Santa Fe Reporter, March 22, 2023

FOOD FOTO Contest Contest

SFR’s Food Foto Contest is back!

Whether your favorite images are of finely plated restaurant dishes; homecooked successes; gorgeous ingredients from the garden; or other artful interpretations, we hope you’ll share them with the class.

Two grand prize winners earn $100 cash prizes from our advertising partners, and will be featured in our upcoming Restaurant Issue. No limit on entries per photographer.

$5 entry fee per photo supports journalism at SFR.

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OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

SINE BYE 8

Winners and losers from the Legislative session

SECRET STANDARDS 10

Santa Fe magistrate judge could face discipline over his arrest for DWI

COVER STORY 12

SPRING POETRY SEARCH

Local poets open the door to intimacy and cross the threshold of time

CULTURE

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The Himalayas, Mr. Hearne returns, free seeds for everyone and the truth behind Wicca

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MOVING EVER FORWARD

Christian Waguespack takes on a new job and new exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art

FOOD 27

HOT OFF THE PRESSES

NMSU horticulture experts heat up the kitchen with chile pepper recipes and garden inspiration

MOVIES 28

BOSTON STRANGLER REVIEW

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HEAVY PETTING, MARCH 8: “HERE, KITTY, KITTY”

INDEPENDENTS RULE

Well Jack, let’s unpack some facts for truth.

1) It all starts with owner responsibility. Spay, neuter, vaccines, microchipping and keeping your cat indoors or indoor/outdoor in an enclosed space.

2) The defunding of the GATOS program left independent rescue with the responsibility of doing [Trap Neuter Release] on their own and out of pocket.

3) Yes, nature abhors a vacuum. Established feral colonies tend to stay in place. If removed, other friendly strays and ferals will move into the area, thus starting the cycle for TNR all over again.

4) No, neither the SFAS or small shop independent rescues can take on the numbers of feral cats waiting for that “perfect” barn placement.

5) The “research” and designation of cats as “wild animals” is a human conscript, designed to defer responsibility away from where it belongs; taking care of your companion animal. Lastly, it has been my experience that facility shelters view independent rescue as competition for resources. Our view is that independent rescues are the sluice gates to the dam, without which the dam would burst. For every iteration of a new director we hold our breath to see if “this one” will work with “us”. Still waiting to exhale.

DONNA LESHNE DEW PAWS RESCUE

IT’S ON PRIVATE CITIZENS

Many municipalities provide the [Trap Neuter Release] service. Not us. Our city won’t even provide the low cost fee to neuter/spay the cats caught by private citizens and rescue groups. The cats are trapped, transported to surgery, given after care for one to three days and returned for release by private citizens. We can’t make a dent but do it anyway.

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SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER

—Overheard at Dr. Field Goods Bar & Grill

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“I mean, those six months were awful, but we’re down the same rabbit hole, you know? We both love listening to Alex Jones.”

COURTESY SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER & HUMANE SOCIETY

CLOUD SEEDING TO TAKE PLACE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS SUMMER

Cue the chemtrails anti-fan club.

STATE OF THE CITY SLATED FOR MARCH 30

Between the recent obelisk kerfuffle, the soccer showdown and that pothole that just about swallowed our car, we’re pretty interested to hear about the good around here. Chile, maybe?

SANTA FE ARCHBISHOP APOLOGIZES FOR SEXUALLY ABUSIVE PRIESTS

Can we end tax exemptions for churches now?

CITY FACING POSSIBLE CREDIT DOWNGRADE OVER MISSING AUDITS

We’re guessing no one will brag about this in a speech.

VINYL OUTSELLS CDS

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SINCE THE 1980S

“It just, like, produces sounds you feel rather than hear,” says that hipster you hate.

LEGISLATIVE SESSION COMES TO A CLOSE

Another 57 days of baffling time warps and three days of action.

SANTA FE AIRPORT EXPANSION DELAYED

Good thing we’ve all been prepared to an absurd degree for airport delays.

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Sine Bye

BY ANDY LYMAN + ANDREW OXFORD andylyman@sfreporter.com oxford@sfreporter.com

The last day of the legislative session is like the last day of summer camp. As the clock winds down, lawmakers say goodbye to each other with handshakes and hugs before they all pack their bags and head home until next time. Later, they remind the press about all the badges they earned and which ones they might try for next year. Of course, law changes are much more impactful than chits for archery or pottery, but SFR has a rundown of which laws the state gets to add to its sash.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham had her sights on ambitious law changes such as banning some gun sales, hydrogen energy production and codifying abortion access before the session started. Some of those big swings fell flat, but she and Democratic lawmakers are already celebrating what they see as wins for New Mexico.

Lujan Grisham approved a measure she identified as a priority this session, which bars cities and counties from restricting access to abortion and other reproductive care, as both Clovis and Hobbs have attempted to prohibit the procedures. A second bill, which prevents criminal prosecution of health care providers in New Mexico from other states that have adopted abortion bans, and which will likely see approval from the governor, eked its way through the Legislature with less than 24 hours to spare. Both chambers also approved a measure promoted by high school students that calls for public schools to stock restrooms with free menstrual products.

Another landmark of the session is an update to the state’s election code to remove a restriction on voting for people convicted of felonies; create a new permanent absentee voter list; allow for automatic voter registration; and codify the Native American Voting Rights Act.

A state budget, arguably the most important part of any session, made it to

the governor, who signaled she would approve, although she has the power to line-item veto sections.

Lawmakers approved significantly more spending—about $1 billion, to be specific—which came with warnings from both Republicans and some fiscally conservative Democrats that the increased spending is not sustainable. A separate tax package also includes an alcohol tax increase—the first in decades— that amounts to about a penny per drink and is a far cry from the hike some lawmakers had sought.

The governor has until April 7 to sign or veto, at which point any bill that receives no action is considered “pocket vetoed.” Lujan Grisham could, in theory, call for a special session to take another swing at any of her pet projects. Just after the session ended, however, she indicated she did not plan to take that action. Here’s how the top issues SFR identified prior to the session fared:

D-Albuquerque, in early 2022, alleging the senator harassed her numerous times over a few years. After an outside counsel’s report finding probable cause that Ivey-Soto violated the Legislature’s anti-harassment policy was leaked to SFR, lawmakers made changes to their rules to streamline the interim complaint process.

Both House Republicans and Democrats crossed party lines when the full chamber passed the measure on a surprisingly narrow 39-28 vote. It passed the Senate with a much wider 34-2 margin.

but the issue anticlimactically fizzled out early on in the session.

Senate Bill 53, prohibiting the storage of spent fuel or high-level waste without state consent, has already been signed into law, solidifying opposition to a project proposed by Holtec International to “temporarily” store waste from power plants in Lea County for 40 years with options for renewal. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its final environmental review in July and is expected to announce a decision soon on whether to grant a license for the project.

Ethics reform

House Bill 169, which awaits action by the governor, would allow those who file ethics complaints against a legislator to publicly discuss them. Current law requires the complainant, but not the accused, to stay quiet.

The governor’s signature of HB 169 may also decide the fate of a court petition that lobbyist Marianna Anaya filed last year against the Legislature, arguing current state law violates her First Amendment right. Anaya filed an ethics complaint against Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto,

Environment

Small, rural water systems saw a win this session when Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 1, which allows those regional systems to combine resources and create a water authority. The new law offers the option, but will not require communities like Cañada de los Alamos to combine resources, says one of the sponsors, Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe.

Senate Bill 9, a bill Wirth co-sponsored, intends to create a new Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund that would benefit a number of conservation efforts. The bill passed both chambers with comfortable margins, but is still awaiting a signature from the governor.

Leading up to this year’s legislative session, hydrogen energy production, which Lujan Grisham backs, seemed like it was going to be a contentious issue,

Housing

Landlords won—again—as legislators blocked even watered-down proposals to expand tenant protections.

House Bill 6, for example, would have given tenants more time to pay overdue rent before a landlord could file for eviction. It passed the House but sputtered in the Senate. The Senate also blocked bills that would have bolstered tenant protections for residents of mobile home parks and allowed cities to limit rent increases. Even a far less controversial proposal to create a state housing department stalled at the Capitol.

All this comes as the median sales price of a home in Santa Fe was over $600,000 at the end of last year and high rents push lower income residents out of the city altogether.

