Santa Fe Reporter, July 19, 2023

Where the Sky Meets the Land

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture’s Horizons mashes up contemporary and customary photos, designs and textiles at the intersection of past and present

By Alex De Vore, P.12

OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

TRUSTING THE TRUST FUND 8

A look into the history, usage and impact of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund over the years

COVERT CONVERSATIONS 10 County Commission’s tendency for secret deliberations raises questions

COVER STORY 12

WHERE THE SKY MEETS THE LAND

The new Horizons exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture interweaves earth, sky and Diné textile traditions—all while rewriting the curatorial game

CULTURE

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Gather ‘round for Joe Hayes’ storytime, help the O’Keeffe Museum clean up Wikipedia, get dusty with desert rock and reggae it up with Rockers

THE CALENDAR 20

3 QUESTIONS 22

With artist Dennis Larkins

FOOD 31

CAPITOL IDEA

Santa Fe Capitol Grill was there for us in our darkest (and most star-spangled) hour

OPERA 33

SHADOWS AND LIGHT

Director Netia Jones takes SFO back into the mystic with Pelléas et Mélisande

MOVIES 35

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING

PART I REVIEW

The real impossible mission is withstanding that three-hour runtime

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COVER, JULY 12: “SANTA FE MURAL TOUR”

A PUBLIC (ART) SERVICE

Profound thanks for your brilliant compilation of public murals in our city! You have produced an invaluable guide, inventory and public record.

Not I but other art history researchers are on a quest to locate and document existing, long-removed or destroyed public art in this most complex of American cities and its many peoples.

The archival material is diversely rich, though spotty, and many published historical reviews of these records are unmistakably corrupted by colonialism and racism. But not your survey.

SFR remains a critical resource and treasure for all your readers across many matters of import, whether ostensibly frivolous or otherwise.

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NEWS, JULY 12: “MANSION TAX IN FOR FIGHT”

TAXONOMY OF GAINS

The median price of a home is already closing in on $900,000, so an excise tax [on sales over $1 million] would target almost half the market this year and by the next few years more than half the market.

In addition, someone like me who bought before the market rose would be far more able to pay the excise tax than someone who bought a house for over $1 million and then resold it for close to their purchase.

[It’s a] good deal for long-time owners like my wife and me, but would it be fairer to focus a tax on realized gains from a sale, so maybe “anyone earning more than $500,000 in realized gains on a sale must pay a tax of 3% on the amount of gains?”

DOUGLAS GARFINKEL SANTA FE

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SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER

“I’d really like to live in the middle of nowhere, but with good cell service.”

—Overheard on a hiking trail

BARBIE AND OPPENHEIMER TO RELEASE ON SAME DAY

Opposite ends of the spectrum, but we’re pretty sure they are both about the downfall of civilization.

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD JOINS WGA ON STRIKE

Wild that people want to get paid for their work, huh?

OK, IT’S A FREAKING HEATWAVE NOW

You know it’s getting bad when you long for the cold kiss of a Santa Fe February.

NEW MEOW WOLF TEXAS LOCATION OPENS

Which will probably mean fewer Texans coming to Santa Fe to act like they’ve never turned a car or crossed a street before.

STATE COULD UP HUNTING LIMIT FOR BEARS, COUGARS AS REPORTS OF ANIMAL NUMBERS RISE

We’re more concerned with how bears look like that but won’t cuddle.

DOZENS SHOW UP TO CITY COUNCIL IN SUPPORT OF SO-CALLED MANSION TAX

Call us old-fashioned, but we don’t think the non-millionaires of Santa Fe should be forced out in favor of a bunch of Las Campanas-building, country club tea-sipping, watering-the-lawn-when-youaren’t-even-in-the-state-full-time rich folks.

Look how small it looks from up here!

SECOND VIRGIN GALACTIC COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT SET FOR AUGUST

Has anyone asked space tourists about the mansion tax?

SOUTHSIDE SEAT

Pilar Faulkner announced she’ll seek City Council District 3 seat. Read more at sfreporter.com/elections

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Trusting the Trust Fund

an earlier program with the trust fund in 2007.

Director of the Office of Affordable Housing Alexandra Ladd says over the years the program has supported renters, the unhoused, and those seeking homeownership at affordable rates.

“What gives me joy is to feel like we are changing lives and helping people and creating a difference for the long haul,” she tells SFR.

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority established a set of rules under the law to ensure proper use of funding. Every city that wants MFA help must create an affordable housing plan and fund. This plan must include a community and housing profile, a housing needs assessment and a land use policy review, among other elements.

BY EVAN CHANDLER evan@sfreporter.com

Advocates estimate a proposal to tax high-end homes in Santa Fe would put about $4.5 million per year into the city coffers, specifically the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

If backers want to convince voters to approve the tax, they’ll need to make sure people understand what they’re voting for. SFR talked with insiders about the history of the city’s fund and its impact on the community.

The roots of the fund date back to 2004, when New Mexico passed the Affordable Housing Act. The law added an affordable housing exemption to the state’s anti-donation clause, which prohibits public resources from being used for private benefit. Enabled by state law, the city replaced

Dollars from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund can only be used for the purpose of affordable housing, meaning they cannot contribute to salaries. This funding can then be amplified through leveraging the local funds to compete for and access federal funding. For example, through city-donated land and $400,000 (with half originating from the trust fund,) New Mexico Inter-Faith Housing was able to secure a $10.5 million allocation of tax credits for its Siler Yard project, according to Executive Director Daniel Werwath.

In fact, according to fund expenditure information provided to SFR by the Office of Affordable Housing, a balance of a little over $6 million sits in the fund as of now ($3.6 million for new projects, $2.5 million from prior year contracts,) but it wasn’t always this way. While the fund

awarded over $5 million for programs in 2023, the fund only awarded $1.2 million as recently as 2021, pointing to a fluctuation in available funds that Councilor Jamie Cassutt told SFR the tax proposal she’s co-sponsoring would help solve.

Down payment assistance programs administered by local nonprofits have been one of the primary uses of the fund since the start. In the last three fiscal years, the city awarded more than $1 million for this purpose. The Santa Fe Suites and the Lamplighter Inn Hotel conversion projects, with a combined contribution of $1.71 million, serve as two examples the fund helped support.

The Santa Fe Community Housing Trust credits its success to the trust fund. Its Arroyo Oeste project, under construction in Tierra Contenta north of Swan Park, aims to provide 40% of its 20 homes to clients who qualify under the affordable housing requirements. After an 18-month pause to the plan due to the cost of materials, the organization hopes to break ground on the first houses in the next two to three weeks.

“We went back to the city and fortunately we were able to use the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to help fill that gap between the subsidized sales price and the cost of producing the home, and that made it a reality,” Executive Director Roman Abeyta says.

Likewise, Homewise’s Desert Sage project located off I-25 and Richards Avenue is using trust fund cash to help with 32 affordable homes, as is its nineunit Los Canales project located off West Alameda Street. Chief Executive Officer

Michael Loftin says the fund makes it possible to bring projects to parts of town where there’s “no such thing as affordable housing.”

“The only reason we can do all this is because of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund because what we paid for the property we couldn’t make it affordable without that,” Loftin says.

Chief External Affairs Officer of Homewise Johanna Gilligan echoed similar sentiments on the fund and endorsed the ordinance making its way through City Council, saying some version of this tax exists in 33 states across the country.

In Aspen, Colorado, for example, buyers pay a 1.5% real estate transfer tax with most of the money going toward funding affordable housing.

Under the ordinance making its way through the City Council process, voters would decide during the Nov. 7 election whether to impose a 3% excise tax on the portion of a home sale that exceeds $1 million, which would be used to support the trust fund.

The Santa Fe Association of Realtors already oppose the tax, arguing the city has not been transparent with spending. Abeyta described the worries of the realtor’s association as “misinformed.”

“I’ll invite the realtors to the groundbreaking [for Arroyo Oeste] we have in a couple weeks so they can see that this is for real and it does actually put people in homes, and we couldn’t do it without it,” he says, endorsing the proposal.

While Ladd acknowledges the city hasn’t always been great at communication, she explains the annual process requires extensive review from the Community Development Commission and approval from the governing body. As part of the process, applicants must have a financial accounting system and must produce a database narrative demonstrating need within the community. Developers must have the financial ability and organizational capacity to complete the proposed project.

“The application process is public, the presentation of the applications is public, the approval of all the contracts is public… we have been public,” Ladd says. “This is not a backroom situation where me and my minions are doling out money behind the scenes.”

The bill seeking to put the question to voters is set for two committee hearings this month before a potential City Council vote Aug. 9. The last day for the city to submit ballot language for the Nov. 7 election is Aug. 29, according to County Clerk Katharine E. Clark.

A builder heads to grab tools to continue work in Homewise’s Desert Sage residential subdivision.

A look into the history, usage and impact of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund over the years

Covert Conversations

County Commission’s tendency for secret deliberations raises questions

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

Like most public bodies across the state, the Santa Fe Board of County Commissioners’ meeting agenda regularly include executive sessions when members can talk privately. But the panel’s common practice of calling closed sessions on the fly has prompted residents and a state transparency advocacy group to question its legality.

The New Mexico Open Meetings Act generally requires the public’s business take place in plain sight. The law prescribes when public bodies must publish notice and agendas, for example. It also establishes specific reasons for closeddoor meetings.

One instance of such a closed meeting took place May 1, when commissioners were wrestling with the contentious decision of whether county residents had the right to halt a city annexation of county land. At least two people testified they would sue the county over the outcome. Commissioners, citing the OMA exception to discuss “pending or threatened litigation,” retreated to meet in private.

More recently, during a July 11 hearing on whether a San Marcos resident could start a small commercial cannabis farm, commissioners paused a discussion to again go behind closed doors, citing an exemption that allows for private deliberation as part of a quasi judicial proceeding.

SFR filed a formal complaint May 10 with the New Mexico Attorney General’s office regarding the May 1 meeting, which

questioned whether the meeting’s agenda appropriately reflected the closed session and argued the commission’s long, secret deliberation seems likely to have included matters outside the scope of what’s allowed under the state law.

The AG’s office wrote in a May 17 letter that it had assigned the matter to an attorney. While SFR has yet to receive a formal response, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Dworak, who oversees the Civil Affairs Division, says in an interview that it’s legal for public bodies to discuss issues away from public scrutiny as long as they cite a specific Open Meetings Act exception and specify which agenda items they plan to discuss. But he says bodies don’t have to notify the public ahead of time.

“There is not an explicit requirement in the Open Meetings Act that says a public body must put on their agenda a closed

session or executive session or anything like that,” Dworak tells SFR.

New Mexico Foundation for Open Government Executive Director Melanie Majors, who tells SFR she’s received “several” recent complaints about the county commission and who also wrote a letter to the AG about the May 1 meeting, disagrees. She says public bodies have to first notify the public in advance of any closed-door meetings.

“They can’t just go into a closed meeting and do things just willy nilly,” she says. “All the items that they discuss have to be on an agenda.”

Dworak concedes even though last-minute closed sessions are legal, the spirit of the law is to make things as transparent as possible.

“It is certainly best practice if the public body anticipates going into closed session,

to list it, because I think it reduces anxiety with the public, because if they do that some of the public thinks they’re hiding the ball,” he says.

That’s exactly what Doug Speer thinks. Speer led a coalition of San Marcos residents who asked the commission to revoke a conditional use permit for the cannabis grow, testifying during the July 11 meeting that one of the neighbors’ concerns was potential damage to a shared private dirt road.

It became clear during the following public deliberations that the commissioners did not agree with one another. After some heated exchanges, commissioners voted 3-2 to continue the debate in private. When they came back from their closed session, the commission unanimously voted to postpone a decision and task the residents of San Marcos with completing a road maintenance agreement.

Speer tells SFR he thinks the real reason commissioners took their deliberations behind closed doors was to whip votes.

“It was simply to get out of our view, so that they could leverage a conversation and hope to change minds so that they could get that compromise that they came back with,” Speer says. “It’s just a neat way of them not having to make any commitments.”

Commissioner Hank Hughes, who voted against the closed meeting along with Commissioner Camille Bustamante, says he won’t disclose specifics of the discussion, but notes he still doesn’t agree that it needed to be secret.

“In that particular instance,” Hughes says. “There wasn’t a lot to be gained by discussing it behind closed doors.”

