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Since we chew everything, we aren’t free roam of the entire house, but we have our own bunny-proof room [read: no chewables like iPhone chargers!] with lots of room to run, play, and binky. Google it and the vid eos will make you want a bunny!
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The company told New Mexico Political Report in early September that it had com pleted four days of flights over the 340,000acre burn scar.
BY PATRICK LOHMANN source_nmScott Moravec raised his hand during a community meeting in the burn scar of the state’s largest-ever wildfire, saying he’s encountering a roadblock in his request to repair 40 acres of fire and erosion damage in forested land in Chacon, where he lives.
He’s trying to apply for the Emergency Forest Restoration Program, which helps fire victims restore private forestland. To get money for erosion control or other emergen cy repairs, the US Department of Agriculture requires documentation of the damage.
It just so happens that an agency within the same department has a fancy, high-res olution image of the 530-square-mile burn scar of the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, one paid for by taxpayers and created with the use of small aircraft equipped with light detection and ranging technology, known as LiDAR, plus other cameras. It’s highly de tailed, three-dimensional and would show what the fire did to his land.
But the agency won’t give it to him, he said.
“I asked if I could get that photography of my property so I can outline the burn area,” Moravec said at the Oct. 17 meeting. “And they told me I had to file a Freedom of Information Act request.”
FOIA requests are often the last resort for people seeking records. The turnaround is notoriously slow, and it’s often a difficult sys tem to navigate, even for those who aren’t in a disaster zone. The fire has left many with out cell service, and internet was spotty even before the fire.
The National Resources Conservation Service, the USDA agency that holds the burn scar photo, took an average of 28 days to fulfill simple “perfected” FOIA requests in 2021, according to USDA figures. That’s lon ger than the USDA’s average of about 20 days. “Perfected” requests are specific enough that the agency finds them relatively easy to complete.
One such “perfected” request took NRCS 392 days to fill in 2021, according to a recent USDA report.
Antonia Roybal-Mack, a Mora resident and attorney representing fire victims, said she’s regularly encountered people with the same issue as Moravec, and she’s also having difficulty getting the photo on behalf of her clients. It’s “incredibly inconvenient,” she said, for someone who’s had their property charred to even know where to start.
A fire victim can’t simply file a FOIA re quest with the USDA, for example. To ensure a speedy turnaround, someone would have to know what the specific document is called and exactly which division holds it.
“You have to tell them with as much spec ificity where it is within their system on the federal side,” she said. “And that’s not an easy lift for someone who doesn’t have the neces sary training searching through government records.”
Roybal-Mack said the government is throwing up an unnecessary roadblock, es pecially since the USDA is in charge of both the agency that has the photo (that’s NRCS) and the agency that is requiring fire victims to provide it, which is the Farm Service Agency.
“The right hand isn’t talking to the left,” Roybal-Mack said.
A burned fence pictured in early September delineates private forestland burned in the government-caused Hermits Peak/ Calf Canyon Fire. Some of those with damaged forests say they’re facing an unnecessary hurdle getting a detailed public record that would help them apply for aid.
Fire victims often have difficulty docu menting damage. Many roads are impassable due to flooding, and some areas are unsafe to visit on foot.
Officials deny that they’re forcing fire vic tims to jump through this unnecessary, bu reaucratic hoop, despite what Moravec and others have reported.
“For producers and landowners that we work with, we are able to provide them with pictures of their own land, a standard prac tice for NRCS,” said Leonard Luna, a spokes man for the agency in New Mexico.
Luna did not respond to a request for comment on why Moravec’s experience was different. His office also told Source New Mexico that it would need to file a FOIA re quest for the map, saying that step was nec essary for a news organization because the document is not “publicly available” and because it showed private property. (Source New Mexico has filed a request.)
The map was produced by Teren, a Colorado-based analytics company. It an nounced in August that it was working on a two-phase mapping effort that would first analyze publicly available data to identify areas in and around the burn scar at high est risk of erosion and flooding, and then conduct mapping using LiDAR and other tools to “pinpoint hazards and guide pre cision reclamation activities within the affected area.”
The company did not respond to requests for comment. But NRCS and the company boasted in news articles when the analysis began that its technology allowed it to ana lyze a heap of data in four to five days instead of months, which is how long it usually takes.
“One of the things about the project is that it had a real sense of urgency on it,” Katherine Kraft, the company’s director of product strategy, told the news organization. “The emergency watershed protection efforts be gan immediately following the containment of a fire.”
Teren’s map is funded through a $3.25 million University of Arizona contract with NRCS for technical support for conserva tion projects to benefit “private landown ers, conservation districts, tribes and other organizations.”
Teren was hired as part of that, according to government records and the company’s website. It’s not clear from contract records how much taxpayer money was spent specifi cally on Teren’s burn scar map.
The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire be gan with two errant prescribed burns that the US Forest Service ignited in the Santa Fe National Forest this year. The blazes began on federal land but quickly spilled over onto private property and forests, destroying more than 500 homes. Widespread flooding on the burnt landscape compounded the damage.
The program Moravec is applying for is aimed at helping private or otherwise non-governmental property owners who previously had tree cover to take emergency measures to restore land damaged in natural disasters. Recipients can get up to $500,000 for debris removal, labor, planting materials, erosion control structures and more.
Moravec told Source New Mexico in a pre vious interview that, despite the loss of forest, he’s grateful to fire crews for protecting his home.
“We went through it. We survived it. We didn’t do too bad, but now we’re trying to de cide what to do,” he said. “Because of so much damage, we’re having a lot of erosion prob lems, acres and acres of dead trees.”
The meeting Moravec spoke up at was a packed question-and-answer session in a Mora High School lecture hall, with US Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández and federal officials fielding questions from about 200 frustrated fire victims.
“It seems like that [photo] should be readily available for anybody who wants to see how much of their forest burned,” he said.
“I would think so, too,” Leger Fernández said. “We will follow up with them.”
Her office did not respond to a request for comment about whether she’s since learned anything more about the problem.
This story was originally published by Source New Mexico, sourcenm.com.
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Loya was credited with the two years he’d spent in jail as the case wended its way through the system and was required to serve five years of supervised probation and regis ter as a sex offender on a non-public registry.
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Arecent lawsuit filed against the City of Santa Fe and its police department highlights the impacts of mishandled evidence, although the region’s top prose cutor says SFPD has made some progress in completing criminal investigations.
The lawsuit, filed last week on behalf of a mother and daughter who are only identified by their initials, accuses police of botching a 2018 case against a man accused of rap ing the 4-year-old girl by losing crucial DNA evidence.
“Concern for a known sexual assault victim, especially a minor of tender age, should inspire an immediate and thorough response,” the suit reads. “However, SFPD had a policy of refusing to investigate sexual assault and battery against women, such that the DNA evidence went untested.”
Lawyers for the mother and daughter de clined to comment on the case.
Enrique Palomino-Loya, now 35, was ini tially facing six separate first-degree felony child sex-crime charges and up to 100 years in state prison if found guilty. But he reached an agreement with prosecutors in which he pleaded no contest to two fourth-degree felo ny counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and a misdemeanor charge of child enticement. The deal meant that Palomino-
“The lost evidence was not a helpful thing to our case, but it was not the only deciding factor,” First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies tells SFR. She declined to provide additional details, other than to say there were “deficiencies all the way around with that case.”
Without the DNA evidence, the jury would have been instructed to assume the missing evidence would have been helpful to Palomino-Loya and not the state, the DA adds.
“It’s not so much that the ev idence would have neces sarily been the deal maker or the deal breaker, but that that jury instruction, based on having lost evidence, definitely was a big factor,” she says. “But because we don’t know what [the test result] said, I can’t say that it was the entire picture.”
Carmack-Altwies says there were “big problems” with SFPD’s evidence handling and investigations when she took office in January 2021, but the department has been better about de livering solid cases.
“Is it perfect? No. But it has dramatically im proved,” she says.
Deputy Police Chief Ben Valdez declines to comment on pending litigation, but says the department has recently updated its evi dence-logging process to avoid human error. Some of those changes, Valdez says, include an automated process that makes it easier to track evidence and eliminates the prior need for handwriting evidence tags.
“We’ll always look for ways that we can make improvements,” he says. “If we
a Santa Fe man who was accused of stab bing his girlfriend to death saw his charge dropped to voluntary manslaughter and his sentence reduced to 12 years in prison after prosecutors found DNA evidence in that case would have proved unreliable. A later audit of the department’s evidence storage room found more widespread issues.
In the case of Palomino-Loya, depart ment leaders and the mayor admit the ev idence was lost, but were quick to pin the blame on retired detective Paul Ytuarte, who worked the case before his 2019 retirement. But Ytuarte tells SFR he followed protocol and was shocked when the DA’s office called him and asked about the missing evidence, which Ytuarte maintains he logged years ago.
“What do you mean, it’s missing?” he re calls asking the prosecutor.
Ytuarte says he saw improvements in how evidence was handled during his time with SFPD. Years ago, he says, officers were required to take DNA evidence to a state lab for testing, but a policy change left that up to SFPD’s certified evidence technicians, which freed up detectives to work cases in stead of waiting in line at the New Mexico Department of Public Safety lab. Those improvements, he says, are just one rea son why there should have never been an issue with the Palomino-Loya case.
“You fill out an evidence tag, and then you submit it and then I was done,” Ytuarde says. “So there should have been video surveillance of me going into the department and going into that room, as well as the key fob entries, as well as the written log.”
As for the improvements Valdez de scribes and that were identified in the 2019 audit, Ytuarte says, “That should have been done a long time ago, because the Santa Fe Police Department and the mayor’s office have been well aware of the problems in our evidence room for years.”
