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7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 FINISH LINE IN SIGHT 10 Race for New Mexico attorney general has seen big dollars, negative ads, diverging visions for the office MUDDY MONITORING 11 Tribal leaders say a pipeline is diverting too much water from the Santa Fe River while lack of observation systems complicates regulation COVER STORY 12 PEST TEST Cannabis rules will soon require analysis for pesticides and not all growers would pass the test now

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HEAVY PETTING 9 DISPLACED BY WILDFIRE Shelter organizations move on the fly, but were already over capacity before evacuations

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COVER, MAY 18: “WHERE WILL THE WATER COME FROM?”

BLAM! Personally, I think the federal government needs to come in and push a big red reset button on water rights! For the entire southwest. Just go BLAM! Everyone’s rights have been reduced to zero. Then have a referendum with climate scientists, agriculture, pueblos, states, Mexico...and completely re-designate who gets what. It’s the only way guys.

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Displaced by Wildfire Shelter organizations move on the fly, but were already over capacity before evacuations

BY JACK HAGERMAN t i p s @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

It was a tricky moment for us. We were already well over our capacity with shelter animals from our own community (a problem we’ve been dealing with for well over a year and a half now.) So much so, in fact, that we have a pretty long waiting list for owner-surrendered pets. We put our heads to-

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portant to have a plan in case your neighborhood is ever threatened with angry wildfires.

Here are some tips to help you stay prepared if the worst happens: • Create a list of hotels and motels that allow pets. Make sure that you find a few options, as some locations may also be in the path of a wildfire. Several websites let you search specifically for lodgings that allow pets, including bringfido.com, expedia.com and hotels.petswelcome. com.

• If you must go to a place with your family that doesn’t allow pets, like an emergency evacuation center, look for a pet sitter, kennel, vet’s office, or animal shelter, as sometimes these places make special arrangements for pets in cases of emergencies and natural disasters. Call ahead.

• Download the FEMA mobile app to your smart phone. This app sends you notifications about natural disasters from the National Weather Service, gives you preparedness tips, and helps locate shelters among other things. Some reviewers claim the app sends too many notifications, but the app gets updates frequently to address user issues, and it’s better to be too informed than not informed at all.

• The ASPCA mobile app can also help you prepare for a disaster, manage your pet’s health records, and provide you with resources to help you find a lost pet should you get separated.

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s a California native, I’m no stranger to wildfires. In fact, I’ve gotten pretty used to my life being disrupted by them every year. To be honest, I figured I’d finally be escaping that phenomenon once I came here to New Mexico but, sadly, it appears the fires have just followed me here, too.

Thanks, global warming! Sigh.

As the blazes began burning out of control, the Santa Fe Animal Shelter started to get countless calls from other animal shelters and community members afraid that they would soon be evacuated and who needed to find temporary housing options. Fortunately, the wonderful animal shelter team at Bernalillo County and an emergency trailer from Socorro County quickly mobilized to set up pop-up shelters to house displaced, owned pets.

With those community needs met, we then decided to focus our resources on helping evacuated shelter animals.

gether to figure out a reasonable game plan for helping our evacuated shelter friends while still meeting the needs of our existing population.

So how do you take in more animals when you’re already packed to the gills? By calling in favors with friends outside of the area, that’s how! We put out an emergency appeal to all of our transfer partners to take as many animals as possible so that we could make room for evacuated shelter animals from Las Vegas and Los Alamos. Our friends at Animal Humane in Albuquerque stepped up to help us, as well as Best Friends in Utah, Arizona Humane and Austin Pets Alive. We also had help from the National Guard, ASPCA and The Humane Society of the United States. In situations like these, it truly takes a village—and I was so impressed with how beautifully we all worked together to figure this thing out.

Transferring animals to all of our friends allowed us to take in lots more animals from the Animal Welfare Coalition in Las Vegas and from the Los Alamos shelter.

Seeing how my shelter community came together to help the displaced animals was humbling, to say the least. We are all so overburdened and overcrowded to begin with, so to witness the collaboration and creative problem solving happening on the fly was nothing short of amazing. It would have been easy for any of these organizations to say, “Sorry, we’ve got our own problems to deal with,” but instead everyone said, “We’re here to help. Let’s figure this out!”

The almost unimaginable devastation serves as a reminder that we must protect what is most precious–our lives and the lives of our loved ones, including our animal companions. For better or worse, it appears that these kinds of natural disasters are becoming more the norm than ever before. No matter where you are in Santa Fe County, the risks are ever present—so it’s critically im-

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Marilyn Guapp, a behavior team member at the Santa Fe shelter, shows off a couple very good dogs.

For more information, visit sfhumanesociety.org/fireevacresources.

The crisis isn’t over, so our resources are very stretched. If you’d like to help, donate at sfhumanesociety.harnessapp.com/wv2/ donate?checkout=3870 Stay safe out there, my friends!

Jack Hagerman is the CEO of Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society

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Finish Line in Sight Race for New Mexico attorney general has seen big dollars, negative ads, diverging visions for the office

BY J E F F P RO CTO R j e f f p r o c t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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he Democratic primary race for state attorney general has been a bruiser.

State Auditor Brian Colón and Bernalillo County District Attorney Raúl Torrez have been tossing haymakers at one another over the course of a high-dollar campaign for “the people’s lawyer” in New Mexico.

Colón, 52, has hit Torrez in television ads and in debates for falling down on the job as crime rates have soared in Albuquerque—and for a 2011 drug case in which Torrez, then an assistant United States attorney, was accused of doctoring evidence in his zeal to win a conviction.

Torrez, 45, has attempted to hang the dreaded “career politician” label around his opponent’s neck, while hammering him for accepting campaign contributions from out-of-state law firms that have received lucrative state contracts.

Torrez refused to be interviewed for this story, but SFR’s review of his public statements and comments he made during an endorsement interview with our publisher show his plan for the AG’s office, if elected, would be quite different from Colón’s.

The Harvard- and Stanford-educated Torrez says he would make wholesale changes to sharpen the office’s focus on crime and other issues. Colón, a University of New Mexico School of Law graduate, would largely stay the course set by his friend, UNM classmate and current AG, Hector Balderas, with a few tweaks around the edges and a deep-dive review of how things are functioning now.

Voters will, as they always do, decide at the ballot box whose vision they favor.

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Primary election day is June 7, and the winner will be heavily favored come November against Republican Jeremy Gay, who is running unopposed. New Mexico has elected a long succession of Democrats to the Attorney General’s Office—from Jeff Bingaman in the early 1980s to Tom Udall in the ‘90s to Patricia Madrid to Balderas, who is finishing his second term—with only Republican Hal Stratton breaking the chain by serving a single term from 1987-1990.

This story, as do all of SFR’s looks at primary elections, focuses on competitive races during this stretch of the cycle.

That’s why we didn’t seek an interview with Gay. Comparatively, it’s been an expensive race for a $95,000-a-year job to lead 200 employees on an annual budget that stretches just north of $35 million. Torrez has raised a little over $1 million for the campaign, and Colón has topped that gaudy figure by more than $400,000, with a significant chunk of his contributions coming from the contract law firms for which Torrez has criticized Colón.

In an interview with SFR, Colón makes no apologies for taking money from firms that have helped the Balderas administration recover nearly $200 million in civil penalties from corporations such as Monsanto, Google and Volkswagen.

“In terms of fraud recovery, subject matter experts from around the country know that I embrace this model” of hiring high-powered firms to assist in cases against huge companies that have done New Mexicans wrong, Colón says. “My opponent does not, but attorneys general going back from Tom Udall on the tobacco settlement up through what we have now have shown this can work.”

The strategy has very little risk, Colón says, and a high upside for residents. He doesn’t believe it should come as a surprise that lawyers who have helped the model succeed would donate to candidates who want to keep it rolling.

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However, the state’s watchdog on waste, fraud and abuse—elected to the auditor role in 2018—says he’d review the way all contracts with the AG’s Office are awarded if voters promote him. And he points out that he has long favored campaign finance reform, but the system is what it is for now.

Colón was born and raised in Los Lunas and has been a known quantity in New Mexico politics for nearly two decades. He served as chairman of the state Democratic Party from 2007 to 2009, then ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 2010— a year that saw Republicans sweep into power at rates not seen since.

He ran for public office again in 2017, losing the Albuquerque mayor’s race to

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Amid all of that, Colón worked in private practice, taking on personal injury and wrongful death cases at the Albuquerquebased firm of Robles, Rael and Anaya.

Balderas has ties to that firm, too, and though he hasn’t made a public endorsement in the race, he tells SFR he favors Colón—to whom his campaign committee has donated more than $10,000.

“I think both are strong candidates, but I support Brian because I know he comes from some of the same vulnerable communities I come from,” says Balderas, who was born in Wagon Mound and served two terms as auditor before being elected to the AG’s chair. “He will always answer the phone from my constituents.”

Balderas says he’s leaving the office in solid shape, with quality infrastructure built out for consumer protection, prosecuting corrupt and violent elected and appointed officials, and safeguarding the state’s natural resources. But he encourages his successor to fight for additional funding to professionalize the state’s public records custodian ranks and strengthen the Law Enforcement Academy Board, which judges police officers’ licenses and which the AG chairs.

Torrez, a native New Mexican, went to work in private practice in 2013. He had resigned the previous year from the US Attorney’s Office, about six months after a federal judge admonished him for altering transcripts presented as evidence in a drug case.

He won the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s race in 2016, running as a “progressive prosecutor” who favored diverting crimes driven by mental health and substance abuse problems away from the criminal justice system.

He even accepted a $107,000 contribution from billionaire George Soros’ super PAC, based largely on his stated approach to prosecuting.

He won re-election in 2020, and he’s taken a much harder line on crime and punishment since taking office, clashing with the Legislature and other officials over how best to tackle crime and pretrial detention.

He has said he’ll change the AG’s Office’s model for consumer protection cases and crank up the AG’s role in reviewing police shootings for possible prosecution.

Muddy Monitoring Tribal leaders say a pipeline is diverting too much water from the Santa Fe River while lack of observation systems complicates regulation

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in the form of rains, and it’s like a full circle,” the governor says.

Alonzo Gallegos, chairman of the La Bajada Community Ditch and Mutual Domestic Water Association, disputes the claim that residents of La Bajada are diverting too much water. Given the acreage of irrigable farmland, he says La Bajada is entitled to roughly 200 acre-feet of water per year from the Santa Fe River.