Clockwise from top left: Commission Chair Anna Hansen, Commissioner Camilla Bustamante, Commissioner Anna Hamilton, Commissioner Hank Hughes, Commissioner Justin Greene.

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Where the Sky Meets the Land

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Think of home not being bound or limited by border, state line, county line, on- or off-reservation,” says artist, curator and educator Rapheal Begay. “Home is beneath your feet, where you’re between Mother Earth and Father Sky. Horizon…as a curatorial approach is a pretty sound concept, especially when celebrating Diné creativity and resiliency as forms of existence.”

Omnipresent concepts of place, balance and identity form the structure of the recently opened Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, for which Begay was hired as a guest co-curator alongside post-doc Hadley Jensen.

Across more than two-dozen weavings, photographs, digital design pieces and sartorial ephemera that represent artists old and new, Horizons not only showcases textile arts as a shared multigenerational Diné tradition, it moves the conversation from collectors and trading posts back into the original language of practical use and deeper meaning. In addition, the exhibit unfolds a shifting institutional approach, with dated curatorial ideas falling aside to make way for more collaborative and dynamic planning and execution strategies.

The show’s convergence between contemporary and customary weaving practices and photography materialized through both its pair of curators and a small group of Navajo weavers and artists who played a large role in not just what the exhibit includes, but how and why.

When Jensen first pitched the idea of Horizons to MIAC in 2021, she’d just completed her Shaped by the Loom project about Diné weaving through her Bard Graduate Center alma mater and the American Museum of Natural History. She had moved to Santa Fe and found herself wanting to kickstart a new exhibit in a

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture’s Horizons mashes up contemporary and customary photos, designs and textiles at the intersection of past and present

BY ALEX DE VORE | alex@sfreporter.com

to dresses, digital mashups and writing, it defies singular definition.

Further, Jensen explains, a romanticized notion of the West has long sullied the histories of Indigenous arts and artistry. Some pieces in MIAC’s collection, for example, are uncredited, their stories beginning not with the artist tending to their sheep or working the loom, but at the time of a transaction: when a piece showed up in a collection, was purchased or even pilfered. Works in Horizons by artists whose names are lost to time aren’t labeled as “unknown,” but as “artist once known.”

She says that because so little recognition outside Indigenous communities has expounded upon the creative forces behind items like rugs, clothing and tapestries, it’s easy for the wider public to dismiss the notion that textile pieces are every bit as artistically valid as other more traditionally “artsy” pieces. Jensen’s goal, she says, became to reframe how museumgoers might perceive fiber arts.

“There have been so many exhibitions on Navajo weaving,” Jensen says, “but I don’t know if people know this—MIAC has over 1,200 Navajo textiles alone. And though some have been featured in previous exhibits, we wanted to create a checklist of pieces that would be interesting or that may not be what you’d expect to see. This was really an opportunity to do something different.”

similar vein.

“It was initially going to be a show that included the museum’s permanent collection and loans from the American Museum of Natural History,” Jensen tells SFR. “But the project kind of evolved, and Rapheal Begay became co-curator, so it transformed into a show about weaving and photography as different ways of knowing and seeing place.”

Horizons was accomplished through

funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art, and focuses on Diné, or Navajo, textiles and the craft’s shared cultural tenets—from shepherding, spinning wool and making use of plant-based dyes, to photography, family bonds and generational knowledge. The objects vary tremendously despite how many can be neatly classified under the one “textiles” umbrella, but with Horizons including everything from rugs and wedge weaving

The show’s lesser-seen items are truly astonishing, from pictorial pieces and wall hangings that roll up various methods to one of Jensen’s favorites: an abstract representation of a spider completely lacking in trading post influence. Jensen and Begay’s idea of “something different” also came in the form of a relatively new concept, at least insofar as institutional arts events go: an advisory committee made up entirely of regional Diné artists working in a variety of textile and photographic mediums worked and collaborated on Horizons throughout the entire curatorial process. These advisors

DARBY RAYMOND-OVERSTREET

By Darby Raymond-Overstreet; commissioned for Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest (Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2023).

include Lynda Teller-Pete, Larissa Nez, Tyrrell Tapaha, Kevin Aspaas and Darby Raymond-Overstreet, most of whom have work featured in the show. Each recieved an honorarium and was provided with travel and lodging when necessary.

According to Aspaas, who works primarily in wedge weaving and rug dresses, artists aren’t necessarily accustomed to such a level of involvement in a state museum exhibition, and it took time to acclimate.

“In the initial meetings we talked about what the reasons were behind the show, why were we doing this, who is this for?” he explains. “One of the things we came to was that we wanted to make [the exhibit] for the communities the weavings come from, for people back home on the reservation. The majority of exhibits are done by collectors, gallery owners, trading post owners and ‘experts’ in the field. Horizons became more about the odds and ends of Navajo weaving—and they’re beautiful— and not just through the colonial view of how we look at art.”

Aspaas, like the rest of the advisory committee, comes from a long lineage of artistry and says he has been more familiar with institutions looking for a quick quote or

Tyrrell Tapaha (Diné, b. 2001) Adá Nítsíjíkees: Think for Yourself 2020. Handspun and commercial vegetal-dyed Navajo-Churro, alpaca. Tia Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Kevin Aspaas (Diné, b. 1995) Untitled (wedge weave) 2022. Wool yarn (including wool warp), indigo dye, natural (undyed) white and grey. Courtesy of the Gochman Family Collection.

minimal rundown when it comes to advisory roles. He sees Begay and Jensen’s curatorial efforts and the museum’s support as refreshing, and part of a broader trend that puts institutional power into the hands of Native artists.

“There’s a big shift going on, and not just in Diné weaving,” he tells SFR. “It’s in all the different art forms the tribes have, and it’s going back to why we’re doing this. Who is controlling the narrative? We have control of the narrative. Today we don’t have to use a middleman to show and sell our pieces—we have social media, websites—and this also creates a shift in the places that house these pieces and what we want to say about them.”

Tapaha agrees.

“Hadley Jensen has been a pal and acquaintance in the textiles scene and she found me and pitched the idea of the advisory committee formally, but also informally,” Tapapha says with a laugh. “The whole premise is pushing forward the idea of curating this show from weavers for weavers, and it was this odd fusion that fell together in a great way. I’ve never experienced anything like that in terms of exhibiting. Other shows that include advisors…it’s more like,

‘Cool, tell me five things about that piece,’ but this group felt like…we were passionate about the works we wanted to show and the narrative and personality of the show.”

Part of the personality lies in interpretative choices. For example, contemporary artists explain the significance in the de-

sign, materials, emotional tone or history of the many historic “artists once known” works in their own attributed words on gallery signage, and Begay and Jensen collected a soundscape that fills the exhibition space with the bleats of sheep and the scrape of wool being carded.

Both Tapaha and Aspaas have work in Horizons and both have their own flocks of Churro sheep from which they derive their wool. Aspaas calls the shearing, spinning and dyeing “the hard part,” and says the fun comes into play when he’s actually working the loom to create his pieces.

Both artists have weavers in their family dating back generations, and while knowledge like theirs passed down over years through Diné weaving communities hasn’t quite hit the mainstream, Horizons seeks to demystify the artistry and, just as importantly, the stories.

“Historically, Navajo textiles have been displayed on a wall and you don’t get a sense of how they were used,” Jensen notes. “They were made to be used as clothing, they were traded widely and it was only relatively recently they became collector’s

H orizons became more about the odds and ends of Navajo weaving—and they’re beautiful—and not just through the colonial view of how we look at art.

-Kevin Aspaas, advisor

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items. We’re trying, I think, to reframe the categories through which people see these weavings.”

Advisor Raymond-Overstreet, for example, knows a little something about that. Her great grandmother Christine Raymond was a weaver, she tells SFR— and a prolific one at that—and she mainly used her pieces to trade and provide for her family.

“I grew up with the understanding,” Raymond-Overstreet says, “that weaving was a motive for caring for family.”

Raymond-Overstreet’s father was a graphite illustrator, though never professionally. And though she attended Dartmouth with plans to go into forestry work, she says supportive professors led her toward more artistic pursuits.

Today, those pursuits touch on traditional ideas, including weaving patterns and photography, though she catapults both into the contempodigital age as a means of examining collective Diné identity, including her own. Raymond-Overstreet employs a complicated process that merges weaving designs with digital portraiture, photography and landscapes. The back and forth method might be the most concise encapsulation of what Horizons is all about—the way things wend and weave through time by evolving generationally, from hand to hand, iteration to iteration.

“Primarily I describe myself as a digital artist—the medium I’m working with is pixels,” she says. “For me, because of the significance and importance weaving has in our community…I definitely wouldn’t consider myself a weaver, but I’m a Diné artist inspired by the weaving tradition.”

And there it is—a link between the past and present represented with evolving tools that pay homage to the old

ways while adding a modern flair that drives customary art forms forward.

“While Horizons is an opportunity to show MIAC’s collection, it was also important to us to put that in dialogue with the work of contemporary Diné artists,” Jensen says. “To create these deep connections, to show there’s still deep engagement. But what’s so interesting to me is how that kind of visual language of weaving has found its way into different media.”

Take the photographic work of Begay, whose large, looming landscapes portray the terrain that inspired countless textile designs. For his own part, he says, the creative tradition isn’t specifically about medium so much as a powerful connection between artists, friends and families; the land and the culture.

“This is an ideal opportunity to showcase the beauty and significance of community that is inherently found within the Diné culture,” he explains. “For me, working with institutions, collaborating with galleries and artists and cultural leadership…something that’s always come up is this hesitancy to incorporate love into an exhibition. But it’s an asset.”

Heart-forward does seem to be the name of the game for Horizons. But that requires trust. According to Tapaha, Jensen facilitated the show with her own expertise, but made way for the committee in most cases.

“She did a great job stepping aside,” they say. “I think that’s really unique; one, because you don’t find as many women curators in the position Hadley is in and two, her work is tied to a cultural medium and she understands she can’t speak for us. You don’t really have museums wanting to consult with weavers, with artists themselves, but that was one of her main focal points.”

“It wasn’t just about having the ex-

Artist once known (Diné). Wearing blanket with spider design 1860-1880. Handspun wool, commercial wool yarn, indigo dye, vegetal dye. Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, gift of Mrs. Philip B. Stewart, Courtesy of John and Linda Comstock and the Abigail Van Vleck Charitable Trust. 9124/12.

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pertise of people who have studied or built up their professions in art,” adds advisor Larissa Nez. “What makes this really unique is that there’s a number of different perspectives.”

Nez has a background in art history and is currently attending UC Berkeley in pursuit of her PhD in ethnic studies; the best way to describe her input to Horizons might be “scholarly.” Nez is a weaver herself (though the show doesn’t feature her weavings, but rather her writing) and near-fluent in Navajo, which makes her instrumental not only in selecting pieces from the MIAC collection for the exhibit, but in making sure the language used in the show is properly implemented.

“I think there’s a balance,” she continues. “Lynda Teller-Pete is a fifth-generation weaver; Tyrrell and Kevin are within this generation of emerging weavers but changing the way it’s done and talked about…these relationships to weaving are translated into the exhibit. The work we wanted to see is grounded in having people understand the human aspect, the community aspect of weaving. And now we want that to continue in our own work.”

Homage is indeed a big part of the show. According to Teller-Pete, who served in the lead advisory position on the committee, it was important to illustrate how some designs and methods are timeless. As such, she says, the show’s nonlinear sequencing conveys the circuitous nature of the Diné weaving ethic. More contemporary pieces, it turns out, fit in perfectly with older ones: a 1960 black and white play on leaves fits next to an 1895 wedge pattern in red.

“In Navajo, we don’t work that way,” she says of eschewing chronology. “As weavers, we don’t see straight lines—we see movement, we see beauty in those movements, and we weave it.”

Teller-Pete will show one of her earlier pieces on loan from the Heard Museum titled “Migration of the Dragonflies” in the show, and her sister, the master weaver Barbara Teller Ornelas, and nephew, Michael Teller Ornelas, will also be featured. Teller-Pete says she not only sees the show as a way to highlight astounding creativity and resilience, but to educate visitors about the histories behind singular pieces and broader traditions. Similarly to Jensen, Teller-Pete hopes museumgoers will leave better equipped to understand the cultural significance of textiles; the joy of some, the hard truths of others.

