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Where Will the Water Come From?

One of Santa Fe’s most common questions could find an answer with a proposed return flow pipeline

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7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 GUILTY VERDICT 11 Jury convicts teen who shot Santa Fe basketball standout “JB” White on first-degree murder, other charges SWELLING FIRE LINES 13 The long-raging Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon blaze is now the largest in New Mexico history COVER STORY 14 WHERE WILL THE WATER COME FROM? One of Santa Fe’s most common questions could find an answer with a proposed return flow pipeline THE INTERFACE 9

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What the company describes as “resilient building science” grew out Stanford’s work over the last decade. He also founded the design firm NEEDBASED and was one of the first generation of Passivhaus consultants trained in North America in 2009.

Passive House, or Passivhaus, is a certified building system with stringent global efficiency standards. Stanford’s focus over the last five years was in developing the panelized system to be built off-site and delivered to a building site and assembled quickly—days versus months.

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etween 2014 and 2020, the running five-year average annual number of structures destroyed by wildfires rose from 2,873 to 12,255—a fourfold increase in just six years.

This sobering statistic appears in a January report from the federal government, produced by the US Agriculture Department and Forest Service.

“Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Strategy for Protecting Communities and Improving Resilience in America’s Forests” details some of the devastating impacts from recent wildfires to both human life and structures.

Those stats include the fallout from the 2021 Dixie Fire in California, which burned nearly 1 million acres, killed one person and destroyed 1,329 structures. Colorado’s Marshall Fire wasn’t included in the report, but Boulder County estimates in January said that fire had consumed more than 1,000 structures.

B.PUBLIC Prefab co-founder and CEO Edie Dillman wasn’t necessarily envisioning a roster of clients whose homes had been lost to wildfire when she launched her company in January 2020 after a year of business planning with partners Jonah Stanford—to whom Dillman is married— and Charlotte Lagarde, who serve as the company’s CTO and COO, respectively.

Dillman was, however, thinking about climate change.

B.PUBLIC provides panelized construction systems: standardized and prefabricated walls, floors and roofs, designed for low-energy use and high performance. The company describes the product as being “LEGO-like”—a tool architects and designers can use and customize—with 80% energy savings, 90% less construction waste,

30% faster construction and 90% carbon positive materials.

Dillman says the company initially identified New Mexico, as well as Northern California, Colorado, Utah and Arizona, as “big growth markets with really challenging…climate conditions to achieve a low energy, very comfortable house.”

Building for victims of wildfire wasn’t part of the company’s business plan, but those clients found them.

“A lot of our clients are climate-change refugees,” lead architect JD Scott says (others, he adds, are just “wanting to build a new house and wanting to do something really innovative”). Prior to joining B.PUBLIC, Scott had worked as an architect for AOS Architects in Santa Fe, as well as in the nonprofit affordable housing sphere. But he says he reached the point where “I wanted to focus exclusively on sustainability. I wanted to work for a company that really doesn’t compromise when it comes to high performance and sustainability.”

Several of B.PUBLIC’s first projects were for clients in Santa Cruz, California who lost their homes to the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties, which ultimately burned more than 86,000 acres and demolished close to 1,500 structures. The company also has been talking with homeowners impacted by the Marshall Fire.

Dillman reflects that people who have lost homes in which they’ve lived for generations often will “find it hard to face” rebuilding, while those in more recently purchased or remodeled homes jump into doing so more readily. As for B.PUBLIC’s clients who have lost homes, she says, they “have a different measure, or value judgment on how they want to rebuild. Once you’ve lost in such devastation, you’re aware of the investment of homes and wanting to do better…I think a lot of that is people wanting to be fire hardened… they have also seen the impact and felt the impact of” fire on materials B.PUBLIC doesn’t use, such as foam.

We’re talking to people who really just want to build better. And this is one way to get there.

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B.PUBLIC Prefab co-founder and CEO Edie Dillman pictured in front of plans depicting homes whose stated benefits include healthy air, low energy and efficient systems.

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Stanford says his work prior to co-founding B.PUBLIC contained “a lot of lessons learned,” chiefly related to “the natural durability that products have when they’re used in appropriate settings… a lot of that knowledge and experience definitely comes over into understanding of building science.”

I visited B.PUBLIC during an open studio event April 22, aka Earth Day, aka the day New Mexico had an unprecedented wind event that sparked numerous fires, including the complex Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, which recently became the largest fire in New Mexico’s history and has spurred thousands of evacuations. Full structure assessment remains in the offing, but already hundreds of homes have been lost, officials say.

The howling wind in the courtyard as B.PUBLIC’s co-founders and employees showed visitors models of their panelized system made it slightly difficult to hear and at one point I put on my ubiquitous COVID mask just to keep dirt from flying into my mouth. On my way home, my phone pinged with an alert warning residents to avoid driving. The climate change future, it seems, has arrived.

When I caught up with Dillman postevent, by phone, the realities of climate change and wildfire remained front and center with high winds, multiple days of red flag warnings and pyrocumulus fire clouds that had begun to appear each day in the sky.

I wondered about the accessibility of B.PUBLIC’s services. Specifically, according to the interview transcript, I said: “I’m envisioning this future where rich people are in passive houses and the rest of us are in sweat boxes.”

Dillman replied that avoiding that outcome is why B.PUBLIC is a public benefit corporation—companies created for social purpose. In the case of B.PUBLIC, that purpose is “providing communities with building systems that prioritize sustainability, reduced carbon footprint, and resilience for equitable development.”

To that end, Dillman says, B.PUBLIC doesn’t take money from venture capitalists, only impact investors.

“There is potentially…this Us and Them philosophy,” she says, in part because of the limited number of people who are trained to do passive house “and how many people know about it and can achieve it. It has been stuck in that way. And we’re really trying to break that down. We’re not talking only to Passive House clients. We’re talking to people who really just want to build better. And this is one way to get there.”

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The long-raging Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon blaze is now the largest in New Mexico history B Y S F R S TA F F t i p s @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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he Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire rampaging through Northern New Mexico crossed a record-keeping boundary this week as its measured acreage now makes it the largest fire in state history.

As of presstime, the US Forest Service mapped the fire at 299,565 acres and about 26% containment, with most of the secured line on the fire’s eastern edge. The Whitewater/Baldy Complex fire in 2012 burned 297,845 acres near Silver City.

This year’s mega-blaze, which began April 6 as a prescribed burn near Las Vegas, NM, will continue to grow over the coming weeks, as it is largely burning in dense timber. Three incident management teams have now divided the firefighting command into north, central and south zones. While the fastest recent movement has swept toward the north, the fire’s southwest flank also made a run over the weekend and sent the communities near Pecos into “set” evacuation status. (For real-time evacuation maps and the “ready/set/go” status, use the QR code printed under to the map.)

As the blaze threatened to spill into the Pecos River Valley—and closer to Santa Fe— Ken Watkins, operations section chief for the south zone, said Tuesday he doesn’t anticipate that kind of spread in the next few days based on the on-the-ground evidence and experience of fire crews, but noted, “I’d like everyone to be prepared for that.”

Firefighters are working to establish a containment line on the western edge and have established “management action points” across the region to monitor the fire’s movement as it approaches the Pecos Valley, and to provide warning for evacuation-status changes.

While residents near Las Vegas and toward Mora have been allowed to return home, many of their homes are no longer standing. Each affected county is assessing structure loss, but according to the governor’s office, 364 structures have been officially confirmed as destroyed.

County sheriffs bear the brunt of notifying residents of evacuation and maintaining roadblocks to keep fire areas clear. On Sunday night, Taos County added evacuation levels as

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well, including “go” or mandatory evacuation status for Angostura, Rock Wall, Las Mochas and Sipapu.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency began work in the state after President Joe Biden issued a formal declaration of disaster. As of Tuesday evening, 446 households had been approved for over $612,000 in the five counties under the disaster declaration and more than 2,000 people had registered for assistance.

Santa Fe County planned a community meeting Wednesday night to help residents prepare for the worst. It’s at 5:30 pm at the Pojoaque Fire Station and also will stream on the county’s YouTube page.

Meanwhile, summer just lost a little more luster for the region as the Santa Fe National Forest, Carson National Forest, and parts of Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands closed to recreation effective May 19. The Bureau of Land Management revoked permits to boat on the Rio Chama for this month.

To the east of Santa Fe, the Cerro Pelado Fire that had swept smoke off the Jemez Mountains for weeks has died down. As of presstime, it was 71% contained and had burned 45,605 acres. Los Alamos National Laboratory and Los Alamos County have returned to the “ready” stage. However, fire officials note that historically dry conditions and higher winds expected later in the week are still cause for concern and ask residents to remain vigilant.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell and other officials reviewed the work underway Tuesday to help people impacted by the Hermits Peak/ Calf Canyon Fire through federal assistance.

Criswell said FEMA has 350 employees “on the ground” in the state to help with those efforts.

Both Lujan Grisham and Criswell emphasized the fire will require a long recovery. The governor also noted FEMA’s presence in the state puts New Mexico “in the best possible position where we’re all competing for resources during fire season in the United States to make sure that we’re also adequately supported to fight fires around the state through fire season.”

Fire season, she added, doesn’t officially start until June 23.

Criswell encouraged all residents in the counties covered under the presidential declaration—Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, San Miguel and Valencia—to contact FEMA and begin applying for assistance, but also said the agency will have teams on the ground doing outreach.

“I want to make sure you know FEMA will be here with you through every step of that recovery process,” Criswell told the governor.

Senior Correspondent Julia Goldberg, Staff Writer William Melhado and Editor Julie Ann Grimm contributed to this report.

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Santa Fe County jury has found Estevan Montoya guilty of first-degree murder, ending a two-week trial for Montoya, who was 16 when he shot and killed local basketball standout Fedonta “JB” White at a high school party in August of 2020.

After hearing testimony from dozens of witnesses, including partygoers who saw Montoya fire the gun, investigators and pathology experts, the jury deliberated for roughly four hours on Tuesday. The panel convicted Montoya on all four charges— first-degree murder, tampering with evidence, unlawful carrying of a handgun by a person under age 19 and negligent use of a deadly weapon.

The verdict brings an end to the high-profile case involving a minor, charged as an adult, and one of the brightest hoops prospects to come out of Santa Fe in a generation.

White, who garnered the attention of scouts from some of the biggest basketball programs in the country before he decided to graduate from Santa Fe High School early and play for the University of New Mexico Lobos, was 18 when he died.

Montoya is facing up to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 30 years. State District Court Judge T. Glenn Ellington has not yet set a sentencing date.

Jude Voss, the grandmother who raised White, was emotional outside the courthouse after the judge read the verdict.

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Estevan Montoya reacts to his first-degree murder conviction after the jury is dismissed from the courtroom on Tuesday.

justice and just very happy that the truth came out,” Voss said. “I knew that my son wasn’t an aggressive, mean person. I had to live the last year and a half just worried that we weren’t going to get justice.”

White’s family has since started the JB White Foundation in an effort to bring awareness to “senseless gun violence.”

“We’re all very relieved and all very happy that Estevan is put away and hopefully this will make him become a better person,” said Chantel Esquibel, White’s sister. “I do feel like justice was served, but, of course, no amount of justice can ever bring June Bug back.”

For more than a year, Montoya and his attorneys have argued that he shot White in self defense at the home in Chupadero, where an estimated 50 to 150 youths showed up for what was supposed to be an ordinary high school party—unsupervised and with

alcohol. The trial reached a climax Monday when Montoya took the stand, speaking publicly for the first time since he was arrested just hours after the shooting.

His version of the incident remained the same: He was running away from White and, in fear for his safety, shot White once with a .380 caliber pistol. He stayed consistent when testifying to the jury Monday.

“The only option I had was the gun,” Montoya said.

The trial featured testimony about the various arguments that broke out the night White died, including an altercation outside the home between two of Montoya’s friends.

