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SUFFERING STATE Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham blamed climate change for [recent] fires. She committed herself to doing what’s necessary “to get us as far ahead of this situation that we find ourselves under as possible, so that your kids aren’t at a press briefing, talking about complex fires and the impact they’re having on communities.”

And yet, the kids are already doing those things. [On April 22], 40 mph gale-force winds and wildfire smoke set the stage for a youth-led protest in downtown Santa Fe. I was proud to join the young leaders calling on the governor to commit to a just renewable energy transition and to say no to corporate polluters promoting false climate solutions, like hydrogen hubs.

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Montoya purposely shot White and showed a complete disregard for human life.

Montoya also faces charges of tampering with evidence, unlawful possession of a handgun by a person under 19 and negligent use of a deadly weapon, but if he’s convicted of murder he’s facing the possibility of life in prison with the opportunity for parole. Despite recent US Supreme Court rulings allowing for leniency in the sentencing of youths charged as adults, District Attorney Mary CarmackAltwies told SFR last summer her office is pursuing the maximum punishment.

The DA’s office says it won’t be making any statements until a verdict is reached.

Montoya has been held at the Santa Fe County Adult Correctional Facility since April 19, jail records show. He’s been detained in different jails since his arrest. After learning he had been discussing a possible plea deal with fellow prisoners, Chief Deputy District Attorney Blake Nichols told the judge Tuesday: “We’re way beyond a plea deadline.”

The initial witness list sent out to potential jurors includes roughly 200 names. With a massive amount of physical evidence to sift through, Ellington warned the jury pool Monday that it could be two weeks until deliberations start.

“You can probably tell by the long list of names, although only a fraction of those are going to be called, that this is not going to be a short two- or three-day trial,” he said.

The case spotlights the confluence of several issues, including youth sentencing, gun violence and equitable justice. If Montoya is found not guilty, White’s death could pass

Heavily anticipated trial in shooting death of Santa Fe basketball star set to begin today B Y G R A N T C R AW F O R D g r a n t @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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dozen Santa Fe County residents, including eight men and four women, will decide whether the August 2020 gunshot that killed a well-known local basketball star was murder—or something else. Another two men and women will be on standby to serve as the four alternates.

Opening statements are expected today in one of Santa Fe’s most anticipated trials in years. Estevan Montoya was 16 when he shot 18-year-old Fedonta “JB” White at a high school drinking party in Chupadero.

The trial is expected to last two weeks.

Prosecutors have charged Montoya, who is now 18, with first-degree murder and other crimes; they’re seeking adult penalties, even though Montoya was underage at the time of the killing, that could send him to prison for 30 years or more.

Montoya’s defense team, meanwhile, says he never intended to shoot White and that he was protecting himself.

First Judicial District Judge T. Glenn Ellington has been ruling on pretrial motions since the beginning of the case, largely in favor of prosecutors. He denied Marlowe’s request to have the trial moved out of Santa Fe, for example, and also prevented a defense witness from using a pathology report to explain the trajectory of the bullet.

Twenty-one months have passed since the night White died from a gunshot wound. He would be 20 years old and likely still playing ball for the University of New Mexico Lobos basketball squad. He had planned to skip his senior year at Santa Fe High and head to UNM. Montoya maintains his innocence. His attorney, Dan Marlowe, says trauma from being near the shooting death of his friend, Ivan Perez, led to him carrying a firearm. He fired the gun in self defense, Marlowe contends, while attempting to leave the party.

The prosecution, however, says the evidence is strong. Labeling him a “violent, drug dealing gang member,” the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office says

without any substantial criminal charges. So, too, could Perez’s.

Perez was shot and killed in July of 2020 during a brawl between two groups of teenagers outside The Bluffs at Tierra Contenta.

Citing a flawed police investigation, prosecutors last September dropped charges against the man who was suspected in the shooting.

Gun-related deaths have been on the rise in recent years. The rate of New Mexico residents who died from firearms was 55% higher in 2020 than it was a decade prior, according to the New Mexico Department of Health. Since the night White was shot, there have been seven other incidents involving teens wherein someone was injured or killed by a gunshot in Santa Fe, according to Gun Violence Archive.

You can probably tell by the long list of names, although only a fraction of those are going to be called, that this is not going to be a short two- or three-day trial -T. Glenn Ellington, district judge

Estevan Montoya, accused of first-degree murder in the death of Fedonta “JB” White, appeared in court Monday for the jury selection in his ongoing trial.

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If found guilty and sentenced as an adult, Montoya would face 30 years or more in prison. He would be among dozens of people in New Mexico serving life in prison for crimes committed when they were children—a situation that has lawmakers and the public questioning the state’s sentencing rules.

Denali Wilson, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, says: “We have to let go of the idea that justice is a zero-sum game” and points to brain science that shows adolescents are more impulsive and underestimate risks as reasons to reevaluate punishments.

“When we sentence children to life in prison, we forswear the possibility that they will ever change,” Wilson tells SFR. “We do that despite what adolescent brain science tells us about the heightened capacity for change that young people possess.”

On Monday and Tuesday, attorneys asked potential jurors about their feelings on the Second Amendment, the right to self defense, whether they would have a problem believing the word of someone under the influence of alcohol or drugs and whether age factors into witness credibility.

The panel will hear testimony from law enforcement and a group of minors—some now adults—who were at the party. It will be up to them to decide whether the prosecution’s argument holds up—that Montoya’s “lengthy history of gang affiliation, drug dealing, possessing weapons, violence… and subordination” is consistent with his shooting of White.

Marlowe says Southside Goons, with whom Montoya is affiliated, is a rap group; not a gang. He also says his client was suffering from PTSD after the death of his friend Perez. The incident has leaked into pretrial motions, and Ellington has approved the DA’s request to reject any attempts to link White to the death of Perez.

Marlowe says he never intended to try connecting White to Perez’s death.

“The only significance of Ivan Perez’s death is that Estevan heard rumors from everywhere that one of the Goons was next,” he says.

Nichols’ request to exclude challenges to the cause of death was granted, although the jury will hear testimony about what happened between the time White was shot and the time he was pronounced dead at the Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center.

The judge also nixed any attempt to bring up White’s reputation on the basketball court. The prosecution says in court documents Marlowe is trying to “fit a narrative of the big bad basketball player-athlete against their poor, pitiful client. A twisted David and Goliath narrative, unsupported by law or facts.”

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SFR’s 2022

primary endorsements for Santa Fe voters

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emocracy awaits, Santa Fe. While midterm elections often appeal more to the party faithful than the broader electorate, New Mexico’s June 7 primary has enough variables to draw in new participants. Let’s hope that’s the case. Early voting begins May 10 with the kickoff of mail balloting and in-person convenience centers across the state.

To start, although New Mexico continues to be one of just nine states with a closed primary system—meaning only voters registered with one of the state’s three major parties can vote in the primary—a new law makes participation easier this year. Voters who are unaffiliated or registered with a minor party can now register on the same day they cast ballots and, if they register as a Democrat, Republican or Libertarian, vote in the primary.

At last report, Santa Fe County’s 109,174 registered voters included 63.1% Democrats, 15% Republicans, 0.9% Libertarians and 20.1% unaffiliated. (Those not registered also can participate in same-day registration, but voters registered with a major party can’t change their affiliations on Election Day.) Then there’s the ballot itself. In one of the most contested races, Republican voters will choose among five gubernatorial candidates to take on Democratic incumbent Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in November’s general election. Whoever wins that race will be the face of what Brian Sanderoff, the well-known New Mexico pollster and president of Research and Polling Inc., forecasts as a lively general election season.

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“It’s a midterm cycle, with a Democrat in the White House and low approval ratings for President Biden,” Sanderoff tells SFR. “In a midterm election the party not in the White House will pick up seats in the general election because they are energized and maybe they will be more likely to participate in the primary.”

At the top of the Democratic ticket, the primary contests for state attorney general and auditor have been relatively quiet, while the typically low-interest race for treasurer has featured mudslinging and complaints over conduct from both sides. All are the staging grounds for contested races come November.

As for local races, the primary will decide many. In Santa Fe County the sheriff, two county commissioners and a magistrate judge seat are all up for grabs with no competition in the general election. In the state Legislature, only District 46 has a contest for Santa Fe voters, with two candidates challenging incumbent Rep. Andrea Romero.

Since the plurality of Santa Fe County voters registered as Democrats, many local races comprise only candidates from that party (and races that have another party candidate don’t have competition within the party), SFR’s endorsements below are for contested Democratic primaries in which Santa Fe-area voters may cast a ballot.

To reach our decisions, we conducted endorsement interviews with candidates via video and reviewed their campaign materials, financial disclosures, backgrounds and qualifications; plus their public appearances and other news accounts.

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Attorney General cord seekers and we look forward to that.

He also says he’s open to empowering an independent body to vet complaints and facilitate enforcement of the law.

The winner of this race appears on the general election ballot against Gallup Republican Jeremy Michael Gay.