“Some of the works in the show have been created in the most tumultuous times, like incarceration and slavery,” she tells SFR. “One of the blankets in there is a slave blanket, and the weaver put four white Spider Woman crosses at the

end—that’s her resistance and her hope she would one day return home to the Navajo Nation. If a person wasn’t trained in Navajo textiles, they’re going to look at it and think those crosses represent Christianity. Not so.”

In short, the Spider Woman story tells of the deity who gifted the Diné with the knowledge to weave. Teller-Pete has been an educator herself. Her reputation to those familiar with textiles and weaving, and her knowledge of the stories behind the patterns and designs woven throughout them make her contributions to Horizons feel particularly powerful, and like the others from the advisory cohort, she, too, found the process enlightening and long overdue.

“It’s new,” she says, “It’s different because I am no longer a prop. I’ve been involved in a lot of exhibitions for textiles where I show up, I don’t get listened to or what I say is distorted in the captions and catalogs. This time our group is made of weavers and artists and all of our voices are entwined with our ancestors.”

Horizons, Teller-Pete says, embodies the Diné concept of K’é.

“That means support, friendship, assistance,” she explains. “It means caring what you do for family, and I think with the work we did here…that’s what we did. And we hope visitors will ask questions. We hope many weavers come to see it. It was exciting to see these pieces that haven’t been seen in such a long time.”

Jensen and Begay, meanwhile, seem energized despite the mountain of curatorial work they’ve completed alongside the committee. Horizons will run until next summer and has a catalog forthcoming, and while neither curator expects this one exhibit to be the final word on Diné weaving in the museum world, it does feel like a step toward having more fully realized conversations about evolving institutional responsibilities to the communities they exhibit.

“It’s a bit of a strange role to be in,” says Jensen. “It’s great, in a way, because you do have a lot of creative freedom, but we’re trying to bring specificity to this historic collection.”

“Something that has been really beautiful about all of this is the notions of storytelling, kinship, relationships as modes of existence,” Begay notes. “To relate to something that’s bigger than you? A past, a present, the future? It’s a very humbling experience.”

HORIZONS: WEAVING BETWEEN THE LINES WITH DINÉ TEXTILES

Through June 2, 2024

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

A pair of museumgoers soaking in the work of Horizons on July 15 during the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture’s opening weekend hoopla for the exhibition.

RAPHEAL BEGAY

“Horizons as a curatorial approach...is a pretty sound concept,” says Horizons co-curator and photographer Rapheal Begay, whose landscape shots—like this one of Spider Rock in Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly, or Tséyi´—appear in the show.

RAPHEAL BEGAY

Jesse Allen

Stephen Apodaca

Gini Barrett

Gayla Bechtol

Jonathan Blakey &

Nanci Cartwright

The Blogs

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Curtis Borg

M Yvonne Brown

BSPOKE Brand

Consultancy

Kent Buckingham

Anne Coller

Barbara Conroy

John & Bekki Cook

Davis-Gibbon Family

M DeAnda Hay

Mark Davies

The Deej

Adrienne DeGuere

Rothstein Donatelli, LLP

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Bill Adrian

Elizabeth Alexander & Larry Metzger

Jan & Jim Allen

Helga Ancona

Keith Anderson & Barbara Lenssen

Lars Anderson

Jarratt Applewhite

Atlas Fitness Center

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Irene P. Ayala

Joseph & Tamara

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Cris & Marilyn Barnes

Ben Baur

Betty Baxter

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Bill Bergner

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Berman

Jason Berry

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Gay Block &

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RECURRING GIFTS

George Ducker

Dona Durham

Lauren Eaton Prescott

Sara, Michael & Nordic Eckhardt

Areena Estul & Shell Goldman

Ever Joyful Yoga

Jill & Terry Fernandez

Gail B Flanagan

Cheryl Fossum

Q Gallaher

Dr. Jan Gaynor

Mark Glaser

Helen Goldberg Goodwest Productions

Katy Gross

David Gunter

Mary Hall

The Harwood Family

M DeAnda Hay

HaydenFold

Tom & Rose Himrod

Samuel Hokin

Nelson Hower

Erin Bond

Gino Brazil

David Breecker

Markeeta Brown

Alexis Bove

Georgellen Burnett

Anne & Jack Burton

(IMO - Richard McCord)

Lee Caldwell & Marcus Randolph

Mary Ellen Capek &

Sue Hallgarth

Susan & Appy Chandler

Jill Christian & Kiera Ortiz

Cisneros Design

Tom Claffey

Mary Costello

Gene Covington & Patrick Murphy

CC Culver

Deep Roots Psychic Studio

Tess DeGange

Merrilee De Vore

Elizabeth Dunham

Meredith Dunning

Joanna Hurley

Sheila Hyde

Megan Kamerick

Heather Karlson & Bill Leeson

Diane Karp

The Reverend

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Katie & Andrew

Nicholas King

Photography

Laurie Knight

Karen Ann Koestner

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Laurel Ladwig & Trina Altman

Melanie Lamb Faithful

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Long View Asset Mgmt

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Peace Exists

Judith Fein & Paul Ross

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Thomas G. Gallegos

Paul R. GanzenMuller & Mary Anne Crowe

Roman Garcia

Russ Garland

Lynn Gary

Tim & Lina Germann

Birgitte Ginge

Marvin Godner

Susan Gordon

Lisa Gray Fisher

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Eleanor Hartgerink & Michael J Huvane

Cynthia Hartling

Annette & Ben

Hayden

Pat Hodapp

James Lutz

Scotty & Sue MacGregor

Jane & Paul Mandel

Virginia Mattingly

Kate McCahill

Jean McCray

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Mike & Mary McGuire

Jean McIntosh

Sara McKenzie

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Bram Meehan

Richard Meeker

Michael A. Messner

Katherine Mille Wimmer

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Juliet Myers

Lauren Paige

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KevinBox Studio

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Proctor Family Rainbird

Susan Ray

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Greg Reiche

Shelley Robinson

John R Roby

B. Rose

Pat & Richard Rosenthal

Stephen Jules Otis

Career Rubin

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Virginia Mattingly

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Milagro Dental

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Native Bloom

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OrigamiInTheGarden

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Photography

Dori & Tom Ramsey

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Salamon

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Martha & Ken

Simonsen

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Jim Terr

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Two Star Trading

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Brian Watkins

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Brian & Joan Weiss

Janislee Wiese

Leah Yngve

Faith Yoman

Hosted Reception + Preview: Tonight, 5 – 7 PM Round Table Discussion with Charles Carrillo and Marie Romero Cash at 5 PM

Collecting Santos: Restoration + Value

Live Online: Friday, July 21 at 10 AM MDT

WRITING THE WORLD

Once upon a time, the internet appeared poised to foster egalitarianism and diversity. Flash forward 30-plus years past the world’s first website and that vision still remains elusive. International nonprofit Art + Feminism aims to close information gaps related to gender, feminism and the arts—beginning with Wikipedia. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has teamed up with Art + Feminism for a free Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon during which attendees will learn Wikipedia editing basics, and create and verify article content. “Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites in the world,” Morgan Moseley, O’Keeffe’s Wikipedian-in-Residence intern says, and its content “is a reflection of what we see as important as a society.”

(Julia

Goldberg)

Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon:

2-4 pm Thursday, July 20. Free; registration requested

Georgia O’Keeffe Research Library, 135 Grant Ave. (505) 946-1000

okeeffemuseum.org/events/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon

MUSIC FRI/21

BETWEEN ROCK AND A HOT PLACE

Let’s take a second to talk about desert blues (also known variously as tishoumaren, assouf and Saharan rock). Melding traditional Tuareg instrumentation and vocal styles with unmistakably Woodstock-influenced electric guitar, it’s a nomadic genre that to New Mexican ears will feel simultaneously refreshing and nostalgic. After all, artists such as both the touring Algerian group Imarhan and their Albuquerque-based opener for Friday’s Railyard show—psychedelic jammers Orb Rider—come from borderland musical milieus where distinct aural traditions are brought together by a shared desert. Think about the German accordions in our Norteño music as you hear Imarhan’s Hendrix-heavy riffs and bask in the arid kinship. (Siena Sofia Bergt)

Imarhan: 7 pm Friday, July 21. Free Santa Fe Railyard Plaza, 1612 Alcaldesa St., lensic360.org

FILM TUE/25

EVENT SUN/23

The Teller Returns

Local author, storyteller Joe Hayes recounts tales in new event series

After reigning as Santa Fe’s favorite storyteller for more than 40 years, Joe Hayes continues to mesmerize audiences with his performative tall tales.

REGGAELE US

Yes, 1978’s Rockers is a reggae movie. But before all those who run from the genre write off the flick, there are a few things you need to know: First, the film was narratively and stylistically ahead of its time and employs direct address that would be at home in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing alongside a plot that brings Bicycle Thieves to Jamaica’s music scene. Arguably more importantly, though, Rockers offers a bizarre blend of fiction and doc filmmaking with real-world musicians Burning Spear, Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace and more playing themselves in a project that started as nonfiction before birthing a full-on Robin Hood narrative. Deliciously unclassifiable stuff. (SSB)

Rockers: 6 pm Tuesday, July 25. $13

Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

Known for flavoring his wide-ranging repertoire of local legends and folklore with a splash of wit, Hayes began his full-time storytelling career in the ‘80s after teaching high school English in Los Alamos. And he’s a bit of an icon. Hayes has traveled far to fetch his stories and melds the multicultural medley of Hispanic, Indigenous and European traditions together with the American proclivity to stretch the truth here and there. Nobody does it quite like him.

This summer marks two years since the end of Hayes’ near and dear presence at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, where he’d told stories since 1982—but that didn’t equal an end to his beloved listenership. Last year, Hayes told stories at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art that lured in a multigenerational crowd of eager listeners to hear the author of The Day It Snowed

Tortillas spin his yarns. Many first-timers were accompanied by parents or grandparents who wanted to share with them the childhood delight of hearing a good old-fashioned Hayes story.

“It’s a special feeling when people tell me this is the first time they’ve heard me [tell stories],” says Hayes. “It makes me feel glad I stuck with it.”

And stick with it he has, including recent weeks wherein Hayes has been making his storytime rounds yet again, now in collaboration with local nonprofit farm Reunity Resources. He’s already hosted two shows this month which have attracted hundreds of listeners, he tells SFR, but you can still bring a blanket or chair to the farm either this Sunday or the next to get the scoop on Coyote, La Llorona and other Hayes versions of classic tales from New Mexico.

(Noah Hale)

JOE HAYES

7 pm Sunday, July 23 and 30. Free Reunity Resources, 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196; reunityresources.com

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WED/19

BOOKS/LECTURES

NATURE LOVERS BOOK CLUB

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

Gab about Dan Flores' Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

6-7 pm, free

REBECCA ROANHORSE & JEN CERVANTES

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red)

1366 Cerrillos Road

(505) 428-0996

The award-winning authors of  Tread of Angels and The Storm Runner, respectively, read aloud—with sign-able copies on hand from Beastly Books.

7-9 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave., (505) 209-1302

Director Antonio Granjero's flamenco company performs with Spanish guests Angel Muñoz and Charo Espino. Arrive early to dine on tapas etc.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive

(505) 992-5800

The New Mexican flamenco diva takes the stage with guest appearances from the likes of Vicente Griego, Eloy Aguilar, Daniel Azcarate, Eloy Cito Gonzales and more.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

ALL THINGS YARN

La Farge Library 1730 Llano St.

(505) 820-0292

If you picked up a fiber-based hobby during the pandemic, this is your chance to break out those knitting needles or crochet hooks and collectively count stitches to your heart's content.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Thrice-weekly instructor-led bike rides through the city. Free for members of the City of Santa Fe recreation centers. Borrowable bikes available.

10-11 am, $5

LET’S TAKE A LOOK WITH CURATORS

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

Bring in family heirlooms for pro analysis from the museum curators every third Wednesday.  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. Better make 'em laugh.

8 pm, free

OPEN MIC WEDNESDAYS

Tumbleroot Pottery Pub

135 W. Palace Ave., (505) 982-4711

Local talent, plus booze. Plus clay!

7-10 pm, free

SUMMER FAMILY ART MAKING

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072

Creative time for kiddos in the courtyard, with supplies provided.  10 am-noon, free

SUMMER READING CLUB

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Drop off little ones (grades 3 and under) for a bit of literary time. 1-3 pm, free

THE PURPLE PAPER EATER

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Witness the library's lavender letterpress in action, then use it to make your own bookmark.  2 pm, free

VÁMONOS WALKS: WELLNESS WALK

Larragoite Park

1464 Avenida Cristobal Colón (505) 989-7019

Stroll along the Acequia Trail to the Railyard.