A recent lawsuit against Santa Fe police offers a fresh reminder about the department’s problems with handling evidence
wholly interdependent—the piñon nuts provide essential sustenance for the bird, and the jay offers critical seed dispersal for the tree. The pinyon jay is a keystone spe cies of these arid forests of diverse piñon pines and junipers, extending over 150,000 square miles across 13 Western states.
The “blue crows,” as the jays were once known, are year-round residents of 11 Western states, but New Mexico hosts the largest share, about one-third of their population.
Together, jays and piñon pines help cre ate vital habitat for numerous plants and animals, including threatened bird species like Woodhouse’s scrub jay and the gray vir eo. The pines also supply a traditional food source for Indigenous tribes and Hispanic communities in New Mexico.
These dusky blue birds once roamed the West in huge flocks, with hundreds alight ing on piñon pines to glean nuts in the winter months. Now it’s uncommon to see flocks of more than 100. In the last 50 years, the population of pinyon jays has declined by an estimated 80%.
The jay is listed as a “species of greatest conservation need” in New Mexico, and this year the conservation organization Defenders of Wildlife petitioned to list it under the Endangered Species Act, citing “woefully inadequate” protections at the federal and state level.
BY SARA VAN NOTE @undarkmagAnasal, laughing bird call echoed through the Ortiz Mountains in Northern New Mexico this September. A couple of pinyon jays chattered loudly as they flew over the piñon pine and juniper woodlands that sweep across the foothills. “They have really fun calls,” said Peggy Darr, then the resource management specialist with Santa Fe County’s Open Space, Trails, and Parks Program. “They’re a very hard bird not to love.”
The jays forage for piñon nuts in the dense habitat on the ridgetop in fall and winter, then cache them in more open areas near the road, she said. Caching is critical for the jays’ survival, but also for the trees. Pinyon jays and piñon pines are
The two major culprits of the jays’ de cline are climate change and a long his tory of piñon pine removal carried out by federal agencies, including, increasingly, thinning and burning for wildfire preven tion. Both have impacted piñon pines and led to declining nut production. Darr, now with the Defenders of Wildlife, said conser vation is critical for the jay, but also “for an entire ecosystem, and all the other species” that depend upon it.
In the midst of a historic megadrought in the Southwest and a record-setting wild fire season in New Mexico, land managers are racing to implement wildfire preven tion measures. Congress this year directed billions in funds to federal agencies, who in turn are planning significantly increased treatments on millions of acres of federal lands.
In forests, these treatments often in volve thinning: the removal of trees by ma chinery, by hand, or with herbicides. While historically piñon-juniper forests were sys tematically cleared using destructive tech niques like chaining—dragging thick steel chains between tractors to rip out trees in
A Western landscape and its namesake bird are threatened by climate change and wildfire prevention efforts
their path—current practices by federal agencies involve more selective thinning.
But some bird biologists, like Darr, are sounding the alarm that even today’s thin ning methods degrade pinyon jay habitat. These woodlands are already under ex treme drought stress, especially in New Mexico, with predictions for widespread loss due to climate change. And some studies suggest thinned piñon-juniper forests are less resilient to beetle infesta tion and drought.
In 2004, the International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the pinyon jay on its Red List as “vulnerable” to ex tinction. It cited a current rate of decline of over 3% per year, and a historic loss of “possibly millions” of jays from the 1940s to the 1960s. During roughly the same period, an estimated 3 million acres of piñon-juniper woodlands were destroyed to create pasture for livestock.
Bryan Bird, the Southwest program director at the Defenders of Wildlife, said piñon- juniper woodlands have long been maligned as having no economic value, and targeted for removal by private, state, and federal managers in favor of grasses for livestock. The current management imperative calls for thinning to reduce wildfire risk, he said, “which most people think is benign” for the bird. “But it’s not,” he added, noting that the specific habitat requirements of pinyon jays are just be ginning to be understood.
Kristine Johnson is a retired facul ty member of the biology department at the University of New Mexico who for 20 years has studied pinyon jays and their habitat. While there’s not yet research on the direct impacts of thinning or burning on pinyon jays, Johnson said studies show “extreme thinning” isn’t good for nesting habitat.
And according to Bird, the flood of new federal funds for wildfire prevention com bined with what he called a loosening of environmental rules is “not going to be good for the pinyon jay.”
New Mexico is home to four evergreen juniper species and the Colorado piñon, a small tree with short bottlebrush needles that sprout from dense branches. Woody cones tightly grasp its thick, egg-shaped seeds, drawing the garrulous jays to pry them out.
Johnson said the jays have several ad aptations that make them excellent seed dispersers for piñon. Their long bills work like a chisel to crack open the tough piñon shell. Their esophagus expands to store up to 50 nuts, and since they’re highly social, one flock can plant millions of seeds in a fall season, Johnson said. They’re strong
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fliers with a huge range of several thou sand hectares. And while they have an excellent memory for recalling their nut caches, the seeds they don’t retrieve can become new piñon trees.
But this feat of co-evolution comes with vulnerabilities. On an irregular cy cle, piñon pines produce a mast crop—a particularly abundant supply of nuts. Pinyon jays rely on these mast crops for their reproduction, storing large quantities of seeds in the fall and win ter to feed to their young in the spring. In a drought year without a mast crop or other bountiful food sources like in sects, pinyon jays may not nest at all, Johnson said.
In recent years, Johnson has ob served smaller piñon mast crops, oc curring with less frequency, and studies have linked drought and declining cone production. And according to Johnson, not all piñon juniper forests provide good habitat for jays. She recently cre ated a model based on previous field work to predict nesting habitat across
New Mexico, and found jays tend to place their nests in larger trees in areas with dense canopy cover and low lev els of recent disturbance. Her analysis found the highest quality habitat was “surprisingly scarce.”
A new survey may provide help for jay conservation. The New Mexico Avian Conservation Partners, a state chapter of the national bird conserva tion coalition Partners in Flight, is sur veying for pinyon jays and other birds in thinned and unthinned piñon-juni per forests across New Mexico. Darr, a co-chair of NMACP, said they started the study out of a sense of urgency. “We didn’t have time to wait for a bunch of little studies to be done to get a consen sus” on how treatments affect jays, she said. Additional bird species that rely on these forests include Grace’s warbler and the juniper titmouse, both listed as “species of greatest conservation need” by the state of New Mexico.
The second season of the threeyear study wrapped up this year, Darr
said, and results from the first year’s data show lower densities of some birds in the thinned areas.
The NMACP this year released rec ommendations for piñon-juniper man agement, co-authored by Darr, Johnson, and others. Darr said unlike scientists in other states, she and other biologists with the NMACP “feel the science is strong enough” to recommend land managers reconsider or reduce thinning in order to conserve pinyon jay habitat.
For her part, Johnson said some agen cy management plans “are applied in sort of a generic way,” without taking into account historic wildfire frequency, for example. She noted the scientists’ recom mendation for treatments like thinning near human infrastructure, with “less fo cus on altering the wild areas.”
The US Fish and Wildlife Service de clined to make a subject-area expert avail able for an interview. In a non-attributed written response emailed to Undark by FWS public affairs specialist Allison Stewart in September, the agency cited “little data on the effects of management on jay populations,” and said “we are ex ploring the effect of the removal of pines and junipers” to reduce wildfire risk in order “to determine if these contribute to short term causes of decline.”
Johnson said some agencies are recep
tive to recommendations for management to conserve pinyon jays. The Pinyon Jay Multi-state Working Group, for example, recommends that thinning take place out side the breeding season, and that manag ers avoid thinning in habitat with nesting colonies. “But they’re huge bureaucracies and changing people’s minds takes a long time,” Johnson said.
The recent Defenders of Wildlife pe tition also noted the impact of rules al lowing the approval of projects in pinyon jay habitat without environmental as sessments. “It just gives them a path to undertaking large habitat manipulations without considering the impact on this bird,” Bird said.
The petition contains the first estimate of total acreage of piñon-juniper habitat currently treated by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service in states with pinyon jay populations. The estimate “suggests extensive loss of suit able pinyon jay habitat on federal lands,” with over 440,000 acres impacted, accord ing to the petition.
Bird said that’s why listing the pinyon jay as endangered is critical: “It would require them to take a really hard look at what the impacts are to the bird” and con sult with the Fish and Wildlife Service be fore carrying out treatments in pinyon jay habitat. Johnson agreed, saying that list
ing the pinyon jay as endangered would have a “huge impact” because agencies would be required to alter their manage ment plans.
Throughout history, Indigenous peo ples across the West have foraged for piñon nuts and relied on them as a criti cal food supply during the winter and lean years. When the Spanish arrived in the Southwest in the 1500s, they also began gathering the oily, protein-rich seeds. The long tradition of families harvesting piñon nuts continues in many communities to day. Yet threats to piñon forests endanger these cultural practices.
“I’ve been picking piñon since I could walk,” said Raymond Sisneros, a retired horticulture teacher who farms outside the town of Cuba and traces his family line to the first Spanish settlers.
If the pines near their home weren’t producing, his family would drive to an other site. His grandfather taught him how to harvest the nuts, and he sold them door-to-door in the nearby town. Piñon wasn’t a treat, he said, but a “way of life,” a source of both food and revenue. Now it’s rare to find New Mexico piñon for sale.
The last time Sisneros had a big crop near his home was four years ago, and fam ily members traveled from as far away as Tennessee and California to gather piñon. But those traditions may be coming to an end. “I’m scared, because our piñon forest is going,” he said. The large trees that once produced over a hundred pounds of piñon nuts are dying because of drought, he said.
