With fentanyl deaths on the rise and opioid misuse rampant, does New Mexico have a solid plan to spend settlement cash?
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You link to an article in Vice magazine about why people (men) make their vehicles loud. But the Vice reporter basically interviewed the 1% of noisemakers and produced a notso-bad vibe to the whole thing...Consider that the use of Jake brakes on big trucks, which actually serve a purpose but make a lot of noise, have been banned in most municipalities. Banning purposely loud vehi cles, which serve no purpose, but which affect tens of thousands of citizens in Santa Fe every day, is long overdue. Dramatically increasing the fines acknowledges the neg ative impact and makes it worth the effort of enforcement...Last year I suggested to my councilors that they have the city’s GIS department do such a study. I live about 650 feet from Cerrillos Road. The noise from offending traffic is loud enough to interrupt conversation in my house daily. The irrita tion from this is mounting. So, even though I refer to such vehicles as “pointlessly loud,” there is in fact a point to them—the point is to be irritating. (It’s a bit funny to think how different the self-perception of the drivers is from the perception of those who have to hear it.)
And how many people have to hear it? I’ve heard complaints from people living
along many major thoroughfares in Santa Fe. The Reporter quoted Deputy Chief Champlin as stating it had a “direct impact on the quality of life in several areas of the city.” I would say “most of the city.” And this can be calculated. The city’s GIS office could map the city for, say, a thousand feet on both sides of all the major streets, and probably all of downtown, and quickly see the large fraction of our population affected by what’s probably a couple hundred regular offend ers....Perhaps you’ll recall the early films of Jane Goodall as she studied chimpanzees. In one clip, a small male chimp took one of Goodall’s cooking pots and ran around bang ing it with spoon, causing great consterna tion in the community, until eventually the alpha chimp took it away. In modern society, we defer the role of taking away the spoon to our government and police. Why didn’t we do it sooner? Doesn’t matter; do it now.
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The New Mexico Supreme Court has declined to take up the Santa Fe Reporter’s long-running legal bat tle with the City of Santa Fe over whether basic facts about how the government dis ciplines its employees should be public record.
The high court’s denial, issued Sept. 23, effectively ends the case. And it leaves in place a legal loophole that al lows state, city and county governments across New Mexico the option of releas ing information—or not—about wheth er and how they’ve punished police officers, trash collectors, firefighters or anyone else who draws a taxpayer-fund ed paycheck.
SFR believes the facts surrounding public employee discipline should be released upon request under the state Inspection of Public Records Act; Mayor Alan Webber’s administration, like its predecessor, believes those records can be withheld under an exception to IPRA that deals with “matters of opinion in personnel files.”
In short, SFR’s position both legal ly and from a public policy perspective is that a letter of reprimand, a 40-hour suspension or a termination are facts, not opinions. Several other news orga nizations, including the Albuquerque Journal and the Santa Fe New Mexican, joined the cause, filing amicus briefs in support of SFR’s case. So, too, did the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, the state’s leading govern ment transparency organization.
Two public employee unions, in cluding the Santa Fe Police Officers Association, filed briefs in support of the city’s policy.
The Supreme Court has now de clined to break the standoff in a brief, written order in which all five justices concurred but did not explain their ra
tionale to deny the petition for certiorai. (It is standard practice for the court to grant or deny such petitions without ex plaining why.)
“After four years of litigation by the Santa Fe Reporter to try to remove this crucial barrier to democracy, the New Mexico Supreme Court’s discretionary refusal to even hear this case was unex pected and a major disappointment,” SFR attorney Daniel Yohalem says.
The City Attorney’s Office views the court’s refusal to take up the case differently.
“The New Mexico Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari upheld the Court of Appeals’ memorandum opinion that ap plied the law that has been in place for decades: Public employee disciplinary records are not subject to IPRA,” reads a statement from the office provided by city spokesman Dave Herndon. “The Court of Appeals recognized that a change
to the state’s IPRA law would require legislation.”
SFR first tried to pierce the city’s secre cy policy in 2018, but then-First Judicial District Judge Greg Shaffer—who is now Santa Fe County manager—denied the newspaper’s writ of mandamus when SFR sought discipline records about Jeramie Bisagna, one of two officers who fired shots at Anthony Benavidez in 2017, killing him.
The newspaper’s legal counsel tried again in 2019, filing a lawsuit in state District Court after the city denied an IPRA request from SFR for the discipline records of four different officers, all whom had been the subjects of citizen com plaints and insurance settlements. This time, the newspaper homed in on a 2012 state Supreme Court case that appeared to overturn previous rulings that came down in favor of secrecy. First Judicial District Judge Bryan Biedscheid offered a mixedbag order in the case, handing partial vic
tories to both the city and SFR.
The state Court of Appeals was the next stop, where a three-judge panel declined to overturn previous cases that allow gov ernments to withhold discipline records under the “matters of opinion” exception. That prompted the newspaper’s failed gambit with the state Supreme Court.
“The current case law denying public access to police [and other public employ ee] discipline records under IPRA is a very serious misreading of IPRA and a signifi cant barrier to the public’s ability to hold the government accountable for the illegal activities of its employees,” says Yohalem.
SFR has reported on the city’s secrecy policy for years, first digging into the issue for a 2017 cover story. The newspaper’s investi gation found that several cities and counties around the state release employee discipline information on request, while others, includ ing the City of Santa Fe, do not.
Around the time the cover story was published, then-Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales asked state Attorney General Hector Balderas to issue a formal opin ion clarifying the law under IPRA. SFR also asked Balderas whether discipline records should be released in an inter view for the cover story; he handed the telephone to a deputy AG, who said cit ies that release the information are fol lowing the law, as are cities that don’t. Balderas never issued a formal opin ion, as Gonzales had asked.
Lawmakers have tried to provide for public employee discipline trans parency, including in 2021, when state Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque, sponsored a bill that would have thrown back the curtain. It died in committee.
FOG Executive Director Melanie Majors shared Yohalem’s concerns about the Supreme Court’s inaction on SFR’s case.
“We are disappointed in the Supreme Court’s decision, which al lows the Court of Appeals’ restrictive reading of the ‘matters of opinion’ ex ception to remain in place,” Majors says. “FOG believes that the [Supreme] Court chose to take a very straightfor ward approach in which it deferred to those prior decisions with virtually no substantive discussion of the issues.”
After last month’s order from the state Supreme Court, it’s back to the drawing board.
“We will now need to assess whether to bring another case to rectify this ma jor obstacle to transparency and hope the court will hear that one, or seek leg islative reform,” Yohalem says.
pharmacy chain is defending claims by New Mexico officials that the companies contrib uted to the state’s devastating opioid crisis by failing to investigate suspicious prescrip tions before filling them.
Keyes, a professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and key witness in the state’s lawsuit, raises her eyebrows often and asks the lawyer several times to rephrase obtuse questions.
prescribing is far and away the strongest risk factor for opioid use disorder in New Mexico, more so than other important pre dictors like economic strife or pre-existing mental health problems.
from a settlement agreement with three large drug manufacturers. The money is earmarked to address the state’s ballooning opioid problem.
Meanwhile, once every 8.5 hours, a New Mexican died from a drug overdose last year for a total of 1,025—with more than half coming at the hands of illicit fentanyl, ac cording to preliminary data from the New Mexico Department of Health. That’s up from 801 deaths in 2020.
Despite the good news about cash com ing into the state and more potentially on the way, it’s clear the overdose rates are get ting worse, and fast.
Balderas is concerned about whether this money will be appropriated well, and wishes he was seeing more planning and assessment. “This is money coming out of the sky,” he tells SFR, but “elected leaders and health officials are in the dark. I see it as a real game-changer, but we’re underpre pared on the delivery side.”
New Mexico has made headlines for opioid abuse for decades, with the state ranking many times in the top 10 nationally for overdose-related deaths. The first wave started in the 1990s with heroin, and the second in the 2000s with prescription pain medications.
Today, the epidemic has a new, more terrifying aspect: illicitly manufactured fentanyl. This third wave started in New Mexico around 2019, and it “has just come raging out of nowhere,” says Dr. Robert Kelly, substance use epidemiology section manager at the health department.
The fentanyl wave began earlier in Northeastern states, around 2014. Fentanyl has been available as a prescription pain medication for decades, but illicitly man ufactured fentanyl is different, and it has been spreading like wildfire since.
