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NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 THE INTERFACE 9 LESS MUCKING AROUND Santa Fe roboticist wants to use AI to help horse businesses with the dirty work TOUGH ON TALK, LIGHT ON ACTION 11 Santa Fe mayor promised strict gun laws after mass shootings, but nothing to show for it—yet COVER STORY 12 STOP, SHOP & COOK Local chefs Fernando Ruiz, Hue-Chan Karels, Jeffrey Kaplan and Jackie Gibbs take SFR shopping and share recipes for homemade meals

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SFR PICKS 16 Seven things to do in the next week

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WILL I EVER WANT TO FUCK A MAN AGAIN?

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COVER, JUNE 15: “I SELL THE CAR”

OUR MAN IN AMSTERDAM In case you Santa Fe drivers occasionally spotted a male, boyish but middle-aged citizen of the Netherlands—but you can’t tell—riding a white Brompton folding bike on your public streets since May 23, it was me. I relate to a number of observations of Spencer Windes, who in the cover story of a few weeks ago had traded his car for a Chinese-made e-bike. Good for him.

When it comes to cycling on public streets, the main problem with Santa Fe is the mentality of motorists. On a daily basis, I get yelled at from open car windows, drivers blow their horns, while I show exemplary behavior as if I were a car driver sticking to all the rules of traffic and courtesy, to no avail. Few riders have the courage to ride the public streets. How do I know this? I stop and ask them, if I can.

Safety for riders comes with numbers. Once more people show the courage to ride their bicycles on public streets, it will become more safe.

We become a force to be reckoned with.

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As this is the tourist season, I see lots of cars flying past with tags from Texas. Funny that Windes made a similar observation, not stopping himself from sharing his many observations about the horrendous behavior of visiting Texans behind the wheel.

When Windes writes about his stay in Amsterdam, he brings up a historical protest movement from the mid-1970s dubbed “Stop de Kindermoord,” which he translates as “Stop killing our children.” This I need to clarify for you readers: Unlike in Texas where ownership and promotion of guns and war weapons is major, including killing children. In The Netherlands, then and now, no one owns guns or war weapons. This is an exclusive right of the professional Army and law enforcement—and a very few criminals. “Stop de Kindermoord” was all about the prioritizing of cars over slower traffic.

LOUIS M. ULJEE ECONOMICS LECTURER, ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS

CORRECTION Last week’s cover story incorrectly stated that a proposed mining operation had been defeated. the fight is ongoing.

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ATALAYA FIRE CAUSED BY LIGHTNING, PUT OUT QUICKLY But that was an exciting Friday night for some of us.

CITY TO SPEND $1.1 MILLION OF $18 MILLION VOLKSWAGEN SETTLEMENT ON ELECTRIC BUSES Hopefully buses won’t be made by VW.

CONSTRUCTION COMING TO LA BAJADA Bringing the list of topics you’re comfortable talking to your dad about up to two. (It’s also super hot out!)

WE TOTALLY ALREADY SPENT OUR SECOND $250 TAX REBATE FROM THE STATE And we blew it all on penny whistles and Moonpies.

MOVIE SPENDING BREAKS RECORD IN NM It’s nice to diversify beyond oil revenues, but both industries need a good, thorough cleaning.

BIDEN WENT TO SAUDI ARABIA We’re not sure if it was about politics or if he’s just a huge WWE fan.

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Santa Fe roboticist wants to use AI to help horse businesses with the dirty work

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n her early 20s, Sarah Parsons worked as a groom at a racetrack and her job, she explains, “was behind the pitchfork.” She started work at 5 am and by 10 am would be finished “feeding the horses, cleaning the stalls, bathing the horses, grooming the horses.”

Now, at 60, she hires people to do the work. Or tries to, anyway.

“It’s a very difficult job,” she says. “It’s manual labor. You have to do this all the time, whether it’s raining or snowing or 100 degrees out here. It’s very hard to find people to do this. You usually end up with very young girls who are madly in love with horses.”

Kassidy Edwards, 13, fits the bill. On a very hot Friday, she and her sister Ellie, 15, were cleaning up after Rosa Del Paraiso, Parsons’ horse, at equestrian center HIPICO Santa Fe. They had driven in from Lubbock, Texas to participate in Dressage at Santa Fe I & II, a three-day event from the Santa Fe Dressage Association.

The Edwards sisters, indeed, said they did not mind cleaning up after Rosa Del Paraiso (the horse, also, did not seem to mind).

Cleaning up after one horse is one thing.

Finding people to clean up after hundreds of horses is a horse of a different color.

pate. Santa Fe Innovates Founder Jon Mertz says the virtual format created diversity in both participants—attracting people from all over the state and beyond—and ideas.

The pandemic’s impact on the employment landscape has definitely infiltrated the entrepreneurial sector.

“I think that’s the great thing about entrepreneurs,” Mertz says: “They’re flexible.

They can see some of these trends unfolding and they can jump in with an idea and see if it has traction or not.”

In the case of Muckerbot, he says, “it’s very innovative. It [was] something I hadn’t thought of, but they definitely have the experience in that marketplace. And I know when they talked to potential customers that they were able to iterate and get some good insights.”

Sansoy and Leveau surveyed 50 operators of different types of commercial horse operations, visiting five in New Mexico— HIPICO, among them. Of the four opportunities in manure management—collection, disposal, storage and utilization—they decided the first, collection, required the most labor, had thus far been the least impacted by technology and was the problem they were most equipped to solve.

According to the most recent estimates from the American Horse Council from 2017, there are approximately 7.2 million horses in the US. They each create around 50 pounds of manure a day. That adds up to more than 3.5 billion pounds of manure each day, with a declining labor force to clean it up.

While there are some automated solutions for other animals (cattle, for instance, and cats), currently, Leveau says, “there’s HIPICO co-owner Phyllis Gonzales says nothing in the autonomous solution for even before the COVID-19 pandemic, findhorses.” Sansoy notes that in a visit to Dubai ing help was an “ongoing struggle” and it’s he also learned the camel industry has a grown harder since. An experienced “stripsimilar need. per,” she says, can clean up a stall in 15 or 20 While the demand exists, Sansoy and minutes. “And that’s a good one, somebody Leveau say some technological challenges who knows what they’re doing and has been remain. Machine learning is up to the task doing it a really long time.” Sometimes, of detecting items that need cleaning and she says, HIPICO will need as many as 200 removal, but in this case will need to do so in to 300 stalls turned over in 48 hours and a dirty environment among easily spooked “we’ve struggled mightily to find [people] to animals. do this.”

“How do you make the system quiet? Do Enter Sabri Sansoy, a Santa Fe robotiyou do this when the horses aren’t in the cist and Artificial Intelligence specialist. I stall?” Sansoy says. “But sometimes you first interviewed Sansoy about three years have to do while it they’re in the stall…so ago, pre-pandemic, when he had just moved there’s lots of challenges.” home to New Mexico and had started an AI While Muckerbot would help with the meet-up group. His career has included a dirty work, Sansoy and Leveau say it will be wide variety of robot-related work across more of a collaborative robot— sectors, including film and agcobot—and still require human riculture. For example, he built labor, but of a less back-breaking sentry paintball gun robots that variety. Cleaning out stalls is just used deep learning to recognize one facet of a larger job and no one human targets and fire paintthinks anyone working in largeballs at them for Ridley Scott’s scale stall clean-up would miss Scott Free Productions. On the the job. other end of the spectrum, he’s “The way we want to position worked on projects to incorpothis is that this robot is going to rate robotics and deep learning be a multiplier of the labor force for manual labor like picking in that environment,” Leveau oranges. says. “Unless you have one horse His interest in the latter and you see the task of scooping sector prompted his new foray: poop and being there as a conrobots to help people clean up nection to your horse…and we do horse manure. The idea grew see when people have one or two out of a conversation Sansoy horses [that] can serve as a conhad with Santa Fe veterinarian nection. When you have more Doug Thal, a childhood friend, than eight...it’s just get in and get who raised the issue of “manure out…ideally, that’s the promise of management,” when Sansoy technology—we’re removing the asked him how AI could be of terrible backbreaking activities help in the veterinary field. and making life easier for you.”

From there, Sansoy teamed Indeed, Gonzales says, anyup with former Deutsch LA colthing that makes the job more efleague Fred Leveau, who works ficient for the people they hire to in product and design, and they strip, feed and “do all the things began planning Muckerbot. that help the riders get themThe two participated in selves together for the show ring” Santa Fe Innovate’s business would be welcome. accelerator program last year, Kassidy Edwards, 13, cleans up after Rosa Del Paraiso, whom she “We wish him good luck,” placing second in the final judgwas preparing to ride during dressage events last week at Santa Fe Gonzales says of Sansoy. “We love ing round. The program took HIPICO. Local AI specialist Sabri Sansoy’s newest venture, Muckerbot, it when he comes out here to take place virtually, allowing Leveau, would lend robotic skill for larger-scale manure management. pictures of manure.” who lives in Atlanta, to particiJULIA GOLDBERG

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Tough on Talk, Light on Action Santa Fe mayor promised strict gun laws after mass shootings, but nothing to show for it—yet B Y A N N A B E L L A FA R M E R a h f a r m e r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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uns are a problem in Santa Fe. So said Mayor Alan Webber in a weekly newsletter, outlining gun safety measures he intends to propose in the wake of mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, New York; and Laguna Woods, California.

“This is sickening. Saddening. Depressing.

Angering. Motivating,” Webber wrote. “We need to talk about it, and we need to do something about it. Now.” That was on May 29. Now, in mid-July, there’s been little action.

In the newsletter, Webber said he’d propose a prohibition on firearms in city buildings and public spaces, noting that despite a state constitutional provision precluding local governments from passing gun laws stricter than the state’s, the City of Santa Fe can pass an ordinance to keep guns out of city-owned or controlled spaces. He compared that idea to a similar ordinance passed in Albuquerque in 2020, and called for state lawmakers to do away with the constitutional prohibition, which he called “NRA-promoted.”

Since then, Webber has put in a legislative request with the city attorney’s office proposing to ban guns in city buildings and grounds where public school-related ac-

tivities take place—a narrower scope than his intial promise. He tells SFR the city is contacting department heads to determine which public spaces qualify, and the city attorney is evaluating a recent US Supreme Court decision that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.

Webber says his idea builds on a state statute protecting school premises, but that it doesn’t differ from what he envisioned when writing the May newsletter. (Though it does differ from what he wrote.)

“It just takes a significant amount of work to make sure you get it right,” he says. “[We’re] making sure that we don’t run afoul of either the interpretation of the state law or what the Supreme Court has now come down with.”

He says he doesn’t know when he’ll bring the proposal forward.

So, what specific problem does the Webber administration hope to fix? Asked another way: What is the nature of gun violence in Santa Fe? The Santa Fe Police Department’s records show 501 firearm-involved

cases since the beginning of 2021. That number could include lost or found firearms, guns reported stolen and other non-violent incidents. It doesn’t include shots-fired calls where responding officers find no evidence of a firearm and don’t file a report. SFPD Capt. Aaron Ortiz says he’s seen a definite uptick in firearm-involved crime in his time on patrol since 2007, but couldn’t say when it started.