Val Panteah, governor of Zuni Pueblo in northwestern New Mexico, said many tribal members gather piñon in the late fall. He remembers harvesting piñons with his family as a teenager, climbing into trees and shaking the branches so the nuts would fall onto a bedsheet on the ground.
Panteah has observed changes in piñon crops over the years. “When I was really young, it seemed like it was every year” or every other year for a big piñon crop, he said, “but now, it feels like every four years.”
The jays may offer the best hope for re silience for piñon-juniper forests. They’re “the only species that is capable of moving a woodland uphill if there’s been a fire,” Johnson says, “or replanting an area that’s been burned or decimated by insects or drought,” by ferrying seeds away from the degraded area.
Yet these species’ intimate intercon nection also leads to what Johnson calls a vicious cycle. If the bird is lost, the wood lands can’t be replanted.
If the woodland isn’t replanted, the bird populations decline.
For the tree, for the bird, and for the people, she said, “it would just be tragic for us to lose these woodlands.”
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[Pinyon jays] are the only species that is capable of moving a woodland uphill if there’s been a fire, or replanting an area that’s been burned or decimated by insects or drought .
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How do we reckon with the events of the last few years while continuing our lives in meaningful ways? Terrible things happened. We lived through them. And though whatever the world is now feels like some sort of dark, alternate timeline, at a certain point, we must carry on, no matter how fractured we might be. That’s a tough concept, and one that lies at the center of the new show at FOMA Gallery from photographer Laura Cofrin and painter Jennie Kiessling. The artists present various works that bring an awareness to the fleeting nature of existence and experience, a place where parts of us might be broken, but we still manage to hold it together. The artists achieve balance between the literal and figurative, finding beauty in what might seem ugly at first. If we’re to keep on keeping on, such confrontations feel almost necessary. Don’t look away. Don’t forget. (ADV)
Holding the Edge Opening: 5-7 pm Friday, Nov. 18. Free FOMA Gallery, 333 Montezuma Ave., (505) 660-0121
While the vast majority of Christmas-tinged entertainment tends to err toward joyous and celebratory, you’ve gotta hand it to Irish playwright Conor McPherson for his darkly poignant (OK, and maybe funny) 2006 play, The Seafarer. In short, the Christmas Eve tale finds an alcoholic who goes by Sharky moving in with his super-old brother Richard. Grappling with his newfound reality and the holiday stress, Sharky tries to keep it sober, but tough things, of course, arise. Oh, family; oh, holidays—you so crazy. The New Mexico Actors Lab tackles the McPherson play this week with consummate theater pro Matt Sanford sitting in the director’s chair. With a cast including notable locals such as Nicholas Ballas and Rod Harrison, we’re betting on some deep realizations and powerful storytelling. The theater scene is on fire around here lately. Get onboard. (ADV)
The Seafarer: 7:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 17-Saturday, Nov. 19 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 20. $15-$30. The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 395-6576
Let’s kick it back to 1741, when George Frideric Handel (or just Handel if you’re nasty) found himself in the transi tory world of compositional stress. You think busting out operas and sonatas is easy? Heck, no. Anyway, Handel had done well in the opera world and all, but the tastes they were a-changing, and his newfound focus on oratorios was not quite there yet. Enter aristocrat Charles Jennens, from whom Handel would source lyrics for his then in-progress Messiah. By 1742, the piece was completed, and things seemed pretty OK—right up until the clergy dubbed the devotional piece blasphemous and the world at large didn’t much care. If fact, it wasn’t until 1749 that The Messiah caught on with a wider audience. Think of it like that Lizzo song “Truth Hurts” that bounced back some years after it first dropped, and then think about catching the Santa Fe Symphony & Chorus performing the dang thing this week end. The Handel thing, not the Lizzo thing. (ADV)
Handel’s Messiah: 7 pm, Saturday Nov. 19 and 4 pm Sunday, Nov. 20. $22-$80. Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234
While just about everybody loves movies of all stripes, not everyone considers the prep parts of filmmaking—the writing, the lighting, the interviewing, shot setup and so on. Film is...complicated, and its high bar of accessibility could likely be a turnoff for those looking to tell or help tell stories. Where do you start? In Santa Fe, it could be as simple as an upcoming workshop from nonprofit Littleglobe.
This Saturday at the Southside branch of the Santa Fe Public Library, Littleglobe kicks off the first in a series of free lessons in filmmaking, this one with an emphasis on interviewing and the nuts and bolts of making that happen.
“The idea is really about giving people tools in story gathering and crafting in or der to be able to tell their own stories and the stories of their community, however they define that,” says Littleglobe’s direc tor of education, Katy Gross. “The idea is that rather than documentary filmmakers or people outside the community coming in and gathering stories, it’s about people... having the resources to not only tell them, but to become a part of an archive through a partnership with the library.”
In practice, it’s simple: Gross and oth er Littleglobe personnel such as Dylan Tenorio (whose filmmaking efforts won him top prize at SFR’s 3-Minute Film Fest
last year), Anaid Garcia, Chris Jonas and Gross herself will help participants identi fy the stories they’d like to tell. They’ll then help them learn how to do everything from interviewing and shooting to audio design, boom work, lighting design and more. As the series progresses, participants will ul timately get the chance to produce their own work, some of it using the very smart phones in most everyone’s pocket. Think of it like the democratization of film and, by December, Littleglobe will kick off its next storytelling initiative, which includes posi tions with paid stipends. And while Gross is quick to point out that participants in the workshop series won’t automatically sky rocket to the top of the cohort list, it won’t hurt their chances. Either way, Saturday’s workshop is open to all ages, but slots are filling up fast.
“This is a chance for people to learn different aspects on a real film set,” Gross adds. “This is just to give people a taste, an opportunity for everyone to rotate through these roles.” (Alex De Vore)
1-5 pm Saturday, Nov. 19. Free
Santa Fe Public Library Southside Branch 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820
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1111: MANIFEST
Vital Spaces Midtown Annex
1600 St. Michael’s Drive vitalspaces.org
Oriana Lee unveils writings, drawings and more.
5-8 pm, Weds-Thurs; 3-7 pm, Fri; Noon-4 pm, Sat, free
No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. Photo survey of cemeteries. During events or by appt., free
ALISON HIXON
Susan Eddings Pérez Galley 717 Canyon Road (505) 477-4ART Surrealist paintings. 10 am-5 pm, free
ANCESTRAL IMAGINATION
BY JACKS MCNAMARA form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256
Cosmic works on wood. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
ART IS GALLERY: GROUP EXHIBIT
art is gallery santa fe 419 Canyon Road (505) 629-2332
The group is huge. Know that. 10 am-5 pm, $4-$6
CAMILLE HOFFMAN:MOTHERLANDS form & concept
435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256
Hoffman transmutes romanticized American landscapes into site-specific experiences.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
Aurelia Gallery
414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915
Abstract geometry with bold colors, structure and ambiguity. It’s kind of like if Mondrian wasn’t all super serious about the dimensions, or maybe even had a sense of whimsy.
11 am-5 pm, free
EARTH'S OTHER Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953
Earth and otherworldliness. Noon-6 pm, free NICHOLAS HERRERA
Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902
Herrera explores life and death 10am-5pm, free
924B Shoofly Street (505) 372-7681
The inimitable local photographers (and power couple) collaborate through new shots and a new book—with a special signing on Nov. 19.
11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
JODI BALSAMO
Java Joe's 2801 Rodeo Road (505) 231-7159
New mixed-media still lifes from Basalmo acheive a textured and almost tactile quality. Pretty good coffee over there, too, if we’re being honest. Naw, but you should go and see the art— Balsamo’s a champ.
7 am-5 pm, free
Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700
Kaneko's new exhibition presents key pieces from his lesser-known study.
10 am-5 pm, free
KELLY SENA: FOR THE WILD
Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582
Photos born from correspondence with incarcerated environmental activists.
12:30-5 pm, Tues; Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Fri
MARIO
Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915
Ceramics and encaustic works. 10 am-5 pm, free
MAX COLE: ENDLESS JOURNEY
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199
Paintings and works on paper. 10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, free
MEGAN BENT: PATIENT/ BELONGINGS form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256
Photographic meditations. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
MICHAEL DIAZ DRESSED IN WATER.
5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 fivepointgallery.com New illustrations. Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free
MICHAEL WILDING AND KAORI TAKAMURA G2 Gallery 702 1/2 Canyon Road (505) 982-1212
Sculptor Wilding and painter Takamura run concurrent shows. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
MY AMERICA
Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708
Photos addressing themes of the Black experience. 11 am-5 pm, free
PAUL-HENRI BOURGUIGNON: REMEMBERING HAITI
Ventana Fine Art
400 Canyon Road (505) 983-8815
Landscapes. Gorgeous ones. 9:30 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat; 10 am-4 pm Sun, free
LewAllen Galleries
1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250
Abstract oil paintings.
10 am–6 pm, Mon-Fri; 10 am–5 pm, Sat, free
TOUCHON: BETWEEN THE LINES
Nüart Gallery
670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888
Acrylic abstracts and collage. 10 am-5 pm, free
RITES OF PASSAGE: RAVEN|BLACKWOLF|WHITE BUFFALO
FaraHNHeight Fine Art 54 E San Francisco St. #4 (575) 751-4278
Indigenous fine art group show. 6-8 pm, free
Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338
Indigenous artists engage environmental themes.
11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun, $10
SHIRIN NESHAT: LAND OF DREAMS
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199
Solo show by Iranian-American artist and filmmaker Neshat. 10am-5pm, Thurs-Mon, free
SPECTRALS FROM A SHORELESS SEA
Strata Gallery
418 Cerrillos Road, Suite 1C (505) 780-5403
Photos explore home, environment and memory.