BY CLAIRE WILCOXKatherine Keyes sits on the witness stand fielding questions under cross-examination from a lawyer representing Walgreens in Santa Fe late one afternoon last week.
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“But have you determined the right lev el of [opiate] supply?” he presses, “Like, can you give me an estimate…a number?” Keyes is polite, but her answers are almost professorial; her hands wave and her head nods to punctuate key points, as if talking to a grade-schooler rather than a corporate lawyer who is missing the point.
Keyes’ presentation in the preceding hours came during the fourth week of the mega-trial in the First Judicial District Court, which is expected to run until Thanksgiving. It left little doubt that opioid
State Attorney General Hector Balderas noted in his opening statement on Sept. 7 that a single Walgreens in Española dis pensed over 12.4 million opiate pills from 2006 to 2019, enough to give everyone in the city 841 pills. In other regions of the state, numbers were also alarmingly high. Balderas alleges these companies failed to adequately monitor suspicious opioid pre scriptions that may have been written for illegitimate purposes: In short, that they helped cause today’s predicament.
If Balderas prevails in court, it’s not clear how much money would flow into the state for addiction prevention and treatment efforts, but Oklahoma recently obtained a $250 million settlement from opioid dis tributors in a similar case. Already, Balderas’ office has recovered almost $200 million
New Mexico already was a veritable ad diction tinderbox when illicit fentanyl ar rived here. The state saw an 84% increase in fentanyl-related overdoses from 2020 to 2021, according to DOH preliminary data, whereas the nation saw only a 23% increase.
Fentanyl is far more potent than most prescribed pain medications and heroin, which increases its deadliness.
“With fentanyl it doesn’t take very much. There’s a very small confidence band of get ting a safe dose. So it’s very easy to get a little bit more than you need,” says Kelly. “People out there think it’s Oxy and we have an over dose problem,” he continues, explaining that illicit drug manufacturers package fentanyl in capsules that look like prescription pain medications, so users take it unawares. It is also often laced in other illicit drugs such as
fentanyl deaths on the rise and opioid misuse rampant, does New Mexico have a solid plan to spend settlement cash?
heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.
Fentanyl also poses unique challenges to patients and treatment providers when it comes to initiating medication-assisted treatment, which involves taking medica tions to ease withdrawals and block crav ings to avoid relapse. Buprenorphine is considered a first-line treatment for opioid use disorder. During initiation it can trigger withdrawal, but protocols that used to work well with heroin and prescription opioids seem not to be working as well with fentanyl.
Dr. Snehal Bhatt, medical director for Addictions and Substance Abuse Programs and chief of addiction psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, has had to follow word-of-mouth, anecdotal evidence and novel approaches to get people started on buprenorphine over the last few years. So have other providers.
For a while Bhatt and his team knew exactly how to begin buprenorphine treat ment smoothly, but when fentanyl arrived, it was like the “Wild West” again, Bhatt laments.
Fentanyl also challenges existing over dose prevention models, according to Kelly. Because it is typically smoked more than heroin, which is often taken intravenous ly, harm reduction programs that provide clean needles and syringes are serving fewer people.
“What we’re afraid of is we’re losing contact with folks,” he says, and therefore providers have fewer opportunities for es sential education about fentanyl and its risks. “People need to know more about [fentanyl]…to reduce the stigma so parents are talking to their kids about it, and kids are talking to their parents about it.”
The public needs to know more about naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an overdose, too, Kelly says.
To make things worse, methamphet amine, which is not an opioid, is rapidly on
the rise and is now a major contributor to death rates, too. From 2016-2020, metham phetamine alone was seen almost as often as methamphetamine plus opioids in drug overdoses in New Mexico, and, in 2021, methamphetamine was present in 500 over doses, only a little less often than fentanyl, DOH numbers show. Neither naloxone nor
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a recent afternoon, Bhatt sits unob trusively on a squeaky desk chair in a typical university-style office: A desk takes up most of the room, the walls are bare, and the book
shelf is filled with medical tomes. Although his CV highlights years of work as a dedicated practitioner, teacher and leader, he seems unaware of how badly his office needs an upgrade. There are more important battles.
When asked what the state needs most to heal from the opioid problem, he has a lot to say. “Huge wait times” plague patients, both urban and rural, for example. And programming for adolescents with addictions is inadequate to meet the state’s needs.
Bhatt also wishes that medication-assisted treatment were available in all of the state’s jails and prisons. Although it is offered at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Bernalillo County, many other county lockups, including the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Center, do not use it.
Finally, he feels New Mexico offers inadequate resources for patients who need higher levels of care than typical outpatient treatment, such as partial hospitalization and residential treatment programs, especially those that “someone with public funding or who isn’t independently rich can access.”
At the outpatient program he directs, which provides medication-assisted treatment, individual and group therapy to people with opioid and other addictions, he says he often ends up seeing patients who are not “outpatient appropriate…which is scary at times.”
The opioid settlement cash should help pay for additional access to treatment, Balderas says.
New Mexico will soon receive almost $200 million to combat the opioid epidemic as a result of the settlement agreement with Johnson & Johnson and drug distributors McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health. Additional funds from the ongoing trial and another pending lawsuit against CVS, Albertsons and Allergan may bring even more money, says Balderas. But how those funds would be distributed
throughout the state is not yet established.
For the money that’s already slated to come in, there are clear rules. According to the “New Mexico Opioid Allocation Agreement,” which state and local governments and tribal officials developed in consultation with public health experts, all of that money must be spent on opioid abatement and treatment, or “strategies that directly mitigate harms of opioid addiction,” Balderas notes.
Examples of such strategies might include, but are not limited to, investing more in overdose reversal drugs; treating expecting mothers with addictions; building new treatment programs to target areas of need; supplementing pre-existing successful programs to increase the numbers of patients being served; community education; and harm-reduction programs.
Furthermore, 45% will go to the state, to be appropriated by the Legislature, and 55% heads directly to individual municipalities
and counties, based on metrics that measure the degree of opioid-related harm and rates of use and overdoses.
“I wanted to empower professionals and get as many politicians and money managers out of the equation, and benefit those impacted by addiction,” Balderas says. “One size doesn’t fit all local governments in the state.” The money will be paid out over 18 years so “communities can plan sustainable programming.”
Kyra Ochoa, director of the Santa Fe Community Services Department, says the city does not have any details about when it will see settlement money, but she plans to propose using it for housing for people with substance use disorders, in particular transitional and permanent supportive housing. The idea is to get people off the streets and into behavioral health services if they are interested.
At the state level, there have been success es and failures to accomplish those goals.
State Rep. Miguel Garcia, D-Albuquerque, has toiled over two opioid bills during the last five years—House Bill 46 (last introduced in 2021) and House Bill 112 (last introduced during this year’s session)— neither of which came to a vote in the Senate despite bipartisan support in the House. “They just died without any action [which was] demoralizing and depressing,” says Garcia, who has served in the House since 1997.
HB46 was for a $150,000 feasibility study of an injectable opioid treatment program that researchers in Vancouver, Canada found to significantly reduce street opioid use and illegal activities. If passed, the program would have provided inject able hydromorphone, a prescription opi oid, to people who were not interested in entirely stopping use of opioids, or who had treatment-resistant opioid use disorder. Bhatt, who had been planning to collabo rate on this project, says it would have been
the first program of its kind in the country. Safe drug use sites, which allow people to use their drug of choice in a safe environ ment, are still controversial, but Garcia’s proposed program would be different and “so much more” by offering a clinical set ting where the injectable opioid would be given by licensed providers, as well as ac cess to housing, food stamps and Medicaid services. Removing the substance user from street life would reduce their need to com mit crimes and save lives, he says.
HB112 proposed to appropriate $917,800 from an account set up at the AG’s Office to supplement an existing treatment program operating out of El Centro Family Health Clinic, which has its hub in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The money would have gone to ward renovating an existing facility and ex panding the numbers served from 1,000 to 1,500. El Centro operates clinics in many re mote, rural, predominantly Hispanic areas in Northeastern New Mexico.
Both bills died in the Senate Finance Committee, which puzzled Garcia. With HB112, he posits that state Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup and the committee chair, had a “distorted view” of the plan for fund ing the bill.