State Auditor

Brian Colón The attorney general gets a shorthand reference of being the “lawyer for the state,” but the position also requires enforcement of consumer protections and allows for special criminal prosecutions in areas such as human trafficking, child sex crimes and public corruption, as well as enforcement of the Inspection of Public Records Act, the state’s sunshine law known as IPRA. Two lawyers going head to head for the Democratic nomination for AG come from diverse political backgrounds: Bernalillo County District Attorney Raul Torrez and State Auditor Brian Colón. Albuquerque voters may be more familiar with Torrez’s efforts to battle crime in Albuquerque, while Santa Fe voters likely know Colón as the person who recently called out the City of Santa Fe’s financial mess.

After one term as auditor, Colón is hoping to hop in the AG seat to replace Hector Balderas just as Balderas did after he served in the auditor’s role. Make no mistake: We are wary of Colón’s entrenchment in the political machine and of his close ties to a law firm Balderas is under fire for using too often at too much taxpayer expense.

Nonetheless, he’s a more well-rounded official who is a known entity in the halls of state government and has demonstrated competency. Colón makes a stronger case for being able to navigate the collection of partner agencies than does Torrez, a prosecutor whose confrontational style made him stand out in the recent legislative session’s pretrial-detention debate.

When it comes to IPRA, we hope Colón deviates substantially from the stance Balderas has taken. (In one case, rather than side with transparency when SFR sought to examine facts of discipline for police officers, Balderas left the newspaper to sue for the information on its own.)

Colón says he’ll litigate on behalf of re-

due project: a cost and benefit analysis he dubs a Climate Accountability Audit. His idea is to consolidate data collected by seven state agencies including the Oil and Gas Conservation Division to the State Land Office.

Current Auditor Brian Colón is leaving the job after one term as he attempts to step up to the state attorney general post. Colón has continued to hike the office’s visibility, and we expect Quintero to follow through by putting his excitement into action.

Though no other major party candidate qualified to be listed on the ballot, write-in Libertarian Robert Jason Vaillancourt is also campaigning for the seat in the general election.

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Zach Quintero In the field of two, we choose Zach Quintero, a lively first-time candidate from Albuquerque whose energy for the office is effusive. He faces Joseph Maestas, who has held various municipal elected offices and earned a seat on the Public Regulation Commission in 2020 that expires this year.

Though Maestas has administrative chops, Quintero’s career so far has him well prepared for this post in many ways and we think he deserves a chance. In addition to a stint in the US Treasury Department where he reviewed audits, Quintero holds a law degree from the University of New Mexico with a specialty in constitutional rights and health care as well as bachelors degrees from New Mexico State University in economics and government.

At the age of 31, he’s already held a job in Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration as an analyst and legislative liaison, then as a state ombudsman investigating Medicare fraud claims, including those for COVID-19 services.

The state auditor position requires supervision of a team that now includes about 35 employees. Quintero wants to modernize its operations and says he has “strong technical knowledge of the laws that govern the office.” He aims to establish a position for a chief data officer who will help compile an innovative and over-

Heather Benavidez The race for state treasurer has surprisingly surfaced as the most contentious among Democrats. With the outgoing official playing an outsized role in advocating for his successor and official complaints flying from both sides, it’s also the most difficult to parse out the best candidate.

Laura Montoya, who finished near the bottom in a crowded primary field for congressional district 3 in 2020, says the state treasurer job is the one she wanted all along. She brings a background as a twoterm Sandoval County treasurer and advocate with the treasurer’s affiliate group that largely suits the needs of this office.

Heather Benavidez has worked in the treasurer’s office since 2017 and Treasurer Tim Eichenberg hired her to fill a newly created chief of staff position last year.

Montoya says Eichenberg is working harder to get his protege elected than the candidate is, and she has filed a com-

plaint with the attorney general alleging Eichenberg is misusing the power of his office to that effect. To wit, Eichenberg paid for an early series of radio commercials slamming Montoya. He also wrote a complaint to the secretary of state alleging Montoya failed to correctly report all campaign contributions.

Since neither complaint has been resolved, we lean toward continuity rather than change for this endorsement.

Benavidez, who grew up in Belen, worked for 16 years in the judiciary, including two terms as an elected magistrate in Rio Communities, and one year as an appointed magistrate in Valencia County before losing her re-election race.

She points out, and we agree, that a person who is already part of the office culture and is familiar with its daily operations could be successful.

The treasurer sits on 12 boards and commissions, including the State Investment Council, and Benavidez sits in for Eichenberg on two of them. She’s also an advocate for the office’s ongoing education programs for youths and adults and she aims to open satellite offices in Albuquerque and Doña Ana County. In both our endorsement meeting and candidate forums she appears calm and composed, which seems about right for the state’s banker.

The winner of the race goes on to face Republican Harry Montoya in the general election.

House of Representatives District 46

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action during what felt like countless legislative sessions over her last term (eight between 2020 and now) and admit we’re impressed with her poise, persuasiveness and longsuffering—in particular as she worked to secure passage of the Cannabis Regulation Act that legalized adult use of the plant in New Mexico. (Romero also supported a companion bill that called for the automatic expungement of criminal records associated with marijuana possession.)

We’d like to see her carry on with what she calls the “unfinished work” of that effort: the allocation of new state dollars that are pouring in from sales taxes on newly legal cannabis.

Seeking to unseat Romero are Harry Roybal, a Santa Fe County commissioner who is termed out of the job representing a district that roughly overlaps with House District 46; and political newcomer Ryan Erik Salazar, who works at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

While Roybal would be our second pick in this race, we believe Romero’s experience and potential for growth in the House leadership is important, especially in the face of Santa Fe losing the clout and institutional knowledge of House Speaker Brian Egolf as he steps down in neighboring House District 47.

(Although Egolf’s chief of staff since 2014, Reena Szczepanski, is unopposed in the Democratic primary to replace him.)

Romero doesn’t have a spotless record. She took it on the chin before her first election for questions about spending as she served as executive director of the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities and she admits her legislative sponsorship of a bill aimed at cyber bullying that also would have required news organizations to delete “ir-

relevant materials” from archives was a misstep. We’re glad she’s been willing to try to learn from both. She has also recently begun law school, an education that will no doubt serve her in the House.

The winner of the Democratic Primary will face Republican Jay Groseclose in the general election.

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Jon Paul Romero Jon Paul Romero has done his time learning about Santa Fe County government and its northernmost district, which stretches from the north central part of Santa Fe’s city limits to the southeastern side of Española. In a race against two worthy candidates to fill the empty seat that’s been held since 2015

by Henry Roybal, we land on JP Romero because he’s already extremely well versed in two issues that are important to the region: road engineering and water infrastructure.

Both city resident and Dashing Delivery founder Justin Greene and

Orlando Alfonso Romero are also qualified to do the job and have good ideas (especially Greene’s proposal to bury fiber optic lines along with the new pipeline for the Pojoaque Basin Regional Water System). But JP Romero has proven a steady commitment in his 16 years of elected service on the Pojoaque School Board and current service on the Northern New Mexico Local Workforce Development Board—and that, along with his hands-on work and degree in civil engineering, should give him an edge.

We think his idea to establish satellite public works yards shows logic: staging road maintenance equipment for use in far-flung regions of the county rather than the costly and time-consuming practice of moving it from the Santa Fe central region across the nearly 2,000-square-mile area. With so much of the county’s responsibilities centered on infrastructure, Jon Paul Romero has relevant knowledge of the Aamodt settlement and the subsequent regional water system that’s still under construction and is intended to eventually serve the pueblos of San Ildefonso, Nambé, Pojoaque and Tesuque as well as other county residents within the Pojoaque Basin.

He also has specific proposals about affordable housing that seem quickly do-able, two of which involve working with Jacona Land Grant near Pojoaque to purchase land that could become a mixed-use development and crafting a master plan for the county’s former public works yard on Galisteo Road within the city limits.

As a rural resident who has led construction projects all over the region, JP Romero should be able to build a place as a solid commissioner.

Santa Fe County Commission 3

Camilla Bustamante Santa Fe County Commission District 3 encapsulates the southern part of the county with a northern boundary that includes La Cienega as well as the southwestern region of the city limits on both sides of Airport Road.

Two candidates taking on incumbent Commissioner Rudy Garcia for the job bring different benefits to the table.

Garcia, who did not return requests for an interview, is wrapping an unremarkable first term on the commission while also serving on the Santa Fe Public Schools Board. He’s listed as “out of compliance” with the state Elections Bureau and has no campaign finance reports on file.

We think it’s time for a fresh start for the district. City Councilor Chris Rivera wants to switch from his city seat to one on the County Commission, which would leave a vacancy for the mayor to fill by appointment. The former city fire chief is qualified for the job and would bring an inside perspective from the other government and a specialty in public safety,

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Challenger David Webb, a Santa Fe Police Department lieutenant who has been a cop for 19 years, decided to seek the sheriff job long before the Rust shooting.

But he also questions whether Mendoza belabored his handling of the high-profile case.