“And we don’t use it all because that water doesn’t exist,” Gallegos tells SFR. He says the pipeline only diverts water between March and November, and whatever water isn’t used to irrigate the field or stored in the 1.3 acre-foot holding pond flows back into the Santa Fe River on Cochiti property.

Gallegos notes the pipeline was built around 2014 with a grant from the Interstate Stream Commission.

The Pueblo of Cochiti estimates significantly more water is flowing into the diversion, based on data from a United States Geological Survey meter located below the diversion.

Gallegos disagrees, noting the gauge doesn’t measure the diversion’s flow, but rather the volume of water in the Santa Fe

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Gov. Phillip Quintana of the Pueblo of Cochiti looks across the standing water at the site of the n a recent May afternoon, water gurUnited States Geological Survey meter along the Santa Fe River. A spring just above the USGS meter gles through a ditch down the middle supplies the trickle of water shown here. of the La Bajada community, irrigating fields of vegetables and grain that resiRiver. He adds that La Bajada residents aren’t the issue of the San Juan-Chama Return dents use to feed livestock. irrigating about half of their acreage because Flow Project: a pipeline that would divert efBefore reaching La Bajada, the water there isn’t sufficient water flowing into the fluent from the wastewater treatment facility flows west from the Santa Fe River through a river from the City of Santa Fe’s wastewater back to the Rio Grande and enable the City of pipeline traversing the Pueblo of Cochiti, the treatment facility.

Santa Fe to extract more water from the river.

Pueblo of Santa Domingo and US National State Engineer Mike Hamman tells SFR Both groups oppose the pipeline. They Forest Service land. Below the diversion, the that La Bajada residents have historial rec- say it would dry up the already parched Santa natural stream bed is mostly dry. ognition of the community’s ditch. “They do Fe River, contending the city isn’t acting as a Cochiti leaders say the amount of water have the right to divert water from the river,” good upstream neighbor. flowing into the pipeline exceeds the amount Hamman says.

But the two communities’ opinions diallocated to La Bajada’s 52 acres of farmland Just how much water can legally be divert- verge on the topic of the La Bajada pipeline. as a result of modifications made to the divered, compared to the actual quantity diverted, Quintana says rerouting nearly 100% of sion structure. is another question. Hamman says without the water into the La Bajada ditch essentially In short, the pueblo accuses the acequia a meter above the diversion, it’s difficult to means the diversion is functioning just as the community of taking too much water parse out the totals. city’s return flow pipeline would. Quintana from the river.

Hamman notes a small ace- asks how his neighbors can rally against the La Bajada denies the claim, arguing quia below the diversion, the city’s behavior when, from his perspective, that even in years when there is enough Gammanche Ditch, must receive they’re doing the same thing. water in the Santa Fe River, they don’t some water from the Santa Fe River, “I understand the frustration but it’s our reach their full, legal allotment. but there is no “formal bypass re- frustration too, because it’s not enough waA lack of reliable monitoring sysquirement for ‘the river.’” ter,” says Gallegos. tems has made it difficult for the Office The issue of limited monitoring Reuben Montes, tribal liaison program of the State Engineer to verify the capabilities, given the sheer number manager with the Santa Fe National Forest, pueblo’s assertion. The situation offers of waterways in the state, is larger in has visited the diversion site twice, per the a window into one of New Mexico’s some basins than others, Hamman request of Cochiti Pueblo, once in 2017 and most pressing problems: Less water says. Some basins have more regu- again in 2018. The purpose of the visits, is flowing through the state as climate lated metering, while others rely on Montes says, was “so that we had a visual unchange and persistent drought tighten self-reporting, which can lead to dis- derstanding of…how it was constructed and their grip. putes when shortages occur. what materials were used.”

Standing above the underground That’s something Hamman Montes says he’s not aware of a formal pipeline that used to be a “cheenah,” hopes to change during his tenure as complaint about the pipeline. more widely known now as an acequia, state engineer, a position he took on He says the US Forest Service is aware of Gov. Phillip Quintana of the Pueblo of in February. “Especially as climate the debate but no actions have been taken Cochiti tells SFR, “It’s our duty as carechange and everything kind of tight- since those site visits, which he attributes to takers of this area” to ensure that the ens up the water supply, we certainly staff turnover and the pandemic. water continues to flow and sustains are going to go, more and more, to Montes says the concerns over water the ecosystems surrounding the Santa measurement and recording,” he shortages typically crop up this time of year, Fe River. says. but often subside when the midsummer Quintana says the siphoning of waThe diversion reflects the messy monsoons come and rivers begin swelling. ter is starving the Santa Fe River. complexities of water laws in the Yet as the reliability of the monsoon season “We hope it gets to the ocean, bestate. lessens, Montes says the forest service would Alonzo Gallegos says the water from the La Bajada ditch can cause we know once it gets to the ocean La Bajada and the Pueblo of be interested in reaching a resolution with only irrigate half of the community’s 52 acres of farmland. it turns into clouds, it comes back to us Cochiti remain closely aligned on the involved parties.

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to identify the samples’ origin.

Microbiologist Kathleen O’Dea, owner of Santa Fe-based Scepter, says she wants to work with growers to ensure cannabis is safe and that producers aren’t out of pocket for pesticide failures when the testing requirements kick in. State rules set limits for 15 pesticides that could be found on bud or in concentrates ready for sale. Products with pesticide residues that meet or are above the CCD’s threshold for inhalable substances must be tossed out.

The main culprit detected in the samples run through Scepter’s spectrometer was pyrethrin—a mixture of six chemicals that are toxic to insects, but considered organic when not combined with other synthetic materials. Among G R A N T C R AW F O R D the dispensaries in SFR’s spot check, g r a n t @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m Keyway Marketplace, SWOP and Seven Point Farms all had at least one sample with levels of pyrethrin higher than what ore cannabis means more usrules will allow. ers, more dispensaries, more “I’m wanting to help my customers growers and—last, but not produce a safe product for the benefit least—more rules and regulations. of the consumers,” O’Dea says. “I would With the legalization of adult-use say it’s good you’ve chosen [a pesticide] cannabis in New Mexico, state officials that’s minimally toxic, but you need to have adopted new guidelines and rules titrate your usage.” for testing, staggering their effective In addition, one strain from CG dates. It’s left hurdles for producers as Corrigan showed high levels of an insecthey navigate through the industry and ticide called spinosyn, which is low in laboratories prepare for the influx of toxicity, but known to harm pollinators. testing.

For this reason, many Some quality stangrowers tend to stay dards have yet to take away from it, but it’s effect. For example, had still considered a useNew Mexico’s Cannabis ful tool for modern Control Division not depest control plans. layed its requirements Because none of for pesticide testing, the criteria for pesproducts from several ticide testing has area producers wouldn’t been implemented, pass muster. though, none of the SFR conducted a producers violated spot check of cannabis any state rules. In strains for sale in area fact, the rules weren’t dispensaries to look even established for levels of pesticides. when growers were In randomized secret cultivating these shopping, we bought 17 strains. different strains from “So the stuff that April 11-19 at nine disyou’re seeing, we had pensaries, Scepter Lab basically no time to found six samples of -Brian Alfaro, plant respond on that side cannabis that would fail biologist, SeedCrest of it, where we’ve the state’s pesticide rebeen making adjustquirements that take ments in our proeffect later this summer. grams since then,” We shopped in places says Bob Johnson, general manager of any adult customer could visit in the area Keyway, adding that while he thinks the and spent $226 on one-gram purchases state’s limits are more restrictive than of dried flower. SFR then prepared numothers, Keyway plans to do testing of bered samples for the lab, which donated its own and comply with all of the new analysis services valued at $2,805 and requirements. conducted the tests without being able

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“They claim that the industry couldn’t handle it and that Scepter didn’t even have the capacity to do normal testing for half the industry, which is completely false,” he says.

Rio Grande Analytics in Albuquerque is the state’s other licensed cannabis lab. In April, medical industry giant TriCore Reference laboratories told SFR it planned to open a cannabis analysis spinoff, but the CCD had not received an application as of Tuesday.

For farmers to use a pesticide, it must be registered by the state Department of Agriculture. Twenty-seven fungicides, four herbicides, three plant-growth regulators and 39 insecticides are legal to apply to cannabis and hemp plants. That doesn’t mean processors and cannabis companies have to accept their use, though.

The agriculture department suggests growers check with their extractor or

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“What we use are all naturally-occurring [and] organic. [Pyrethrin] is nature’s way of fighting off pests,” he said.

A January rules document said the CCD’s new testing requirements to uncover microbials, pesticides and other contaminants found in cannabis products were set to become effective March 1—a month before adult-use sales began.

While a spokesperson said no one from the division would give an interview on the topic, the division provided an email explanation noting the “presence of these contaminants can result in injury to the public and particularly medical patients who may have weakened immune systems.”

The pesticide requirements were in effect for eight days this spring when the division—citing “a large burden” that would be placed on the state’s two labs capable of testing for pesticides—decided to delay them until July 1.

The holdup has created some financial woes for Scepter, as the testing instrument—which must stay on at all times to continue functioning—has cost roughly half a million dollars that could have been paid for by using it.

Still, “that isn’t the point,” O’Dea says.

“The point is if the state saw fit to roll the rules back, on what basis? A week before, they thought it was necessary for customer health and safety to do these tests. What changed? Why a week later did the balance tip in favor of not doing the tests?”

O’Dea has filed an appeal with the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe related to the pesticide testing delay, in addition to her request that the court order the division to immediately require homogeneity testing after it postponed that rule’s effective date to April 2024.

“No guarantees in litigation, but it doesn’t appear to me the department had good justification for either of those decisions,” says Jason Marks, O’Dea’s attorney.

Pesticide standards were not in place prior to recreational weed, even though medical cannabis has been legal in New Mexico since 2007. According to the CCD, adult-use states that have enacted such rules have had varying success with the initial rollout. The division also says the two testing labs available at the time the rules were first published “had not submitted their initial demonstration of capacity for the microbial and pesticide testing.”

Marks, though, says Scepter Lab had been in touch with the CCD for months about its ability to take on a new role before the division made its determination.

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Strain Spot Check

SFR conducted a spot check of cannabis strains found in area dispensaries to look for levels of pesticides. In a randomized study testing 17 different strains purchased from April 11-19 at nine dispensaries, Scepter Lab found six samples of cannabis that would fail the state’s pesticide requirements that take effect later this summer.