5:30 pm, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Kids enjoy stories about blocks alongside a group building activity.  10:30 am, free

WRITER'S DEN

Beastly Books 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Write to the sound of others' clicking keyboards. 5-6:30 pm, free

FILM

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Griswold family's road trip and try not to think too hard about those Chevy Chase set horror stories from Community 7 pm, $13-$15

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

A chance for some chile chomping. 4-10 pm, free

Childhood imagery encounters dream logic in John Tarahteeff’s “Ahead of Him,” from Nascent: Daniel Phill+John Tarahteeff, opening this week at Nüart Gallery.

MUSIC

CASA FLAMENCA PRESENTS: MAESTROS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

The Albuquerque-based flamenco company takes a tour north. Presented by AMP Concerts.

7:30-9 pm, $35

EMILY BRANDEN

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Torch songs from a local yoga teacher.

6-8:30 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Bring your own instrument and join the professionals in their improvisation.

6-9 pm, free

JEREMIAH GLAUSER

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Original country and Americana.

4-6 pm, free

PAUL APPLEBY AND LAURA POE RECITAL

St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

The tenor and pianist perform Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin

Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

12 pm, $35-$40

THE RITE OF SPRING

St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents a program of Debussy, Brahms and (of course) Stravinsky.

6 pm, $40-$80

OPERA

PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900

Netia Jones directs Debussy's oneiric story of regal love triangles. (See Opera, page 33)

8:30 pm, $50-$336

WORKSHOP

AERIAL FABRIC WITH LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Learn how to foot lock, drop and pose with the best of 'em.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

ARTS ALIVE!

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1204

Craft papier mâché sculptures inspired by the enormous alebrijes currently installed on Milner Plaza.

10 am-2 pm, free

COSTUME CREATION

STATION

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Shannon Otto (aka Shannana Bananigans) invites you to come prep your outfit for this year's Meow Wolf Monster Battle.

2-6 pm, free

THU/20

ART OPENINGS

EXHIBIT TOUR WITH CHRISTINA SELBY

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

The photographer walks through her exhibit of woodland avian images.

10-11:30 am, $20-$25

MANJARI SHARMA & ERIC TILLINGHAST (OPENING)

Bishop's Lodge

Auberge Resorts Collection

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

An artist reception and 9 pm aquatic art projection. Presented by Richard Levy Gallery and Bobby Beals Presents.

5-10 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

ANDREA BERMUDEZ: ONE IMMIGRANT IN A WORLD OF MANY

Santa Fe Woman's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455

The author shares her memoir detailing her family's flight from the Cuban revolution. Free for Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library and Woman's Club members.

5-6:30 pm, $10

DARRYL LORENZO WELLINGTON: LEGIBLE WALLS Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226

The city's recent poet laureate caps off his past two years in the position with a new collection honoring Santa Fe murals.  6 pm, free

DANCE

ECSTATIC DANCE

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo de Peralta

EmbodyDance hosts a weekly DJ'd free movement sesh. Contact hello@ EmbodyDanceSantaFe.com for more information.

6:30 pm, $15

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave.

(505) 209-1302

Frankly fab flamenco.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

THE CALENDAR

INTRO TO SOCIAL DANCE

Dance Station

Solana Center

947-B W Alameda St. (505) 989-9788

Weekly drop-in classes on a rotating variety of dance forms—no experience or partner required. On the menu this week is swing.

6:45-7:30 pm, $15

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

We love a local success story, and La Emi is as New Mexican as they come.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

ALL FIERCE COMEDY SHOW

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Graviel de la Plaga (beloved norteño comedian Carlos Medina's alter ego) hosts an evening of music and amusement.

7 pm, $10

ART+FEMINISM WIKIPEDIA

EDIT-A-THON

The Michael S. Engl Family Foundation Library & Archive

135 Grant Ave., (505) 946-1000

An edit-a-thon focused on closing the gender gap in the online user-edited encyclopedia. Registration required. (See SFR Picks, page 19)

Noon-2 pm, free

CHESS & JAZZ

No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org

Chess playing, jazz listening and free herbal tea. All skill levels encouraged.

6-8 pm, free

DRAG BINGO!

Opuntia Café

1607 Alcaldesa St., Ste. 201 (505) 780-5796

Play gringo lotería with the town's drag royalty. Admission comes with six bingo cards.

7-9 pm, $20

DRAWING FROM NATURE

Audubon Center & Sanctuary

1800 Canyon Road (505) 983-4609

A native tree-centric nature walk and art session in conjunction with the New Mexico Museum of Art's ongoing With The Grain exhibit of local woodworking.

5:30 pm, $10

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

Don't call it trivia.

7 pm, free

ROOT TO FRUIT FARM TOUR

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Drop in for a spin around the farm and a chat with organizers about the many community programs at work on-site.

5-6 pm, free

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you as part of the culture we have.

I think images by their nature transcend time and space. They can come from another time and have the power of that time. When you combine that with similar images to create a new story, you can take something from the past and have it mean something in the present. I call it ‘the bridge,’ the way the viewer has access to the ideas embedded within the narrative. I don’t consider myself a nostalgia artist per se, it’s just that that kind of material has a lot that can be accessed beyond its original intention. The fact that it’s nostalgic is maybe a little nefarious on my part because I’m sometimes using the nostalgia to hook someone, but that hooking is how I invite them into the actual content of the painting.

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Did you know the iconic Spinal Tap Stonehenge joke exists in part because of Santa Fe artist Dennis Larkins? Well, to be more specific, Larkins designed the Led Zeppelin stage set that would be parodied in the 1984 Christopher Guest film, and that’s pretty much the coolest thing ever. Larkins worked with so many of the big rock acts—The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead and so on—in the earlier stages of his career that it’s almost shocking he calls sleepy Santa Fe home now. These days he’s more about broadcasting messages through heightened portrayals of an elusive postWorld War II sense of Americana. Lucky for us, Larkins shows regularly at local gallery KEEP Contemporary, where his new exhibition Duality Zone will open this week (5-8 pm Friday, July 21. Free. 142 Lincoln Ave., (505) 557-9574). We checked in with Larkins to see what’s what. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. (Alex De Vore)

I want to describe your work as ‘Americana-meets-surrealist-doomsday.’

Do you think that’s fair? Are you aiming for any specific content goal or is this stuff just what comes out of you organically?

As far as my specific intent, it would come down to the use of...nostalgia. I refer to it as a commonly shared visual vernacular, meaning that images from popular culture and our shared past sort of combined together to create that visual vernacular we share where it’s possible to communicate through the use of images pulled from their original context but with embedded meaning. That may or may not have anything to do with the original intent of the original source. It’s like collaging, taking images from sources and pulling them out of context, putting them into new context and creating a new narrative. I personally like the vintage stuff, because it has embedded emotional appeal. You can have a recognition of it without knowing what that source has been, but it’s carried within

Let’s talk about the new show, Duality Zone. How are you personally defining it, if you even are defining it?

I think duality is something that’s embedded in the human condition and experience, and it’s certainly embedded in our cultural programming. The title for the show was inspired by a painting I did recently that was going to be the flagship of the show but sold immediately…and it features a local landmark, the Saints and Sinners sign in Española, which is the essence of duality. The painting is about the juxtaposition between saints and sinners, good and bad, light and dark, happy and sad, whatever—you could go on and on. It’s like the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, and the stories we tell each other about who we are—more often than not on these superficial levels that have to do with judgment of good and bad. The truth is, all of my paintings are about duality on some level—the push and pull‚ the give and take. We’re in such an extreme version of our culture now where it’s all interpretive. It’s all about belief as opposed to truth or reality, and all of these things are subjective, relative to the filter you’re looking through.

You have a background in design for rock ‘n’ roll bands. Would you say that makes you at all anti-establishment and, if so, does that mindset still find its way into your work?

We’re in the duality zone answering that question, because to be a mirror of the world around you is to deal with commentary, and commentary, depending on how deeply or sharply you care to look at various situations, events and circumstances of our world, puts you in a position as a commenter to sometimes be a critic. At least an observer. To be anti is to imply being outside looking in, but the truth is we’re all co-creators. I wouldn’t say I’m anti except to the extent that all of what you could call modern or contemporary art is anti-social by nature.

With Artist Dennis Larkins MARC BERNDT

SEEDS & SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail

(505) 989-8359

An opportunity for little ones to greet feathered guests from the New Mexico Wildlife Center.

10:30-11:30 am, free

SELLING SANTA FE SUNSETS

Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

And here we thought sunsets were supposed to be free. At least the real estate-centric schmoozing will be?

5:30-7:30 pm, free

SHAKESPEARE GARDEN PARTY

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Enjoy food, drink and selected scenes from the upcoming production of Much Ado about Nothing in support of Santa Fe Classic Theater.

5:30-7 pm, $50-$75

WATER CONSERVATION

DEPARTMENT PUBLIC INPUT

SESSION

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

Go tell the folks from Save Water Santa Fe how you want to see local water being used.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

FILM

DOUBLE FEATURE WITH LARRY SHEFFIELD

SALA Event Center

2551 Central Ave., Los Alamos (505) 412-6030

The local filmmaker presents the documentaries Alamagordo, Center of the World, Trinity 1945 and Oppenheimer After Trinity in the grand finale of the ongoing Manhattan Project Film Series.

6 pm, $70 for a series pass

FOOD

CULTIVATING CONNECTIONS

DINNER

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

A sliding scale meal made with farm-fresh produce, prepared by the folks behind Reunity's new food truck.

6-9 pm, $25 suggested

FLIGHT NIGHT

Santa Fe Spirits

Downtown Tasting Room

308 Read St., (505) 780-5906

For those who prefer their tipsiness with less decision-making, every Thursday offers the opportunity to try four mini cocktails instead of one large one.

3-10pm, free

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

Brent Jung brings you seafood fresh off the plane.

5-8 pm, free

MUSIC

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave.

(505) 988-9232

Sax-centric jazz.

6-9 pm, free

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana and honky-tonk.

4-6 pm, free

BOB MAUS

Bourbon Grill

104 Old Las Vegas Hwy. (505) 984-8000

Blues and soul classics.

5-7 pm, free

CHASE AND RAVEL

St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Ravel's “Sonata for Violin and Cello” (a tribute to Debussy) alongside a newly commissioned piano quintet by Ryan Chase. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

12 pm, $35-$40

DAVID GEIST

Osteria D'Assisi

58 S Federal Place, (505) 986-5858

Cabaret renditions of Broadway tunes, pop songs and more.

7 pm, $5

FOLK MUSIC KARAOKE

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

Hit the stage with a live band to back you up.

7-9 pm, free

HALF BROKE HORSES

Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge

1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817

Honky-tonk heaven.

7-10 pm, free

JONO MANSON

CHOMP Food Hall

505 Cerrillos Road (505) 772-0946

Acoustic originals from the man behind Kitchen Sink Studio.

5-7 pm, free

LUMBRE DEL SOL

Santa Fe Plaza

63 Lincoln Ave., (505) 988-1234

Chicano rock with support from Busy McCarroll. Presented by Lensic360.

6 pm, free

PAT MALONE

TerraCotta Wine Bistro

304 Johnson St., (505) 989-1166

Solo jazz guitar.

6-8 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.  7 pm, $109-$129

THE MARCH DIVIDE

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Indie acoustic originals.  7 pm, free

THEATER

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St.

(505) 988-4262

Who doesn’t love a good murder musical? Plus, tonight's pricing is pay-what-you-will sliding scale for industry members.

7:30-10 pm, $15-$75 suggested

RICHARD III

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576

Did you know this play is where the whole “winter of our discontent” thing came from?

7:30-9:45 pm, $5-$100

WORKSHOP

BEGINNER FABRIC WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

If you've always dreamed of being airborne, the folks at Wise Fool will get you off your feet.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

HATHA YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Gentle yoga with a focus on breath work.

10:30-11:30 am, $18-$90

LEARN 3D PRINTING

Make Santa Fe

2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn the basics of FDM printing, filaments, 3D models and beyond.

10 am to 2pm, $85

THURSDAY MORNING WHEEL

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

An all-levels opportunity to practice shaping spinning clay.