Multiple witnesses said White told the group involved in a drunken quarrel to shut one of the teenagers up, at which point Montoya confronted White.

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now-18-year-old testified that he was instead trying to de-escalate the situation As arguments erupted at the alcohol-fueled party, Montoya testified that he told White to “mind your own business.”

“He didn’t even let me finish what I was saying when he was already lunging off the porch, throwing [a] power punch,” Montoya said. “I remember when he threw the punch…I could feel, I could see the strength, the force, his speed that he had.”

Montoya said he was scared, so he took off running and could feel White closing in.

With nowhere to go, he testified, he took the gun out of his waistband and fired one shot around his shoulder. He then hopped a fence, ran down the driveway and fired one more shot into the air, he claims, because he thought he was still being chased.

At 6 feet, 4 inches, White’s stature and physical condition emerged as a focus of the defense throughout the trial. Chief Deputy District Attorney Blake Nichols in his closing argument told jurors he was tired of hearing Montoya’s attorneys “make this case about JB White.”

“Let’s assume…that JB was swinging. Who cares? It doesn’t give this man the right to murder,” Nichols said, pointing at Montoya.

The state had to prove that the killing was willful, deliberate and premeditated; or that Montoya was acting under a depraved mind with no regard for human life. Nichols showed the jury a photograph of the scene that had stickers on it, placed by witnesses, indicating where the crowd of people was standing when Montoya fired the gun—they surrounded the location where White fell to the ground.

“If you want to talk about outrageously reckless conduct, indicating a depraved mind and lack of concern for other people’s lives, it’s right here, folks,” Nichols said. “Any one of these young people could have been killed.

It would not have made it any less tragic and it wouldn’t have made him any less guilty.”

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One of Santa Fe’s most common questions could find an answer with a proposed return flow pipeline

vation and planning efforts, found the energy to launch another significant project to take full advantage of its San Juan-Chama water, after completing an expensive diversion project to pipe the Rio Grande into city homes just over a decade ago.

As it stands on paper, the San Juan-Chama

Communities on the Santa Fe River, downstream from the city—and the wastewater treatment facility—rely on the effluent for agriculture and sustaining ecosystems. Many balk at the idea that a water source, which has been depleted over time, would be further endangered by the project. That leaves them questioning the need for the pipeline.

Like the City of Santa Fe, those communities are feeling the intersecting pressures of climate change and drought on their livelihood.

Return Flow Pipeline would divert the city’s effluent back to the Rio Grande, enabling the Buckman Direct Diversion to extract an equivalent volume for later use. Still in the planning phase, the project faces several hurdles—and significant disagreement over its design.

The southern reaches of the upper Colorado River Basin supply the San JuanChama Project. They’ll probably see the largest impacts of the pipeline project, says Brad Udall, a senior water and climate research scientist with Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Institute.

According to his preliminary research, since 2000, the basin as a whole has seen a flow reduction of roughly 20%, but the San Juan River has dropped 30%.

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A less visible, yet similarly immediate threat lies beneath the surface of the Oso Diversion Dam, 10 minutes up a dirt road parallel to the Navajo River. That’s where some of Santa Fe’s water comes from, diverted through pipes, across the border and, eventually, winding up in the Rio Grande.

Water in the tributaries of the Colorado River Basin travels up to 28 miles, through a series of tunnels before reaching the Azotea Outlet, where it flows down Willow Creek into Heron Reservoir.

Together, the city and county of Santa Fe annually purchase 5,605 acre-feet of this San Juan-Chama Project water, but given the recently diminishing flows it’s been a number of years since Santa Fe actually received the agreed-upon amount.

Six of the past eight years have seen shortages in San Juan-Chama water New Mexico can use, ranging from 96% of the original allocation one year to 66%, which comes to 3,700 acre-feet for the city and county, in 2021.

Those shortages, driven by the ruinous tangle of drought and climate change, are a harbinger of what’s likely to come.

The reduced flows have prompted municipalities across the Southwest to react, some more aggressively than others. Santa Fe, largely seen as a leader in water conser-

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“Those deserts just to the south of the San Juan Mountains are going to move north and they’re going to move north because the storms that might historically carry precipitation to that area will go north,” Udall tells SFR. Udall has studied the impact of reduced precipitation on expanding deserts, which result in drier soils that further reduce flows.

In self-reinforcing cycles, drier soils also create more dust, which falls on snow and more readily absorbs the sun’s heat. The dust on snow speeds up melting and leads to earlier runoffs, which results in less water available during the summer months.

Human activity, Udall notes, is the primary culprit for the Colorado River Basin’s flow reductions.

“Clearly at least half of the flow reduction is due to humans and maybe even more,” Udall says. “We don’t have the scientific muscle to determine if the whole flow decline is due to humans.”

The West’s uncertain water future makes David Gutzler anxious. The professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of New Mexico says the ongoing drought, compounded by the aridification of climate change, means the region will experience more shortages—to what extent is murky, Gutzler says.

The current water shortage spans the last two decades, which have marked the driest period in the last 1,200 years, leaving the majority of New Mexico gripped in extreme or exceptional drought conditions.

Based on the tree ring record, which maps the scope and length of past droughts, Gutzler’s confident in one thing: “Horrible droughts have happened and they’ve all ended. This one will end but I don’t expect us to, sort of, return to what people would regard as normal conditions.”

To contend with the uncertainty, municipalities have crafted solutions to strengthen their water futures.

Eleven years ago, the Santa Fe city and county governments unveiled the Buckman Direct Diversion, a $225 million facility that pipes water from the Rio Grande to homes and businesses across the region, treating up to 8,730 acre-feet per year.

The BDD, as it’s colloquially known, presented a new way for officials to take advantage of allocations from the 1922 Colorado River Compact, which guaranteed water rights to seven states in the river’s basin. For beneficiaries like Santa Fe and Albuquerque, hundreds of miles from the Colorado River, accessing those water rights proved difficult.

A half century later, the San Juan-Chama project, a series of diversions and tunnels connecting tributaries of the Colorado River to the Rio Grande, provided direct access.

For inhabitants along the Rio Grande, the

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-David Gutzler, professor of earth and planetary sciences, UNM water flowed easily after that. But for the City of Santa Fe, roughly 12 miles away from the river, it wasn’t until a pipeline was constructed that direct access was possible.

Rick Carpenter, the BDD facilities manager, tells SFR before the 2011 pipeline, the city and county pumped groundwater from the Buckman Well Field as a way of indirectly accessing their allocated San Juan-Chama water.

That practice depleted the wells, and the Rio Grande didn’t adequately recharge them.

The BDD project—which supplied 56% of Santa Fe’s water in 2021—shifted how much groundwater came from the Buckman wells.

Carpenter says those wells have since recovered from that overreliance.

Rick Carpenter (top) and Bernardine Padilla, a spokeswoman for the BDD, inspect the extensive water treatment process at the Buckman Direct Diversion, which processes 12 million gallons per day during the summer, when water use is higher.

The BDD facility can process 15 million gallons per day; if operated year round at this volume the facility would process almost double the 8,730 acre-feet diverted from the Rio Grande. If the pipeline moves forward and more water is pulled from the Rio Grande using the return credits, Carpenter says his facility will easily be able to handle the increase.

“The challenge, of course, is that by increasing our reliance on Colorado River water, we necessarily also increase our vulnerability to shortages in the Colorado River system,” counters Gutzler.

Jesse Roach, the city’s Water Division director, is intimately familiar with the conundrum. Before joining the city Roach helped write the 2015 Santa Fe Basin Study, which assessed the impact of climate change on Santa Fe’s water supply and found that, when paired with the uncertainty of growth in the city, potential shortages could range from 3 to 15 acre-feet per year by 2070.

Even with the BDD, the wells and the reservoirs on the Santa Fe River contributing to the water supply, those predicted shortages persist and are the reason officials cite for the project’s necessity.

In summarizing Santa Fe’s water legacy, officials often point to one statistic: Since 1995 the population of Santa Fe County has increased by 25%, but the total amount of water consumed has decreased by 33%. They say their conservation efforts have paid off.

Mayor Alan Webber attributes those efforts to decisive action from previous leaders, “whether it was in the pricing of water in order to encourage outstanding efforts of

water conservation, or the Buckman Direct Diversion, in order to come up with another water source,” he tells SFR. “There are no other sources of water and so it makes great sense for us to get ahead of the curve before we’re in this 2030 situation where we have to turn off the taps or ration water,” says Marcos Martinez, a senior assistant city attorney for Santa Fe. The 2030 scenario comes from the basin study, which concluded that shortages could occur within the next decade if no actions are taken to strengthen the supply.

From a legal perspective, the water the city hopes to divert from the wastewater facility back to the Rio Grande comes from the San Juan-Chama Project. That imported water is fully consumable, according to the details of a 1976 interstate agreement. That means every acre-foot of water the city returns to the Rio Grande could be eligible for an equal acrefoot return flow credit.

The pipeline’s advance hinges on approval from the Office of the State Engineer, which could take anywhere from six months to two years, depending on whether a protest against the city’s application is filed.

Also pending is the Bureau of Reclamation’s evaluation of the project, which will culminate in either an “environmental assessment,” or a more rigorous “environment impact statement.”

“We have evaluated the project proposal and right now with the information we have, we have determined it is at the level of an Environmental Assessment,” writes Mary Carlson, a spokeswoman for the bureau’s regional office.

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The Oso Diversion Dam, along the Navajo River in southern Colorado, is one of the three diversions that directs Colorado River water to the Rio Grande as part of the 1976 San Juan-Chama Project.

Prior to the last decade, the San Juan-Chama project fully allocated the city and county of Santa Fe’s annual 5,605 acre-feet of water, but since 2014 water shortages have forced decreases in that allotment.

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to assess more data to determine whether the proposal rises to the level of an environmental impact statement. That decision, Carlson writes, is based on “the potential impact to resources from the project proposal, which consists of infrastructure that needs to be constructed and changes to water flows.”

The draft environmental assessment was slated to be released this February, but hold-ups at the federal level have slowed down the process. Carlson projects the document, which the public can review and comment on, will be released late this summer.

For Tricia Snyder, a Rio Grande campaigner with the nonprofit WildEarth Guardians, the effluent’s quality and the impact it would have on the Rio Grande is among the environmental concerns.

Snyder and a number of downstream residents expressed concerns over the quality of the effluent coming from the Paseo Real treatment facility, which Snyder says could be an issue in the context of reduced flows on the Rio Grande.

“If you’re putting wastewater that is not up to water-quality standards in a lower river, you’re creating more of a water-quality issue than you would if there was more water in the river,” Snyder says.

She also points to impacts on nonhuman communities and their ecosystems.

Roach says the Paseo Real facility treats wastewater according to state and federal standards necessary to discharge into the Santa Fe River. He adds that the volume of effluent diverted to the Rio Grande would come to 1% of the total flow even when the river is low, “so it’s getting hugely diluted.”

Another downstream user, Darrin Muenzberg, says anything less than an environmental impact statement won’t do justice to the potential impacts the diversion would have on the communities downstream from Santa Fe. “That limits the public comment period

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Muenzberg’s family has lived in La Bajada for almost 300 years. He says the community served as Santa Fe’s “bread basket” for centuries.

“Never has our dependence on the river…, being the center of our lives, our spiritual lives, economic livelihood, agricultural lives, never has that been a detrimental dependence on the wastewater treatment plant until Santa Fe starts expanding and growing and interfering with the course of that natural stream,” Muenzberg tells SFR. He adds that the water rights allocated to the city early in the 18th century might predate those granted to downstream communities such as La Bajada, La Cienega and La Cieneguilla, but it was allocated based on the population of Santa Fe at the time.

Webber doesn’t discount the inherent prioritization of urban water users over more rural communities downstream.