While lawmakers dedicated several million dollars to building housing around the state, tenants rights advocates argue such measures won’t provide relief soon enough to New Mexicans facing higher rents now.

Perhaps none of this should be surprising, though. SFR counted about a dozen legislators—including some very powerful ones—who are landlords themselves and would stand to lose if the state allowed rent control.

A rundown of how lawmakers responded to key topics during the legislative session

Criminal justice reform

Lawmakers didn’t advance many of Lujan Grisham’s crime bills, but the governor gets to add the feather of reforming how juveniles are sentenced to her cap. Known as the Second Chance Act, Senate Bill 64 gives “youthful offenders” an opportunity to seek parole.

Another criminal justice win for the governor and Democratic legislators is the Bennie Hargrove Gun Safety Act, which Lujan Grisham signed March 14. Albuquerque Police arrested a middle school student for shooting and killing the new law’s 13-year-old namesake in 2021. The law deems negligently allowing a minor access to a firearm a misdemeanor, but if that negligence causes “great bodily harm or death of another person,” the charge bumps up to a fourth-degree felony.

Lujan Grisham’s push to toughen pretrial detention standards by allowing prosecutors to hold defendants using a “rebuttable presumption” of guilt fell flat pretty early on in the session without a strong coalition of support from her own party.

and two years since the enactment of the Cannabis Regulation Act. One of the selling points in 2021—or sticking point for some—of full legalization was companion expungement legislation. This year, Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, sponsored House Bill 314 to clean up the expungement process. If Lujan Grisham approves, HB 314 will make it easier to check on pending expungements and help the Administrative Office of the Courts weed through anything still pending.

Senate Bill 242, sponsored by Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, is also in the hands of the governor after it made its way through the Legislature with two days to spare. SB 242 would change the lifespan of a medical cannabis card from three years to two. Current law, however, requires patients to check in with a medical professional every year between card renewals. Patients would only need to make those visits when they renew their cards if SB 242 is signed into law.

Although Senate Bill 147 was a general tax bill, it also specified that the state’s gross receipts tax should not be applied to the cannabis excise tax. The Taxation and Revenue Department currently includes the excise tax when billing cannabis business owners, a process often referred to as pyramiding.

Sen. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, in 2021 criticized social equity provisions in the Cannabis Regulation Act for picking winners and losers. This year, two cannabis bills became losers when they failed to get a hearing in Cervantes’ Senate Judiciary Committee before the legislative session ended on March 18. House Bill 313 was a cleanup bill that would have indexed plant counts for smaller producers with that of larger producers in addition to giving cannabis regulations more teeth. House Bill 429, which also languished in the Senate Judiciary Committee, would have added cannabis back to the list of contraband not allowed in jails and prisons. The Cannabis Regulation Act deemed the plant no longer an illicit substance, but meant it was technically no longer contraband in statute.

Cannabis

Next month marks one full year of adult-use cannabis sales in New Mexico

New Mexicans will have to wait until next year to see cannabis tax revenue go anywhere other than the state’s general fund since House Bill 315 stalled last month. The proposal aimed to set up funds for drug education, but without an appropriation the bill couldn’t move forward.

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Secret Standards

and the appearance of impropriety in their professional and personal lives.”

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

Santa Fe Magistrate Judge Dev Atma Khalsa’s long-term future on the bench is unclear, but for now it seems he’s in a holding pattern while a criminal case against him works its way through the system. Because of secrecy provisions in the New Mexico Constitution regarding Judicial Standards Commission proceedings, it’s still unknown how or when Khalsa might face workplace discipline for his arrest.

For now, the newly elected magistrate judge, who’s been on the job for less than three months, is not hearing cases—in fact, he’s barred from the courthouse.

Khalsa pleaded not guilty on March 1 of misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, driving without a valid license and careless driving after he rolled his 4Runner in the wee hours of Feb. 26 at the St. Francis exit from northbound Interstate 25. His case is scheduled for a Municipal Court pretrial conference March 29. Khalsa could also see sanctions from the state’s Judicial Standards Commission, separate from any municipal court proceedings.

According to the state constitution, which established the commission, judges are expected to “maintain the dignity of judicial office at all times and avoid both impropriety

Judicial Standards Commission Executive Director and General Counsel Phyllis Dominguez tells SFR she cannot comment directly about Khalsa’s case because of the confidentiality requirement outlined in the state constitution.

“The only time something is public upon filing is if we have a trial here at the commission, and the trial record is public upon filing with the Supreme Court,” Dominguez says.

Speaking about the process in general, Dominguez says the commission can suspend a judge while its members consider next steps.

Even though state officials remain tight-lipped about Khalsa’s judicial career, his lawyer, through a statement to SFR, signaled that the magistrate judge is in contact with the commission.

“Judge Khalsa understands that judges are held to a higher standard than other public officials; he is taking this matter very seriously and is cooperating fully with the Judicial Standards Commission,” his lawyer Kitren Fischer says.

The commission might not wait for the criminal case, however.

A now-former Bernalillo County district judge quickly resigned and agreed to never run for or fill a judicial seat again days after she was arrested for suspicion of DWI in 2019. Deborah Walker pleaded guilty to drinking and driving and was sentenced to a year of probation weeks

after her arrest. But before she had even made an appearance in court, let alone before a conviction, the commission had asked Walker for an explanation about her then alleged actions.

“Please provide the Commission with an explanation of this incident and the factual and legal basis for your conduct,” then-Commission Chair Joyce Bustos wrote the day after Walker’s arrest.

Khalsa showed up for work the morning after his arrest, at which point the chief

Magistrate Judge Catherine Taylor.

Khalsa, a former assistant district attorney, beat out three opponents last year in the primary election for magistrate judge and was the only candidate with a law degree. SFR endorsed Khalsa during the general election, partly because of his experience as both a private practice attorney and as a prosecutor, although by that time he was running unopposed.

One of his campaign planks was a “rights-centered DWI process” and, in a campaign video from last year, Khalsa promised to “focus on rights adjudication in DWIs.” That means, he said, a promise to hold all parties accountable to work together to determine whether “a case has a meaningful set of issues within it that affects the defendant’s rights.” If not, he said, “that should be on a track toward a plea deal. It should not be wasting the state’s resources for a jury trial.”

According to videos released by Santa Fe Police of Khalsa’s arrest, he referenced his job to police at least once. In a video of Khalsa in a police holding room, after police tell him he is under arrest and cannot leave, he asks for his phone so he “can at least let the other judge know that I’m here, so there’s not this loop backlog where they’re expecting me to cover shit and I’m not covering it.”

district judge verbally ordered Khalsa be removed from the bench.

Khalsa, says Barry Massey, a spokesman for the state’s Administrative Office of the Courts, “is not hearing any cases and is not permitted inside the courthouse at this time.” Cases that would normally be assigned to Khalsa are being divvied up with the help of Los Alamos County

An officer heard in the video tells Khalsa that he will eventually get access to his phone to pull any numbers he might need to make a call from the jail. (Watch clips of the police video at youtube. com/SantaFeReporter)

Santa Fe Police initially sought to charge Khalsa with aggravated DWI for refusing a blood test, but later reduced that charge after they acknowledged officers had failed to first offer Khalsa a breath test.

Santa Fe magistrate judge could face discipline over his arrest for DWI

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Magistrate Judge Dev Atma Khalsa took office in January.

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Spring Poetry Search

Knead the Masa

By Bianca Barela

Call out to the hijas the primas the tias the ones who grew up in the kitchen and the ones who did their best to escape it

Spring in New Mexico requires searching for signs of hope—at least at first. Case in point: On this year’s inaugural day of of the season, enough snow fell for the City of Santa Fe to delay opening offices, libraries and rec centers, while at the same time a careful peek revealed the start of green shoots from the ground.

SFR’s annual call for spring poems reflects the annual maelstrom of blowing winds, seesawing temperatures and nascent blooms. From the more than 200 entries that arrived in February, we present seven, along with one from poet, guest judge and Institute of American Indian Arts Associate Creative Writing Professor Anne Haven McDonnell, recipient of the 2021 Halcyon Poetry Prize from Middle Creek Publishing for her book Breath on a Coal.