10 am-noon, $70

TRAPEZE AND LYRA WITH LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Float through the air with the greatest of ease.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

WOODSHOP BADGE

MAKE Santa Fe

2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn your way around a well stocked wood shop while making a mini hat rack to take home.

10 am-2 pm, $90

FRI/21

ART OPENINGS

BRYAN AND ANDREA ALLEN (OPENING)

The Signature Gallery

102 E Water St. (505) 983-1050

Abstract and representational images playing with Southwest iconography.

5-7:30 pm, free

COLORORGY: THOUGHTS WHILE LOOKING FOR THE NEAREST EXIT (OPENING)

Keep Contemporary

142 Lincoln Ave., (505) 557-9574

Humorous paintings and illustrations probing the absurdity of human bodies.

5-8 pm, free

DENNIS LARKINS: THE DUALITY ZONE (OPENING)

Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574

Pop- and midcentury-influenced images filled with New Mexican easter eggs. (See 3Qs, page 22)

5-8 pm, free

JOHN NIETO: IMAGES OF ANCESTRY

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Chromatic Indigenous portraiture from the late Mescalero Apache and Navajo artist.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

NASCENT: DANIEL PHILL+

JOHN TARAHTEEFF (OPENING)

Nüart Gallery

670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888

Vibrant abstract paintings juxtaposed with uncanny dreamscapes.

5-7 pm, free

SPANISH MARKET SHOW (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Brows selected retablos, bultos and christos from Spanish Market artists Alcario Otero, John Gallegos, Nicolas Otero and others.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

ARTIST TALK: SCULPTOR

KEN SMITH

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

The artist discusses his eight(!) decades of figurative work in bronze, marble, limestone, soapstone and alabaster.

5-6 pm, free

BUMBLE BEES OF NEW MEXICO

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Kaitlin Haase of the Xerces Society presents on one of our cutest natural pollinator species, before leading guests out into the garden to identify a few in the flesh (or fuzz, as the case may be?). Free for ages 6 and under.

11 am-noon, $6-$12

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave., (505) 209-1302

Spanish food, wine and entertainment.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

A master castanet handler and her many guest performers.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

ART WALKING TOUR

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072 Museum docents guide an art and architecture-centric tour of downtown (weather permitting).

10 am, $20

AURA PHOTOS AND SOUND HEALING

Dragonfly Transformations

129 W San Francisco St., Ste. E (505) 652-7633

Human atmospheres like having their pictures taken, too. And while you're waiting for Annette Gates to snap that photo, check out the collection of paintings by Erin Fore and the group meditation healing at 6 pm.

5-7 pm, free

BILINGUAL STORYTIME/HORA DE CUENTOS BILINGÜES

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100 Stop by for some authentic Spanglish local cuentos. Best for ages 5-9.

6-6:30 pm, free

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Since when is Santa Fe such a karaoke town? No complaints here—just curiosity.

9 pm-1 am, free

CRUISE NIGHT

Santa Fe Plaza

63 Lincoln Ave.

Expect live music, dance performances from Los Niños de Santa Fe and classic cars circling the square.

7-8 pm, free

Earthen textures on canvas in Ann Vandervelde’s “Color Wheel,” from

Earth Imagined, on view now at Globe Fine Art.

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail

(505) 989-8359

Kids craft leather bracelets under the tutelage of Tandy Leather.

2-4 pm, free

HAPPY HOUR ARTIST DEMONSTRATION WITH JOE SPEAR

Four Seasons Resort

Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

We're not sure how the metal origami scluptor will provide a demo in the enclosed space of the Terra bar, but it sure sounds explosive!

3-6 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave.

(505) 955-2500

Reach out to the Recreation Division if you’re interested in borrowing one of those bikes.

10-11 am, $5

MAKE AND BELIEVE TIME

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

One hour's worth of story time and art projects with librarian-selected books.

10 am, free

MINIATURES PAINTING

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 395-2628

Gather weekly to paint table-top game figurines.

4-6:30 pm, free

NIGHTTIME MOTHING

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

If nocturnal pollinators are more your speed, check out the garden's winged visitors in action (with lights provided). Free for kids ages 6 and under.

8:30-9:30 pm, $6-$12

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo

(505) 471-9103

Staff members and docent tour leaders pay special attention to their own unique floral faves, so it’s worth taking the tour more than once.

10 am, $12

QUICK DRAW

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave., (505) 455-6882

Thais Mather curates artists for the live drawing sesh and affordably priced art sale. Plus drinks from Tumbleroot and music from DJ Luz Skylarker!

6-8 pm, free

ROOT TO FRUIT FARM TOUR

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Another open opportunity for farm frolicking.

4-5 pm, free

WALKING HISTORY TOUR

School for Advanced Research

660 Garcia St., (505) 954-7213

Check out the interior of the 1920s estate turned artist residency center.

10-11:30 am, $15

WOMEN'S WORLD CUP

WATCH PARTY

The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Co.

37 Fire Place, (505) 557-6182

Watch the USA versus Vietnam match live with face painting, mini soccer goals and more. $1 from every beer sold goes to the local nonprofit Northern Soccer Club.

6-9:30 pm, $5 suggested

FILM

FEMME FATALE FRIDAYS

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

A full day devoted to the femme-centric fantasy of Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and beyond.

11 am-7 pm, free

YOUTH VOICES IN SANTA FE: THE MAKING OF SECOND HOME NDI NM Dance Barns

1140 Alto St., (505) 620-6643

The National Dance Institute premieres a short film documenting the creation of its latest kidpowered performance.

5:30 pm, free

MUSIC

ALEX MARYOL

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Solo blues-rock.

2-5 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

DAVID BERKELEY

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Acoustic indie originals.

7 pm, $18

HASH CABBAGE

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Psychedelic New Orleans funk.

8 pm, free

HOPE & JIM

Eldorado Farmers Market

7 Caliente Road

Flute and acoustic guitar.

4-6 pm, free

IAN MOORE

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

Guitar-centric blues-rock.

8 pm, $15

IMARHAN

Santa Fe Railyard Plaza

1612 Alcaldesa St., (505) 988-1234

A traditional Tuareg quintet with support from Orb Rider. Presented by Lensic360. (See SFR Picks, page 19)

7 pm, free

JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS

Cowgirl

319 Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565

Dance band tunes.

8-11 pm, free

JOHNNY LLOYD

Upper Crust Pizza

329 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 982-0000

Old school Americana.

6-8 pm, free

LORI OTTINO AND FRIENDS

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Folk and Americana.

5 pm, free

NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

Bluegrass and Americana from the band behind the '71 hit "Mr. Bojangles."

7:30 pm, $45-$65

PAT MALONE

Four Seasons Resort

Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Solo jazz guitar.

7-9 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave., (505) 988-9232

Rehearsed and improvised jazz.

6-9 pm, free

SIGLOS EN OLVIDO

First Presbyterian Church

208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

Soprano Melissa Montoya and guitarist Robert Baca perform traditional Spanish melodies.

5:30 pm, free

SILVER SKY BLUES BAND

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

You guessed it—blues (and a smidge of rockabilly).

8 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

7 pm, $109-$129

OPERA

TOSCA

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive, (505) 986-5900

Stage director Keith Warner takes on Puccini's tale of political intrigue, suicide and torture.

8:30 pm, $50-$366

THEATER

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

Sign up at theatresantafe.org/rsvp to join the Theatre Lovers Club in an after-show talkback with the cast and crew.

7:30-10 pm, $15-$75

RICHARD III

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576

One of Shakespeare's longest and most self-referential tales of royal intrigue.

7:30-9:45 pm, $5-$100

WORKSHOP

FRIDAY MORNING HANDBUILDING

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio

(505) 988-7687

No wheels here—it's all about pinch, coil and slab techniques.

10 am-12:30 pm, $70

SHAPER ORIGIN

MAKE Santa Fe

2879 All Trades Road

(505) 819-3502

Learn how to use the titular CNC (computer numerical control) router to cut safely.

10 am-2 pm, $85

YOUTH AERIALS WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

An opportunity to explore trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope.

5-6 pm, $19-$24

SAT/22

ART OPENINGS

CATHEDRAL PARK SUMMER

ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW SERIES

Cathedral Park

131 Cathedral Place (505) 955-2143

The Northern New Mexico Fine Arts & Crafts Guild shares its juried showcase of local creators.

10 am-5 pm, free

THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

Santa Fe Railyard Market and Alcaldesa streets

(505) 982-3373

An outdoor juried art market featuring pottery, jewelry, painting, photography, furniture, textiles and more.

9 am-2 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

HIMALAYAS: UPPER MUSTANG

Travel Bug Coffee Shop

839 Paseo de Peralta (505) 992-0418

Wilbur Norman and Carl Moore share photos and stories from their journey through Tibet.  5 pm, free

RACHEL ROSE, ELVIA WILK AND DAVID KRAKAUER

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Artists, Santa Fe Institute researchers and writers respond to themes in the ongoing exhibit Goodnight Moon

2 pm, free

SINS OF THE SYSTEM: REGINA M. GRIEGO tinyurl.com/SinsOfTheSystem

The Santa Fe Public Library hosts the author for a conversation about her memoir detailing caring for her 15-year-old nephew after he shot and killed his family.  10 am, free

DANCE

CONTRA DANCE

Oddfellows Hall

1125 Cerrillos Road (575) 387-6853

Arrive at 7 pm for a lesson, then get dancin' to the Santa Fe Megaband. All levels welcome. 7-10 pm, $9-$10

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave., (505) 209-1302 Tapas and toe taps.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

La Nuevomexicana reina de flamenco.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

ASK A MASTER GARDENER

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing, (505) 393-1196

Gardening experts on hand to answer your thorniest questions.  9 am-noon, free COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE Q/C Santa Fe Public Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6781

A queer-centric discussion of intersectionality as a framework for understanding privilege.  4 pm, free

THE CALENDAR

CONSTITUENT CONVERSATIONS

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing

(505) 393-1196

Commissioner Anna Hansen holds office hours under the trees.

10 am-noon, free

DOG DAY(S) OF SUMMER

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Meet therapy and other working dogs while checking out adoptable pups from the Española Valley Humane Society.

1-3:30 pm, free

KARAOKE WITH CAKE

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880

See what we’re saying about karaoke? It’s everywhere!

7-11 pm, free

LA TIENDA FLEA

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road

Essentially what would happen if you took all the individual yard sales happening on a given weekend and combined them.

8 am, free

NEW MEXICO ALE TRAIL

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

Local brewery samples and a complimentary beer onboard.

1:30 pm, $99

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

More floral fawning.

10 am, $12

ROCKY TUCKER'S BIRD

WATCHING TOURS

Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve

27283 W Frontage Road La Cienega (505) 471-9103

Bring binoculars and a snack to check out the wetlands’ avian inhabitants. Register in advance.

7:30 am, $5 suggested

SAND PLAY SATURDAY

Railyard Park

740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596

Kids expand creative cognition through sand, water, toys—and, apparently, kitchen utensils.

10 am-noon, free

SCIENCE SATURDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail

(505) 989-8359

Carlos Gonzales teaches young guests to make "flying tea bags." We don’t know what that means, but it sounds undeniably entertaining.

2-4 pm, free

TRIBUTE POETRY READING

FOR THE LATE GARY

BROWER

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

Sixteen Malpais Review poets honor their late publisher.

7 pm, free

TUMBLEROOT COMEDY

NIGHT

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

Tripp Stelnicki's monthly standup showcase returns with sets from Curt Fletcher, Jake BoorMorris and more.

8:30 pm, $10

FILM

SATURDAY MORNING

CARTOONS

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Nostalgic cartoons and cereal all day at the local fantasy and sci-fi specialty bookstore.

Pajamas highly encouraged.

11 am-7 pm, free

FOOD

PLANTITA VEGAN POP-UP

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Expect vegan cherry hand pies, classic blueberry muffins, cinnamon rolls and more.

9 am-1 pm, free

SANTA FE FARMERS'

SATURDAY MARKET

Farmers' Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Fresh goods from 150 farmers and producers from 15 northern New Mexico counties.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

BOB MAUS

Inn & Spa at Loretto

211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Piano and voice takes on blues and soul classics.

6-9 pm, free

CHANGO

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

High energy classic rock.

8-11 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR

CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley (505) 992-0304

King Charles and occasional guests serenade diners with vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

ELIANA O'BRIEN

Paxton's Taproom

109 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-1290

Jazz standards and originals.