“We have a responsibility to the people who live in Santa Fe to make sure that their water future is safe and secure. At the same time, we want to be good neighbors,” he says.

Pointing to the return flow project, and its controversy, Webber acknowledges the urgency of water scarcity in the Southwest and the need to focus on conservation efforts.

As the city prepares to move forward with the planning and design of the pipeline, advocates ask for careful consideration.

Gov. Phillip Quintana of the Pueblo of Cochiti tells SFR he owes it to future children to protect the land which spans the Rio Grande, where the effluent would be discharged. He holds that the proposed diversion is detrimental to all the downstream users, including the landscape around the Santa Fe River, which possesses a living significance to the pueblo.

“We’re trying to show that we are doing our best to take care of the land,” Quintana says.

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Jayson Romero, the natural resources di- wastewater treatment facility. Also below rector with the Pueblo of Cochiti, says water the facility are beaver dams that are “able to from the Santa Fe River makes it to the Rio block it completely—and for it to get to us, Grande, and “if [the pipeline] is implement- we’re probably about six, seven miles down ed, our ways of life, just, they disappear.” the stream as the crow flies, and then plus “Our words have not been taken into con- evapotranspiration from the riparian area, a sideration, it is what it is, the project is still lot of it’s lost,” Gallegos tells SFR. moving forward. There is no tribal consultaStanding beside the stream next to his tion that the city has in place,” says Romero. property, with a healthy flow in early May Quintana views the lack of consultation supplied by the Santa Fe River effluent, from the city similarly.

Gallegos mulls the ditch’s future if the pipe“They know that we’ll be in opposition line reduces discharge by up to 50%. How will of it, see? And it will slow down their efforts, he and his neighbors sustain their traditional see?” Quintana says, referring to the city. agricultural practices with further dimin“They don’t put us in the equation or they ished water levels? don’t put us in the consultation because they Prior to the drying of the Santa Fe River, know we’ll say, ‘No.’” downstream residents received pristine runA coalition representing stakeholders, or- off from the mountains, Gallegos says, but as ganizations and community members down- the city grew, it required more water from the Alonzo Gallegos stands near the ditch that pulls water from the Santa Fe River to grow grain for his stream addressed a letter to Webber and city Santa Fe watershed. This prompted the city sheep. He says the reduction in flow from the proposed pipeline would further pressure his ability to councilors requesting sufficient public input to acquire a discharge permit to release efsustain his agricultural practices. ahead of the planning process. fluent at the wastewater plant, which became The pipeline coalition hopes to assess the source of downstream user’s water. how much of the water from the wastewater “We became dependent on that effluent sits at $35 million, could go up as the cost of hundreds of feet higher in elevation than the materials increases with inflation.

Rio Grande, so the pipeline could be used to treatment facility flows down the Santa Fe ever since,” Gallegos says.

At the Reclamation Bureau’s recommen- produce hydroelectricity.)

River and returns to the Rio Grande now. The Gallegos’ property does not fall within the Daniel Werwath, executive director of the water that travels back to the river, the coa- 100 acres of agricultural land on the Santa dation, the city received $6 million in federal Santa Fe Community Housing Trust, says grant funding by participating in the Water lition supposes, could be prospective return Fe River that the city is required to supply, the debate around housing and water isn’t Reclamation and Reuse Program.

The reflow credits to take more water from the Rio but he depends on that water to support his maining four fifths to fund the pipeline could nuanced. He explains the crippling need for Grande. livelihood. more homes in Santa Fe is complicated by Roach penned a memo last August, outThe City’s Water Division estimates the come from the city Water Division’s coffers.

June 2020 figures from the city’s most the reality that not all users consume equal lining why that plan wouldn’t work, claim- cost of the pipeline project, which currently recent audit show the division has amounts of water. ing there are multiple reasons Werwath points to the loud protests over $55.4 million in cash reserves and unconsumed San Juan-Chama $42.5 million in outstanding debt. the construction of apartment complexes, water from the lower Santa Fe Along with several other capital “while quietly, mansions are built that gobble River could not be leveraged for projects, including dam rebuilds for tons of water.” He notes that the substantial increased diversions at the BDD. McClure and Nichols reservoirs, resources used to water gardens in the sumThose include the barriers between the return flow project is expected mer months doesn’t receive the same staunch the Santa Fe River and the Rio to decrease cash reserves and in- opposition many have to multi-unit developGrande, which include the Cochiti crease debt. ments that can be built more efficiently.

Dam and agricultural diversions, “Saying water is the reason we can’t build and hydrological losses, namely The scarcity of water in regions affordable housing…it’s just a maddening seepage and evaporation. like the Southwest leads to drier conversation to be involved in,” Werwath Alonzo Gallegos is already fasoils and vegetables, which results tells SFR. miliar with the impacts of water in a more intense wildfire season.

Back downstream on the Santa Fe River, shortage.

Taken together, the two threats where development and affordable housGallegos, the chairman of reflect another water-related con- ing seem like distant issues compared to the the La Bajada Community Ditch sequence specific to Santa Fe: avail- dwindling ditches that sustain Quintana and and Mutual Domestic Water ability of housing. his neighbors, he expresses the same anxious Association, remembers when he Developers looking to build uncertainty over the region’s water future as irrigated an organic farm of more in Santa Fe must bring the water Gutzler, the UNM climate scientist. than 40 acres, providing vegetables rights based on the dimensions of Like the city, these downstream residents to restaurants and farmers markets the new residences. This require- are aware of the coming impacts of sustained across New Mexico. ment finds builders purchasing drought and climate change. And like the city, But that changed in 2004, water rights along the Rio Grande, they are trying to prepare for what’s to come.

Gallegos says, when reduced flows often from farmers, which allow the Quintana says there’s a misconception in the Santa Fe River forced him city to extract more water from the of what he is trying to achieve by advocating to largely abandon his commerriver at the BDD. for the Santa Fe River. His goal is “to protect cial farming operation and switch Roach says the return flow pipeour waters, our lands and we need everybody to growing grain, which requires line would enable the city to stop to be on board with that…We’re still trying to less water and can supply a flock of this practice and instead give de- make it flow.” roughly 50 sheep he now keeps on Cochiti Gov. Phillip Quintana stands over a pipe that should be velopers a chance to invest in the his La Bajada property. flowing with water into the Santa Fe River. He worries about the project and obtain credits for more Gallegos attributes water scarThis story was produced with support from impact reductions will have on wildlife downstream of the wasteunits. (He also notes that the wastewater treatment facility. city to the reduced flow from the The Water Desk’s New Mexico and Rio Grande water treatment facility stands Journalism Project.

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Out in the Open Painter Will Bruno shows off the new stuff at Smoke the Moon Abiquiu-based artist Will Bruno doesn’t start his oil paintings with a specific plan in mind. After years spent working in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, then Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, he’s learned to let the works sort of channel through him while he explores the great outdoors. During the pandemic, however, when he was relatively new to New Mexico, semi-isolated and digging deeper into a love of experimental comics, a convergence occurred, and now Bruno is prepared to showcase more than 20 works created roughly over the last six months.

“I approach each canvass without having a pre-conceived notion,” Bruno explains, “which makes the process exciting, fun, revelatory. A lot of my work ends up being about the environment I’m living in, and in moving to this area, I took an interest in studying histories; when I moved to California from the Northwest, my color palette became wider and more pastel-y with the light change, and when I moved out here, it changed accordingly with the region.”

The results are stunning. Yes, these are New Mexico landscapes and identifiable as such, but there’s more going on than meets the eye on first glance. You’ll find figurative elements and a sort of magic realism thing

going on. Bits of text wend their way into the pieces, as does an almost alchemical feeling of mystery. New Mexico, of course, has its fair share of history shrouded in the passage of time. Bruno somehow encapsulates a sense of intrigue and darkness, though not in the scary sense. However you perceive the new works, though, you’ll notice a vague narrative.

“It’s not all sketched out, which makes it more fun for me, but I think it also makes the work less obvious,” Bruno tells SFR. “It kind of ends up with more of a disjunctive narrative, which I’ve enjoyed in film and literature. You have a landscape that might trigger a figurative element to come to mind, or another scene you can put on the canvas that would relate to that first landscape whether it be in color of form or theme.”

You can look deeper into Bruno’s practice—including his comic-esque series Sick Earth Catalog—on Instagram (@willbruno), but his show at Smoke the Moon this week is a must-see. (Alex De Vore)

SPHERICAL INFLUENCE: NEW PAINTINGS BY WILL BRUNO OPENING 6-8 pm Friday, May 20. Free. Smoke the Moon 616 1/2 Canyon Road, smokethemoon.com

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Alexandra Prada Erin Michelle Price**† Haleigh Quintana* Ryan Ramaker Jeysol Rangel Rivera* Angelique Reagan Vincent Reese-Gonzalez Victoria Roanhorse Gabriel Rodriguez Matthew Rodriguez Fabian Rojo Angelita Romero Kelsey Rosetta John Ruggles Jessica Saenz Nadine Salazar Elizabeth Sanchez*** Savannah Schaum Amy Segura Malerie Sena Brian Serna Karen Sheffer*** Anais Silva-Martinez*** Jacques Skrak** Evelyn Solis Robin Sorensen Andres Sotelo Anna Cristina Soto Darvi Soto Wendy Soto De La Cruz Michael Specht, Jr Cody Spencer Rosa Tarin Amberlynn Torres Nahomy Trejo Garcia* Hayle Trujillo Matthew Tsoodle*† Jonah Underwood y Gonzales Shalem Uribe* Desaray Dawn Urioste MiKaylee Vacit Mia Valdez Nehilan Valles Marquez Tabatha Vargas Pete Velarde

Adrian Vigil Makalaya Vigil Lewis Tammy Weeks**† Eric Wong Mark Woodward Maya Yanez*

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ONGOING ART *** form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Jami Porter Lara, Erin Mickelson and Kate Ruck explore legacy, inheritance, indigeneity and whiteness through prints, tapestries, weaponry, neon signage and a sandbag wall.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free BENEATH THE SURFACE Annex on the Midtown Campus 1600 St. Michael’s Drive sciartsantafe.org Scientists who double as artists display their academically-inspired works.

1-4 pm, Fri & Sat, free BIGGER THAN THIS ROOM form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 This show embeds monuments within larger cultural vistas.

Documentations, sketches, tributes and fragments on display enhance the larger landscape works.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free DEEPENING THE LIGHT Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 August Muth’s solo exhibition highlights how he’s one of the great pioneers in the field of artistic holography. That islight-related art, and yes it does have a specific term. And yes, it’s very cool.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

From Amanda Rowan’s show Place Setting: A Multimedia Exhibition opening at the Acequia Madre House Friday, May 20.

MILDRED HOWARD Turner Caroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 372-7681 Art channeling memory and a sense of place, with a strong element of social justice.

10 am-6 pm EVANESCENCE Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Inspired both by images of Antarctic ice and the work of 13th century Buddhist monk Muqi Fachang, Clark Walding’s paintings are a blue pool of reflected light, tickling and troubling us.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

FINDING AMELIA Range West Gallery 2861 NM-14, Madrid (505) 474-0925 Who is Amelia? Well, we’re not entirely sure. Artist Carla Caletti suggests we’re all Amelia, and we’re all trying to find her. Her abstracted figures and deconstructed forms are inspired by a practice of repair, gathering disparate parts and fragments and creating new forms. Caletti's sculptures have a totemic quality and lead us to wonder about their origins. It’s asking bigger questions about life, whether we are just Amelias or if something bigger is at play.

11 am-5 pm, free

GRAVITAS Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 An art exhibition of the nude featuring artists Harry Holland, Cheryl Kelley, Soey Milk, Kristine Poole and many more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free HERE AND THERE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Artist Emmanuel Manu Opoku’s practice investigates the aesthetic value in objects and transforms a variety of materials to suggest the experience of a diasporic artist.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Roger Evans is known around the block for his whimsical animal figures. As a trained engineer, he combines his knowledge of building materials with a talent for illustration.