Beyond the Rust incident, both candidates are seasoned police professionals and Mendoza has led the department through a county-enforced staff shortage due to pandemic-driven budgetary concerns. Nonetheless, Webb appears a versatile commander, having tackled a variety of the city department’s investigation units including those targeting crimes against children and internet crimes, and currently overseeing all patrol sections.

If he gets a chance to lead the county department, he aims to impose ballistics testing requirements on all firearms seized by the agency to create a database with assistance from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He has a strategy for how to map crime data next to community input records as a way to encourage commanders of geographic districts to work toward

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David Webb The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office was thrust into the international spotlight last year when a bullet struck and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a movie set south of Santa Fe. Actor Alec Baldwin says his shooting of Hutchins during rehearsal for filming of the movie Rust was accidental and evidence shows there was real ammunition loaded into a gun that the actor thought contained only dummy rounds.

Six months after the event, as of press time, Sheriff Adan Mendoza still had not concluded the investigation. The state

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codified goals. We also put some stock in the rank and file officers, not just the sheriff’s department but also city cops in Española and Santa Fe, endorsing Webb over the incumbent.

With no Republicans on the general election ballot, the winner of the primary is the presumptive next sheriff.

Santa Fe Magistrate Division 2

Dev Atma Khalsa As Santa Fe County Magistrate George Anaya prepares to retire after nearly three decades in the job, a deep field of candidates has lined up to replace him in the nondescript courthouse on Galisteo Road. Among the four, Dev Atma Khalsa carries the distinction of being the only

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one with a law degree. While being a lawyer is not a requirement for the job, the efficacy of the judicial system depends on educated, experienced judges. While other candidates (including our second pick, Melissa Mascarenas) have a heart for service and relevant court administration experience, Khalsa’s job as an assistant district attorney will best prepare him for the judge duties.

Magistrates are typically referred to as “county courts” and adjudicate low-level crimes such as traffic and animal code violations, plus landlord/tenant cases, as well as misdemeanors such as domestic violence and drunken driving. Khalsa earned a masters at St. John’s College before entering UNM law school. He started his job with the DA in 2019 and says he would be taking a risk moving into the lay court position. “If you are a career-minded lawyer, this option is not necessarily the direct path. It’s a lateral move.”

But he wants to make the shift because he sees a way to effect change by being at ground zero “where health policy and criminal policy converge.” He has an excellent idea about employing some of the same theories at work in the successful Drug Court that Anaya established into domestic violence cases. Treatment, case management and other interventions have a more lasting impact than punitive ones, he explains, and that same strategy would work to build peace in households.

Sounds like it’s worth a try.

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but for voters who chose him to represent them in the city seat, that does not seem like a strong enough reason to switch jobs.

And, he notes he has a steep learning curve on rural topics.

Camilla Bustamante presents a chance for a person with a more rural background and a relevant education to serve on a board that must keep rural interests at heart, including water planning focused on conservation and food production. She grew up splitting time between the city and La Cienga, where she has lived as an adult and where she serves as president of the La Cienega Valley Association. She retired from the Santa Fe Community College as the dean of the Schools of Trades, Advanced Technologies, and Sustainability; and Business, Professional Studies and Education, a job she began in 2014. She holds a doctorate in health education and a master’s degree in public health from the University of New Mexico among other degrees. Those professional and academic experiences mean she’s intensely interested in the county’s sustainability planning and would have a strong hand in leadership when it comes to pushing that critical envelope. She’s our pick.

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LET THEM SPEAK The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/Relatives Crisis (MMIW) shouldn’t be new information for New Mexicans, but we can’t keep pretending like what we’re doing is enough. As it stands, New Mexico has the highest rate of MMIW in the country, and that’s just pulling from the available data, which many say doesn’t begin to cover the actual scope of the crisis. As such, in an effort to educate and illuminate, local Native leaders host an event this week with prayer, spoken word, art, song and dance to honor those lost and missing, and, hopefully, to convince a few more people to join the fight. For our non-Native friends, this is a chance for you to show solidarity and listen. There’s a lot of pain in our community many of us can’t imagine, which is exactly why the cause needs allies. (RG) 5/5/5 Day Of Action: 5 pm Thursday, May 5 Free (but donate to Indigenous causes) Santa Fe Plaza, 63 Lincoln Ave.

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THEATER FRI/6 WHO WEARS SHORT SHORTS? Those uninitiated in the theatrical arts might assume full-lengths would be the best place for thespians to stretch their artistic muscles, but shorts can be every bit as challenging and rewarding. As luck would have it, Theater Grottesco has a new shorts program ready to go, and they’re crafted by the very actors who regularly work with the company. Some are funny, some are arias and others examine pure drama. Grottesco often proves itself eager to work on the fringes of theater, and this particular collection of shorts follows that same path while allowing venerable actors a chance to step forward as more involved creators. It just fits. (RG) Shorts 5: 7:30 pm Friday, May 6. $12-$25. Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive. theatergrottesco.org/tickets

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PERFORMANCE TUE/10 NEAR, FAR, WHEREVER BROADWAY STARS ARE OK, so maybe we just ran an interview with singer and former SNL cast member Ana Gasteyer in our 3 Questions section, but we think it’s worth repeating that a very funny and talented lady is headed to the Lensic Performing Arts Center this week for Broadway Confidential. Yeah, SNL heads, you heard us right—that Ana Gasteyer. To sweeten the deal, Gasteyer is joined by pianist, actor and Broadway-lover Seth Rudesky, who hosts Seth’s Big Fat Broadway and Seth Speaks on Sirius XM Radio. They’ll sing, they’ll dance, they’ll make you laugh (and, we’ve heard, they’ll tell more than a couple stories). Yes, Broadway culture can be a little cringe if you’re not already in the club, but there are no pre-reqs at this performance. In fact, if you’ve been wondering how to get on board with musicals and jazz, this might be the ticket. (RG) Broadway Confidential: An Evening With Ana Gasteyer and Seth Rudesky: 7 pm Tuesday, May 10 $49-$89. Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

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Clay The Easy Way Paseo Pottery shows up to showdown Local ceramicist Angela Kirkman of Paseo Pottery is looking to change local perception when it comes to slingin’ clay through an ongoing event dubbed Pottery Showdown, and given her mission to donate 100% of Paseo’s net profits to local charities, it’s more than worth it to keep an open mind.

Forget whatever you think you know about ceramics and get ready to spin that wheel.

“We really want to start making this showdown a regular, monthly event,” Kirkman tells SFR. “There are a lot of artists moving into the [Siler Road] neighborhood, and I think they’ll be really into it.”

In partnership with Santa Fe food bank, The Food Depot, the first showdown reportedly includes pottery demos, a chance to get your own hands in the clay and dance jams courtesy of DJ Chavo. Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery is scheduled to appear with snacks and drinks, too, and newly converted ceramophiles will get a chance to meet the folks who teach Paseo Pottery’s workshops and classes. Oh, and before you ask—there will totally be beautiful pieces for sale. And pottery raffles, too? Man, your kitchen is gonna look so fancy. Just resist the temptation to fire off any dumb Ghost jokes while you’re there.

The whole thing is a kind of homecoming celebration for Kirkman, who was forced to

leave her original space on Paseo de Peralta behind after years of workshops and donations. Turns out a massive pottery studio isn’t exactly easy to pick up and move, either, but as the dust settles in the new location, the wheels are starting to turn.

Kirkman tells SFR the new space is three times the size of the old location. Even so, to properly run, Paseo Pottery needs community interest. That’s where you come in, and one could do worse than supporting charities while learning a new art. Past recipients of Paseo’s donations have included Tewa Women United, New Energy Economy and Casa First, and customers have a chance to vote on what orgs come next throughout the fiscal year. For now, though, maybe just go party a little?

“Twenty dollars is the suggested donation, and it’s going to help us get new equipment for the space,” Kirkman says. “We were at the old space for 31 years, and we found a new location the day the old lease ran out. So yeah, this is definitely a celebration for the new space.” (Riley Gardner) POTTERY SHOWDOWN: 5-8 pm Friday, May 6 $20 suggested donation Paseo Pottery 1273 Calle de Comercio, (505) 988-7687 SFREPORTER.COM

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ONGOING ART BENEATH THE SURFACE Annex on the Midtown Campus 1600 St. Michael’s Drive sciartsantafe.org Scientists are people too, and some of them double as artists when we’re not looking. SciArt Santa Fe knows what you’re asking: Just what is the connection between arts and sciences? Oh don’t worry, this exhibit is gonna tell you.

1-4 pm, Fri & Sat, free DEEPENING THE LIGHT Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 A solo exhibition by artist August Muth, a great pioneer in the exploration of light and color through holography.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat FINDING AMELIA Range West Gallery 2861 NM-14, Madrid (505) 474-0925 Exactly who is this mysterious Amelia, when the artist’s name is Carla Caletti. Find the answer in these evocative figurative paintings and sculptures, exploring the curious sides of being human.

