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New Mexico officials navigating cannabis banking opportunities, workers struggling to find services B Y G R A N T C R AW F O R D g r a n t @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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here is a lot of green tied up in the cannabis industry, and we’re not just talking about the plant, but also the kind of green that folds.

The US saw $25 billion in legal cannabis sales in 2021, according to Bank of America, while state officials expect the industry to hit $30 billion by the end of this year. In New Mexico, officials have reported $78 million in revenues since adult-use sales began in April.

Naturally, credit unions and banking institutions here and around the country are hoping to receive some of that business. But it’s a complicated landscape: Marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, and banking tends to be an interstate enterprise. So there’s plenty of confusion about what’s allowed and fear of running afoul of the law for bankers and the cannabis industry alike.

That’s why New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department Superintendent Linda Trujillo and Financial Institutions Division Director Mark Sadowski attended the 2022 Cannabis Banking Symposium in Denver on

June 14—part of an initiative to provide banks and credit unions with information on how they can accept business from cannabis companies, despite the federal prohibition. The pair discovered what’s preventing banks from taking the leap, how dispensaries and producers are navigating the new market and the steps needed to make banking easier for all.

Cannabis is still a mainly cash industry, and it doesn’t sound like much will change unless Congress acts, Sadowski tells SFR. In order for major credit card brands to allow cannabis businesses to make transactions with their plastic, “They seem to say probably not until it’s legalized will we actually get the majority of the cash out of the retailers. That’s going to be the first big step of making cannabis sales generally just a little safer,” he says.

The proposed SAFE Banking Act aims to provide security for institutions by guarding them against stiff penalties from federal regulators for serving state-licensed cannabis businesses. The bill has passed the US House of Representatives six times, most recently in April, but has been held up in the Senate, despite calls from lawmakers to move forward with the legislation.

States with recreational and/or medical marijuana programs have seen increases in dispensary robberies, according to published reports. An Albuquerque dispensary was actually broken into ahead of the state’s first day of adult-use sales on April 1. New Mexico

passing its own version of the SBA is not off the table, according to Trujillo, but action at the federal level would make it safer overall for businesses to exchange goods, services and cash.

Officials also point to the Cole Memo as a source for protection. The Obama-era guidance, which was rescinded by former Trump attorney general Jeff Sessions, urged federal prosecutors to practice discretion on cannabis cases in states where it’s legal. Trujillo says she would love to see it put back in place.

“There’s no doubt in our minds that some of these measures would, in fact, bring some safety to the business and to the people who work in the business,” Trujillo says.

Banking institutions are hesitant to accept cannabis clients because of the potential loss of assets. The possibility of criminal charges is a secondary concern, Sadowski says, adding that if credit unions don’t perform due diligence, federal examiners or the state could shut down operations.

It takes a steep investment for organizations to accept cannabis-related dollars. They must fill out currency transaction reports for deposits of more than $10,000, in addition to

There’s no doubt in our minds that some of these measures would, in fact, bring some safety to the business and to the people who work in the business -Linda Trujillo, New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department superintendent making suspicious activity reports and using anti-money laundering software. The state’s Financial Institutions Division is hoping to streamline information to banks and credit unions so they can automate that process and potentially drive down the cost of expenses, making it easier for them to offer cannabis-banking solutions. Just two organizations in New Mexico—US Eagle Federal Credit Union’s cannabis division, Aery Group, and Southwest Capital Bank—accept cannabis bucks.

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“Those two institutions are located in Albuquerque and that really doesn’t do much for outlying, more rural areas of the state,” Sadowski says. “So where are you going to get banking services in Portales, or Silver City, or even down in Las Cruces?”

Meanwhile, dispensaries and producers are finding ways to make the industry less cash-intensive. Officials say licensed businesses throughout the country have tried using cashless ATMs, which can disguise cannabis purchases as cash withdrawals.

“So it’s a risk for the cannabis businesses to try to do some of that creative financing that really is under scrutiny,” Trujillo says.

At Endo in Santa Fe, the dispensary utilizes software that allows for authorized PIN-based transactions. While it could charge the customer a small fee for using a debit card, technical director Alex Costello says the company chose to eat the fees so customers wouldn’t have to pay them.

“Debit was something we had been looking into well before we even got this building,” he tells SFR from the dispensary’s location at 2903 Agua Fría St. “We’re trying to stay on top of the new innovations in the industry. Some people claim they can do credit card transactions, but that’s not truly legal.”

Still, the current landscape requires businesses to arrange cash shipments from armored car companies for deposits. In one situation, according to Sadowski, an institution in another state charges a cannabis entity $10,000 a month in banking fees.

Only the largest retailers can afford such fees, he says.

“They’re holding inordinate amounts of cash in their properties,” he says. “They try to cycle it through somewhere, I can only imagine. Some own the ATMs that are in their institutions, so they just recycle the cash through that, but there’s only so much cash that those machines can hold.”

Like their bosses, employees in the cannabis industry can also have a hard time navigating services and receiving mortgages or car loans. Officials believe banks are hesitant to finance weed workers because of the potential for their employers to be shut down.

“That’s the thing with money earned through a cannabis-related business, it’s kind of sticky,” Costello says. “Anything earned in the retail side of things, like if it’s through a dispensary, it cannot be tax deducted, it cannot be put into the stock markets, it cannot be put into federally-backed loans or anything like that.”

Sadowski says he hopes to provide businesses, employees and financial institutions with guidance so they can utilize banking services. It’s an issue Trujillo also says needs attention in the Legislature.

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Executive order aims to shield New Mexico from other states’ anti-abortion laws and expected influx of out-of-state patients

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ew state protections enacted this week are intended to shield New Mexico health care workers who provide reproductive health services to out-of-state residents, as well as those who come here seeking abortions.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order June 27 in the wake of the June 24 US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v.

Wade and ending a 50-year-long constitutional right to abortion. Last year, in anticipation of the court’s action, New Mexico’s legislators repealed a 1969 state law that had criminalized abortion.

Lujan Grisham’s order is aimed at protecting health care providers from discipline due to out-of-state residents receiving abortion services in New Mexico, and also makes clear the state will refuse to cooperate with extradition attempts from other states pursuing charges against anyone receiving or performing reproductive services, among other provisions.

“It’s still shocking, frankly, that we’re having this conversation,” Lujan Grisham said during a news conference with other reproductive health advocates from Planned Parenthood, American Civil Liberties Union and NM Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. “But we will not further imperil the rights and access points of anyone in the state of New Mexico…As long as I’m governor, everyone in the state of New Mexico will be protected. Out-of-state residents seeking access will be protected. Providers will be protected, and abortion is and will continue to be legal, safe and accessible.”

Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, recently signed into law similar executive orders that reflect the rapidly changing and uncertain landscape for abortion services following SCOTUS’ reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Abortion is now illegal in at least seven states, with more bans pending and several court battles in the offing. New Mexico is one of 20 states, plus Washington, DC, with access to abortion and one of just seven without a gestational limit. The state has already seen an influx

of patients since Texas enacted a ban on abortions after six weeks last September; that state has a “trigger” law that will go into effect 30 days after last Friday’s ruling, effectively banning all abortions.

More pointedly, both Texas and Oklahoma have laws allowing private citizens to sue people who perform or help others access abortion services. It remains to be seen if states will pass laws intended to criminalize people who seek abortions out of state, or those who help them in other states. (In his concurring opinion, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that in “my view” states would not be allowed to bar people from traveling to other states for abortions “based on the constitutional right to interstate travel.”)

State Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque, the lead sponsor of last year’s bill repealing criminalization of abortion in New Mexico, said during the news conference she and others want to make sure those coming to the state seeking abortion services “are safe…We know that other states will be trying their hardest to criminalize this action. And we need to make sure that our professionals and those within our borders are protected. And I know this will do that. There’s much more to come.”

Lujan Grisham said she did not anticipate needing to call a special legislative session in advance of next year, though she added: “We’re going to have to wait and see what other surprises are potentially in store from the Supreme Court.”

Nonetheless, she said she anticipated a push for additional public health funding “to make sure that we are engaging in provider access and support,” as well as educational campaigns. And while abortion is legal in New Mexico, she added, “I am sure that we are going to look to codify it…We’ll make sure that we just do that. And we might want to buttress some other potential losses by the Supreme Court at the same time. It may not be the only issue; I would say same sex marriage: Codify that.”

Ellie Rushforth, a reproductive rights lawyer with ACLU New Mexico, told SFR the decision represents not just a “looming public health crisis” but a “constitutional crisis” as well. During the news conference, she noted that SCOTUS had dealt “a devastating blow to equality in this country...You cannot have a functioning democracy without the ability to make a…personal reproductive health care decision. And at the ACLU, we are doing everything we can in collaboration with leadership, with our allies, with our partners, to ensure that no one is criminalized no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money they make, from making private medical decisions.”

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ABOVE: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, left, and Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque, spoke before the governor signed an executive order on June 27, 2022. BELOW: Amy Susynski, left, and Yuki Murata attend a demonstration outside the New Mexico State Capitol building in Santa Fe after the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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andra Brice left her home on the eastside of Santa Fe to walk her dog and, passing the carport, she noticed something amiss: Her car was gone.

With no broken glass or any sign of a break-in, “It’s like it was taken by aliens,” Brice tells SFR. Coincidentally, it was the same March day as a memorial service for Santa Fe Police Officer Robert Duran, who was killed earlier that month while pursuing a stolen vehicle— believed to be involved in a kidnapping— headed the wrong way on Interstate 25 in Santa Fe County. The driver in that case, Jeannine Jaramillo, was later charged with two counts of first-degree murder as well as receiving or transferring a stolen vehicle—a white Chevy Malibu allegedly taken from a woman in Las Vegas.