His animals are able to express social commentary and human foibles in a way that bypasses assumptions related to race, class, sex, age or other human characteristics. We can call this wholesome art with something to say. We need that.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri 10 am-2 pm, Sat & Sun, free

INTO THE LIGHT ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 Contemporary Santa Feans explore the limits of light and shadow.

10 am-5 pm, free SPECTRUM SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Diné and Chicana artist Nani Chacon offers a new body of work exploring cultural repair and radical colonial resistance through vibrant visual storytelling.

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

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NATURE’S ALGORITHM Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888 Artist Mitsuru Ando describes his work as “a new type of Japanese painting that depicts algorithms of natural form.”

This work is inspired by traditional ink arts.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat By appointment, Sun & Mon, free PAULA & IRVING KLAW: VINTAGE PRINTS No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Bizarre fetish underground photography is far more artsy than one might expect.

Accompanying essays offer a full education on this art scene.

By appointment or during No Name Cinema events, free PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM Ricardo Mazal’s Studio 926 Shoofly St. punkeekart@gmail.com When things feel off, that’s the equilibrium being punctuated.

These paintings reflect that vibe through thoughtfull brush strokes and paint layers. Email the above for an appointment.

By appointment, free SHELTERS FROM THE STORM 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Brick and wood sculptures.

Noon-5 pm, free SKATE NIGHT Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 A photo series documenting the vintage Black roller-skating community in LA. Noon-5 pm, Thurs & Fri, free TEXTURES Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 Diana Moore is inspired by ancient figurative sculptures from all over the world. In Textures, she explores the female through this medium.

10 am-5 pm, free THE BODY ELECTRIC SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Artist Jeffrey Gibson merges artistic styles and historical cultural references to create vibrant, multilayered works.

His projects center around the complexities and relationships between injustice and identity.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free READ TO LEARN. SEE TO REMEMBER. El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Marie Sheel introduces viewers to memorable things she’s learned after reading 30 books on writing. She’s incorporated both essays and imagery as “pages of an unfinished book.”

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

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EXODUS Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888 Part diary and part fantasy, these snapshots are moments depicting the male body, sexuality and the vulnerability of masculinity.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat By appointment, Sun & Mon, free

BOOKS/LECTURES SANTA FE LITERARY FESTIVAL Santa Fe Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. sfliteraryfestival.org With more than 30 different events, Santa Fe’s literary festival kicks off with speakers before a weekend of lectures and conversations, lunches with celebrated chefs and cookbook authors. In short: There’s a lot going on for you to explore.

Various times, $50-$1,700

DANCE EL FLAMENCO: SPANISH CABARET El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Dinner, wine and a culturally rich show. It makes our miserable world a little brighter.

Various times, $25-$43

THEATER A DELICATE BALANCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Agnes and Tobias are a middle-aged couple with a bit of family drama. Family is driving them insane, and over the course of a night tensions boil over.

Various times, $30-$75 SHORTS 5: A NEW COLLECTION OF THEATRICAL CREATIONS Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Unit A theatergrottesco.org A collection of short stories in a theatrical form.

Various times, $12-$25 THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B nmactorslab.com This Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows outcasts and night owls in a San Fran bar, where snippets of their lives get revealed over drinks and drama.

Various times, $15-$30

WORKSHOP ABSTRACT PAINTING CLASS FOR BEGINNERS Santa Fe Painting Workshops 5041 Agua Fria Park Road (505) 670-2690 Small, personalized art classes in Santa Fe that are tailored to everyone, regardless of skill level.

Various times, $295-$485

WED/18 ART INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) offers free admission all-day, plus a special screening of the film What Was Ours plays in the Helen Hardin Media Gallery all throughout the day.

Get down there if you’ve been meaning to anyways.

10 am-5 pm, free

SATURDAY, MAY 28 COMMUNITY DAY

EVENTS 2022 SUMMER SERIES BARREL RACE OPENING Rodeo de Santa Fe 3237 Rodeo Road (505) 471-4300 Support the Rodeo and Santa Fe County Fair and watch local and regional youths compete in barrel races.

4:30 pm, $10-$15 CITIZENSHIP CLINIC Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Are you or is someone you know interested in applying for US citizenship? If you’ve got questions, stop by. No appointment need. If you have any criminal history, they ask to bring documentation so they can advise about your eligibility.

1-5 pm, free HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St. (505) 983-0134 Go, go, go bingo you know what they say. Hang on to bingo, you’ll make it some day.

Sha-la-la bingo, you’re doing fine. You and your cards are ahead of your time.

7 pm, $2 per round PLEIN AIR CONVENTION & EXPO Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail (505) 455-5555 Meet members of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico and master artists from around the world. This is the world's largest gathering of outdoor painters, fun fact.

All Day, $97-$997 WILDFIRE PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS Pojoaque Fire Station 1 17919 US-84 #285 tinyurl.com/2p9c72d3 Santa Fe County is currently surrounded by wildfires. We should all get prepped, just in case. Attendees will learn from experts how to best prevent and prepare for wildfires. This will also be streamed live on the County's YouTube channel (at the link above).

5:30-7:30 pm, free

All exhibitions and programs are FREE and open to the public 10:30 am Readings & Conversation

St. Francis Auditorium

Readings by poets Levi Romero and Edie Tsong followed by a conversation between artists Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Meet the poets and artists featured in the exhibition Poetic Justice.

107 W. Palace Avenue 505-476-5072 nmartmuseum.org

1–3 pm

New Mexico Youth Open Mic

St. Francis Auditorium

If you are a writer living in New Mexico under the age of 25 and would like to read your short original work either virtually or in person, contact Amanda.formby@state.nm.us

Detail: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Citizen of Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, MT, I See Red: McFlag, 1996, mixed media on canvas. Courtesy of Tia Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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COURTESY TIM CAPPELLO

Saxophonist Tim Cappello

Just to get it out of the way—yes, saxophonist Tim Cappello is that sexy, oily “I Still Believe” guy from 1987 cult fave The Lost Boys, but he’s also an accomplished saxophonist who played with Tina Turner for 15 years and has appeared on albums from bands like British synthwave group Gunship. However you know him, he’s been enjoying a little bit of success on the convention and performance circuits of late, even releasing his first solo record in 2018. Next week, Cappello brings a bit of sax and stories to Santa Fe’s Palace Prime (6 pm Wednesday, May 25. $10-$12. 142 W Palace Ave., (505) 919-9935) alongside DJs Christina Swilley and Punky Brewster’s Bastard Kid dropping the hits of the ‘80s and more. (Alex De Vore) We don’t see so many sax players anymore, and you were the only one I could conjure by name. How did you come to the instrument, and was it challenging to carve out a niche as a notable sax player?

When I started playing, there were a million sax players. Every band, right? Huey Lewis had a guy, everybody that had a band had a sax player. That was the ’80s and the ’70s, and we weren’t what you’d call sax players, we were utility players. Everybody had to know how to play keyboards, a bit of acoustic guitar; you had to know how to play harmonica, blues harp—in other words, they all had to fill in all those sounds, and for some reason it was the woodwind players that got that chore. When I was a kid, my father had a music school, so I would go to his music school and I would play the drums and take lessons, play the piano. All of those things were just part of my every day.

Y’know, when the guys coming up didn’t know how to play those other instruments, they probably wouldn’t get the gig.

Someone told me, “Tim Cappello has the best sax tone of all time!” I’m curious about the development of that tone and whether it’s a lifelong pursuit?

You have no choice. Everybody’s voice is different. It’s like, Tina Turner couldn’t sing

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like somebody else! It’s the shape of your throat and your sinuses, the shape of your tongue and the way you generally speak is also going to be the way you sing. In other words, there’s no way…you could try to imitate somebody, and I do know people who try to imitate other sax players like Junior Walker or David Sanborn. It never works.

I’m a tenor player. For awhile, I owned soprano saxophone, baritone, alto, so I could work more, but then I just thought, forget about this, I’m not interested in this stuff, I can’t. I knew size-wise, [the tenor sax] fit me. I feel funny playing an alto sax, it’s too small. Baritone sax was fine, I enjoyed it, but I just didn’t feel like I could get the variety of sounds that I could get with tenor saxophone. For me, that’s really…it’s like, you could try to change your sound, change your mouthpiece, your reed, you could just try, but it’s never gonna happen. Think about your sinuses, your cheekbones, your trachea.

How are you gonna change that? It has nothing to do with me. I practice every day, but that’s really to just keep what I have in shape. If you go around your lips with your index finger, that’s hundreds of tiny muscles, and if those muscles don’t say strong and stay in shape, you’re screwed. With a saxophone, if you don’t practice enough to keep yourself together, the muscles around your lips are gonna give way and you’ll be screwed.

You released your first solo record, Blood on the Reed, in 2018. Obviously you’re busy with touring, fan conventions and so on, but do you think you’ve got another album or tour in you after this one?

I honestly don’t know. I really don’t know.

Because the only way that I can make this work is to do it all by myself. I don’t want to have a roadie in the next seat that I’ve got to make conversation with for these long drives. I don’t want anybody setting up anything wrong. I’m my own agent as well, because anytime I haven’t spoken personally to a club owner or booker, it has been a disaster. It took me a little while to figure that out. I have to develop a relationship.

There’s a new Gunship album coming out I’m really excited about. They’re making a new record, and this time I’m going to be on about half of the tracks rather than just one. That’s exciting for me, because it’s really good stuff that gave me a chance to sort of spread out and play a little differently.

I just turned 67, and I kind of feel like I’ve been almost all around the country, I may do it another time, but [releasing an album] is not exactly what you call...look, I’m going to be honest—if I do a meet and greet and I have...8x10 [photos], they cost about 69 cents apiece, and I sell them for $20. And I don’t want to do a show that’s not as good as the show I’m doing now. The US is a big place, so you can hit every city in the US and then go back again, and I may do it another time, and I think people could take another time, but probably after that I’d have to hang it up.

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FOOD A TASTE OF MANILA The Parador Santa Fe 220 W Manhattan Ave. (505) 988-1177 Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month with chef Martin Blanco, who discusses his life and the shared cultures of the Philippines and America.

5:30-8 pm, $79-$99

MUSIC DR. HALL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Electric, acoustic and slide guitar.

4-6 pm, free INDIGENOUSWAYS FESTIVAL Villa Linda Park Wagon Wheel Road indigenousways.org American Indian blues musician Lakota John (Lumbee/ Oglala Sioux) takes the stage and showcase his jazz, blues and ragtime-infused style.

5-8 pm, free JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Folksy tunes by folksy souls.

8-10 pm, free KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 You know the drill.

10 pm, free SECOND CHANCES Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Country music tunes.

4-9 pm, free

WORKSHOP BREATH AND BELONGING BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road (505) 986-0362 Discover the extraordinary power of your breath. In this class you’ll learn a powerful pranayama breathing technique.

6-7 pm, $20

VAMANOS! SANTA FE WALKS Zia Road trailhead to Siringo Road (833) 243-6033 Walking is good for you. So is talking to people. Consider these community walk sessions to improve your health. Text SFWALKS to the number above for reminders.

5:30-6:30 pm, free GAME TIME LaFarge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860 Enter with a board game, play a bit and leave with books. It’s a good afternoon.

4-5:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Trivia night for the factual folks.

You can finally feel validated for that big beautiful brain.

7-9 pm, free THE SANTA FE HERITAGE PRESERVATION AWARDS San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974 The City of Santa Fe’s Historic Preservation Division, the Old Santa Fe Association and the Historic Santa Fe Foundation award commitments to preservationists here in town.

5:30-7 pm, free WOMEN IN BUSINESS: CONNECT FOR SUCCESS Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4414 Interested in expanding your business relationships? Check out this opportunity to meet and mingle. Enjoy light refreshments and practice networking tips.