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-Say, free

THE TEST COMMANDMENTS Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St. (505) 308-0319 Religious-inspired art that may not be all that it seems at first glance. This exhibit concludes on May 7, so check it out.

By appointment, free

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IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Do at the title suggests. You doing it? Okay, add whimsical animals. That’s what Roger Evans does. Combining his knowledge of building materials, engineering and illustration with his passion for social commentary, his animals are able to express human foibles in a way that bypasses assumptions related to race, class, sex, age or other human characteristics.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri 10 am-2 pm, Sat & Sun, free LA LUZ DE TAOS Couse-Sharp Historic Site 138 Kit Carson Road, Taos (575) 751-0369 Painting, pottery, sculpture, jewelry and fashion.

By appointment, free SPECTRUM SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Artist Nani Chacon’s first solo exhibition draws inspiration from traditional Diné creation mythology, blending it with her own experiences as a modern Indigenous artist.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free NATURE’S ALGORITHM Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888 Inspired by traditional Japanese ink paintings, artist Mitsuru Ando describes his work as “a new type of Japanese painting that depicts algorithms of natural form.”

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat By appointment, Sun & Mon, free NIGHT FEEDING Smoke the Moon 101 Marcy St., Ste. 23 smokethemoon.com Artist Sarah Alice Moran builds a universe where there’s darkness in rainbows, comfort in the presence of ghosts and an entire bestiary of supernatural familiars. Oh man, we all gotta see this one.

Noon-4 pm, Thurs-Sun, free OCHO CUBANOS AHORA Artes de Cuba 1700 A Lena St. (505) 303-3138 Inaugural group exhibition of eight contemporary Cuban artists. Pop art, abstract and collage reflecting both Cuban identity.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

DANCE EL FLAMENCO: SPANISH CABARET El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 If your family is coming in, take them to the show to impress them. Actually, you should go on your own too.

Various times, $25-$43

WED/4 BOOKS/LECTURES WHAT GOES ON IN A BOX OF 100 YOKAI? A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MONSTER MAKERS Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Learn from this yokai scholar, professor and artist about Japanese yokai, the activities of the Kyoto-based yokai art collective, Hyakuyobako (Box of 100 Yokai) and the making of the exhibition’s “ghost house.”

2-3 pm, free

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From the solo show New Works by Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota), opening May 6 at Hecho Gallery.

PAULA & IRVING KLAW: VINTAGE PRINTS No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Prints from the bizarre fetish underground your parents might’ve warned you about.

By appointment or during No Name Cinema events, free SHELTERS FROM THE STORM 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Brick and wood-based sculpture show.

Noon-5 pm, free

SKATE NIGHT Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 A photo series documenting Black roller-skating community.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs & Fri, free TEXTURES Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 A solo exhibition of new works

by Diana Moore, a sculptor inspired both by ancient figurative sculptures from around the world.

10 am-5 pm, free

THE LAS VEGAS PROJECT: CONTEMPORARY LIFE ON THE HISTORIC SANTA FE TRAIL IN NEW MEXICO New Mexico Highlands University 905 University Ave., Las Vegas (505) 425-7511 A photography exhibition featuring black-and-white photographs of contemporary Las Vegas before and after the pandemic. Please note to call ahead before heading out there given the current wildfire situation. Hours may vary depending on evacuation orders.

8:30 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

#POTP OPEN MIC Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 alasdeagua.org Power of the People is Alas de Agua's monthly open mic for BIPOC and queer folks.

5:30 pm, free HOTLINE B(L)INGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 It's bingo time. Bingo to the death. As long as you win, everything's fine. $2 per round!

7 pm, $2 DRINK AND DRAW Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068 Bring any sketchbook, paper, pens and pencils that work for you. Socialize and draw, plus drawing games.

6:30-9 pm, free

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SFCC KATIE BESSER AWARDS Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road (505) 471-0997 The public is invited to the online Katie Besser Awards Ceremony and the announcement of the Richard Bradford Scholarship winner.

Hear readings by winners in fiction, poetry, academic essay and creative nonfiction. Check out New Mexico’s future writers here.

5 pm, free

FOOD PUSHPIN FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY Pushpin Collaborative Co 1925 Rosina S., Ste. D (505) 372-7728 One of Santa Fe's cutest little craft shops, Pushpin Collaborative Co., is getting into the party mood for their first birthday. Join them and darthbaker for a sweet, fun-filled event with cookies, cupcakes and mini cakes.

Noon-5 pm, free

MUSIC JOHN FRANCIS AND THE POOR CLARES La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Enjoy live music by John Francis & The Poor Clares, a fourmember acoustic band with all the right vibes.

8-10 pm, free KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 We’ve never forgetten that terrible era when “Let It Go” was every third karaoke choice.

We hope we’re free from those days.

10 pm, free

THEATER THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway, Ste. B tinyurl.com/mry3ehtn This William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is about a San Fran bar where in America of the ‘30s. The rotating bar regulars are quirky indeed.

7:30 pm, $15-$30

WORKSHOP STILLNESS STUDIES Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B (505) 992-2588 In this training, movement is used as the tool to discover the body’s still point. The definition of “still point” in this practice is finding the place of awareness and alignment for the body and the mind. From this place, we can discover and utilize untapped energy stuck and stored in the body.

5-7 pm, $20-$40

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THU/5 BOOKS/LECTURES SPRING BOOK SALE Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323 Tables throughout the library will be full of books, CDs and DVDs at bargain prices. Choose from mysteries and thrillers, fiction, classics, histories, biographies, children’s and YA books.

10 am-6 pm, free TALK AND BOOK SIGNING WITH BEN RHODES New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5100 Worldos, listen up. Rhodes is probably best known today as co-host of Pod Save the World, but that'a just one of his many activities. A senior advisor to former President Barack Obama and an accomplished author, his most recent book, After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made (which SFR featured in last year’s summer reading guide).

7 pm, $25

EVENTS CHESS AND JAZZ CLUB No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Drink tea, play chess, enjoy life.

6-8 pm, free GAME TIME Santa Fe Public Library (LaFarge) 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860 Board game afternoons. Bring in your faves and your friends, leave with a couple of books and everyone will be happy.

Just do what you can to win.

4-5:30 pm, free MMIR NATIONAL AWARENESS DAY Santa Fe Plaza 80 E San Francisco St. New Mexico has the highest rate of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. In conjunction with the National Day of Awareness for MMIR, join Three Sisters Collective at the New Mexico State Capital, O'ga Pogeh Plaza for a community event to honor the missing through prayer, words, art, song and dance. Three Sisters Collective invites you to wear red and dress in your traditional attire if you would like. Signs and posters welcome, of course. (see SFR picks, page 17) 5 pm, free YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 Man, plants. We love ‘em. We love them at parks too, especially that beautiful Railyard Park. Let’s love them so much we give them life.

10 am-noon, free

MUSIC BEAUTY OF THE DAY Cathedral Basilica 131 Cathedral Place (505) 982-5619 Chanticleer, known worldwide for its seamless blend of 12 male voices, brings a program of new and old works to the Cathedral Basilica.

7:30 pm, $20-$115 BOB MAUS Cava Lounge at the Eldorado 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Join Maus in the Cava Lounge.

Hear banging covers from the greats ranging from Randy Newman to Otis Redding.

6-9 pm, free CCA AMPLIFIED: GREGG TURNER Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 Turner performs and shares stories of his times with Roky Erickson, the '60s psychedelic rock pioneer. A screening the documentary You're Gonna Miss Me (2005) follows. This event is in collaboration with Lost Padre Records.

6 pm, $15 FIRST THURSDAYS AT EL REY El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Soak up the summer (or spring, we guess) at El Rey Court’s First Thursday. Enjoy live music, signature cocktails from La Reina, wood-fired pizza from Tenderfire Kitchen and goods from a local maker.

6-8 pm, free IGUDESMAN AND JOO: PLAY IT AGAIN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Often the best parts of the concert are the encores. So why not start right away with them?

In fact—what if every piece was an encore? Play it Again, Igudesman & Joo’s third duo show is a topsy-turvy, upsidedown, inside-out show, taking audience’s wishes for them to “play it again” and giving them far more than they wished for.

7:30 pm, $35-$59 REVOZO, RUMBA FLAMENCA El Nido 1577 Bishops Lodge Road (505) 954-1272 Local Flamenco band Revozo adds Spanish flair to the already well-known house specials.

6-8 pm, free THE CONCERT FOR UKRAINE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 All proceeds will help feed, shelter and provide medical care for the mothers, grandmothers and childhood refugees now fleeing Ukraine.

The show features Joe West and Friends, Nosotros, Boomroots Collective and more.

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Hands-On Curatorial Program Opening

8th year of working with Santa Fe high school students.

May 13th, 2022, 5:30-7:30pm

Free

Masks required.