“There is a strong sense of voice in all of these pieces,” McDonnell says of this year’s winning poems. “I can feel the specificity of the speaker and the world that is being evoked and I think there’s an intimacy to each poem. They’re all working with memory and with weaving together different times, different scales—an intimate scale with a bigger vaster scale. On some level, they’re all doing that.”

First-place winner Bianca Barela’s work is rooted in the culture of Northern New Mexico and the strength of women, she says, “I love when a poem invites me into a vivid, specific world and I felt like this poem did right from the first line.”

Second-place winner Eleanor Channell, says McDonnell, “works with different scales of time and space in a way that was really interesting and powerful to me. There was just this sweep of time and vastness and also a really small, close-together intimacy.”

McDonnell picked two poets for a tie in third place: Théo Ceridwen, who used “really inventive language play” that “wove a lot of different things together such as gun violence, tender human vulnerability and plant science,” and Tamara Baer, whose short portrait of pregnancy was full of pleasant surprises.

Yearning for more chances to write and read poetry? The city is accepting applications for its next poet laureate through April 19. Find out how to apply at santafenm.gov/arts-and-culture-department/

—Julie Ann Grimm

Who will tell them about the wagon built from scraps full of beans tortillas posole fresh eggs from the chickens being pulled up the dirt road every Friday by their four foot nine inch matriarch awake before the sun in the morning to knead the masa heat the water on the wood stove defy her husband with her generosity and quiet dignity despite his protests of waste share what she had with her neighbors heal what she could with her herbs I struggle for the words to tell how she stopped and prayed with every family along the way bringing her grandchildren along to witness

I turn these stories over like masa in my hands spreading them out with a wooden rolling pin looking for clues to guide me trying to remember how we used to make tortillas from scratch

Bianca Barela is a poet and mother working in the health-tech industry. She was born in Santa Fe and is currently raising her two daughters here alongside her husband. Her work has been featured at Quiet Lightning and LitQuake in San Francisco and in the IHRAF Publishes Literary Magazine .

Poets open the door to intimacy and cross the threshold of time

Ajar

By Eleanor Channell

a dream inside the dream: your child soul peering at the world door ajar, ribbon of light, a sunbeam sends its invitation

it takes a deft hand to find the fingerings of childhood to climb back up the rope one knot at a time onto a hand-built perch high above the blaze of sea elms bending, fields of timothy your green horizon

it takes a delicate touch to raise again the father who tenderly called you Chief, who called his hat the sky, a giant beside you bucking hay in summer light and dust, at whose whistle the dogs came bounding you wanting nothing more than to stay at his side in that small valley, blue mountains rising in the haze

if continents can shift, surely we can loosen the door from its jamb to see the white house its luminous uncertainty, the grace of childhood clear, plain, in staggering smallness all-encompassing

a sunbeam sends its invitation, dreams ajar ribbon of light, your old soul peering at the world

Bullet-proof Glass

By Théo Ceridwen

we are fragments flying out through which light passes -a mother untangles sleep, breathe, baby bundle.

now, they call me soft target practice. kick back in war sands while we invent quick death in the many-worlds

even now we have no way to see if wet-blessedthistle, daisy-cutters shoot. time fuses set to bloom

into striped bell-curves, thinning tallies, managing the mess, whether you look bares no resemblance to

perception in attention: that is to report, the art of staying alive is to pluck deadheads.

After years of teaching English, art history and creative writing at an international high school in the Pacific Northwest, Eleanor Channell relocated to a small village in Northern New Mexico, where she leads a life of arts and letters on her own terms.

Most recently her poems have been published in Rattle, American Life in Poetry, and the West Marin Review.

the million bells plant grows best in full sunlight. still, understandable if one reads ghost signs to learn

the art of staying alive depends on how well you steal fire from fanned worlds to hum mud into dust.

Théo Ceridwen (they/them) is a writer, artist, and quantum poetics researcher living in Santa Fe, New Mexico with their dog, Cosita. Their primary interest as an artist and researcher is in compressing the manifest image of the world with the scientific image and mathematical visualizations, thereby rendering difficult-to-grasp concepts more accessible and accurate for general human consumption. Théo earned their Poetry MFA from the University of Pittsburgh in 2021.

Rocking

By Tamara Baer

Once I loved your fat heel arcing the round of my belly, and the bulging ball that may have been your head.

Even before there was a you to you, I loved the idea of you –the improbability, the commonplaceness.

Little chickie with your gold fleece winging, the fluff of goose down budding over nape, when you call me in the middle of some fameless night to rock you –I will hold and rock you longer than I have to, returning you to your own sleep, rocking regular as the vigilance of heartbeats, your tiny wrist inside two fingers of my hand.

Tamara Baer has lived in Santa Fe since 1994.

because the sun will die if we stop talking about it

By Kristin Lueke

at least one person, anywhere, at all times, must have something to say about the sun. because the world doesn’t want us to trust each other—or maybe it’s just too big a job for the kind of animal we are, i mean, who would keep track of whose turn it is, this second, to save us— there are those of us who simply never stop talking about the sun.

where, given the season, it’s sloping through the sky, how bright it is, how missed,

how it burns the clouds away. but there’s only so much you can say about the sun before you miss asking your friends how is your heart, or making plans to make soup and eat bread.

so we find new ways to speak to and of each other. the other night while passing marigolds between us you said look how it shines tucked between a photo of my grandfather and a prayer card for his daughter’s son. later i told you how the sun laid down the day we drove into the desert, and i couldn’t find my breath. you asked if when i woke did i first think of sunrise, how to dress for the weather, where to plant a garden?

and i asked, in turn, if the sun didn’t rise would it bring me closer to you?

Kristin Lueke is a poet, author of the chapbook, (in) different math . (Dancing Girl Press, 2013) and cofounder of a small design firm called Field of Practice. Her work has appeared in the Acentos Review, HAD, Blue River Review, Kissing Dynamite, Hooligan Magazine and elsewhere. She writes a Substack newsletter called “The Animal Eats” and says hello to every dog she sees.

Vireo

By Laura Hitt

I dream of you sometimes, glowing eyes hooked beak.

And yesterday in the woods—hanging out with a diminutive juniper tree a little patch of moss, cicada exoskeleton, deer droppings— I missed you acutely, how we used to explore the wilds, identifying birds, traversing the mountains and rivers, examining minutiae.

But friendships fall apart as surely as vireos winter in the Amazon. Ours molted one fall in the Midwest, laying bare a vast, subterranean ecosystem that couldn’t be reconciled.

And I’m sure you still go birding, excel without me there, asking stupid identification questions. Sometimes I miss your face peering into a spotting scope at a body of water, cursing with glee at the sheer quantity of species to identify, individuals to count.

I saw you: feral rebel, genius naturalist, emotional spelunker your gifts manifold, your darkness deep.

In my dreams we reunite, no biggie like last night when you were making poop jokes about your fiancé.

If time is indeed elastic, if the distinctions between past present future are “a stubbornly persistent illusion,” as Einstein said, then I would bend us back to the first time I saw a vermillion flycatcher with you, at that wooded campground in Texas.

Maybe I’ll glean a sighting of you again someday, sudden as a rare vagrant, a vireo ojirojo in our Southwestern town. And when I do, I won’t disturb you, will silently note plumage and behavior in my field journal perhaps make a brief sketch for memory’s sake and carry on

wishing you keen eyes and sharp ears, a lifetime of insect-filled canopies.

Laura Hitt has an MFA in Creative Writing & the Environment from Iowa State University. She works as a tutor in Santa Fe and enjoys birding, podcasts and staring off into space.

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I am rooting for this river

By Anne Haven McDonnell

Epistle to Will Shuster

By Liana Woodward

Dear Will Shuster,

I used to see your self-portrait every Sunday on tours up Canyon. No lips just downturned dog-jowls & the easel a dark triangle to hide behind. I liked that you put the scratchy brown part of your art in the foreground, that you let your face frown. I liked your white shirt & your glasses round like an owl’s. Looking again now I can’t believe your thumb tucked into your trousers like a snarky wink.

You must have loved whimsy to build a fifty-foot puppet. Build him specifically to cry like a megaphone. Fill him with fireworks & everyone’s worst days. Name him for anguish. With so much affection give him eyebrows like an irritated child, climb into his dry paper mouth for a nap, then, suddenly turn & burn him alive.