5:30-7:30 pm, $15-$20 YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 It’s time to become masters of the park. Bring gloves and prep to plant flowers. Real deal, no foolin’ stuff. If you want pretty parks, stop by and help. The entire community will be grateful to you, maybe.

10 am-noon, free

ECO-POETRY WORKSHOP Corner of E Alameda and Escondido poetrypollinators.wixsite.com Join Poetry Pollinators for their first workshop given by Elizabeth Jacobson, former Santa Fe poet laureate. Learn about native bees, then read, discuss and write eco-poems.

5:30-7 pm, free

THU/19 BOOKS/LECTURES AUTHOR TALK: JAMIE MCGRATH MORRIS Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail tinyurl.com/242mxu3r Morris is the author of Tony Hillerman: A Life. Hillerman transformed a traditional genre and unlocked the mysteries of Navajo culture to an audience of millions. Morris’ biography provides an appreciation of Hillerman.

5-6:30 pm, $10

EVENTS CANCER CARE ASSOCIATES COMMUNITY FORUM Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo nmcca.org A community forum to update patients and answer their questions leading up to planned mediation with Christus St. Vincent on May 23.

5:30 pm, free CHESS AND JAZZ CLUB No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Chess. Jazz. Free tea. Get it.

6-8 pm, free CHRISTUS ST. VINCENT CAREER FAIR Christus St. Vincent 455 St. Michael's Drive (505) 820-5202 Looking for new digs in the medical world? Visit with Christus and learn about career opportunities, benefits and work environments.

10 am-2 pm, free

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THIRD THURSDAY SOCIAL Tumbleroot Bisbee 32 Bisbee Court tinyurl.com/yd8fcddj Sponsored by the Habitat for Humanity, join in on a brewery tour and enjoy drinks and a board game night. RSVP at the link above.

6-9 pm, free

CLARIFYING MEDITATIVE WORK Online meditationnm.wordpress.com (505) 281-0684 Sit quietly for 40 minutes. Enter into a period of gentle verbal inquiry, opening our human mind to honest examination. You might just discover, with sensitivity and honesty, the assumptions and patterns that affect our lives every day.

7-8:30 pm, free

FILM HOWEVER WIDE THE SKY: PLACES OF POWER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 A documentary film displaying the history and spirituality of the Indigenous People of the American Southwest and how they relate to the region's lands.

7 pm, free

MUSIC ALMA RUSS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Russ is a singer/songwriter playing country, folk and Appalachian styles.

4-6 pm, free BOB MAUS Cava Lounge at Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Blues and soul tunes.

6-9 pm, free DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858 Geist performs The Great American Songbook, classical songs, pop and originals.

7-10 pm, $5 SON LUX Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 If you've thought "I love lowkey electric indie stuff but need something a little more intense," check out Son Lux. These guys bring beats, choral music, synthesizers and unusual rhythms.

7 pm, $19

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ART CHIPPEWA-CREE BOUNDARIES (OPENING) FaraHNHeight Fine Art 54 1/2 E San Francisco St. #4 (575) 751-4278 See a combination of printmaking and graphic design.

The textile designs and florals are symbols from the northern tribes around the region where Bryson “Goodrunner” Meyers (Chippewa-Cree) grew up.

5-8 pm, free IRON GALAXY (OPENING) Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Marooned cyborgs, deer women and android coyotes stalk the barren wastes conjuring spells for the order of the Sisters of Mercy. Atomic powered uncles and aunts are cowboys and cowgirls. Micah Wesley (Muskoke Creek Nation/Kiowa) blends Native American artistic traditions with classic sci-fi tropes.

5-8 pm, free LIMINAL (OPENING) Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 Liminal explores the threshold of unbridled and bold creativity by two esteemed artists and their works: Erin Cone’s sensitively rendered figures and Joseph Ostraff’s startling compositional depth.

5-7 pm, free

PLACE SETTING (OPENING) Acequia Madre House 614 Acequia Madre tinyurl.com/yp3fy9z3 Photographer Amanda Rowan immersed herself in the historical Acequia Madre House and in the lives of the women who inhabited it. Rowan’s photography reflects her research’s emotional results.

5-7 pm, free SPHERICAL INFLUENCE (OPENING) Smoke the Moon 101 Marcy St., Ste. 23 smokethemoon.com Will Bruno is known for his plein air interpretations of desert landscape combined with surreal figures and text, plus a characteristic pastel palette. (see SFR picks, page 19) 6-8 pm, free RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW (OPENING) Webster Collection 54 Lincoln Ave. (505) 954-9500 This is an exhibition of artworks from Adam Feibelman and JM Rizzi. These two contemporary artists explore repeated patterns and abstraction.

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MUSIC BOB MAUS Cava Lounge at Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Carole King, James Taylor and Randy Newman covers. Call it cozy, safe nostalgia.

6-9 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Always a foot-stompin' good time, expect JJ and the Hooligans to add sweet country rhythms to your night. It’s easy as heck to dance to, so bring your dancing shoes.

8-11 pm, free (but tip) JANTSEN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 In the ever-growing world of electronic bass music, Jantsen is a building classic who is on the scene to stay. Smoakland and SuperAve open.

10 pm, $19

MAKANA Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Hailing from the island of O'ahu, Makana is an internationally acclaimed slack-key guitarist, singer, composer, philosopher and activist.

7:30 pm, $22-$27 ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato Jazz heads know the Robert Fox trio is the real deal.

6-9 pm, free THE PETER ERSKINE QUARTET SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta tinyurl.com/bdhssduc Three years after their ground-breaking recording 3 Nights In LA, these four giants of the jazz world are at SITE as a part of their New Mexico tour.

7 pm, $30-$35 THE WIDOW OXLEY Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Classic rock and country covers.

6-9 pm, free VIJAY IYER TRIO Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 The Vijay Iyer Trio is one of the pivotal jazz bands in a long while. Bandleader, pianist and composer Iyer has carved out a path as an influential, prolific and shape-shifting presence in modern music.

7:30-9:30 pm, $35-$115

THEATER SKY RAILWAY: THEATER IN MOTION Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St.. tinyurl.com/5az7hcua Enjoy cocktails and high-octane entertainment featuring Santa Fe’s world-class immersive theatrical experience company, The Exodus Ensemble.

7:30-9:30 pm, $35-$115

SAT/21 ART ARTWALK SANTA FE Plaza Rosina 1925 Rosina St. artwalksantafe.com An afternoon of live music, art and food at Plaza Rosina.

Grab food from La Loncherita Salvadoreña and hear live music by Half Pint and the Growlers (1-3 pm) and Cassis Trio (3-5 pm).

1-5 pm, free EL RITO ARTS FESTIVAL, STUDIO TOUR AND MERCADO El Rito Studio Tour 1134 Highway 554, El Rito elritoartassociation.org Explore the crafts of 30+ artist vendors on the Arts Plaza of the historic Northern New Mexico College at El Rito. There will be local food and live music.

10 am-5 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Find artistic treasures north of the water tower. Maybe that handmade mug you’ve been searching for will finally appear.

9 am-2 pm, free

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EVENTS COFFEE AND DONUTS ON THE RAIL TRAIL Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596 In honor of Bike Month and Bike to Work Day, the Railyard Park Conservancy is serving free coffee and donuts on the Rail Trail. Stop by the Railyard Park Community Room and help yourself. See? Good things happen when you bike.

7:30-9:30 am, free SANTA FE CENTURY AND GRAVEL RIDE Santa Fe Railyard 332 Read St. tinyurl.com/5n72kfrk A scenic road cycling course highlighting the landscape of Northern New Mexico, starting and finishing in downtown Santa Fe. Riders pass through the Ortiz Mountains and the Galisteo basin. Browse through the many ride options—you might be impressed with the offerings.

All day, $30-$95

BOOKS/LECTURES SIX ROBIDOUX BROTHERS: TRAVELS AND TRAVAILS IN THE AMERICAN WEST Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Sponsored by the Santa Fe Trail Association and the Old Spanish Trail Association, stop by to learn old fashioned (but historic) tales of the American West.

1:30-3 pm, free

DANCE DIRT DANCE IN THE PARK Patrick Smith Park 1001 Canyon Road allaboardearth.com Silent disco. It's a thing.

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Counterpoise by Erin Cone, opening Friday, May 20 at Nüart Gallery.

12TH ANNUAL ARTSPRING SHOW New Mexico School for the Arts 500 Montezuma Avenue, Ste. 200 (505) 310-4194 A live student performance and benefit celebration, all taking place for the first time at the school’s new campus at the Santa Fe Railyard. This is the culmination of years of creative work from students representing all five major arts disciplines at NMSA. The night opens with pop-up shows and concludes with a locally-catered dinner.

5 pm, $200 MOVING DAY COMMUNITY WALK The Montecito 500 Rodeo Road (505) 780-5864 An opportunity for our Parkinson's community to join together safely to help raise awareness and funds for the Parkinson's Foundation. Joining in helps the foundation advance research, provide educational resources and fund programs that make life better for those living with the disease.

10 am, free SANTA FE RUN AROUND Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail tinyurl.com/2xp3cch8 A 5k for grown-ups and a 1k for the kids. The race starts and finishes on the historic Santa Fe Plaza. Go up and around Bishop’s Lodge Road and back to the Plaza. Register at the link above.

7:30-10:30 am, $30 SANTA FE SAVES WATER DAY Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596 Learn about rainwater harvesting and how to create a waterwise pollinator garden at your home or business. See water conservation tactics, plus a raingarden tour with Reese Baker of The Raincatcher, a local permaculture business. We need to save as much water as possible, folks.

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CRAWDADDY BLUES FEST Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Live blues music. Taste Cajun specialties and get drink mixes in between bites. And since we always have to tell you: It’s fresh from the Gulf Coast region. No need to proceed with caution.

Noon-7:30 pm, $25 FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 Peas go and support our local farmers.

8 am-1 pm, free SANTA FE BREWING ALE TRAIL Santa Fe Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa St. skyrailway.com Sample New Mexico's very own local brews, but do it on a train.

Isn’t that cool? This adventure includes a complimentary beer from Santa Fe Brewing Co., plus live music and samples.

1:30 pm, $99

EVENTS AUDUBON DAY: A CELEBRATION OF BIRDS IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 In partnership with Audubon Southwest, this day examines the importance of birds to Native American culture in the past and present.

10 am-4 pm, free

MUSIC BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail Blues and soul tunes.

6-9 pm, free

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CANDY BOMBER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 This father/son duo brings the blues without giving us the blues, ya feel?

1-3 pm, free HOLLY MEAD GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. gigsantafe.tickit.ca Mead is an American film composer and jazz pianist. Her work is featured at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Bay Area International Children's Film Festival and the Lincoln Center.

Hear her new classical piano album Newborn Mountain live.

7:30 pm, $22 HONEY POT HOOTENANNY: BENEFITTING QUEEN BEE'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 On the agenda is live music by The Shiners Club Jazz Band, drawings and fun for the whole family. Help fill the honey pot for Queen Bee’s scholarship fund for musical ed. (see SFR picks, page 19) 1-3 pm, free (donate, obvs) MOBY DICK AND DIVER DOWN Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 All of your most fervent Van Halen and Zeppelin-style rock 'n' roll desires.

8 pm, $10-$15 NOSOTROS The Bridge at SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182 Nosotros and Rio Grande School team up for a benefit concert for the Rio Grande School Tuition Assistance program.

3 pm, $10-$20 ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato Jazz, jazz and more jazz.

6-9 pm, free

THEATER THE STORY CLOSET: OPENING CELEBRATION The Story Closet 418 Cerrillos Road (213) 793-0866 The Story Closet is Santa Fe’s new puppet venue. See two shows at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm. Plus, there are puppet workshops at 11 am and 2 pm.

