond. 6-9 pm, free
CHATTER (IN)SITE: FELBERG, FAN, GULLICKSON AND CAMP SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199
Beethoven's Piano Trio in D major and more, followed by spoken word from Lauren Camp. 10:30 am, $5-$16
DISCOVERING THE MUSIC OF POETRY
Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403
A reading and musical exploration of Joan Logghe's poems. 2-3:30 pm, $25
FEMALE GAZE
El Rey Court
1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931
Psychedelic soundscapes. 8-10 pm, free
LOVE ME, LOVE ME... NOT?! Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528
Wash down the Hallmark holiday with drag, darlings. 18+. 9-11 pm, free
MOLLIE O'BRIEN AND RICH MOORE
San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974
Husband-and-wife folk duo. 7:30 pm, $29-$32
RON ROUGEAU Pink Adobe 406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712
Acoustic ‘60s and ‘70s tunes. 5:30-7:30 pm, free ST. RANGE
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
Desert rock. 2 pm, free
STONE RIOT
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
Colorado psychedelic alt. 8 pm, free
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The Doctor is In
BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com
There was a time when getting a table at Midtown eatery Dr. Field Goods was kind of a hassle. The brainchild of chef Josh Gerwin, the restaurant became such a hot commodity with its locally sourced ingredients and diverse menu that its tiny dining room became untenable at times. Those days are over—or, at least, Gerwin has more space now. See, he’s taken over the former Santa Fe Bar & Grill location in the DeVargas Center, and he and his staff have upped their games across the board. Don’t get it wrong, you’ll still likely find a bit of a wait during peak dining times, but the new Dr. Field Goods location is so much larger than the last that it’s easier than ever to sample the goods. On top of that, Gerwin and his crew have done away with the yearround Christmas decorations, held onto certain popular dishes and much of the Bar & Grill staff, plus they’ve fostered a hopping atmosphere where you can hear the music and where servers seem genuinely pumped to help out customers.
I now know this intimately because I’ve dined at Gerwin’s new spot twice in quick succession—once because it’s close to my house and I was curious (read: not with my criticism goggles on), and another time because I loved the first time and I had to get that dang sandwich again. Even with my most critical eye going, I found nothing but
excellence during my more professional visit, and that’s in everything from the servers who now exhibit more life than in the Santa Fe Bar & Grill days to the Aroma coffee brewed so well that my companion and I had a back and forth about how it had been a minute since we’d had such a damn fine cup.
During the first visit, how ever, we were just about eat ing, not evaluating, and it was a pleasure. Gerwin has added dishes of his own, but has also kept the Bar & Grill menu intact, including the Galisteo grilled cheese ($11.95, but more with add-ons such as Dr. Fied Goods-specific bacon and/or avocado), a simple but well-made combination of your choice of cheese, pesto, tomato and mayo on black bread. I know what you’re thinking—that grilled cheese is easy enough to make at home. Maybe so, but not like this, and I bet you’re not going to nail the fries at home, either. Grilled to a satisfying crisp, statements like, “Best I’ve ever had,” came out, and the pesto was, reportedly, an alltime favorite.
During that same visit, I myself had no choice but to sample the Cubano sandwich ($16.95), a combo of pulled pork and house made ham with Swiss cheese and mayo served betwixt a tangy bit of cabbage with oregano and lime. I can’t (or won’t) speak to the 50-point authenticity scale some foodies assign to Cuban sandwiches, but I can tell you that everything, from the two types
of pork to the massive potato roll from the Chocolate Maven, was crafted to my liking. Gerwin himself ran it out to the table, too, and it’s always nice to see a head chef willing to get out of the kitchen and help out their team on the floor.
At nearly $17, one might fear inflation had seeped into the pricing, but given the hulk-
Somehow, the second day, it’s even better. Likely the flavors of the cabbage and lime having a chance to settle a bit? Whatever the reason, popping it in the oven at 350 for about 12 minutes—cabbage and all—works wonders; know that if you try it.