Tues-Sat, 10 am-5 pm, free
SUZANNE SBARGE: NEW WORKS
Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882
Paintings that merge the real and surreal.
10 am-5 pm, Wed-Sun, free
Calliope 2876 Hwy 14, Madrid (505) 474-7564
Paintings and ceramics.
11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free
WILD PIGMENT PROJECT form & concept
435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256
Works with foraged pigments. Tues-Sat, 10 am-5 pm, free
BILINGUAL BOOKS & BABIES
Santa Fe Public Library
Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Music, song and language. 10-10:30 am, free
KINDNESS STORYTIME AND CRAFT
Santa Fe Public Library
LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860
Books and kindness. 1:30 pm, free
MAUREEN BURDOCK: QUEEN OF SNAILS SIGNING
Big Adventure Comics 328 S Guadelupe St., Ste. G (505) 992-8783
Meet the local graphic novelist. 3 pm, free
NATURE LOVERS BOOK CLUB
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Discuss Eager: the Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb. 6-7:30 pm, free
PETER BAKER & SUSAN GLASSER IN CONVERSATION: THE DIVIDER
New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5100
The authors in convo. 6 pm, $25-$125
TEEN LOUNGE
Santa Fe Public Library
LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860
A safe space for teens. 1:30 pm, free
YOUTH CHESS CLUB
Santa Fe Public Library
LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., (505) 955-4860 Hey, kids—play chess. 5:45 pm, free
POKI TAKO POP-UP
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
Poki in pop-up form. 6-8:30 pm, free
ARLO HANNIGAN
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
Singer-songwriter from Alaska. 7 pm, free
JOHN FRANCIS &
El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931
Singer-songwriter-type stuff but with a full-on band of champions.
8-10 pm, free
JUAN CARMONA
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
A flamenco guitar virtuoso. 7:30 pm, $33
WHEELWRIGHT
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636
Gather and discuss Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves 1:30 pm, free
ALL THINGS YARN!
Santa Fe Public Library
LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., (505) 955-4860
Knit, crochet and more. 5:30 pm, free
HOTLINE B(L)INGO
Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St. (505) 983-0134
It's bingo time. 7 pm, $2
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Singing and music for kiddos. 3:15 pm, free
PAJAMA STORYTIME/HORA
DEL CUENTA EN PIJAMA
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Pajamas and book time for kids. 6-7:30 pm, free
SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: WEE
WEDNESDAYS
Santa Fe Children's Museum
1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359
Story time and play. 10:30-11:30 am, free
KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222
Classic karaoke. 10 pm, free
MAC SABBATH Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369
Where else can you get Black Sabbath tribute madness in the form of the McDonald's cast? #Grimace4President 7 pm, $16
SILVER SKY BLUES BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Blues, which makes it a very apt band name. 4 pm, free
JAYSON
Downtown Santa Fe exodusensemble.com
A new work based on the Greek myth of Medea. Address revealed once you book tickets. 6 pm, free
3D PRINTING BADGE
MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502
Learn to 3D print. 4 pm, $90
ART JAM WEDNESDAYS
Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 alasdeagua.com Make art with art friends. 5:30 pm, free
As an online sex worker, I invariably live in two worlds.
One, thankfully, feels normal, kind; where folks buy my content like they buy coffee and everything is hot and fun and exciting. But then there’s this other world— one that is all too real and inescapable, the one where sex work continues to be a highly stigmatized profession, even villainized.
America, it seems, still has a puritanical streak that runs deep. But with website The Small Business Blog reporting that OnlyFans growth has been explosive to say the least, it becomes harder to believe such a divide exists. In 2022, according to Small Business Blog, OnlyFans users topped more than 170 million. That includes 1.2 million content creators—numbers which are, honestly, staggering given that OnlyFans had roughly 100,000 creators in 2019. Half a million users sign up for the site every day, and that’s not even mentioning the 4,0005,000 new content creators joining daily. People are obviously into sex, but alas, the divide persists.
And so, in the spirit of taking a teeny step toward bridging that gap, let’s hear from a couple real online sex workers. Spoiler alert? We’re just like you. We’re humans. Crazy, right?
I am new to OnlyFans and am loving it, but deep down I’m scared my family will find out. Is there a way to keep that from happening?
-SCARED OF BEING FOUND OUT Back in the day, SOBFO, when I was still in my research phase, I happened to see some ask this very question on the Instagram account of a creator I trusted and respected. And I will never forget her answer.
“Imagine the worst person you could think of finding out— finding out,” she wrote. “If you aren’t truly OK with that possibility, this isn’t for you. Because they will find out.”
You might have also heard horror stories of creators being outed by people who send their information to family members or who even leak content on other platforms. All of this scared me, too, but if you haven’t gotten the memo, people can really suck sometimes.
But I had to let go of the idea that I needed to ask anyone for permission to be myself, and sometimes that’s what these feelings are all about. I had to challenge the inner voice that says sex work is something of which to be ashamed. Was I truly scared of being found out, of feeling shame for performing sex work, or is that how I was
supposed to feel? I came to ask myself whether I could love and support my fellow sex workers while upholding stigmas with my own internalized bullshit? I couldn’t.
Do you have to tell your family? No. But you also don’t have to carry around the fear they might find out.
Logistically speaking, yes—there are totally things you can do to protect your anonymity. Don’t use your real name, for starters, and only inform people you trust. Don’t promote your content on personal social media accounts—and remember that the block button is your friend. The more you and your content grow, the harder these things can be to control. The inner work, then, is really where it’s at. Stay true to your authentic self. The world, and your family, will catch up.
I find the line between sex and sex work is becoming more blurred. My regular sex life is losing its fun. Any tips?
Sex work can be tantamount to having a mean sweet tooth, then landing a gig at a candy store. The trick, though, might just be to not eat your favorite candy at work, if you know what I mean.
Save those sweet l’il things from which you get the most pleasure for yourself and your off-camera sex life (or on camera, but in a fun, non-worky way). Try framing these more personal encounters like you’re getting away with something sneaky. It might sound silly, but we all know the thrill that comes from sneaking around—even if it’s just behind the backs of random people on the internet. They will never know you love doing that one thing—or having that one other thing done to you—and you’ll be honoring much-needed boundaries between sex and sex work.
What civilians don’t know about online sex work is the tremendous pressure to be consistent with content. That can take a lot of the fun out of creating, which I think could actually be the bigger issue here. When I was first making content, I gave my fans ev-er-y-thing. You know how it goes: We have this huge desire to succeed, we do the most, it starts spilling over into our personal lives—and, oh look! Here comes resentment! Ugh! Now we’re failing at the very standard we set for ourselves!
While you suck on your favorite candy, SWSOSFLW, I want you to ponder this: If creating went back to being fun, might it be fair to say that your sex life, blurry lines and all, could also be fun again?
Layla Asher is a local sex worker on a mission to spread radical self love to her community and the world. Have further questions about sex work after reading this? Wanna ask your local sex worker their expert opinion on something? Let’s start a sex positive conversation that keeps respect and confidentiality at the forefront and judgment a thing of the past. Please submit your questions to thenakedlayla@gmail.com and include an alias that protects your anonymity.
Vista Grande Public Library
14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323
Tech help for your tech stuff.
9-11 am, free
INTERPLAY (OPENING)
SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199
Immersive, interactive digital art.
10 am-5 pm, free
JERRY UELSMANN (OPENING)
Scheinbaum and Russek 812 Camino Acoma (505) 988-5116
A bit of a retrospective for the late photog.
5-7 pm, free
FAMILY READ-IN
La Farge Library
1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292 New books and hot cocoa.
4:30-87:30 pm, free
FISH! STORYTIME AND
CRAFT
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Words and crafts.
10:30-11:30 am, free
ALL FIERCE COMEDY SHOW
Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528
Hosted by Graviel de la Plaga (Carlos Medina), a night of music, drinks and comedy fun.
7-9 pm, $10-$30
CHESS & JAZZ CLUB
No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.com
Chess playing and jazz listening. Open to all skill levels.
6-8 pm, free
SANTA FE NEWCOMERS
ARTISAN MARKET
Santa Fe Woman's Club
1616 Old Pecos Trail. (505) 983-9455
23 artists sell their creations. Contact Crista Dixon at cristadixon@sbcglobal.net or (505) 954-1398 for more.
11 am-5 pm, free
BOB MAUS
Cava Lounge, Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455
Blues, soul, more.
7-10 pm, free
DR. HALL
Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Solo blues. 4 pm, free
NELSON DENMAN: THE RIGHTS OF NATURE
San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974
A folk opera. 6:30 pm, $20
OPEN MIC WITH STEPHEN
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
Show ‘em what you got. 7 pm, free
PAT MALONE
TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St. (505) 989-1166
Santa Fe's jazz guitar master. 6-8 pm, free
ROBERT WILSON
The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712
Americana singer-songwriter. 5:30 pm, free
St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072
World-class string quartet. 7-8:30 pm, $22-$92
STEPHANIE HATFIELD & BILL PALMER
Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333
Indie-folk meets singer-songwriter style and more. 6-8 pm, free
TWO-STEPPIN’ THURSDAY
Tiny’s 1005 S St. Francis Drive, Ste. 117 (505) 983-9817
Honky-tonk and two-step. 7 pm, free
WENDY RULE
Altar Spirits 545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596
An Australian songstress. 7:30 pm, free
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Alas de Agua+murals. 5 pm, free
HANDS ON ART WITH THE GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
A youth art class.