Muñoz tells SFR that proposals to build infrastructure for health care must also explain how the operational costs will be covered—even if the money is to come from the settlement fund—and he’s not sure whether the rules for the soon-to-arrive opioid settlement money will allow for brick and mortar infrastructure as well as operational costs. He believes HB46 didn’t get the green light because UNM, which was to conduct the study, did not submit a request for those funds.
Garcia will likely reintroduce at least the hub plan in 2023.
Balderas has also been frustrated with the Legislature’s tendency to overlook promising opioid legislation. “Every legis lator’s against the opiate crisis, but there’s been very little movement. And as far as I can tell, Miguel wanted to study it. And I was disappointed that a lot of these ideas have not emerged into the rule of law, and the rule of law is important.”
Legislators and community officials should be thinking ahead about how they will spend the settlement money, Balderas adds: “I’m concerned that the Legislature and local governments are behind in plan ning…I would argue: Let’s start establishing best practices or create a deployment mech anism so that when the money arrives, we’re ready to go.”
On the other hand, there have been some notable recent successes in opioid legislation, backing Kelly’s impression that, as a state, “we are ahead on these things”
compared to other states, in part because we’ve been dealing with an opioid problem for so long.
For example, in 2017, the state adopted a law requiring naloxone and opioid over dose education for all patients in an opioid treatment program and all inmates upon release from correctional facilities. And, in 2016, lawmakers passed a law requiring that practitioners who prescribe or dis pense opioids obtain and review reports of all other controlled substances received by that patient. This year, New Mexico be came one of the first 10 states to decrim inalize fentanyl testing strips, allowing people to identify whether their stash is laced with fentanyl, a controversial move that didn’t take in many nearby states, including Texas.
Bhatt, too, beams about the innovative, statewide NM Bridge project, funded by a federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grant, and led by providers at UNM in collaboration with Behavioral Health Services Division. The only other program that resembles it is in California. NM Bridge offers emergency rooms and other providers across the state on-demand training and consultation for medication-assisted treatment to help get patients with opioid use disorder started on medication immediately and then links the patients with follow-up care.
Insiders say that to ensure that the opioid settlement money is spent effec tively, stakeholders must collaborate and communicate.
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Bhatt is also a strong believer in the power of collaboration to make change. In addition to his evident passion for existing programs that link patients and providers throughout the state, like the NM Bridge project, he wants to keep working with pol iticians such as Garcia. He also dreams of an extensive “system of care throughout the state, where patients can flow back and forth, depending upon the level of care they need.”
Balderas feels hopeful about the case that’s playing out now in a Santa Fe court room, and he reports that prosecutors have strong testimony, for example, from a Walgreens employee who was told by corporate leaders to basically “mind their own business” when she repeatedly raised concerns. Other key witnesses for the state have presented compelling data showing Walgreens pharmacists tended to not use due diligence when asked to fill suspicious prescriptions, and should have investigated more before filling.
Garcia is poised to do so. He speaks high ly of the UNM team, calling them “one of the nation’s best” and hopes to work with them on future bills addressing substance abuse abatement programs throughout the state. “There’s a really, really kind of sophisticat ed network with UNM and the rural clinics that...goes unnoticed.”
Garcia hopes to appear before the Senate Finance Committee soon to discuss the funding for his proposed opioid bills.
Driving home the impact of the opioid crisis has not been a problem for Balderas’ prosecutors and their expert witnesses. The association between excessive opioid pre scription supply and opioid use disorder is much stronger even than well-established ones like between smoking and lung cancer, Keyes, the epidemiology professor, testified last week. She estimated that 4% of New Mexicans are struggling with opioid use dis order—“orders of magnitude more than lung cancer.”
Despite his enthusiasm about the tri al, Balderas is keeping his eye on how the already-resolved money will be spent, and hopes it will be maximized to best serve New Mexico families.
“I would say that there’s probably not been enough coordination among state agencies, providers, activists and politi cians,” which will be essential to efficiently deploy the funding to best help families. He says he will start attending town halls more frequently to raise awareness.
The state is awaiting a court order concerning litigation costs before it re ceives, then distributes, the settlement money. It is not clear when the court will issue an order.
Balderas would also like to see the gov ernor or state administrators use some of their historic surpluses to match the dollars his office is bringing into the state.
“Lawmakers and local government lead ers cannot miss the mark with this critical funding,” he says.
Claire Wilcox is an addiction psychiatrist and has treated hundreds of patients with substance use disorders. She gives regular trainings on medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders across the country and is adjunct faculty at UNM.
E very legislator’s against the opiate crisis, but there’s been very little movement.
When one grows up in certain types of cultures, death can become something to ignore at best and to fear at worst. But it’s also one of the few things every one has in common. We’re all going to die someday. That’s tough, but it’s true, and holidays like Dia de los Muertos take a lot of the sting out while reminding us to consider those who’ve passed. There’s also the artistry of the holiday, including those famous sugar skulls people love co-opting so much. If you’d like to learn more about what they’re actually all about, find an event through the library this week at which teens, tweens and younger kids will have a chance to create their own sugar skulls while digging into info on Dia de los Muertos. Seems a pretty fun, low-stakes way to kick off hard conversations, but also to come away with a totally beautiful skull for your collection. (ADV) Sugar Skull Workshop: 3:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 13 Free. Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-6837
There are just those names in the art world that elicit immediate response for their paradigm-shifting talents, and when it comes to a state like New Mexico, Fritz Scholder (Luiseño) is right on up there with the biggest and best. Scholder has been credited as one of the artists who changed the game when it came to portrayals of Indigenous folks in art, and his expressionist takes on, oh, say, portraits, for example, remain stirring in their progressiveness and poignancy. Scholder, sadly, died in 2005. Cut to today, and Santa Fe’s LewAllen Galleries is set to kick off a posthumous celebration for what would’ve been the artist’s 85th birthday. We’re talking figurative work, landscapes still lifes and smaller works on paper. If you’ve never acquainted yourself with Scholder, make it happen now. And happy birthday, buddy. (ADV)
Fritz Scholder: 85th Birthday Commemorative Exhibition: 5-7 pm Friday, Oct. 14. Free. LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250
When it comes to music, we know what you like, people from in and around Santa Fe—y’all wanna dance. That’s cool, we get it. Dancing feels good. And if that is indeed your ambition this week, perhaps take note of Albuquerque’s Dirty Brown Jug Band. The trio comes to Madrid’s Mine Shaft Tavern this Saturday with their patented blend of rocky blues, outlaw country and, in some moments, borderline surfy guitar riffage. Oh, you’re gonna hear wah guitar and bass lines taking a walk; you’re gonna hear songs of love and pain. At its core, Dirty Brown Jug Band swings, too, making it ideal for a little rock-step action and waltz-adjacent close ness with other dance fans. We dig the slow jamz, too, in their doo-wop meets SRV style. You’re gonna feel feelings. (ADV)
Dirty Brown Jug Band: 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 15. Free Mine Shaft Tavern, 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
Institute of American Indian Arts’ Making History symposium helps school celebrate two big milestones
While it’s unlikely legendary Cherokee art ist/designer Lloyd Kiva New could have foreseen the massive, sprawling impact of the Institute of American Indian Arts when he co-founded the Santa Fe school with George Boyce in 1962, he’d surely be proud to see how far it has come and the caliber of graduates coming out of there since. And as there is so much worth praising, the school will celebrate its past, present and future on Monday with a day-long sympo sium open to the public (and streamable online through iaia.edu) featuring speak ers, presentations and more.
“We oftentimes can’t throw a rock with out hitting an IAIA grad in the arts world,” says Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Museum Studies Felipe Colón (Laguna Pueblo) with a laugh. “It’s amaz ing when we go out to museums, art mar kets—even globally—how much we see the school represented in the work, the art, the conversations around Indigenous arts. We always count ourselves fortunate for the hard work and sacrifices of our elders, our matriarchs and patriarchs.”
In addition to presentations on the school’s presence at its flagship campus, the Santa Fe Community College and its
Museum of Contemporary Arts down town, Carrie Billy (Navajo) of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium will deliver the keynote address, and IAIA pres ident Robert Martin will speak.