A primary concern is a surge of youths with guns. Deputy Police Chief Ben Valdez says it’s spiked over the past three or four years. He pointed to the fatal July 7 shooting of Andres Griego-Alvarado, 18, in the parking lot of a smoke shop on Airport Road. Police have arrested Efren Sifuentes-Gallegos, also 18, and charged him with murder. It was the latest in a string of youth shootings.

Valdez says teens ask adults to buy guns for them or sneak them out of unsecured locations at home or elsewhere. Another key point of access is social media.

Miranda Viscoli, co-president of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence, recounts talking to kids who have shot and killed other kids and “wish they hadn’t

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pulled the trigger; they’re heartbroken about it.” She recalls asking one group in juvenile detention how quickly they could get a semiautomatic handgun.

“I was being facetious, of course,” she says.

But the kids responded seriously, saying it would take 20 to 30 minutes via Snapchat or Instagram when they aren’t locked up.

The underlying reasons for the upswing in youth gun violence, Valdez says, are myriad: glamorization of firearms in film, television and video games, lack of gun safety education and lack of parental oversight.

The COVID-19 pandemic, authorities say, also contributes to gun violence: 2020 and 2021 saw record gun sales, with 40% of nationwide sales to first-time buyers, a 2020 survey by the National Shooting Sports Foundation found. Valdez says that returning to normal routines—school, sports, summer jobs—would go a long way toward curbing youth gun violence: “Even nationwide, there has been an uptick in people resorting to violence because of frustration with everything going on.”

Addressing the gun problem in Santa Fe won’t be easy or linear.

“It’s a multifaceted problem that demands a multipronged approach,” says Viscoli. “When you have domestic violence, poverty, housing insecurity, food insecurity, a backpack full of [Adverse Childhood Experiences], kids whose parents are working two jobs and hardly ever see them—then you throw a bunch of guns in the mix, and you’re gonna get a rise in gun violence.”

For Webber, the key stumbling block is the state constitution.

“The fundamental question in New Mexico is whether we’re going to keep that constitutional provision that preempts local government from taking any action that is more stringent than the state,” he says. “Until that gets changed… we’re not really able to take direct and significant action.”

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hef Fernando Ruiz beats me to the El Paisano Supermarket at Cerrillos Road and Calle del Cielo, but I suspect it’s because he’d told me by phone a few days earlier how he “totally loves that place.”

Ruiz grew up in Arizona and spent summers at his grandparents’ ranch in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico where he was butchering goats by the time he was 10 or 11. El Paisano reminds him of his time in Mexico, and as we wander the aisles picking out ingredients for our meal, he points to particular cooking contraptions, piñatas, wheat snacks and even shaved tamarind as things you can’t likely find in just any old store.

“My grandma had this huge tamarind tree on the ranch, and we’d eat those kind of beans that came off it,” Ruiz recalls. “Tamarind is one of the main ingredients of Worcestershire sauce. See, this is the kind of stuff you’ll see in Mexican grocery stores, and I love it. Because I like to look around, you know? I don’t know what I want to eat tomorrow or next week—I want to walk around and see what looks good now.”

Ruiz came to cooking while in prison in Arizona. Working in the kitchen, he tells SFR, he realized “this is cool...this is what I want to do.”

Once free, he worked his way up through the ranks to eventually become the executive chef at Santacafé.

He also toppled celebrity chef Bobby

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Local chefs take SFR shopping and share recipes for homemade meals

Flay on his own Food Network show, Beat Bobby Flay; and Ruiz won the channel’s competitive cooking show, Chopped, in 2016.

He chooses a number of thinsliced pork steaks, two chayote squashes, a couple serrano peppers, a fistful of green onion and cilantro, a few green tomatillos and a package of corn tortillas.

We head next to a house owned by a friend of Ruiz’s who has kindly allowed us to use her kitchen. Once there, Ruiz washes his veggies and sets about slicing them into manageable pieces. The tomatillos—which Ruiz says are not quite ripe because it’ll add a brighter flavor and color— go into a blender with the cilantro and one and a half serranos, salt and pepper and, surprisingly, a few ice cubes.

“The blender can get pretty hot, so these ice cubes are going to keep the salsa from getting hot or kind of cooked,” he explains. “It’ll make it a little wet, too.”

This is the kind of salsa you could make in any blender, he notes, and within a few moments, his ingredients have meshed into a satisfying chunky sauce. It has a subtle kick from the serranos that just plain works, and the thought of it soon joining the rest of the dish is enticing to say the least.

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3. Season chayote squash and the white parts of the leftover onion with olive oil, salt and pepper.

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like to just see what’s here and then we go from there.”

It’s a simple enough plan for a chef heading into a local grocery store, but what about bone-tired household cooks on their way home from work? How simple and yet satisfying can we make it?

Could it feel a little fancy?

SFR spent time with four local professional chefs to learn how they might approach the daily task of dinner, to walk us through the shopping process and let us follow them into the kitchen. Each shared a recipe and some tips for making every dinner table sing.

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4. Grill the squash and onion.

5. Season pork with salt, pepper and dry oregano on both sides.

6. Grill on high heat for about 3 minutes each side.

7. The most important part of this recipe or ANY recipe is to SEASON YOUR FOOD!

Chef Fernando Ruiz “totally loves” El Paisano’s selection.

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so spicy that you can’t find the flavor.”

Outside, he fires up the grill before returning to slice the chayote squash, which he slathers in a little olive oil plus salt and pepper. I’m not wildly familiar with this particular gourd, but it resembles a pear in look and texture.

“It smells like rain,” Ruiz muses.

When the time comes to prep the pork steaks, Ruiz advises simplicity.

Some salt and pepper will be enough, especially since we have the salsa, but, he says, one mustn’t under-season.

Back outside, he plops the chopped green onion and sliced squash on the grill to cook first. After a few minutes, he adds the pork, which, in unison with the onion, smells dreamy. These are thin pork steaks and only take about three minutes on each side, so before I know it, we’re back inside and Ruiz has plated the food alongside a few stove-heated corn tortillas. All told, with prep time, it took about 40 minutes to make, and as I dive headfirst into the melange before me, fully ignoring how I haven’t eaten pork in, like, six or seven years, the power of food compels me.

“Simple, right?” Ruiz says. “People overthink it, but you don’t need to do that with food—a dish doesn’t need 30 ingredients. We had this ready in under an hour, and it’s the kind of thing you could take to a barbecue or a Super Bowl party, and people will just rave about it.

Everybody’s always going to want a taco.”

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Ruiz says seasoning is key for any food.

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he Santa Fe Asian Market is still a fairly new business, and when I meet chef Hue-Chan Karels there on a Monday just after noon, even she is mildly surprised to see the store carries morning glory, or as Karels calls it, water spinach.

“It’s almost like a little treat,” she says, placing what appears to be a rather large bushel in her basket. “And it’s also going to shrink down like spinach when we cook it.”

Perusing the small but notable veggie section in the St. Michael’s West shopping center store, Karels selects a package of mini king oyster mushrooms and another of enoki; some fresh ginger and three Japanese eggplants, some baby bok choy and fish sauce, plus some Thai basil, a decidedly sweeter version than Italy’s that comes alive with complex licorice-like flavors the more you chew it.

“We’re going to get three dishes out of this,” she says of the haul.

Karels is the chef behind Santa Fe business Open Kitchen, a combination teaching space/eatery that specializes in helping folks learn how to cook across various cultures while also fostering a deeper appreciation for those cultures and gaining a little bit of togetherness. Her family arrived in the states from Vietnam when she was just 9, and her education as a chef was, as she says, “all home-taught.”

Karels was the pastry chef at her family’s restaurant in Lansing, Michigan, by the time she was 15—leaning into recipes from her family, including her grandmother, who spent some time learning pastries at the Cordon Bleu in Paris. Today, roughly eight years into her Santa Fe sojourn, Open Kitchen has become a powerhouse operation that empowers folks through cooking across multiple public and private classes.

Back in the professional kitchen at Open Kitchen, she sets about washing the veggies with an assist from an employee, chopping and cubing the eggplant and getting a bit of rice cooking. As she tends to the other items like the ginger and the garlic, she rattles off handy kitchen tips about how using a regular old kitchen spoon to peel ginger makes the job easier, or if you stick the tip of a wooden spoon handle into heating oil, you can check to see if it bubbles and is therefore hot enough.

“I just like that cooking means you can be creative and self-reliant or hospitable to guests,” she says. “A lot of the world opens up when you know how to cook.”

As she slices a carrot, she explains that much of her philosophy for Asian cooking is about feel, taste and color.

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Hue Chan Karels

Chef Hue-Chan Karels’ philosophy for Asian cooking is about feel, taste and color.

thinly sliced into rings, and several sprigs of fresh cilantro for garnish

The Steps: 1. Cut up eggplant and set aside.

2. Mix the next four ingredients in small bowl and set aside.

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4. Add minced garlic and cook for another minute.

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1 1/4 pounds unpeeled eggplant, cut into 1-inch cubes—about 6 cups

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1 tablespoon fish sauce

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2 teaspoons pure cane sugar or honey

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2 teaspoons oyster sauce

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2 tablespoons vegetable oil

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cup thinly sliced onions

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2 teaspoons minced garlic

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cup vegetable broth

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1 scallion (whites and greens),

3. Heat a cast iron pan over medium-high heat. Add vegetable oil then sliced onions. Sautée for about 5 minutes until fragrant and slightly brown.

5. Add eggplant to the onion/garlic mixture—sautée until lightly browned and tender, about 10 minutes.

6. Add the next four ingredients, stir and cook for another 5 minutes.

7. Reduce heat to medium and add vegetable broth, cook for another 10 minutes, and stir periodically.

8. At this point, the eggplant should have caramelized and have a nice brown appearance.

9. Taste and adjust seasonings if desired.

10. Remove from heat and transfer to a serving platter. Garnish with cilantro sprigs and green onions.

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“You want color, and this is how a lot of Asian dishes were created,” she says.

Failure, Karels notes, is part of the process—but think of it more like experimentation.

“People get timid in the kitchen and ask things like, ‘Is it OK if I add another mint leaf?’” she says. “What’s going to happen if you do? You find out you like it? Great. Or if you don’t, then you know.”

Finally, we get to the morning glory, which Karels and her assistant break apart by hand instead of chopping. Once completed, it still looks like too much, but as she sautées it in a little oil, a little water and a sauce she’s made with leftover white wine and some fish and oyster sauce, it cooks down to a tender bit of roughage that smells and looks delicious.

We end up with three complete dishes, which we eat right there in the kitchen.

“We’ve coined the phrase ‘culture to table’ at Open Kitchen,” Karels says. “Everybody knows ‘farm to table,’ they know what that means, that’s great, but ‘culture to table’ is more about getting a feel for the cultures your food is coming from.