3:30-4:30 pm, free
WOODSHOP BADGE
MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502
Learn how to wood good. 2-6 pm, $90
YOGA FOR KIDS
La Farge Library 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292
Pretty much what it sounds like. 10:30 am, free
ANDREW FISHER: ILLUMINATIONS (OPENING)
LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250
Gilded tapestries. 10 am-5 pm, free
DENNIS MIRANDA: THE MASK NEVER LIES (OPENING)
LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250
Fine art meets caricature. 5-7 pm, free
HOLDING THE EDGE (OPENING)
FOMA Gallery 333 Montezuma Ave., Ste. B (210) 288-4740
Paintings and photos of the literal and figurative fracturing of body and mind. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 5-7 pm, free
JARED WEISS: THE PARTY'S OVER (OPENING)
Ellsworth Gallery 215 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-7900
New work from painter Weiss. 5-7 pm, free
MARK HEINE: SONG OF THE SIREN (OPENING)
Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574
Painter Heine explores the mythology of sirens. 5-8 pm, free
UNDER A ROCK, ALONG THE SHORE (OPENING) form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256
Photo show exploring alternative approaches to representing landscape, the body, more.
5-7 pm, free
BILINGUAL BOOKS & BABIES
La Farge Library 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292
Bring the tiny ones for books and language. This one was developed with early childhood development in mind.
10-10:30 am, free
READ RUNNERS BOOK CLUB
La Farge Library 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292
A book club for and hosted by 9-12-year-olds. Might we recommend John Bellairs? Have you read Mansion in the Mist, kids? It slaps.
3:45-4:45 pm, free
EARTH DANCE
BODY
333 West Cordova Road (415) 265-0299
Dance party with original and curated music, movement, plus art and togetherness and more.
7-8:30 pm, free
Bishop's Lodge
1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480
Join the Santa Fe Chamber and network with like-minded women with fresh perspectives. 12-3:30 pm, $60
FILM DIARY NYC 2.0
No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org
Festival selections that capture the personal histories and experiences of the filmmaker(s). 7 pm, $5-$15 suggested donation
Plantita Vegan Bakery 1704 Lena St. Unit B4 (505) 603-0897
Vegan pizzas. Good ones. 5-7 pm, free
BOB MAUS
Cava Lounge, Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455
Blues, soul, more. 7-10 pm, free
LUCY BARNA
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
A local singer-songwriter. 5 pm, free
MARTIN
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
IYKYK, right? 7:30 pm, $38-$55
ODDISEE & GOOD COMPANY
Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369
The Washington, DC rapper comes with a five-piece band. 10 pm, $18
PAT MALONE
Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado 198 State Road 592 (505) 956-5700
Jazz guitar. 7-9 pm, free
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
We thought it would be a Specials tribute act, but it’s a blues band, just so you know. 8 pm, free
TROY BROWNE
Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Singer-songwriter. 4 pm, free
THEATER
PANDEMONIUM PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS:
ALADDIN!
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 982-3327
It’s that Disney musical about lying to princesses until they love you.
7-8:45 pm, $8-$12
THE SEAFARER
The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 395-6576
A card game turns into a wager for a man's soul in the new production directed by Matt Sanford.
7:30 pm, $15-$30
FAMILY STORIES COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Santa Fe Public Library
Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Get collage-in’ with your family. 3:30-5:30 pm, free
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Embossing projects for all ages. Materials included. 2-4 pm, free
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Read and move together.
3:30-5:30 pm, free
DAVID SCHEINBAUM: VARANASI: CITY IMMERSED IN PRAYER
Pie Projects
924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681
Photographer Scheinbaum signs his new book.
4-6 pm, free
SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET
In the West Casitas, north of the water tower 1612 Alcaldesa St. Weekly outdoor art market on Saturdays in the Railyard. 9 am-2 pm, free
ARTIST TALK: MEGAN BENT form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256
Bent discusses her exhibition, Patient/Belongings, featuring unique chlorophyll prints documenting Bent's experience as a disabled person throughout Covid-19. 7-8 pm, free
BILINGUAL BOOKS & BABIES
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Kids ’n’ books. 10-10:30 am, free
CARING FOR THE LAND IN A HARSHER CLIMATE
Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323
Jan-Willem Jansen discusses and answers questions about water harvesting, native plant use, landscaping and more. 1-2:30 pm, free
NANOWRIMO
COME WRITE IN
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
National Novel Writing Month is a fun approach to writing. 3 pm, free
SUZANNE SBARGE: ARTIST TALK
Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882 Sbarge lets you in on the stuff from new show New Works 2-3 pm, free
A COMEDY VARIETY SHOW TO HONOR RICARDO CATÉ
VFW 307 Montezuma Ave. (505) 983-9045
Caté and other comics, and it all benefits Toys for Tots' Native American program. 6-7:30 pm, $10
ARTWALK SANTA FE: RUFINA BLOCK PARTY
Paseo Pottery 1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687
Celebrate the Rufina area. 12-4 pm, free
10TH ANNUAL FALL FIBER FIESTA Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4414
Over 40 artists take part in the fiber showcase of local, handmade fiber art, supplies, gifts, etc. Contact Amanda at education@evfac.org for info. 10 am-5 pm, free
FAMILY DAY: TURKEY CELEBRATION
Randall Davey
Audubon Center & Sanctuary 1800 Upper Canyon Road (505) 983-4609
A day dedicated to turkeys, bird watching and fam-friendly hikes. 10 am-1 pm, free
SANTA FE CONTEMPORARY CLAY FAIR
Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455
More than 20 ceramic artists from across New Mexico. 10 am-5 pm, free
DINNER & MOVIE: TRUE ROMANCE
Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528
Local caterers serve dinner while you watch the movie. 6 pm, $45
PLANTITA VEGAN BAKERY
POP UP Plantita Vegan Bakery 1704 Lena St. Unit B4 (505) 603-0897 Vegan treats. 10 am-1 pm, free
BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail Classic singer-songwriter tunes. 6-9 pm, free
CANDY BOMBER
Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Folk and blues. 1 pm, free
DISCOVERING THE MUSIC OF BACH
Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Suite 1C (505) 780-5403
Music educator Oliver Prezant joins forces with super-shredder Robert Capocchi for an exploration of Bach's Chaconne in D Minor. 2-4 pm, $25
FRIENDSGIVING
Leaf & Hive 1208 Mercantile Road, Ste. A (505) 699-3055
DJs Jolly Gian and IN, Spacemob and more. 5 pm, $5
ODD DOG
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Jam band. 2 pm, free
SACHA ROBOTTI
Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 An internationally-acclaimed DJ? Yup. 10 pm, $25
SANTA FE FLUTES
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Folk and more for all ages. 2-3 pm, free
SANTA FE SYMPHONY: HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234
Handel's enduring oratorio as conducted by maestro Guillermo Figueroa. (See SFR Picks, page 17)
7 pm, $22-$80
Powering
SMOOTH
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 303-3808
Santana tribute and more. 8 pm, $15
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid 473-0743
Country tunes, which just plain works out there in Madrid. 8 pm, free
BATHSHEBA
Downtown Santa Fe 397-0371
An immersive theatrical thriller for ages 18+. Audiences receive event address at time of booking—so you’re really gonna have to commit, OK?! God! 5 and 7 pm, free
ALADDIN!
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, (505) 982-3327
It’s Aladdin, OK? You know it. 7-8:45 pm, $8-$12
THE SEAFARER
The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 395-6576
A card game turns into a wager for a man’s soul. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 7:30 pm, $15-$30
LITTLEGLOBE FILMMAKING & INTERVIEW WORKSHOP
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Nonprofit Littleglobe offers a free workshop in filmmaking. Register through bitly/3U2NorI. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 1-5 pm, free
Santa Fe Business Incubator 3900 Paseo del Sol (505) 424-1140
A free Spanish-language workshop for entrepreneurs. Register: bit.ly/pasos-pequeno-negocio 5:30 pm, free
CENTER: THE DEMOCRATIC LENS: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511
The Democratic Lens program explores historical accounts of American populations who used photography as a tool. 10 am-1 pm, free
FIESTA
Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4414
Over 40 artists take part in the fiber showcase.
10 am-5 pm, free
SANTA FE CONTEMPORARY CLAY FAIR
Santa Fe Women’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455
Ceramic arts.
10 am-5 pm, free
FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338
The hunt for film to convict the Nazis at Nuremberg and the subsequent documentary that was suppressed and lost.
11 am, $12
THE BOOK & THE BLUFF
Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369
Alternative/indie. 8 pm, $17.50
CASEY MRAZ AND LOS METAMORFOS
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
Worldly styles, pop goodness. 2 pm, free
COLLIN MORLOCK El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931
Taos-based singer-songwriter. 7-9 pm, free
HERMANOS GUTIÉRREZ
St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072
The Zurich-based brother duo of Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez show up in support of their forthcoming new album, El Bueno Y El Malo. Think Westernsounding stuff meets Latin jams. And yes, they're really from Zurich.
7:30 pm, $22-$33
HIGH DESERT RANGERS
Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Traditional bluegrass. #Banjos4President Noon, free
JAZZ BRUNCH WITH PAT MALONE
Bishop's Lodge Ranch Resort 1297 Bishop's Lodge Road, 983-6377
Brunch and jazz guitar. 11:30 am-2:30 pm, free
SANTA FE SYMPHONY: HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234
Handel's oratorio as conducted by maestro Guillermo Figueroa. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 4 pm, $22-$80
BATHSHEBA
Downtown Santa Fe exodusensemble.com
An immersive theatrical thriller for ages 18+. Audiences receive event address after booking. 5 and 7 pm, free
Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528
YES! Drag brunches are awesome. Drag queens are awesome. Snacking, brunching, drinking and dragging? Yes, please—all awesome. 11 am-5 pm, $20-$50
JAYSON
Downtown Santa Fe exodusensemble.com
Immersive theater troupe Exodus Ensemble presents a new work based on the Greek myth of Medea. You’ll get the address after you book. 7 pm, free
PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS:
ALADDIN!