Producers

Strain

Pass/Fail

CG Corrigan

Girl Scout Yeti

failed total spinosyn

CG Corrigan

Banana Cake

passed

Fruit of the Earth Organics

Golden Lemons

passed

Fruit of the Earth Organics

Strawberry Fields

passed

High Desert Relief

Sour Diesel x Kush Mints Bud

passed

High Desert Relief

Skywalker OG Kush Bud

passed

Keyway Marketplace-formerly Shift New Mexico

Forum GSC

failed total pyrethrins

Keyway Marketplace-formerly Shift New Mexico

Cereal Milk

passed

R. Greenleaf

Garlic Breath 2.0

passed

R. Greenleaf

Cinderella 99

passed

Red Barn Growers

RGB Chile Verde

passed

Red Barn Growers

RGB Durban Thai

passed

Seven Point Farms

SPF NASA Bruce

failed total pyrethrins

Seven Point Farms

SPF Dogwalker x Black Dog

failed total pyrethrins

SWOP- Top Shelf

Candy Cream

failed total pyrethrins

SWOP - Top Shelf

Forbidden Fruit

failed total pyrethrins

Electric Daydream

passed

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processor to see if they have any policies against using pesticides. Manufacturers could reject the crop if pesticide residues contaminate their solvent or equipment.

Companies’ desire for quality buds helps the industry self-regulate, the department’s agriculture and environmental services director Brad Lewis says.

“I think, as a whole, the industry is pretty good, just because their buyers are very critical of what they use,” Lewis tells SFR. “The buyers and users are so interested in what’s going in their product.”

There appears to be a discrepancy, though, between testing the CCD will require and the list of pesticides registered with the agriculture department. Of the 15 pesticides with limits under the cannabis rules, administered by the state Regulation and Licensing Department, only one is approved for cannabis production by the agriculture department.

The CCD says its list is made up of pesticides that have been found in cannabis and expects evolution over time. “These are compounds that the CCD feels should be looked at when the science and capacity exist to effectively do so,” reads a statement it provided.

Finding regulations compatible with health and safety precautions, while also allowing businesses the opportunity to flourish, takes time—part and parcel for developing industries that rake in millions of dollars (April sales alone in New Mexico came in at nearly $40 million).

Ben Lewinger, executive director of the New Mexico Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, says the CCD has done well to develop guidelines on a quick turnaround, but “recognizes the fact that there needs to be a revisiting of basically all the rules and regs, but especially related to testing.” What have become best practices in states with more mature adult-use industries should become best

ABOVE: SFR placed cannabis flower in vials with number identifiers and delivered them to Scepter Labs for testing. BELOW: Cannabis samples ready for analysis at the lab.

practices in New Mexico, he tells SFR. “In talking with other growers, I know there are lots of things that are used at scale to grow cannabis that either aren’t specifically permitted or are prohibited that are in wide use in other agricultural mediums, but also in wide use in cannabis in other states that have had legal adult use for longer than New Mexico has,” Lewinger says.

Not all pesticides are made the same—a sentiment producers have harped on as they cross unchartered territory. Pyrethrin, in particular, is a “wonderfully organic way to manage pests,” says Robert Jackson, executive director of Seven Point Farms.

“Primarily we manage pests through predatory insects,” Jackson tells SFR. “This allows us to keep our commitments to safe, organic flower. I think the way we use pyrethrins for insect repellant and pest management is well within the law and it’s important to question the validity of unproven tests that put us over the limit.”

If growers want to use a pesticide that’s not registered with the state, Lewis says they may request a review.

“We keep getting more and more requests from companies for hemp and cannabis registrations,” Lewis says. “It’s a rather dynamic list that we’re constantly revamping on a monthly basis.”

According to CCD rules, passing grades on lab tests are required for every strain that hits the shelves for consumers. They must submit one sample for every 15 pounds of flower produced. If a sample fails a test, the cannabis establishment can request re-testing by the same laboratory or a different one.

Most states have an abundance of laboratories, which can lead to concerns of lab shopping—whereby growers seek a lab that produces what they consid-

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An instrument used to test cannabis for pesticide residue at Scepter Lab in Santa Fe awaits samples to process.

research, though.

According to a 2019 review of literature on pesticide use for cannabis cultivation, compiled by researchers at Liverpool John Moores University, studies have shown that high levels of pesticides are transferred into cannabis smoke. However, the pesticide levels found in cannabis samples tested were generally low and don’t provide information on chronic, low-dose, adverse effects of pesticides in relation to cannabis

consumption.

The correlation between pest control and a healthy plant is well founded.

For growers looking to get the most out of their plant, controlling predation is key. Pests will eat leaves and dig through stems, which will send signals to the plant to produce different chemicals. It can impact cannabinoid levels, plant growth, quality control and harvest yields.

To combat the scourge, producers use a combination of different herbicides

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er more favorable test results. Maria McIntyre, head of cannabis safety operations for the multinational biotechnology company bioMeriéux, says some producers will aim for high potency results and for lax pesticide analysis, for example. With only two labs at present, New Mexico doesn’t have many options for that strategy.

Still, McIntyre says a vast majority of the cannabis industry doesn’t understand the implications of getting products to market that could be a risk to consumers—that companies could jeopardize their reputation and operations by having unsafe buds.

“You would think—to have that extra insurance—that you would want robust and reliable tests to ensure that your product is compliant and you won’t cause harm to public health and safety,” McIntyre tells SFR. The health hazards associated with cannabis have long been debated and many have been debunked in favor of its medicinal value. The Reefer Madness theory of the 1930s is off the table and weed grown under the watchful eye of state governments is likely the safest it’s ever been. For instance, an illicit grower wanting to yield as much as possible— with no regulatory oversight to stop them—might have a tendency to over-apply pesticides and even use some that are meant only for decorative plants. Or, illegal weed may be transported in vessels contaminated with gasoline or other fumes in an attempt to avoid detection.

“The more regulations we implement and the more research we do in the cultivation aspect, the production aspect and the consumption aspect, the safer it will be,” says Brian Alfaro, a plant biologist who teaches a cannabis horticulture class for SeedCrest, which provides recruitment and training to the cannabis industry. “It’s just like any other plant that we consume, and we can draw from literature the safety issues.”

The state agriculture department will also conduct investigations when it receives a complaint of potential pesticide misuse. Lewis says the department has received no such complaints about cannabis to date.

The health hazards of direct exposure to various pesticides are well documented. Safety data sheets show many of the substances to be regulated are toxic, or fatal, when swallowed or directly inhaled. The potential for health issues when pesticides are applied on cannabis plants intended to be decarboxylated (heated for smoking or via some other manufacturing process) needs further

Fruit of the Earth Organics is one of several area producers whose products purchased in our secret shopping would pass the state’s pesticide testing requirements that go into effect in July.

and insecticides. Some growers avoid synthetic pesticides altogether, instead opting for microorganisms and other insects to stave off unwanted critters.

“A lot of growers swear by biological control, using lacewings, lady bugs, parasite wasps that can attack these different insects,” Alfaro tells SFR. “Some do a one-two punch using chemical pesticides in combination with biological control.”

So some producers, perhaps naturally, tend to eschew the traditional term of pesticide. As the state has promulgated more rules, they’ve adapted their integrated pest management plans to come up with cleaner regimens.

“There’s a huge difference between pesticides and integrated pest management,” says Ryan Gomez, a lead grower at CG Corrigan. “IPM is how we keep the product safe for consumers. You hear the word pesticide and it hits. That’s the issue.”

Gomez says the producer has revamped its cultivation process, swapped out a few gardeners and now sticks to using more natural and biological measures, like beneficial nematodes, to combat the plant-killing pests. He reports the company has also thrown out products and pesticides that could be harmful. It’s part of working with the state to ensure cannabis users get the safest products.

“Now that it’s legalized with all the regulations and testing, it’s absolutely safer,” Gomez says. “It’s only going to get more intense as the game gets more fierce.”

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Santa Fe Spring and Fiber Fest

Saturday, June 4 & Sunday, June 5, 10am – 4pm Watch weaving and sheep shearing demonstrations  Learn how to card wool and plow a field  Listen to live music  Enjoy stories of historic New Mexico, traditional dancing, delicious food  Purchase textiles and more in our Artisan Plaza

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WOAH, MAN Art and women—testimonies of the human condition. What’s not to love? Turner Carroll Gallery celebrates the 50th anniversary of what could be considered one of the most powerful feminist art installations of all time, Womanhouse. The gallery’s new exhibition, Women in the House, features works from past and present. Look in one corner and you’ll find pieces from original Womanhouse artists such as Judy Chicago of “The Dinner Table,” multimedia maestro Mildred Howard, and quintessential women’s rights activist and artist Nancy Youdelman. Look in another and you’ll find the work of contemporary artists Monica Lundy and Caledonia Curry, more famously known as Swoon. In other words? Prepare yourselves for a feminist sensory overload. (Taya Demianova) Women in the House: 10am-6pm Friday, June 3 Free. Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800

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MUSIC SAT/4 PACHYDERM As if news that the GiG Performance Space is back to live performance weren’t enough, all y’all can get in on the type of vulnerable folk goodness Santa Fe so famously loves when Lousiana’s Ordinary Elephant comes to town. The emotionally-charged Americana team of Crystal and Pete Damore tap into that Gillian Welch-esque style of vocal harmonies and deceptively simple string instrument arrangements for songs that are all at once relatable yet focused. That’s kind of why the Damores picked up an International Folk Music Award in 2017, and it’s kind of why you should probably pick up tickets ASAP. As their bio says, Ordinary Elephant just might make you feel less alone in the world, and right now that can only be a good thing. (ADV) Ordinary Elephant: 7:30 pm Saturday, June 4. $22 GiG Performance Space, 1808 Second St., gigsantafe.com

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GUIDED TOUR TUE/7 MARKET IMPROVEMENT OK, so you know how farmers markets are pretty amazing, right? Especially here in Santa Fe where SNAP assistance bucks count twice and our farmers grow things like, oh, we don’t know—chile, for example? And maybe you’ve always wondered what goes into putting together such a massive gathering of growers, bakers, makers, agriculture experts and so on? Well, wonder no more, as the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute now offers a guided tour on Tuesdays during which interested parties can learn what’s fresh and why, how farmers themselves experience their particular line of work and commerce and, to help seal the deal, access coffee and breakfast sweets. These tours are limited to 10 at a time, so you’ll need to be quick, but if you miss it this week, you can always regroup for the next one. (ADV) Seed the Future Market Tour: 9 am Tuesday, June 7 Free. Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, santafefarmersmarketinstitute.org

Zam! Center for Contemporary Arts hosts Zamrock band doc If you’ve never heard the term Zamrock before, you’re in for a treat. Shorthand for a combo of rock and traditional African musical styles that emerged from 1970s Zambia and its surrounding areas, Zamrock represents both a varied sound and style of music and a whole-ass movement rooted in psychedelia, garage rock, punk, metal, folk and more. And there is, perhaps, no band more indicative of the style than WITCH, a one-time powerhouse that released no fewer than five albums thanks in part to charismatic frontman Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda.