That’s what it’s about. That and bringing people together.” (ADV)

Roasted Shishito and Spinach Risotto with Sautéd Red Trout

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1. Have all your ingredients ready before beginning (mis en place).

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12 ounces vegetable stock

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1 trout filet

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5 ounces shishito peppers with the stems removed

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1 bunch spinach with the stems removed

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a Montañita’s produce isn’t overflowing when chef Jeffrey Kaplan walks in the door on a Monday afternoon.

It’s the last day of his work week and he’s still wearing a blue button-up from Rowley Farmhouse Ales as he makes his way between Santa Fe ladies shopping with woven baskets in the store on Alameda.

He takes a quick walk through the vegetables and makes a beeline for the meat and seafood cases lining the back of the market.

“I like to start with the protein and build the meal around that,” Kaplan says, bending close to the glass to look at fish on display, then choosing a trout filet from Above Sea Level.

(Pro tip: Look for a translucent, bright quality on the fish in the case. Fish that look more dull or appear to have a film are less fresh.)

He finds the short-grained rice in the bulk aisle, then heads back to the produce aisle, where spinach, Italian parsley and shishito peppers make their way to the basket. The total time in the store is 10 minutes and we’re off to the restaurant’s tight kitchen off Maclovia Street.

Kaplan’s advice for home cooks is the same for his staff as the dinner rush takes off: first things first. Wash what needs washing. Chop what needs chopping. Grab the oil and the spices and the pans and utensils you need. Thank the French for the phrase “mise en place,” which translates to “everything in its place.”

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2. Heat sauté pan over medium high heat.

Add 1 tablespoon olive oil and sweat the shallots until slightly translucent, about 1-2 minutes. Add the arborio rice and toast for an additional 1-2 minutes.

While carefully stirring add 4 ounces of the white wine. Keep stirring until the wine has been absorbed by the rice and then add 4 ounces of the vegetable stock. Continue to stir regularly while the rice is cooking and absorbing the stock.

3. Start the second sauté pan over medium heat.

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Jeffery Kaplan

“Even though the rice takes 20 minutes, it needs attention,” Kaplan explains.

“So if we spend five to 10 minutes making sure everything is ready to go, you don’t have to worry about it. That’s where a lot of home mistakes can happen.”

Everyone who’s picked up cooking tips from competitive television shows knows it’s not hard to mess up risotto. But Kaplan argues it’s also not hard to make it work out just fine even if you mess up a little.

“Most of cooking is not Chef Jeffrey Kaplan advises home cooks to handle prep before rocket science, a little change they start firing up the burners. here and there is not going to be the end of the world,” he Kaplan earned an associate’s degree at the says. “Everybody, in my opinion, should know how to cook risotto, how to California Culinary Academy and returned cook pasta…Risotto is the mole of Italy, every- to school later for a bachelor’s with courses in hospitality management as he cooked body’s grandma makes it.”

At the most basic level: Kaplan first toasts through his early career on the left coast. His rice in a skillet, then adds liquid until it dries move to Santa Fe 12 years ago started in a hotel, but six years ago he launched the front into the rice, then repeats the process.

“You keep adding and tasting until the rice of house and created the menu for Rowley feels like the texture you like. You want to still Farmhouse Ales, with chemist and brewer have a separateness of the rice. It can be al John Rowley in charge of the beer side. The dente, does it bite through or does it schmear menu focuses, he says, on “comfort food. Like inside your mouth?...Some people like it the dishes you grew up with in a fun way.”

Follow his recipe for success on this dish, cooked less. How do you like it?” he says. he says, but have fun, too. (Julie Ann Grimm)

6. Back to the trout. After just a minute on the flesh side, carefully remove the fish from the pan and return the pan to the stovetop. Add another tablespoon of olive oil and add the shishito peppers.

Allow them to cook 2-3 minutes or until they become slightly charred. Add the minced garlic and cook for just a minute.

(Careful, the garlic can burn easily at this point!)

4. Lightly season the flesh side of the trout, then add 1 tablespoon olive oil to the pan, and place the fish in the pan skin side down. Cook on this side for 2-3 minutes or until the fish easily comes free from the pan.

5. Add a couple more ounces of stock to the rice while continuing to stir.

Repeat this process of adding liquid and allowing it to absorb while keeping it moving until the rice is finished (about 20–25 minutes depending on the temperature.)

7. Add the spinach and sauté until completely cooked, 1-2 minutes. Add the remaining white wine to vegetable pan to deglaze it.

8. Add the rice to the vegetables along with the remaining stock. Add the parsley and salt and pepper while allowing everything to cook together for a moment. Add the butter to create the sauce with the remaining pan jus.

9. Cut the fish in half and top with lemon zest.

Jackie Gibbs

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2. Remove from bag again, then peel the charred skin. Slit open and remove the seeds.

Put equal amounts of the two cheeses in each. Wrap tight, then impale with skewers or toothpicks to hold them together.

Chile Rellenos You’ll Need: Roasting a few poblano peppers on the gas-top grill is A-OK.

have a lot of money.” The final charge of $26.99 to craft a from-scratch meal for a fictional family of four doesn’t break the bank.

She moves around one of the YouthWorks kitchens off Camino Carlos Rey with an ease only those with years in the culinary world can muster. Similarly, she switches from chef talk to plain-tongue talk seamlessly, and as she explains concepts that might go over a food layman’s head, she makes them understandable and works in a calm, cool manner.

Gibbs starts by placing the chiles directly over a gas flame, where she keeps them roasting until they are scarred. Once they’re set, she drops them into the same plastic bag we used to carry them home from the grocery

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efore all this, I had no meaning,” Jackie Gibbs, YouthWorks culinary program director, says nonchalantly as she drops six poblano chiles into a plastic bag. “Since I started at YouthWorks, I’ve found meaning.”

She always brings it back to YouthWorks, the organization founded by Melynn Schuyler in 2001 for at-risk youths. The org has been pivotal to her life’s foundation, and Gibbs’ youth was hardly picturesque. By the time she joined the local program at 16, she’d been living on the street. YouthWorks, she says, saved her life. Now, as one of the many organizational heads, Gibbs wants to unlock the power of food in helping young people discover their hidden talents.

For her dish, Gibbs selects chile rellenos with Mexican rice and calabacitas.

“I’m not gonna go buy a bunch of expensive, fancy food,” she notes at Food King on St. Mike’s as she fills the cart with canned vegetables and the cheaper bags of rice.

“I didn’t have any of that growing up—the youths don’t have any of that, so that’s not the kind of stuff we’re gonna be cooking [at YouthWorks], anyway.”

Gibbs is familiar with Food King, one of the more affordable grocery stores in town because, she says, “I don’t

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Making a plan on the way into the store works for Jackie Gibbs, YouthWorks culinary program director.

store. As she ties off the handles, the bag fills with steam.

“That’s a trick to soften them up,” she explains.

“Don’t do it too long, though, or they’ll get soggy.”

Once satisfied, Gibbs seeds the chiles and stuffs slices of colby jack and a white queso we’d procured at Food King within. Then it’s on to the rice, which she browns in canola oil, water, tomato paste and diced tomatoes. With salt, pepper, garlic and cumin, the rice comes together simply, but wonderfully.

Gibbs works like hell to get the batter for the dish just right, breaking to stir egg whites into firm peaks or to heat the oil she’ll use presently. She covers the peppers in flour, then batter, and then she gets to frying. She’s created an iconic New Mexican meal, and damn, suddenly I’m wishing my own mother had the cooking skills Gibbs has when I was growing up.

“We try to train [youths] in everyday, traditional ways, because not everyone has Ninjas or a mixer in their home,” she says. “Food gave me a way to take constructive criticism I never had growing up. A lot of times, you can fix food even when it seems bad; my self-esteem has changed; I can see the impact it has on people at YouthWorks— how it helps them grow. Because these kids just need a little boost, a little hand-up. Don’t wait for the system. Volunteer. Do it yourself. Show these kids what’s possible.” (Riley Gardner)

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4 large eggs

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3 cups water/broth

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2 teaspoons salt (to taste)

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1 teaspoon pepper (to taste)

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2 teaspoons cumin

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16-ounce can tomato sauce

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16-ounce can diced tomato

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2 yellow squash

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3 zucchini

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1 yellow onion

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The Steps: 1. Remove poblanos from plastic bag, set aside (do not dispose).

Roast poblanos over a low open flame until blistered (3-5 minutes). Remove from heat, place in plastic bag and seal tight. Let steam 5 minutes.

3. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan (pick one with a lid). When the oil is hot on medium-low heat, add the rice. Stir it a bit and let it become a golden brown. Add salt, pepper and cumin and cook for about a minute. Mix and add tomato sauce and diced tomatoes, then add water/brother.

Reduce heat and cover, let that simmer for about 30 minutes.

4. Slice squash and zucchini into half-moon shapes and dice the onion. Heat two tablespoons of oil in a sautée pan on medium heat. When heated, add the vegetable mixture. Sautée until onions are translucent and vegetables are softened and browned. Add salt and pepper to taste. When done, remove from heat and stir in the corn.

5. Separate egg yolks and egg whites in two separate bowls.

Add 1 tablespoon of flour into the egg yolks and mix together well, until blended.

Whisk the egg whites vigorously until you’ve got firm peaks—a whipped-cream like consistency (be patient, this can take a bit and use up a lot of energy). When done, fold in the egg yolk mixture into the firm peaks (be gentle).

6. Generously cover the bottom of a pan with oil on mediumhigh heat. Roll the poblanos in flour, then coat them with batter. Gently place the chiles in the pan, let them cook 2-5 minutes on each side—you want them to look golden brown. Flip carefully and cook on the other side.

Whole thing should look, feel and sound crispy. Remove from heat.

7. Top with chile and cheese.

Plate and look fancy.

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FARMERS ONLY We’re loving this trend of queer-centered nights popping up all over Santa Fe, and we’re extra loving that this particular night pops off on the farm. Reunity Resources has proven itself quite the ally to the broader community with a fridge crammed with food for those who need it, a plot of land run by Indigenous folks and a series of summertime concerts and parties and such. Last time we visited, they’d just poured the concrete for a stage/dancefloor kind of area, too. At Queer Night, find DJ The Muse spinning hot jamz for your socializing pleasure—and you can even bring your kids along to hang out. Hey, Reunity?

Nice. (Alex De Vore) Reunity Queer Night: 6 pm Thursday, July 21 Free. Reunity Resources Farm 1829 San Ysidro Crossing, (505) 393-1196

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DANCE FRI/22 YOU’VE GOT ONE SHOT

A New Zealand dance troupe adds Santa Fe to their limited world tour We can bet good money few of you readers have ever seen anything quite like Black Grace. Founded by dancer Neil Ieremia in 1995, this New Zealand-based troupe introduces audiences around the world to traditional Samoan dances. But don’t misunderstand—this isn’t the kind of thing you’ll find at a resort catering to tourists for hundreds of bucks a show. Black Grace is a first-of-its-kind performance that blends modern contemporary dance into Indigenous movement traditions. The results speak for themselves, and now Santa Feans can see Black Grace locally for the first time ever, thanks to the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet.