7-9 pm, free

FREDDIE SCHWARTZ

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Classic rock from a New Orleans native.

2-5 pm, free

GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS

Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino

20 Buffalo Thunder Trail

(505) 455-5555

Blues-rock from the man behind "Bad to the Bone."

8 pm, $79-$89

HALF PINT AND THE GROWLERS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St.

(505) 982-2565

Swing gumbo and jazz.

1 pm, free

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JAZZ ON THE PATIO

Palace Prime

142 W Palace Ave. (505) 919-9935

Featuring Loveless Johnson III.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

JOHN HENRY MCDONALD

St. John’s United Methodist Church

1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-5397

Gospel tunes from a Vietnam vet to benefit Honor Flight of Northern New Mexico.

4-6 pm, donations accepted

RACHEL BARTON PINE

VIOLIN RECITAL

St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

All-Baroque violin works by Bach, Biber and Westhoff. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

5 pm, $47-$60

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave., (505) 988-9232

Rehearsed jazz followed by jazz jamming followed, occasionally, by special guest appearances.

6-9 pm, free

THE JAKES

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Southern rock.

3 pm, free

OPERA

RUSALKA

Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive, (505) 986-5900

The music is by Antonín Dvořák, and the story's basically a Freudian take on The Little Mermaid. What's not to love?

8:30 pm, $50-$366

THEATER

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

If you dig Sweeney Todd, this isn’t a bad bet.

2 pm, 7:30 pm, $15-$75

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The FUTURE of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

MELANIE MITCHELL is Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction, analogy-making, and visual recognition in artificial intelligence systems.

Tuesday, July 25th | 7:30 p.m.

The Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W. San Francisco Street

Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Reserve your tickets at www.santafe.edu/community

SFI’s 2023 lecture series is sponsored by the McKinnon Family Foundation, with additional support from the Santa Fe Reporter and the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

The McKinnon Family Foundation

BACKGROUND IMAGE: MONSTROUS CUBICAL CRYSTALS JOHN URI LLOYD, FROM THE ETIDORHPA SERIES. 1894

RICHARD III

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576

“Since I cannot prove a lover… I am determined to prove a villain” has to be one of the most Michael Scott-y quotes in the Shakespeare canon.

2 pm, 7:30 pm, $5-$100

WORKSHOP

HUMAN DESIGN FOR LEADERSHIP

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health 909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

Learn to use Human Design's concept of the "Not-Self" to access more expansive selfexpression.

1-2:30 pm, free

KAULA TANTRA YOGA

Bicentennial Alto Park

1121 Alto St.

Ecstatic dance, savasana and chakra-centric healing.

4-5:45 pm, $20-$45

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592

(505) 946-5700

Elementally-focused yoga designed to open (and, apparently, strengthen) chakras.

10:30-11:30 am, $18-$90

TAROT UNVEILED: JOURNEYING BEYOND THE SENSES

Prana Blessings

1925 Rosina St. (505) 772-0171

Dennis McGuire teaches you the basics of a good tarot spread, from proper layouts to energy alignment.

12-1:30 pm, $25

SUN/23

ART OPENINGS

CATHEDRAL PARK SUMMER

ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW SERIES

Cathedral Park

131 Cathedral Place

(505) 955-2143

The second and final chance to catch this session’s juried batch of local creators.

10 am-5 pm, free

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Farmers' Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Buy fine art and crafts directly from local makers, including all the goat milk-based products you could dream of.

10 am-3 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Between the karaoke and the flamenco, man, we’re running out of performance-based quips for you.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

Send help if you have more flamenco puns for us. We’re gonna need ‘em.

1:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

JOE HAYES

Reunity Farms

1829 San Ysidro Crossing

The local storyteller shares al fresco Southwestern tales. Bring your own chair. (See SFR Picks, page 19)

7 pm, free

LA TIERRA Y LAS PALABRAS

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Aaron Rudolph, Ken Hada and Alex Z. Salinas share poetry about the American West.

5 pm, free

OPEN MIC JAZZ

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Join High City Jazz Quartet onstage and bring your Billie Holiday dreams to life.

5-7 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103 Botanical bliss.

10 am, $12

SUMMER SUNDAYS HAPPY HOUR

Tumbleroot Pottery Pub

135 W. Palace Ave. (505) 982-4711

In addition to the typical drink discounts, expect price cuts on clay and live jazz from 1-3 pm.

11 am-4 pm, free

MUSIC

CHILLHOUSE WITH HILLARY SMITH

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Jazz and blues.

12-3 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Master pianist Montgomery performs in the President's Room.

6 pm, free

GARY GORENCE

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090 Storytelling folk.

2-5 pm, free

OTIS B. GOODE AND THE HONKY TONK HERETICS

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Yessir, step right up and get your honky-tonk right here.

3 pm, free

PAT MALONE TRIO

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

Guitar-centric jazz.

11:30 am-2:30 pm, free

RAVEL AND TCHAIKOVSKY

St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072 Allegros, sonatas and the string sextet “Souvenir de Florence.”

Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

6 pm, $73-$100

ROSIE FLORES

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 Flores brings over 50 years of guitar picking experience to the stage.

7-9 pm, free

SERENATA FLAMENCA

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Flamenco dance on a moving train must require some next-level coordination.

1:30 pm, $109

SUNDAY JAZZ

New York on Catron

420 Catron St. (505) 982-8900

Bagels and upright bass with Louis Levin et. al.

11 am-1:30 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Featuring Americana maestro Johnny Lloyd.

7-9 pm, $109-$129

THE AMERICAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

131 Cathedral Place (505) 982-5619

The Desert Chorale and pianist Nathan Salazar perform the work of American immigrant composers—including a world premiere.

4 pm, $20-$100

WESTIN LEE MCDOWELL

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Singer-songwriter with a jazzy bent.  1 pm, free

THEATER RICHARD III

The Actors Lab

1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576

In yet more evidence of the catchiness of even Shakespeare’s less popular works, this is also the origin of “My kingdom for a horse.”

2-4:15 pm, $5-$100

WORKSHOP

BELLYREENA BELLY DANCE

Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 670-4386 Classic and fusion techniques.

1-2 pm, $15

INTRODUCTION TO ZEN MEDITATION

Mountain Cloud Zen Center

7241 Old Santa Fe Trail

Valerie Forstman teaches the basics of simply sitting, from breath awareness to dealing with mental chatter. All levels welcome.

10-11:15 am, free

KAULA TANTRA YOGA

Bicentennial Alto Park

1121 Alto St.

Another opportunity to check in with your lower chakras.

8-9:45 am, $20-$45

KIDS' CREATIVE MOVEMENT

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Dancer Tamara Bates helps little ones explore new forms of expression through movement.

10-10:45 am, $25 for five classes

SUNDAY YOGA IN THE PARK

Bicentennial Alto Park

1121 Alto St.

Build strength (and, quite likely, lung capacity) with Vinyasa yoga.

10 am, $15

SUNDAYS WITH GESHE LA

Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 130 Rabbit Road, (505) 660-7056

Geshe Sherab discusses Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment

10 am, free

THE FOUR WILD HUNGERS Move Dance Conditioning Plus 901 West San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503

Liat Lev leads a free movement exploration of the human needs for solitude, connection, community and spirit.

3-8 pm, $90

MON/24

ART OPENINGS

ELIAS RIVERA: FROM THE THREAD OF TIME

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Colorful depictions of Indigenous communities from the late Santa Fe-based painter.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

INSTRUCTOR IMAGE PRESENTATIONS

Santa Fe Prep Auditorium

1101 Camino de Cruz (505) 983-1400

Santa Fe Workshops photography instructors Holly Roberts and Cira Crowell discuss their own work behind the lens.  8 pm, free

ROXANNE SWENTZELL

Hotel Santa Fe

1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

The Santa Clara Pueblo artist contextualizes her life and her work with clay. Presented by Southwest Seminars.

6 pm, $20

EVENTS

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Make like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and ride a dang bike.

10-11 am, $5

OPEN MIC WITH CAKE

Cake’s Cafe

227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880

All mediums welcome.

5:30-8 pm, free

SUMMER STORY TIME

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072

Story and craft time for ages 3-5.  10 am, free

FILM

VIDEO LIBRARY CLUB

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Lisa from Video Library (with assistance from her devotees) picks a film from her shelves— ranging from obscure cult flicks to blockbuster classics—to screen.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

More expert ivory tickling. 6 pm, free

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BEER MUSIC

Second Street Brewery

HASH CABBAGE

8 PM @ Rufina Taproom

JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES

Santa Fe Plaza

63 Lincoln Ave., (505) 988-1234

Storytelling folk with support from Glorieta Pines. Presented by Lensic360.

6 pm, free

QUEER NIGHT

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

A portion of sales from the nightly cocktail special goes to the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico.

5-11 pm, free

RAVEL AND TCHAIKOVSKY

St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Allegros, sonatas and string sextets. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

TUE/25 EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Santa Fe Brewing Company

35 Fire Place (505) 424-3333

A British-style pub quiz.

7 pm, free

MEOW WOLF MONSTER BATTLE

Santa Fe Plaza

63 Lincoln Ave. (866) 636-9969

The public is invited to bring their best creature costumes and dance moves.

4-9 pm, free

OPEN MIC POETRY AND MUSIC

Chile Line Brewery

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WED 7/26 -

Wednesday Night Folks - THE BANDED GECKOS

6 pm, $73-$100

SUMMER YOUTH CONCERT

SUN 8/30 -

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

BORN TWINS (DENVER) // SABLE

8 PM @ Rufina Taproom

6-9 PM @ Rufina Taproom Sunday Swing - BRYAN BAKEVICH TRIO 1-4 PM @ Rufina Taproom

St. Francis Auditorium at New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Miami String Quartet music, a performer meet-and-greet and art activities. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

10-11 am, free

ZAY SANTOS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Homegrown blues-rock.

4-6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

ADVANCED WHEEL

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Bring your throwing skills to the next level.

6-8:30 pm, $70

DEPARTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

A guide to organizing your online life as part of preparing your estate.

9-11 am, free

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Open up those chakras.

Be a modern-day bard for your fellow Santa Feans.

8 pm, free

STAND UP COMEDY CONTEST

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

No Bull Comedy asks its audience to choose the most amusing five minute set.

6:30 pm, $10

FILM

FAMILY MOVIE MATINEE

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

A surprise family-friendly screening from the library collection.

1 pm, free ROCKERS

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

A Jamaica-set, reggae-infused retelling of Robin Hood. (See SFR Picks, page 19)

6 pm, $13

SUMMER MOVIE MATINEE

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Drop by for a free screening from the library's collection. Call ahead if you’re curious about the title.

Spirit, Mel Chin, 1994

white oak, mixed tall-grass prairie plants, steel, industrial patina, sheetrock, paint, 12 x 20 x 50 feet

The Art of Change

A community dinner, gathering, and conversation with artist, Mel Chin

August 10th, 2023 5:30pm - 9pm Tickets at sfai.org

Thanks to our sponsors: VIA | Wagner Incubator

Grant Fund

Partially funded by the City of Santa Fe Arts & Culture Department and the 1% Lodgers Tax.

5:30-6:30 pm, $18-$90

TEEN/TWEEN AERIALS WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

For all those 11-15 who are curious about acrobatics, this class offers the opportunity to explore trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope.

5:15-6:15 pm, $19-$24

UNICYCLING AND JUGGLING WITH INDI

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

We know you're at least curious about that unicycle.

6:30-8 pm, $22

YOGA WITH MAURA

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Twist yourself up to unwind.

7-8 pm, $20-$25

1:30 pm, free

FOOD

SANTA FE FARMERS' DEL SUR

MARKET

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center

4801 Beckner Road

Local produce—plus a visit from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum's Art to G.O. activity truck.

3-6 pm, free

SANTA FE FARMERS' TUESDAY MARKET

Farmers' Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

A truly radishing selection of locally grown (and made) offerings.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

BOHEMIACS! HILARY AND RON

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio 652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Accordion and violin.

2-5 pm, free DR. HALL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Rock, blues and Americana.

4-6 pm, free MIAMI STRING QUARTET St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Dvořák, Schubert and Schulhoff. The Schus, if you will. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

Noon, free

WORKSHOP

HATHA YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado 198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Gentle yoga.