During the second visit which, if I’m honest, was about eating that Cubano again, I brought a different companion to get a different take. And though they wound up only ordering spicy chicken wings ($10.95 for six, $18.95 for the full dozen) like some kind of early-aught frat boy on a mission, the
wings were reportedly beyond delicious and packed a tender texture. We began with the Greek-style calamari (listed as market price on the menu, $12.95 for our visit), which seemed like pretty run-of-the-mill squid to us, even if it did come with a tasty tzatziki. Next visit I might zero in on the toasted coconut shrimp (market price) or the flashfried oysters breaded in part with cornmeal (also market price), but this dish sufficed, even if it was too heavy on the salt. Again, though, I wanted—nay, needed—that Cubano, and it was better the second time. Of course, Dr. Field Goods’ newest iteration is still new as we know it, and it will likely continue to improve over time once Gerwin and company learn how to best address a higher volume. He even kept popular desserts from the Santa Fe Bar & Grill days (cajeta sundae, $7, and mud pie, $8? Glad you’re still here). Which is to say that Gerwin has somehow rolled up the best things about his own eatery and the Bar & Grill. This one’s a winner through and through, and I’m sure there are more surprises in store. Just remember a lot’s in flux right now, and I probably wouldn’t have even reviewed the place yet had it not been for a pair of phenomenal meals.
DR. FIELD GOODS
187 Paseo de Peralta (DeVargas Center), (505) 471-0043
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Small Wonders
New gallery Miniatura has a simple goal: Make original art affordable
original work that is admittedly small, but still powerful.
“A real painting has the blood, sweat, tears and spit of the artist, the little pieces of brush, the textures,” she says. “It’s a living thing, or it is for me. My dad told me one time, ‘No matter if it comes out bad, there’s never been anything like this in the world, and there never will be again.’ I almost cry saying that.”
BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com
In a tiny space within a downtown building that most locals have walked by a thousand times yet likely never entered, artist and gallerist Mary Luttrell is quietly at work in her gallery space, Miniatura (102 E Water St., (505) 203-5321). This is the El Centro building, where Austin, Texas, transplant Lutrell (who, don’t fret, has lived in Santa Fe for decades now) opened her business four months ago, and through which she hopes to demystify the labyrinthian world of buying original art. And while not every piece in Luttrell’s collection is a winner, her average price point of roughly $200 makes getting into the art game—at least insofar as purchasing original pieces goes—a lot more doable than the blue chip gallery system would have you believe. Yes, the pieces you’ll find at Miniatura are small-scale, but that’s kind of the entire point. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: You can buy art, you just need to know where to look.
“My dad was a kind of famous artist named Oleg Stavrowsky,” Luttrell says. “He came here for the art market, and I loved it. The family stayed. There’s really no place like New Mexico.”
Stavrowsky most famously leaned into ro-
mantic cowboy themes, though that’s hardly the breadth of his body of work. Lutrell, too, is more of a painter these days, but she’s got years of graphic design under her belt. She’s a new hand at paint and canvas, having only practiced in earnest for five years, yet a newish series implementing sharks feels promising, and with art history and writing degrees from the University of New Mexico, she’s also well-aligned to know what works, what sells, what doesn’t—and there’s a lot of gut feeling in the mix, too.
“It’s in my DNA as the daughter of an artist, and I’ve been exposed to art my whole life,” she explains. “I’ve worked selling art in some pretty high-end Santa Fe galleries, and what I saw I didn’t like: Young people fall in love with art but can’t afford to become collectors, and most of the people who can afford the art are the pretty well-off older people. Art should be for everybody.”
But what of prints, limited editions, giclee and high-quality photo printers and so on? Surely framing up a nice print is a fine enough start. Luttrell thinks so, and says these are all perfectly valid ways to enter the art game. Hell, starting with prints is how most people get into art ownership at this
point. But even limited runs aren’t original pieces, even small batches don’t come with the same feeling of picking up that first original piece, obsessing over where it will live in your own space, knowing the artist actually interfaced with the work. That right there is the core Miniatura ethos—accessibly priced
Here’s how it works: Luttrell scans Instagram and other photo sharing apps for pieces she likes. She then contacts the artists about showing their work. In most cases, she says, they’re happy to oblige, and this is how pieces by Catie Powe, Tom Voyce, Abbey Roemer, Thomas Fluharty and so many others make their way to Santa Fe. Luttrell also has relationships with artists she shows, and she’s open to just about anyone sending portfolio links her way. She also shows works by Ukranian artists Alex Movchun and Neyha Sofat—no small feat given the ongoing war with Russia and the challenges in shipping overseas, even in times of peace. Also in the mix are small one-off bronze sculptural pieces, wearable items like jewelry and, on some days, Lutrell herself at the easel, working on her own pieces. You’ll find nature scenes in acrylic and complicated pen and ink landscapes; you’ll see representational snapshots of Santa Fe streets, caricature versions of the classics and even a few abstracts, too, though Luttrell says they haven’t sold as well as some other items.