Now, as the genre continues to lure more fans into the fold, the CCA joins forces with Lost Padre Records for a special screening of the 2019 documentary We Intend to Cause Havoc from filmmaker Gio Arlotta, an eye-opening look into WITCH’s formation, output and impact on the rock world around them. But before you go thinking WITCH sounds like some relic of yesteryear, look ‘em up, take a listen and get down with the eerily contemporary bent. The screening is part of CCA’s ongoing Amplified series of music films.

“I’ve been excited about this film since it was in pre-production,” says CCA Head of Cinema Programming Luke Henley (who, full disclosure, previously wrote for SFR). “It had some festival runs, but didn’t get a wide release due to COVID, so it’s a huge deal for me to be able to share it. It’s a band I really love and a great story.”

Henley says the Amplified series is meant to shine a light on BIPOC, queer and women

creators from around the globe, and that We Intend to Cause Havoc exemplifies that goal. “[Showing movies like this] is something I’ve wanted to do since taking on my role at CCA,” they say. “Being a musician and somebody who loves film, this is my dual passion—art and media expressed in a creative way. As a series of films, [Amplified] creates this great space where we can show an eclectic range of films for a unifying experience.”

You’ll find the series running on the first Thursday of each month, and July’s offering, City of a Million Dreams, delves into the history and presence of New Orleans jazz-based funeral processions.

“We just wanted to bring some more music-oriented film to Santa Fe that maybe played here once-off but maybe didn’t get much notice,” says Lost Padre owner George Casey. “We’re just digging up stuff we think is really cool, and [We Intend to Cause Havoc] is a great piece of documentary filmmaking.

I’m also hoping to weave in some stuff that’s more New Mexico-focused, or stuff that doesn’t get the notice it could or should.”

“The series allows a platform to amplify a broad range of voices in music and film,” Henley adds.

Pun not intended. We think.

(Alex De Vore) AMPLIFIED: WE INTEND TO CAUSE HAVOC 6 pm Thursday, June 2. $15 Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338 SFREPORTER.COM

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ONGOING ART *** form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Three artists (represented by the three asterisks above) confront identity. Jami Porter Lara, Erin Mickelson and Kate Ruck contribute prints, tapestries, weaponry, neon signage and more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free EVANESCENCE Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Inspired by images of Antarctic ice, artist Clark Walding’s paintings are a blue pool calling out our deep memories.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free FINDING AMELIA Range West Gallery 2861 NM-14, Madrid (505) 474-0925 Creator Carla Caletti paints abstracted figures in liminal spaces and constructs sculptural forms from recycled materials.

11 am-5 pm, free HAVANA PRINTMAKERS Artes de Cuba 1700 A Lena St. (505) 303-3138 What does Cuba's vibrant contemporary art scene look like these days? If you don’t know, Artes de Cuba display woodblocks, silkscreens, collagraphs, collages and unique constructions as examples.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

“Sisters in the Saffron Field“ by Zahra Marwan. Part of the exhibition Pickled Dreams opening Friday, June 3 at Hecho Gallery.

HOW I SEE IT: AFRICAN AMERICAN ABSTRACTION El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Curated by art dealer Aaron Payne, each artist featured in this gallery pursued abstraction in a different place and time.

This show explores the relationships of several African American artists to their individual approach to abstraction.

9-5 pm, free INTO THE LIGHT ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 Here, contemporary Santa Fe artists explore the limits of light and shadow.

10 am-5 pm, free LIMINAL Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 Erin Cone presents sensitively rendered figures removed from context or narrative. Joseph Ostraff’s work, with its startling compositional depth, evokes varied shapes and motifs of human cultures and geography.

10 am-5 pm, free DECONSTRUCTED PORTRAITS Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 Photographer Lou Peralta defines new meanings in contemporary portraiture. They deconstruct tradition to carry viewers into the broader culture of Mexico.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free MURMURING SKIES Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 A high flying solo exhibition by abstract painter Gayle Crites.

See a dozen large-scale works on tapa paper, all of which explore the artist’s ideas and feelings about climate change and global warming.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free SPECTRUM SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Diné and Chicana artist Nani Chacon’s new body of work explores cultural repair and radical colonial resistance. And how does she do it? Through vibrant contemporary visual storytelling, of course.

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ZEN AND THE ART OF WOODWORKING Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 We swoon when we’re greeted with the scents of lumber. David Johnson works with exotic and common woods, often combining them in patterns of color and grain, creating objects that are meant to be both functional and beautiful.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri 10 am-2 pm, Sat & Sun, free ASYMPTOTE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Binod Shrestha's work investigates our propensity for and contemplation on violence and how that relates to concepts of home, displacement and identity.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

POETRY OF THE PEOPLE FT. MANUEL GONZÁLEZ Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 After hearing Gonzalez's poetry, use that inspiration in the various writing prompts.

Build your own awesome rhymes and rhythmic feelings.

Share anything old and new.

5-7 pm, free

MUSIC 070 SHAKE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Jersey-based rapper 070 Shake arrives in Santa Fe for her brand new To the C.O.R.E. World Tour.

7 pm, $64-$158 JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Folksy tunes for your mezcal brews. That rhymes, right? Sure, we’ll go with that.

8-10 pm, free KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Karaoke. Do it or don’t.

10 pm, free

DANCE EL FLAMENCO: SPANISH CABARET El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Dancing, singing, wine. It’s all we’ve ever asked for.

Various times, $25-$43

WORKSHOP ABSTRACT PAINTING CLASS FOR BEGINNERS Santa Fe Painting Workshops 5041 Agua Fria Park Road (505) 670-2690 Learn to paint, regardless of skill level. Keep in mind this is an ongoing workshop.

Various times, $295-$485

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WORKSHOP METALSHOP AND MIG WELDING BADGE MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 The start of a two day-class.

Embark on the exciting journey of creating with metal—you get to build your own table! Get hands-on training on the many tools required for cutting, bending, shaping, grinding, drilling and welding steel in the MAKE metal shop.

3-7 pm, $180 TEEN TWEEN AERIALS Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B (505) 992-2588 For students ages 11-15, this class offers trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope instruction. So yeah, you’re gonna look really cool.

That’s the idea.

5:30-7 pm, free WOODSHOP BADGE MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 Get a broad understanding of navigating a well equipped wood shop while learning the safety basics through practice.

3-7 pm, $90

THU/2 BOOKS/LECTURES HISTORY OF THE VENICE BIENNALE Online tinyurl.com/3rxb79nt Part of a four-part online course on the Venice Biennale taught

by Maryland Institute College of Art professor Jennie Hirsh.

Noon-1:30pm, $0-$15 SAR CREATIVE THOUGHT FORUM: RETHINKING MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS Online tinyurl.com/y2fub4ky Join the School for Advanced Research as they consider creative approaches to preserving public memory without opening old wounds. (see A&C, page 27) 2-3:15 pm, free

EVENTS "RAIN DANCE" FUNDRAISER Palace Prime 142 W Palace Ave. (505) 919-9935 A dance party on Palace Prime's patio, featuring live DJ performances.

5 pm, $20

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NEW MEXICO FIELD GUIDE EXHIBIT Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 Do you want to see examples of the best contemporary art coming out of New Mexico right now? You're in luck. See artists like Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota), Terran Last Gun (Piikani), Welly Fletcher and Amelia Bauer.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free PAULA & IRVING KLAW: VINTAGE PRINTS No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org We love ourselves good underground fetish photography.

So should you.

By appointment or during No Name Cinema events, free PLACE SETTING Acequia Madre House 614 Acequia Madre tinyurl.com/ysethtwh LA-based photographer Amanda Rowan immersed herself in the historic Acequia Madre House.

Inspired by the women who lived there, her series examines emotions behind the letters, journals, albums and more the occupants left behind.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri, free SEDUCTION BY CENTIPEDE Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 Artist Irene Hardwicke Olivieri brings her enchanting and complex artworks to town. The subterranean aspects of life— love and relationships, secrets and obsessions—are expressed through natural forms.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free THE BODY ELECTRIC SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Jeffrey Gibson’s solo exhibition is a multi-decade affair. The pieces on display are career highlights, expressing the complexities and relationships between injustice and personal identity.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 See photos from Joan Myers new publication, The Devil’s Highway. The photos bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture and the shrinking of small towns.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free THE QUALITY OF BEING FLEETING Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 Hauntingly beautiful multimedia installations, projections and video work from artists Gillian Brown and Cherie Sampson, who express form and dissolution, stillness and movement.

Thu-Sun: noon-6pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES COFFEE AND CONVERSATION 35 Degree North 60 E San Francisco St. afternoonswithchristian.com Historian Christian Saiia leads lively talks on many local historical and cultural topics.

Plus it’s in a coffee shop, so it’s got that urban-classy vibe.

Noon-2 pm, free

EVENTS HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Bingo and cry. I mean, don’t, but we can’t control how intense your emotions are in the bingo world. Stay strong, friends. And win all the prizes.

7 pm, $2 per round INVADERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. tinyurl.com/vd7cbt83 This is an ALERT: Fuego is back in session and we're gonna kick alien invading butt. It's not summer without our beloved Fuego.

6 pm, $8

THE CALENDAR ADULTI-VERSE: PRIDE KICKOFF Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Kick off Pride Month at Meow Wolf with a special edition of Adulti-Verse, featuring local music and art. The Mountain Center's NM Genders and Sexualities Alliance Network are on hand, plus a tap takeover by Bow & Arrow Brewing.

6-10 pm, free CHESS AND JAZZ CLUB No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St., 87505 Open to all chess skill levels.

Free herbal tea.

6-8 pm, free GAME TIME Main Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860 Bring in a board game. Play it.

Get a book too.

4-5:30 pm, free INVADERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501 Fuego vs. Roswell Invaders. Bring your singles for the home runs, we need our players to eat.

6 pm, $8 RICK RIDGEWAY: LIFE LIVED WILD Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 One of the world's foremost mountaineers talks about his experiences.

7:30 pm, $20 SKY RAILWAY: LORE OF THE LAND Santa Fe Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa St. skyrailway.com Learn more about New Mexico history while riding the rails.