1590 B Pacheco Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505 coeartscenter.org (505) 983-6372

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Easy Access Location Family Friendly • An afternoon of live theatre performances Food Trucks • Walk easily between venues, all within the mall Restrooms

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Theatre Grottesco presents

SHORTS 5

Compania Chuscales & Mina Fajardo present

FOUR SEASONS

A collection of theatrical short stories created by company members

A flamenco concert inspired by the poetry of Antonio Machado

May 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21 Santa Fe Improv,1202 Parkway, Unit A

May 27-28 7:30pm Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie

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After roughly six years as Director of the Museum of International Folk Art, Khristaan Villela has accepted a position as the Associate Director of Dissemination and External Affairs at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California. Villela plans to exit this June, and it’s a pretty big loss for the community. But life goes on and we wish him well—so well, in fact, that we thought we’d see him off with the following three questions. (Alex De Vore) Your new title sounds impressive. Can you demystify what it is you’ll be doing?

So, the director of the Getty reorganized the Research Institute, and created three new positions. One is over the library and curators and the provenance index, and another is over the research program and knowledge. The piece I’ll be doing includes the [Getty Research Institute Publications], it also includes the exhibition program, digital media and content strategy; public programming, development and all communications. It’s going to be my challenge working with the other teams there at the institute to help us unify all of the different voices at the research institute so we can understand and be better able to present the stories we’re telling. There are some remarkable projects in motion now, and this new position will allow a little bit more communication for storytelling and how we get the word out about the programs and exhibitions.

Is there anything at MOIFA of which you’re particularly proud? In other words, now’s the time to brag, Khristaan.

I’m very proud we bought the traveling exhibit about Alexander Girard, that was organized by [Germany’s] Vitra Museum.

The Girard Wing will be 40 years old this year, and that’s a significant anniversary. It was an amazing accomplishment that our team here, including our in-house curator, Laura Addison, were able to work with the Vitra to bring those remarkable objects of contemporary mid-modern design to Santa Fe. It was kind of mind-blowing to me to see the connection between the pieces of folk

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art on display and how it had an afterlife in Girard’s design practice.

I think also putting a renewed attention on the Girard Wing. People will come to certain museums in Santa Fe no matter what you have on view and in changing exhibits, but the Girard Wing has its own standing in the museum world as a unique experience. I like to say it’s like Meow Wolf, but circa 1960. We spend a good bit of time and resources to continually clean the wing, be more energy efficient, and those are ongoing. We also have a Girard book in the works that will be half about his design work and half about his folk art collecting.

We’ve had a long string of really excellent exhibitions that have been wellresearched by the curators. Eighty% of our visitors are from out of town. The 20% who live here in New Mexico, that’s a highly desirable audience segment we’re trying to reach. The Gallery of Conscience that has been around since 2010 has been a place for us to live our social justice mission.

Our founder believed in what today we’d call cultural diplomacy, and social justice is foregrounded in different ways in every exhibition. But it’s something of concern to the current team that we continue to shine a light on these issues and that artists get to keep telling their stories, that we don’t tell the stories for them. We have an exhibition up now that’s on the pandemic, and it’s a mix of local and global work. We put some new lucha libre masks up, and they’re hanging next to a wonderful textile by a Hispanic Chimayó weaver. I think we’ve done a lot here, and we’re Santa Fe’s favorite museum. You can see that when you come through the door, whether it’s kids or adults.

I’d add that the pandemic was a very difficult time for all our museums, and I just want to acknowledge that when our doors were closed to the public, the team here pivoted really quickly and produced an astonishing amount of digital content that has been an enduring contribution during those dark years. It’s addressing people who can’t come to the museum, whether they’re from a far-flung part of the state or Afghanistan. We distributed literally thousands of art kits to [Santa Fe kids]. I think around 5,000.

Can you tell us you at least felt a little tortured over taking the new job?

You bet. I’ve lived in Santa Fe half my life, and I always wanted to live here and I’ve worked for some great institutions.

I wouldn’t live here if it weren’t for the richness of the arts and culture that both is here historically, as well as in institutions that are more recently founded. It’s attractive—the music, visual arts, literary arts, Hispanic and Native arts. It’s a unique place and the folk art is so good. It’s bittersweet. [My family] loves it here.

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THEATER A DELICATE BALANCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 When your marriage is passion-free like this, of course the relatives piling up in the house are gonna cause a little grievance.

7:30 pm, $30-$75 SHORTS 5: A NEW COLLECTION OF THEATRICAL CREATIONS Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Unit A tinyurl.com/3r3t7uu7 A new collection of original plays created by company members, each a complete story and world unto itself. (see SFR picks, page 17) 7:30 pm, $12-$25 THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway, Drive B tinyurl.com/mry3ehtn Bar rats from all walks of life come together in 1930s America.

7:30 pm, $15-$30

WORKSHOP STILT-WALKING CLASS Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B. (505) 992-2588 Learn to walk tall on stilts.

5:30-7 pm, free

FRI/6 ART MILDRED HOWARD: FROM 1994 TO NOW (OPENING) Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800 A collage, tapestry and mixed media sculptural show. Known for sculptural installations and mixed-media assemblage work, Howard is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Adeline Kent Award and a fellowship from the California Arts Council.

5-7 pm, free

NEW WORKS: MIKAYLA PATTON Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882 Patton’s latest creations on handmade paper, stitched with glass beads and porcupine quills.

5-7 pm, free PASEO POTTERY THROW DOWN Paseo Pottery 1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687 Live pottery demos, libations by Tumbleroot and DJ Chavo spinning vinyl while Paseo Pottery’s teachers strut their clay stuff on the wheels. (see SFR picks, page 17) 5-8 pm, $20 PAWSER TRUNK SHOW: CURATED POP-UP WITH SHANDIIN WOOD SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Exploring the fine art of jewelry-making and specializing in wearable art with PAWSER’s hand crafted designs.

10 am-7 pm, free THE BODY ELECTRIC (OPENING) SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Jeffrey Gibson merges artistic styles and historical and contemporary cultural references synergizes to create vibrant, multilayered works of art that express the relationships between injustice and personal identity.

5-9 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES READ TO LEARN. SEE TO REMEMBER. (OPENING) El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Artist and writer Marie Sheel takes us through some of the best things she's learned from reading over 30 books on writing. She's incorporated both essays and imagery as pages of an unfinished book.

5-7 pm, free

SPRING BOOK SALE Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323 Go buy books. You’ve been wanting to read more anyways.

10 am-6 pm, free

DANCE FLAMENCO FIESTA: CHUSCALES AND FRIENDS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Spanish guitar and vocals.

7:30 pm, $20-$30

EVENTS FIRST FRIDAY Lena Street Lofts 1600 Lena St. (505) 984-1921 Browse artisan goods and meet the makers.

4-7 pm, free STAND-UP COMEDY NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Laugh. Do it. We dare you.

Arrive early for seats, otherwise standing room only.

8 pm, $5

MUSIC BAILE DE MAYO Santa Fe Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590 Music by Mariachi Differencia and Los Blue Ventures de Louis Sanchez.

6:30-11 pm, $15 ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato Jazz trio plus a jam sesh.

6-9 pm, free

THEATER A DELICATE BALANCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Watching middle-aged couples fight when it’s not our family is awesome.

7:30 pm, $30-$75

SHORTS 5: A NEW COLLECTION OF THEATRICAL CREATIONS Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Unit A tinyurl.com/3r3t7uu7 A collection of short plays. (see SFR picks, page 17) 7:30 pm, $12-$25 SNEAKY: AN EVENING OF PLAYS Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2351 William Yellow Robe's play Sneaky, plus other works.

6 pm, free THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B tinyurl.com/mry3ehtn Just like the Green Day song, except it’s about people in a bar in San Francisco in the ‘30s.

7:30 pm, $15-$30

SAT/7 ART NIGHT FEAST Engine House Theater 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 A community dinner where artists submit proposals for projects needing funding.

7-10 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Artistan goods for sale.

9 am-2 pm, free THE SOULFUL INDIGENOUS (OPENING) Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St. (928) 308-0319 Nocturnal desert reveries in art.

5-9 pm, free THE T BANG SHOW Calliope 2876 HWY 14, Madrid (505) 474-7564 Terrell Powell takes art in hotel rooms and alters it into something else. Hoteliers aren’t a fan, obviously.

4-6 pm, free

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POETRY READING (AND FREE DROPOUT ADVICE) Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355 Once a staff writer for the New Yorker, Puma has turned to adventure and poetry. She’s unbridled and exuberant and makes every word significant.

1 pm, free SPRING BOOK SALE Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323 Starting at 1 pm you can fill a bag of books for only $5. A whole bag. $5. Whatever they got. My God. Get down there.

10 am-4 pm, free

ENGINE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Cumbia, rock and blues.

7:30 pm, $22-$25 PRAYER OF THE CHILDREN Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe 107 N. Barcelona Road (505) 920-6257 A concert inspired by suffering children around the world with a special emphasis on the children within Ukraine. The show also honors long-time member Mark Onstad, who passed away in early 2020.

7 pm, $20 ROBERT FOX TRIO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. lacasasena.com/clublegato Jazz so good it’s twice a week.

This trio is never a poor way to spend a Saturday night.