10:30-11:30 am, $18-$90

PRACTICING THE SIX PERFECTIONS

Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455

Explore Buddhist tools for enjoying more fruitful activities, relationships and decision-making.

6-7:30 pm, $10

QUEER BURLESQUE WITH AUDREY

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Queer folks learn to create a burlesque persona, walk a stage, strip clothing items and more.

7:30-9:30 pm, $18-$22

SLACKLINE AND POI WITH ELI Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Fire spinning and rope walking.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

My name is LuLu

I was orphaned a few days after birth and brought to Espanola Humane where I was lovingly fostered for 12 weeks. Then I went to the Puppy Patch at Ojo Santa Fe and found my person. Despite the hard start, I’m now healthy and loved.

Without you, who knows what would have happened to me?

THANK YOU for being there for little ones like me.

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Capitol Idea

BY ALEX DE VORE @sfreporter.com

I’d be hard-pressed to think of a single time in my entire life when I’ve felt particularly patriotic, though I’m all for workers taking any and all days off that are coming their way. This was hard to reconcile on the Fourth of July this year, though, as I traveled the width and length of the city in search of a late lunch with a pair of hangers-on. Santa Fe restaurants, it turns out, love the freaking Fourth, and everywhere we looked turned up naught but chains we didn’t want to visit, closed signs, near-misses and workers doing that thumb-across-the-throat gesture as we approached.

And then came Santa Fe Capitol Grill, a Southside restaurant that I’ve often brought up during “Where the heck do we eat?” convos, and that others I know have shut down. I’ve never been entirely sure why, however, other than people have their favorites and I get pretty sad when someone suggests places that aren’t among mine. Now, though, having tasted a variety of dishes from the lunch menu, I can report pretty much all good things—and the staff went out of its way to make sure we received a solid holiday meal for America’s birthday.

Like almost every other non-chain restaurant that day, Santa Fe Capitol Grill had indeed planned to close a little early. We arrived at 3:07 pm, a mere few minutes after the holiday cutoff time, but one in my party, sweating from the heat and irritable from the long journey, rushed inside to make our case. “No problem,” the host told him. “Come on in!” Now, I am absolutely not suggesting we all go around to restaurants after they close to demand service. I even tried to stop this guy from bothering the staff—I begged him! But he moved like some kind of hunger-spurred super-viper, all wriggly and blindingly fast. And he cackled as he went, even. I apologized profusely to the host as I entered, but even then the spartan but enchantingly clean interior of the restaurant beckoned with the siren call of air conditioning, of nachos and burgers and, unexpectedly, spring rolls. The incredibly kind host was pretty much just like, “Dude, it’s fine.” And so it was.

People work up an appetite when tearing through town in the heat, so we started with the appetizer menu’s seared ahi with crispy baby spinach ($17) and the aforementioned spring rolls with fresh mixed greens, basil, mint and avocado ($13). In both cases, the little Southside oasis delivered, though the spring rolls easily won the taste-off. While the ahi was indeed as fresh and tender as seemed possible, the spring rolls proved particularly tasty and refreshing. Packed tightly with fresh leafy greens, the mint gave just the right contrasting flavor to the perfectly ripened avocado, and the rice paper wrapping held up as we tore through the generous portion with reckless abandon. The included sesame sauce was a pleasant complement as well, and though we didn’t add shrimp for an additional $3, this dish

could easily work as a main for someone who did.

Choosing the main event dish felt more challenging, but did come with some great conversational fodder for the next time some jerk tells me they don’t think they like Santa Fe Capitol Grill. The restaurant has numer-

nachos with chipotle pico, red chile crema and the requisite beans and cheese ($13). For larger appetites, it’ll run $6 to add carne asada to those nachos, which looked fantastic and smelled even better. My other companion listened to his heart and ordered the 10-ounce ribeye with sides of garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus ($30). Perhaps you wouldn’t expect that at a Southside bar and grill in a strip mall, but the steak was reportedly fantastic all-around, as was the asparagus. Hot tip? Asparagus is so easy to cook well and almost always tastes fantastic, so if you see it on a menu, try it. At Santa Fe Capitol Grill, they know what to do.

I myself wanted the restaurant’s most classic item, its namesake Santa Fe Capitol burger that comes with Hatch green, bacon and cheddar. At $16, this burger was so much bigger than it has any right to be, but the real clincher was the bacon, which somehow had crispy edges and a tender inner section.

ous sandwiches for anyone’s tastes, from a turkey club sandwich ($16) and pastrami reuben, to a turkey melt with green chile and a good old-fashioned tuna melt (all sandwiches are $16, save the habañero chicken sandwich with ranch dressing, which clocks in at $15). And that’s not even getting into the entrees, like chicken fried chicken ($17), fish and chips ($17), the prime rib burrito ($19; what a brilliant idea) and Asian short rib rice noodle salad ($18). Again, I’m forced to ask why I’ve been getting bad advice about this restaurant for years. This menu is a banger.

In the end, one of my companions chose

Of course, you shouldn’t eat huge bacon burgers all the time, but some of the salads and lighter options at Santa Fe Capitol Grill have me thinking I might have to visit more often and work my way through. Oh, I’ll still get that burger when I’m too weak to fight myself, though maybe not always with bacon. Whatever happens, after our fortuitous Fourth of July sojourn—the one where the staff welcomed us in when other eateries would not—everyone can just go ahead and consider me a fan for life.

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Santa Fe Capitol Grill took great care of us when no one else could

INCREDIBLY CLEAN, GREAT SERVICE; ENTICING MENU; ANOTHER KILLER LOCAL BURGER - INTERIOR, WHILE CLEAN, IS UNREMARKABLE AND BETRAYS HIGH-QUALITY FOOD

Oh, green chile bacon cheeseburger at Santa Fe Capitol Grill—what can’t you do?

1 FOOD BANK.

9 COUNTIES.

40,000 HUNGRY PEOPLE.

WE NEED YOU.

DONATE, ADVOCATE, OR VOLUNTEER TODAY.

High food and fuel prices, increased demand, and fewer donations mean your food bank needs support now more than ever.

Visit thefooddepot.org.

We are in a real pickle, New Mexico.

Shadows and Light

Director Netia Jones takes SFO back into the mystic with Pelléas et Mélisande

ARTS

On its face, the story doesn’t veer too far from typical opera fare. Wandering in the forest in Dantesque fashion, Golaud (baritone Zachary Nelson, who delivers a riveting performance as the increasingly jealous and violent grandson of the lecherous and ill King Arkel, played commandingly by bass Raymond Aceto Aug. 9; bass baritone Ben Brady on Aug. 18) encounters the mysterious Mélisande (mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey in her SFO debut). They marry, but Mélisande soon falls in love with Golaud’s half-brother Pelléas (baritone Huw Montague Rendall, also in his SFO debut). This love triangle fares as well as most operatic love triangles do: Golaud kills Pelléas and Mélisande also dies, shortly after childbirth. Hankey’s performance is the stand-out in this show—her singing is lovely, but her acting also is visceral, embodying both loneliness and terror vividly. Well, there are no individual bad performances in this show, although the orchestra is the true musical star.

BY JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl

Iset out for opening night of Claude Debussy’s only completed opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, more fixated on what I might see rather than hear, largely because director Netia Jones’ set design for Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2021 had so wonderfully captured the esoteric magic and interplay between art and science present in both that opera and the Shakespeare play on which it is based.

So it is again for Jones’ production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, an opera adapted from the play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. As director, scenic, costume and projection designer, Jones has built out an eerie and exquisite watery, green world filled with the psychic tropes of doppelgängers, mirrors and shadows alongside intermittent holographic scientific notations. In all, the production animates the arcane nature of Debussy’s opera, while nodding to our own ailing planet and psyches.

In a “behind the scenes” video produced by SFO, Jones discusses her focus on Maeterlinck’s play as source material. Written at the end of the 19th century at a time of great change and industrialization, concerns about humanity’s relationship to nature, Jones notes, “are central in Maeterlinck’s thinking,” and “we’re very aware of nature gone wrong…there’s a lot of description of decay and a lack of freshness, a lack of fresh water or lack of fresh air. And

I think this brings Pelléas et Mélisande right up to date to our current crisis and our explorations into how to enable us to continue living without destruction.”

Debussy also found himself drawn to Maeterlinck’s play, writing that “it has an evocative language whose sensitivity could find its extension in music and in an orchestral setting.” His adaptation leaves

Maeterlinck’s text largely intact; the innovations come in the music itself, which eschews many of the facets normally associated with opera…like arias, for instance.

In his pre-opera lecture at SFO, Oliver Prezant referred to Debussy’s Pelléas as subtle; “enigmatic” seems to be another word typically associated with the work, but atypically used to describe opera.

Conductor Harry Bicket doesn’t just rise to the occasion of Debussy’s groundbreaking operatic score, he also meets Jones’ vision of a timeless—sometimes futuristic, sometimes medieval—setting. The music and visuals mesh to create a meditative and sometimes-trippy experience over the course of three-plus hours (in a good way).

Los Angeles Opera Music Director James Conlon, in a three-part recorded talk on the opera a few years back, noted one would need a multiple-day retreat to address all the various aspects of Pelléas et Mélisande. So it is with this story, in which I have yet to mention the artistic and literary Symbolist movement to which Maeterlinck belonged; the modernist era heralded by Debussy in this opera; and Richard Wagner’s ubiquitous looming presence (Pelléas et Mélisande may lack arias, but it certainly has leitmotifs). Conlon also noted Pelléas et Mélisande’s propensity to inspire lifelong obsession and “addiction,” despite being relatively unknown by most opera goers. Case in point: This season’s production is the first time SFO has mounted the opera since 1977, so catch it while you can.

PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

8:30 pm July 19, July 28 8 pm Aug. 3, 9, 18

Music by Claude Debussy Libretto by Claude Debussy adapted from the play by Maurice Maeterlinck

Sung in French with English and Spanish translation screen $40-$380, plus fees; $15 standing room

First-time NM residents are eligible for a 40% discount; call the box office in advance: (505) 986-5900 or (800) 280-4654. Dayof discounts available for students, seniors and military via the box office by phone or in person.

Pelléas et Mélisande’s scenic design by Netia Jones captivates in this year’s production.

CURTIS BROWN FOR THE SANTA FE OPERA

Left to Right; Samantha Hankey (Mélisande), Huw Montague Rendall (Pelléas), Zachary Nelson (Golaud).

CURTIS BROWN FOR THE SANTA FE OPERA

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Review

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Celebrated geriatric stuntman Tom Cruise returns to avoid acting at all costs in Mission: ImpossibleDead Reckoning Part One, a probable prequel to Dead Reckoning Part Two and the umpteenth entry in the long-running MI series of movies based on the 1960s television show of the same name.

Once again, Cruise plays Ethan Hunt, a kickass secret agent with, and this is true, the Impossible Missions Force, a clandestine branch of the CIA that employs people who got in so much trouble once that their government was like, “You can either drive your motorcycle off a cliff and parachute onto a train or we’re gonna let the super-criminals of whom you ran afoul kill you so hard.”

This time, Ethan is on the trail of a key that unlocks The Entity, a rogue sentient AI that mutated into the kind of “Kill all humans!” thing we’ve seen in films since 2001. Of course, every freaking government on the planet wants it, because this living bit of code can hack into so many mainframes it’d make a ‘90s rollerblading computer nerd shit.

Back for the mission are series regulars Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames, who are computer genius/engineer types with a shared penchant for cracking wise.

Newcomer Hayley Atwell (Captain America) joins the mission this time, too, as a globe-trotting jewel thief who picked the wrong pocket.

Dead Reckoning fails the Bechdel Test at every turn. (To pass the test, women must appear in a scene without a man and talk about something other than men. Not nearly as many movies pass as you might think.) Returning cast member Rebecca Ferguson, for example, shows up just to give Ethan the juice he needs to fight Gabriel (a pretty OK Esai Morales, whom they make shout “ETHAAAAAAAN!” in much the same way he shouted “RICHIIIIIIEEEE!” in 1987’s La Bamba), a bad dude who was somehow hired by the AI to do bombs and stuff.