Hear stories of the land as told by knowledgeable storytellers from the New Mexico Historical Society.

11:30 am, $109 YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 Yardmasters? The heck is that, you ask? Well, it’s for green thumbs out there who’ve looked at the Railyard Park and said “I want more flowers so I can see happy bees.” Now you can help make such fantasies a reality, and know that your green legacy is being implanted in the cold dirt for generations to come.

10 am-noon, free

FOOD

“Return of the Butterfly” by Judy Chicago. From Women in the House at Turner Carroll Gallery.

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COURTESY JAMES STUART III

with Metal Musician James Donald Stuart III

Santa Fe metal fans will no doubt recognize bassist and guitarist James Donald Stuart III, a local mainstay who has played with everyone from Savage Wizdom and Sex Headaches to Night Soil. What they might not know is that Stuart’s metal journey kicked off in church camp, continued through years spent at Warehouse 21 metal shows and, as of now, more projects than even seem possible for a single musician. Just goes to show that if you play bass well in Santa Fe, bands will eventually come a-knocking. And though the lion’s share of Stuart’s work finds him writing and collaborating with some of Santa Fe’s most notable rockers, this week he dons his tribute hat for a performance in Sabbath, a Black Sabbath tribute act sure to pay respect to the roots of metal itself (7 pm Friday, June 3. $10. Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 395-5135). You’ll also find the band Guided paying homage to none other than that guitar god himself, Jimi Hendrix. This all sounded pretty cool to us, and pretty shreddy, so we found Stuart and tricked him into answering these questions three. (Alex De Vore) Of all the metal tributes to which you could possibly pay tribute, why Black Sabbath?

Well, I mean, Black Sabbath is, you know, the godfathers of metal. [Guitarist] Tony Iommi is the godfather of the metal riff, and he’s viewed that way by a lot of people.

Plus, it just sounded like a good idea. This all started because there was that 50th anniversary celebration for the Candyman [music store], and they were theming it with bands from the Woodstock fest. I’d made this joke to [manager] Francesca Jozette about having some metal bands, just as a joke, and she asked if I’d be down with doing a Black Sabbath tribute band.

They were kind of in the same timeline as a lot of those Woodstock bands, and she thought it would be cool. So I got with metal musician Chris Riggins, who is also a huge metalhead, and he wanted to do guitar and said he’d take a crack at vocals.

We got our friend Jesse Otero to play

drums and friend Tom Valencia for the other guitar, and that was it. Everything we do is from the first four albums, and we haven’t branched out past that because the last four albums kind of sucked.

What’s up with your project Night Soil?

Y’all shredding any new material our way anytime soon?

We’re trying to write right now, and I think we’ve got some tentative shows in July. And we’ll hopefully have refined a few of our newer songs that we’ve been working on, but we’re really hoping to hit it hard by the end of the year. [When it comes to writing] it really depends. Chris [Riggins] and Mark [Pennington] do a lot of the riff writing and the structure, and I’m kind of the glue that helps put it all together. It takes a little time to get it going. We’ll jam a riff, and if we like it we’ll go back over the basic structure with drummer Dominic Martinez, and then we just take it a beat at a time, really. We’ll try to rough out a skeleton of what we think is a whole song. I don’t read or write music, but Chris is definitely schooled and definitely very learned. He has a background in sound and engineering, and he helps with a lot of the relations between songs, so if there’s a note off, he’ll be like, ‘Oh, well, what if we tried this?’ We have our Night Soil demo, which you can find on our Bandcamp page. We did five songs that we recorded and mixed entirely ourselves, and we did it all in our jam space—which is really Mark Pennington’s shed. Chris Riggins recorded it, so it’s very much self-released.

Why do you think Santa Fe has always had this intense love of all things metal?

Man, I have wondered that for as long as I’ve gone to shows. There’s just something about this town, I think—it’s a very old town, very historic, and there’s a lot of really violent and bloody history, a lot of dark and alluring things about this place that just kind of have this vibe. A lot of people have referred to it as high desert metal, high desert rock—I think it’s just something about the atmosphere. It brings out a certain angst and beauty, and it’s a really strange phenomenon to me. From my teenage years to now, there have always been these metal bands.

And all of us who play music are just stealing little bits and pieces from other musicians and trying to make it something more like what we like, more unique. I listen to metal, but I listen to a lot of basic garbage pop music, and just hearing what they can do with very little while they make these songs people are very interested in, seeing what other bands can do like Yes, with great technical playing and hooks and pop…everything that pop music has, but with life in it—I just want to take things that sound good and have this feel that’s approachable.

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MUSIC AMERICAN STRING QUARTET PLAYS BEETHOVEN Taos Community Auditorium 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos tinyurl.com/45wa2738 In a belated birthday nod to Beethoven, the ASQ performs Quartets Opus 74 and Opus 131.

5:30 pm, $25-$50 BOB MAUS Cava Lounge at Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Blues and soul tunes on the piano with rocking vocals.

6-9 pm, free CCA AMPLIFIED: WE INTEND TO CAUSE HAVOC Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail tinyurl.com/y8du8w6b A doc following Zambia’s most popular rock band of the 1970s led by the powerful vocalist, Jagari. This is a part of Lost Padre Records and CCA's Music on Film series. (see SFR picks, page 19) 6 pm, $15 FIRST THURSDAYS AT EL REY El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Soak up the summer nights at El Rey Court’s First Thursday. Enjoy live music, signature cocktails from La Reina, wood-fired pizza from Tenderfire Kitchen and goods from local makers.

6-8 pm, free

WORKSHOP MIXED AERIAL ACROBATICS CLASS Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B. (505) 992-2588 Learn aerial acrobatics from silks, lyras, hammock work or trapeze stunts.

5:30-7 pm, $22-$28 YOGA FOR KIDS Lafarge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292 Join the library for children’s yoga, joyful movement and kinesthetic creativity.

10:30 am, free

FRI/3 ART ALL ART IS VIRTUAL (OPENING) Art Vault 540 S. Guadalupe St. artvault.thomafoundation.org Contemporary art built from cutting-edge tech, such as algorithmic content generation. See videos and LED sculptures, digital murals, augmented reality wallpaper and all sorts of fancy-sounding stuff.

4-6 pm, free FIRST FRIDAY AT THE COE Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts 1590 Pacheco St. (505) 983-6372 Check out Native arts for free.

If you haven't gotten a chance to explore their new digs, you're being summoned.

1-4 pm, free MCCREERY L. JORDAN ART (OPENING) Gaia Contemporary 225 Canyon Road #6 (505) 501-0415 Jordan’s style ranges from realism to abstract paintings and even sculpture.

5-8 pm, free PICKLED DREAMS: TORSHI AND KURKUM (OPENING) Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882 Artist Zahra Marwan’s dreamy watercolors celebrate the colors of the desert and the sea, both landscapes defining her childhood.

5-7 pm, free WOMEN IN THE HOUSE (OPENING) Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800 An exhibition of female artists across the generations, with up-and-comers being a cornerstone of the show. OGs like Judy Chicago and Nancy Youdelman feature here too. (see SFR picks, page 19) 5-7 pm, free

EVENTS FIRST FRIDAY ARTWALK CHOMP Food Hall 505 Cerrillos Road (505) 470-8118 Try over 30 local artisan vendors. There’s a full bar and live music from Boom Roots Collective, plus you can experience a poke pop-up by Chef Dakota Weiss.

4-8 pm, free INVADERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. tinyurl.com/vd7cbt83 Fuego vs. Roswell Invaders. Their mascots are aliens. Cause it’s Roswell. Lmao, nerds. That’s like if we were dancing ristras.

Actually wait, that could be kinda cool?? Hmm. 6 pm, $8

FOOD DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892 Learn how the whiskey gets made. It’s science stuff.

3 pm, $25

MUSIC AMERICAN STRING QUARTET: PART II Taos Community Auditorium 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos tinyurl.com/mr475cz6 This second program by the Americans includes works by Brahms (Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No.2), Shostakovich (Quartet No. 7 in F# minor, Op. 108) and flutist Nancy Laupheimer.

5:30 pm, $25-$50 MELISSA GAIL KLEIN AND THE MORNING DEW Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St. (505) 986-5037 Real-deal banjo. These folks ballads have a rock 'n' roll vibe going on that'll make you fall in love. With the music, we mean.

Or with someone, but that's your own business.

7-9 pm, free

ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato A jazz trio worth the struggle to find parking downtown during tourist season. Seriously—it’s worth it. Order wine and enjoy yourself, you deserving cuties.

6-9 pm, free SIGHT AND SOUND New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 DJ Raashan Ahmad curates a set in response to the museum’s Poetic Justice exhibition. Hear how he translates visual art into a sonic landscape of different genres and moods. Also, the art is incredible.

5-7 pm, free TGIF CONCERT: HIGH DESERT HARP ENSEMBLE First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 Celtic music awaits thee, in harp form. And you know what? We need more majestic Celtic harp tunes in our miserable lives.

5:30 pm, free (but donate) THREE AS ONE: BOBBY SHEW, JOHN FUNKHOUSER AND TERRY BURNS GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. tinyurl.com/yfe5mda4 This jazz group is pure magic.

East Coast improvisation hasn’t sounded better. If it has, we don’t remember it.

7:30 pm, $22 SABBATH WITH THE GUIDED Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 393-5135 The Guided capture the Jimi Hendrix experience, but with their own spins on classic jams.

Sabbath puts an emphasis on the early years of Black Sabbath’s career. Enjoy, metal heads. You do you. No pre-sales for this show, pay it all at the door. (see 3Qs, page 22) 7-11 pm, $10

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OPERA MAKES SENSE: FAMILY CONCERTS Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 For children ages 3-5, explore the world of opera through music and storytelling.

Performances and book readings are presented by The Young Voices of The Santa Fe Opera.

Teach ‘em early.

2 pm, free

ELDORADO CACTUS GARDEN TOUR 2022 La Tienda at Eldorado 7 Caliente Road tinyurl.com/28ftymbh Cactus—what a plant! If you’re into the cacti world, start your tour at the La Tienda shopping center. Pick up a map there to visit all 10 gardens. Look at those spikey things and say “oh yeah, that’s nice.“ 9 am-2:30 pm, free INVADERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. tinyurl.com/vd7cbt83 Roswell can cry about their loss at their spaceship McDonald’s.

6 pm, $8 SAND PLAY SATURDAY Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596 A great opportunity for children and families to explore, discover and think creatively about design in the park’s sand area.