“It’s not only highly physical, it’s very moving,” Tom Mossbrucker, artistic director of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, tells SFR. “It relates to a lot of things that are going on in the world right now. [The company] is quite noted everywhere, but this is their first arrival in Santa Fe.” A Black Grace show is a constant display of movement, like an avalanche of energy that touches down on multiple fronts. The dancers explore masculinity as well as an entire suite punctuated with the music of Vivald; they dance to express the loss of traditional Samoan culture and the anxiety and frustration spawned by a world chang16

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ing beyond our control. The show’s romantic elements are contrasted by explorations into the dancers’ personal spheres, including tough topics like childhood abuse. They dance for happier things, too, mind you, and the slap dancing, stomping and chanting grows beyond a mere cultural showcase to broach subjects that Indigenous people in New Zealand experience daily.

Still, the performers celebrate the artistic triumphs of their people. Look carefully to see powerful individualism amidst a strong collective foundation.

“We’re thrilled to be back to live performances too, given everything that’s happened in the past few years,” Mossbrucker continues. “And Black Grace is only hitting three spots in the United States, Santa Fe being among them, and they are one of the most prestigious international dance companies out there.”

Who knows if Santa Fe will be graced with their presence once again?

(Riley Gardner)

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BLACK GRACE: 8 pm Friday, July 22. $36-$94 The Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W. San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

WORKSHOP SAT/23 WORK IT AT THE WORKSHOP We’ve been enamored with the local stationary champs at the Pushpin Collaborative Co. since it first flared into existence, and seeing as how we believe that everyone can be an artist, we’d like to point out that they’re hosting a workshop. This weekend, make your way over to the Midtown shop/learning space to learn how to make cyanoprints on paper. What does that mean, you might ask? Well, it’s more complicated than what we’re about to say but, in a nutshell, participants will learn how to create cards, prints and more using botanicals from the shop’s gardens. By the time you leave, too, you’ll have items you can keep or gift or put in the mail or whatever else. Imagine how satisfying it’ll be to tell people you sent them a card you made your damn self. (ADV) Cyanoprint on Paper Workshop: 10 am-2 pm Saturday, July 23. $80. Pushpin Collaborative Co. 1925 Rusina St. Ste D, (505) 372-7728

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To fill a tome with the names of notable artists who came out of Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts would be quite the task, so it’ll just have to suffice for us to say the school straight-up generates fire creators.

That is why, when the powers that be down at the school tell you they’re opening up the campus’ Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery for a special one-off event featuring 2023’s MFASA cohort, you take note and do your best to get over there. Artists like Shane Henderson (Navajo), Carmen Selam (Yakama and Comanche), Angélica Garcia and many more make up Finding the Center, and believe us when we say these are the very names you’ll start seeing up in lights in the coming years. Feels good to get in on something early for once.

(ADV) Finding the Center: 5-7 pm Friday, July 22. Free Institute of the American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2300

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THEATER SAT/23-SUN/24 WINTER IN THE SUMMER It goes a little something like this: The maybe not-sogood King Leontes starts to think his pregnant wife Hermione might be screwing around behind his back.

So, like any sane person would do, he throws her in jail, murders their son and sends infant daughter Perdita into the freaking countryside to be raised by sheep-herding folk (sometimes known as shepherds).

After some number of years goes by, Perdita returns because of, like, love or something, and maybe there’s magic, but also that dude threw his wife in jail and killed his son. Families, as it turns out, can be rough.

This is The Winter’s Tale, and a new production from the folks at International Shakespeare Center through the New Mexico Actors Lab. How you slap so hard, Shakespeare? (ADV) The Winter’s Tale: 7:30 pm Saturday, July 23 and 2 pm Sunday, July 24. $10-$50. New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533

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MUSIC TUE/26 THE ABSOLUTE BEST If you’ve somehow missed out on Metalachi during any of the band’s previous Santa Fe shows over the years, then shame on you. A glorious combination of metal and mariachi, the band of unruly misfits makes traditional sounds new again with a deep reverence for both the mariachi and metal forebears who made it all possible. You’ve not lived until you’ve caught a tuba blasting out the riffs from “Crazy Train,” and some of those Metallica jamz are so much sweeter than the original band it’s not even funny. Look, we’re telling you firsthand that this is one of those shows you can’t possibly regret. Prepare thyself for the onslaught. (ADV) Metalachi: 6 pm Tuesday, July 26. Free Santa Fe Plaza, 100 Old Santa Fe Trail, ampconcerts.org

Experience performances by some of the world’s most renowned and influential artists — Stars of American Ballet, Joshua Redman, Hélène Grimaud, Emerson String Quartet, Mark Morris Dance Group, and dozens of others—at iconic venues across Santa Fe.

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MUSIC TUE/26 & THU/4 GLOBAL MUSICAL CHAIRS Spanish, Arab, Jewish and North African musical traditions comprise the first of three programs presented in the Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s 2022 Summer Festival, Pilgrimage: Songs of the Mediterranean Basin. The repertoire brings love, lament, celebration and longing through both sacred and secular music from each region, notably including the deeply moving setting of Abun D’bashmayo (The Lord’s Prayer) sung in Aramic.

Moroccan musician Fattah Abbou joins the 24-member ensemble in the final segment and leads a call-and-response trio of songs accompanied by rhibab and banjo.

The crowd might be mostly seniors, but these singers are young and immensely talented. Support the future of top-notch choral singing. (Julie Ann Grimm) Pilgrimage: Songs of the Mediterranean Basin: 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 26 and Thursday, Aug. 4 $12.50-$50. Christo Rey Catholic Church 1120 Canyon Road, desertchorale.org

Stars of American Ballet I Friday + Saturday, August 5 + 6, 2022

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else can men be allies to women (or those affected directly by the overturn)?

-Cis and Concerned

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WILL I EVER WANT TO FUCK A MAN AGAIN? I can only assume you’ve heard the bad news?

Thanks to the (less) Supreme (than a Taco Bell Crunchwrap) Court recently overturning Roe v Wade, those of us with uteruses no longer have ownership of our bodies and are steeped in sadness. The kind that makes it hard to speak. We are engrossed in sisterhood (and non-cisterhood) while feeling more alone than ever before. We are rapt with fear, but still we march in the streets. “Where are the men?” we scream, only to be met with silence. We are reminded that this absence of responsibility and unwillingness to engage with the very people for whom this decision truly matters feels a lot like what many face when considering abortion in the first place. And so, I turned to the community to see what is hitting them hardest and what questions they might have.

And I have one of my own after addressing some of these concerns: Will I ever want to fuck a man again?

People who can get pregnant almost always have the responsibility of pregnancy management. That responsibility includes the mental load of researching and sourcing birth control options, paying for birth control or abortions and managing the emotional component of risking pregnancy as part of one’s sex life. Often the financial load can be significant. (My first IUD was $500 and had to be paid completely out of pocket as it wasn’t covered by my insurance at the time).

Do you have some suggestions for how men can offer to share the burden of this responsibility without coming across as being controlling over a woman’s choices?

-Sick of Doing it Alone It should never be this way, yet somehow it almost always is. When I say the patriarchy runs deep, it runs deeeeeep, y’all. This must change.

If you are someone who can make someone pregnant, you have an equal part in the consequences of that, right? But at the same time, you do not have an equal part in what happens to someone else’s body. So, let’s streamline it for the sperm generators out there: Your job is to look for the gaps and where/how you can fill them. OK, you can’t take emergency contraception, but you can pay for it. You can’t have an abortion, but you can procure transportation, care and access to a safe procedure.

You can’t control someone else’s body, but you can control your own fertility. Have you considered getting a vasectomy? You should.

I personally have decided to get a vasectomy. They are low cost $0-$1,000 in most places and covered by many insurance plans (Planned Parenthood can do them!). How

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I just have to say that we stan men like this!

We fuck men like this! As all marginalized communities know, the expectation to take immediate action while simultaneously being told you are less than human is the ultimate mind-fuck. So, your decision to take action is a valuable and fantastic place to start. Have you told your friends and family about your decision? That is an integral part of doing the work. Just like anything that is highly stigmatized, the more we have these conversations, the more normalized and accepted things become. Some of the best advice I ever received about grief, which is what the uterus-havers in your life are very likely experiencing, is that “radical simplicity is everything right now.”

What can you do to remind someone they are still human in a simple, yet impactful way?

Maybe even ask them.

Do you think it’s a real possibility that we could lose access to all contraceptives? If so, what would “safe” sex look like?

-Celibate Until Further Notice Uhhh, yes, I do—and let me tell you why: trigger laws, trigger laws, trigger laws. The Guttmacher Institute, a research organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health, cites that 26 states are currently “certain or likely to ban abortion,” and 13 of those states “have laws in place that are designed to be ‘triggered’ automatically or by quick state action if Roe no longer applies.”

A prime example is the Missouri trigger law, which was so unclear about contraceptives that former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill took to MSNBC a few weeks ago to share her outrage. (You may have seen the video online). The Missouri Independent, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news org, also reported that Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City was no longer providing emergency contraception, citing the “ambiguous nature of Missouri’s trigger ban.” Missouri’s Gov. Mike Parson and Attorney General Eric Schmitt ended up walking that back in the end, but the statute remains unclear—which is terrifying.

I think the future of safe sex remains unclear. It could look a lot like abstinence with sex toys, more anal, oral, hands and feet with partners. My hope is that “safe” will also mean bringing things into a long overdue balance, and maybe that is the one teeny, tiny speck of silver lining in this dumpster fire. Will I ever want to fuck a man again? Sure, but from now on I will only be fucking the men I truly want to fuck. Many of you know what I mean by that and if any of you men don’t, you’re probably about to find out.

Layla Asher is a local sex worker on a mission to spread radical self love to her community and the world. Want to ask your local sex worker their expert opinion on something? Let’s have a sex positive conversation that keeps respect and confidentiality at the forefront and judgment a thing of the past. Please submit your questions to thenakedlayla@gmail.com and include an alias that protects your anonymity.

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ONGOING ART 22 FABLES Smoke the Moon 616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com GL Richardson portrays the cowboy spirit of the West, while stripping him of his ego.

Noon-4 pm, Thurs-Sun, free BROOM ROOM El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Julia Tait Dickenson likes to turn things into brooms. Honestly, that’s a skill.

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free COLOR AND NAVIGATION Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Mary Vernon’s paintings evoke memory and wry humor.

10 am-5 pm, free COMING HOME AGAIN Peyton Wright Gallery 237 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-9888 Works by modernist Peter Miller. We love ourselves some good modernism.

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free CONVERGENCE, RECENT PAINTINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Gebert Contemporary 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-1100 A solo exhibition by Robert Stivers, who is known for his haunting photographs exploring color, depth and movement.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

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DWELLINGS OF THE MINDS Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 A group exhibition featuring new paintings by Santiago Perez, Matthias Brandes, Vincenzo Calli and Jorge Leyva. Here, dwellings have personas, nature is home and houses fly.