Brice’s missing 2014 Subaru would also become the target of a chase, she says.

Authorities recovered it in Rio Arriba County last week after law enforcement noticed a man driving erratically. The driver was taken into custody after he allegedly

attempted to evade police and it resulted in damages to the car.

Prior to Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies finding the car, she had considered it a lost cause. In the meantime, it took several days to find a rental that was covered by her insurance. Eventually, her coverage allowed her to get a replacement vehicle.

As for her old ride, Brice wants nothing to do with it.

“I don’t want to see it or touch it again,” she says. “It’s a feeling of invasion when someone comes on your property, takes something of yours and wrecks it.”

Brice’s was one in a string of recent motor vehicle thefts around Santa Fe, where local police note a spike in stolen car cases this year. In the first five months of 2022, the Santa Fe Police Department recorded 263 car thefts. That’s compared to 136 such incidents by the month of May last year—an increase of 93%. SFPD says it has improved its data collection and reporting procedures since SFR found discrepancies last year, and the auto theft figures are solid.

The local uptick matches a national trend: The National Insurance Crime Bureau found that between 2019 and 2021, thefts increased by 16.5%.

Many law enforcement agencies in the region, including in Santa Fe, are struggling to fill their ranks. With fewer officers on patrol, departments have been forced to work together in canvassing the state for stolen

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Santa Fe Police Departmnet Officer Steven Cerasia uses his computer to research calls before arriving to a scene. The city has seen an uptick in reports of stolen cars this year.

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During the first five months of 2022, the City of Santa Fe has seen a 93% increase in motor vehicles thefts, compared to the number of cars stolen in the first five months of 2021.

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cars. This cooperation has given authorities a clear picture of what’s going on: Cars stolen from Santa Fe are not likely to stay in Santa Fe. The same goes for vehicles taken in all of Northern New Mexico’s cities and towns.

Thieves are using them for travel, possibly to commit other crimes and abandoning them.

An increase in vehicle thefts and carjackings can impact communities and insurance rates and leave victims with unexpected costs. When Rebecca Garcia’s car was stolen in April, for instance, it cost her about $1,000 to get it back. The hardships didn’t stop there; Garcia used the vehicle to take her kids to school and for other family necessities.

She had loaned the car to her son when it was stolen off of Airport Road. For about a month, she had to borrow cars or get rides from family, during which time she felt police could have done more to track down her missing Saturn Astra.

“I wasn’t too happy with Santa Fe,” she tells SFR. “The police told me, ‘We’re not out there looking for your car. If we come across it, we’ll take it into custody.’ We couldn’t be without a car. It’s a shame that it was reported from here and it was found in another state.”

The vehicle eventually turned up in Texas.

It’s common for stolen vehicles to come back with damage, but to Garcia’s surprise, hers did not.

“It was well taken care of by the thief,” she says with a laugh. “He drove it like he was planning on keeping it forever. He even had an air freshener of El Chapo. I thought that was hilarious—only the biggest drug lord in prison.”

Police Chief Paul Joye acknowledges the increase, noting the department meets with agencies from Albuquerque, New Mexico State Police and other area partners to discuss what each of them is seeing. Multiple factors have contributed to the rise, he says.

“Obviously, in 2021 we were still dealing with COVID and I think people were home more than they are now,” he tells SFR. “So I think there was less opportunity, perhaps.”

Historically, increases in car thefts were linked to the black market, the idea being they were stolen to be sold for parts or resold across state lines. Joye says the city has seen a spike in catalytic converter thefts, too. Just last month, Santa Fe police arrested three men on suspicion of stealing the exhaust emission control devices.

The converters are often sought for their precious metals, such as platinum, palladium and rhodium that help reduce an engine’s toxicity.

It’s becoming apparent to law enforcement, though, that stolen cars are more often used for joy rides and getaway vehicles. That

This map, provided by the Santa Fe Police Department, shows where incidents of motor vehicle theft occurred throughout Santa Fe in May. It’s easy to see how spread out they are. Authorities tell SFR there’s not much of a geographic or vehicletype pattern, which makes preventive policing tougher.

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could account for the 47% recovery rate Joye says his department has racked up this year.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza has also noticed the phenomenon, telling SFR, “People aren’t stealing cars to go to doctors’ appointments.”

“We don’t have information that there’s intricate chop shop rings—that they’re taking them out of state or the country,” he says.

“When we do recover them, most of the time they end up in a possible pursuit situation. I think the majority of them are being used and driven around to perpetrate other crimes and then dumped.”

To make matters worse, agencies haven’t noticed patterns with the types of vehicle or the locations from which they’re stolen.

“The motor vehicle thefts seem spread out,” says Tino Alva, criminal information analyst with SFPD. “Unfortunately, there’s not a consistency, so that sort of throws us a curveball. It’s not necessarily always residential; it can be commercial. It goes back and forth.”

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According to Santa Fe officials, motor vehicle thefts occur outside residences and commercial businesses alike.

out of 380 metropolitan statistical areas.

Las Cruces was ranked 78th on the list, with Santa Fe coming in at 93rd. Ford’s full-size pickup truck was the No. 1 vehicle stolen that year in New Mexico, followed by Chevrolet’s full-size pickup and Hyundai’s Elantra.

There’s more than one way to steal a car, but many vanish because they were left running while unattended, according to law enforcement. Agencies often see spikes during the winter months when people go inside their home as they wait for their ride to warm up.

That’s why owners shouldn’t leave their car “puffing,” Carole Walker, executive director of Rocky Mountain Insurance Association, tells SFR. “It’s actually a term that the street gangs coined, because they would go around looking for the telltale puffing of exhaust pipes,” she says. “They’re sophisticated. They drive around in groups with another vehicle, steal a vehicle, and the other driver takes off.”

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Fe crash was stolen while warming up unattended in February. A similar scenario unfolded when someone swiped Dayana Salinas’ Dodge Dart from the Paseo Del Sol Apartments in March. She walked outside and noticed an unfamiliar truck in the parking lot. Not thinking much of it, she started her car, locked the door and headed back inside to say goodbye to her boyfriend.

“It took me like three minutes,” she tells SFR. “When I went outside my car was gone.

The first thing I [did] was look to see if that truck was there.”

It wasn’t.

Police arrived, took a report and it wasn’t long until the car was found. Three hours later, Salinas got a call that the vehicle was abandoned on Cerrillos Road, likely because it had run out of gas. However, her problems didn’t end there.

The joyriders damaged the interior of the vehicle and nicked some change. The real inconvenience came when she discovered the thieves took the key with them.

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If you’re not a victim directly of auto theft, you’re still a victim of auto theft, because it affects what you pay for car insurance.

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The dealership she purchased it from told her she could get a replacement key, but it would be months because they’d have to order it.

Unable to wait that long, in addition to the concern that a new key wouldn’t make her car any more secure, Salinas chose to bite the bullet and buy a new car. Just a couple months later, her neighbor’s wheels were stolen from the apartment complex parking lot, too.

“Thankfully they found the guy,” she says, “But, you know, that doesn’t solve the damages that they do to our cars, because we work so hard for the things that we have so somebody can just come and do horrible stuff to our cars.”

Authorities say summer months offer opportunities for thieves, too, as drivers will let their cars cool down before leaving. It’s a quality chance for would-be thieves looking for an easy target, and in times of economic hardship, there seem to be more offenders— an issue Walker anticipated.

“We saw it with the pandemic, with the recession of 2008 and now we’ve seen inflation go up,” she says. “We have work shortages and unemployment. We see property crimes increase, along with violent crimes, and auto theft is one of those crimes.”

When more cars are stolen, the impacts ripple out. While there are a number of factors that affect car insurance rates—driving records, type of vehicle, potential for damage by hail or flooding and more—vehicle thefts also influence the cost of coverage. Areas with a higher likelihood of auto theft tend to have higher insurance rates.

“If you’re not a victim directly of auto theft, you’re still a victim of auto theft, because it affects what you pay for car insurance,” Walker says. “So as auto theft rates go up, you see auto [insurance] rates go up…

Unfortunately, we are seeing car insurance premiums go up across the board nationally and in states like New Mexico.”

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“It’s difficult to pull resources from one area to put into another,” Joye says. “In lieu of that, until I get to the point where I’m comfortable with our staffing levels to be able to start doing more things like [standing up a dedicated auto theft unit], I want to make sure that we are being good partners with our other departments—what are they seeing, what are we seeing, do we have consistent methods of theft or entry?”

Officials want a good partnership with residents, too. While the phrase “see something, say something,” might be old, it still rings true. Joye and Mendoza tell SFR that the more information law enforcement has to go on, the better the chances of recovering a stolen vehicle.

“At the very least, make those calls and let us know when there is someone [suspicious] in the area,” Joye says.

Dayana Salinas stands with her replacement car after her Dodge Dart was stolen in March.

to find their windows smashed and purse missing. Keeping cars in well-lit areas and without spare keys in them is just one of his suggestions.

“Be cognitive of your environment, especially if it’s a place you go every day,” he says. “Don’t become comfortable with where you’re going. You’ve got to still have that mindset to watch your environment and personal possessions.”

As for Santa Fe’s watchmen, there are no units solely dedicated to auto theft in either the sheriff’s office or police department.

License plate scanners are one tool that could help them locate more stolen vehicles, but at the moment neither the sheriff’s office nor the police department uses them. Joye tells SFR he’s interested in exploring the tech-

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Auto thefts aren’t the sole contributing factor, but car insurance rates have increased steadily for nearly a decade, according to the Insurance Information Institute. The average cost of coverage in the US was $789 in 2010. By 2019, the figure had reached $1,070.