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 982-3327992-0591
The long-running local kids theater troupe digs into the Disney version of the tale wherein lying to princesses is OK so long as you come clean and off her dad’s advisor and his dumb bird. 2 pm, $8-$12
The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 395-6576
A card game turns into a wager for a man’s soul. (See SFR Picks, page 17)
2 pm, $15-$30
SANTA FE SWING
Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road (505) 690-4165
Old fashioned swing, big band and blues DJs—sometimes bands, too. You’ll shell out $8 for the class and for the dance, or just $3 for just the open dance (which starts at 8 pm). 7 pm, $3-$8
GEEKS WHO DRINK
Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528
Grab a drink from the bar and go head to head with other guests in a trivia battle for the ages. New prizes every week. 7-9 pm, free
BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Share happy hour with Santa Fe's own country music legend Bill Hearne. What a guy! 4-6 pm, free
METAL MONDAY: IZHTMI
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
Progressive black metal from Seattle, plus the locals who, frankly, we’d stack up against any metal bands from anyplace. Hear that Scandinavia, ya bunch of meatball-loving snowman tenders?
8 pm, $15
SENSORY STORYTIME
Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323
Engaging kids through movement, play, stories, etc. It's ideal, too, for kids with autism and sensory processing disorders. 3:15 pm, free
TRANSPORTATION STORY TIME
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Stories pertaining to transportation and some such. Kids like trucks and buses and you like quiet kids.
10:30-11:30 am, free WAGS & WORDS
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Kids can read to dogs, which is about the best thing ever. Like, do the dogs get it? Actually, who cares?
10-10:30 am, free
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Free food for those in need comes to the library. Those Food Depot folks are really among the sweetest sweethearts. 10-11:30 am, free
IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY
NATIVE ARTS
108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900
Athena LaTocha: Mesabi
Redux. Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers. Art of Indigenous Fashion.
10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10
MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART
18 County Road 55A (505) 424-6487
Global Warming is Real Juried Exhibition. 11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun, $10 (18 and under free)
MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE
706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery. ReVOlution. Here, Now and Always. Painted Reflections.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9
MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200
Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia. Fashioning Identities. Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12
NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM
113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200
Setting the Standard. The First World War. WORDS on the Edge. The Palace Seen and Unseen; Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and WWII.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month
MARION CARRILLO
Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Singer-songwriter. Those singer-songwriters are always over at the ol' C-Girl singin’ songs they singer-songwrote. 4 pm, free
AFTER SCHOOL ART!
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Make art. After school. It’s a well-named event and great for kids.
10-10:30 am, free
MODERN KADAMPA BUDDHIST MEDITATION
Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive (505) 292-5293
Letting Go: The Skill of Forgiveness—a class wherein folks can learn to clearly identify the real source of their problems and let it go, let it go. 6-7:30 pm, $10
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New Mexico museum of art Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed Media Photographs of the ’60s, ’70. Van Deren Coke, “Ambrotype of my Great-grandfather,” 1973, photogravure.
MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART
750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226
Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence. Trails, Rails, and Highways.
1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12
NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART
107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063
Selections from the 20th Century Collection. Western Eyes. Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed Media Photographs of the ’60s, ’70s.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-12
POEH CULTURAL CENTER
78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041
Di Wae Powa. 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
Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry. Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é. The Mary Morez Style.
10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8
job as a cabinet maker in Los Angeles and moved to Santa Fe with recipes from his mother and grandmother in hand. The first few years, he says, were about teaching Santa Fe what good, clean Mexican food could taste like. Eventually, the city got onboard.
to someone else and walk away clean?
BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.comIt is a time of change within Felipe Martinez’s empire as, after 31 years in business in Midtown Santa Fe, he’ll re tire from his Felipe’s Tacos (1711 Llano St., (505) 473-9397) restaurant next month following service on Friday, Dec. 16. After that, a former Felipe’s cook named Rodrigo Rodriguez will take over the location, and its equipment, for his own venture, Tacos El Charrito, previously a food truck. And though Martinez is quick to point out Rodriguez’s skills in the kitchen—and how he sees himself in the upcoming chef—it’s still tough to know the menu will change, the vibe will change; for certain Santa Feans, news of Felipe’s Tacos closing will be heartbreaking.
“These are all little pieces of the puzzle,” he explains. “Life, to me, is dances—mental ly, physically, emotionally, spiritually. When I saw the vision of Felipe’s Tacos 30 years ago, when I moved here from Los Angeles, there was this consciousness behind it. It was ener getic. It was an energy move, and throughout my life, it’s always been about...the journey.”
The journey, of course, has not all been smooth sailing. Martinez was able to open Felipe’s Tacos with life insurance money he received after his first wife died in November 1990. By the following January, he’d quit his
Still, Martinez says, the aftermath of 9/11 created a tense time for the service industry, and he additionally cites the 2008 reces sion as a particularly troubling period—one that required him to infuse his own money into the business to survive. Martinez esti mates it took five years for the restaurant to start breaking even again after ’08, but when COVID-19 rolled around, the forgivable PPP loans he received were roughly in the same ballpark as what he’d spent in 2008. He notices that kind of symmetry more than most, he thinks.
“I didn’t know it in LA, but I’ve since been able to capture it,” Martinez says: “The understanding that life is bigger, greater than we can ever imagine.”
Back when he first opened, Martinez knew he wanted Felipe’s Tacos to be a healthful choice. He hired a nutritionist named Phil Garcia and set about creating a menu that would not only taste great, but not leave diners feeling they’d overindulged. Ask anyone—you can tear through a Felipe’s taco, quesadilla, burri to, menudo, whatever, and you’re not going to feel terrible.
“I had taken culinary classes in Los Angeles, because we were poor and the stu dents got to eat the food, but not knowing that down the road I’d be opening a restaurant on a health-conscious level,” he says.
He’s kept that ethos alive since the start. Felipe’s Tacos has remained a consistent eat ery, too—when you order the no-carne burri to, the quesadilla/taco combo, the al pastor burrito grande, you know what you’re getting, how it’s going to taste, the portion sizes.
But what happens now? How does a long time restauranteur simply hand the keys over
“I want to do a pottery class when I retire,” Martinez says, “but it’s not just about the pot tery. Pottery is just some image in your mind until you spin it, shape it. The course has to be pliable for you to mold and shape it, and that’s what I want in the journey of my life. I can be molded, shaped. I’m moving into a great new chapter.”
This will hopefully include more time spent playing golf, or generally enjoying the
years. They became like family, and I’m so grateful for that because we didn’t have a lot of family in New Mexico.”
Martinez, meanwhile, has been known to tear up lately. Yes, the business required his all for decades, sometimes to the detriment of his personal life. But through it, he explains, he’s been able to build a life and a home.
“You’ve just gotta know when the oppor tunity is there, when it knocks as it’s knock ing for me right now,” he tells SFR. “Sure, my ego can say, ‘You sure you wanna sell?’ but opportunity is telling me it’s the right time. Before my mom passed away several years ago, she told me, ‘Son, you don’t look happy. Sell it. It’s already given you everything.’” Martinez feels good about Rodriguez, too.
“I knew the energy was there be tween him and I because he was a good cook, a loyal cook for me for 10 years,” he says. “I thought, give him a good price, let him do his dream. I know how to appreciate people who dedicate themselves; I saw me in him, me from 30 years ago.”
Martinez will start transferring accounts into Rodriguez’s name this week. He’s ordered Mexican-style cal endars for customers to purchase for the first time in years. It’s real. He’ll keep his head down and keep doing the work. Come December, he says, there’s no telling how he’ll feel.
fruits of his labors. He’d also like to spend more time with his grandchildren, Martinez says, and with his daughters, Emma Rose and Jacqueline, the latter of whom will travel from California with her kids and husband in December for the restaurant’s last days.
“I’ve been hearing my dad talk about it for years, but now that it’s actually weeks away, it’s setting in,” Jacqueline says. “I’m just hap py for him, because it’s a big decision to make. And I want to thank all of the customers for their business and support over the last 30
“I know as we get closer the emotions are going to rise. My mom, my dad, my brother, the employees—all of the employees—all of the people who helped me get to this point in time...It takes a community to get you to your destiny, your new chapter. I want to do a lot of things. I want to teach. I want to travel. I’m taking my hands off the steering wheel, though, and I’ll put it to you this way: When I finally go home, when I finally decompress, I want to open the sails on my sailboat and let the winds guide me.”
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Iconic filmmaker, writer and weirdo John Waters returns to Santa Fe with “A John Waters Christmas”
BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com
Iwon’t waste a lot of space talking about John Waters’ impressive film resume, from Multiple Maniacs and Female Trouble to Polyester, Pink Flamingos, Hairspray and Serial Mom. I’m not gonna spend a lot of time talking about how hard I loved his books, including Mr. Know-itAll, wherein he looks back over his storied career and life and even drops acid with actress Mink Stole; or his new novel (a first for Waters), Liarmouth, about family, mur der and trampolines. Instead, I’ll just men tion that I still have Ricki Lake shrieking, “Cryyyyyyybaaayyyyeeeeebeeeee!” stuck in my head from the first time I saw Cry-Baby in 1990—which turned me into a lifelong fan. And though we normally wouldn’t run a column a month before an event, I wanted to give everyone plenty of advanced notice to get their tickets to A John Waters Christmas at the Lensic next month. You’re welcome. Find an extended version of this interview at sfreporter.com.
SFR: Why a Christmas tour? Why not Flag Day or Arbor Day?