10:15 am-3 pm, free THEATER WALK Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe 8380 Cerrillos Road theatresantafe.org Experience a whole afternoon of live performances with 18 local theater companies. Bring your own lawn chair, as there are limited seating options.

Admission by donation.

Noon-7 pm, free

SUN/22 ART EL RITO ARTS FESTIVAL, STUDIO TOUR AND MERCADO El Rito Studio Tour 1134 Highway 554, El Rito elritoartassociation.org El Rito has a rich artistic world you might not know about.

Hear music, meet vendors and scout tons of art.

10 am-5 pm, free RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Railyard Artisan Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta tinyurl.com/2fypp67e If you’ve been to this market before and are debating going back—first off, what’s wrong with you? Second, remember this market cycles vendors, so new craft options from local artists are always there. See? Now go back.

10 am-3 pm, free

EVENTS SKY RAILWAY: COCKTAILS & RAILS Santa Fe Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa St. (844) 743-3759 Cocktails. On the rails. Is that not clear enough? C'mon now.

5:30 pm, $59-$79 WE THE PEOPLE: A ZOOM CONVERSATION ON DEMOCRACY AND ELECTIONS Online tinyurl.com/23cme6nj How do we counter toxic polarization and renew trust in government? Hear panelists from across New Mexico share their cultural perspectives on our representative democracy.

2-3:30 pm, free

FILM SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 A screening of one of the most internationally acclaimed (yet seldom screened) Ukrainian films by Sergei Parajanov. The Ukrainian Americans of New Mexico (UANM) give introductions before the screening. All proceeds support bringing provide medical supplies and refugee assistance in the region.

4 pm, $15-$50

FOOD CRAWDADDY BLUES FEST Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Missed yesterday’s chance?

Well, now you’ve got to get out to Madrid and try that fresh crawfish they’re serving. We’re talking big numbers here.

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BELLYDANCE CLASS Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 Belly dance as a movement practice cultivates our capacity for pleasure, releases tension and increases strength. So should you do it? We can’t say, but we do suggest giving it a shot. It might be your thing.

1-2 pm, $15 YOGA IN THE PARK Alto Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. tinyurl.com/ycyky6uc A 60 minute Vinyasa flow class made delightful because it’s under a big tree.

10 am, $10-$15

MOBILE FOOD DISTRIBUTION State Library Archives 1205 Camino Carlos Rey whoiamfoundation.org A sad fact is that there are a lot of hungry folks out there. If you want to help out getting food to them, volunteer for an evening.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

MON/23 BOOKS/LECTURES DREAM BUNDLES: CULTURAL PRESERVATION & CONTEMPORARY MAYA RITUAL PRACTITIONERS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200 Linda A. Brown of the Department of Anthropology at UNM details the Mayan religious artifacts and practices she's uncovered in her years of research.

6 pm, $20 SANDRA CISNEROS Online santafenewmexican.com The Public Library, in partnership with the Santa Fe New Mexican, brings the The House on Mango Street author for a talk with Santa Fe book lovers.

9:30 am, free SANTA FE LITERARY FEST: STATE CAPITOL ART TOUR AND A POETRY READING State Capitol Roundhouse 490 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 450-9263 Join state Sen. Bill O’Neill for a guided tour of the building’s art collection following a brief reading from his poetry collection The Definition Of Empty.

9:30 am, free

DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Dancing, swing style. Class begins at 7 pm ($8). If you know your stuff, just check out the open dance at 8 pm ($3). You can pretend you’re in a ‘40s nightclub the whole time.

7 pm, $3-$8

EVENTS '90S NIGHT Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Drink specials plus nostalgia.

Gen Z just doesn’t get it.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC BARBERSHOP CHORUS REHEARSALS Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road (505) 596-0350 Learn to sing not only barbershop standards but also pop songs and show tunes if you can carry a tune.

6:30-8 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765 Piano tunes to make the wine go down even smoother.

6:30-9:30 pm, free QUEER NIGHT (WITH PONY HUNT) La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Pony Hunt is a New Orleansbased indie-rock band that plays like a ghostly jukebox with hazy melodies with sweet, lingering waves of nostalgia. Plus, on Queer Night? Double yes.

8-10 pm, free TERRY DIERS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Diers, ever heard of him?! If you haven't, get down to Cowgirl and get the musicality you need.

Good time country tunes.

4-6 pm, free

TUE/24 ART ASYMPTOTE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403 Texas-based Binod Shrestha is an artist whose work investigates our propensity for violence and the effects of violence in relation to notions of home, displacement and identity.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

BOOKS/LECTURES SANTA FE INSTITUTE LECTURE: IGNORANCE, FAILURE, UNCERTAINTY AND THE OPTIMISM OF SCIENCE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Join the Santa Fe Institute for a lecture on the "optimistical" approach to contemporary science. Stuart Firestein, a member of SFI’s Fractal Faculty, speaks to the public.

7:30-9 pm, free

THE WISDOM ARCHIVE: PRESERVING AND CELEBRATING THE TRADITIONS OF NEW MEXICO El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Ranging from the traditional music of Antonia Apodaca and Cipriano Vigil, to “year in the life” depictions of long time sheepherders and farmers, The Wisdom Archive celebrates and preserves disappearing traditional culture. See what they’ve captured here.

4 pm, $10 TRISTAN AND ISOLDE: LOVE, LONGING AND THE TRISTAN CHORD Online tinyurl.com/bddptesj From Troubadours to Schopenhauer, Tristan and Isolde is a paean to love and longing.

Richard Wagner’s monumental opera will be performed at the Santa Fe Opera this summer, so this talk introduces the music which guides Tristan and Isolde away from the dangers of treacherous day to the rapture of night. Oh yes, the drama.

3-4:30 pm, free

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LGBT "PLUS PLUS" NIGHT Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Another opportunity to celebrate our diverse community.

4-10 pm, free WILDFIRE RELIEF FUNDRAISER Second Street Brewery (Rufina & Railyard locations) 2920 Rufina St. & 1607 Paseo De Peralta secondstreetbrewery.com $1 per pint goes to relief efforts, or you can donate directly at an onsite donation box.

4-9 pm, free (but donate)

OPEN MIC NIGHT Roots & Leaves 301 N Guadalupe St. (720) 804-9379 Musicians, poets, comics and all other artists welcome. Tea and talent is on the menu.

7-9 pm, free THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY: IN HONOR OF MEMORIAL DAY Cathedral Basilica 131 Cathedral Place (505) 982-5619 This inspirational program is led by Choral Director Carmen Flórez-Mansi. Don’t worry, it isn’t all patriotic fluff—classical works are mixed in.

7 pm, free

FOOD TUESDAY FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 Vegetables and food—who needs 'em? Well, you do, and we gotta keep your cute little self looking healthy. Go get nutrients on a lovely Tuesday morning in something other than a pill form.

8 am-1 pm, free

WORKSHOP OVERDOSE PREVENTION TRAINING Oliver LaFarge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860 Learn how to prevent an overdose with Narcan. (see SFR picks, page 19) 2-4 pm, free

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

10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass.

Birds: Spiritual Messengers of the Skies. ReVOlution.

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

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

Curative Powers: New Mexico’s Hot Springs.

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

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun $10

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MUSIC BLACK UHURU The Bridge at SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182 Black Uhuru remains one of the most popular reggae bands from Jamaica. The living legends have earned several achievements in the music industry, including winning the first ever Grammy Award for reggae music. Santa Fe Brewing Co. snagged these icons for night. (see SFR picks, page 19) 7:30 pm, $28-$33 CHAMBER MUSIC FOR FLUTE, VIOLIN, CELLO AND PIANO Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road (505) 988-1975 Chamber music lovers rejoice: Hear Elizabeth Baker on violin, Linda Marianiello on flute, Joel Becktell on cello and Jacquelyn Helin on piano.

5:30 pm, $20-$50 CRASH KARAOKE Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Drink if you want, sing if you want, enjoy if you want.

6-9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765 Masterful piano.

6:30-9:30 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474 Traditional Irish tunes.

6-8:30 pm, free HILLARY SMITH & CHILLHOUSE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Smith's jazzy vocals are always welcome.

Noon-3 pm, free STATE HISTORIAN/MUSICIAN ROB MARTINEZ Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455 Martinez takes us through a musical journey of the rich historical past. The cultural tapestry he’s presenting showcase songs dating back centuries.

2-3:30 pm, free STRANGERS FROM AFAR La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Strangers from Afar is back at La Reina, playing country jams from their new album.

7-10 pm, free THE SMALL GLORIES Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 One of the top "new" folk groups from Canada, Cara Luft and J.D. Edwards present their first New Mexico shows. We can tell them to do all the touristy stuff we don’t do.

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“Ghost Shirt” by Rory Wakemup (Minnesota Chippewa), from “Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass” at IAIA’s 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 Poetic Justice (see A&C, page 33).

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

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

9 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$10 WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636 Indigenous Women: Border Matters (Traveling).

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

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Down on the Corner Esquina Pizza expands Paloma’s Guadalupe Street empire

BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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aving recently enjoyed one of the more memorable evenings of my life at chef Nathan Mayes’ Paloma, I’ve been keeping an eye on his new pizza joint Esquina (403 S Guadealupe St., (505) 303-3034) since it was announced earlier this year.

Turns out Mayes was working on his pizza plan behind the scenes during the pandemic, reading bread and baking books to perfect his crust, considering ingredients that are as local as possible and, if not from around here, fresh and sustainably farmed; installing a wood-fired pizza oven in secret and putting together a staff that could make the neopolitan-inspired recipe he developed. Now, it seems, Esquina is here to stay, at least on Fridays and Saturdays from 4-9 pm for now.

“I think first and foremost really what’s driving it is wanting to eat pizza,” Mayes tells SFR. “It was year three at Paloma that I had this thought: ‘Man, it would be cool if...we could put a pizza oven in there.’ It’s the same idea as Paloma, to take something familiar to people, familiar items that are accessible, and to put a little bit of a creative edge on it.”

Last weekend, I sampled that creative edge, and while I think Mayes is not fully there yet, Esquina is beyond promising, and he’s still making some of the tastiest pizza in town. Esquina’s pizzas are and will continue

to be evolving based on seasonally-available ingredients as well as Mayes’ own prowess. In his schooling days, he attended the Culinary Institute of America for just one year before accepting an internship at Coyote Café under the legendary Eric DiStefano at 21—Mayes is a chef who knows what he’s doing, and to whom ideas of sustainability and quality matter. Still, he says, he’s relatively new to the pizza game, and as he gains knowledge and confidence, we’re bound to see improvement.

Currently, Esquina’s menu includes pies like the margherita with mozzarella, tomato sauce and basil ($17), as well as a simple pesto pie with parm and mozz ($21); a white pie with ricotta cream, fontina, pecorino and mozzaralla ($19) and a garden pie with garlic oil, spinach, cherry tomatoes, basil, roasted mushrooms, onions, olives and mozz ($21) sound phenomenal, and you’ll find meat-forward pizzas, too, like the Leo’s with sausage, kale and Calabrian chile ($23) and the hot pepper with pepperoni and calabrese ($23).

Myself and my dining companion settled on the margherita (as I’ve said before, it’s a great standby pie through which one can gauge the quality of more boutique-y pizza restaurants) and the spinach and mushroom with garlic cream, fontina and mozzarella ($23). I admit, we felt the sticker shock of those prices, especially for 12-ish-inch pizzas that cost a fraction elsewhere. Days later, when I ask Mayes about the steep cost, he tells me it’s a combination of things like ingredient costs and staff wages. It’s important to him, he tells me, that his staff is paid properly, he also wants the best ingredients for his fromscratch food. That includes particular things, like a specific type and diameter of pepperoni

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Yes, the crust on Esquina Pizza’s margherita is as delicious as it looks.

he had to track down through a special order with his produce supplier, a non-bromated two-part flour he developed himself using a combination of double zero and Sonoran wheat flours, plus Bianco Dinapoli tomatoes, for the sauce. Mayes understands the prices might dissuade some diners, but he knows what he wants to make and serve, and thinks the premium is worth it.