In New Mexico, on average, drivers pay around $1,200 for insurance.

Comprehensive auto insurance is optional in New Mexico. Car owners may choose to drop this type of coverage for older vehicles, but it could come at a price if their wheels go missing unexpectedly.

“You’ll have to pay that replacement or repair of a vehicle out of pocket, if you don’t have comprehensive coverage in New Mexico,” Walker says. “So just be financially prepared. With the high crime rate of auto theft, the one way you can protect yourself is to have the right insurance in place, and that’s optional comprehensive coverage.”

In 2022, the FBI changed one of the theft categories for its annual Uniform Crime Report, to which Santa Fe police submit crime data. The category of theft from a motor vehicle was folded into larceny/theft offenses. So as the city has seen spikes in larceny—31% compared to last year—it stems from that reporting change. The department’s updated reporting method comes after homicides and the majority of other crimes SFPD reported for the FBI’s 2020 Uniform Crime Report didn’t match other records. Joye says SFPD wasn’t the only agency having reporting issues at the time, but the crime data now used in regular reports to city officials is what’s being given to the FBI. Leaving possessions out in the open is asking for a break-in. Alva says hikers will return to their car after a day on the trail

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Steven Cerasia, senior officer for Santa Fe Police Department, helps jump-start a stolen truck recovered on the Southside of town.

nology, whether devices in a patrol car that automatically scan license plates as an officer drives by, or stationary readers that can be placed in various locations.

Police can’t look into every license plate on every vehicle, though, says Steven Cerasia, senior officer with SFPD. Officers also have a number of different calls to respond to, some of which take precedence over a stolen vehicle.

“A missing child, that’s absolutely going to take priority,” Cerasia tells SFR. “Any crime that’s violent in nature, like an aggravated battery in progress where there’s a weapon identified, that will take priority as well.”

The fact a vehicle is stolen isn’t enough to initiate a pursuit if a driver won’t stop, because it creates too much danger for the public, Cerasia says.

“If you have someone carjacked at gun or knife point, there’s a chance that pursuit is going to continue on,” he says. “Generally, there’s going to have to be a violent felony attached to that vehicle. Then you’re going to authorize pursuit.”

When vehicles are stolen, they’re entered into a license plate database. This allows officers and deputies in the area to sometimes determine when a car is stolen by running a suspect plate through the system. At SFPD, the property crimes sergeant evaluates each case for “solvability,” Joye says, before assigning a case to the unit’s detectives.

Cars and trucks taken from Albuquerque are winding up in Santa Fe; stolen cars from Santa Fe are being recovered in Española, or Las Vegas and beyond. Just recently a stolen car was found in Bloomfield, almost a threehour drive from the city. And with rising costs and expenses, low budgets and a decreased presence in highly populated areas, it makes inter-agency communication even more vital.

Tips for preventing car thefts Remaining vigilant is key to preventing car thefts, but there are a number of steps that can help keep a vehicle safe. Some tips from law enforcement officials include:

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OPEN IT UP We have been to the mountaintop (by which we mean Museum Hill) to catch the glory of Here, Now and Always, the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture’s newly-revamped and sprawling exhibit of Indigenous American art spanning tribes, genres, timelines and mediums. It’s easily one of the most inspiring and excellent shows of Native arts we’ve ever seen in Santa Fe (which is really saying something), and it encompasses so many artists, styles and generations that one hardly believes they put it all together. It’s been a long time coming, too, as the pandemic pushed the process back, but you’ll finally have the chance to see it for yourself. And believe us when we say it’s worth it. (Alex De Vore) Here, Now and Always Opening Weekend: All Day Friday, July 1-Sunday, July 3. By admission. Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1279

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up-and-up, Ray says, and both he and Grace see how music and art can bring the town together outside of typical venues.

LA-based DJ Peanut Butter Wolf headlines the show alongside numerous other acts, and Sol Sunday comes with plenty of workshops, too: Get a LoFi yoga session in, watch and learn insane breakdancing, have your tarot cards read and see stilt-walkers towering over everyone. Check out the collection of community wellness booths, too, ranging from acupuncture to mushroom elixirs. Plus, Sol Sunday is partnering with Artfest this year to bring in other local vendors.

While the event is free, any and all donations go to the New Mexico Dream Center, which brings resources to homeless and trafficked youths throughout the state. Donate to the cause at the fest or through solsundays.org. It’s an easy choice, really: Hear great music and get yourself feeling well as hell. Don’t forget to wear sunscreen. (Riley Gardner)

SOL SUNDAYS: GET FREE 2022 Noon-6 pm Sunday, July 3. Free (but donate) Railyard Plaza, 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 982-3373, solsundays.org

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The Santa Fe Bandstand live music series continues this week with a stop-in from New Mexico act, The So Lows. Made up of musical power duo Molly Miller and Ronnie Rael, the fearsome twosome takes the tenets of country, folk and Americana and puts them through the emotional ringer for moody songs which, in the best way we can mean this, are just kind of weird. Vocal harmonies come together in a powerful convergence above pedal steel, finger picking riffs and heart-forward lyricism. “I’d wrap my arms around you if I could,” the pair wails on “Let Go, My Atlas,” from their recent release Times Not So Weathered. Yo, So Lows? We feel you. (ADV) Santa Fe Bandstand: The So Lows: 6 pm Thursday, June 30. Free. Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail, ampconcerts.org

MUSIC FRI/1-SAT/2 THREE OF A KIND Listen, jazz is a romantic genre, whether you’re by yourself or with another (or with a whole group, but that’s your business). You need more love in your life, and The Robert Fox Trio is a great opportunity to sip cocktails and pretend you’re in 1928, basking in that music love.

These musicians aren’t just nobodies, either. Hell, pianist Bob Fox played with such jazz heavyweights as Ira Sullivan and Eddie Daniels. Plus, this performance includes local legends John Trentacosta on the drums and Cyrus Campbell on bass. As an improvisational art form, every week offers a different program. If you’ve attended before, expect a different show the following weekend and so on. Even cooler, they welcome traveling performers, ranging from saxophonists to tap dancers.

(RG) Bob Fox Trio: 6-9 pm Friday and Saturday July 1 and 2 Free (no cover). La Casa Sena 125 E Palace Ave., (505) 988-9232

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It’s a big weekend for DJs in Santa Fe thanks to 13pieces and Joolz—AKA real life married couple Justin Ray and Julie Grace. Together, they’re the driving force behind Sol Sunday: Get Free 2022, a party at which the Railyard Plaza hosts a multitude of DJ sets throughout the afternoon with the intention of promoting a new kind of mindfulness. It’s like self-care, but with sick beats.

“We really wanted to provide a non-drinking, family-friendly environment,” Ray tells SFR. “Wellness as a whole is everything in the creation of our story. This is an opportunity to show younger people adult guides in the music world. Making money is one thing, but running a business is also providing something to your community.”

Sol Sundays evolved out of Ray’s REMIX Audio Bar and Grace’s Sol Wellness business. Both have been involved in the music scene for decades, with Ray operating as a DJ for nearly 30 years while Grace worked in the promotional world. Both know of the darker underbelly these scenes foster in 21+ clubs—but they also know how music culture can be a tool for self-empowerment.

That’s a big reason REMIX Audio Bar exists in the first place, and it’s why Grace and Ray have taken on mentorship opportunities with young local artists. The next generation of local DJs and digital artists are on the

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JAM-A-LAM-A-DING-DONG OK, so no one is saying the new LeBron James-led Space Jam movie is good, but I am saying it’s OK to love a total garbage movie for free in the park, especially if you have kids. It’s the tale of an NBA champion who winds up in, ummm, space or something because...uhh, just because he does. Once there, he teams up with iconic cartoon characters from Looney Tunes to fully get above the rim and stuff, which somehow means they defeat aliens. I think so, anyway. Didn’t see it. And though we might point out that Who Framed Roger Rabbit readily exists and is an excellent live-action-person-does-cartoon-stuff movie, this is the one you’re getting and, as my grandma would say, watching it is better than a sharp stick in the eye.

Bring a blanket and snacks, but know there will be free Coca-Cola. (ADV) Santa Fe Summer Movie Series: Space Jam: A New Legacy: 5:30 pm Friday, July 1. Free. SWAN Park Jaguar Drive and Hwy. 599. ampconcerts.org

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EVENT SAT/2-SUN/3 DANCE IS LIFE Earthseed Black Arts Alliance teams up with prog museum SITE Santa Fe for a weekend-long fest celebrating Black culture. A few of the local names participating you might’ve heard of: Nikesha Breeze, Tigre Mashaal-Lively, Soul Nubian, Chelsea Stewart, Raashan Ahmad and Miles Tokunow. Black dance serves as the event’s centerpiece, but you’ll also find classes and film screenings that celebrate the art form. You can also attend panel discussions focusing on Black and Indigenous dancers, check out a community altar and attend a curated poetry slam.

Certain activities are free, while others have an entry fee, but any and all proceeds go to supporting Black arts in New Mexico. (RG) Free to Move: 8:30 am-9 pm Saturday July 2; 9 am-9 pm Sunday, July 3. Free-$135. SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta. (505) 989-1199, eventbrite.com

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WINE SAT/2 THE WINE UP So everybody knows how hard we love wine in New Mexico, right? Right. We’re one of those states that seems to feature wine fest after wine fest, plus some of the best restaurant lists in the country, and when folks are in the mood for the most fermented of grapes, only a festival will do. Enter El Rancho de las Golondrinas and its annual gathering for all things vino. “It celebrates the oldest wine growing region in the country, and all wines are made in New Mexico,” says Museum Director Daniel Goodman, “and wine pairs well with adobe architecture.” Yeah, it’s a living history museum, too, which we can only imagine is extra fascinating once you’ve downed a pinot or two.