IAIA has students from across 100 tribal nations, according to Colón, as well as international students, both Indigenous to their homelands and not; as well as Chicanos and Anglos, plus people from Nepal, Germany, Canada and beyond. Colón also points out that IAIA is one of only three congressionally chartered schools in the country—a pretty big deal.
“In this commemorative year, we want ed to build in some deliberate time to stop and reflect,” he explains. “It’s about those who came before, but also about our current generation of students. The ultimate goal is to continue to expand our resources, to contextualize histories. It’s a point of pride for us that we’re in line with any other institution renowned for their studies.” (Alex De Vore)
8:30 am-6 pm Monday, Oct. 17. Free Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, (505) 424-2300
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New surrealist works from Hixon that show how emotions change our bodies physically.
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10am–6pm, Mon–Fri; 10–5 Sat, free
form & concept
435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 780-8312
Hoffman transforms the downtown space into an immersive landscape.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
CIPX: CRITICAL INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCHANGE
Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582
Tintypes from photographer Will Wilson, who, we hear, sometimes snaps new shots in the space.
Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Fri, free
Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902
Alexander emerges in Santa Fe with large-scale works from his series, Wet—paintings that capture reflective pools, ripples and reeds, and subtle shifts of light across water surfaces.
10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free DEBBIE LONG
5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417
Glass works from Taos. Jeeze, glass is amazing.
Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free JACKS MCNAMARA: ANCESTRAL IMAGINATION form & concept
435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 780-8312
New paintings on wood. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free JOHNNIE WINONA ROSS: BEAN CREEK SEEPS
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688
New paintings from Ross. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free JUN KANEKO: SOLO
Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700
Key pieces of Kaneko’s lesser-known study. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free LA HISTORIA SE MUERDE LA COLA
Artes de Cuba
1700 A Lena St., (505) 303-3138
A Pinocchio inspired show with prints and sculptures.
10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free LINDA STOJAK: AS OF NOW
LewAllen Galleries
1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250
Stojak is regarded for her highly nuanced, evocative representation of the female figure, and in her transcendental paintings, she empowers her women to narrate their own intimate stories,
10am–6pm, Mon–Fri; 10–5 Sat, free
THE LYRICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DANCE Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888
Surrealism and color studies from Willy Bo Richardson and John Tarahteeff, two of the most exciting artists around these days.
10 am-5 pm, free
LewAllen Galleries
1613 Paseo de Peralta
(505) 988-3250
Absolutely stunning still lifes achieved through the power of graphite, perspective and skill. Have you seen this yet? You really should do that.
10am–6pm, Mon–Fri; 10–5 Sat, free
SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo de Peralta
(505) 989-1199
A selection of Cole’s paintings and works on paper spanning 1962-2022. That’s a pretty good chunk of time, right?
10 am-5 pm,Thurs-Mon free
Abiquiú Inn
21120 Hwy. 84, Abiquiú
(505) 685-4378
Award-winning arts show in the Abiquiu Inn, from plein air stuff to whatever the opposite of plein air is. Don’t @ us.
7 am-9 pm daily, free
Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708
A solo photography exhibition addressing themes of family, culture, legacy and the Black experience.
11 am-5 pm, Tue-Sat, free NISHIKI SUGAWARA-BEDA: TIDAL TIME
Strata Gallery
418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403
Painter Sugawara-Beda draws upon her Japanese heritage for gorgeous new pieces at the up-and-coming gallery.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free RESPONSE
Pie Projects
924 Shoofly St., Ste. B (505) 372-7681
Four New Mexico artists.
11 am–5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 216-0672
Notable Native artists like Jeremy Dennis, Erica Lord, Chaz John, Ian Kuali’i and more. This has been one of our favorite shows this year, so maybe pop by then tell us what you think. Honestly? Worth it for Kuali’i alone.
11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun $10
SHIRIN NESHAT: LAND OF DREAMS
SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199
A solo exhibition by IranianAmerican artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat created in New Mexico in 2019, 10am-5pm, Thurs-Mon, free STEPHANIE ROSE GUERRERO: THE PERMANENCE OF FORGETTING Smoke the Moon
616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com
Los Angeles-based Chicana artist Guerrero unveils new mixed-media paintings that explore ideas of ancestry, environment, labor and technology.
12-4 pm, Thurs-Sun, free TACK ROOM
Gerald Peters Gallery
1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700
Art as equine equipment, as in, the space is transformed into that of a traditional tack room.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
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Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery
2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
Honky-tonk tunes.
7-10 pm, $10
New Mexico Governor's Mansion
One Mansion Drive (301) 318-0940
Explore New Mexico's Governor's Mansion.
12-3 pm, free
HOTLINE B(L)INGO
Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery
112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134
It's bingo time. Bingo to the death! $2 per round! 7 pm, $2
MATISYAHU—SOLD OUT
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369
This reggae dude’s show is all sold out—but maybe you can find some tix online?
7 pm, sold out
MIKE COYKENDALL
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
Singer-songwriter. 7 pm, free
STURTZ
El Rey Court
1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931
An acoustic quartet. 8-10 pm, free
VINYL NIGHTS
New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom
505 Cerrillos Road, Ste. A105 (505) 231-0632
Hecho Gallery
129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882
White gets back to basics for a new series of watercolors.
10 am-5 pm Mon-Tue, free WILD PIGMENT PROJECT form & concept
435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 780-8312
Curated by Tilke Elkison, numerous artists create with foraged pigments.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch
145 Washington Ave.
(505) 955-6780
A program for babies and toddlers using music and song.
10 am, free
DIPO FALOYIN: AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY: NOTES ON A BRIGHT CONTINENT Online collectedworksbookstore.com
Author Faloyin talks about his book, which states what should be obvious by now—African culture is not a monolith. Presented through Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse.
Noon, free
TRACTOR STORYTIME
La Farge Library
1730 Llano St.
(505) 820-0292
A story hour for social, physical and cognitive skill practice.
10:30 am, free
DANCE
El Flamenco Cabaret
135 W Palace Ave.
Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez go flamenco.
6:15 pm, $25-$45
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Early childhood literacy skills explored through song and play alongs. 3:15 pm, free
PAJAMA STORYTIME /HORA DEL CUENTO EN PIJAMA
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
A social storytime for young parents and preschool children. 6 pm, free TEEN LOUNGE
La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292
A safe spot for decompressing and homework after school for teens. Art supplies, laptops, Wi-Fi, games and snacks. 1:30 pm, free
YOUTH CHESS CLUB
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Knight takes rook, but look, we are outgunned... 5:45 pm, free
GOOD TROY EDWARD Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Good country. Good as hell. 4 pm, free
KARAOKE NIGHT
Boxcar
530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222
Sing-a-ling-a-ding-dong. 8 pm, free
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Lit skills for pre-schoolers through song and play.
3:15 pm, free
Join DJ Yosem and rotating special guest DJs. 8 pm, free
BUGS STORYTIME AND CRAFT
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
It’s storytime for pre-K kids. 10:30 am, free
KAT BERNHARDT SALON: PANSY STOCKTON, THE SUN PAINTER OF SANTA FE
El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016
Kat Bernhardt talks artist Pansy Stockton. 3-4 pm, free
ENTREFLAMENCO
El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave.
Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez. Show from $25 dinner and show from $45. 6:15 pm, $25-$45
20TH ANNUAL SEED THE FUTURE
Farmers Market Pavilon 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726
Honoring some of the best vendors, including Rosa Maria Alcantara, Amy Fagan and Keegan Crumpacker. 6 pm, $50-$100
30TH ANNUAL MAYOR’S ARTS AWARDS
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 850-0597
The mayor honors some pretty sweet artists and arts folks, including Judy Tuwalestiwa, Ellen and Robert Vladem, the Santa Fe Art Institute and Patrick Lannan, plus more. 5 pm, free
Perhaps in New Mexico we’re a little more conscious about who owns what land—and what was stolen from whom—than in other places. Make no mistake, friendos, you’re living on land that is not yours, and the fact remains the same: Indigenous folks lived on and cared for the land we today call America for hundreds of years before things like colo nialism and industry turned it into whatever we have now. And in case you hadn’t heard, things aren’t going so great, what with cli mate change, fires, floods and so on. Recently released documentary However Wide the Sky: Places of Power from Santa Fe-based nonprofit educational film studio Silver Bullet Productions, however, aims to look at that issue through the prongs of use, steward ship, cultural meaning and those who still feel a connection. Through interviews with historians and tribal members, plus gorgeous footage of areas throughout New Mexico, it just might help reframe the conversation from whether land use is about ownership or stewardship, though it leans toward the latter. Oh, and by the way? It just won a dang Rocky Mountain Region Emmy. Narrated by Tantoo Cardinal (Cree and Métis) and produced by folks including Jhane Myers (Comanche and Blackfeet; Prey), also the president of Silver Bullet’s board, However Wide the Sky is viewable through PBS in all of its sweeping drone-shot beauty. We caught up with Silver Bullet Productions founding partner and CEO Pamela Pierce to learn a little more. (Alex De Vore).