I used to take old rich ladies in a group, point to buildings where your friends drank bootleg booze, slumped in dusty sunsets. I’d point my fingers through wrought iron bar windows where Claude’s was which is now gutted & gagging with cotton candy insolation. The owner must not know how Alfred Morang used to sleep above the bar. How he died there in a fire.

Now only statues & paintings get tucked into bed. You have to pay for parking & walking around at sunset you can’t hear anyone going home. No one making a quick stop at a corner store for eggs or bread or wine. No whining dogs or hopscotch girls.

I want to paint a house fire like you. Isn’t this what artists do? Sit up on a hill with a palette of yellow & orange, make someone else’s losing beautiful instead of passing water to the fire brigade. Instead of being useful?

With affection,

Liana Woodward is a poet born and raised in Santa Fe. She received her BA from St. John’s College and her MFA in poetry from the University of Montana, where she served as a poetry editor for CutBank literary magazine. Her work has appeared in Peach Mag, Hot Pink Magazine, The West Review and elsewhere. She works at the Southside Library.

and for the bare twiggy willows, those rooting wizards, dropped in augured holes six feet deep, those skinny little cottonwoods planted along this dry arroyo that, just now seeps and trickles with a thin clear ribbon of snowmelt. I hear the sip and murmur as it drops off chiseled boulders some workers fit like brick along the shore, across the channel forming little riffles and pools for six sweet weeks this river runs.

I am rooting, too, for those hated Siberian elms, voracious water suckers that shimmer and sing with the first rich greening above the river and around this town, their papery seed discs bundled like money, spreading and coating gutters and hoods and garden beds.

I am rooting for a doomed river, I know was once a living river, with trout and beaver and reedy ponds before it was sucked dry and filled with broken bottles and broken cars, and now sculpted, bulldozed, cleaned, readied to receive water and all life that follows water, which looks less and less likely will come. Still,

I root for everything I want and know won’t return. Sometimes in spring, they fill the shallows with fish-one week for kids to catch those poor trout before they shore up when the water runs dry. I root for those doomed fish, for kids with worms writhing on hooks, for the worms, for all our unlikely watered futures, for each hungrier and hotter year. Every spring I’m here to see when those cursed elms burst their greedy green and this river gets on its trickle I plan to go on rooting.

Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe and teaches as an associate profesesor in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. This poem appears in Breath on a Coal (Middle Creek Publishing 2022).

SEND US A BILL

OK, sure, we’ve written extensively about musician Bill Hearne before, but we’re gonna write about him again. Who’s going to stop us? No one. Maybe we’re drunk with power, or maybe we’re just enamored with Hearne’s powerful voice and contemplative guitar playing. We’re talking a combination of honky-tonk juke joint jams with Hearne’s signature Texas drawl vocals as presented through a lens of Americana-meets-folk. You know what that means: acoustic guitar and plenty of ruminative songs about love, loss, the land and, most famously, the rain in New Mexico. The only way it could get better is if Hearne were slated to play in a gorgeous garden with wine service or something. Oh, wait— that’s totally what’s going on. Hit the Ahmyo River Gallery Wine Garden to see why it, and Hearne, are such local treasures. (ADV)

Bill Hearne: 2-5 pm Friday, March 24. Free Ahmyo River Gallery Wine Garden

652 Canyon Road, (505) 820-0969

EVENT MULTIPLE DAYS

SEED TO IT

To be fair, it’s snowing as we write this, but if there’s one thing we know to be true (outside of how Santa Fe almost always gets that last gasp of winter when it’s technically springtime), it’s that you’re gonna want to start thinking about this year’s garden now. Enter the Santa Fe Seed Library, a project partnership between the Santa Fe Public Library and the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners’ Seed Stewards. It’s pretty simple: Literally anyone, library card or no, can swing by the Southside branch during regular hours and pick out up to five packets of veggie seeds. Unlike the books, you don’t need to return them (how would that even work?). Not only that, but the Seed Stewards will offer numerous workshops throughout the upcoming season to help out even the greenest of gardeners, there are opportunities to help and the whole dang thing is free. FREE! Too long/didn’t read? Go to the library, get free seeds, grow vegetables at home. (ADV)

Santa Fe Seed Library Reopening: 10 am-8 pm Tues-Thurs; 10 am-6 pm Fri-Sat. Free. Santa Fe Public Library Southside Branch, 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

WORKSHOP WED/29

WHICH WITCH?

Admit it—you have some preconceived notion about what Wicca is all about. Even if you don’t, chances are you know very little about the practice, like how the US government considers it a true-blue religion. If you’ve had questions or concerns or always just wanted to get involved, however, your ship has come in. Members of the Los Alamos-based coven Our Lady of the Woods hosts a special five-week series of workshops beginning on Wednesday, March 29 at the Unitarian Church in their hometown to do just that. This will include identifying the realities behind the practice, what members do and how they live. “We realize it’s not for everybody, and we’re certainly not interested in trying to change people’s minds,” says third degree priestess Laura Liles, a practicing Wiccan for more than 30 years. “We have two goals—practicing Wicca and healing the earth.” Honestly, that sounds fantastic. (ADV)

Introduction to Wicca: 7-9 pm Wednesday, March 29. Free Unitarian Church of Los Alamos 1738 N Sage Loop St., Los Alamos, (505) 695-0278

Mountaineering

Anne and William Frej present their new Himalayan memoir/photo book

If you don’t know about Santa Fe-based dynamic photographer/writer duo/married couple, William and Anne Frej, we reckon you oughta learn, dear reader. Across a storied career spanning decades, the Frejs have trekked the globe, resulting in numerous books about Maya ruins, religious ceremonies, lesser-seen corners of the globe and other topics. As of late last year, they added to the list with Travels Across the Roof of the World: A Himalayan Memoir, a gorgeous new compendium culled from their 20 trips across the selfsame Himalaya Mountains over a 40-year period.

“We first went in 1981,” William explains, “and we went with the Sierra Club because they were able to get a permit to circumambulate Manaslu, which is one of the eight highest peaks. There hadn’t been a Western group who’d done that.”

But do that they did, which kicked off the decision for the Frejs to visit the base camps of the world’s 10 highest mountains, about which they’ll present alongside their book at Collected Works this week.

“We were trekkers, not mountain climbers,” Anne clarifies, adding that one trip resulted in William suffering from altitude sickness. “Bill was sick and out of it, and I found this yak; so this little lady who owned the yak and I got Bill up on the yak, and he rode it down [the mountain] for a day to a lower site. Then the next day

the trail was too narrow for the yak, so we dragged him down the hill.”

And that’s just one of countless stories from the Frejs fabled times. Not only will attendees of the presentation get a chance to see William’s stunning photographic evidence of their many journeys, Anne will recount from her journals and memories through a conversation with moderator Joanna Hurley.

“I seem to remember everything really clearly,” Anne tells SFR with a laugh. The event will take place in person, as well as through a Zoom session available via the Collected Works website.

“The closing of the book is our reflections on the Himalayas today,” William adds. “Where it’s headed, how global climate change is affecting not only the climate and terrain, but a way of life for many of the people who live in all these distinctly different places [throughout the Himalayas].”

Oh, and btw? Travels Across the Roof of the World has already won silver medals from the Tokyo International Foto Awards and the Budapest International Foto Awards. (Alex De Vore)

WILLIAM AND ANNE FREJ: TRAVELS ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD: A HIMALAYAN MEMOIR

6 pm Thursday, March 23. Free Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

EVENT THU/23

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Foto Forum Santa Fe

1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582

More than 50 local photographers, up through Thursday. Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Fri;

12:30-5 pm, Tues, free

ALYSSUM PILATO

Artichokes and Pomegranates

Floral Design

418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 8 (505) 820-0044

Plein air oil paintings of Santa Fe at night.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri;

10 am-2 pm, Sat, free

AMALGAMATION: BEHIND

THE STUDIO DOOR

Vital Spaces Midtown Annex

1600 St. Michael’s Drive vitalspaces.org

Printmakers, painters and much more.