(ADV) Santa Fe Wine Festival: Noon-5 pm Saturday, July 2 $18. El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261

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Love Is The Message Big-time DJ comes to Santa Fe to spin unrelenting optimism “I think some people are afraid of electronic music, and it doesn’t have to be that way,” event producer Lief Darling tells SFR. “If we can create a scene, it’ll be self-sustaining—a constant communication of ideas.”

There’s a whole lot of history behind the electronic music scene, and Darling wants you to know that as he brings San Franciscobased DJ Sunshine Jones to the Center for Progress and Justice for a first-of-its-kind show. For those unaware, Jones is a big deal in the world of electronic music. The legendary deck master has been vibing hard since ’88, building his sets not just with digital software and beat matching programs, but with live percussion, vocals and other impovisational elements. Jones’ entire sound is old-school cool, brimming with bright energy and sweet beats interspersed with saxophone and ringing choruses. It’s disco, gospel and dance blended into one musical smoothie—major-key bliss with one big message reverberating through the boombap: Love is the end-all here...nothing more, nothing less.

“This is a live production using music and emotions to convey joy,” Darling continues. “Jones is writing as he’s performing.

Electronic music is a safe space for people to dance, even more than just vibing with lyrics, and I think Jones really brings that to people.”

As Pride month wraps up and the world goes to hell (see: SCOTUS), it’s important

to remember how the history of electronic music is connected with queer inner-city culture. Jones himself is an example of these art movements spawned when Black, queer and counterculture souls created a space for themselves in an otherwise hostile world.

Springboarding off the disco movement of the 1970s, electronic dance jams gained traction in minority communities because they spawned, as Darling says, safe and loving spaces that grew into a wider audience until becoming almost mainstream. An entire set with Sunshine Jones doubles as an education—he’s more than happy to explain the history behind every beat and musical movement.

Darling, meanwhile, says the show will stick to electronic music’s communityoriented roots. Plus, the effort to bring Jones to town isn’t just for the sake of fun (though obviously that’s a big part of it). For Darling, this is an opportunity to build optimism and social closeness in an often ugly world, the type of event where dancing wordlessly is welcome. Dance the night away, electro-heads. Feel the love. (RG)

SUNSHINE JONES 8 pm-3 am, Sunday, July 3. $12 Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, (505) 467-8514

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ONGOING ART 22 FABLES Smoke the Moon 101 Marcy St., Ste. 23 smokethemoon.com From emerging Santa Fe-based painter GL Richardson, who captures the cowboy spirit whilst simultaneously stripping him of all embellishment.

Noon-4 pm, Thurs-Sun, free ARTE Y ALMA Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (606) 954-9902 Erin Currier's 13th annual solo show kicks off at Blue Rain Gallery. Currier's art showcases the working class as the superheroes they are.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm, Sat, free BRICK X BRICK: ARTWORKS INSPIRED BY EARTHEN ARCHITECTURE Santa Fe Community Gallery 201 W. Marcy St. (505) 955-6707 This exhibit provides a look at earthen architecture’s legacy and land art as a whole in New Mexico.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4:30 pm, Sat, free CACTI Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fria St. (928) 308-0319 Cactus—nice to look at, even nicer to paint. See Rachel Houseman’s pastel cacti paintings while you can.

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COLLABORATION Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355 See how art styles collide in this Placitas community show.

10 am–7 pm, Tues 10 am–5 pm, Thurs-Sat 1–4 pm, Sunday, free DANIEL JOHNSTON Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Johnston is one of North Carolina’s top pottery producers. He holds a rich knowledge in how pots and jars are an artistic cornerstone of American Southern design.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri 10 am-2 pm, Sat & Sun, free DISTILLATIONS Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 A two-person exhibition of new work by painters Kevin Tolman and Anne Kaferle.

10 am-5 pm, free FIRST FLOWERS Goldleaf Gallery 627 W Alameda St (505) 988-5005 Oil paintings reflecting on the remarkable nature of flowers, from artist Mark Spencer.

10 am-5 pm, free FORCED PERSPECTIVE Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Relevant new work from visionary pop surrealist pioneer Dennis Larkins.

11 am-5 pm. Wed-Sat Noon-5 pm, Sun, free HARD EXTERIOR/SOFT BENEATH Intrigue Gallery 238 Delgado St. (505) 820-9265 Oil paintings by Pamela Frankel Fiedler and mechanized metal sculptures by Ira D Sherman.

10 am-5 pm, Wed-Sun, free HAVANA PRINTMAKERS Artes de Cuba 1700 A Lena St. (505) 303-3138 Cuban printworks.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free I'M SORRY (I CANNOT HOLD YOU.) Vital Spaces 220 Otero St. vitalspaces.org Art examining inherited hurt, permeable boundaries and catharsis, told through paintings and sculptures.

By appointment, free

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“Flip Floppin” by Elizabeth Hahn, on display at the Elizabeth Hahn Art Studio Tour starting Friday, July 1.

DECONSTRUCTED PORTRAITS Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 Photographer Lou Peralta deconstructs portraiture’s traditional notions to carry viewers deeper into the broader culture of Mexico.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

SPECTRUM SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Cultural repair and radical colonial resistance from artist Nani Chacon (Diné), drawing from Native mythos.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

SEDUCTION BY CENTIPEDE Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 Artist Irene Hardwicke Olivieri brings enchanting complexities to Evoke. See how the creepy centipede represents the underbelly of human desire.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, 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, bringing new life to the women who once lived there.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri, free

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First Fridays

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SEcond SaturDaYs!

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& Second Saturday of each month in June, July, & August

1-4 pm

FREE

Masks required.

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you’re just enjoying the view. When you come into the gallery, the paintings are all designed to light up that part of the brain; where you stop thinking and you just feel, in your spine and your heart.

The experience should be fun, stimulating and satisfying—obviously not overstimulating, like a roller coaster ride, but more like a beautiful sunset where you can look into the work of art. Paintings are like poetry: They take some time, they take some analysis and feeling. They’re not screaming at you. The more you look the more you see. The experience should make you feel happy and good overall, so that hopefully, when you leave the gallery, you carry that feeling with you throughout your day.

In anticipation of local gallery Globe Fine Art opening its new abstract exhibition Saturation Point (5 pm Friday, July 1.

727 Canyon Road, (505) 983-3888), we spoke with gallery owner and director, Steve Cie to learn a little more about our reactions to art—both manmade and natural. The upcoming collection centers itself around deep, immersive colors and features works from some of Santa Fe’s favorite artists, such as Karen Haynes and Carolyn Cole. Think of it as an opportunity to explore themes of “the juxtaposition of fragility, impermanence and enduring strength,” according to Cie. Read on to discover more about the artwork’s impeccable expression of summer in Santa Fe, the importance of straying from the analytical once in awhile, Cie’s definition of beauty and even his personal favorite piece from the collection. (Taya Demianova)

In promotional materials, you mention that Saturation Point is associated with the season of summer in your mind? Why so?

Right now, we’ve been through a long drought. It’s been hot and dusty. I, for one, have been praying for rain every day for the last two months. Then, when the rain finally comes, it just feels like life. I have this gorgeous garden in front of the gallery and people go out of their way just to be there, to see the life of the bees and hummingbirds and the butterflies. So now with this rain, it’s perfect timing for this exhibition.

The whole garden is bursting forth and all of Santa Fe is, too. The birds are singing, everything is green and happy.

I feel that the show is perfect, that it has bottled that same feeling. It’s just about the color that’s bursting forth, but simultaneously not screaming at you.

It’s like looking at a flower or a garden.

What is special to you about this exhibit and what can gallery visitors expect when they walk in the door?

The whole gallery is designed to light up different parts of the brain, particularly the right and creative side. We are constantly bombarded with news, cellphones and computers, which are more analytical in their essence and tend to light up the left side of the brain. It’s all about tapping into the reptilian part of the brain, the fight or flight. When you walk into our gallery, every piece of art is something that lights up the part of the brain associated with creativity.

Take a group of people driving up a mountain. All of a sudden they stop at an overlook and watch the sunset in silence, in awe of the beauty, because you can feel it in your heart. In this case, you’re not thinking analytically,

Is there a piece in the exhibit that you’re particularly drawn to or excited to be showing off?

The piece I’m particularly fond of is Karen Haynes’ work. “Together” is a piece that has layers of meaning.

The two flowers growing out of bricks could represent a relationship. The bricks could represent something we believe to be permanent, which of course isn’t the case. This painting, to me, encompasses all of Haynes really well, with her typical juxtaposition of permanence and impermanence, depth and unique color. It’s a painting that overlooks analysis. Instead it simply makes you feel, to be present and to not miss our journey through life before it’s gone. All the pieces together are just exciting, and more than anything else, we want people to walk into the gallery and simply enjoy.

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THE BODY ELECTRIC SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Jeffrey Gibson’s merging of artistic styles expresses the complexities between injustice and marginalization.

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 Black and white photography documenting the decline of the American West.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free THE FOREST Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Pard Morrison brings us a colorful “forest” of skyscraper-like trees.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free THE QUALITY OF BEING FLEETING Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 Multimedia installations, projections and video work from artists Gillian Brown and Cherie Sampson, who share glimpses of subtle junctions between the substantial and fleeting moments.

Thu-Sun: noon-6pm, free TOWARD A POSTCOMPUTATIONAL PRACTICE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Ira Greenberg’s drawings, paintings and 2D and 3D prints.