10 am-5 pm, free LOVE BY DESIGN Gaia Contemporary 225 Canyon Road #6 (505) 501-0415 New work by Amy Donaldson.

10 am-5 pm, free PACIFIC Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 A combination of large-scale canvas works and smaller-scale works on paper, inspired by the vast horizons and water flow of the Pacific Ocean.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free PORTALS Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Oil and watercolor paintings by Colleen Z Gregoire, who invokes a sense of home in her works.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri 10 am-2 pm, Sat & Sun, free SATURATION POINT Globe Fine Art 727 Canyon Road (505) 989-3888 New creations are our reservoir of beauty in the face of what's bleak. Lift your spirits and take a soothing gallery bath of inspiration at Globe Fine Art. Featuring the newborn works of Karen Haynes and Carolyn Cole.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat 11 am-5 pm, Sun, free SEDUCTION BY CENTIPEDE Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 You’re just trying to do you think and a giant centipede crawls out of you to represent your deeper human desires. That’s why these paintings are awesome.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free SHADES OF RED Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355 It's summer. Red means heat.

It also means art. Placitas Community Library brought together artists inspired by the color and the season.

10 am-5 pm, Wed, Thurs, Sat 10 am-7 pm, Tues 1-4 pm, Sun, free

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“Happy Horse” by Matthias Brandes, on display at Nüart Gallery as part of Dwellings of the Minds.

THE PICTURE POSTCARD No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org An exhibition of 20th Century photo postcards, curated by Justin Rhody.

On view during events or by appointment, free TIME TRAVELER: ASTRONAUTS, SPACESHIPS, ALIENS, PLANETS… Edition ONE Gallery 728 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385 A photo series constructing imaginary, cosmic worlds.

1-5 pm, Thurs, Fri, Sun, Mon, free

DECONSTRUCTED PORTRAITS Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 Portraiture exploring Mexican culture.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

DANCE EL FLAMENCO: SPANISH CABARET El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Classic flamenco in a Santa Fe summer. You know it’s nice.

7:30 pm, Wed-Sun, $25-$43

LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 La Emi and company have an updated show for the season.

8 pm Wed-Sat 2 pm Sun, $25-$55

THEATER PERICLES New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533 An odyssey of a father and daughter.

Thurs & Fri, $10-$50

THE WINTER’S TALE New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533 A Shakespeare work originally considered a comedy, but now seen as a romantic work. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 7:30 pm Sat 2 pm Sun, $10-$50 CALL ME A PUSSY Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 Performance artist Laura Stokes brings a solo performance that is sexy, satirical and subversive.

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Though every museum on Santa Fe’s Museum Hill has proven popular for those who live here and those who don’t, the Museum of International Folk Art (710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204) has to be one of the more major draws for the most museumy of all local hills. And yeah, it was a bit of a shock that longtime Director Khristaan Villela moved on to Los Angeles’ Getty Research Institute in May, but it’s in good hands with Interim Director Kate Macuen. Macuen also took over the director of collections position at the museum in November and comes to Santa Fe after 12 years with the Seminole-focused Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum in Clewiston, Florida. She stepped into the interim role in June. We spoke with Macuen to gather insight into her love of museums and her new role, including what the heck a museum director actually does. (Alex De Vore) OK, so what’s with you and museums?

I feel like I’m a bit of—well, I don’t want to say oddball, but I knew when I was 16 that it’s what I wanted to do when I grew up. It started with this class in junior high where we could study anything we wanted, we just had to find a community mentor to help us.

I decided for some reason that I wanted to make this reproduction dress from the Civil War. My mom was a quilter, so maybe that was the influence. Anyway, my mentor was someone who worked at Colorado State University in the textiles department, and I remember walking in and her showing me dresses from the 1860s; and she gave me my own pair of white gloves, pulled out these dresses, and talked to me about how it could be a career—you can work for a museum, you can care for things that are important to people.

I remember walking away from that meeting and telling my mom, ‘That was so great!’ And my mom said I should reach out to our local history museum in Fort Collins to see if I could volunteer there. So I did, and they had an opening for their education program. I got involved and that was my first museum job. Loved it.

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Give us an idea of what the interim job entails. For example, will you play a role in curation, or is it more about support and administration?

I’m still doing some director of collections work as I’ve stepped into the interim position, and it’s about being support for all departments at the museum, including collections, of course, so I’m still playing a role in some of the day-to-day collections work. It’s working with our curatorial team, with our education team and supporting their programs and initiatives. It’s really overseeing the day-to-day, but also looking forward as well. In an interim position, I feel like the job is to keep the boat steady and moving forward as best as possible until a new director is appointed, but we just did this really big strategic refresh for our next five years, and there are a lot of amazing things in that plan that the staff has developed and grown toward. Even in this interim position, I feel like it’s my responsibility to help move towards the new goals the staff has set out.

Before you work somewhere you think you have an idea of an institution, and now that I’ve been here for, well, not very long— since November—it’s been just so exciting.

My colleagues are doing incredible work.

They’re innovative and creative and it’s really fun to be a part of that. Being in this position, I get to see more of that because I’m working more closely with seeing people’s ideas come to life. There is so much to love about folk art, though, I think, it can be a really hard thing to define. I think what I love about folk art is that it’s so much of everything, and it can be...we’re talking about ghosts and demons in our Yokai exhibit, or you go into the Girard Gallery, and it’s this explosion of everything from around the world. I think everyone can find something that speaks to them in the space, and the support for MOIFA is incredible, from the volunteer base, the friend groups, the foundations that are huge advocates. It has this special place in people’s hearts.

Is there anything to which you’re particularly looking forward?

In January we have a new exhibit that’s going up called La Cartoneria Mexicana, and it’s about Mexican paper and paper mache, and this will go into our Hispanic Heritage Wing where we currenrtly have [the exhibit] Musica Buena. Not only are these pieces so incredible and bright and amazing, but we really pulled from our permanent collection, which I know seems kind of like ‘aren’t all exhibitions pulled from the collection?’ but a lot of our exhibitions are a mixture of loans or from private collectors, whereas this one is 100% from the collection. Only a small percentage of the collection is on display at any time, and that was one point we wanted to address. It’s going to be this bright and cheerful and amazing exhibition opening in January. The team has been working with advisors in Mexico for the design and vision for the exhibit. It’s exciting.

WED/20 BOOKS/LECTURES COFFEE AND CONVERSATION 35 Degree North 60 E San Francisco St. afternoonswithchristian.com Have coffee with a local historian. Ask all the questions.

Noon-2 pm, free (bring tip money) PUTIN AND THE PRESIDENTS Estancia Primera Clubhouse 450 Avenida Primera South globalsantafe.org Jeffrey Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, discusses RussianAmerican antagonisms.

6 pm, $15-$25 STORYTIME AND CRAFT La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292 Get the kids’ creative juices flowing in this craft period.

10:30 am, free

EVENTS HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St. (505) 983-0134 Bingo until the bar closes.

7 pm, $2 per round OPEN MIC WITH JASON REED Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Perform on the Tumbleroot stage. It's open, so (mostly) anything goes.

7 pm, free SWAIA COMEDY NIGHT Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 The Southwestern Association for American Indian Arts presents this comedy night featuring Ricardo Caté (Kewa) Joshua Fournier (Dine), and Corey Herrera (Cochiti).

7:30 pm, $20 SINGLES SOCIAL Beastly Books 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628 New to town and looking for friends? Beastly Books has your back. Beer, sake, coffee and tea available on site. Music and mingling.

6-7 pm, free SUMMER EQUINE-ASSISTED ENRICHMENT PROGRAM New Mexico Center for Therapeutic Riding 123 S Polo Drive (505) 757-2498 Enroll your loved one with special needs in an equine-assisted program.

9 am-1 pm, $250 YOUTH CHESS CLUB Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 Chess for young minds.

5:30-8 pm, free

MUSIC ARLIE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Feel-good indie-pop tunes.

8 pm, $15 JOHNNY LLOYD Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 982-0000 Pizza and country tunes.

6-8 pm, free KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Sing, my angel of music.

10 pm, free KIDS SING ALONG Southside Library 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Kids indeed sing along with the Queen Bee Music Association.

Have the kiddos learn cute lil tunes.

3 pm, free R.O. SHAPIRO El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 R.O. Shapiro is a peddler of original Americana music.

8-10 pm, free SECOND CHANCES Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Country covers from Art Martinez on lead vocals and Mark Johnson on guitar.

6-9 pm, free VINYL NIGHTS AT NEW MEXICO HARD CIDER TAPROOM New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom 505 Cerrillos Road, Ste. A105 (505) 231-0632 Join DJ Yosem and rotating special guest DJs in a vinyl adventure. Plus drinks.

8 pm, free BORIS MCCUTCHEON Second Street Brewery (Rufina) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068 One-of-a-kind Americana.

6-9 pm, free

OPERA FALSTAFF Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Someone needs to teach the pompous Sir John Falstaff a lesson, and who better to do it than four cunning women?

8:30 pm, $63-$333

WORKSHOP 3D PRINTING BADGE MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 Learn how these big fancy printer things work and how you can operate them. Limited space, so RSVP. Future classes available too.

4-8 pm, $80

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THU/21 EVENTS CHESS AND JAZZ CLUB No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Open to all skill levels.

6-8 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Flex those brain muscles and have a sip or two.

7-9 pm, free QUEER NIGHT Reunity Farms 1829 San Ysidro Crossing reunityresources.com A community event for LGBTQA2S+ folks. The Farm Stand will be open and be ready to shake your groove thing. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 6-10 pm, free TRIGGERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. tinyurl.com/vd7cbt83 Baseball time.

6 pm, $8

FOOD DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892 Tour the distillery. It's like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Kinda.

3 pm, $25

MUSIC DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858 A Broadway master performs The Great American Songbook.

7-10 pm, $5 HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817 Bring those legendary country dance vibes you've been hiding away, and spend the evening in a two-stepping paradise.

7-10 pm, free LA DAME BLANCHE Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail ampconcerts.org Hip-hop, cumbia, dancehall and reggae from this Cuban performer, offering a good chance to make you go “oh, dang.“ 6 pm, free ROBERT WILSON The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712 Covers and originals in a classy space.

6 pm, free

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BLACK GRACE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 New Zealand’s premiere dance company, steeped in South Pacific traditions. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 8 pm, $36-$94

BOOKS/LECTURES NATURAL HEALTH TALK: ACUPUNCTURE EXPLAINED Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health 909 Early St. tinyurl.com/yc6ty27c Acupuncture 101.

1:30-3 pm, free

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EVERYONE HAS A (LEIT) MOTIVE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Joe Illick introduce youd to key leitmotifs from Tristan und Isolde.

10 am-noon, free

INVADERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. tinyurl.com/vd7cbt83 Baseball, Roswell vs. Santa Fe. 6 pm, $8 MERCADO OF EL MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591 Travel throughout the world through international art.