1-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free

ARRIVALS 2023

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

A sneak peek at the gallery’s upcoming exhibitions.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

THE ART OF WALKING

BACKWARDS: RODNEY

HATFIELD

Susan Eddings Pérez Galley

717 Canyon Road (505) 477-4ART

Geometric oil paintings nodding towards primitivism.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat; Noon-5 pm, Sun, free

FOOD FOTO

ATI MAIER

Peyton Wright Gallery

237 E Palace Ave., (505) 989-9888

Psychedelic twists on universal landscapes.

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat, free

ATTASALINA: FREED FROM RAGE AND SORROW

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Twenty years of black-and-white autobiographical photography.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

BLAIR: TECHNICOLOR GLASSES

Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St. (505) 428-0996

Vibrant acrylic portraits.

7:30 am-5 pm, free

DANA HART-STONE AND DANA NEWMANN: A STATE OF NEWNESS

Pie Projects

924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681

Mixed-media pieces formed from antique ephemera.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

EBENDORF AND THE USUAL SUSPECTS form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Selections from the career of famed jeweler Robert Ebendorf. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free FEAR OF FLYING TITLE Gallery

423 W San Francisco St. titlegallery.org

Humans and birds on canvas. Noon-4 pm, Sat or by appt., free FOTO CUBA

Artes de Cuba

1700 A Lena St., (505) 303-3138

Documenting life on the island.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

FRANCIS DIFRONZO

Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902

Uneasy local landscapes. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free HERMAN MARIL LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Sparse modernist paintings. 10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

INSIDE OUT

Axle Contemporary Visit axleart.com for daily location (505) 670-5854

Chromatic, symbolic abstracts. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Thurs, Sat-Sun; 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

Chemigram and silver gelatin paper gently evoke plants in Rosalba Breazeale’s Poems from Kay Pacha, opening this week at Strata Gallery.

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INTERCONNECTIONS

Nüart Gallery

670 Canyon Road

(505) 988-3888

Colorful abstracts by Sunny Taylor and Beverly Kedzior.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat;

11 am-6 pm, Sun, free

INVENTORY OF REFLECTION:

C ALEX CLARK

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Holograms embedded in glass.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

JESSICA LAUREL REESE

Prism Arts & Other Fine Things

1300 Luisa St., Ste. 3A (248) 763-9642

Steel rod figurative sculptures.

11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat, free

JUGNET + CLAIRET:

MIDNIGHT BLUE _ A SURVEY

Montezuma Lodge

431 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-0971

Collaborative multimedia pieces with an interest in texture.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat; Noon-5 pm, Sun, free

KAREN HAMPTON

Kouri + Corrao Gallery

3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888

Textiles interrogating history, on display through Thursday.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

LAND, SPACE AND COLOR:

FELIX VOLTSINGER

Santa Fe Community College

6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000

Plein air western landscapes.

8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

LISA GORDON: WILD THINGS

Sorrel Sky Gallery

125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555

Cast sculptures of animals.

9:30 am-5:30 pm, Mon-Sat;

10 am-5 pm, Sun, free

LISBETH CORT

El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road

(505) 982-0016

Chromatic collages.

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

MERIDEL RUBENSTEIN CONTAINER

1226 Flagman Way

(505) 995-0012

Haunting photography addressing Iraqi water reclamation.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free

MICHAEL GODEY

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

222 Delgado St. (928) 308-0319

Mixed-media pieces probing the natural world.

11 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat, free

MOVING IMAGE FILM CO-OP

No Name Cinema

2013 Piñon st., nonamecinema.org

Ephemera from Santa Fe’s 1971-72 DIY film scene. During events or by appt., free

PABLO PICASSO

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Rare works on paper.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri, 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

PEDRO REYES

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Multimedia political sculptures.

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Mon, Thurs;

10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

RESONANCES

Currents 826

826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953

Southwestern artists experiment with futuristic techniques.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun, free

REVERIES AND APPARITIONS

Alberto Zalma Art Shop

407 S Guadalupe St. (505) 670-5179

Croix Williamson shares steel sculptures and works on paper.

11 am-7 pm, Tues-Sat, free

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SHADOWS AND LIGHT

ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320

Chiaroscuro across media.

10 am-5 pm, free

SITE SCHOLARS: TENTH

ANNIVERSARY SHOW

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

The annual group exhibition of emerging New Mexican artists.

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Mon, Thurs;

10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

SOFT Smoke the Moon

616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Multidisciplinary takes on the word “soft.”

Noon-4 pm, Wed-Sun, free

SPONTANEOUS INSPIRATION

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Abstract paintings of decay.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

STILL BEAUTY

Obscura Gallery

1405 Paseo de Peralta (505) 577-6708

Photographing winter.

11 am-5 pm, free

TERRAN LAST GUN

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

Piikani aesthetics meet pop art.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free

LA VIE DES ARBRES: JEAN

MARC RICHEL

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Paintings, collages and reverse prints inspired by trees.

10 am-8 pm, Tues-Thurs;

10 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat, free

WINTER ABSTRACTIONS

Gaia Contemporary 225 Canyon Road #6

(505) 501-0415

Mixed-media abstract offerings.

10 am-5 pm, free

WINTER FESTIVAL PART TWO

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

A group show highlighting representational artists.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

WINTER GROUP SHOW

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

558 Canyon Road

(505) 992-0711

Sculpture, photos and more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

WED/22

EVENTS

FREE KIDS SING-ALONG

Railyard Park

740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596

Music games for tots.

10:30-11:15 am, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

60 E San Francisco St. (505) 629-3538

Gather to discuss geopolitics.  Noon-2 pm, free

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Make ‘em laugh.

8-10 pm, free

SING ALONG WITH TEACHER B

Railyard Park Community Room

701 Callejon St., (505) 316-3596

Kids up to age 5 jam together.

10 am, free

SPRING BREAK STORY TIME

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Lehua Bonderer drops in for an extra hour of story time.

2-3 pm, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

This week's theme is how flowers grow.

10:30-11:30 am, free

MUSIC

COUCH OF ETERNAL REVERB FEAT. LYRA MUSE AND LADY URANIUM

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Art pop and new wave in the venue-within-a-venue.

8:30 pm, $23

DINNER & JAZZ WITH THE JAY HENEGHAN PROJECT

El Farol

808 Canyon Road (505) 983-9912

Jazz and blues standards.

7-9 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Bring your instrument and join.

6 pm, free

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WINTER LECTURE SERIES

Alan Carr

Manhattan

Project Spies

at Los Alamos

March 28th, 6:00–7:00 pm

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art

$10, free for Las Golondrinas and MNMF Members

During the Manhattan Project, four Los Alamos insiders stole secret information and provided it to the Soviet Union. This is the story of their treachery.

Alan B. Carr currently serves as a Program Manager and the Senior Historian for Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Advanced tickets suggested: $10 non-members, free for Las Golondrinas and MNMF Members. Go to golondrinas.org to reserve.

Let’s take it back to 2004, when a young Nicolle NEILL Jensen first started dabbling in yoga while a student at the defunct College of Santa Fe—when she discovered Balkan music for the first time. Jensen fell in love with both, and has since become not only a celebrated yoga and meditation teacher, but also a member of Balkan-infused band Rumelia Collective, plus a solo musician who performs and releases albums under the moniker NEILL. This weekend, Jensen is slated to drop a new entry in her ongoing series of elementallybased contemplative electronic jams; a feat she’ll accomplish alongside a day-long yoga retreat event over which she’ll also preside (2:45-9 pm Saturday, March 25. $20-$108. Railyard Performance Center, 1611 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 982-8309). Smoke, the fifth in her series, stays true to NEILL’s droney and edgy beats with overlaid elements like gorgeous vocals and mantras meant to calm, steady and treat the mind. As a yoga event/ album release sounds right up Santa Fe’s alley, we spoke with Jensen to learn a little more. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. (Alex De Vore)

As a music/yoga person, when you’re writing your songs, are you considering their potential application to yoga? Yeah! Something I’ve been saying for a long time is I’m making the music I’d like to listen to but doesn’t necessarily exist. Smoke features electronic pulsing bass and drone and percussion with very beautiful, simple vocals, so it’s meditative, but it has a little edge. It’s not just pretty, it’s also got depth and a little bit of, ‘Ooh, what was that sound?!’ Or, like, a psychedelic surf line a...rock edge. I’m definitely making music I like that I don’t think exists yet, and it’s what I want to hear—contemplative in nature, but not just one thing; it’s probably going to grab your attention a little bit.