10 am-5 pm, free WOMEN IN THE HOUSE Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800 An exhibition of female artists across the generations.

10 am-6 pm, free

DANCE EL FLAMENCO: SPANISH CABARET El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Flaming flamenco, minus any actual flames.

Various times, $25-$43

THEATER EVERYBODY Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Characters in this play are concepts like lust, anger and love. It’s about the emotions dictating our daily lives.

Various times, $30-$75 SPRING AWAKENING New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533 See a local cast’s take on the 2007 Tony Award-winning musical.

Various times, $15-$30

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WED/29 BOOKS/LECTURES COFFEE AND CONVERSATION 35 Degree North 60 E San Francisco St. afternoonswithchristian.com Chat with a historian about local history while drinking local coffee.

Noon-2 pm, free STORYTIME AND CRAFT La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292 Bring and stories into your child’s summer mornings.

10:30 am, free

EVENTS HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Bingo until the end of the world.

7 pm, $2 YOUTH CHESS CLUB Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 Be young, do chess.

5:30-8 pm, free

FILM SHADOW WEAVERS: A FILM BY ERICA NGUYEN Acequia Madre House 614 Acequia Madre tinyurl.com/yckuk6r7 What can Peruvian hats tell us about a people? Local filmmaker Erica Nguyen explores this culture in her new film. Free, but RSVP, as seats are limited.

6 pm, free

MUSIC JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Folksy storytelling tunes.

8-10 pm, free JOHNNY LLOYD The Hollar 2849 NM Hwy 14, Madrid (505) 471-2841 Country tunes on the patio.

With that setting sun too? Oof, it’ll be a feast for the senses.

5 pm, free KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Sing. Smile. Sit back down.

Please no Disney covers, we can’t take it right now.

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

6-9 pm, free

VINYL NIGHTS AT NEW MEXICO HARD CIDER TAPROOM New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom 505 Cerrillos Road, Ste. A105 (505) 231-0632 Join DJ Yosem and rotating special guest DJs on Saturday nights for musical journeys into a range of vinyl. No cover. Lots of fun. It's easy to have fun, remember?

8 pm, free

WORKSHOP BREATH & BELONGING BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road (505) 986-0362 Discover the extraordinary power of your breath. Set personal intentions, then begin a simple pranayama breathing technique.

6-7 pm, $20 CNC PLASMA CUTTER BADGE MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 Take your metal work to the next level as you learn to process basic vector or CAD drawings into precision-cut steel designs with a CNC cutter.

2-6 pm, $90 SUMMER STEM CIRCLE: APP DEVELOPMENT ON GAMING FOR EDUCATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000 Part of the STEM Circle Series, girls can learn how to code apps for teaching, including learning principles of coding and app development.

9:00 am - 3:00 pm, $25

THU/30

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

6-9 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES POETRY POLLINATORS Santa Fe River E Alameda and Camino Escondido poetrypollinators.wixsite.com Join Poetry Pollinators in the grand opening of the new bee nesting habitat sculpture and poetry display, commissioned from artist Peter Joseph.

4-5:30 pm, free STORYTIME AND CRAFT Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 Do as the name suggests, for the kiddos.

10:30 am, free

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DANCE

FOOD

CASA FLAMENCA El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591 This Tablao-Style flamenco concert features internationally acclaimed flamenco guitarist Juani de La Isla, flamenco singer Miguel Rosendo and flamenco dancer Helmo Cortes.

8 pm, $30

DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892 Tour the Santa Fe Spirits facility.

3 pm, $25

EVENTS GAME TIME Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 Board game afternoons. Please no screaming when you inevitably lose, as one cannot control fate.

4-5:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 These geeks—they drink. Test your trivia knowledge here, and bring along your friends to see how smart they are.

7-9 pm, free SAVE THE UGLY Reunity Farms 1829 San Ysidro Crossing reunityresources.com Junk journaling, jamming, a clothing and gear swap and other activities. Save the world by swapping.

6-10 pm, free TRIGGERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. tinyurl.com/vd7cbt83 The Trinidad Triggers: We aren't entirely sure what the physical manifestation of a "trigger" is in this context, but whatever.

We're still gonna win.

6 pm, $8 YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 Help plant cute plants in the Railyard Park. Your community can be prettier, all because you and your cute lil hands.

10 am-noon, free

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MUSIC BOB MAUS Cava Lounge at Eldorado Hotel, 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Blues and soul music.

7-10 pm, free MOON BOOTS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle tinyurl.com/2p94nz4p Cavernous club music meshes with classical melodies and warm harmonies. Boots rocks Europop sounds.

8 pm, $22 THE SO LOWS Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail ampconcerts.org Hailing from the high deserts, The So Lows draw inspiration from the land. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 6 pm, free

THEATER FACULTY LOUNGE IMPROV Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Do you love laughing? You better, the world is miserable.

See people be funny.

7-9 pm, $15-$60

FRI/1 ART ABUNDANCE/ IMPERMANENCE (OPENING) Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882 Artist Kat Kinnick depicts the plants and animals of New Mexico.

5-7 pm, free

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BROOM ROOM (OPENING) El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Julia Tait Dickenson finds discarded objects and creates brooms and brushes from them.

5-7 pm, free COMING HOME AGAIN (OPENING) Peyton Wright Gallery 237 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-9888 An exhibition of works by Peter Miller, a forgotten figure of American Modernism.

5-7 pm, free ELIZABETH HAHN ART STUDIO TOUR Elizabeth Hahn's Studio 1802 Sun Mountain Drive (505) 690-5166 See cool new seasonal paintings from Hahn’s collection.

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

5-7 pm, free PAINTINGS BY RICK STEVENS (ARTIST RECEPTION) Kay Contemporary Art 600 Canyon Road (505) 365-3992 Stevens gives us a sweet harmony within an entire grove, a sense of shared delight in their beauty. AKA pretty trees.

5-7 pm, free SATURATION POINT (OPENING) Globe Fine Art 727 Canyon Road (505) 989-3888 Featuring the newborn works of Karen Haynes and Carolyn Cole. (see 3Qs, page 20) 5-7 pm, free VONNIE BRENNO CAMERON: LANDSCAPES OF THE GALISTEO BASIN (OPENING) Victory Contemporary 124 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-8589 Cameron's new showcase focuses on the ever-changing vistas of the Galisteo Basin.

5-7 pm, free

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THE CALENDAR

“Soaring“ by Peter Miller, from Coming Home Again at Peyton Wright Gallery.

EVENTS

FOOD

MUSIC

TRIGGERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. tinyurl.com/vd7cbt83 Baseball. It’s fun. Go if you want.

6 pm, $8

DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892 Take a tour. Learn about spirits.

Sip a few. Have a good time.

RSVP in advance, as space is limited.

3 pm, $25 PLANTITA VEGAN BAKERY: PIZZA POP-UP Plantita Vegan Bakery 1704 Lena St. Unit B4 plantitaveganbakery.com Plantita pops-up on the first Friday of the month with 100% organic vegan pizzas. It's true vegan goodness. Note that advanced ordering is required, so check out the website link above.

5-8 pm, free

BOK CHOY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817 Rock 'n' roll covers.

8-11:30 pm, free HEARTLESS BASTARDS Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa Streets ampconcerts.org Viscerally potent rock 'n' roll songs, with touches from French pop and Celtic folk, space rock and symphonic pop and even Disney scores.

7 pm, free JOHNNY LLOYD Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 982-0000 Country music. Pizza. It's a good time.

6-8 pm, free

FILM #SANTAFESUMMER MOVIE SERIES: SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY SWAN Park Jaguar Drive and Hwy. 599 tinyurl.com/yzft9ycz Wear your favorite jersey or sports uniform! Doors open at 5:30 pm, movie starts at 6:30 pm. Refreshments donated by Coca-Cola are available. Bring your own blankets. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 5:30 pm, free

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SAT/2 ART 3 + 3 = 3 (OPENING) Calliope 2876 HWY 14, Madrid (505) 474-7564 3 + 3 = 3 glass artists and 3 painters, beautifully curated to be shown in one setting.

4-6 pm, free DISTILLED PRESENCE (OPENING) Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 An exhibition featuring the works of three celebrated Santa Fe women artists: Dana Newmann, Signe Stuart and Judy Tulwaletstiwa.

4-6 pm, free FREE TO MOVE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 A two-day festival celebrating Black Dance and culture through workshops, dance parties, film, poetry and more. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 9 am-9 pm, $0-$135 HERE, NOW AND ALWAYS (OPENING WEEKEND) IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Diverse perspectives from the 19 New Mexico pueblos. Enjoy a Pueblo-style feast, musical performances by the Jacob Shije Trio (Santa Clara Pueblo and Diné) and Southern Scratch (Tohono O’odham). (see SFR picks, page 16-17) All day, $5-$10 SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Weekly outdoor artist market.

8 am-2 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES NATURAL HEALTH TALKS: SHUNGITE EMF PROTECTION WITH RAPHAEL WIESMAN Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health 909 Early St. tinyurl.com/rb5h7ayk Raphael Weisman shares with you his passion for Shungite, a black, carbon based mineral used to protect you from the bombardment of Electromagnetic Radiation. If you need it, you need it.

1:30-3 pm, free

DANCE DIRT DANCE IN THE PARK Patrick Smith Park 1001 Canyon Road allaboardearth.com Silent disco in the park. Proceeds go to help clean up the world’s oceans.

2-4 pm, $5-$12

EVENTS AN EVENING WITH NEIL AND TOM Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 The Sugar Mountain Band plays Neil Young, plus a tribute to Tom Petty.