10 am-noon, free SPRING FIBER FESTIVAL El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road golondrinas.org Ranch activities like sheep shearing, spinning and weaving, plus a fiber arts marketplace featuring local artisans.

10 am-4 pm, $8 VAMANOS! SANTA FE COMMUNITY WALKS AND EXPLORATIONS. La Tierra Trails, Frijoles Trailhead sfct.org/vamanos Celebrate "National Trails Day," and "Take A Kid Hiking Day" by joining in this walk at the La Tierra Trails and Frijoles trailhead for a two-hour hike.

9-11 am, free

THEATER HAMLET Academy for the Love of Learning 133 Seton Village Road tinyurl.com/3fzjatpz Regicide under the stars and in the ruins of an old castle.

7pm-10pm, $15

SAT/4 ART SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Find artistic delights north of the water tower. Mugs, furniture, paintings—check it out.

8 am-2 pm, free ZEN AND THE ART OF WOODWORKING EXHIBITION (ARTIST RECEPTION) Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 David Johnson works with exotic and common woods. Pick his brain and learn how zen can be found everywhere and in anything (but especially wood).

1-4 pm, free

DANCE DIRT DANCE IN THE PARK Patrick Smith Park 1001 Canyon Road allaboardearth.com Silent disco in the sunshine.

Proceeds from this event benefit The Ocean Cleanup.

Dance and save the whales.

2-4 pm, $5-$12

FOOD DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892 In an hour you'll learn all about how Santa Fe Spirits operates.

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FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 It's year-round, but we can consider Farmers Market browsing an essential summer activity. You know you can get some insane chile here, right?

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC ANDY MASON Santa Fe Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 Bring the kids out and enjoy live guitar melodies with a veteran local children’s musician.

10:30 am, free ORDINARY ELEPHANT GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. tinyurl.com/bdhkz82a International Folk Music Awards 2017 Artist of the Year Ordinary Elephant captivates audiences with their emotionally powerful folk songs. (see SFR picks, page 19) 7:30 pm, $22 ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato Jazz to the power of three.

That’s a big number, probably.

6-9 pm, free SANTA FE FLUTE IMMERSION CONCERTS: CLOSING CONCERT Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road (505) 988-1975 A showcase of flutists ages 14 and up. It’ll cover a range of musical styles, finishing with a flute choir ensemble.

6-8 pm, $20-$50 EXTR”ABBA”GANZA St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. theziasingers.com Oh, hell yeah. We need an ABBA concert literally every week to heal humanity, but some of you keep holding out. You know who's not? Aaron Howe and the Zia Sisters. If they don’t do “Angel Eyes” we might riot.

4-5 pm, $10-$30

WORKSHOP ACT CREATION CLASS Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B tinyurl.com/4xednehy Work with a circus coach to create a performance piece.

1:30-3:30 pm, $22 LIFE'S TOOLBOX: END OF LIFE DOCUMENT PREP Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. tinyurl.com/6vuwn68t Build a last will and testament, learn about Power of Attorney and your advanced health care directives. Leave your loved ones a road map of your choices, wishes and a note detailing all the secrets you couldn’t say in real life. It’s important stuff.

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QUEER BURLESQUE CLASS Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B tinyurl.com/4xednehy Learn burlesque basics. Each class teaches costuming, teasing off clothes, walking the stage or presenting a burlesque persona.

11 am-1 pm, $22

SUN/5 DANCE LION DANCERS Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 See the dynamic Lion Dance performances by the Quang Minh Buddhist Temple Youth Group of Albuquerque.

1-3 pm, free

EVENTS RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Railyard Artisan Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-4098 Paintings, sculptures, fiber arts, man, it goes on and on. New findings arrive every week with rotating vendors.

10 am-3 pm, free SKY RAILWAY: LORE OF THE LAND Santa Fe Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa St. skyrailway.com Live storytelling, music and a complimentary lunch in Lamy.

Perfect for the dads who will eventually finish reading that stack of history books in the bathroom.

11:30 am, $109 SPRING FIBER FESTIVAL El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road golondrinas.org Real-deal fiber production. You know how our favorite living history ranch does it. Good if you like looking at sheep.

10 am-4 pm, $8

MUSIC ANDY GRAMMER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Grammer has electrified dozens of television shows, including The Today Show, Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! and American Idol. The multiplatinum singer-songwriter is known is known for engaging, energizing and empowering audiences across the world with his chart-topping radio hits like “Honey I’m Good,” “Keep Your Head Up,” “Don’t Give Up On Me” and others.

7:30 pm, $55-$225 DOUG MONTGOMERY Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765 Master pianist Montgomery performs in the President's Room by the patio. We think it’s just a fancy name and not Biden’s bedroom, but it’d be cute if he walked in with pajamas.

6:30-9:30 pm, free

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LUKE NUTTING La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Nutting is a local songwriter and musician, playing roots music and rock ’n’ roll.

7-9 pm, free MIDLAKE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle tinyurl.com/2arm6pd7 Folk-rock with a little psychedelic mixed in. A criminally underrated band, FYI. 8-11 pm, $22 EXTR”ABBA”GANZA St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Oh you know “Mamma Mia” and “Dancing Queen”? Good for you. Now it’s time to get serious.

4-5 pm, $10-$30

WORKSHOP GAS AND ARC WELDING BADGE MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 An introductary class to different types of welding: Specifically the oxy-acetylene and electric Shielded Metal ARC types. You get to make cute little projects, too.

3-7 pm, $85 YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St. tinyurl.com/33xaxc9s 60-minute Vinyasa flow class.

Perfect that summer crow pose you need for the Insta.

10 am, $10-$15

MON/6 DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Weekly swing dancing with rotating DJs and instructors.

Class starts at 7 pm, the open dance at 8 pm. $8 for the class and the dance, $3 for just the dance.

7 pm, $3-$8

MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765 Montgomery is a powerhouse on the keys. Be swooned by his piano medleys. You deserve that steak and wine splurge night.

6:30-9:30 pm, free

WORKSHOP INTRO TO IMPROV Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Unit A santafeimprov.org This free class is open to all and will serve as an introduction to improv. No pressure and no experience required.

6-8 pm, free

JUGGLING AND UNICYCLING CLASS Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B. (505) 992-2588 Learn to juggle and/or ride a unicycle. Yeah, like the title suggests.

6-7:30 pm, free

TUE/7 EVENTS VAMANOS! SANTA FE WALKS Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Meet at the Southside Library and join fellow walkers along the Arroyo Hondo Trail. Venture to Swan Park and back to the library. You need to de-stress after work anyway.

5:30-6:30 pm, free YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 Ever planted a plant? Excellent, you’re qualified to help pretty-up the Railyard Park. We all like flowers and need more of them.

10 am-noon, free

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FARMERS MARKET TOUR Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 Join a host and guide on a Tuesday morning stroll through the Santa Fe Farmers Market.

See the wide variety of what’s growing locally, and talk with farmers about their experiences.

Register in advance. (see SFR picks, page 19) 9 am, free TUESDAY FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 Parking a pain at the Saturday market? Dang, do we feel that.

Go by the Tuesday market to get away from masses of humanity.

8 am-1 pm, free

MEDITATIONS IN MODERN BUDDHISM: CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WORLD Zoetic 230 St. Francis Dr. (505) 292-5293 Our world is not as fixed and solid as it may appear. It all depends on our mind. A pure world only appears to a pure, happy and compassionate mind.

Instead of following old habits of thinking, we can learn to respond in ways that benefit ourselves and others. No experience is necessary, everyone is welcome.

6-7:30 pm, $10 YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St. tinyurl.com/33xaxc9s 60-minute Vinyasa flow class.

Downward that dog.

Noon, $10-$15

MUSIC AMOS LEE WITH NEIL FRANCIS The Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Philly-based musician Lee comes to Santa Fe for his Dreamland Tour.

10:30 am, $66-$486

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MUSEUMS IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology. IAIA 2021–2022 BFA Exhibition: Awakened Dreamscapes.

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 Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass.

Birds: Spiritual Messengers of the Skies. ReVOlution.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Música Buena.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12 NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 The Palace Seen and Unseen.

Curative Powers: New Mexico’s Hot Springs.

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 10th Anniversary Exhibition.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun $10

PHOTO BY PAUL SMUTKO AND JAY PEARSON

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“Heaven & Hell: An International Gathering” at the Museum of International Folk Art.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence and the Architecture of John Gaw Meem. Trails, Rails, and Highways: How Trade Transformed New Mexico.

1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12 NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063 Poetic Justice.

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 Indigenous Women: Border Matters (Traveling).

Portraits: Peoples, Places, and Perspectives. Native Artists Make Toys.

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

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In With the Old Plaza Café celebrates 75 years with menu alterations and new chile products

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t some point, if you find yourself sitting on the new-ish patio outside the original and aptly named Plaza Café on, well, the Plaza, you might realize there have been some small silver linings to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Don’t get it twisted—the pandemic has been awful in so many ways, but when things got really hard for local restaurants, the city opened up a new permitting process which allowed foodservice businesses to expand seating out onto the streets. It’s trés European and helped a lot of people conduct business during challenging times. Plus, when it comes to early summer Santa Fe, a bit of al fresco dining is kind of glorious. Now, as the Plaza Café enters its 75th year under Razatos family ownership, me and SFR’s Riley Gardner found ourselves on that very patio to take a look at the new-ish, more concise menu, sample stellar dishes and to hear about a new line of takeaway chile sauces now on offer from the long-beloved community institution.

We have very few notes.

First off, you should know that both the downtown and Southside iterations of the Plaza Café now operate under the ownership of Leonardo Razatos, the son of original owners Dan (Dionysus) Razatos and his wife, Beneranda Saiz, and his husband Juliano. The elder Razatos died in 1996, with Beneranda making it all the way to 2021; Leonardo bought out the downtown business in 2020. He’d always owned the other location, and though that satellite version of the café has Southside roots dating back to a small location within the Quality Inn on Cerrillos Road circa 2003, it ultimately found its permanent location in the San Isidro Plaza shopping center in 2009. Side note? It was also the first restaurant in Santa Fe to regularly offer the plant-based Impossible Burger. Score. The original location, meanwhile, spans back as far as 1905, according to Razatos, though likely earlier; his dad took ownership in

1947, however, and that’s why they’re celebrating 75 years now (imagine the sound of a party horn here) and changing up the menu a bit.

“We all grew up in the restaurant. There have always been family members around there,” Razatos tells me by phone some days later. “And the menu...the pandemic sort of forced owners to concentrate on the essence of their businesses. We had to simplify, plus I thought it would be fun to do New Mexican dishes.”