I think it’s fair to link my music with yoga, especially this release. I’m a practitioner, a meditator, and because I fell in love with those things and gained benefits from them, I started teaching them. One of the tenets of Buddhism is that suffering is an inherent part of

life. Yoga and meditation, the way I teach them, is to alleviate some amount of suffering, and my music is another extension of that—meditative, healing, relaxing, inviting. When you think about yoga music, you probably don’t think about anything interesting, and I don’t either—I don’t like it, it’s boring. But I have lo-fi hip-hop, bass-beats, world music… you can hear that influence.

You’re a member of local Balkan music act Rumelia Collective. Does your work with Balkan sounds seep into the NEILL project, or are you specifically going for a different feel?

I would say it’s definitely just in there, because it’s in who I am. I’ve been playing balkan music since 2004, so there are percussion instruments I’ll be playing on Saturday that are the same that feature on the stage with Rumelia Collective. And a couple of the same band members will be on the stage making the music happen, too. It’s absolutely influencing [the new music] while it maintains its own personality. There’s no Greek, Turkish or Bulgarian music. The sound, though—there’s an oud on one of the tracks, for example. When I found Balkan music, there was a part of me that felt I recognized it already; it was the sound I was looking for already. [With NEILL] I’m performing with a laptop, I’m playing an Ableton session, but there’s also a doumbek, for example.

Without belaboring the pandemic point, would you say the songs on Smoke were written because of the pandemic? This is all work that was kind of inprocess. I’ve been working with and creating a whole body of work since 2015, and then curating from that body of work for what’s on the next album. All the tracks from Smoke were in process in 2020, 2021, and I just went ahead with [an online] release rather than waiting. I did release it online, but it hasn’t been performed live. At the time, I was shocked the world was shutting down. I had this pretty big life. I was a traveling yoga teacher heading to five different states every year; I was playing in a band—then all of a sudden it was just home, all day, every day. I think it was shock and pause. But I’m really starting to come more back into my musical self since having my child. On her first birthday, actually, I had my first gig in however long it was. I kind of stepped back into my professional life, and I was, like, carrying an accordion into a meadow on the Southside. It felt really good to...OK, I have this one identity as a person doing a lot, then I have this child and it’s like, ‘Holy, shit, I’m a mother now!’ Now I’m a mother and a musician and a teacher and a person, so I have to be a lot more intentional about how it all works.

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Moving Ever Forward

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

By the time Lone Piñon had warmed up at the recent opening for the New Mexico Museum of Art’s With the Grain exhibit, the crowd was feeling it. Shouts went up among the throngs while food and drink circulated in the courtyard just outside. It’s not particularly common for the museum to host a Saturday evening opening, but free from the shackles of the post-work week exhaustion, a party broke out. Even the earlier snow couldn’t deter the well-attended event—a love letter to the wood carvers of New Mexico as curated by the museum’s 20th century art expert, Christian Waguespack— and someplace between the Norteño string music, the emerging sunlight and the impressively large number of pieces on display, we found magic.

The new show features works from the New Mexico Museum of Art collection, plus loaner pieces from institutions such as the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art and the Museum of International Folk Art. It feels downright sprawling, and viewers can phase between items by historically significant artists like Patrocinio Barela (1900-1964), living treasures like Luis Tapia and legends like Sabinita López Ortiz. The styles and techniques on display are myriad and mind-boggling, but the one thing each piece seems to have in common is a reverence for the wood, sometimes but not always found, and its natural shapes and gnarls.

“This exhibition came from all sorts of different antecedents,” Waguespack explains a few days after the opening. “One of them

was just me wanting to do more work on getting the history of sculpture in New Mexico into the canon of what we all know and talk about. New Mexico contributed something completely unique and valuable to that to the narrative of American modern sculpture. “

New Mexico’s contributions to arts and Americana certainly do seem to go overlooked. We’re not the size or scope of New York City or Los Angeles, sure, but the artists from our state have proven time and time again they can keep up, they can set the tone. Our local art—past and in-progress—continues to be one of the most exciting things about the state, and Waguespack’s new show proves at least part of that point while re-contextualizing carving and wood with the proper respect.

“It’s already a little bit of an underserved medium, and in particular, sculptural works made by people of color in New Mexico have been made a part of a different historical narrative, so it was important to me for this exhibition to happen with our museum,” he explains. “So people [can begin] to see this work as modern contemporary art—not modern contemporary art with a caveat.”

Or, as Museum of Spanish Colonial Art curator Jana Gottshalk, whom Waguespack says was part of the initial idea for the show when she worked for the New Mexico Museum of Art, tells SFR, “We have such a great collection, so I’ll jump at the chance to get it on view.”

With the Grain’s opening also coincides with Waguespack’s new role at the museum, that of head of curatorial affairs—the big job. Waguespack takes the new position after longtime curator Merry Scully moved on to the director position at Cal State’s Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art in San Bernardino, California, last August. A son of Louisiana who came to New Mexico for degrees in art history and museum studies from the University of New Mexico and never left, Waguespack has been with the museum since 2017 and will stay on as the curator of 20th century art (he teaches museum stud-

ies at UNM, too). In a word, Waguespack is all about collaboration, and as the Vladem Contemporary satellite wing of the New Mexico Museum of Art nears completion on Guadalupe Street, he says, the future could be a lot of things, all of them promising.

This includes a search for a curator of contemporary art, currently in progress, as well as upcoming shows from photo curator Katherine Ware (a longtime SFR favorite). There still is no set date for Vladem’s opening, but the inaugural event is slated to feature works by some fairly huge names, including Erika Wannemacher, Agnes Martin and Cochiti multidisciplinary master Virgil Ortiz. That doesn’t mean the space won’t see traveling exhibitions, according to Waguespack, who adds there will also be a ton of free programming; street art near Vladem Contemporary; classes and other educational opportunities and lots more. It’s in-process. Be patient.

“It’ll be the same as we’ve always done, and there will always be a little bit of flexibility, but broad strokes, I’ll be working primarily with creating the exhibitions for the Plaza building and the curator of contemporary art will be responsible for creating a lot of the exhibitions for the Vladem,” he continues. “We recognize that we are one museum, and as the head of curatorial affairs, I’m responsible for working to guide that vision as a whole.”

If With the Grain is any indication, we’re in good hands.

With the Grain runs through Sept. 4.

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Hot off the Presses

BY JULIE ANN GRIMM editor@sfreporter.com

When Paul Bosland began his horticulture career more than 50 years ago, chile peppers had a much lower profile in the US culinary lexicon. These days, the demand for ever-hotter and more diverse varieties seems limitless.

Bosland’s work as former director of the Chile Pepper Institute and in the breeding and genetics research program at New Mexico State University played no small role in its ubiquity. Under his direction, the university released seeds for more than 30 pepper cultivars and the institute’s mission, “to educate the world about the wonders of chile” expanded to feature an annual teaching garden with guided tours for visitors. Now, his CV also includes an official cookbook.

A professor emeritus, Bosland has authored eight books about chile and signs his email missives with “hottest regards,” but The Official Cookbook of the Chile Pepper Institute (University of New Mexico Press, March 15, $24.95) is the first he’s tackled that’s aimed at the kitchen.

“The purpose of the book is to get people to try all these different things,” Bosland tells SFR. “You know that there are so many chiles around the world but…when I first started, what was exotic was a jalapeño. Then it became a habanero was very exotic, and now, you know, Turkish chiles or Hungarian chiles seem like mainstays. So, it’s really grown. It’s nice to see.”

The partnership with co-author Wendy Hamilton, also retired from the university, grew naturally.

“One of my hobbies has been all things landscaping and horticulture, and when I was a faculty member in the College of Ag and discovered the institute and all that it did, it piqued my interest,” Hamilton says. “And so we talked and talked about this, how there is the garden and how there’s the next step after you plant the chile garden: There’s learning in the kitchen.”

Bosland and Hamilton started the effort in earnest in 2018, but the pandemic— which resulted in the temporary closure of the teaching garden, among other disruptions—led to delays in publication. The result, however, is more than 200 pages of pepper education chock-full of opportunities to understand and experience the variety of aromas, flavors and heat levels of dozens of different peppers via more than 80 recipes.