7 pm, $10 SANTA FE WINE FESTIVAL El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 15 New Mexico wineries, food trucks, live music and vendors. (see SFR picks, page 16-17) Noon-6 pm, $18 TRIGGERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501 More baseball joy.

6 pm, $8

FOOD DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892 Learn about and taste-test local spirits.

3 pm, $25 FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 Buy carrots, buy onions, buy bread. Taste the difference.

8 am-1 pm, free PLANTITA POP-UP AT REUNITY RESOURCES Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing reunityresources.com Plantita pops up on a farm selling vegan baked goods.

9 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail A soulful singer/songwriter covering classic hits you love.

6-9 pm, free ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato Jazz tunes. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 6-9 pm, free

WORKSHOP STEM SATURDAYS Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Kids can explore math concepts using games and models.

3-5 pm, free

SUN/3 ART FREE TO MOVE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Black dance arts. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 9 am-9 pm, $0-$135 RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Railyard Artisan Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-4098 Artisan crafts on sale.

10 am-3 pm, free

DANCE CREATIVE MOVEMENT FOR CHILDREN Reunity Farms 1829 San Ysidro Crossing reunityresources.com Engaging children in gross and fine motor skills.

10-10:45 am, $5

EVENTS SANTA FE WINE FESTIVAL El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261 Yeah, lots of wine. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) Noon-6 pm, $18 TRIGGERS AT FUEGO Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501 He shoots he scores, right?

6 pm, $8

MUSIC D HENRY FENTON El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Australian singer-songwriter playing solo acoustic 12 string and six string.

7-9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765 Piano tunes.

6:30-9:30 pm, free SOL SUNDAYS: GET FREE 2022 Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa Streets (505) 982-3373 Electric music fest. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) Noon-6 pm, free SUNSHINE JONES Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road tinyurl.com/4fsydn8y Live, improvisational electronic music. With TJ Jones, ConSoul, and LucaLoFi. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 8 pm, $12

WORKSHOP GLOWING VINYASA BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road (505) 986-0362 Yoga by candlelight. This class is a sequenced vinyasa flow.

5:30-6:30 pm, $20

YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St. 60-minute Vinyasa flow class.

10 am, $10-$15

MON/4 DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Class at 7 ($8), open dance at 8 ($3).

7 pm, $3-$8

EVENTS JULY 4TH CELEBRATION Santa Fe Place Mall 4250 Cerrillos Road (505) 473-4253 4th of July, things sparkle.

4-10 pm, free PANCAKES ON THE PLAZA Santa Fe Plaza 63 Lincoln Ave. pancakesontheplaza.com Enjoy food, music, vendors, a variety of special events.

7 am-noon, $8

MUSIC

FOOD

BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 A country music legend.

4 pm, free

TUESDAY FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 Root vegetables do taste better on Tuesdays for some reason.

8 am-1 pm, free

TUE/5 ART COLOR AND NAVIGATION Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Mary Vernon paints in ranges of natural and brilliant color with emotional intensity.

10 am-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES MEET THE GUIDES Healing the Scars 439 C W San Francisco St. (575) 770-1228 Join Raphael and the Guides as they share a message and answer your spiritual and shungite-related questions.

6:30-8:30 pm, $20

WORKSHOP SUMMER STEM CIRCLE: BUILDING A LASER HARP Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000 Students will build a laser harp, and learn the basics of coding.

9 am- 3 pm, $25

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

6-7:15 pm, $10

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

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

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 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 Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy. The First World War. WORDS on the Edge.

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

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

COURTESY OF THE MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE

ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato Jazz trios forever. (see SFR picks, pages 16-17) 6-9 pm, free ZYDECO SQUEEZE Second Street Rufina Taproom 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068 Two-steppin' happy tunes.

8-10 pm, free

THE CALENDAR

From the exhibit Here, Now and Always, opening July 2 and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

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 Selections from the 20th Century Collection.

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 Beads: A Universe of Meaning.

Portraits: Peoples, Places, and Perspectives. Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8

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Community Bird Tours with Rocky Tucker

At El Rancho de las Golondrinas’ Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve Saturdays  June 25, July 23, August 27, September 17, October 22  8:00–9:30 am Wetlands are located on I-25 S Frontage Road Attendance is free and limited to 25 people per tour; however, suggested $5 per person donations are accepted and contribute to the preserve’s restoration.

Please call Suzan, our Tour Coordinator, at 505-471-2261 Ext. 101 to reserve a spot.

505-471-2261  golondrinas.org  334 Los Pinos Road  Santa Fe, NM PARTIALLY FUNDED BY THE CITY OF SANTA FE ARTS COMMISSION AND THE 1% LODGERS’ TAX, COUNTY OF SANTA FE LODGERS’ TAX, AND NEW MEXICO ARTS

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Primed and Ready Palace Prime surpasses our expectations across the board

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hat one spot on Palace Avenue downtown has seen a lot of businesses come and go. You know the one—it housed the Palace Saloon, Señor Lucky’s (with the mechanical bull) and, likely, lots of other things in its aged and storied history. What’s in there now, though, is the kind of thing that likely has staying power, and having eaten at Palace Prime, let me tell the community that we’ve gotta hold onto the place.

A little history: Palace Prime opened in January last year, right around the time we were all starting to think we’d never come out of the pandemic. At the time, the restaurant had tapped local celeb chef Fernando Ruiz to run the kitchen. Ruiz wound up leaving for reasons still unknown a few short months later (though he’ll open Midtown eatery Escondido soon, likely in the spring), and Blue Heron chef Rocky Durham took over some months later.

Durham, then, moved to Poland with his wife last March to aid Ukrainian refugees, once again leaving Palace Prime in flux— but you needn’t worry, Santa Fe, because new chef Doug Hesselgesser has things well under control.

Before we get further into the review, it’s important to note that our meal at Palace Prime was comped.

Generally speaking, SFR pays its way, and though myself and my dining companion did offer to slap down some cash or plastic, maître d’ Austin Flick kindly heard none of it. Still, the gesture in no way affects our experience, which Flick, Hesselgesser and general manager/wine director Julian Martinez more than understand as long-serving members of the restaurant world.

But it’s not like they (or bar director Todd Walker) have anything to fear, as our dinner at Palace Prime was one of the best I’ve had in Santa Fe bar none, and I’d say the same even if I’d sold my own kid-

ney to get it—which I think I’d seriously consider going forward.

Palace Prime is not cheap, that’s for sure, though with prime meats coming in through Hesselgesser’s connection with meat distributor Pat LaFreida, that’s hardly shocking. Additionally, Marintez’s wine selection is inspired with literally dozens of options by the glass or bottle, plus a handful of fresh seafood options, a concise but enticing dessert menu and, perhaps most importantly, a killer vibe.

We dined in the lounge to maximize a more laid-back counterpoint feel to the fine food. If you’re like me and find yourself engaging with fine dining only rarely, you know what I’m talking about. Our server Sasha was among the most excellent I’ve had anyplace—a combination of knowledgeable and professional and relaxed enough that we didn’t feel like we’d get in trouble for cracking jokes. As we perused the food and wine menus, she patiently listened to our questions and had answers for all of them, making suggestions here and there, but never pressuring us.

While we started with calamri ($18) and hamachi sashimi with ponzu, serrano chile and local micro greens ($16), Sasha

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suggested a mocktail of simple syrup and lemonade for me ($16, and yes it did come with a dehydrated, candied lemon slice) and a rich Alexana pinot noir from the Willamette Valley for my companion ($17), who was dead set on a nice steak for his main course.

The sashimi came ice cold and buttery, the exact kind of melty goodness you

Salmon forever! BELOW: A New York strip steak that turned a mushroom skeptic into a full-on believer.

want from a good bit of raw fish. We didn’t much expect to find it on a steakhouse menu, but Palace Prime is the home of the $130 seafood tower, so...live and learn.

Hesselgesser’s calamari was a revelation of crisp textures and subtle flavors served with a Thai chile aioli that kicked things up a notch. Flick appeared at the table to let us know it was made with a brown rice breading, which eliminated greasiness; a genius move, honestly.

Selecting a main course proved challenging, what with the myriad cuts of beef and housemade pasta selections. Ultimately, my companion landed on a New York strip served with pickled mustard seed gnocchi and smoked mushroom ($65). He wondered aloud to Sasha whether someone who didn’t like mushrooms would be OK with this particular dish, and she gently suggested that he’d love it if only he tried it. She was correct, and he remarked how glad he was to have listened.

Flick tells me the steaks are butchered in-house and that Palace Prime sources

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The latter item was readily apparent in my dish, a Scottish salmon served with fiddlehead ferns and an English pea puree alongside a kohlrabi salad and beurre blanc. Hesselgesser’s chops with fish are no joke, either, and the crusty exterior giving way to the somehow-all-at-once soft and firm fish proved an utter delight. He even included the skin on the plate, which appeared grilled down to an almost chiplike texture. This was not for me, though I could see others loving it for some added salty crunch.

Hesselgesser comes to Palace Prime after time as a sous at Arroyo Vino (where Martinez formerly worked), but Flick told me some days later that this titan among chefs also came up opening restaurants along the East Coast and in the South. I’m shocked the dining public of Santa Fe hasn’t been clamoring for more from Hesselgesser so far, but consider this your warning that you’d better make it happen.