On the day we visited the original Plaza location, the menu did look slightly shaved down, but I could not identify a single thing I missed. Razatos and his husband greeted us warmly as the sun shone through the partially covered patio dining area. Waiters bustled around in bow ties and didn’t even make us feel bad after I spilled a huge glass of water like a jamoke. Razatos’ brother, Andy, even made an appearance to say hi, and while I get that a big time food critic like myself can’t go anywhere without being recognized, I overheard the workers and owners and family engaged in kind conversation with normies more than once as we dined. In other words, they’re kind to all.

We started with guacamole and chips—

almost always a must. One loves when a restaurant makes its own chips, and the Plaza guac is no joke in texture, taste or generous portion. At $13.50, it’s a bit steep, but this is downtown Santa Fe, folks, and we gots to get them tourist bucks.

For our entrees, young Riley selected a chicken stuffed sopaipilla ($16.95), which came smothered red and with sides of rice and beans. While he reported the flavor to be excellent with the chicken coming in a satisfying shredded-esque style, the chile was apparently lacking in the spice department. With almost any other food this might be an issue, but when it comes to chile, spice and flavor can evolve day to day.

Next time, perhaps, will result in a better

Crispy avocado tacos from the Plaza Café not only taste amazing, they prove vegetarian dishes need not be boring.

balance between the two, and it certainly won’t hurt conducting that research.

I was excited to see crispy avocado tacos on the menu ($17.95). Razatos later told me the dish has been popular at his Southside restaurant, but that its addition to the downtown menu has already garnered fans.

A massive pair of tacos brimming with avocados coated in quinoa, sesame and poppy seeds, the dish was not only big on flavor, it was a texture triumph. Topped with pickled onions, the contrasting flavor profiles formed a fantastic range of taste and

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crunch, while sides of rice and beans rounded out the dish nicely. A little metal caddy on the plate kept the tacos upright, preventing spillage, and that the Plaza even has a single well-considered vegetarian item to begin with is notable, though Razatos rightly points out his Southside restaurant has long served more enticing meat-free dishes.

“Not that it’s a big secret, but one of our dreams is to open another restaurant—and I know it’s crazy to think about another restaurant in Santa Fe—that’s a version of the Plaza that’s almost meatless,” he adds.

“I won’t say 100% vegan, but vegan-friendly and very plant forward. I think it’s the future. We already have a lot of the elements in place, but the thing about vegan and vegetarian places is they get a little esoteric, and I think people want to have regular food they’re familiar with, so it would be approachable.”

As we wrapped up our meal, we sampled the caramel apple pie ($7.25), which proved a delicious capper thanks to its layer of warm caramel covering the top. You’ll find coconut cream and key lime pies on the menu as well, plus a quatro leches cupcake (take that, tres leches!) and biscochitos (all $7.25). Still, the most exciting part of the meal might have been leaving with the Plaza’s newest item: bottled red and green chile sauces. Razatos partnered with Verde Juice owner Kelly Egolf to develop the 16 oz. product ($9.95), which not only comes ready-to-go, it lasts for up to four months in the fridge.

“Kelly has this processing plant in Albuquerque, and that allows us to offer something that doesn’t exist, or at least that I’ve never seen,” Razatos explains. “It’s exactly the way we make the chile in the restaurant, with no preservatives, and it’s going to taste fresh.”

Sure, you can get sealed jars of chile from local restaurants, but this is something different—it really tastes fresh and you can just pour it out of the bottle.

“I think it’s something we haven’t seen yet,” Razatos says.

Indeed we haven’t. Now then, let’s get going on that new vegetarian joint.

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The Madness of Memory cess, and part of that process is telling stories. Stories that make us uncomfortable.”

It may be frustrating for Santa Feans to continue debating the obelisk, but the monument fits into a worthy discussion template. Decisions made long ago continue to haunt a very different world, as Rael-Gálvez wrote in his detailed analysis, “Centering Truths, Not So Evident,” before the obelisk became a crumbling ruin, and his take might introduce many to larger factoids rarely considered: Originally intended as a monument to the New Mexican men killed fighting for the Union, a lack of funding found the proposed monument before the state Legislature between 1867-1868, and the legislators of the day had their own ideas as to what ought to be memorialized.

They added the four plaques on each side, one of which commended the soldiers who fought against the “Savage Indians”—or, as Rael-Gálvez says, the Native people whom over half the legislators had been personally enslaving.

“It’s the irony of the monument as a whole,” he explains. “It was envisioned to remember the men who fought to dismantle

School for Advanced Research looks to broaden the conversation regarding monuments and memorials

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Politicians shouldn’t get statues dedicated to them just because they did their job.

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e probably don’t need to re-litigate the famous obelisk toppling of 2020 except to remind everyone it was a logical conclusion to years of non-action on the part of the city—including a public gathering during which Mayor Alan Webber famously said he’d help bring the thing down only to, y’know, not do that.

As everyone reading certainly knows, once the obelisk came down, we all woke up to the truth and everything was peaceful and harmonious forever. All across the city we embraced as true brothers, sisters and nonbinary siblings. Nah, just kidding, but seriously—as a nation and as a city, we were totally unprepared for the conversation that followed, one which continues to this day online, in-person and through the city’s Culture Healing Art Reconciliation and Truth (or CHART) process. As it turns out, the majority of us don’t know the purpose or history of the monuments sprinkled across Santa Fe’s historic district. What’s a town to do?

At an upcoming virtual panel discussion, Santa Fe’s School for Advanced Research (SAR), in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities, is looking to the future of monuments in Santa Fe and beyond, and whether there’s a way we can preserve public memory without celebrating past wrongs and atrocities.

Regina Chen of the MASS Design Group, where architects use design as a means for community healing, and Kaitlin Murphy of the University of Arizona will lead the talk.

Former state historian and senior vice president of historic sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Estevan RaelGálvez moderates. The three are looking at ways forward for Santa Fe’s Plaza and other sites by examining various histories and success stories from across the world.

“I think we really missed an opportunity to provide a pathway to move past these mythologies,” Rael-Gálvez tells SFR. “Community input isn’t easy, but I do believe in it. But it isn’t just one meeting—it’s a pro-

Black slavery in America, and then it became a reminder of Indigenous slavery.”

It will surprise no one the history is more complex than some John Ford cosplay and two sides fighting over a way of life. RaelGálvez is a leading scholar in Indigenous slavery, with a major focus on the American

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Southwest and Northern Mexico. The Southwest had its own trade network of Native slaves that has often been brushed off, or even entirely forgotten. He’d know, too—he’s currently leading a first-of-itskind $1.5 million dollar project funded by the Mellon Foundation to document the names of every enslaved Indigenous person in the western hemisphere. Yeah, the entire hemisphere. As big as the project is, merely discovering the names can help us begin to humanize the people who built the foundations of our modern economies.

Santa Fe’s deep roots can make looking forward seem a hopeless endeavor, but there are examples from which we can learn. RaelGálvez points to New Orleans, the great cultural powerhouse of the American South, as a possible model for Santa Fe’s future path toward healing. Citing then-mayor Mitch Landrieu’s 2015 call to remove three prominent confederate monuments within the city, Rael-Gálvez says, the Lousiana politician managed to succeed in the removal despite court challenges and political attacks.

In addition to political courage, the organization Paper Monuments brought paper wall art into community spaces where intimidating soldiers on horseback once looked over passers-by. Nature cuts down paper pretty quickly, but such an action brings the conversation to the public rather than waiting for the public to come around— and public input should help mold the direction of the community; the transient nature of just such a project means a memorial can contain fluid elements evolving alongside the community in which it stands.

It’s worth noting the obvious caveats— the SAR talk isn’t going to solve deep-rooted generational beliefs, nor is anyone going to come out proclaiming we’ve fixed all our woes. But such talks can form the building-blocks to something greater. RaelGálvez sees the future of memorials as something entirely different, something beyond the worship of individuals.

“People can do great things, but people like Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr. did what they did within a community,” Rael-Gálvez notes. “Politicians shouldn’t get statues dedicated to them just because they did their job. [The obelisk] is gone now.

We have a responsibility to think harder about that center. Let’s not only think, let’s do—let’s move past the permanence. I think SAR’s talk is going to invite us all to really think hard about the future.”

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If you, like me, are thinking you’ve seen the first Top Gun movie, so you totally don’t need to brush up again before heading in to see Tom Cruise’s new Top Gun: Maverick, you’re right and wrong. On the one hand, it’d make answers to questions like “Who the hell is this Penny person, and why are we supposed to know who she is?” or, “Who the hell is that guy and what’s his deal?” eminently more answerable. On the other hand, the new “woah, planes!” vehicle from Cruise and company is so very stupid, it doesn’t even begin to matter.

We join Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Cruise) some 30-ish years after the events of the original Top Gun wherein the best Navy pilots around attended a school for, umm, the best Navy pilots around. ‘Twas colloquially called—get this—Top Gun, and while there, they flied all sick, got Anthony Edwards’ Goose killed, competed all day and played volleyball so fucking hard that movies were never the same.

Now, though, things have changed. Sure, Top Gun is still called Top Gun, and Maverick’s still the hot-headed rule-hater he always was (a weird personality type to join the military), but when a test flight he wasn’t even supposed to conduct goes awry, he’s sent to teach a new generation of pointless archetypes at Top Gun under the watchful, judgmental eye of Cyclone (Jon Hamm), who totally hates the whole Maverick gestalt.

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There are people who watch Bob’s Burgers and there are people who really watch Bob’s Burgers. Its juvenile-meets-complex slapstick humor is a safe space for many, warm as a burger fresh off the grill. Sure, everyone talks over one another and screams a lot, but they are authentically themselves, and they love one another despite life’s difficulties. And yes, there are a whole lot of butts. If there weren’t, we’d riot.

If you’ve seen a single episode of the animated Fox show, you’ve seen this movie. Restauranteurs Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda Belcher (John Roberts) are denied a loan extension to pay off their restaurant equipment. Things get worse when a giant sinkhole opens in front of their business, halting any customer traffic and revealing a long-buried murder victim. If you’re new to this world, rest assured this is classic Bob’s territory: The parents fret with domestic woes while the children (Dan Mintz, Kristen Schaal and Eugene Mirman) go off on their own adventures—in this case, trying to solve said murder.

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fast and loose with nuclear armament agreements, and the mission is gonna be so full of pilot/flying terms that even the toughest stick jockeys (the movie’s words, not mine) have to git gud fast. Good thing Maverick’s the most reckless pilot ever around.