6-9 pm, free VAN GOGH, RICHARD STRAUSS AND MORE Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road (505) 988-1975 Hear Gregory Gallagher, tenor and Kayla Liechty on piano. The program features Italian and French art songs.

8-9:30 pm, $20-$50

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

2-4 pm, $5-$12 FLAMENCO FIESTA: CHUSCALES AND FRIENDS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Flamenco tunes.

7:30 pm, $20-$30 TAP DANCE WORKSHOP Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B. (505) 992-2588 Tap the blues away.

4-7 pm, $20-$40

EVENTS HIGH ROAD La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 A day-long party full of live music: The Hamilton's, Esther Rose and Kalu James are all ready to go. The High Road market features vintage makers, artists and artisans. Join poolside yoga classes, or create your own clay jewelry memento.

Wood-fired pizza too? Oh yeah, it's a whole thing. Please RSVP for all workshops.

11 am-8 pm, free

THEATER A DELICATE BALANCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Everyone’s losing their sanity because of everyone else in the house. Yet their daughter Julia, on the run from her fourth marriage (hell yeah Julia) barges back home. Chaos erupts.

2 pm, 7:30 pm, $30-$75 CYMBELINE Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe 107 N Barcelona Road upstartcrowsofsantafe.org We promise this is classic Shakespeare. We checked Wikipedia, don’t worry. The Upstart Crows wouldn’t lie like that.

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ICONS CHOMP Food Hall 505 Cerrillos Road (505) 470-8118 Burlesque cabaret by legends who are here to take you to the moon and back.

9 pm, $10-$15 SHORTS 5: A NEW COLLECTION OF THEATRICAL CREATIONS Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Unit A tinyurl.com/3r3t7uu7 These short plays will fill up an evening, full stop. (see SFR picks, page 17) 7:30 pm, $12-$25 SNEAKY: AN EVENING OF PLAYS Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2351 Works documenting the Native experience.

6 pm, free THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B tinyurl.com/mry3ehtn William Saroyan's play about a San Fran bar.

7:30 pm, $15-$30 WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE LIVE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 A live reading of the popular podcast.

9 pm, free

WORKSHOP ART AND WINE Cake's Corner Cafe 228 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 989-1904 A ticket includes art supplies, instruction and wine, beer, cocktail or any non-alcoholic beverage. Remember: Cash only.

7 pm, $35 CNC SHAPER BADGE CLASS Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502 An introduction to the basic principles of ComputerAided Design (CAD) and the Computer-Aided Machining (CAM).

Noon-4 pm, $90

SUN/8 ART ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW Ironstone Gardens 901 W San Mateo Road, Ste. K&F tinyurl.com/2p986tzk New works of four local and vibrant visual artists.

1-5 pm, free LIVE PRINTING WITH HERSTORY PRINT COLLECTIVE Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta axleart.com Learn new printmaking techniques.

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PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM Ricardo Mazal's Studio 926 Shoofly St tinyurl.com/2p89t9hv An artistic duo explores pauses in equilibrium caused by monumental events in the world.

5-8 pm, free RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Railyard Artisan Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4098 Shop local and meet makers.

10 am-3 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES RECLAIMING NARRATIVES: JEFFREY GIBSON AND NANI CHACON IN CONVERSATION SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Artists Nani Chacon and Jeffrey Gibson discuss themes in their work.

10:30 am, $0-$5

DANCE BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE CLASS Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 Move your belly.

1-2 pm, $15

FOOD SKY RAILWAY: LAMY BRUNCH RUN Santa Fe Railyard 332 Read St. skyrailway.com A train plus brunch.

11 am, $99-$169

MUSIC DJ COWBOY SPICE + DJ ELDON La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Enjoy the disc jockey stylings of DJ Cowboy Spice and DJ Eldon and all their lovely libations.

7-9 pm, free FROM BAMAKO TO BIRMINGHAM: AMADOU & MARIAM AND BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 A cultural fusion of Afro-pop duo Amadou & Mariam and soulful gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama that combines contemporary African sounds and African-American roots.

7:30 pm, $44-$69 GERRY CARTHY Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474 Irish tunes.

6-8:30 pm, free HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING? St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail tinyurl.com/2d6ns362 Songs about the immigrant experience.

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Noon-2 pm, free

THEATER A DELICATE BALANCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Middle-aged people being dramatic. And you’re dang right we’re gonna stan them while hoping they fight more.

2 pm, $30-$75 CYMBELINE Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe 107 N. Barcelona Road upstartcrowsofsantafe.org Shakespeare’s on deck.

3 pm, 5 pm, $15 SHORTS 5: A NEW COLLECTION OF THEATRICAL CREATIONS Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Unit A tinyurl.com/3r3t7uu7 The theatrical equivalent to a collection of short stories. (see SFR picks, page 17) 2 pm, $12-$25 THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B tinyurl.com/mry3ehtn William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prizewinning play.

2 pm, $15-$30

MON/9 BOOKS/LECTURES NATIVE AMERICAN CONQUISTADORS: MESOAMERICAN CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail southwestseminars.org Matthew Barbour speaks on the above subjects.

6 pm, $20

DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Swing dancing joy.

7 pm, $3-$8

EVENTS QUEER NIGHT La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Be queer, do crimes. But meet up with other queers in a safe space first.

5-11 pm, free

MUSIC BARBERSHOP CHORUS IN-PERSON 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.

6:30-8 pm, free

TUE/10 BOOKS/LECTURES CARMEN'S PATH FROM NOVELLA TO OPERA Online tinyurl.com/53rx7k5v A discussion on Georges Bizet's well-known opera.

3-4:30 pm, $0-$10 FOLK ART FOCUS ON FIVE Online tinyurl.com/4afsjpa6 A virtual visit to the Museum of International Folk Art. 11 am-noon, free

EVENTS NEW MEXICO: 50 YEAR WATER PLAN Online tinyurl.com/m47fje6y Learn how Tribal communities can protect their water.

6 pm, free CANDIDATE FORUM FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER GCCC Community Room 3221 Rodeo Road lwvsfc.org For District 1 and 3 voters.

6:30 pm-8, free

FRIENDS OF SANTA FE PARKS MEETING Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 For park lovers who want a little more, attend to learn about future park clean-ups, fundraisers and improvements.

10 am-noon, free

FOOD TUESDAY RAILYARD MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098 Shop local and fresh without the Saturday crowds.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC AUDIO ENTROPY Online twitch.tv/sfccaudio SFCC students perform original electronic music.

7 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT Roots & Leaves 301 N Guadalupe St. (720) 804-9379 Share art over tea and kava.

7-9 pm, free

SONDRE LERCHE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Mellow tunes and movie scores.

7 pm, $19

THEATER BROADWAY CONFIDENTIAL Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 A night of songs and stories with Ana Gasteyer and Seth Rudetsky. (see SFR picks, page 17) 7 pm, $49-$89 DESERT HOME COMPANION Online tinyurl.com/2p8e2xxp Stories, music and storytelling.

7-8 pm, free THEATRE WALK SNEAK PEAK Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie theatresantafe.org/rsvp What’s to come for the upcoming theater walk? Well, the Theater Lovers Club has put together a taste of what’s to come, with actors presentings scenes from upcoming productions.

6-7 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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“Butterfly Book“ by artist Erin Keane currently at The Museum of Encaustic Art. MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence and the Architecture of John Gaw Meem. Trails, Rails, and Highways: How Trade Transformed New Mexico.

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

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

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

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

Portraits: Peoples, Places, and Perspectives. Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é.

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

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Thrifty ThriftWorks! by YouthWorks! finds youth-centric nonprofit creating more pathways for young folks

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s local nonprofit YouthWorks! stood on the precipice of 21 years helping young Santa Feans become the next generation of community leaders, the organization also found itself navigating the pandemic with as much trepidation as any organization. Still, according to Executive Director Melynn Schuyler, locals stepped up in a major way during COVID-19, and staff consistently showed up to work to find scads of donations in the parking lot, plus countless people swinging by to offer up their gently used clothing, furniture, home goods, shoes, electronics and more. This is basically how the organization’s new endeavor ThriftWorks! came to exist in a warehouse space off Siler Road.

“We collect donations to help young folks when they’re finding their first housing situations, and we weren’t saying no to anything, so all of a sudden, we were filling up storage units,” Schuyler says. “We realized we had a thrift store on our hands.”

ThriftWorks! (2905 San Isidro Court, (505) 428-0386) opened last November just as the Omicron variant was coming to a head. According to data from Schuyler, 27 paid youths helped in its launch, including collecting and sorting goods, painting and designing the store, display strategies and more.

This number includes participants in the on-

Left to right: Jay Hennicke, Bryan Romero, Jennifer Zoller, Mike Lee and Melynn Schuyler make up much of YouthWorks!’ new thirft shop, ThriftWorks!

going YouthWorks! YouthBuild construction program, which operates under construction manager Johnny Gee, and the finished thrift store has created four full-time positions for YouthWorks! members. This, Schuyler says, might be the crown jewel of the new shop— not only are the kids paid for their time, they receive training in customer service, retail inventory, management and, as a cherry on top, YouthWorks! certifications in those things.