What made this a story Silver Bullet wanted to tell?
Well, first of all, you have to establish that the history and spirituality of Indigenous people is deeply rooted in the land, that’s a given. But in 2016, changes in presidential policies put tribal lands at risk, and the land was being attacked, the land was being treated as a commodity, something to own, to abuse, to be mined. At the time, Silver Bullet began conversations with tribal leaders about the importance of education and education about the land and the roots of and threats to that land. When we started, we figured that’s pretty
succinct, that’ll be it, and there were so many lessons that came out of the film. It isn’t my film, it’s [Indigenous people’s] film, we just get to be the catalyst. It was something that was important to tell, and we know that film is a powerful tool to motivate, to get people voting.
The people who are speaking in the film, the tribal advisers—and for this film there were 27 advisers—are historians, leaders, educators...it’s not our story to tell, we just help them to tell it. But having said that, it’s a universal concern. The need to protect the land and resources shouldn’t be on one people. It’s something all of us need to take on. And as much research as I do when we start a film, I never know as much as when we end.
Did your perspective change in any way while working on the film?
Absolutely. As I said, as much as I research every topic, and I pre-interview, there are so many epiphanies that come and add to the joy of making any film, but especially this one. Some are the distinction between stewardship and ownership, the difference between being from a place and of a place; that land is a living thing; that there is no part of the land that’s ever abandoned.
Film can, of course, be so powerful. Can you speak to whether—and how—you believe However Wide the Sky will impact our area, our country, our world?
Well, it is going out nationally and interna tionally, that’s kind of a given when you’re doing this kind of film, and I give [director] David Aubrey so much credit for the quality of this work. But let me come back to grass roots: When we show this film, like when we showed it at the Lensic to a sold-out house, there were Native people in the audience, of course, and they brought other family mem bers who had maybe disconnected from their tribe, who no longer followed the tradi tions, the language, and they made a point to tell me—and these are different people talking about family members—when the film ended, how that particular family mem ber was crying; how they felt reconnected; how they said they didn’t realize how much they were losing and had already lost. That said so much.
In other circumstances, there are other non-Natives, and this film is meant to ed ucate non-Natives, who said they had no idea about the Taos Blue Lake, the Zuni Salt Lake, what those are like, about what Santa Fe is like, even. We, of course, also want all the tribes to have a copy, and for the school systems to have a copy, so they’re able to watch it in the privacy of their communi ties. We hope it’s seen by family members, teachers, students, tribal leaders and non-tribal leaders. It’s a great way to spark discussion, and we include with every film a discussion guide to make it easy to facilitate long discussions that are open-ended.
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Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
Solo Americana. 7 pm, free
JOHNNY LLOYD
Altar Spirits
545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596
Country, Americana, more. 8-10:30 pm, free MUNA
The Bridge at SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182
The Los Angeles-based indie pop band takes the state. Meet Me @The Altar opens. 6 pm, $30.99
ROBERT WILSON
Dragon Room at Pink Adobe 406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712
Local singer. 6 pm, $25-$30
CHAMPIONING WOMEN THROUGH THE ARTS: AN EVENING WITH JUDY CHICAGO
New Mexico Governor's Mansion
One Mansion Drive (301) 318-0940
The evening includes Tonya Turner Carroll of Turner Carroll Gallery, a leading advocate of women artists, and renowned feminist-artist Judy Chicago. 5:30-7:30 pm, $150
CHRISTY HENGST : UN-KNOWN PATHS (OPENING)
Ellsworth Gallery
215 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-7900
New mixed-media works. 5-7 pm, free
Railyard Plaza
Market and Alcaldesa Streets (505) 982-3373
Join the monthly Second Thursday Social Ride for a bicycle ride ending at a Second Street Brewery.
7 pm, free
La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292
Screen the Chris Eyre classic.
4 pm, free
Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338
The Center for Contemporary Arts co-present the heavy metal horror flick with Lost Padre Records.
6:30 pm, $15
ALEX MURZYN QUARTET Club Legato (La Casa Sena)
125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232 Jazz.
6 pm, free
BENNY BASSETT
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Acoustic alternative. 4 pm, free BOB MAUS Cava Lounge Eldorado Hotel, 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Soul, blues and more.
7-10 pm, free
DAVID GEIST: THE CABARET UPSTAIRS
Osteria D’Assisi
58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858
Geist is a piano genius. Yeah, we said it. We’ll fight you.
7 pm, $5
LOLA’S LAST DANCE/ ASTONISHING LIGHT
Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601
Tony Mares’ one-act play about a retired Albuquerque prostitute, plus a reading of Mares’ epic poem based on conversations with woodcarver Patrociño Barela. 7:30 pm, $12-$25
SUGAR SKULL! A DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS MUSICAL ADVENTURE
Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234
A family adventure show about Dia de Muertos. 7 pm, $15-$18
THE CHILDREN
New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533
Tony-nominated Lucy Kirkwood play about retired scientists in the midst of an apocalyptic event. (See Theater, page 27) 7:30 pm, $15
THE MOUNTAINTOP
Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262
Exploring and humanizing Martin Luther King Jr. 7:30-10 pm, $30-$75
HANDS ON ART WITH THE GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM
La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292 Workshop for kids and tweens. 3:30 pm, free
SUGAR SKULL WORKSHOP
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Decorate sugar skulls. Do it. (See SFR Picks, page 15) 3:30 pm, free
FRITZ SCHOLDER: 85TH BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATIVE EXHIBITION (OPENING)
LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250
Honoring Scholder for the artist’s posthumous 85th birthday.
(See SFR Picks, page 15) 5-7 pm, free INNER AND OUTER EXPRESSIONS (OPENING)
Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888
New work by painters Michael Bergt and Guillaume Seff. 5 pm, free
INSPIRED CREATIONS: ART WE ENJOY (OPENING)
Poeh Cultural Center 78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041
Works curated from the center’s permanent collection. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free
JOHN DETWEILER (OPENING)
FOMA Gallery
333 Montezuma Ave., Ste. B (210) 288-4740
Abstracts and landscapes. 5-7 pm, free
TIA CRYSTAL: BEYOND THE STARS (OPENING)
Gaia Contemporary 225 Canyon Road #6 (505) 501-0415
New textured paintings. 10 am, free
AUTHOR BRIAN YOUNG: VIRTUAL VISIT
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820
Virtual visit with students via santafenewmexican.com. 10 am, free
BILINGUAL BOOKS & BABIES
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Music and song for babies and toddlers. 10 am, free
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BOB MAUS
Cava Lounge
Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455 Blues and soul.
7-10 pm, free
BÁRBARA PADILLA
Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234
The America's Got Talent runner up graces Santa Fe with her singing...uh, talent.
7 pm, $35-$75
DK & THE AFFORDABLES
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Rock and/or roll. 8 pm, free
ETERNAL SUMMER STRING ORCHESTRA
El Flamenco Cabaret
135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302
Flamenco with Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez.
6:15 pm, $25-$45
Salvador Perez Park 601 Alta Vista St.
Not actually a metal show as we first thought, but US Eagle credit union is helping folks shred seneitive documents they might not otherwise know what to do with.
9 am-12 pm, free
No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org
A veritable mixtape created with six Satanic-themed adult films, but don’t worry—the porn-y stuff has been cut so as to not offend your delicate fucking sensibilities. God! Or Satan, we mean.
7 pm, free
First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 Classical music. 5:15 pm, free
HALF BROKE HORSES
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Country tunes and honky-tonk. 8 pm, free
LORI OTTINO AND ERIK SAWYER
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Americana. 5 pm, free
SANTA FE JAZZ COLLECTIVE: JOHN FUNKHOUSER TRIO Club Legato (La Casa Sena) 125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232 Jazz.