We closed the night with bread pudding and creme brulee ($8 and $12, respectively). It’s been ages since I’ve seen a bread pudding on a menu, but there it was, and it was sublime. Ditto the brulee which, to my surprise and enjoyment, was served in a ramekin more shallow than I’ve found elsewhere in Santa Fe. The thing with custards and chantillies is that you want to leave wishing you’d had more, not the other way around. Perhaps if we’d tried one of the digestifs suggested on dessert menu, a larger serving would have worked. We didn’t imbibe, but will next time. I was later surprised to learn the restaurant doesn’t currently have a dedicated pastry chef, though it’s comforting to know Hesselgesser runs that department, too, for the time being.

And as I racked my brain looking for anything to nit-pick, any flaw at which to pick, any misstep on which to pounce, I kept coming up blank. No notes, Palace Prime. No notes.

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New album Patience features flamingo pink!, D Numbers members

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or Santa Fe music fans who pay attention to the bands and musicians who call our fair city home, it might not get more exciting than to learn a debut record from new act Hush Monster dropped suddenly just last week with literally no promotion beforehand.

Why, you ask, should you care so much?

Simple: Hush Monster is a trio consisting of flamingo pink! songwriter Megan Maher and D Numbers/Ray Charles Ives members Brian Mayhall and Paul Feathericci.

Hush Monster is kind of like a local version of Traveling Wilburys in a way, which, yeah,

is a bold statement, probably, but the record, dubbed Patience, is out now on Feathericci/ Mayhall’s label, Mesa Recordings, and is an excellent example of sounds from familiar musicians that hit upon touchstones with which we’ve become familiar—but that become a completely new sort of thing.

Take opening track “Fireflies,” wherein Maher’s soothing vocal work harmonizes with itself over layered percussive sounds and a calming bass line that sounds a bit like keys and synths. Those who know flamingo pink! know this voice, but it’s more expansive and rhythmically varied this time out. Maher elongates phrases and fits melodies into the overall song in unexpected ways. She also makes the lyrics feel applicable to anyone.

“We still have so much to do,” she croons, suggesting that our best days might still firmly lie ahead of us. “I’ll be the door that you come home through/I’ll be those fireflies on the wall/I’ll listen closely.”

Three simple sentences that paint such a picture. Chills.

“Megan is an incredible musician, artist, songwriter, guitar player, but not a music producer,” Hush Monster’s Feathericci, a mainstay of the local DJ, live band and production scene, tells SFR, “so it started with Brian saying, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to use our skills as producers to make a record?’ And I said, ‘You know what would be cooler than that is to just start a band with Megan.’”

This was way back in 2015, Feathericci estimates, and early practices and writing sessions clicked immediately.

“We got together in Brian’s old house, and it was just bring some instruments, bring some percussion; Megan brought her guitar, a violin, and we just started taking turns making sounds,” he recalls. “Megan has this incredible way of...we’re messing with the computer, and she’s quietly sitting there with her phone, writing down lyrics and composing a vocal melody in her head. We put her in headphones to record, and it’s as if she’s been working on it for weeks—she just sings these words we’ve never heard, with a completely fleshed-out melody, and nails it on the first take.”

That song, Feathericci says, is “Slow With Me,” the first Hush Monster ever put together and a standout track on Patience.

“You can be slow with me,” Maher reassures on the track, “I’ll hold both of our hands through the sighs.”

The vocals shift and phase across multiple layers of beats and bass. Still, the multi-track voice harmonies remain front and center.

This keeps our perspective locked on the words at play, and much like everything else Maher does on the album, they’re ideas we need to hear.

Things expand from those tracks into more sonically diverse areas throughout the record. It’s important to consider an album in the way a band intended, but having listened to Patience for days now, it’s interesting to

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know it works in any order. By the time you hit the eponymous midway point, for example, drums produced by local impresario Bill Palmer become more jaunty beneath phasing guitar licks and those sweet Maher melodies, but that doesn’t take away from the driving “Oooooooohs” on closer “Telescope.” This is the literal definition of the sum being greater than the parts.

“I think there’s a real openness to the process of what Hush Monster is,” Feathericci explains. “No one has pretense about what it should sound like, and what comes out of us in these creative songwriting sessions is what the songs should be.”

That’s an interesting take from a guy whose other projects have been meticulously plotted-out. D Numbers songs play almost like math equations—which is excellent, and I’ve got no notes for the band. Hush Monster, however, feels more intuitive and natural, particularly on the track “Perfect Self,” a borderline dance jam that would fit right in as the soundtrack to your life. That one, like so many others, is best listened to while staring off into space, mulling. With so much going on musically and vocally, Patience practically demands all your focus.

“It’s a new entity, and it is so rewarding to get to make something completely new that’s not borrowing from past projects,” Feathericci notes. “There’s just this ultimate respect and delicate touch that we didn’t even discuss...an unspoken cautiousness to be delicate with the process and to be have a ‘yes, and’ attitude about it.”

You might have to wait a bit to catch Hush Monster live. These tracks are complicated and feature more instruments than you might think (horns!), though Feathericci says they might even throw together an expanded band. It’s definitely something they’d like to do, he says, it’ll just take time. For now, heed the record and have a little patience.

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City of a Million Dreams Review The band plays on

Author and journalist Jason Berry has certainly not been coy about his love for the city of New Orleans, or the cultural and musical traditions that hail from the fabled Louisiana metropolis. Berry was pretty clear about it in his 2018 book City of a Million Dreams, and he keeps the love going in his new documentary film of the same name.

It’s a movie of jazz funerals, second lines, roof dancing and swamp dwelling; of shootings and costumes and death, but ultimately of life and the living.

In a nutshell, Dreams occupies a dreamlike space that encapsulates a world henceforth not known well to outsiders. Here now, maybe for the first time—or at least the most comprehensive time—we get glimpses into the inner workings of benevolent Black societies, the histories that converged to make New Orleans and its jazz funerals what they are and the people who work them, attend them, facilitate them or otherwise toil in a seemingly never-ending effort to keep the culture surrounding death alive. As one interviewee puts it in the film, the funeral is the

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last thing you’re ever going to do for somebody. Why not send them out with a bang?

Through interviews, narrative snippets and what was likely hundreds of hours of footage, Berry begins to unearth the trajectory of the jazz funeral and its so-called second line, that dizzying party that takes to the streets with a band to lead the deceased to their final resting place. Dreams taps into everything from slavery and the 1804 Haitian revolt that would ultimately play such a massive role in the shaping of Louisiana culture. Elsewhere, the film intersperses sobering meditations on Hurricane Katrina, artist retreat songwriting sessions and the keepers of history. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of a city and her people, of a culture that regards death not as some specter of finality, but as a waypoint in a journey.

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Set during a single school day at an idyllic Christian school outside Beruit, 1982 follows an average day as the Lebanese Civil War rages on, much to the children’s disinterest. Eleven-year-old Wissam (Mohamad Dalli) writes a secret note to his crush Joanna (Gia Madi) while teacher Yesmine (a show-stealing Nadine Labaki) struggles knowing her family is on the way to the front lines, but tries to hold it together for the children’s sake. When the Israeli army invades the country in the mid-afternoon, the school evacuates, leaving Wissam one last chance to tell Joanna how he feels lest he never see her again.

Elementary school scenes might sound jarring when set against fighter jets darting through the sky, but writer/director Oualid Mouaness balances the innocuous nature of playground politics with the omnipresent threat of death. 1982 subscribes to the old Hitchcock ethos about a bomb under a table being the key to tension. Its eerie wide shots play on the audience’s expectations that bombs are going to blow any second, but the students are experiencing love for the first time; nearby battleships can’t match the energy.

Despite an underdeveloped animated element, 1982 feels like Gus Van Sant’s Elephant—where the world outside the safety of school walls looms so large and ominous. Its sweet nature is the point: Coming of age isn’t a process that can be disrupted, and in many ways how a child comes of age is an example of the country itself. Mouaness offers Western viewers a glimpse at a country long-ignored in contemporary culture. 1982 is a wonderful introduction to Lebanon’s rich film industry. (Riley Gardner) Jean Cocteau Cinema, NR, 100 min.

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Ah, the biopic—a genre we know too well. Still, in a clever move for his newest film, Elvis, endlessly grandiose writer/director Baz Lurhmann (Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby) brings us Elvis Presley’s life story from the perspective of Colonel Tom Parker (an absolutely bizarre Tom Hanks), the rockstar’s longtime manager and manipulator.

Upon discovering the soon-to-be legend (played here by Austin Butler), Parker spends decades pulling his strings. For his part, poor little Elvis wants nothing more than to be authentic, but, like clockwork, his well-known demise catches up with him.

If you know Lurhmann, you know the definition of bombastic. The Australian filmmaker is one of the few remaining capital-A auteurs left in popular cinema.

Here, as he does, find him using anachronistic tunes in period settings (mash-ups of Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys, for example), swirling camera movements and themes prodding American pomposity.

Given how this worked in 2013’s Great Gatsby—and I’m in the camp who thinks that film is criminally underrated—it’s surprising Luhrmann can’t fully form his ideas with Elvis. You can practically feel how tempted Luhrmann was to explore the pop culture world that made Elvis, rather than the singer himself, and it would have really been something had he gone all out on that. Sadly, though, Luhrmann can’t swim out of the current that pulls him back towards typical filmic melodrama. Why sacrifice the narrative that poverty, racial oppression and capitalist exploitation led to Elvis and instead feed us something about his success having been forged on talent alone? Why dive headlong into the expected fall-from-grace arc? It’s a shame a film promising to be so fresh devolves as it does.

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Even still, it’s damn entertaining, and Butler’s dedication makes it a worthy watch. Elvis might be low-tier Lurhmann, but low-tier Lurhmann is still a decent high-energy outing for those who enjoy these typical tales. (RG) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 159 min

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In the ever-growing trope of post-university existentialist cinema à la Frances Ha, Apple TV+’s Cha Cha Real Smooth has a crazy idea: What if moving back in with your parents after school wasn’t so bad after all?