“I got my GED recently being with YouthWorks!,” says ThriftWorks! employee Jennifer Zoller, who, at 17, learned about the program through her aunt, a caseworker who goes by the name Bagel. “It’s active involvement, and I’m full-time as best as I can be— and it’s a paid position.”

Zoller says she’d like to break into animation someday, but even a year ago was not attending school regularly. YouthWorks! helped her complete her high school level studies, and ThriftWorks!, she says, is preparing her for better employment while she works on her illustration skills. Her dream, she adds, is to adapt prison-style art into a more cartoony style and go from there.

Schuyler, meanwhile, says Zoller has been of tireless help, as does ThriftWorks! manager Mike Lee, who describes her like his “right arm.” A lifelong Santa Fean, Lee came out of retirement to work at ThriftWorks!

following a longtime administrative position with the Santa Fe Public Schools.

“I’d known about YouthWorks! for 20 years,” he says, adding that helping kids was a big part of taking the new position, “and this is an opportunity to show what we do for the youth. Customers can get an earful about what we do, and they get really jazzed up.

Honestly, if we have somebody with even just a little bit of interest, we sic the kids on them.”

You can see how well it’s working with employee Bryan Romero, who came to YouthWorks! from Springer in 2009, when he was just 19, and recently returned to Santa Fe to work at ThriftWorks!.

“I just asked them if they had any positions, and they asked me to help out here,” Romero explains. “It’s a learning experience, for sure, but not just retail. It’s more like retail with a cause, and with a little bit of everything. It’s a good job with good pay, too.”

Romero says he pulls down $14 an hour, and he’s been able to pay rent because of it.

He also says he believes in the YouthWorks! mission.

“We’re trying to keep kids off the streets, and it’s a great program,” he tells SFR. “We’re trying to get them to be better than what I was when I was younger. I was a bit of a troublemaker, and I wound up in prison for six and a half years because of it.”

Romero, Zoller and the other two full-timers are part of the new shop’s every process, according to Director of Operations Jay Hennicke.

“I oversee operations, make sure everything is good to go,” he says. “And I troubleshoot problems along the way, and we do strategizing, brainstorming.”

He’ll even show up to your house to pick up larger items you don’t want but can’t move yourself. Think of it like decluttering in a post-pandemic world, but also as playing a small part in the creation of opportunities. ThriftWorks! is otherwise like any other thrift shop. For now, Schuyler says, the project is self-sustaining with no income going back out to YouthWorks! Over time, this could change, and new positions might possibly open up for kids down the road, but she, Lee, Hennicke, Zoller and Romero are just happy to keep things running. You’ll find items like you would at any thrift shop, too, without the socio-political issues inherent with nonprofits like the Salvation Army, which has faced allegations of discrimination for years.

“We’re the locals!” Schuyler says emphatically. “And we have little pots of money to make opportunities happen for young people. If they show up and want to learn, we’re going to find a way.”

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ast January, chef Fernando Ruiz became the inaugural chef of Palace Prime, the steakhouse inside the former Palace Saloon on—get this—Palace Avenue. That position lasted for only a short time, with Ruiz and his staff exiting some months later. And though Palace Prime continues to be a downright beloved restaurant, Ruiz now tells SFR he’s got his sights set on something all his own. That something is Escondido, a new Midtown spot at Agua Fría Street and Harrison Road with a target open window of next summer. Ruiz will, for the first time in his career, be an owner alongside his fellow investors, Stewart Alsop, James Johnson of web development agency Mindshare, who also serves as the eatery’s producer (think of him like a bizdev guy), and former Meow Wolf CEO Vince Kadlubek.

“I don’t want to say I’m glad [about Palace Prime], but things happen for a reason, and looking ahead, looking at the future, there’s no bad blood and I wish everybody the best,” Ruiz tells SFR. “I’ve just had the carrot dangled in front of my face so long, and it took people like Vince, like Stewart and James, to say we’re going to do something—it’s my restaurant.”

“This is the first restaurant Fernando owns,” Kadlubek adds. “This is his concept, this is his restaurant.”

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ly known as a bit of an experimenter and innovator. This is the guy who learned how to cook while in prison in Arizona, and who went on the Food Network to win shows like Guy’s Grocery Games and Chopped. Ruiz even toppled the ever-smug celeb chef Bobby Flay on his own damn show. In other words, as a chef, Ruiz is a bit of a perfectionist, and he’s still developing the Escondido menu.

Kadlubek and Johnson say narrowing down the options has not been a difficult task, however, more of a delicious one.

“We’re going to do...think ceviches, tacos, moles, tequilas and mescals,” Ruiz explains.

“Everything else around that realm; clean, fresh ingredients, and affordable, too—no downtown prices.”

Escondido joins the ever-burgeoning Midtown movement, though that particular area of town has been described as burgeoning for so long that Santa Feans will eventually just have to accept it has already arrived.

Elsewhere nearby, you’ll find legendary local haunts like Tortilla Flats and Alicia’s Tortilleria, but ER M Ruiz’s new spot should go AS L UG DO a long way toward the neighborhood’s perception as a dining destination. It’ll be sit-down and elegant, he says, though not hoity-toity. The building, which Ruiz and company are renting from local nonprofit Homewise, will also allow for rooftop dining—one of the few across the entire city, Ruiz points out.

“There are maybe four in Santa Fe,” he estimates. “To be able to see the city from that angle, to get the different views, there’s so much potential there, and [once we open], people from the Southside won’t need to L L SE US drive downtown and won’t ER K AT have to find parking. We’ve got a parking lot.”

For Kadlubek, who maintains investments with Palace Prime and who has, of late, been described as a serial entrepreneur, RI

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Escondido is the continuation of something he says he learned when initially developing Meow Wolf: New developments should look for myriad ways to engage community. He envisions Escondido as a mixed-use space where, in addition to Ruiz’s tacos and ceviches, Santa Feans might be able to catch a show or take a class on mescal or tequila. Together, the ownership pictures live music, one-off experiential dinners and even collaborations with other restaurants. A Meow Wolf collab seems inevitable, and Kadlubek says they’ll stay open late—til 11 pm.

Equitable pay for workers is also high on the to-do list.

“Pay is one of the first things we spoke about,” Ruiz says.

“We know the industry well in Santa Fe,” Kadlubek says, “and we want the best people to work for Escondido, and the way you do that is paying them well.”

Ruiz, for example, says he has a group of workers “on standby” for when Escondido gets closer to opening.

“And we all know what it’s like to be a

server in Santa Fe and show up for a fourhour shift only to leave with $8 because you make $2 an hour plus tips,” Kadlubek says.

“We want to figure out a pay scale for those working off tips.”

Let’s hope that comes to pass effectively.

If the pandemic taught us anything about foodservice, it’s that the old ways don’t work so well in case of emergency. People wind up working sick, for example, and winter shifts come with paltry tips. If Ruiz and company can lead the way in terms of decent pay, that would really be something. As it stands, though, there’s still much to plan and things could change at any time. Even so, as Santa Fe diners become more willing to eschew the long-held downtown restaurant obsession, it’s locals who stand to benefit the most.

“I feel like everybody in Santa Fe has business along Siler Road,” Johnson says.

“Everybody goes there for something, and when I’m there, I’m constantly asking myself where to get food, what’s for lunch? It’s nice to see a restaurant opening down there.”

Ditto.

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Crush is as bland as its title promises, and any film that uses voice-over as a tool for set-up and promptly forgets about it automatically loses points. Hey, filmmakers? Do not do this. There’s a strong chance you don’t need it, promise, and having confidence in your scripts (as Crush so evidently does not have) means you’re already halfway there. Voice-overs that explain the obvious only betray that your concept is more than a little shaky. OK. Rant over.

In Crush, Paige (Girl Meets World’s Rowan Blanchard) is more than a little artsy, so when a series of unapproved murals appear on her school campus, everyone agrees it’s her—but of course, it’s not. As punishment for her assumed crime, Paige is forced onto the school’s track team for...some reason. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but it does present a prime opportunity to pursue her crush, Gabriela (Isabella Ferreira of Love Victor), only to find herself falling for Gabriela’s sister, AJ (Moana’s Auli’i Cravalho).

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Directors Julia and Clara Kuperberg’s toughto-swallow (but more than fair) documentary Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood might have come out in 2019, but it just hit the HBO Max streaming service this week, and should be considered a must-watch for cinephiles of all levels.

In a nutshell, Hollywood both faces and self-generates an ongoing series of issues surrounding how Asian stories are told, who plays Asian characters and why, after so many years, it still blames audiences for an appalling lack of Asian representation. Through interviews with film historians and actors, the Kuperbergs posit that much of the problem stems from three major issues: The perception that Asian culture is a monolith; socio-political detritus—including the long dead puritanical streak Hollywood once had; and leftover World War II feelings spurred by propaganda—and the tired crap and pablum from the era of the Hays Code, which wouldn’t allow for interracial romance, sexual content, etc.