NMSU horticulture experts heat up the kitchen with chile pepper recipes and garden inspiration

Skirt Steak with Chile Apple Relish

It’s an unusual combination, but when coffee and chile mingle with meat, the flavor is extraordinary. The relish adds an exclamation point!

• 1 tbsp. coffee (finely ground)

• 1 tbsp. ancho chile powder

• 2 tsps. kosher salt

• 1 1/2 tsps. brown sugar

• 1/4 lb. mild green chiles such as poblanos (deveined, deseeded, cut in half)

• 1 1/2-2 lbs. skirt steak

• 1/2 Granny Smith apple (quartered and cored)

• small yellow onion (cut into thick slices)

• 1 tbsp. vegetable oil

• salt and pepper

• 1/2 tsp. oregano leaves

• 1/2 tsp. lime juice

Pepper shapes might sound like descriptions of a spring fashion collection: pendant, broad-shouldered, slender and curved, conical or upright. Their origins span the globe, with peppers and recipes featured in the cookbook ranging from traditional Thai bird pepper sauces to ceviche with the Peruvian aji limon variety. Recipes include techniques for using peppers in a variety of forms: dried,

pickled, infused, roasted, frozen and fresh. Plus, the chapter on each pepper includes a mini lesson in history, geography and even economics (the US hot sauce market clocked $2.71 billion in retail sales in 2021 and that number is expected to grow to $4.38 billion by 2028.)

Not sure if you can find powdered anchos or fresh pepperoncinis when you want them?

Never fear, says Hamilton, not only do lots of grocers carry more pepper products than ever, but there’s also the fall harvest, and the next year or the one after...

“It’s available, so it’s not as hard as you think,” she says. “And now it’s also the time of year when everybody’s going through their seed catalogs, so the inspiration is there to start thinking about what they’re gonna plant in their kitchen garden. And then what recipes they’re going to make this summer, so it’s a cyclical thing.”

Hamilton says many of the recipes are personal favorites. She also collected recipes from friends, family, colleagues and students. We can attest to the tasty use of pepper flavors and heat in the two we tried and happily report we had no problem finding indgredients at El Paisano’s newest store at 4405 Airport Road.

Heat a grill to medium high (350°F to 450°F). In a small bowl, combine the coffee, chile powder, salt and brown sugar. Rub all over the steak and let it sit for at least 10 minutes. Combine the green chiles, apple and onion with the oil and season to taste with salt and pepper. Grill the steak, turning once (dry rub on the meat will be very dark), 8 to 10 minutes total for medium-rare. Meanwhile, place a piece of aluminum foil on the grill and lay the chiles, apple and onion on the foil and grill until lightly charred all over, 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer everything to a cutting board, tent the steak with foil, and let rest for 5 minutes. Next, chop the chiles, apple and onion and transfer to a medium bowl. Stir in the oregano and lime juice and season to taste with salt and pepper. Thinly slice the steak against the grain and top with chile apple relish.

The Chile Pepper Institute Teaching Garden on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces is open from June through November each year.

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SCREAM VI

Boston Strangler Review Power to the press or paint-by-numbers?

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

When last we checked in with Keira Knightley (which wasn’t recent; it’s not like we just follow her career all the time), she was starring in 2019’s Official Secrets, a sort of bland based-on-a-true-story journalism movie about the US’s nefarious intro to war in the Middle East circa 2003. Therein, she played a British government worker who leaked information to the press, and this time, Knightley’s on the other side of the fence in Boston Strangler, a movie about—get this—the Boston Strangler, a purported serial killer who terrorized women in Boston the 1960s and, later maybe, in Michigan.

In Strangler, Knightley plays real-life journo Loretta McLaughlin, who, along with also-real-life journalist Jean Cole (portrayed here by Gone Girl’s Carrie Coon), dug into the enigmatic and seemingly patterned killings that gripped the Massachusetts metropolis. Contending with everything from institutional misogyny, impatient husbands, ineffective cops and so forth, McLaughlin and Cole became part of the story themselves (sadly, in a “look at this dog that can stand on its hind legs!” sort of way at first) and made enemies of the police force, but ultimately did that kind of kick-ass journalism to which we all aspire.

7 + FUN AND WEIRDLY FUNNY - EVEN FOR SATIRE, SOMETIMES GETS SILLY-SERIOUS

Oh, good—the original Kevin Williamson/ Wes Craven Scream film is 27 years old. Great. Wonderful. That’s fun. But even as some of us struggle to contend with how we were pretty sure it just came out a minute ago, there’s no denying its indelible mark on horror cinema, its self-referential stab (#swish) at dissecting the genre’s tropes and repackaging them with sly nods and—spoiler alert for a nearly 30-year-old movie—more than one killer slashing their way through teens played by folks in their late-20s.

Jump to today, and the franchise now runs six deep while somehow staying fresh (or fresh adjacent). Scream VI is a hell of a good time.

In VI, we follow the so-called core four, survivors of 2022’s Scream (side note, why do we let filmmakers give later entries in a franchise the same title as earlier entries?) as they move from small town life in the fictional Woodsboro, California, to New York City for college. Their leader, so to speak, Samantha (Melissa Barrera), is still holding onto the things that happened to everybody last time (killings, et

Writer/director Matt Ruskin (Crown Heights) helms the historical drama, and though he does delve into the ways in which women were forced to fight for a place at the table, be it at work or in society, his main focus remains on the tenacity of his subjects. Without McLaughlin and Cole, we learn, the public might have been kept in the dark much longer, and though a known Boston scumbag confessed to the crimes, launching later-disgraced attorney F. Lee Bailey into the public sphere, Strangler contends that humanity’s need for comfort often supersedes our pursuit of truth. The bulk of the Boston Strangler murders remain unsolved to this day—and many question whether the confessor, Albert DeSalvo, truly was the guy. Ruskin posits that we much prefer tying a neat bow on things to accepting there is real and ongoing evil in the world.

Knightley cuts a sympathetic enough character in her performance as McLaughlin, and her obsession becomes our own. Coon wows, though, all tough shouting and dogged reporting. Boston Strangler even

al), plus she struggles with the whole thing where she’s the daughter of the original film’s big bad, Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich), and this means therapy.

Her sister (the increasingly adored Jenna Ortega) attends college, her pals do, too, and everyone tries to put the events of their hometown slayings to bed. Even Courteney Cox is there, reprising her role as unscrupulous newswoman Gale Weathers. Ruh-roh, though, because copycat types are still obsessed with the ’97 murders and those who survived, so the principal cast starts getting creepy phone calls again. More murders follow.

Look, no one is saying the Scream franchise is fine art or high-minded cinema, but what it lacks in pretentiousness or even seriousness is secondary to how hard it leans into exactly what it is. There are no growing pains here or identity issues. In fact, Scream VI has some of the best cinematography in the genre, an arresting score and solid performances from pretty much everybody. Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett know precisely what to do here, which is to get a bunch of young people running around terrified while a knife-wielding maniac takes them down one by one; all the while, the very movie itself

manages a few truly scary moments akin to David Fincher’s Zodiac, from which this one obviously takes more than a few cues. But rather than straying from the newspaper thriller formula set down by movies like All the President’s Men, Ruskin opts to paint by numbers. This is disappointing, even if the film’s final moments are cause for conversation. Regardless, one wonders why Ruskin’s film went straight to Hulu rather than a theater near you, particularly in its brilliant cinematography from Ozark alum Ben Kutchins. Some moments look almost like Renaissance paintings, but they can’t save a middling movie. Still, it’s fun to see McLaughlin and Cole fearlessly take on the cops and it’s fun to see Knightley run around being all tough and telling people to shut up and stuff. Dang, newspapers are cool.

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Directed by Ruskin

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winks knowingly at us, as if to say, “These films are fun, stop being so up your own ass about so-called cinema!”

Instead, find some of the more grounded yet shocking death scenes in recent movie memory, a hysterical appearance from Dermot Mulroney as a cop and Hayden Panettiere at the height of her powers in a genre-busting turn (no spoilers). Oh, they won’t win Oscars and this certainly won’t be the last Scream, but it is among the most fun yet in the series, even if series mainstays Neve Campbell and David Arquette bowed out ages ago. (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, R, 122 min.