“Restaurants are getting pinched with rising inflation and shortages,” Mayes explains.

“It’s tough for all restaurants...but it’s the price to cover the quality of food.”

Hefty price or no, his plan to zero in on quality works. The margherita’s crust had that borderline sour taste you want in a fromscratch pizza, ditto the char and crunch. The sweetness of the sauce blended brilliantly with the creaminess of the melted cheese—an excellent contrast. The spinach and mushroom was the clear winner, though, with the fragrant, earthen aroma of the mushrooms first dominating the taste, then giving way to the brighter flavors of the spinach and garlic.

Esquina also boasts a gelato menu from Paloma’s Executive Pastry Chef Jessica

Brewer. On the night we ordered, the restaurant was offering a few varieties ($7 each), including olive oil, for which I’ll absolutely return, pistachio and straciatella. Obviously we went with the one that had chocolate shavings. Sadly, the gelato was more icy than creamy, and this one stung a bit, particularly since Brewer has proven herself a master of desserts. Mayes says she’ll continue to develop dessert options just like at Paloma, though, and this is also a chef who never let us down before.

Santa Fe diners can consider the current operation Phase 1 of a three-phase plan.

“We’re establishing the product, and I think Phase 2 is putting in some kind of seating,” Mayes says. “We have a small patio we’re going to be building out kind of behind the Paloma patio, and in Phase 3, the goal is to have full-on beer and wine service.”

He also notes he’ll get green chile on the menu just as soon as he can get it fresh.

“We haven’t had any pushback yet, but it’s inevitable,” he says with a laugh. “We’re just trying to keep things seasonal and at their best.”

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The Totality of Life Three legendary artists converge at the New Mexico Museum of Art

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

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aving art selected for inclusion with the National Register of Historic Places, earning honorary doctorate degrees from prestigious colleges and having paintings displayed in the National Gallery of Art are somehow regular events for the three women whose work makes up the anatomy of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s current Poetic Justice exhibit.

Now, as easing health restrictions allow for more public programming at spaces like the Museum of Art, those same three artists—Judy Baca, Mildred Howard and Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation)—are finally coming together as part of a symposium slated for Saturday, May 28. The event was scheduled for late last year to coincide with each’s contributions to Poetic Justice, but sadly thwarted.

The artists plan to discuss their collective works, stretching from the feminist movement of the 1960s and ’70s and into our present difficulties; with the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision looming, it seems, some things never change, and artists, as always, help us navigate those minefields. Poets Levi Romero and Edie Tsong will also read works inspired

by Baca, Howard and Quick-To-See-Smith’s impact on a broader, more national scale.

For museum Head of Curatorial Affairs Merry Scully, the in-person event is the culmination of a lot of effort and changing public policy and schedules, but also a hardearned chance to showcase the work and ethos of such notable women artists.

“All three are really on fire,” Scully tells SFR. “They’ve always been important and influential, but in the last few years, there’s really been a new interest.

That’s a direct result of their tenacity and single-mindedness.”

Baca’s The Great Wall of Los Angeles proves that tenacity. The piece is one of the longest art projects in the world, earning a spot on the National Register of Historic Places and Baca the nickname of “the mural lady” from participants in the Los Angeles-based justice program who helped her bring the massive project to life. From LA herself, Baca’s career has been defined through social realism in murals, photography and other mediums.

Division of the Barrios and Chavez Ravine, for example, currently on display as part of Poetic Justice, finds Mexican-Americans peeking over the very highways that were supposed to connect them but only separate them from their larger communities.

Dodger Stadium beams in from the sky like a UFO, looking to plant itself atop historic neighborhoods. Elsewhere in the show, Baca’s digital and sculpture works tackle the stereotype of the lazy Mexican: In Primero de Mayo, the infamous image of a sleeping Mexican man sporting a sombrero is countered by composites of digital photographs adhered to the man’s form and featuring Workers Day marches,

where Mexican-Americans remind the nation of the stereotype’s invalid nature.

“I think [Baca] exemplifies giving a voice, both her own voice and that of her community,” Scully explains, “and it brings forth lesser-known history. She’s built a model for community mural programs across the country.”

For Oakland, California’s Howard, art bleeds into autobiography.

“I can remember kids carrying their lunch, and how exciting it was to have a lunch pail,” Howard recalls, describing her piece Square Lunch, a metal lunchbox held by cast representation of her hand in copper. “It must have been back in the ‘90s or early ‘00s when I started casting my hands in various positions. I use my hands a lot when I’m talking. I wanted to see what it was like to cast objects in my hand and hold something I knew.”

Square Lunch, despite its small size, is a stand-out in Poetic Justice. The copper hand is stark black, its fingers gripping the handle of a red plaid lunchbox reminiscent of plastic tablecloths in a grandmother’s house. It evokes a similar emotional response present in many of Howard’s works—a reminder of life’s precious necessities and how Black Americans are often denied such securities.

Nearby, a custom toy train set crafted by Howard prepares to make its semi-regular journey. Scully tells SFR it originally ran all day, but now its schedule is more sporadic so as not to burn out the electronics.

Howard has collected safety deposit boxes for decades and uses them as the cars in Tha Dogg Express. Each is painted with the name of a historic Black neighborhood, which so-called progressive actions, like building railroads and highways, have notoriously damaged or dismantled.

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“Snoop Dogg is unapologetically Black,” Howard says. “He’s got this old-school way of walking and talking and being himself, and that’s what I like about him. [Tha Dogg Express] is dedicated to him, but it’s also about communities that have been disrupted by urban development. If they’re still around, they’ve become gentrified.”

Further in the show, Howard eschews physical art for film. With footage she shot herself in 1959, the short film The Time and Space of Now meditates on the past and how it reflects on the present, a common thread tying one Howard piece to the others. The film plays on a loop in the exhibition.

Quick-To-See-Smith, meanwhile, might be known worldwide for her abstract works such as the I See Red series which reflects on questions of Native identity, but her smaller sketch series like Paper Dolls From A Post Columbian World pack an equal punch. Crafted in response to the celebrations for Columbus’ quincentenary, Smith morphed the innocence of paper dolls to reflect the reality of Native life. Her dolls wear “smallpox suits” and maid’s outfits, reflecting the bleak rewards Indigenous people received for surviving boarding schools and other forms of colonialism and genocide. Her works are also known for simple, no-fuss titles, which allow spectators to build their own impressions. A Nickel For Your Thoughts enlarges an early 20th century coin featuring bison on one side and a silhouetted Indigenous person on the other (the word “Liberty” hovers over their head). Regular use of varying shades of red reflects both the racist terminology and the anger the color evokes.

“The scale of those works is part of what makes them so impressive,” Scully explains. “That nickel is thousands of times the size it would be in real life. It allows for so much collage and scale.”

Poetic Justice is, according to Scully, forever timely.

“All of art is the totality of life experiences, synthesized really well [here],” she explains. “It understands itself and its voice. It has real level of skill going with such clarity. We wanted to show the work and address the politics and social issues, but also celebrate their tenacity and brilliance.”

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Like someone with a shopping addiction who knows they’re suffering but insists they don’t need help, Netflix seemingly cannot stop pumping out subpar and expensive-looking World War II spy thrillers.

They’re flashy, the planes go whoosh and the jazz scores are brassy. But, like Netflix’s Munich—The Edge of War, these films are often tensionless affairs.

We see the climax coming, even if one can argue we all know who won the war. A skilled team can make such tales work, but they maybe weren’t available this time. No, this is spoiled meat.

Find here Operation Mincemeat from Shakespeare in Love director John Madden. We follow Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen), a pair of British officers charged with passing off a dead body as a British soldier and dumping it in Spain with fake intel in attempts to feed false plans to the Nazis. For it to be passable, however, our leads must fabricate an entire fake life for the corpse in case any fascists come sniffing around trying to authenticate anything. It’s complicated and weird, and it’s a very real thing that happened during WWII—successfully, no less, leading to the 1943 invasion of Sicily.

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Nearly a decade before Lin-Manuel Miranda convinced the world he was the king of the anachronistic stage musical with 2015’s Hamilton, a slew of relatively unknown actors, producers, directors and writers joined rock songwriter Duncan Sheik to premier 2006’s Spring Awakening, a dark and powerful piece about German school kids in the late 1800s who find no meaningful adult relationships and are forced to navigate their own comings-of-age through pretty sick rock songs. Now, some 15-ish years later, the HBO Max streaming service presents a documentary about the 2006 Steven Sater show as both an historical record and the account of a 2021 one night re-mounting of a stripped down version of the show that benefitted the nonprofit Actors Fund during COVID-19.

Whether or not you know the multi-Tony Awardwinning Spring Awakening, there’s no denying much of its cast and crew are now household names. From John Gallagher Jr. and Skylar Astin to Hamilton alum Jonathan Groff and Glee star Lea Michele, the show was one of those cultural powerhouse underdogs that swept Broadway, won all the things and catapulted many of its people to super-stardrom. Groff, of course, kept doing musicals and entered the worlds of television and film; Gallagher Jr., too. Michele,

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That bit is fascinating, but it seems Madden is so concerned about the whole British-dudes-inmeetings thing being boring that we’re cursed with a love triangle between our heroes and Kelly McDonald (Boardwalk Empire) that feels so out of place you’ll beg the British to clean house. On top of that, pedantic dialogue repeatedly and eagerly reminds us of the looming Nazi threat, as if that weren’t otherwise clear in a movie about WWII. “Is everything going according to plan?” someone asks.

“THE NAZIS WILL STOP AT NOTHING,” someone else responds, panic-stricken.

This is, of course, rather annoying, and a glaring waste of dialogue. Even worse, Italy’s got big stakes in this plot, as they did historically, so it’s curious that not a single Italian character appears on screen. Breaking from the borderline tired Britain-v-Germany trope would’ve been nice, too, yet Operation Mincemeat

despite having faced numerous accusations of abusive behavior from her Glee costars, has enjoyed success as well. But the HBO doc focuses more on a hardscrabble gang of youths who had no idea what they’d signed on for, and who would impact youths worldwide forever—plus how totally pumped everyone was to meet up again for that benefit show.

Those You’ve Known makes a great case for how American theater can transform, uplift and connect, but it’s another example of a documentary that shines a light on subjects who also produced the film (in this case, Groff and Michele, who eat up the lion’s share of the interviews) while glossing over things that deserved better. Intimacy coaching, for example, was not much of a thing back in 2006, but when cast members like Gallagher Jr., Lili Cooper or Lauren Pritchard discuss how hard it was to dive into material like suicide, sexual abuse, intimacy and so on, one can’t help but feel they’re still affected. We also never learn how much money the benefit raised.

Full songs are also in short supply, which particularly disappoints given the film’s short runtime. We all know “Bitch of the Living” is the jam, but more Cooper or Pritchard would have been nice when, instead, we get a full rehearsal version of Michele’s “Mama Who Bore Me.” Groff’s a treasure, though, and every bit as adorable as he is talented. Gallagher Jr. might be the one to steal your heart, however, as he seem all tough and aloof, but also full of heart.

Astin, who presumably is way too cool after the Pitch Perfect movies isn’t much involved; ditto many others.

(Alex De Vore) HBO Max, NR, 90 min.

refuses to be bold. Boldness just isn’t in its DNA. Performance-wise, almost all is well, though Firth’s inability to express any emotion on his face seems a cause for future concern. Somewhere in there, you’ll even glimpse Jason Isaacs (Draco Malfoy’s dad), and though Madden’s direction is solid enough, he burdens the script with what feels like a distrustful aura.

A common flaw these historical films share is the over-emphasis on factoids, or, perhaps, the belief an audience cannot grasp the depths of research involved. We can appreciate research without moments that remind us about it, and that’s not to say Mincemeat is terrible, maybe you’ll just get more from the actual event’s Wikipedia article.