The Hays Code is long-gone and there is no shortage of Asian talent, but casting directors consistently pigeonhole and typecast Asian actors, if they’re even cast at all. Assuming they do land roles, there is little to no delineation between cultures, and more often than not, the parts fall into that of martial artist or some sort of overly-stoic stereotype. And that’s before Yellowface even delves into shocking examples of white folks play28

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Director and College Humor alum Sammi Cohen doesn’t quite seem to understand it’s hackneyed to present a queer film that uses so many lines to reflect how queer it is. Man, do these characters banter.

You can’t get through a scene without a minute-long back-and-forth about something meaningless. When it’s not overwhelmed by banter, the dialogue in Crush feels drier than a camel’s hoof. A skilled director can turn the worst script into a passable film, but the direction here is emotionless. Blocking, an oft-forgotten key to decent direction, doesn’t appear to be on Cohen’s radar, and all the actors stand uncomfortably like someone’s going to throw the script at their heads if they dare make a choice. Giving your actors something to do isn’t a brave act.

ing Asian roles. Marlon Brando as Sakini in 1956’s The Teahouse of the August Moon feels particularly glaring, as do performances by Katherine Hepburn, Christopher Lee and literally anyone who ever played Charlie Chan. Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s alone is nauseating. From prosthetics and disgusting accents to cartoons and US military training films, the bullshit is so commonplace and myriad, in fact, that it almost feels like a whole lot of old people should get to apologizing.

And though we might be tempted to look back and chalk the racism up to its being of a different time but, the film notes, things have not gotten much better. Look to Tilda Swinton’s Asian-esque role in Marvel’s Doctor Strange films; consider how 1990’s Come See the Paradise remains the only mainstream narrative film about the Japanese American internment camps. Even that film’s star, Tamlyn Tomita, points out in the documentary how much of its content aged poorly—it’s also more than 30 years old at this point.

Yellowface stumbles a tad in its short running time and lack of talking heads. Just when it feels like it’s getting to some really good points, it’s over, and there’s not a whole lot of perspectives. Still, it gracefully suggests how moviegoers and filmmakers face a bit of a conundrum, but one that seems to be further untangled with every blockbuster Asian-led film over the last several years. Movies like Crazy Rich Asians and Everything Everywhere All at Once prove that audiences of all ilks will absolutely turn up for the movies that aren’t just about white people. It’s a good start, but moviegoers will need to self-evaluate and ask themselves what’s important. The folks who make movies even moreso. (Alex De Vore) HBO Max, NR, 54 min.

Nothing in Crush is necessarily bad, but it teeters on the edge of mediocrity. It isn’t funny despite how hard it’s trying to be, and like just about any old Disney Channel movie, it’s cheaply made while coasting on its subject matter. But hey, YA-queer films are almost always good news, especially so younger viewers don’t feel isolated in their media. Crush gets points there, and perhaps there’s an audience who might find the banter enjoyable. Perhaps.

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Despite jumping on the social medias last week to bemoan my lack of interest in yet another entry in the seemingly never-ending onslaught of vikingbased entertainment of late, 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 ideas for face-stabbing. When Amleth does indeed

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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, at least in the later bits wherein she emerges as a more powerful creature than seemed possible.

Moviegoers will likely take The Northman’s ending any number of ways, but hopefully realize how even getting the things over which we’ve obsessed doesn’t always mean it feels good—or is good for those around us. 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. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 136 min.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Anne Lamott is renowned for her tender approach to expressing her struggles with addiction, depression, and other tribulations. One of her supreme tests was being a single mother who raised her son Sam. In this effort, she was her usual plucky self. Anytime she hosted playdates with Sam’s young friends at her home, she called on the help of crayons and paint and pens and clay and scissors.

“When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down,” she testified. I recommend a comparable strategy for you in the coming days, Libra. You will have extra power as you tame, calm, or transform your demons.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Rapper and entrepreneur Making art could be effective, as well as any task that Jay-Z tells us, “Don’t ever go with the flow. Instead, be the flow.” Here’s what I think he means: If we go with the spurs your creativity and imagination. flow, we adjust and accommodate ourselves to a force SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “My heart has developed a that is not necessarily aligned with our personal inclina- kind of amnesia, where it remembers everything but tions and needs. To go with the flow implies we are sur- itself,” writes Scorpio poet Sabrina Benaim. If you suffer rendering our autonomy. To claim our full sovereignty, on a condition that resembles hers, it’s about to change. the other hand, we are wise to be the flow. We should According to my astrological analysis, your heart will create our own flow, which is just right for our unique soon not only remember everything; it will also rememinclinations and needs. I think this is the right approach ber itself. What a blissful homecoming that will be— for you right now, Taurus. Be the flow. although it may also be unruly and confounding, at least in the beginning. But after the initial surprise calms GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Italian language used to down, you will celebrate a dramatic enhancement of be a dialect spoken in Tuscany. That area comprises less emotionally rich self-knowledge. You will feel united than eight percent of the country’s territory. How did with the source of your longing to love and be loved. such a dramatic evolution happen? Why did a local dialect supersede other dialects like Piedmontese, SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Just because things Neapolitan, Sicilian, and others? In part, it was because hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily three potent 14th-century writers wrote in the Tuscan mean they had gone wrong,” writes Sagittarian author dialect: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, and Ann Patchett. Her thought may be helpful for you to Giovanni Boccaccio. Another reason: Because Tuscany is meditate on. My guess is that you will ultimately be glad centrally located in Italy, its dialect was less influenced that things didn’t go the way you planned. God or your Higher Self or the Mysterious Forces of Destiny will conby languages in France and other nearby countries. I spire to lead you away from limited expectations or notoffer this as a metaphor for you in the coming months.

One of your personal talents, affiliations, or inclinations big-enough visions so as to offer you bigger and better blessings. could become more influential and widespread—and have more authority in your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) confessed she was a “wild beast.” Really?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Always strive to be more The author who wrote masterfully about the complex interested than interesting,” said actor and activist Jane Fonda. That may not be easy for you to accomplish in the social lives of wealthy British people? Here’s my theory: near future, dear Cancerian. Your curiosity will be at peak The wild beast in her made her original, unsentimental, humorous, and brilliant in creating her stories. How is levels, but you may also be extra compelling and captiyour own inner wild beast, Capricorn? According to my vating. So I’ll amend Fonda’s advice: Give yourself perreading of the astrological omens, now is an excellent mission to be both as interested and as interesting as you can imagine. Entertain the world with your lively per- time to give it fun, rich assignments. What parts of your sonality as you go in quest of new information, fresh per- life would benefit from tapping into raw, primal energy? ceptions, and unprecedented experiences.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian poet Jack ARIES (March 21-April 19): Poet Jennifer Willoughby writes, “I am so busy. I am practicing my new hobby of watching me become someone else. There is so much violence in reconstruction. Every minute is grisly, but I have to participate. I am building what I cannot break.” I wouldn’t describe your own reconstruction process during recent months as “violent” or “grisly,” Aries, but it has been strenuous and demanding. The good news is that you have mostly completed the most demanding work. Soon the process will become more fun.

Congratulations on creating an unbreakable new version of yourself!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “When in doubt, act like God,” proclaimed Leo singer-songwriter Madonna. I wouldn’t usually endorse that advice. But I’ll make an exception for you Leos during the next three weeks. Due to a divine configuration of astrological omens, you are authorized to ascend to new heights of sovereignty and self-possession—even to the point of doing a vivid God impersonation. For best results, don’t choose an angry, jealous, tyrannical deity to be your role model. Pattern yourself after a sweeter, funnier, more intimate type of celestial being.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My Virgo friend Amanda told me she felt tight and overwrought. She was overthinking and on the verge of a meltdown. With a rueful sigh, she added, “I adore anything that helps me decompress, unwind, simmer down, stop worrying, lighten up, compose myself, and mellow out.” So I invited her to take deep breaths, close her eyes, and visualize herself immersed in blue-green light. Then I asked her to name influences she loved: people, animals, natural places, music, books, films, art, and physical movements that made her feel happy to be alive. She came up with eight different sources of bliss, and together we meditated on them. Half an hour later, she was as relaxed as she had been in months. I recommend you try a comparable exercise every day for the next 14 days. Be proactive about cultivating tranquil delight.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The genre of poetry known as haiku often relies on unexpected juxtapositions. Critic R. H. Blyth observed, “In haiku, the two entirely different things that are joined in sameness are poetry and sensation, spirit and matter.” I suspect your life in the coming weeks will have metaphorical resemblances to haikus. You will be skilled at blending elements that aren’t often combined, or that should be blended but haven’t been. For inspiration, read these haikus by Raymond Roseliep. 1. in the stream / stones making half / the music. 2. horizon / wild swan drifting through / the woman’s body. 3. birthcry! / the stars / are all in place. 4. bathwater / down the drain / some of me. 5. grass / holding the shape / of our night. 6. campfire extinguished, / the woman washing dishes / in a pan of stars.

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