9 am-4 pm, free GUN BUYBACK EVENT Fiesta Nissan 2005 St. Michaels Drive (505) 955-1020 No-questions-asked event via the SFPD and Fiesta Nissan.

Exchange for gift cards.

9 am-1 pm, free

SAT/23 ART SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Weekly outdoor market. Go support your local makers.

9 am-2 pm, free

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8:30 pm, $63-$333

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MILESSONG: THE MUSIC OF MILES DAVIS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 This concert spans across decades of Davis’ music, beginning with his early quintet recordings.

7 pm, $25-$30 KARIMA WALKER AND MATT BACHMANN San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974 Singer/songwriters in the old, beautiful church. RSVP as soon as you can, as tickets are limited.

7:30-10 pm, $10 THE MAIN SQUEEZE Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa Streets ampconcerts.org Hard rock meets N R&B. IM 7 pm, free IBG NIM MU MU G R IB ÖONA DAHL Meow WolfR 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Experimental electronic music.

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7 pm, $10

Still from Yellow Submarine, playing Saturday, July 23 as a part of the Railyard Summer Movie Series.

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ABOUT TIME LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 Taos-based artist Jivan Lee's works convey landscape, light, weather and humanity.

10 am-6 pm, free CANVAS (OPENING) Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 A challenge to our preconceived ideas of what canvas can do.

5-7 pm, free FINDING THE CENTER Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2351 An exhibition of work as part of the Institute’s 2022 summer residency, which will be made public for one day. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 5-7 pm, free GILDED HUMANISM (OPENING) Turner Carroll Gallery HTCanyon LA Road 725 E (505) 986-9800 H Turner Carroll Gallery celebrates Hung Liu’s legacy as one of the greatest humanist painters of all time.

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10 am-noon, free

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THE SHAPE OF COLOR (OPENING) Victory Contemporary 124 West Palace Ave. (505) 983-8589 Victory Contemporary hosts an artist reception for sculptor Rick Brunner and contemporary abstract painter Jerry Nabors.

5 pm, free TRANSGRESSIONS AND AMPLIFICATIONS: MIXEDMEDIA PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE 1960S AND 1970S (OPENING) New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 A showcase for mid-20th century American artists.

5-7 pm, free

THEATER ALL FIERCE COMEDY SHOW Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 All Fierce Comedy Show, hosted

by Graviel de la Plaga (Carlos Medina), is a night of music, drinks and comedy fun.

7-9 pm, $10-$30 PERICLES (OPENING GALA) New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533 Complimentary drinks and hors d’oeuvres with the director preshow and a talkback with the ensemble post-show.

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8 pm, free DAMON PACKARD RETROSPECTIVE: SHORT FILMS, 1988-2022 No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org A retrospective showcasing Packard’s humor and talent in underground film.

7 pm, free

MUSIC BONNIE AND TAYLOR SIMS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 The Sims (lol) are one of Colorado’s most powerful and dynamic musical duos. From the soul shaking harmonies and masterful songwriting to the endearing onstage moments, these two will captivate you.

7:30 pm, $10 CHATTER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Chamber music via David Felberg on violin, Felix Fan and James Holland on the cello.

10:30 am, $5-$16 DWIGHT TRIBLE ENSEMBLE Dave's Jazz Bistro at the Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 North Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 A glorious combination of dinner and jazz. Dave's Jazz Bistro cooks up a three-course meal with an LA-based musician (he's playing, not cooking).

6:30-9:30 pm, $180

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OPERA TRISTAN UND ISOLDE Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Love potions, star-crossed lovers and the betrayal of dear friends.

8 pm, $49-$356

WORKSHOP CYANOPRINT ON PAPER WORKSHOP Pushpin Collaborative Co 1925 Rosina St, Ste. D (505) 372-7728 Learn to make your own cyanotype cards and prints. (see SFR picks, page 16-17) 10 am-2 pm, $80 POETRY WORKSHOP Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Poetry workshop series with Santa Fe Poet Laurette Darryl Lorenzo Wellington.

3 pm, free QUANTUM LANGUAGING SALON Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health 909 Early St. tinyurl.com/mwv376ux Bring your challenges, visions, goals and manifestations: Quantum Languaging Practice Salon is a space which is devoted to up-leveling our languaging habits to reprogram our reality.

3:30-4:30 pm, free STEM SATURDAYS AT THE SOUTHSIDE LIBRARY Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 A chance to explore spatial and mathematical concepts in a lighthearted way using fun math games and interactive models.

3-5 pm, free

SUN/24 ART PLEASE TAKE ONE: I'M SORRY (I CANNOT HOLD YOU.) (CLOSING PERFORMANCE) Vital Spaces Midtown Annex 1600 St. Michael’s Drive vitalspaces.org From ABQ-based artist Rica Maestas, Please Take One is an interactive performance probing the manifestation of hurt in the body as well as the small acts of kindness that can ease the suffering of another. (see A&C,page 25) 6-8 pm, free RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Railyard Artisan Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-4098 The Railyard Artisan Market is dedicated to local artisans and small creative businesses. With rotating vendors, each week is different.

10 am-3 pm, free

EVENTS INVADERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. tinyurl.com/vd7cbt83 Smash le ball, flee le base.

6 pm, $8 VITAL SPACES: SUNDAY AT THE RAILYARD Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa Streets (505) 982-3373 Vital spaces collaborates with lowriders, vendors, makers, artists, community organizations and many more.

10 am-3 pm, free

MUSIC CRASH KARAOKE Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Sing your cute little heart out.

6-9 pm, free MYSTICS AND MAVERICKS Cathedral Basilica 131 Cathedral Place (505) 988–2282 Celebrating female sages and innovators both ancient and modern. Hear medieval feminists ahead of their time, via the Santa Fe Desert Chorale.

4 pm, $20-$100 OPERATIC BRASS San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974 Oskar Boehme’s lyrical Brass Sextet and Ingolf Dahl’s dynamic Music for Brass Instruments.

7-8 pm, $0-$20

THEATER JOE HAYES STORYTELLING Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 Joe Hayes returns to tell Southwestern folktales.

7 pm, free

WORKSHOP BEATEN BARK PAPERMAKING WORKSHOP Pushpin Collaborative Co 1925 Rosina St, Ste. D (505) 372-7728 Take a deep dive into the ancient Maya and Aztec papermaking process in this hands-on class.

11 am-3 pm, $120 HAND SEWING FOR MENDING AND REPAIR MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 Ever wanted to hem your own pants or skirts or shirts? Learn the following stitches: Running stitch, back stitch, whip stitch, slip stitch and blanket stitch.

Bring anything needing mending.

1 pm, $50 YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St. An hour-long vinyasa flow.

10 am, $10-$15

MON/25 BOOKS/LECTURES THE UNDERBELLY OF MEXICAN CARTELS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200 Michael Vigil, former Chief of International Operations of the DEA, speaks on the above subject.

6 pm, $20 FINANCIAL LIVES IN TRANSITION: YOUR FINANCIAL WELLBEING Montezuma Lodge 431 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200 Bring your questions about all things financial to three local professionals in the field of women and finance.

5:45-7:30 pm, $5

EVENTS NATIVE NIGHTS Full Circle Farm 2080 San Isidro Crossing tinyurl.com/33rsvu2h Hang out amongst the blessed crops at Full Circle Farm. Please note this is a safe-space event, exclusively for Native folks.

6-8 pm, free

MUSIC AJ BLUE & BLUE SUMMIT Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail ampconcerts.org A bluegrass band. It’s a lot of blue tonight, minus your emotions, which won’t be blue.

If they are, please seak a therapist ASAP. 6 pm, free BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 A country happy hour from a Santa Fe legend.

4-6 pm, free

LUCY BARNA Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Celebrating the release of Barna’s newest album What I Know is True.

7 pm, $20

TUE/26 BOOKS/LECTURES STORYTIME AND CRAFT Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Crafts. Books. Activities. Joy. Make the kids’ summer vacations an artsy one.

10:30 am, free

EVENTS LGBT "PLUS PLUS" NIGHT Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Queer safe space so we can sit around and discuss trans rights and why dinosaurs are so cool.

4-10 pm, free

FOOD FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 Less crowds, more food. Oh yeah. It’s the real deal on Farmers Market Tuesdays.

8 am-1 pm, free

PILGRIMAGE: SONGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN Cristo Rey Parish 1120 Canyon Road (505) 988–2282 The Santa Fe Desert Chorale presents music of cultures that call the Mediterranean home. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 7:30 pm, $20-$100

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FRONTERA BUGALÚ Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Cumbia, salsa and reggaetón.

8 pm, $10 METALACHI Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail ampconcerts.org Metal in a mariachi style. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 6 pm, free SARAH AND THE SUNDAYS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 A 5 piece band of 21-year-olds out of Austin—don’t grimace when we say this. It’s feel good Indie rock.

8 pm, $20

MEDITATION CIRCLE Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health 909 Early St. tinyurl.com/5n6heud7 Meditation Circle is a new way to get into the habit. Learn techniques that keep you engaged and make differences in the quality of your thoughts.

10:30-11:30 am, free MEDITATIONS IN MODERN BUDDHISM: LET GO OF YOUR ANGER Zoetic (505) 292-5293 230 St. Francis Drive Understanding how anger arises and why it has no benefits allows us to gain control of our mind and respond with a peaceful mind of patience.

6-7:15 pm, $10

MUSEUMS IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux. Art of Indigenous Fashion.

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Painted Reflections: Isomeric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery. Here, Now and Always.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12 NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy. The First World War. WORDS on the Edge.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 18 General Goodwin Road (505) 424-6487 Juried encaustic wax exhibition.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun, $10

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ELIZABETH ANGLIN The Hollar 2849 NM Hwy 14, Madrid (505) 471-2841 Slow, easy, smooth and soulful, originals plus Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Leonard Cohen and more.

11 am-2:30 pm, free LAMY OPEN MIC Nuckolls Brewing 152 Old Lamy Trail, Lamy (505) 372-0006 A new open mic event at Nuckolls Brewing in the historic Lamy Train Depot. Solos, duos and trios welcome.

4-7 pm, free LOOSE ENDS AND BLUES REVUE CHOMP Food Hall 505 Cerrillos Road (505) 772-0946 Blues, R&B and honky tonk.

7-10 pm, free ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato Jazz, jazz and more jazz. Robert Fox Jazz Trio always gets followed by a jazz jam, with the occasional special guests rolling through.

6-9 pm, free

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“Untitled” by Betty Hahn. On display at the New Mexico Museum of Art, part of Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed-Media Photography of the 1960s and 1970s.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence and the Architecture of John Gaw Meem.

1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12 NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063 Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed-Media Photography of the 1960s and 1970s.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-12

POEH CULTURAL CENTER 78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041 Di Wae Powa: A Partnership With the Smithsonian. Nah Poeh Meng: The Continuous Path.

9 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$10 WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636 Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é.

Activation/Transformation.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8

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What Becomes Part of You it. Goatheads, it turns out, became an apropos medium for expressing how our anxieties build up through myriad hurts and barbs, and though it can almost feel worse to remove them than when they first slid sharply into us, at a certain point, addressing them is no longer optional.