I do it every year. I have two shows. I have one that’s called The End of the World, and the oth er one is A John Waters Christmas. I rewrite both of them completely once a year, and I do the End of the World show—other years I have a birthday show, a Valentine’s show, an Easter show; I think I’m pretty soon gonna have a Groundhog Day special—but I do [The End of the World] all year. The Christmas show is more Christmas, obviously, oriented, and I’ve been doing it for many years, I don’t know how many totally. But I always say I feel like a drag queen on Halloween: If it’s Christmas, I’m working.
Is part of that childhood memories? What were your Christmas memories like? Oh, good. I had a functional family, so our Christmas was good. I mean, weird things
happened, like the tree fell over on my grand mother once, and I’ve already exploited that in both my—well, I don’t talk about that in my Christmas show anymore because I’ve talk ed about it so much, but it was certainly in Female Trouble. Things that I remember that might have been traumatic to other people weren’t to me, and even my grandmother wasn’t injured or any thing. I didn’t shove the Christmas tree over on her.
I used to get what I wanted. There’s a picture of me in my family album that I saw; it’s me when I’m about 10 years old, and I’m sitting in front of the Christmas tree open ing my two presents. I have a hand puppet on one hand, because I was a puppeteer, and in the other is the album, The Genius of Ray Charles, which I know I asked my parents for. They didn’t know about that album, and it’s really a great album. But that meant I was starting early, and I never changed that much. I al ways was what I was gonna be, right from really early, and that picture kind of proved it. But my parents went and bought me that album, so it wasn’t like they discouraged it.
What kind of Christmas things did they have? Some of my mom’s stuff still haunts me to this day—did they have weird Christmas stuff?
They didn’t have weird stuff. My parents were not weird at all. The only thing weird they did do...when I was young, it was not considered bad to smoke, and when you were 16, you got what was called ‘smok ing permission,’ and my parents smoked, and I remember they would give me sometimes in my stocking a carton of Kools.
Y’know, that today would be child abuse. The only thing in life I regret is smoking. And I write down every day, I’m working on it right now, I haven’t had a cigarette in 7,251 days. It’s the only thing I regret. But at the same time, they had ads like, ‘Doctors say smoke men thols when you have a cold!’ Like that’s good for you?! I wish I had taken a picture of it, be cause it would be a great Christmas card.
What’s the best gift you ever got for Christmas?
I would say the cashmere blanket that I think Divine might have stolen and she gave me, that I still have on my bed. It’s been re paired many times. It’s like a throw blanket. But Christmas presents to me are...the best ones to me are the ones that can cost a nick el—some weird book somebody found in a thrift shop with some weird sex title or some funny title like Clitty, Clitty Bang-Bang; that’s the name of a book someone found me. I’m sure it cost a nickel, but at the same time, it’s priceless.
Was it vinyl?
Yeah.
Do you have any advice for somebody shopping for someone they hate?
Yeah, give ‘em a gift card. It means you spent no time at all shopping for them and think they’re stupid.
I hear you generally have a Christmas party every year, but you cannot bring a friend?
No, you sometimes can, it depends. You certainly can’t give [the invite] to someone else, it’s non-transferable. Some people are allowed to bring a guest. My fa vorite was the Vanity Fair party. They used to say, ‘No matter who you are, we’re not interested in who you’re fucking if they’re not famous—they can’t come,’ which I always thought was very funny.
I would get invited to the Vanity Fair party, which was a very, very hard invite to get, and I had to go by myself. So one time I’m walking the red carpet, and I see Pamela Anderson by herself, and she says, ‘Will you walk the red carpet with me? I need credibility.’ I said, ‘If I’m your credibility, we’re in real trouble,” but we did enter the Vanity Fair party together. It was good! It was great!
Do you ever wish you had made a Christmas film?
Oh, Female Trouble is included in a lot of lists because the opening scene is Christmas morning, so... and I wrote a children’s Christmas movie that, who knows, might get made.
I have one more for you, sir, and then I’ll let you go: What’s your problem?
What’s the worst gift you ever got?
We used to have a Christmas party, and for a couple years, each person selected a name to give a gift to, and you had to give them a gift they’d hate the most, which was really fun and you should try it, because it makes for a good party. And I got the soundtrack to all the Rocky films. I opened the window and threw them out. People laughed, but I then thought how terrible, I lived in a high rise—somebody could have, on Christmas Eve, been walk ing down the street and be killed by a flying soundtrack from Rocky
I don’t think I really have any problems. I’ve turned my prob lems into a career. In Female Trouble, the song is, ‘She’s got lots of prob lems...’ I don’t know that I have any problems, I think I accept pretty much everything about myself. I’m 76 years old, I have more jobs than I could ever need, so things are great. I just want to thank all the fans for letting me get away with this for 50 years. They gave me the best present ever.
A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS: 8 pm Monday, Dec. 12. $35-$65 Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234
Shoutout to Marvel Studios for continuing with the Black Panther storyline following the death of actor Chadwick Boseman, who tragically succumbed to cancer in 2020. It would have been so easy to simply relegate the Black Panther characters to side roles in other mainline films, but instead, they put Letitia Wright (who has played sister Shuri to Boseman’s T’Challa since the start) front and center. The results, unfortunately, are mixed.
Director Ryan Coogler (Creed) confronts Boseman’s death head-on in the film’s early moments, showcasing Shuri’s tragic and all-too-logical response to the world around her. Here, Wakanda Forever hits some of its best emotional heights—including a Boseman-specific intro reel—but it all goes downhill pretty fast.
In the wake of T’Challa’s death, leadership from around the globe wants in on the fictional country of Wakanda’s greatest resource, a magic-adjacent space metal known as vibranium. Taking over the country for her son, the queen, Ramonda (Angela Bassett, who wrings out the best performance by far), offers a kind, “Yeah, no thanks,” in response, leading to tense rela tions across the board.
Meanwhile, the amphibious underwater prince, Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía), reveals himself to the
Wakandans. He, too, has vibranium, it seems, and his plan is to kill anyone interested in that before they come for him. Explosions become imminent.
Elsewhere, at the periphery, find capable turns featuring warrior Okoye (an always badass Danai Gurira) and the brilliant Nakia (a lovable Lupita Nyong’o), plus the introduction of Marvel charac ter Ironheart—a sort of Iron Man descendent—from Dominique Thorne.
Narrative-wise, Black Panther starts simply enough, with Shuri running from her feelings and re fusing the Black Panther mantle because she’s busy doing science stuff. The rest of the film plays out like a lesson in accepting change, but with an absolute ly pointless layer featuring federal agents played by Martin Freeman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Black Panther lags. Clocking in at nearly three hours, it’s a shame, too, because it has good bones. Through flash backs and tedious expositional conversations, how ever, those bones start to matter less. In the end, all the story beats go down so predictably, in fact, that one wonders if Marvel itself is getting tired. It’ll make money, though, no doubt.
And all the same, Wakanda Forever does up the
ante in the CGI realm, a notable achievement follow ing its silly inclusion in the first film. When it focuses on quieter emotional moments, it even starts to feel like a solid outing. But Marvel, of course, isn’t about to give up its massive set-piece battles and swelling orchestral music. These scenes make it feel almost like two films crammed into one (which worked out so well for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, right?), which could be about hedging bets in case folks didn’t ac cept a non-Boseman Black Panther. Wright holds her own, though, lending a certain grieving vulnerability that adds at least some dimension to the superhero movie about space metal. These actors worked with Boseman for years and were likely somewhat close, too, which makes some performances feel all the more authentic.
If the moral, though, is that moviegoers will go see a film packed with Black women, consider it a suc cess—just don’t expect it to get to the point.
Directed by Coogler With Wright, Bassett, Gurira, Nyong’o, Mejía and Thorne Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 161 min.
You’d be wise to brush up a tad on Irish history and myth before seeing The Banshees of Inisherin, the new film from writer/director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). Or maybe do it right after. In either event, it’s not that you won’t find plenty to love in the film’s humor or its folktale style—or even just in the re-teaming of Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell. But McDonagh pulls his allegory from the Irish civil war—which occurred from 1922-1923—illustrating how there’s not much sense to be found when brother turns on brother, that sometimes things just hurt. And though you’ll surely laugh and cry and learn and such, being in a better position to understand the symbolo gy at play makes the film all the more enjoyable.
In Banshees, good-natured doofus Pádrac (Farrell) goes to round up his best pal Colm (Gleeson) for an afternoon at the pub, a previously daily outing. Colm, however, is unresponsive, claiming ultimately that he just finds Pádrac dull and they shan’t be friends moving forward. Nonplussed, Pádrac pushes the issue, claiming they were friends just a day before. Colm responds by threatening the unthinkable: Every time Pádrac dares to engage him, he’ll chop off one of his own fingers with an imposing set of sheers. Meanwhile, Pádrac’s sister, Siobhan (a luminous Kerry Condon), finds herself tired of the machinations of
men, and the town idiot, Dominic (Barry Keoghan, who might be the film’s secret weapon) loiters about, creating an almost childlike lens through which the viewer might consider what is fair and what is not; the elderly Mrs. McCormick (Sheila Flitton) glides through the hills and dales like the grim specter of death, a por tend of eerie things to come.
Both Farrell and Gleeson are at the top of their respective games here, and when filtered through McDonagh’s crackling script, they find real magic together. There’s something to be said for chemistry, yes, but also for a pair of studied actors digging into real-world history from a more humanitarian angle. The remote island of Inisherin somehow feels both lonely and bustling. It looms like a character unto itself and brilliantly encapsulates the challenges of a community too close-knit. The film’s trudge from bright and hopeful—starting with a literal rainbow, mind you—to muted and dreary occurs so gradually and masterfully that you almost don’t notice the colors draining from its little universe until it’s too late.