“This would be the kind of gallery I’d want to find,” she says. “But I do have the challenge of having to sell a lot to make it.”
Of course, the city’s refusal to allow her to display sandwich board signs outside the El Centro doesn’t make it any easier, but that’s a whole other ball of wax. Is it disappointing to see mostly white artists hanging on the walls and occupying the Miniatura website? At this point in human history, it rather is. Giving Luttrell the benefit of the doubt, however, it’s important to know Miniatura is still new and still an experiment. The collection will surely grow over time if given the chance, and Luttrell’s heart is absolutely in the right place. All you have to do is pick up some affordable art for yourself—Miniatura even offers an installment plan.
“I’ve had many jobs that earned me much better money, but I was miserable and it wasn’t worth it to me,” Luttrell says. “I’m hoping to be successful in this, because if I make enough here, I’m still going to be here and I want to give everybody a chance. A lot of people open galleries to make more money, but being around good art and talking to people about art, teaching people about art, how it can be a part of their lives...that’s what’s important.”
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Young people fall in love with art but can’t afford to become collectors, and most of the people who can afford the art are the pretty well-off older people.
-Mary Luttrell, Miniatura owner
Mary Luttrell of Miniatura wants you to be able to buy original works of art.
Knock at the Cabin Review
Not with a bang but a whimper
BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com
Oh, M. Night Shyamalan, you’ve done it again! You’ve taken a mega-intriguing premise and let it fizzle out with an ending that can’t possibly live up to the elements you put in place along the way. You did it with Old when the payoff was that one beach just plain made people old somehow; you did with it with Mr. Glass when Bruce Willis’ nouveau-superhero just kind of died; and now you’ve done it with Knock at the Cabin, wherein the ending just kind of rolls up on the viewer leaving us to be like, “Huh...”
Based on the Paul G. Tremblay novel, The Cabin at the End of the World, Shyamalan’s newest finds a couple of dads (Spring Awakening/Hamilton originator Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge, Pennyworth) on vacation in some Pennsylvania cabin, where they become the victims of a quartet of home invaders led by hulking teacher/b-ball coach Leonard (Dave Bautista, Guardians of the Galaxy). With the dads is their 7-yearold adopted daughter, Wen (Kristen Cui), which kind of makes things more tense, even if her presence feels like a plot device rather than a meaningful addition; Leonard leads a forgettable cadre of over-actors, save Harry Potter alum Rupert Grint, who at least tries to summon some intensity.
+ NIGHY’S WONDERFUL; EXCELLENTLY SHOT
- TEDIOUS; DOESN’T TRUST ITS AUDIENCE
Though Bill Nighy’s performance in Shaun of the Dead should be considered one of the finest pieces of acting in film history, the man is dominating Oscars conversations for his performance in Living, the new ultra-British drama from director Oliver Hermanus and writer Kazuo Ishiguro. The piece is adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru—itself a sort of adaptation of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich—wherein a man with little time left to live decides he’s gonna do some good while he still can.
Oh, it’s not that Nighy isn’t excellent in the film. As a stuffed-shirt über-fop working for London’s public works department in the 1950s, he’s perfectly flat and emotionless. All around him, vestiges of Britannia’s mind-your-manners faux politeness reign. “A bit like church,” says one character, as painfully correct as it is weird and pointless. As a dying guy who realizes propagating red tape kind of sucks, Nighy’s Mr. Williams is...well, he’s still pretty staid. Still, though, the message about trying to do good is pretty nice as messages go, and Living certainly cuts a pretty picture thanks to cinematographer Jamie Ramsay.