BY ALEX DE VORE “The way I started understanding it was by a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m referencing who I was when I was very small,” Maestas continues. “Finding some love for lmost too many goatheads are that kid, some empathy for that time...I was arranged on the chair in a ghostvery nervous as a kid and just hung out at ly shape like a person might make home all the time, so finding empathy for that were they to sit in it. The side table is stacked experience and undressing that I have anxwith witchy and feminist tomes. All along the iety and that’s not bad? It’s been percolating walls of the gallery space at nonprofit Vital awhile.”

Space’s Midtown Annex, further works from Maestas first conceived of I’m Sorry (I Albuquerque-based artist Rica Maestas concannot hold you) during a residency with the tinue the goathead theme and, in a plastic Santa Fe Art Institute that adgarbage bag at Maestas’ feet, well dressed labor. The pandemic put over a dozen crocheted goatheads the brakes on the experience, appear ironically soft and plushy. and the body of work evolved.

This is I’m Sorry (I cannot hold Part of the evolution came from you), a sort of self-reflection/ the uncomfortable aspects of self-soothing bit of self-portraigrowth. Part of it came from ture and examination meted out Maestas’ philosophy that change through paintings and found inand failure are inevitable. Part of stallation, and it’s the type of show it came from taking a closer look that requires a bit of explanation at the goatheads that accumulatfrom the artist herself. Don’t get ed outside her house and becomconfused—there is much to abing enamored with their shapes sorb and consider in silence, on and spikes; the undulations and your own, from the 11 black cansnowflake-esque quality of being dles that sit beneath the painting these tough and painful pieces of Exorcism with chiles, and even life in this region, with each prethe moody Mijitia in Dreamland, senting different from the last. wherein Maestas painted herself “I learned that they start out as a child, sleeping soundly in a as fruit, like the pit of fruit, and sea of blankets and pillows. At a what you’re looking at is essencertain point, though, you’re going “It’s a show about unearthing—about trying to exorcise or excise the tially the fractured core of a to wonder what’s up with all the mingled personal and historial trauma from the body,” says the artist. very mean peach,” Maestas says. goatheads.

Artist Rica Maestas uses goatheads and curanderismo to explore what sticks and what we must let go

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“It’s a show about unearthing—about trying to exorcise or excise the mingled personal and historical trauma from the body as well as place,” Maestas explains. “I was excited to have this show because...these pieces all came together at a moment in time when I was in therapy, getting started on meds and beginning to unlearn some gross childhood holdovers and social constructs; and trying to understand myself in more personal spaces and a broader social sphere.”

In short, Maestas is incredibly open about her struggles with anxiety. And why shouldn’t she be? Find anyone who doesn’t have some form of panic attack, I’ll wait.

No luck? No kidding. In Maestas’ case, her practice became about working through the anxiety, or, at least, finding ways to live with

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“Through their life cycle, they wither down and harden and fracture, which felt very affirming to my own experience. I thought, ‘Oh, this is just the cycle of life, and instead of mourning the lost softness of being a little baby, it’s just a part of your life that you winnow down and disperse and start fresh.’”

Thus, Maestas has somehow made the goathead beautiful. In the acrylic and glitter piece “What is love? (Baby, don’t hurt me?),” she highlights a sort of density and depth through goatheads that almost appear to be spinning on the wind. Or take the aforementioned chair piece, dubbed “Boundaries,” which practically screams that a person once sat there, they’ve since winnowed down and dispersed.

Maestas closes her solo show this week with a performance piece in the tradition of Yoko Ono or German visual dynamo Ulay.

Some of those artists’ work, Maestas explains, has been downright confrontational, and hers will be, too, in a way. Without spoilers, audience members might become participants. In any event, it’s an example of ritual, of which light elements wend their way into the overall show. Those black candles beneath Exorcism with chiles? An homage to curanderismo, or the healing arts most commonly found in parts of Latin America. Maestas explains she even became slightly obsessed with the idea of a botched ritual—the sort of thing that doesn’t quite get the job done. It makes one wonder if we can ever fully heal.

“The ‘you’ in the show title is the personal and ancestral traumas,” she says. “This is kind of like an amorphous blob of information and experience. It’s a lot of felt experiences that are not easy to verbalize or haven’t been verbalized. I’m down to have one of many conversations.”

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Going Rogue

In SFO’s Falstaff, baritone Quinn Kelsey fully embodies Shakespeare’s enduring character

Falstaff includes a fun spectacle in the third act: Top-Bottom, Left-Right; Ensemble, Quinn Kelsey (Falstaff), Elena Villalón (Nannetta).

BY JULIA GOLDBERG j u l i a g o l d b e r g @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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iuseppe Verdi composed three operas based on Shakespeare’s plays: MacBeth, Otello and Falstaff; the third was his last opera and only his second foray into comedy.

Verdi collaborated with librettist Arrigo Boito—with whom he also created Otello— crafting the opera’s plot from Shakespeare’s sometimes maligned The Merry Wives of Windsor but drawing from Sir John Falstaff’s more nuanced character as depicted in King Henry IV. That character—disreputable, witty, human—shines in Santa Fe Opera’s production in a command performance by baritone Quinn Kelsey.

Verdi and Boito corresponded at length about the opera, both referring to Falstaff in their letters as “Big Belly,” as they created a character with enduring appeal, as much for his resilience as his roguishness.

Literary critic Harold Bloom once described him as “the grandest personality in all of Shakespeare,” writing in his book Falstaff: Give Me Life of his own lifetime affinity toward the character versus some critics’ ambivalence: “I wonder that the greatest wit in literature should be chastised for his vices since all of them are perfectly open and cheerfully self-acknowledged. Supreme wit is one of the highest cognitive powers. Falstaff is as intelligent as Hamlet. But

Hamlet is death’s ambassador while Falstaff is the embassy of life.”

Verdi also may have found Falstaff highly relatable. As SFO educator Oliver Prezant pointed out in his opening night lecture, at 75, Verdi had basically retired when he started working on Falstaff with Boito and he was 79 by the time it premiered in 1893.

“I can only wonder at how Verdi must have felt writing about Falstaff,” Prezant said, “who is saying at various points in the opera…’John, he says, you still have it, my friend.’ He’s talking himself into it.”

In an interview for SFO’s Destination Santa Fe Opera podcast, host Jane Trembley asked Kelsey, who debuted in 2015 at SFO as Rigoletto in Verdi’s Rigoletto, what challenges he faced playing Falstaff.

“I don’t normally get to play comedic characters,” Kelsey said. “Falstaff is very, very serious, but there’s a lot of comedy as well. I felt vulnerable in that way. Because it’s just not what I’m used to. And so, in studying the music and the role, you just have to understand how gullible he can be.

How much he lets his pride get the better of him more than once. One of the things that was brought to my attention when I prepared this the first time was that when Verdi writes certain emotions in the character…you have to really embody that idea—no pun intended—and become as big of an entity as possible in that character.”

SFO’s Falstaff was co-produced with Scottish Opera, which premiered it last summer. Sir David McVicar directs and acts as the scenic and costume designer. The three-act opera opens at The Garter Inn, a simple set, where Falstaff is writing letters at his desk. Doctor Caius (tenor Brian Frutiger, a former SFO apprentice) arrives and accuses Falstaff and his pals Bardolfo (tenor and SFO apprentice Thomas Cilluffo) and Pistola (bass Scott Conner) of various wrongdoings.

Falstaff, in need of funds, decides to woo two wealthy wives: Mrs. Alice Ford (soprano Alexandra LoBianco in her SFO debut) and Mrs. Meg Page (mezzo-soprano Megan Marino, a former SFO apprentice).

He dispatches those letters with a page when Bardolfo and Pistola refuse to take them. In the gardens at Ford’s house, the two women discover, along with Mistress Quickly (mezzo soprano Ann McMahon Quintero, a former SFO apprentice in her SFO debut) and Ford’s daughter Nannetta (the wonderful soprano Elena Villalón in her SFO debut) that they have received identical love letters and begin to plot their revenge.

Meanwhile, the audience learns Caius is betrothed to Nannetta, who loves Fenton (tenor Eric Ferring, a former SFO apprentice in his SFO debut); Bardolfo and Pistola tell Ford (baritone Roland Wood) Falstaff is courting his wife; and all the characters

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make plans—which unfold in Act II—to teach Falstaff a lesson.

Back at the inn at the start of Act III, Falstaff is unhappy by his thwarted plans, but livens up when he receives an invitation via Mistress Quickly to meet Alice at the haunted Great Oak of Herne and to disguise himself as the Black Hunter of Herne. All the characters are dressed as other-worldly spirits, scaring Falstaff. But they are then un-masked and he realizes he has been had. From there, a double wedding ensues—more mistaken identity is discovered (Nannetta marries her true love Fenton and Doctor Caius ends up marrying Bardolfo). The opera famously ends with a cheerful fugue in which Falstaff sings: “All the world’s a joke, and only the jolly are wise,” ending Verdi’s final opera and his career on plenty of high notes.

The audience, likewise, spent Falstaff’s opening night in good cheer. In addition to Kelsey’s tremendous performance, Villalón and Ferring provided wonderful vocal performances. I personally appreciated the robust orchestra under conductor Paul Daniel, though I could barely hear several of the singers in the first act. The final scene in the Great Oak provided the most interesting visuals (although the costumes were wonderful throughout), but I otherwise mostly found the sets anodyne.

If that sounds half-hearted, it shouldn’t.

The production is fun and amusing and as zippy as intended. While the opera didn’t produce the sort of rapturous state of The Barber of Seville, it’s jolly enough and Kelsey’s performance and voice—he’s been described as one of the leading Verdi baritones of the last half century—shouldn’t be missed.

In her interview with Kelsey, Trembley asked him what one question he would pose to Verdi if given the opportunity. He said: “I guess the one question that I would want to ask him is, did I get it right?”

Judging on the response from the opening night audience, the answer would be a resounding yes.

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BY RILEY GARDNER r i l e y @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

Every few years, Jane Austen fans emerge from the depths of the internet to lambast any adaptation that comes their way. They’ll rant, rave and cry about how the filmmakers have missed the point of Austen’s work, afterwards returning to their deep slumber to wait for the next opportunity to slither out of what we assume are Victorian-era cosplay houses. When it comes to the new adaptation of Persuasion, however, I stand arm-in-arm with them.

Even if I have not read Austen’s 1817 novel of the same name, I know blasphemy when I see it.

In the film, poor Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) broke off a relationship with the dashing Frederick (Cosmo Jarvis) some years ago due to social/class pressures. But he’s now a respectable captain and wealthy beyond expectation. Circumstances push Freddy to join the very same social circle of one Mary Elliot, Anne’s sister, at whose home our heroine just so happens to be staying. Johnson then cries a lot, breaks the fourth wall to tell the audience useless information that’s intended to be funny (it isn’t) and, at one point, expresses to someone how she occasionally dreams an octopus is sucking on her face. How relatable!