6 pm, $25-$30
THE CHILDREN
New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533
Retired scientists in the midst of a Fukushima-like apocalyptic event. (See Theater, page 27) 7:30 pm, $15
LOLA’S LAST DANCE/ ASTONISHING LIGHT
Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601
Tony Mares one-act and poem. 7:30 pm, $12-$25
THE MOUNTAINTOP
Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262
The night before his 1968 assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. retires to the Lorraine Hotel after delivering his last impassioned speech.
7:30-10 pm, $30-$75
MAKE SANTA FE TOUR
MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502
Learn what to do, how to make. 6 pm, free
15TH ANNUAL CANYON
ROAD PAINT-OUT / SCULPTOUT Canyon Road tierramargallery.com/events/11
This annual event pays homage to the history of Canyon Road. 11 am, free
2022 SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR
Santa Fe Woman's Club and Artists' Studios 1616 Old Pecos Trail Visit santafestudiotour.org for more detailed info.
10 am-5 pm, free
GALISTEO STUDIO TOUR Galisteo Studio Tour Galisteo
Visit galisteostudiotour.com for more info.
10 am-5 pm, free
MONICA LUNDY: PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ABANDONED
Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800
The lives of historical women imprisoned in medical wards. 10 am-6 pm, Sat-Thurs; 10-7 pm Fri, free
NEW AND SELECTED PAINTINGS
The Betterday Coffee Shop 905 W Alameda St. (505) 780-8059
New art by...someone or other.
7 pm, free
PAINT AND SCULPT OUT
art is gallery 419 Canyon Road (505) 629-2332
Artist demo and group exhibit.
11 am-5 pm, free
SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET
Railyard
1612 Alcaldesa St.
Weekly outdoor art market.
9 am-2 pm, free
BILINGUAL BOOKS & BABIES
Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch
145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780
Music, books for young ones.
10 am, free
ENTREFLAMENCO
El Flamenco Cabaret
135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Flamenco!
6:15 pm, $25-$45
COOKING CLASS: ASIAN NOODLES
Open Kitchen 227 Don Gaspar Ave. (202) 285-9840
Learn to make the best noodles with chef Hue Chan Karels. 10 am-1 pm, $115
PLANTITA VEGAN BAKERY POP UP
Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196
Tasty vegan treats. 9 am-1 pm, free
MUSIC
BOB MAUS
Inn & Spa at Loretto
211 Old Santa Fe Trail Blues and soul. 6-9 pm, free
CHANGO Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Rock covers all fierce.
8 pm, free
DIRTY BROWN JUG BAND
Mine Shaft Tavern
2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743
Country meets rock meets outlaw style, but not in that Kid Rock way—in a way that sounds cool and isn't full of hate. (See SFR Picks, page 15) 8 pm, free
HELLO DARLIN' Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Americana, folk, bluegrass. 1 pm, free
ILLUMINATI HOTTIES
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
Alternative/indie.
7 pm, $22-$25
JAVIER JARA ORCHESTRA/ OUR RHYTHMS, OUR VOICES
Teatro Paraguas
3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601
A special musical project honoring the Latin American immigrant population living in the United States, plus Latin music with Jara’s orchestra.
7:30 pm, $20-$25
JOHNNY LLOYD
Bishop's Lodge Ranch Resort
1297 Bishop's Lodge Road (505) 983-6377
Country, Americana, cowboy jamz and outlaw stuff.
5:30-8:30 pm, free
LOOSE ENDS
CHOMP - Santa Fe 505 Cerrillos Road (505) 470-8118 Blues, R&B, classic rock.
8 pm, free
LUMINATRIX AND DIRTYFOOT
Skate School
825 Early St. Ste. H (505) 474-0074
Original rock music in the skate-ingest place around.
6:30-10 pm, $10
ODD DOG
Mine Shaft Tavern
2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
The jam band you’ve been dreaming about, maybe?
3 pm, free
ROBERT FOX TRIO
Club Legato (La Casa Sena) 125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232
After Fox and friends jazz you up, special guests arrive for more jazz.
6 pm, free
WENDY RULE AND NOCTURNE SPARK Reunity Resources
1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196
Australian songwriter Rule unleashes ambient gothic folk. One-woman powerhouse singer Nocturne Spark opens. This is a brunch show.
11 am-1 pm, $10
FACULTY LOUNGE IMPROV Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528
Comedy improv. 90 dang minutes of it, too.
7-9 pm, $15-$60
THE CHILDREN New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533
The New Mexico Actors Lab's Robert Benedetti directs the Tony-nominated Lucy Kirkwood play about retired scientists in the midst of a Fukushima-like apocalyptic event. (See Theater, page 27) 7:30 pm, $15
LOLA’S LAST DANCE/ ASTONISHING LIGHT Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601
Paola Vengochea Martini directs Tony Mares’ one-act play about a retired Albuquerque prostitute and Argos MacCallum directs a reading of Mares’ epic poem based on conversations with woodcarver Patrociño Barela.
7:30 pm, $12-$25
Santa Fe Playhouse
142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262
The night before his 1968 assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. retires to the Lorraine Hotel after delivering his last impassioned speech.
7:30-10 pm, $30-$75
The Bridge at SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182
A sexy and season-appropriate (read, creepy) burlesque and variety show.
7:30 pm, $23-$33
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900
A show dedicated to the diverse jewelry styles that come out of the Institute of American Indian Arts.
3-5 pm, free
2022 SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR
Santa Fe Woman's Club and Artists' Studios
1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455
Tour dozens of artist studios all over the dang place. Visit santafestudiotour.org for more detailed info.
10 am-5 pm, free
MASTERS OF MONSTERS: THE TRADITION OF HORROR IN JAPANESE FOLKLORE AND MANGA
Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200
Speaker Zack Davisson gets into the super-cool horror elements found in Japanese storytelling across a wide swath of mediums, including manga, film, visual arts and more.
2-3 pm, $7-$12
El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302
Flamenco with Estefania Ramirez and Antonio Granjero. You can have dinner, too.
6:15 pm, $25-$45
EVENTS
HERE, NOW AND ALWAYS: COMMUNITY, ART AND STORYTELLING THROUGH LARGE-SCALE PUPPETRY Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1250
The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture joins with students from the Institute of American Indian Arts to teach folks a thing or two about the power of puppets.
1-3 pm, free
OPEN HOUSE
Santa Fe Girls’ School
310 W Zia Road (505) 820-3188
Families are welcome to explore and learn about the school.
3 pm, free
LET IT BE MORNING
Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338
An up close look at the ten sions and challenges of Israel’s Arab community 2-4 pm, $12-$18
La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511
A bonafide country legend. Gets to honky-tonkin’. 7-9 pm, free
CASEY MRAZ AND LOS METAMORFOS
Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
A whole dang mess of styles, from rock and pop to cumbia, blues, Americana, jazz and more.
3 pm, free
SWING SOLEIL
El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931
An acoustic swing-jazz manouche band. 7-9 pm, free
THE DEAD TONGUES
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
Get ready to get folked so good, friends.
7:30 pm, free
THE WESTERNHERS
Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
A lady country duo, which we probably wouldn’t bring up, but they put it in the name, so... now you know.
12 pm, free
DRAG BRUNCH
Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528
Brunch and drag show at the Jean Cocteau, including break fast burritos, concessions and a full bar. If you’ve never experi enced the art of drag, don’t miss out—it’s so much fun. Brunch is pretty OK, too.
11 am-5 pm, $20-$50
THE CHILDREN
New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533
Retired scientists deal with life and such in the midst of a Fukushima-like apocalyptic event in this 2016 play by Lucy Kirkwood.
2:30 pm, $15
LOLA’S LAST DANCE/ ASTONISHING LIGHT
Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601
Teatro Paraguas does both a oneact play and epic poem reading from Tony Mares. 2 pm, $12-$25
THE MOUNTAINTOP
Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262
Exploring MLK’s final night. 2 pm, $30-$75
SEWING BADGE
MAKE Santa Fe
2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502
Create your own leather card carrying case and learn how to use an industrial sewing machine.