Andrew (Cooper Raiff, who also wrote the script and directs) spends his entire life putting a smile on everyone else’s face like it’s an impulse. He’s fresh out of college and recently moved back home where his only forward momentum is an in with the Jewish mom crowd. As a local bar mitzvah party host, he meets the solitary Domino (Dakota Johnson) and her autistic teenage daughter, Lola (newcomer Vanessa Burghardt). As Andrew integrates himself into their family, his friendship with Domino hints at something deeper they’ve both seemingly missed out on before now, if only they could figure out what that is.

Call it an unusual but fast-fomenting form of borderline self-indulgent millennial cinema, but Cha Cha Real Smooth strikes a humorous balance that leans more heavily upon the purposefully awkward and deadpan. This is a film far less reliant on gags and more on the mundanity of post-graduation life.

It’s light on external conflict, even as the characters are internally frustrated by plans gone awry and that pesky step into real life once you hit a certain age.

If you’re like most people who were lucky enough to attend university (and finish it), you’ll know the

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extreme dread that follows. You’re still that same fucked-up person, still captivated and driven by the things you were as a child—for Andrew, it’s a constant need to please; for Domino, it’s a good cry over the years she’s lost.

Despite his captivating presence, there’s just something about Raiff’s face that makes you want to punch him, and it takes a good while to figure out whether you like him or not. Once you deicide you do (or don’t), set it aside for Johnson’s unbelievable soft-spoken but guarded performance. She’s so relaxed here, and there’s a simplicity to that which reflects the film’s overall stripped-down storytelling.

Cha Cha is simple, but earnest—this isn’t groundbreaking cinema, but it’s wholesome and enjoyable.

Besides, does every movie need to reinvent the wheel?

Sadly, then, Raiff’s themes can be frustratingly on-the-nose, and the last act crams in realization after realization, which in turn slows things down.

Cha Cha begins to feel like a ‘90s-style cinematic narrative awkwardly placed in the now, which could be appealing to a particular segment of the population (read, younger educated types from a more privileged economic background and/or people who found Almost Famous to be a moving experience).

Others might be better off with 2020’s Shiva Baby, which took the ideas of existential dread and Jewish family politics to smart comedic heights and razorsharp timing.

Cha Cha Real Smooth, however, offers nothing new. Instead, it’s like a collection of reminders that people need different things at different times in their lives. It’s a gentle nudge of a film that lets you know things are maybe gonna be OK. Raiff puts in the work to take hold of your heart, though, and we should try to embrace these kinds of movies, even if their faults are evident. The world is too bitter otherwise. (RG) Apple TV+, R, 107 min

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her poem “Two Skins,” Bahamanian writer Lynn Sweeting writes, “There is a moment in every snake’s life when she wears two skins: one you can see, about to be shed, one you cannot see, the skin under the skin, waiting.” I suspect you now have metaphorical resemblances to a snake on the verge of molting, Aries. Congratulations on your imminent rebirth! Here’s a tip: The snake’s old skin doesn’t always just fall away; she may need to take aggressive action to tear it open and strip it off, like by rubbing her head against a rock. Be ready to perform a comparable task.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): One of my heroes died in 2021: the magnificent Libran author bell hooks (who didn’t capitalize her name). She was the most imaginative and independent-minded activist I knew. Till her last day, she articulated one-of-a-kind truths about social justice; she maintained her uncompromising originality.

But it wasn’t easy. She wrote, “No insurgent intellectual, no dissenting critical voice in this society escapes the pressure to conform. We are all vulnerable. We can all be had, co-opted, bought. There is no special grace that rescues any of us. There is only a constant struggle.” I bring this to your attention, Libra, because I suspect the TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Imagine a world 300 coming weeks will require your strenuous efforts to years from now,” writes Japanese novelist Minae Mizumura, “a world in which not only the best-educated remain true to your high standards and unique vision of reality. people but also the brightest minds and the deepest souls express themselves only in English. Imagine the SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You now have the power to world subjected to the tyranny of a singular ‘Logos.’ make yourself even more beautiful than you already are.

What a narrow, pitiful, and horrid world that would be!” You are extraordinarily open to beautifying influences, Even though I am primarily an English speaker, I agree and there will be an abundance of beautifying influences with her. I don’t want a world purged of diversity. Don’t coming your way. I trust you understand I’m not referwant a monolithic culture. Don’t want everyone to think ring to the kinds of beauty that are worshiped by conand speak the same. I hope you share my passion for ventional wisdom. Rather, I mean the elegance, allure, multiplicity, Taurus—especially these days. In my astro- charm, and grace that you behold in old trees and gorlogical opinion, you’ll thrive if you immerse yourself in a geous architecture and enchanting music and people celebratory riot of variety. I hope you will seek out influ- with soulful idiosyncrasies. PS: The coming weeks will ences you’re not usually exposed to. also be a favorable time to redefine the meaning of GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Imagine you’re not a person, beauty for yourself. but a medley of four magical ingredients. What would SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s the Season for they be? A Gemini baker named Jasmine says, “ripe per- Expressing Your Love—and for expanding and deepening simmons, green hills after a rain, a sparkling new Viking the ways you express your love. I invite you to speak the Black Glass Oven, and a prize-winning show horse.” A following quotes to the right person: 1. “Your head is a Gemini social worker named Amarantha says she would living forest full of songbirds.” —E. E. Cummings. 2. be made of “Florence and the Machine’s song ‘Sky Full “Lovers continuously reach each other’s boundaries.” — of Song,’ a grove of birch trees, a blue cashmere kneeRainer Maria Rilke, 3. “You’re my favorite unfolding length sweater, and three black cats sleeping in the sun.” story.” — Ann Patchett. 4. “My lifetime listens to yours.”

A Gemini delivery driver named Altoona says, “freshly — Muriel Rukeyser. harvested cannabis buds, a bird-loving wetlands at twiCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the coming weeks, light, Rebecca Solnit’s book Hope in the Darkness, and make sure you do NOT fit this description articulated by the Haleakalā shield volcano in Maui.” And now, Capricorn novelist Haruki Murakami: “You’re seeking Gemini, what about you? Identify your medley of four something, but at the same time, you are running away magical ingredients. The time is right to re-imagine the for all you’re worth.” If there is any goal about which you poetry of YOU. feel conflicted like that, dear Capricorn, now is a good CANCER (June 21-July 22): Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard time to clear away your confusion. If you are in some believes there’s only one way to find a sense of meaning, sense undercutting yourself, perhaps unconsciously, and that is to fill your life to the bursting point; to be in now is the time to expose your inner saboteur and seek love with your experience; to celebrate the flow of the necessary healing. July will be Self-Unification events wherever it takes you. When you do that, Godard Month. says, you have no need or urge to ask questions like AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A Tweeter named “Why am I here?” or “What is my purpose?” The richLuxuryblkwomen articulates one of her ongoing goals: ness of your story is the ultimate response to every enigma. As I contemplate these ideas, I say: wow! That’s “bridging the gap between me and my ideal self, one day an intensely vibrant way to live. Personally, I’m not able at a time.” I’d love it if you would adopt a similar aspiration in the coming months. You’re going to be exceptionto sustain it all the time. But I think most of us would benefit from such an approach for brief periods now and ally skilled at all types of bridge-building, including the kind that connects you to the hero you’ll be in the future. then. And I believe you have just entered one of those I mean, you are already a hero in my eyes, but I know phases. you will ultimately become an even more fulfilled and LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I asked Leo readers to provide refined version of your best self. Now is a favorable time their insights about the topic “How to Be a Leo.” Here to do the holy work of forging stronger links to that starare responses that line up with your current astrological to-be. omens. 1. People should try to understand you’re only bossing them around for their benefit. —Harlow Hunt. 2. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A blogger named Lissar Be alert for the intense shadows you may cast with your suggests that the cherry blossom is an apt symbol for you Pisceans. She describes you as “transient, lissome, intense brightness. Consider the possibility that even if they seem iffy or dicey, they have value and even bless- blooming, lovely, fragile yet memorable and recurring, in tune with nature.” Lissar says you “mystify yet charm,” ings to offer. —Cannarius Kansen. 3. Never break your own heart. Never apologize for showering yourself with and that your “presence is a balm, yet awe-inspiring and kindness and adoration. —Amy Clear. 4. At the moment moving.” Of course, like all of us, you also have your of orgasm, scream out your own name. —Bethany Grace share of less graceful qualities. And that’s not a bad thing! We’re all here to learn the art of growing into our VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s your birthright as a Virgo ripe selves. It’s part of the fun of being alive. But I susto become a master of capitalizing on difficulties. You pect that in the coming weeks, you will be an extra close have great potential to detect opportunities coalescing match for Lissar’s description. You are at the peak of in the midst of trouble. You can develop a knack for your power to delight and beguile us. spotting the order that’s hiding in the chaos. Now is a time when you should wield these skills with artistry, my Homework: Make amends to a part of yourself you have dear—both for your own benefit and for the betterment neglected, insulted, or wounded. Newsletter. of everyone whose lives you touch.

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Ben was preceded in death by his parents (Joe and Verna Whitehill), his daughter, Tara Whitehill, and his sister Ginny Southard. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn, his daughter, Julie (Paul) Hladky, grandchildren Joanna (Corey Anderson) Hladky, Chris Woodward, Mark Woodward, and Gibson (Bridget) Hladky-Krage and great grandson, Finn Hladky; and many nephews, nieces and cousins, both in the US and Canada, his mother’s birthplace.

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