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Ah, Thor—the mightiest Avenger who, until New Zealand filmmaker/treasure Taiki Waititi got ahold of him in 2017 with the film Ragnarok, was just kind of this over-serious action guy who threw hammers all hard and learned to love even harder.

Now, after years spent honing his comedic chops in a decidedly Guardians of the Galaxy-type way, a healthy dose of tedious fat jokes and a whole mess of loss, Thor’s back to just generally do things harder and sexier. And you know what? It’s fine.

We join the God of Thunder (Chris Hemsworth) as his travels across the galaxy with the aforementioned Guardians have come to a close, leading him to become a meditative sad boi who only gets moving when there are battles to be won. Ruh-roh, though, because some dude named Gor the God Butcher (Christian Bale, looking a whole hell of a lot like Ralph Fiennes’ Voldemort from them Harry Potter movies) has declared open season on deities, and Thor is next on the list. Meanwhile, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) has popped back up for the first real time since 2011’s aptly titled Thor, only she’s got

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Persuasion is Netflix’s latest entry in its never-ending commitment to content over quality.

It is Bridgerton-lite, a worthless, un-oiled copy squeaking along with terrible direction from Carrie Cracknell (A Doll’s House). Johnson either does not or cannot present any comedic skill, and is as charming as a wad of gum here. Take the now internetinfamous moment wherein she turns to the camera and says, out loud and shamelessly, “We’re worse than strangers—we’re exes!” Ugh. Who do you think you are? Fleabag?! And yes, if you’re wondering, Austen’s rich dialogue is replaced with modern speak in Persuasion, which is dreadful.

late-stage cancer now and a new commitment to squashing evil. Together, she and Thor and Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson, who is cooler than any of the rest of them) and Korg (a rock guy voiced by Waititi) must seek the help of other gods if they’re going to take down Gor and his magic sword.

Marvel’s fourth film phase (say that five times fast) has proven a bit of a puzzler thus far with movies and Disney+ shows that seem connected only by the mention of the multiverse (in brief, the concept that there are infinite universes all layered on top of each other). Oh, it’s not that every project needs to serve the same over-arching plot, and there have been standout projects, no question (like that last Spider-Man), it’s just beginning to feel like even the Marvel architects don’t know where the meandering stories are headed. If we’re supposed to see so many of these things, they should make it feel more worth it!

Love and Thunder is one of the weaker among them, a tired retreading of Waititi-esque jokery delivered through awkward encounters, silly dialogue—and a couple of gigantic screaming goats.

It’s not that you’ll find no sincere laughs, and the Guns n’ Roses-heavy soundtrack does kick ass, but someplace between the long prerequisite watchlist and the same old melodrama, one wonders why we must keep working so hard to stay up to date.

Persuasion is also patently boring. So boring that, with abhorrent everything, it becomes a snobbish and amateurish production gone full-throttle on bad ideas. Let it sink to the depths of Netflix’s library and henceforth be skipped over by even the most desperate viewers.

Too bad, too, as Hemsworth turned out to be a pretty funny actor in the end, and his chemistry with Portman (well, with everyone, really) is the closest Love and Thunder comes to magic. The rest is paint-by-numbers humor and that omnipresent Marvel capital-T TONE (regular viewers know what I’m talkin’ about), plus some space-splosions. In other words? The cracks are starting to show, and not just between dimensions. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 118 min.

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Oh to be French, wealthy and sad.

Sara (Juliette Binoche) and Jean (Vincent Lindon) have an ideal relationship. While cozying up in an ideal Parisian apartment and cooking fancy food, old flame François (an underutilized Grégoire Colin) arrives to offer Jean work stemming from his athletic glory days. But Sara is François’ former lover, unable to resist the temptation he offers. People get mad at each other, etc.

There’s certainly a Binoche fandom that’ll feel content in director/writer Claire Denis’ newest venture. It’s a Binoche movie, mind you, and damn if it ain’t going for the César. Yet all of Denis’ films move in a similar manner, where characters speak

PERSUASION Directed by Cracknell With Johnson, Jarvis and Henry Golding Netflix, NR, 109 min

like a freshman philosophy term paper grew a mouth. Everything here is very French—like the kind of folks who make love rather than have sex, and shriek, “My lover! My lover!” as the deed is done. This is not a dig at French sensibilities, but rather to point out the insufferable nature of dissatisfied middle class people, perhaps the single unifying factor of Western civilization. Both Sides, then, has good ideas, namely, how human beings cannot escape what they left behind with a make-believe material reality.

But the problems don’t come from its good ideas. This is a dreadfully boring film, where terrible people mistreat each other, which is then presented to viewers as “truth.” Who cares? We’ve seen Binoche sob over a post-middle-aged old man multiple times in her career.

Denis does, however, offer smart directorial choices—and the romanticizing of middle-aged bodies is a much-needed contrast to youthobsessed cinema. Denis knows precisely what to emphasize in the frame, but it seems she can never find an urgency with her storytelling and, thus, inadvertently proclaims the whole venture pointless. Both Sides is more an acting reel than a film, and a worthy one at that. But it’s worth noting how everyone here has done better work.

Contact your local French cinema diehard for proof. (RG) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 116 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are entering the Season of Love’s Renewal. To celebrate, I offer you a poem by eighth-century Tamil poet Andal. Whatever gender you may be, I invite you to visualize yourself as the “Snakewaist woman” she addresses. Here’s Andal, bringing a fiery splash of exclamation points: “Arouse, Snakewaist woman! Strut your enchantment! Swoop your mirth and leap your spiral reverence! As wild peacocks shimmer and ramble and entice the lightningnerved air! Summon thunderheads of your love!

Command the sentient wind! Resurrect the flavor of eternal birth!”

drive to appear pleasant. It may be rooted more in a desire to be liked than in an authentic urge to bestow blessings. On the other hand, being kind is a sincere expression of care and concern for another. It fosters genuine intimacy. I bring these thoughts to your attention because I think that one of Libra’s life-long tasks is to master the art of being kind rather than merely nice.

And right now is an especially favorable phase for you to refine your practice.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You sometimes feel you have to tone down your smoldering intensity, avert your dark-star gazes, conceal your sultry charisma, dumb TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Tips to get the most out of down your persuasive speech, pretend you don’t have so the next three weeks: 1. Work harder, last longer, and much stamina, disguise your awareness of supernatural finish with more grace than everyone else. 2. Be in love connections, act less like a saint and martyr in your zealwith beauty. Crave it, surround yourself with it, and cre- ous devotions, and refrain from revealing your skill at ate it. Be especially enamored of beautiful things that reading between the lines. But none of that avoidance are also useful. 3. Taste the mist, smell the clouds, kiss stuff usually works very well. The Real You leaks out into the music, praise the earth, and listen to the moon in the view. In the coming weeks, I hope you won’t engage in daytime sky. 4. Never stop building! Keep building and any of the hiding behavior I described. It’s a favorable building and building: your joy, your security, your love, time to freely pour forth your Scorpionic blessings. your beauty, your stamina, your sense of wonder.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There could be interGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini astrologer esting and important events happening while you sleep Astrolocherry says that while Geminis “can appear naive in the coming nights. If a butterfly lands on you in a and air-headed to onlookers, their minds usually operate dream, it may mean you’re prepping for a spiritual transat light speed. They naturally absorb every surrounding formation in waking life. It could be a sign you’re recepparticle of intellectual stimuli. They constantly observe tive to a breakthrough insight you weren’t previously their interactions for opportunities to grow their knowl- open to. If you dream of a baby animal, it might signify edge.” I believe these qualities will function at peak you’re ready to welcome a rebirth of a part of you that intensity during the next four weeks, Gemini—maybe has been dormant or sluggish or unavailable. Dreams in even beyond peak intensity. Please try to enjoy the hell which you’re flying suggest you may soon escape a out of this phase without becoming manic or oversense of heaviness or inertia. wrought. If all goes well, you could learn more in the next four weeks than most people learn in four months. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How to be the best Capricorn you can be in the coming weeks and months: CANCER (June 21-July 22): Naeem Callaway founded 1. Develop a disciplined, well-planned strategy to Get Out The Box, an organization that mentors at-risk achieve more freedom. 2. Keep clambering upwards youth in low-income and rural communities. Here’s one even if you have no competitors and there’s no one else of his central teachings: “Sometimes the smallest step in at the top. 3. Loosen your firm grasp and steely resolve the right direction ends up being the biggest step of just enough so you can allow the world to enjoy you. 4. your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step.” Even if Don’t let the people you love ever think you take them you don’t fit the profile of the people Callaway serves, for granted. 5. Be younger today than you were yesterhis advice is perfect for you right now. For the time being, I urge you to shelve any plans you might have for day. grandiose actions. Focus on just one of the many possible tasks you could pursue and carry it out with determined focus.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the next seven to eight weeks, I’d love for you to embody an attitude about intimacy articulated by author Hélène Cixous. Here’s her aspiration: “I want to love a person freely, including all LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A Leo astrologer I’ve known for years told me, “Here’s a secret about us Lions. No mat- her secrets. I want to love in this person someone she doesn’t know. I want to love without judgment, without ter what happens, despite any pitfalls and pratfalls, my ego will stay intact. It ain’t gonna crack. You can hurl five fault. Without false, without true. I want to meet her between the words, beneath language.” And yes, dear lightning bolts’ worth of insults at my skull, and I will walk away without even a hint of a concussion. I believe Aquarius, I know this is a monumental undertaking. If it in myself and worship myself, but even more important- appeals to you at all, just do the best you can to incorporate it. Perfection isn’t required. ly: I trust my own self-coherence like I trust the sun to shine.” Wow! That’s quite a testimony. I’m not sure I PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I periodically consult a docfully buy it, though. I have known a few Leos whose con- tor of Chinese Medicine who tells me that one of the fidence wavered in the wake of a minor misstep. But best things I can do for my health is to walk barefoot— here’s the point of my horoscope: I encourage you to EVERYWHERE! On the sidewalk, through buildings, and allow a slight ego deflation in the coming days. If you do, especially in the woods and natural areas. He says that I believe it will generate a major blossoming of your ego being in direct contact with our beloved earth can proby August. And that would be a very good thing. vide me with energetic nourishment not possible any VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo poet Claude de Burine other way. I have resisted the doc’s advice so far. It described how one night when she was three years old, would take the soles of my feet a while to get accustomed to the wear and tear of barefoot walking. I bring she sneaked out of the house with her parents’ chamthis up, Pisces, because the coming weeks will be an pagne bucket so she could fill it up with moonlight. I excellent time for you to try what I haven’t yet. In fact, think activities like this will be a worthy pursuit for you in the coming days. You’re entering a favorable phase to anything you do to deepen your connection with the earth will be extra healing. I invite you to lie in the sand, go in quest of lyrical, fanciful experiences. I hope you hug trees, converse with birds, shout prayers to mounwill make yourself available for marvels and curiosities tains, and bathe in rivers or lakes. and fun surprises.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There is a distinction between being nice and being kind. Being nice is often motivated by mechanical politeness, by a habit-bound

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