Ethan, meanwhile, has pissed off the US government yet again by going rogue, which could have been an interesting wrinkle had writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (he’s behind a number of MI movies) and his fellow writers Bruce Geller and Erik Jendresen bothered to express the parallels between his actions and The Entity’s. Instead, Cruise jumps on and off shit and drives fast and does that flat-hand

ed running thing before jumping some more. Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire) plays the gov’t guy out to stop him despite his begrudging respect, while Pom Klementieff (Guardians of the Galaxy) plays a mostly voiceless assassin who…ugh, who cares? Morales sinks his teeth into evil gleefully, though, which is kind of fun, and Atwell’s not-quite-innocent superthief breaks up Pegg and Rhames’ tired ball-busting routine.

Gracefully, Dead Reckoning doesn’t end on a cliffhanger so much as a “to be continued,” though after so so many films in the series, it’s hard to keep up or care anymore. Maybe just save this one for a rainy day when we’re deeper into the WGA/SAG strike and we’ve run out of scripted content.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

Directed by McQuarrie

With Cruise, Atwell, Pegg, Rhames, Klementieff and Morales Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 163 min.

British television director Alice Troughton makes the leap to the big screen with The Lesson, a tense drama steeped in the obsessive nature of writers and writing, but one that also touches on the bizarre lengths to which some might go to achieve or keep fame.

Someplace in England, a young writer named Liam (Daryl McCormack; Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) takes on a tutoring position for the son of a massively famous author (veteran character actor Richard E. Grant; Gosford Park) and his wife (a cold and stoic Julie Delpy). Something terrible happened at the family estate where Liam finds himself working, only he might have worse things bubbling within him in his quest to not only meet his hero, but to also complete and sell his own in-progress novel.

Grant’s famous author, meanwhile, attempts to complete his latest tome while navigating the pressures of the written word. Writing, if you didn’t know, is incredibly difficult; book fans, too, have proven impatient when waiting for their favorite’s next opus. What, The Lesson ponders, is the point to any of it? What makes a good writer in the first place? “Good writers borrow,” says Grant’s character. “Great writers steal.”

Eventually, young Liam becomes embroiled in family politics, though he might be in love with drama and uses heartache to advance his own schemes. The

Lesson moves slowly and methodically by carefully dropping expositional breadcrumbs and hints, but rather than falling victim to the sometimes glacial pace of British drama, its mounting sense of dread leads to an ultimately small yet explosive showdown. At its core, the twist, as it were, examines the ego-driven responses to the vulnerable nature of creation and the heartless academia that permeates the arts. All the while, the oppressive nature of British decorum drives icy exchanges and hurtful rhetoric—stiff upper lip and all that, old chap, even as your family is grinding down to dust.

McCormack proves more than worthy of his legendary co-stars Grant and Delpy, though the latter finds the most well-rounded truths for her character and, thus, the most magnetic performance. Troughton makes constant use of mirrored imagery: reflections in water and windows and so forth to show the duality of outer politeness, inner monologue. Grant’s maniacal and reputation-obsessed author looms large, meanwhile, even if his ideas of control are so misplaced he can’t see what his own family thinks of him. Maybe he doesn’t care, at least not when compared to the adoring public. The Lesson then stings repeatedly in its ever-accelerating journey to conclusion. In the end, though the events are intense, they feel small and pointless in the most gutting way.

Why would anyone ever become a writer? Perhaps the same reason anyone ever does anything—to be loved, even if it’s only by so many strangers. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 103 min.

PAST LIVES

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+ SONG’S GORGEOUS EYE FOR DETAIL; GRETA LEE IS THE G.O.A.T.

- SOME STAGE-Y DIALOGUE

First love is a tricky phenomenon to talk about, let alone capture onscreen. Almost everyone old enough to read film reviews in their spare time will have a specific face flash through their minds on hearing the phrase. But given the experience’s near-universality, there’s little a lover or a filmmaker can say about it without sounding painfully mundane. First love, especially as remembered, lives in hyper-specific details. And it doesn’t come to those who are ready for it—the potency is tangled up in the impossibility of its timing. Those twin barriers—language and time—are the primary obstacles to Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung’s (Teo Yoo) rekindled childhood romance in Celine Song’s feature debut, Past Lives. But they’re also the main adversaries with which Song—mostly successfully—wrestles as a director.

Past Lives begins with a long shot across a bar of a woman and two men (Nora, Hae Sung and Nora’s husband Arthur) drinking together while an unseen couple speculates about the trio’s relationship. Sister, brother, friend? Wife, husband, lover? What are they to each other? This sole voiceover encourages the audience to cling to the tiniest details of the image but, before we have time to take a guess, the scene ends. It will repeat later in the movie, only from a different angle; we never have the opportu-

nity to fully retrace those first missed moments. We have to catch them as they come.

It’s a good lesson for the rest of the film, which is at its most achingly effective when Song’s camera obsesses over specificities like a lemon wedge in a saucer, hands on a subway pole, the patterns of traffic crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. Like the characters themselves, the filmmaking falters when Hae Sung and Nora try to put their feelings to words, which occasionally tips over into heightened dialogue that feels more appropriate to one of playwright Nora’s works than the intimate conversations onscreen.

But ultimately the pressure of time, not language, proves most difficult for both characters and director. Song gracefully elides the passage of first 12, then 24 years from the moment when 12-year-old Nora leaves Hae Sung in South Korea to the present day. But when the two finally do come together, their dynamic is so compelling and their onscreen meeting so comparatively brief that as the credits roll it seems as if some third part, some final meeting 36 years later, was left on the cutting room floor. Maybe that sense of absence intentionally echoes the bittersweet sting of first love. Maybe it’s simply the anxiety of an extremely methodical, early-career perfectionist director seeking relatively safe narrative ground. But if Past Lives leaves you wanting more, that seems a promise of significant future captivation to come from Song. (Siena Sofia Bergt) Violet Crown, CCA, PG-13, 105 min.

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I’m Gracefulreallyfast,fast.too.

by Matt Jones

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21 Faithful 22 Sound booster

25 Command after “copy”

26 No later than

27 Look fixedly

28 Jack Black/Kyle Gass duo

29 Olympics venue

31 Work out dough

32 ___ nous (just between us)

33 Nevada senator Jacky who used to be a computer programmer

36 Prune trees

37 MS submitter’s enclosure 40 Court charge

41 Emmy winner Goldstein

46 “Westworld” actor Brynner 49 Stoller’s partner in songwriting

51 “The Sopranos” actress ___ de Matteo

52 Short staffers?

53 Tourist-heavy Indonesian island

54 Bunches

55 Layered cookie

56 Castle protection

57 Cabot ___ (“Murder, She Wrote” setting)

58 Bendy joint

59 Transmit 60 Black Forest ___

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Rob Brezsny Week of July 19th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your deep psyche will soon well up with extra creativity and fertility. I hope you will eagerly tap into these gifts. You should assume that you will be more imaginative and ingenious than usual. You will have an enhanced ability to solve problems with vigor and flair. In what areas of your life would you love to gently erupt with a burst of reinvention? Which of your habits might benefit from being cheerfully disrupted? Give yourself permission to change whatever bores you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): My teacher Paul Foster Case said the color yellow is midway between warm, exciting red and cool, calming blue. “Yellow has an equilibrating influence,” he wrote. “It stimulates the finer functions of the brain, is of assistance in developing alertness and discrimination, and helps to establish emotional balance.” According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, you should emphasize this hue in the coming days. If you call on yellow to help strengthen the qualities Case describes, you will place yourself in sweet alignment with cosmic rhythms.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Because I enjoy joking with you, I am slightly tempted right now to give you one of the following nicknames: Fidgety, Twitch, Jittery, Quivers, or Shakes. But I will take a more serious tack. Let’s instead see if we can influence you to slow down, stabilize your rhythm, get really steady and secure, and stand strong in your foundational power spot. Would you consider adopting any of the following nicknames? Anchor, Unshakeable, Sturdy, Rock Solid, Staunch, Steadfast, Resolute.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The sometimes overly clever author Oscar Wilde said, “When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.” I reject that warped view of reality and assure you it will have no bearing on your life in the coming weeks. If you formulate your prayers with care and discernment, they will lead you to rewards, not problems. Maybe not the exact rewards you imagined, but still close to your hopes and helpful in the next chapter of your life story. (PS: No sloppy, lazy, careless prayers, please. Be precise and clear.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo theologian Bernard McGinn defines mysticism as “the consciousness of the immediate presence of God.” In other words, people having a mystic experience are filled with a visceral sensation of the divine intelligence. It’s not just an idea or concept; it’s a deeply felt communion infused with intimate tenderness. You Leos will be more likely than usual to have such contact in the coming weeks—if you want it. If you don’t want it, or don’t believe it’s real, or don’t think it’s possible, well, then, you can of course resist it. But why not give it a whirl? There’s nothing to lose, and it could be fun.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s a parable for you. Once upon a time, there was a woman who could read the future in the night sky. She regarded the planets and stars as her divine informants. On one moonless evening, she took a walk down a dirt road near her home. It was so dark she could barely see two feet ahead of her. Oops! She should have brought a flashlight. Lost in wonder, she gazed up at the heavenly bodies, watching and listening for revelations they might have for her. Then one of the lights, the planet Saturn, whispered, “Stop and look down, friend.” The woman turned her eyes from the sky to the ground just in time to find she was two strides away from stepping into a deep, muddy hole. What’s the moral of the tale? Here are some possibilities. 1. Sometimes the heights provide useful information about the depths. 2. Soaring visions may help you tune in to practical details. 3. To become aware of important facts you’ve overlooked in your daily rhythm, consult your higher mind.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A Libran writer I know received many rejection notices when he launched his career. I was amazed at how undaunted he was. In fact, he was the opposite of undaunted. He taped copies of his rejection

notices to his bedroom wall. Seeing the evidence of his failures motivated him. It drove him to improve his writing and churn out even more articles. It fueled his search for a wider array of publications that might host his work. During the fourth year of this approach, luck and fate turned in his favor. Within the next eight months, 12 of his pieces appeared in print. My muses tell me, Libra, that you need to hear this story right now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The cartoon character Bart Simpson is one of the stars of The Simpsons animated TV show. According to him, “Life is a paradox. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” While that principle may sometimes be true, I believe you will be exempt from it in the coming weeks. In fact, I suspect you will be as free as it’s possible for a human to be of grueling contradictions, frustrating oppositions, clashing truths, and paralyzing contraries. There’s a good chance you will also outwit and avoid annoying incongruities and silly arguments. Congratulations in advance, Scorpio! Take full advantage of this phase of simple clarity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The dragon has appeared in the myths and legends of many cultures. Europe, China, and Mesoamerica are just a few places where the fire-breathing flying reptiles have fascinated the human imagination. In some traditions, they are dangerous and predatory. In China, though, they have been harbingers of good fortune and symbols of great power. Emperors claimed the dragon as their special emblem. In assigning the dragon to be your soul creature, Sagittarius, I am drawing from Chinese lore. What would you like to accomplish that would benefit from you having access to fierce, dynamic, indomitable energy? Call on the dragon for help and power.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “There is a world of people who will love you for who you are,” writes author Cheryl Strayed. “A whole, vibrant, fucked-up, happy, conflicted, joyous, and depressed mass of people.” In the coming months, one of your prime tasks is to specialize in communing with these folks. Make it your intention to surround yourself more and more with interesting, imperfect, ever-changing life-lovers who appreciate you for exactly who you are—and who inspire you to grow more and more into the full idiosyncratic glory of your authentic self.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What psychic or prophet is most popular with a-list celebrities? I can assure you it’s not me. Few of my millions of readers are worldfamous. What about the planet’s most scientifically accurate astrologer? Who might that be? It ain’t me. I don’t regard astrology as a science, and I mistrust those who say it is. In my view, astrology is a mythopoetic language and psychospiritual system that nurtures our souls and helps liberate us from our conditioning. We shouldn’t try to get “scientifically accurate” information from it. Now I encourage you to do what I just did, Aquarius. Have fun telling people who you are not, what you don’t believe in, and which goals you aren’t interested in pursuing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): To come up with your astrological reports, I study the positions of the sun, moon, and planets in relation to your sign. That’s the technical part of the work, the framework within which I unleash my intuition and imagination. To augment this work, I meditate and pray, asking higher powers to guide me in providing useful information for you. I often consult books written by my favorite astrology writers. (Currently reading Steven Forrest’s The Elements Series.) I also ask my deep mind to slip me info that might not be accounted for by traditional factors. How about you, Pisces? How do you do the work that you love and care about? Now is a good time to take inventory and make necessary adjustments.

Homework: Is there anyone you love that you could or should love better?

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