Breezing past how the film never once identifies “the enemy,” Maverick follows in the footsteps of the new generation of Star Wars movies by setting up characters who echo the originals and then having them do most of the same basic things. Instead of Val Kilmer’s arrogant Iceman, we get Glen Powell’s arrogant Hangman; instead of Goose, we get his son (Miles Teller, who is better than this), Rooster. They train hard, they compete hard, they play beach football instead of volleyball so hard and they learn a little something about feelings and friendship along the way.

Jennifer Connely shows up as Penny, a former flame of Maverick’s heretofore only mentioned in the first film’s dialogue. Cruise smiles at her like a little boy and sails on her boat—they totally do it even though she’s concerned about her precocious daughter

Gene, Tina and Louise has proven popular amongst the millennials who build up the show’s fan base, but Bob is the heart of the show and we suffer when he’s offscreen too long. If Bob has only one conversation with a hamburger in 90ish minutes, that’s lost time— give us more patty talk, creators Loren Bouchard and Jim Dauterive!

While Bob’s venture to the big screen isn’t worthy of big-time plaudits, it isn’t a bad time, and the animation is even slightly better than on television. If anything, it’s comforting the filmmakers didn’t venture too far from the show’s usual formulas. This is a movie built more for longtime fans than general audiences, like a little treat because they’ve stuck around for 12 seasons. It proves the show is watchable, and maybe that’s good enough, but it’s hard not to wish that a new medium would have meant bigger things.

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You’d have to be fairly well-versed in Iranian cinema to know director Panah Panahi is the son of that country’s notable filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Taxi).

Still, one needn’t be a globe-traipsing cinephile to understand the younger Panahi’s first-ever feature,

who says things like, “Don’t hurt her!” Or maybe it’s “Don’t break her heart!” Honestly? Who gives a shit?

Everyone in this movie says stuff like “Don’t think, just do!” and, “My dad was really good at planes, brah!” and, like, “He doesn’t want what I’ve got to teach!” Even Val Kilmer’s one scene feels more about checking boxes than it does telling a story. There is no character development. There are no interesting characters. Not naming the villains lowers the stakes, too, but look at those shirtless bodies glisten in the sun, right? We’ll give it to Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski for the action and flying scenes, though. Maverick makes use of real planes and explosions and stuff, which makes how ham-fisted, predictable and downright boring the rest of the film is sting worse. As always, Cruise is a movie star presence—not an actor, not an artist. Oh, and they waste Ed Harris in only one dang scene, so...drag.

Hit the Road, is a masterwork of differing familial relationships and a tangible, long-lasting pang of existential dread.

In Panahi’s major film debut, we follow an unnamed family on a car trip through the countryside outside of Tehran. There’s the stoic father (Hassan Madjooni), whose furtive nature is punctuated by cigarettes, mystery phone calls and circuitous affections; the romantic 6-year-old (Rayan Sarlak) who just had his cellphone taken away and who bellows painfully that if he misses a call from his teacher, whom he is dating in his mind, she’ll dump him; the pained but outwardly emotive mother (an electric Pantea Panahiha, who represents the best of Panahi’s opus); and the tortured older brother (Amin Simiar), whom we learn the trip is about, even if we don’t learn why until it’s too late to detach.

Road lives in the expansive unsaid things between family members, even as Sarlak’s young boy fills the silence with youthful chatter. Much of the film takes place in a car, and the family shares knowing glances while its youngest member tends to the sick dog who’s also along for the ride, offers a ride to an ostensibly injured bicyclist and asks the parents the kinds of rapid-fire questions kids seem to invariably ask. Only the older brother seems unenthused, though his parents get there with him through the course of the odyssey, even as they must defuse tensions for their youngest.

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How a car can feel so suffocating yet so expansive fades after a time, but brief respites and new landscapes feel freeing though at odds with the crushing nature of the errand: Eventually we learn the family must smuggle the eldest brother out of Iran, though we never learn why. Once we learn escape is the objective, however, it makes everything the parents do and say in the film’s earlier moments all the more meaningful, and any further specifics would only have distracted from the real crux of the matter: Families struggle to express love openly, but they’ll show you in the most curious ways.

Panahi relishes the simpler, quieter moments, and he transitions from feeling to feeling—or perhaps act to act—with characters breaking the fourth wall. Or so it seems. Once you understand the father, you hate him for playing cool, but get it in a way; Panahiha, though, steals the production, even from the precocious Sarlak, who turns in one of the best child performances in recent memory. One almost pities Simiar’s character for having to suffer with that which the family cannot understand. Still, he does the comforting in the end, at least for a moment. There’s no comfort for the mother, however, who steals a lock of her son’s hair, who fights back screams, who falls to her knees, eyes trained directly on us, and openly weeps. It’s not easy, but it sure is beautiful. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 93 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Who loves the truth better than you Aries people? Who has the greatest potential to speak the real story in every situation, even when it requires extra courage? Who has more fun than you in discovering and defining and expressing the raw facts? In my Book of Life, you Rams are radiant beacons of candor—the people I go to when I need accuracy and honesty. And all I’m saying here will be especially crucial in the coming weeks. The whole world needs concentrated doses of your authenticity. Now read this pep talk from Aries philosopher St. Catherine of Siena: “Let the truth be your delight; let it always be in your mouth, and proclaim it when it is needed. Proclaim it lovingly and to everyone, especially those you love with a special love—but with a certain congeniality.”

ond counsel is from philosopher and psychologist William James, who wrote, “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Before the 20th century, you couldn’t buy a loaf of bread that was already sliced into thin pieces. Then in 1912, the American inventor Otto Frederick Rohwedder developed a slicing machine.

But all his work, including the blueprints and the machine prototypes, was destroyed in a fire. He had to seek new funding and begin again. Sixteen years later, his innovation was finally ready for broad public use. Within five years, most of the bread in the US was sold sliced. What does this have to do with you? I am picking up an Otto Frederick Rohwedder vibe when I turn my visions to you, Taurus. I suspect that in the coming months, you, too, will fulfill a postponed dream.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A blogger named Sweetlikeacherry reminds us, “Some epiphanies are only possible when you put away your phone and go completely offline for a while.” She adds that sometimes you also need to at least partially avoid your phone and the internet if you hope to incubate new visions of the future and unlock important discoveries in your creative work and summon your untamed genius. According to my astrological analysis, all these possibilities are especially likely and necessary for you in the coming weeks. I trust you will carry out the necessary liberations to take full advantage.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Mustafa Mahmoud described the signs of love between two people: 1. feeling a comfortable familiarity; 2. having no urge or need to lie; 3. being natural, not trying to be different from who one is; 4. having little or no possibility of being embarrassed in front of the other person; 5. experiencing silence as delicious, not alienating; 6. enjoying the act of listening to the other person. I bring these pointers to your attention, Libra, because the coming months will be a favorable time to define and redefine your understandings about the signs of love. How do you feel about Mahmoud’s ideas? Are there any more you would like to add?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “We do not love each other without changing each other,” wrote author Madeleine L’Engle. Meditate on that gem, Scorpio. Now is a perfect time for you and your loved ones to acknowledge, honor, and celebrate the ways your love has changed each other. It may be true that some transformations have been less than ideal. If that’s the case, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to correct those trends. As for the positive changes that you and your allies have stimulated in each other: I hope you will name them and pledge to keep doing more of that good work.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other,” wrote Sagittarian novelist Jane Austen. Sagittarian politician Stacey Abrams said, “From the moment I enter a room, I am clear about how I intend to be treated and how I intend to engage.” You’ll be wise to cultivate those attitudes in the next seven weeks, Sagittarius. It’s high time for you to raise your self-respect in ways that inspire others to elevate their appreciation and regard for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1963, Jim Munro and Alice Munro founded Munro’s Books, a store in Victoria, British Columbia. After being on the job for a few months, Alice found she was not impressed with many CANCER (June 21-July 22): Poet Carolyn Kizer (1925– 2014) won a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry. She was smart! of the products they sold. “I can write better books than this,” she told Jim. Five years later, she published her But when she was young and still studying her craft in first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy college, a professor objected to one of her poems. He Shades. Fourteen books later, she won the Nobel Prize in said, “You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic.”

Literature. Will the coming months bring your equivalent Kizer was incensed at such ignorance. She testified, “I of Alice Munro’s pivotal resolution? I suspect they could. got up and walked out of that class and never went back.” Judging from the astrological omens, I suspect you AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “True love for whatever may have comparable showdowns headed your way. I you are doing is the answer to everything,” proclaimed advise you to be like Kizer. You are the only one who performance artist Marina Abramovic. Amen to that truly knows the proper subjects of your quest. No one righteous attitude! I hope you will embrace it in the else has the right or the insight to tell you what your coming weeks. I hope your heart and imagination will work (or play) should be about. reveal all you need to know to bring tender fresh LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author James Baldwin said it streams of true love to the essential activities of your wasn’t often “that two people can laugh and make love, life. Now is an excellent time to redefine the meaning of the word “love” so it applies to all your relationships and too—make love because they are laughing and laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter pursuits. come from the same place: but not many people go there.” Your assignment, Leo, is to be the exception to Baldwin’s rule during the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, there’s a high possibility that interesting eros can converge with humorous fun in a glorious synergy. You will have a knack for conjuring up ribald encounters and jovial orgasms. Your intuition will guide you to shed the solemnity from your bliss and replace it with sunny, carefree cheer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A homeless woman in a wheelchair stopped where I was sitting outside a café. She was pushing her belongings in a small shopping cart.

“Would you like to go dancing?” she said to me. “There’s a nearby park that has a great grassy dance floor.” “Maybe another day,” I told her. “My energy is low. I’ve had a lot of personal challenges lately.” I’m sure the expression on my face was less-than-ebullient. “Cheer up, mister,” she told me. “I’m psychic, and I can tell you for sure that you will live a long life and have many more fine adventures. I’ll be in the park if you change your mind.” My mood instantly brightened. “Thanks!” I yelled toward her as she rolled away. Now I predict that you, Pisces, will have comparable experiences in the coming days. Are you willing to welcome uplifting surprises?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m worried you will over-indulge in your pursuit of perfection during the coming weeks. It’s fine to be exquisitely skillful and masterful; I hope you do that. But if you get obsessed with flawlessness, you will risk undoing your good intentions. As an antidote, I offer you two pieces of advice. The first is from Homework: If there were a clone of you, what alternate life might they be living? actor and activist Jane Fonda. She said, “We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.” The sec- Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

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