In the distance, on the mainland, explosions and gunfire; on the island itself, a crossroads bisected by a statue of The Virgin. Farrell keeps it light and funny, right up until he doesn’t. Still, as he angrily announces to Colm’s dog that he “didn’t come here for licks,” or explains to the townsfolk that he “doesn’t think we’ve been rowing,” there is a barely masked hurt. Maybe some pride. In Gleeson’s gruff and borderline preten tious elder character, too, one might glimpse the bits of themselves they don’t much like. It’s a relationship
like brotherhood, but almost like the inevitable fallout from when a child understands their parent is a mortal human. God help those who discover they don’t like their family when they stop to think of it.
The stunningly green Irish backdrop of McDonagh’s masterpiece almost staves away the ugliness. Almost. (ADV) Violet Crown, Center for Contemporary Arts, R, 114 min.
In director/writer Michael Mailer’s misguided stab at a sort of neo-Southern Gothic thing, Yellowstone’s Cole Hauser plays Russ...something, a former resident of whatever tiny Southern town who went off to the big city to make good and came back a financial consul tant. When we join Russ, he’s become a social pariah for a bad stock tip that cost numerous townsfolk all kinds of money. He starts getting threatening phone calls asking, “Where will you be the minute you wake up dead?” Ruh-roh, though, because the town sheriff (Freeman) won’t take the threats seriously.
Then come the murders, most notably the father of the waitress from the town diner (Jaimie Alexander, aka Sif from Marvel’s Thor films) who might know more than she lets on. Russ believes the killer was looking for him since he screwed over the town and all, and since he did do that, it could be just about anyone
behind the killings. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Hauser gives it the old college try through hammy lines about sin and sinners and sincere stabs at intensity that sadly fall flat. Alexander does the same, though they could both be in better films. The real problem, though, is that Mailer and co-writer Timothy Holland have stacked their film with so much melo dramatic nonsense dialog that none of their actors stand a chance. Have a Southern character? Make ‘em say things like, “daddy,” and “reckon” and “don’t rightly know.” Need a patsy type character whose take on a Southern accent is borderline offensive? Bring in Darren Mann from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and tell him there’s no such thing as too big.
Freeman’s appearance particularly stings, though, in the way that’ll make you wonder whether he owed someone something, he did the film to get access to another project he actually wanted or they somehow just threw so much money at him he couldn’t refuse. Regardless, for the first half of the film, we never actu ally see him act with any of the others. When we do finally catch the principal cast in the same frame, it’s for something dumb. Even so, he’s Morgan freaking Freeman.
What’s left is painfully slow to unfold and not par ticularly satisfying in its conclusion. If you like laughing at bad movies, your ship has come in. If you want something half-decent, don’t let the Freeman siren song lure you to the rocks of death, tempting as they seem. (ADV)
VoD, R, 130 min.
Bold strokes can’t stave off Marvel fatigue
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet and philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) had many ups and downs. He was one of Germany’s greatest poets and philosophers, but he also endured more emotional distress than most people. His biographer wrote, “Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart, but mostly his apocalyptic star glitters wondrously.” You may have been flirting with a milder version of a “bitter well of the heart,” Aries. But I foresee that you will soon return to a phase when your star glitters wondrously—and without the “apocalyptic” tinge that Hölderlin harbored.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author David Foster Wallace felt sad about how little of our mind’s intense activity can be shared with others. So much of what goes on inside us seems impossible to express. Or if it is possible to express, few of our listeners are receptive to it or able to fully understand it. That’s the bad news, Taurus. But here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, I believe you will experience much less of this sad problem than usual. I’m guessing you’ll be especially skilled at articulating your lush truth and will have an extra receptive audience for it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I never resist temptation,” declared playwright George Bernard Shaw. Why did he dare to utter such an outlandish statement? “Because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me,” he said. I propose that you aspire to embody his attitude during the next eight weeks, Gemini. Make it your aspiration to cultivate a state of mind wherein you will only be tempted to engage with influences that are healthy and educational and inspiring. You can do it! I know you can!
CANCER (June 21-July 22): While still a teenager, Cancerian cowboy Slim Pickens (1919–1983) competed in the rodeo, a sporting event in which brave athletes tangle with aggressive broncos and bulls. When America entered World War II, Pickens went to a recruiting office to sign up for the military. When asked about his profession, Pickens said “rodeo.” The clerk misheard and instead wrote “radio.” Pickens was assigned to work at an armed forces radio station in the American Midwest, where he spent the entire war. It was a safe and secure place for him to be. I foresee a lucky mistake like that in your near future, Cancerian. Maybe more than one lucky mistake. Be alert.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): To create your horoscope, I’ve borrowed ideas from four famous Leos. They all address your current astrological needs. First, here’s Leo author P. L. Travers: “More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.”
Second, here’s Leo author Sue Monk Kidd: “There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming.”
Third, Leo poet Philip Larkin: “Originality is being different from oneself, not others.” Finally, Leo author Susan Cheever: “There is no such thing as expecting too much.”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I encourage you to adopt the perspective expressed by spiritual author Ann Voskamp. She wrote, “I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, the moments before I sleep.” I understand that taking this assignment seriously could be a challenging exercise. Most of us are quick to spot flaws and awfulness, but few have been trained to be alert for elegance and splendor and wondrousness. Are you willing to try out this approach? Experiment with it. Treat it as an opportunity to reprogram your perceptual faculties. Three weeks from now, your eyes and ears could be attuned to marvels they had previously missed.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran educator and anthropologist Johnnetta Cole wrote, “The first sign of an educated person is that she asks more questions than she delivers answers.” I agree and would also say this: A
prime attribute of an intelligent, eager-to-learn person is that she asks more questions than she delivers answers. I encourage you to be like that during the coming weeks, Libra. According to my astrological estimation, you are scheduled to boost your intelligence and raise your curiosity. An excellent way to meet your appointments with destiny will be to have fun dreaming up interesting questions.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don’t read the lines,” wrote author Margaret Millar. That’s not a common problem for you Scorpios. You are an expert at reading between the lines, but that doesn’t cause you to miss the simple facts. Better than any other sign of the zodiac, you are skilled at seeing both secret and obvious things. Given the astrological omens that will be active for you during the rest of 2021, I suspect this skill of yours will be a virtual superpower. And even more than usual, the people in your life will benefit from your skill at naming the truth.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Storyteller and mythologist Michael Meade believes that each of us has an inner indigenous person—a part of our psyche that can love and learn from nature, that’s inclined to revere and commune with the ancestors, that seeks holiness in the familiar delights of the earth. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to cultivate your relationship with your inner indigenous person. What other experiences might be available to you as you align your personal rhythms with the rhythms of the earth? What joys might emerge as you strive to connect on deeper levels with animals and plants and natural forces?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn novelist Haruki Murakami writes, “I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it—to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.” Most of us feel that longing, although few of us admit it. But I will urge you to place this desire in the front of your awareness during the next two weeks. I’ll encourage you to treat your yearning for maximum love as a sacred strength, a virtue to nurture and be proud of. I’ll even suggest you let people know that’s what you want. Doing so may not result in a total satisfaction of the longing, but who knows? Maybe it will. If there will ever be a time when such fulfillment could occur, it will be soon.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An article published in the journal Scientific American declared, “Most people don’t know when to stop talking.” Conversations between strangers and between friends typically go on too long. A mere two percent of all dialogs finish when both parties want them to. That’s the bad news, Aquarius. The good news is that in the coming weeks, your sensitivity about this issue will be more acute than usual. As a result, your talk will be extra concise and effective—more persuasive, more interesting, and more influential. Take advantage of this subtle superpower!
(Further info: tinyurl.com/WhenToStop)
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Since 1996, Ira Glass has produced the renowned radio series This American Life. In 2013, as a reward for his excellence, he was offered a raise in his annual salary from $170,000 to $278,000. He accepted it for one year, but then asked that it be lowered to $146,000. He described the large increase in pay as “unseemly.” What?! I appreciate his modesty, but I disapprove. I’m always rooting for Pisceans like Ira Glass to embrace the fullness of their worth and to be aggressive about gathering all the rewards they’re offered. So I’m inclined, especially right now, to urge you NOT to be like Glass. Please swoop up all the kudos, benefits, and blessings you deserve.
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF JUSTIN REAU TRAHANT Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-01930
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Justin Reau Trahant will apply to the Honorable Kathleen McGarry, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 8:30 a.m. on the 9 day of December, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Justin Reau Trahant to Justin Reau.
KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk
By: Johnny Enriquez-Lujan Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Justin Reau Trahant Petitioner, Pro Se
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT No. D-101-CV-2022-001815
In the Matter of Gregory Paul Al-Yassin Petition for Change of Name.
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq., the Petitioner, GREGORY PAUL AL-YASSIN, will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District, at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:00 a.m. on the 1st of December, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from GREGORY PAUL ALYASSIN to GREGORY ALYASSIN. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this hearing shall be by remote access All hearings are conducted by Google Meet. The court prefers counsel and parties to participate by video at https://meet.google. com/hdc-wqjx-wes. If it is not possible to participate by video, you may participate by calling (US) +1 954-507-7909 PIN: 916 854 445#.
District Court Clerk
By: Johnny Enriquez-Lujan Deputy Court
ClerkI hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing was served electronically on the following parties/counsel of record on the date of this filing: Lynn A. Barnhill
Attorney for Petitioner Gregory Paul Al-Yassin lynn@barnhill-law.com. /s/ Terri. S. Sossman, TCAA