STORMING CAESARS PALACE

8 + FASCINATING HISTORY - STUCK IN THE PAST DESPITE RELEVANCE AND LIVING PROTAGONIST

In 1971, a group of mothers led a march down the Las Vegas Strip and into Caesars Palace, shutting down gambling in the famed casino and taking on the biggest industry in Nevada.

The women relied on public assistance to feed their children. But the state, known for its libertarian politics and reliant on the labor of hospitality workers, was stingy with benefits and illegally kicked some mothers off the rolls amid

a wave of panic over so-called “welfare queens.”

In organizing other mothers to shut down the icon of American excess that is the Vegas Strip, Ruby Duncan and her allies—most of them Black women—not only put a spotlight on poverty, they challenged how Americans view people experiencing poverty.

The women featured in the new documentary Storming Caesars Palace weren’t asking for handouts. They were demanding Americans recognize the work that mothers perform by raising children as work that deserves respect as well as pay. Director Hazel Gurland-Pooler and producer Nazenet Habtezghi use recent interviews and spectacular archival footage, letting audiences hear from Duncan in her own words and transporting viewers to the frontlines of a movement that took on racism, the mob and a rising tide of Reaganism.

In real life, politics—and the slow work of organizing in particular—doesn’t always make for exciting movies, but the documentary brings to life an underappreciated piece of American history. And the voices featured in it resonate as America still grapples with income inequality and amid renewed interest in a guaranteed income, an idea Duncan and her allies were fighting for 50 years ago. (Andrew Oxford) PBS, NR, 86 min.

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by Matt Jones

49 Freelancer’s bill (abbr.)

50 Veer off course

52 “Pass”

53 Pro taking part in amateur events

56 October’s gemstone

57 Area of Manhattan near Soho

59 Moving news channel feature

61 Indie rock band ___ Kiley

62 “Star Wars” film series actor who has never won the award he shares his name with (or even been nominated)

66 Scandinavian capital

67 Spotless

68 Ronstadt of songdom

69 “America ___” (John Michael Higgins game show)

70 “Ghosts” network

71 Bad guy’s look DOWN 1

15 Dance that always gets some letters

18 Dashboard gauge

22 Experts on diamonds?

sat ___ tuffet”

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Rob Brezsny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If we were to choose one person to illustrate the symbolic power of astrology, it might be Aries financier and investment banker J. P. Morgan (1837–1913). His astrological chart strongly suggested he would be one of the richest people of his era. The sun, Mercury, Pluto, and Venus were in Aries in his astrological house of finances. Those four heavenly bodies were trine to Jupiter and Mars in Leo in the house of work. Further, sun, Mercury, Pluto, and Venus formed a virtuoso “Finger of God” aspect with Saturn in Scorpio and the moon in Virgo. Anyway, Aries, the financial omens for you right now aren’t as favorable as they always were for J. P. Morgan—but they are pretty auspicious. Venus, Uranus, and the north node of the moon are in your house of finances, to be joined for a bit by the moon itself in the coming days. My advice: Trust your intuition about money. Seek inspiration about your finances.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The only thing new in the world,” said former US President Harry Truman, “is the history you don’t know.” Luckily for all of us, researchers have been growing increasingly skilled in unearthing buried stories. Three examples: 1. Before the US Civil War, six Black Americans escaped slavery and became millionaires. (Check out the book Black Fortunes by Shomari Wills.) 2. Over 10,000 women secretly worked as code-breakers in World War II, shortening the war and saving many lives. 3. Four Black women mathematicians played a major role in NASA’s early efforts to launch people into space. Dear Taurus, I invite you to enjoy this kind of work in the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to dig up the history you don’t know—about yourself, your family, and the important figures in your life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Since you’re at the height of the Party Hearty Season, I’ll offer two bits of advice about how to collect the greatest benefits. First, ex-basketball star Dennis Rodman says that mental preparation is the key to effective partying. He suggests we visualize the pleasurable events we want to experience. We should meditate on how much alcohol and drugs we will imbibe, how uninhibited we’ll allow ourselves to be, and how close we can get to vomiting from intoxication without actually vomiting. But wait! Here’s an alternative approach to partying, adapted from Sufi poet Rumi: “The golden hour has secrets to reveal. Be alert for merriment. Be greedy for glee. With your antic companions, explore the frontiers of conviviality. Go in quest of jubilation’s mysterious blessings. Be bold. Revere revelry.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you have been holding yourself back or keeping your expectations low, please STOP! According to my analysis, you have a mandate to unleash your full glory and your highest competence. I invite you to choose as your motto whichever of the following inspires you most: raise the bar, up your game, boost your standards, pump up the volume, vault to a higher octave, climb to the next rung on the ladder, make the quantum leap, and put your ass and assets on the line.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to an ad I saw for a luxury automobile, you should enjoy the following adventures in the course of your lifetime: Ride the rapids on the Snake River in Idaho, stand on the Great Wall of China, see an opera at La Scala in Milan, watch the sun rise over the ruins of Machu Picchu, go paragliding over Japan’s Asagiri highland plateau with Mount Fuji in view, and visit the pink flamingos, black bulls, and white horses in France’s Camargue Nature Reserve. The coming weeks would be a favorable time for you to seek experiences like those, Leo. If that’s not possible, do the next best things. Like what? Get your mind blown and your heart thrilled closer to home by a holy sanctuary, natural wonder, marvelous work of art—or all the above.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s an excellent time to shed the dull, draining parts of your life story. I urge you to bid a crisp goodbye to your burdensome memories. If there

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are pesky ghosts hanging around from the ancient past, buy them a one-way ticket to a place far away from you. It’s OK to feel poignant. OK to entertain any sadness and regret that well up within you. Allowing yourself to fully experience these feelings will help you be as bold and decisive as you need to be to graduate from the old days and old ways.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your higher self has authorized you to become impatient with the evolution of togetherness. You have God’s permission to feel a modicum of dissatisfaction with your collaborative ventures—and wish they might be richer and more captivating than they are now. Here’s the cosmic plan: This creative irritation will motivate you to implement enhancements. You will take imaginative action to boost the energy and synergy of your alliances. Hungry for more engaging intimacy, you will do what’s required to foster greater closeness and mutual empathy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Richard Jackson writes, “The world is a nest of absences. Every once in a while, someone comes along to fill the gaps.” I will add a crucial caveat to his statement: No one person can fill all the gaps. At best, a beloved ally may fill one or two. It’s just not possible for anyone to be a shining savior who fixes every single absence. If we delusionally believe there is such a hero, we will distort or miss the partial grace they can actually provide. So here’s my advice, Scorpio: Celebrate and reward a redeemer who has the power to fill one or two of your gaps.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet E. E. Cummings wrote, “May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple.” That’s what I hope and predict for you during the next three weeks. The astrological omens suggest you will be at the height of your powers of playful exploration. Several long-term rhythms are converging to make you extra flexible and resilient and creative as you seek the resources and influences that your soul delights in. Here’s your secret code phrase: higher love.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s hypothesize that there are two ways to further your relaxation: either in healthy or not-so-healthy ways—by seeking experiences that promote your long-term well-being or by indulging in temporary fixes that sap your vitality. I will ask you to meditate on this question. Then I will encourage you to spend the next three weeks avoiding and shedding any relaxation strategies that diminish you as you focus on and celebrate the relaxation methods that uplift, inspire, and motivate you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Please don’t expect people to guess what you need. Don’t assume they have telepathic powers that enable them to tune in to your thoughts and feelings. Instead, be specific and straightforward as you precisely name your desires. For example, say or write to an intense ally, “I want to explore ticklish areas with you between 7 and 9 on Friday night.” Or approach a person with whom you need to forge a compromise and spell out the circumstances under which you will feel most open-minded and open-hearted.

PS: Don’t you dare hide your truth or lie about what you consider meaningful.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean writer Jack Kerouac feared he had meager power to capture the wonderful things that came his way. He compared his frustration with “finding a river of gold when I haven’t even got a cup to save a cupful. All I’ve got is a thimble.” Most of us have felt that way. That’s the bad news. The good news, Pisces, is that in the coming weeks, you will have extra skill at gathering in the goodness and blessings flowing in your vicinity. I suspect you will have the equivalent of three buckets to collect the liquid gold.

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