1-6 pm, $85
IAIA "MAKING HISTORY" SYMPOSIUM
Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2351
Join the Institute of American Indian Arts for a day-long deep dive into the 60-year history of the venerable institution. (See SFR Picks, page 15) 8:30 am-5 pm, free
SANTA FE SWING
Odd Fellows Hall
1125 Cerrillos Road (505) 690-4165
Old fashioned swing, big band and blues DJs. $8 for the class and for the dance, $3 for just the open dance, which starts at 8 pm. 7 pm, $3-$8
BILL HEARNE
Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
The country legend rides again. 4 pm, free
METAL MONDAY
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 303-3808 Savage Wizdom, Blinddryve and Voidskull.
7:30 pm, $10
NOVO AMOR
Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Alternative/indie. 8 pm, $26
SANTA FE GREAT BIG JAZZ BAND
Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817
It’s jazz, just big and great. No normal-sized jazz here, no sir. 7 pm, free
JOOMI CHUNG: (IN)VISIBLE (OPENING)
Strata Gallery
418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C (505) 780-5403
Video installation and gouache paintings exploring the subjhective experiene of time in Chung’s first solo show at Strata.
5-7 pm, free
El Rey Court
1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931
Personalized tarot readings. Just pray you don’t pull The Happy Squirrel—that spells danger, friend.
6-8 pm, $10
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.
10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month
EL RANCHO DE LAS
GOLONDRINAS
334 Los Pinos Road (505) 471-2261
Colonial living history ranch.
10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sun, $4-$6
Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion
1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 983-4098
Hit santafefarmersmarket.com to sign up, but know that the tours can only accommodate 10 guests at a time. Still, pretty cool to learn how the sausage gets made over there.
9 am, free
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565
Americana comes to the most Americana-heavy bar ever around. It does feel pretty good to kick back with a house marg and feel the acoustic guitarz.
4 pm, free
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery
2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808
Americana and rock husband and wife duo who seem to be named after some kind of hardware list. You can never go wrong with shovels and rope, too—you just never know when you’ll need that specific combination of things.
7:30 pm, $33
Zoetic
230 St. Francis Drive (505) 292-5293
Training in meditation on Buddha’s timeless wisdom feels pretty dang nice if you dedicate yourself. Feel it. Feel it good.
6-7:15 pm, $10
By Loren Aragon of fashion brand ACONAV, part of Here, Now and Always at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART
750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226
Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence. Trails, Rails, and Highways. 1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12
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
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
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
Following
a late afternoon film screen ing at Violet Crown Cinema over the weekend, a companion and I found ourselves peckish at the tricky hour of the day where you have to decide whether you’re go ing to contend with a larger meal now and run the risk of late night snacking, or if you’re go ing to do the snacking and possibly spoil your appetite. Of course, by the time we’d driven to the Southside and back downtown doing the “I dunno, where do you wanna go?” dance repeatedly, we finally just landed someplace like, “Forget this, let’s just go someplace that’s both open and where we don’t frequent.”
Enter Santa Fe Bar & Grill, that stalwart eatery at the DeVargas Center that has some how lived on my if-we-can’t-work-out-any thing-else list for far too long. Oh, don’t get me wrong—I won’t now nor have I ever said the place is bad, but my memories of it are tied up in quick coffees with my grandmother, a fish taco from a million years ago that, despite my roommate at the time’s insistence, did not change my life; and, of course, sometimes a dessert post-movie when DeVargas still had a cinema which, believe it or not, played artsier films. That’s a long sentence and a long way of coming to my point: Maybe it’s because I’d just seen a film, maybe it’s because I had great guacamole there once, who knows, but Santa Fe Bar & Grill entered my mind, and that’s where we went. Deal with it, America.
First off, if you can find yourself at the restaurant at roughly 5 pm, that’s sort of the dream. No, I’m not so old that I gener ally do my evening meals so early, but being hungry and wanting to discuss the movie, to find a warm spot pre-dinner rush felt novel somehow. The ol’ Bar & Grill has a capital-G GORGEOUS patio, too, though this was in the midst of the days-long (and much-loved by this writer) gloom, so service was rel egated to the great indoors, as it likely will be for the duration of winter. No matter, however, as we wound up with one of those brilliant wait ers who never hovers but never leaves you wanting. Even better, she answered my slew of rap id-fire questions: “Have you tried the pork chop special? Is it always available? What’s it come with? What would you do?” She never once faltered and should be celebrated.
“Pork chop it is,” I said, “and they’ll have the mahi-mahi fish tacos with the coleslaw and black beans.”
These proved wise orders, as the fish ta cos ($13.50) reportedly sang with buttery, flaky goodness. Mahi-mahi is an interesting bit of fish, not so firm as some types of salm on—which can feel tough and rubbery when cooked even slightly too long. In taco form, the mahi-mahi was slightly crisp on the out side, but tender and juicy on the inside. With the corn tortilla from local mainstay Alicia’s Tortilleria, plus some cabbage and tomatillo salsa, my companion reported a tropicalesque win, and something she would order again. Strangely, though, they’ve never sam pled lobster and weren’t about to start, and since that means neither they nor I sampled
the available lobster tacos, I can’t speak to their quality. Next time, maybe. Next time.
I, meanwhile, chose to continue my on
doing. Pork chops, too, face their fair share of rubbery issues when in lesser hands, but at the Santa Fe Bar & Grill, they almost melt in your mouth. Served with a few stalks of ex cellently seasoned asparagus and a small but smart number of roasted potatoes, it felt only slightly better than mom used to make. This, friends, was comfort food at its finest, and it came with a side of mango-apple chutney that was divine. I did not eat too much, even
Finally, as we’d done the very important work of going to the movies earlier, we de served a little treat from the dessert menu; two, actually, plus coffee. While the coffee ($3) was only OK, I consoled myself with the mud pie ($7.95), a combo of coffee ice cream and piñon with an Oreo crust and slathered in chocolate. My companion, however, won the dessert-off by ordering the hot cajeta sundae ($6.50). Cajeta is one of Mexico’s takes on caramel made with goat’s milk for a de cidedly richer and more nuanced flavor than that of the plain old cow caramel. For days after the meal, they described how good that sundae was, and have since dug up some recipes for creating their own cajeta. I’m not about to stop them. I am, however, upgrading the Santa Fe Bar & Grill from afterthought to place-I’d-regular ly-visit. Even now, as I think about that pork chop, I’m verklempt.
hood and how my mother made them (she made them PERFECTLY, for the record), meaning I carry high hopes in the chop de partment. At Santa Fe Bar & Grill, our server told me this specific pork chop—Frenched, as it were, which is a bone-in technique, and cooked with olive oil, thyme, ginger and gar lic—pops up on the menu regularly and is one of her favorites. I was glad to heed her words: Not only did the bright ginger and earthy garlic meld together in a tangy mar riage of complementary flavors, whoever was working that grill knew what they were
SANTA FE BAR & GRILL
DeVargas Center),
Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe Bar & Grill wows—just wish I’d thought of it more often
The penultimate offering of New Mexico Actors Lab’s 2022 season, The Children, very much follows the company’s mission of producing so cially conscious works—in fact, it might be one of the most relevant pieces to the time in which it’s being produced from the company in recent memory.
Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima nu clear explosion in Japan, Kirkwood’s play received a fair amount of attention during its original London and Broadway runs before becoming available to smaller professional theater groups, and it feels both incredibly urgent and timely in its Santa Fe premiere; the kind of theater that makes you burst out in laughter at one moment, then delivers the most un expected gut punch the next. Here, British playwright Kirkwood and, by extension, New Mexico Actors Lab co-artistic direc tor Robert Benedetti and his troupe create a universe that truly engages the audience in the action and envelops them in the world of its characters.
The Children opens with Rose (the always superb Lynn Goodwin) dropping by to visit former colleague—and sort of frenemy—Hazel (a powerfully understat ed Leslie Dillen) at the seaside cottage she shares with her husband, Robin (Brent Black, in a playful and complex turn). We learn through elegantly woven details that the three previously worked togeth er as scientists at a nuclear power plant, which has since undergone a major di saster, leading Hazel and Robin to vacate their actual home and their lives to take on a subdued, careful existence while they wait for some degree of normalcy. Yes, the script might feel a bit too real in that re gard, a bit of something we’ve all experi enced in recent years. But as the text and actors dance around the purpose of Hazel and Robin’s unexpected guest, the audi ence must grapple with issues of safety and self-preservation versus community and ethical responsibility, aging and fa milial obligations and, ultimately, what we owe each other as human beings.