Here we find a repressed and aging British gent grappling with a terminal cancer diagnosis. None of his co-workers (über-serious Brits, all) know of his troubles, but they do seem irked when he stops showing up for work for just two days. See, he’s
Seems Leonard and his gang have been experiencing convincing visions about the end of the world, and those visions have led them to this very cabin where they’ll need to ask the unwitting inhabitants to make the worst decision ever. If their captives don’t do the unthinkable, Leonard and the gang believe, it’ll usher in the end of the world, courtesy of God himself. Creepy stuff happens as our leads teeter between disbelief and belief, and we’re meant to question how we’d behave if we, too, became participants in the worst camping trip ever.
As with most of his work, Shyamalan’s cinematography is stunning and inventive. Still, he once again establishes narrative threads that just kind of go nowhere. While Groff and Aldridge do their best with clunky dialogue and fleeting flashback vignettes— not to mention the vaguest hint of ill-considered “queer-bashing is wrong!” rhetoric. Yes, it is, but once
pulled out half his savings and set off for the coast, where, under the tutelage of some kind of poet or something (Jamie Wilkes, whom we know is artsy because he monologues briefly about how Paris is cool) he drinks a bunch, buys a new hat and falls in love with the art of the arcade claw machine. Oh, he returns to work shortly thereafter, only between his oceanside exploits and a growing platonic relationship with former employee Margaret (Aimee Lou Wood, Sex Education), he decides he’ll help some poverty-stricken mothers build a middling playground in, like, Whitechapel, probably.
The rest is either told through flashbacks that prove how dedicated Mr. Williams was in the end or painfully polite exchanges between his son, his underlings, his boss, the intriguing young Margaret and so on. Living is a little bit about happiness, a little bit about living and a whole lot slow. It would be so tempting to cite Nighy’s stirring rendition of a man literally re-discovering his voice as enough, but this is otherwise a run-of-the-mill drama that seemingly confuses swelling, dramatic music and tearful funerals as fine filmmaking. In fact, had any other actor undertaken the role of Mr. Williams, it might be a different conversation altogether. As it stands, the best you can say is that Nighy’s always good, so we can forgive the kind of slow pacing that kills cinema newcomers’ interests before they can blossom. Still, as Mr. Williams says in the film, if even the things without longevity can help someone, that’s enough— maybe Living will convince someone to live or be nice to people or something. (ADV)
Center for Contemporary Arts, PG-13, 102 min.
again we’re trapped in a trauma loop and it feels more manipulative than vital to the story. Bautista, meanwhile, proves he’s come into his own as a performer. The dichotomy of Leonard’s imposing presence and soft-spoken portends of terror is as unsettling as it gets, but anytime he’s not on screen one longs for his return.
And then it ends, not with a bang but a whimper. Those who’ve seen movies before will no doubt predict what’s coming, even through some intensely enjoyable plot beats. If the moral is that belief and faith are something-something, then cool. It’s just the whole getting there part that feels tedious.
KNOCK AT THE CABIN
Directed by Shyamalan
With Bautista, Groff, Aldridge and Cui Violet Crown, Regal, R, 100 min.
WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD
Celebrated fast-talking actor Jesse Eisenberg enters a new career era with When You Finish Saving the World, an adaptation of his 2020 audio drama for Audible wherein disparate generational perspectives inform challenges across a wide spectrum of life’s hurdles.
Eisenberg penned and directed the film version of his story, trading out his own vocal performance from the Audible release—and that of Booksmart actress Kaitlyn Dever—for a more grounded take on the mother/son quagmire. Julianne Moore plays the humorless mother Evelyn; Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard tackles son Ziggy, a powder keg of growing pains, online validation and run-of-the-mill teen bullshit.
In World, Wolfhard’s Ziggy finds support and acknowledgement when livestreaming folk-rock songs to a listener base of 20,000—a number he casually drops into conversation far too often. Aurally, the songs sound like old Beck—super-early, One Foot in the Grave Beck. Lyrically, they’re a painfully spot-on glimpse at teenage emotions that strike a believable balance between silly little nothings and moments of genuine insight and talent.