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I found myself at Violet Crown alongside the other beardos to see The Northman from The VVitch director Robert Eggers. Eggers sure makes pretty movies, and if you don’t believe that, please see The Lighthouse immediately, for it is a masterpiece.

Eggers’ works are generally dense-adjacent, symbolist films wherein folks are undone by obsession and wherein toxic masculinity turns men into something inhuman while the people around them—or they themselves—suffer horrible fates. He also likes taking his sweet damn time and never shies away from ugly violence. These aren’t new concepts by any means, though the juxtaposition of gorgeous cinematography and even more gorgeous backdrops against spilled blood and the dark motivations of man don’t hurt the timeless messaging.

In The Northman, Alexander Skarsgård plays a viking—a berserker, no less (Google it)—who sets out with vengeance on his mind but then, like, also finds a little bit of love along the way. It’s a little bit Hamlet (Skarsgård’s dude’s name is even Amleth), a little bit Lez Miz-meets-Oedipus, a little bit Count of Monte Cristo and a whole lot of hard to watch.

Seems Amleth’s kingly dad (Ethan Hawke) got got by his brother (Claes Bang), who also kidnapped the queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman), leading to decades of festering resentment turned to seriously creative

OPERATION MINCEMEAT Directed by Madden With Firth, Macfadyen, Macdonald and Isaacs Netflix, NR, 128 minutes

ideas for face-stabbing. When Amleth does indeed catch up to his dear old uncle with a little help from a Norn (a Norse fate-making witch kind of deity) played by Björk, it’s off to Iceland for clobberin’ time; a simple plan right up until he develops the hots for an enslaved Russian named Olga (the ever-impressive Anya Taylor-Joy who is in every movie ever made) and a little bit of a hallucination issue. Even so, Amleth believes himself fated to succeed, and no amount of beatings, bloodsport, cave monsters or shitty family mechanics are going to stop him.

Skarsgård feels borderline silly with his massive, hulking muscles and hunched gait and broad shoulders glistening in the overcast Icelandic wild.

Taylor-Joy grounds his character in better motivations than hate, though, and she’s all about breaking men’s minds. Bang makes an imposing enough villain, though he’s really more of a presence or cipher for evil, and we don’t learn what drives him until way later. It isn’t self-generated. Kidman (who played Skarsgård’s wife in HBO’s Big Little Lies but here plays his mother because fuck Hollywood) turns in one of the better performances of her career, however, which kind of deflates the moments she isn’t onscreen.

Someplace in there, find reasons to dislike white supremacy even more than you already should, and also some satisfying homage to other shocking films (no spoilers, though). The payoff, however, does not particularly satisfy, though that’s kind of the point.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The only way to the truth is through blasphemy,” declared Aries author Flannery O’Connor. I appreciate the cheeky sentiment, but I don’t believe that all truth requires blasphemy. In many cases, rebellion, irreverence, and skepticism may be enough to pry loose hidden and buried information. Outright blasphemy isn’t necessary. What does this have to do with you? Well, I’m hoping you will be feisty and audacious in your quest for interesting truths. As you dig, I invite you to be less than perfectly polite. Don’t be rude or unkind, of course. Just be charmingly bold.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The world is a very puzzling place. If you’re not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else’s mind.” Author Noam Chomsky said that. It’s useful counsel for you right now. I’ll go even further. I will advise you to relish the healthy pleasures of being both mysterious and mystified. Seek out fertile enigmas and be a fertile enigma yourself. Explore the rejuvenating wisdom of being indefinable and uncategorizable. Exult in the quizzical joys of Eternal Paradox.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me,” declares comedian Margaret Cho. I would love for you to summon her level of self-esteem and bravado in the coming weeks.

According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you now have the right and duty to boost your selfworth. All of creation is conspiring with you to develop more faith in yourself. And if you do the work to deepen your confidence and self-esteem, there will be an added bonus: a health breakthrough. As spiritual author Caroline Myss says, “Belief in oneself is required for healing.” My prediction: You will rouse an enhanced power to get the soul medicine you need.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have you ever contemplated the beauty of the people and animals you care for and thought, “I would love to give them the strongest blessings I have to give, the smartest love I can express, and the best listening I’m able to provide.” If so, Scorpio, the coming days will be an excellent time to do that. You will have an extra capacity to offer exceptional gifts that are useful and inspirational. You will be at the peak of your ability to home in on what your beloveds need.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian author Madeleine L’Engle told us, “The discoveries don’t come when you’re looking for them. They come when for some reason you’ve let go conscious control.” That approach isn’t absolutely true, but it may be useful for GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to the blogger you to deploy in the coming weeks. I invite you to relinArtemisiasea, “The grandeur of life is the attempt, not quish at least a modicum of your conscious control. And the solution. It’s about behaving as beautifully as one if zesty discoveries start flowing in, consider relinquishcan under completely impossible circumstances; making ing even a bit more conscious control. room for what breathes in the presence of the attempt— CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Is it a legend or a true in the coming-to-be.” I invite you to embrace that wisdom in the coming weeks, Gemini. You won’t be dealing story? Scholars disagree about whether Capricorn scientist Isaac Newton really was spurred to formulate the with impossible circumstances, but you may have to navigate your way through fascinating brainteasers and theory of gravity when an apple fell from the tree he was heart riddles. Whatever your destination might turn out sitting beneath. This much is certain: Newton lived in to be, enjoy the ride with all the verve you can summon. the home near the famous apple tree. And that tree is alive today, 380 years after his birth. Ripe apples still fall At least for now, put aside your longing for particular from it. Is there an equivalent landmark or keystone results and instead simply live your life as if it were a from your own past, Capricorn—where an important magnificent work of art. insight arose or pivotal event happened? The coming CANCER (June 21-July 22): It will be in your interest to weeks would be a good time to revisit that power spot, change more than usual in the coming weeks. I suppose at least in your imagination, in quest of fresh inspiration. you could wait around passively and scramble to adjust AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian poet Jack as life flings challenges your way. But the better Gilbert devoted himself to soulful beauty. I swooned approach would be to make conscious decisions about when I first read his line, “We must unlearn the constelhow you want to transform. Identify the situations that lations to see the stars.” I cried for joy when he said, would most benefit from modification and then initiate the transitions. Rather than depending on fate to provide “We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.” On the other hand, you with random wake-up calls, choose constructive I suspect Jack may have been overly consumed with his wake-up calls that are fun and invigorating. pursuit of lyrical moments. His girlfriend Linda Gregg said, “All Jack ever wanted to know was that he was LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If everyone likes you, it probaawake—that the trees in bloom were almond trees—and bly means you aren’t saying much,” declared politician to walk down the road to get breakfast. He never cared Donna Brazile. I suspect you will disprove her theory in if he was poor or had to sleep on a park bench.” I bring the coming weeks. According to my reading of the this up, dear Aquarius, hoping you will avoid Gilbert’s astrological omens, you will have a lot to say; your com- lack of attention to practical matters. In the coming munications will be even more interesting than usual. weeks, I invite you to be your extravagant, idiosyncratic, And yet, I also expect you will receive extra respect and interesting self to the max. But also be sure to eat healthy food, engage in pleasurable exercise, and get appreciation from others. While you may articulate plenty of rejuvenating sleep—preferably in a comfortideas that are challenging to some, you will do so with able bed rather than on a park bench. enough charisma to disarm agitated reactions. A winning combination: expressiveness and approval.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Uberfacts Twitter account informs me that if you were to consume the VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have you heard of Virgo amount of food equivalent to what a hummingbird eats, you adventurer Reinhold Messner? The man is a marvel, and would eat 300 hamburgers or 7,800 cabbages per day. To not just because he’s a passionate environmental activist. match the amount of exercise a hummingbird gets while He was the first mountaineer to reach the top of Mt. burning all those calories, you’d have to do approximately Everest alone, as well as the first to ascend Everest with- 37 bazillion jumping jacks. You will never do this, of course. out supplemental oxygen. No one before him had ever But in the coming weeks, you may be more metaphorically climbed all 14 of the world’s peaks higher than 26,000 hungry than usual. I predict you will be voracious for new feet. He has transited Greenland and Antarctica without information and novel experiences and fresh ideas. Not 300 the aid of dog sleds or snowmobiles. He also completed a hamburgers or 7,800 cabbages’ worth—but still, a lot. My solo trip across the Gobi Desert. I propose we make advice: Have fun being insatiably curious and greedy for Messner your inspirational role model for the next four stimulation. weeks. You may not achieve history-making triumphs like him, but you could surpass what you assumed were your Homework: Is there a situation you’re being lazy about?

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Benefits: Stress reduction, Balance present their claims within four Earn a good living selling and Coordination months after the date of the first digital and print products for Brain gym: Neurogenesis & publication of this Notice of this this small media company.

Resiliency You must register by email: info@ We are fiercely local and Notice is given by publication danieljbruce.com, NO pre payment we’re looking for full time as provided in SubsectionA of necessary. and part time workers in our For more information: visit the Section 45-3--801 NMSA 1978, advertising department. web site: The Santa Fe Center for or within sixty (60) days after Strong verbal skills are a Conscious Living the mailing or delivery of this must. Compensation includes Notice for creditors who are ESSENTIAL DO – IT – YOURSELF a base salary for the first given actual notice as provided END OF LIFE DOCUMENT six weeks and aggressive PREPARATION WORKSHOP LED

by Subsection B of Section 45commission on new clients

BY LOCAL CERTIFIED PARALEGAL. 3-801 NMSA 1978, whichever is for the first three months.

Workshop focusing on End of Life later, or the claims will be forever Permanent, full-time hires get Realities in a relaxed atmosphere barred. Claims must be presented benefits, including health and with great results. The focus is the ‘building’ of your Last Will & either to the undersigned dental insurance, a 401(K) Testament, NM state statute Power personal representative at retirement plan. of Attorney and Advanced Health 8804C Washington Street NE, Candidate must possess Care Directives. Increase your Albuquerque, NM 87113, or filed own vehicle and valid driver’s families emotional and financial security. Leave your loved ones license and insurance. with the Santa Fe County District a road map of your choices and wishes. See SFCC CE Summer Class Court.

Send letters of interest to: Schedule for requirements/details. DATED: APRIL 14, 2022 3 Saturdays in June, 2 hour Troy E. Aucker, Personal advertising@sfreporter.com 1st sessions from 10 till Noon.

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Lon S. Aucker, Deceased 40217 Highway 160 Bayfield CO 81122 (970) 769-3857 KENNETH C. LEACH & ASSOCIATES, P.C.

By Sara M. Bonnell Attorney for Troy E. Aucker, Personal Representative of the Estate of Dr. Lon S. Aucker, Deceased 8804C Washington St. NE Albuquerque NM 87113 (505) 883-2702 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Deanna Victoria Rodriguez Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-00421 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Deanna Victoria Rodriguez will apply to the Honorable Kathleen McGarry, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 8:15 a.m. on the 7th day of June, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Deanna Victoria Rodriguez to Deanna Torry Mandela.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Marina Sisneros Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Deanna Victoria Rodriguez Petitioner, Pro Se

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF SAVANNAH PERRY Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-00788 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Savannah Perry will apply to the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 11:15 a.m. on the 22nd day of June, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Savannah Marie Perry to Ez Orion Perry.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Bernadette Hernandez Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Savannah Perry Petitioner, Pro Se

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF PABLO ARMANDO MEJIA TORRES Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-00812 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 408-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Pablo Armando Mejia Torres will apply to the Honorable Francis J. Mathew, District Judge of the First Judicial District remotely via Google Meets in accordance with the Sixth Amended Notice, at 10:50 a.m. on the 6th day of July, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Pablo Armando Mejia Torres to Pablo Armando Mejia.

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