Ziggy’s parents just don’t understand, though, and while his explosive reactions to his mother
and father (Jay O. Sanders) seem over the top, Eisenberg’s script shows deft understanding of just how hard we feel when we’re young.
Moore’s Evelyn is the founder of an abused women’s shelter, and though she freely shows support for her patients, she struggles to connect with her own son. Here, World is at its best with a character steeped in relatable flaws who thinks she’s helping but kind of just goes on hurting. Moore expertly phases from work mom to home mom, and we might hate her for the glib manner in which she questions Ziggy’s motivations if we didn’t remember how tired we can be at the end of the day—or just how tough teens can be. Wolfhard mostly keeps up with her, too, and proves to be a capable performer. It is doubtful, however, this will be remembered as his best work.
When Evelyn forms a bond with a new patient’s son, things get tricky. Seeing in him the things she most wants in a son, her misguided jabs at a motherhood redo become ever more frantic. Ziggy, meanwhile, tries to infiltrate a friend group of woke-lite kids at his school, all the while misunderstanding why his passions don’t carry weight similar to his classmate’s pseudo-politicking. Ultimately, though, his earnestness saves him. Moore’s Evelyn comes to understand this, just as Ziggy comes to understand how his mother’s efforts, though not flashy, are wildly impressive. Gee, it’s almost like everyone has their own story or something.
(ADV)
Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, R, 88 min.
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57 1977 four-wheel drive coupÈ that sorta resembled a pickup
59 Type of skateboarding that includes inclines
60 Birthplace of the violin
61 Egg, in Paris
62 “Game of Thrones” heroine Stark
63 Foam football brand
64 Knit material DOWN
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2 Bruise symptom
3 Cafe au ___
4 Ice cream flavor that’s usually green or white
5 Blood relation, slangily
6 “Peter Pan” critter
7 African capital on the Gulf of Guinea
8 Become... something
9 Beginning of a JFK quote
10 Former Sleater-Kinney drummer who also worked with Stephen Malkmus and the Shins
11 “Voulez-vous coucher ___ moi?”
12 Smell real bad
14 Espresso foam
17 Bring delight to
21 “The Caine Mutiny” author Herman
23 Arouse, as one’s interest
25 Italian model who graced many a romance novel cover
26 “___ my case!”
27 Superstar who holds records for most three-pointers in a career, season, and NBA finals
28 Pyramid-shaped Vegas hotel
30 Belly button type
31 Students’ challenges
34 New York college and Scottish isle, for two
37 Brings en masse to an event, maybe
38 Pillsbury mascot (whose name is Poppin’ Fresh)
40 Roller coaster feature
41 Stop-motion kids’ show set in Antarctica
43 Literary misprints
45 Daily record
47 Pan-fry
49 Broad bean
50 “Remote Control” host Ken
51 Ski resort transport
53 Rectangle calculation
54 Dino’s end?
55 Initialism from “Winnie the Pooh” specials that predated text messages
58 TV alien who lived with the Tanners
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): During my quest for advice that might be helpful to your love life, I plucked these words of wisdom from author Sam Kean: “Books about relationship talk about how to ‘get’ the love you need, how to ‘keep’ love, and so on. But the right question to ask is, ‘How do I become a more loving human being?’” In other words, Aries, here’s a prime way to enhance your love life: Be less focused on what others can give you and more focused on what you can give to others. Amazingly, that’s likely to bring you all the love you want.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have the potential to become even more skilled at the arts of kissing and cuddling and boinking than you already are. How? Here are some possibilities. 1. Explore fun experiments that will transcend your reliable old approaches to kissing and cuddling and boinking. 2. Read books to open your mind. I like Margot Anand’s The New Art of Sexual Ecstasy. 3. Ask your partner(s) to teach you everything about what turns them on. 4. Invite your subconscious mind to give you dreams at night that involve kissing and cuddling and boinking. 5. Ask your lover(s) to laugh and play and joke as you kiss and cuddle and boink.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are an Italian wolf searching for food in the Apennine Mountains. You’re a red-crowned crane nesting in a wetland in the Eastern Hokkaido region of Japan. You’re an olive tree thriving in a salt marsh in southern France, and you’re a painted turtle basking in a pool of sunlight on a beach adjoining Lake Michigan. And much, much more. What I’m trying to tell you, Gemini, is that your capacity to empathize is extra strong right now. Your smart heart should be so curious and open that you will naturally feel an instinctual bond with many life forms, including a wide array of interesting humans. If you’re brave, you will allow your mind to expand to experience telepathic powers. You will have an unprecedented knack for connecting with simpatico souls.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): My Cancerian friend Juma says, “We have two choices at all times: creation or destruction. Love creates and everything else destroys.” Do you agree? She’s not just talking about romantic love, but rather love in all forms, from the urge to help a friend, to the longing to seek justice for the dispossessed, to the compassion we feel for our descendants. During the next three weeks, your assignment is to explore every nuance of love as you experiment with the following hypothesis: To create the most interesting and creative life for yourself, put love at the heart of everything you do.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope you get ample chances to enjoy deep soul kisses in the coming weeks. Not just perfunctory lip-to-lip smooches and pecks on the cheeks, but full-on intimate sensual exchanges. Why do I recommend this? How could the planetary positions be interpreted to encourage a specific expression of romantic feeling? I’ll tell you, Leo: The heavenly omens suggest you will benefit from exploring the frontiers of wild affection. You need the extra sweet, intensely personal communion that comes best from the uninhibited mouth-to-mouth form of tender sharing. Here’s what Leo poet Diane di Prima said: “There are as many kinds of kisses as there are people on earth, as there are permutations and combinations of those people. No two people kiss alike—no two people fuck alike—but somehow the kiss is more personal, more individualized than the fuck.”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Borrowing the words of poet Oriah from her book The Dance: Moving to the Deep Rhythms of Your Life, I’ve prepared a love note for you to use as your own this Valentine season. Feel free to give these words to the person whose destiny needs to be woven more closely together with yours. Oriah writes, “Don’t tell me how wonderful things will be someday. Show me you can risk being at peace with the way things are right now. Show me how you follow your deepest
desires, spiraling down into the ache within the ache. Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance, the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart.”
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran author Walter Lippman wrote, “The emotion of love is not self-sustaining; it endures only when lovers love many things together, and not merely each other.” That’s great advice for you during the coming months. I suggest that you and your allies— not just your romantic partners, but also your close companions—come up with collaborative projects that inspire you to love many things together. Have fun exploring and researching subjects that excite and awaken and enrich both of you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio writer Paul Valéry wrote, “It would be impossible to love anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.” My challenge to you, Scorpio, is to test this hypothesis. Do what you can to gain more in-depth knowledge of the people and animals and things you love. Uncover at least some of what’s hidden. All the while, monitor yourself to determine how your research affects your affection and care. Contrary to what Valéry said, I’m guessing this will enhance and exalt your love.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In his book Unapologetically You, motivational speaker Steve Maraboli writes, “I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” That’s always good advice, but I believe it should be your inspirational axiom in the coming weeks. More than ever, you now have the potential to forever transform your approach to relationships. You can shift away from wanting your allies to be different from what they are and make a strong push to love them just as they are.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I analyzed the astrological omens. Then I scoured the internet, browsed through 22 books of love poetry, and summoned memories of my best experiences of intimacy. These exhaustive efforts inspired me to find the words of wisdom that are most important for you to hear right now. They are from poet Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell): “For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): To get the most out of upcoming opportunities for intimacy, intensify your attunement to and reverence for your emotions. Why? As quick and clever as your mind can be, sometimes it neglects to thoroughly check in with your heart. And I want your heart to be wildly available when you get ripe chances to open up and deepen your alliances. Study these words from psychologist Carl Jung: “We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “In love there are no vacations. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.” Author and filmmaker Marguerite Duras made that observation, and now I convey it to you—just in time for a phase of your astrological cycle when boredom and apathy could and should evolve into renewed interest and revitalized passion. But there is a caveat: If you want the interest and passion to rise and surge, you will have to face the boredom and apathy; you must accept them as genuine aspects of your relationship; you will have to cultivate an amused tolerance of them. Only then will they burst in full glory into renewed interest and revitalized passion.
Homework: Name one thing you could do to express your love more practically. Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com
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