For a less creatively stacked company, The Children’s script poses an abundance of potentially daunting challenges, both for design and performance. It would be a misstep for this reviewer to mention too
many of the twists and turns of the script (part of the fun of the evening was hear ing exclamations and reactions from my fellow audience members), but suffice it to say, in the capable hands here, the piece is a tour de force for everyone involved.
The crew at New Mexico Actors Lab, led by director Benedetti, meets the giv en obstacles beautifully at nearly every turn, to both highly comedic and deeply profound effect. The only modification they might have considered involves some of the physical storytelling—the brief moments of combat and intimacy, while well-staged and executed, did not al ways flow as well as the rest of the action.
Regardless, Benedetti and his actors have achieved a lovely balance, bringing the humor and brightness of Kirkwood’s work to the forefront from the very top, while still allowing space for unsettling and un comfortable energy that rings so painfully true. Though The Children is not about a pandemic, the sense of perpetual forebod ing and trying, but never quite reaching, a new normal makes a significant and relat able impression.
The company’s casting remains a con sistent strength, as well. Benedetti knows his talent pool well and directs the actors therein to great effect. This is very much the case here: Goodwin, Dillen and Black
perform their roles effortlessly, which is no small feat given the entire 90-minute show essentially takes place through one elaborate scene. The actors have very few moments to catch a breath offstage, but the chemistry between the three is com pletely believable and contributes to the intricacies within Kirkwood’s character relationships in an impactful way, partic ularly as the stakes increase throughout the show. Benedetti’s staging is intuitive and effective; it is clear that significant care was put into ensuring all audience members have a clear view of the action throughout the production, which may sound like an odd consideration, but giv en the regular use of a thrust-style stage configuration at the Lab (basically, a stage surrounded on three sides by seating, which can allow for innovative physical storytelling, but also tricky angles), it’s a valid concern. The pacing is also excellent with its runtime flying by.
The Children is exceedingly well-craft ed on a technical level, with lighting de signer Skip Rapoport approaching genius in its subtlety. Through his scenic design, Benedetti has created a gorgeously real istic depiction of a humble, comfortable cottage, and some clever and thoroughly unexpected technical surprises toward the final curtain show that, though New Mexico Actors Lab might be settling into its newish home theater in Midtown, by no means are they settling in any other capacity. At various points throughout the show, for example, the actors engage with real food. The added touch of the aroma of bread and fresh greens grounded the action in an un expected but much appreciated way.
Still, the content of the play is rath er heavy, and it’s important to note that The Children, while sidestepping easy answers, ends not precisely with a sense of optimism, but that of growth, account ability and bravery in the face of disaster. It’s also a lovely look at human resiliency and the way that people, no matter how flawed, still have the opportunity to prac tice compassion and maybe, just maybe, make a difference for someone else, at an other time.
7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 13-Saturday, Oct. 15 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 16 $15-$30. The Lab Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 395-6576
Whereas Amsterdam, the newest from director/writ er David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle), begins its madcap dash through subterfuge, love and a bit of real-life American history feeling a bit like Wes Anderson-meets-Jean-Pierre Jeunet by way of the Coen Brothers, it does manage to eke out its own identity by the time the credits roll. And it’s a fun one, with its star-studded cast clearly having a fantas tic time working together and its messaging landing soundly when it all comes together.
Amsterdam tells the tale of Burt Berendsen (Christian Bale), a doctor from meager beginnings whose very wealthy in-laws arranged for him to fight during World War I in an apparent bid to cancel out his being half-Jewish for their society friends. Burt escapes the front by losing an eye and, along the way, becomes lifelong friends with a fellow soldier named Harold (John David Washington). Together, they take up with a mysterious American artist (Margot Robbie) in Amsterdam after they’re discharged, and here Russell’s script shines in a utopian orgy of sing ing, dancing, arts and kinship. Blissful, warm lighting highlights the unearthly delights of living for love and art; here, we come to empathize with Burt’s plight, particularly that of his socialite wife and her muckymuck family.
But all good things must end, and some years af ter the war and Amsterdam, Burt and Harold—who becomes an attorney post-war—find themselves back in America, hired by the daughter (Taylor Swift) of their old commanding general to investigate her fa ther’s death. Something suspicious is going down in New York City, and it smells a lot like fascism. Finding themselves accused of murder and on the run, Burt and Harold must delve into the conflicting worlds of money, industry, the military and society to clear their names.
Bale, as always, stretches into his role with aplomb, though he’s much funnier here than he usually gets to play. It works well against Washington’s more straight-man approach, though the latter actor gets laughs, too. When Robbie joins the fray, it’s a master class in chemistry, though she seems to have that with everyone.
Russell, meanwhile, gets points for pulling the underlying conundrum of the film from a terrifying chapter of real history that went down in the lead-up to World War II (no spoilers, but yes, the thing real
Most people of a certain age remember where they were during the aftermath of Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor’s infamous 1992 performance on Saturday Night Live. You know the one—when she ripped up a picture of then-Pope John Paul II while performing a cover of Bob Marley’s “War,” itself derived from a 1963 Haile Selassie speech to the United Nations.
“Fight the real enemy,” she said directly into the camera as she tore the photo to bits. Today it seems tame as far as protests go—not to mention how right she was insofar as the Catholic church totally was covering up child abuse. But back then, O’Connor became an early example of what we now refer to as cancel culture. Who can say whether her career ever fully recovered?
The SNL thing isn’t the bedrock of the new Showtime documentary about O’Connor, Nothing Compares, but it does make it worth signing up for the streaming service (even on a trial basis) and further represents a turning point in what is otherwise a film about the singer’s meteoric rise and sudden drop-off. In a phrase, O’Connor was (and actually continues to be) punk as fuck, a trailblazingly smart songwriter and force who escaped the clutches of an abusive mother as a child and turned her heart-wrenching experiences into the sort of songs that connect people. In filmmak er Kathryn Ferguson’s vision of O’Connor, she’s down right heroic, from her toying with gender norms and
confronting feminine hairstyle ridiculousness to her careening and powerful caterwauling on pretty much every album since 1987’s The Lion and the Cobra. The live footage is intense, too!
Ferguson takes us through O’Connor’s early days and band heights, through television and private footage, to showcase a more intimate portrait of the notoriously reclusive singer than we’ve ever seen. This is the woman who dyed a Public Enemy logo into the side of her head for a performance at the Grammys the year the historic hip-hop group boycotted the awards over the lack of a rap category; the woman who declined to have the American national anthem play before a festival appearance. This is the woman who stood steadfast in the face of tens of thousands of booing audience members at Madison Square Garden in ’92 and repeated those words from the same Selassie speech she performed on SNL
Sadly, the doc glosses over some key happenings, such as O’Connor’s son’s 2022 death. Sure, the film might have been in the can before that happened, but it only released now, toward the end of the year, and its absence is noteworthy. We also don’t get much of a sense of what happened in O’Connor’s personal rela tionships outside of that with her mother—and it’s a tough pill to swallow that the Prince estate denied the film the rights to play O’Connor’s version of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” clearly her biggest hit, a landmark music video and, frankly, a killer tune.
No matter, though, because the song remains the same: We don’t often get a talent of O’Connor’s mag nitude. (ADV)
Showtime, NR, 97 min.
+ FUN AND FAST-PACED; CENTRAL CAST DELIGHTFUL TOGETHER HAMMY MOMENTS; POINTLESS SIDE LOVE STORYly happened), but he does lean pretty heavily into white savior tropes he could easily have sidestepped. Instead of consistently reminding us Burt’s a good guy because he’s the kind of doctor who’ll treat Black vet erans and says things like, “How could I not?” maybe he could have let those actions speak for themselves?
It’s too bad, too, that Chris Rock joins the cast to spout off throwaway joke lines when he’s proven he can truly act over and over; there’s even a tacked-on love story between Bale and Zoe Saldaña that feels... half-baked at best. Same goes for appearances from Michael Shannon and, for some reason, Mike Myers.
All the same, Amsterdam does find its footing by its final funny moments, and small roles filled by Rami Malek and Robert DeNiro just plain work. And the film sticks it to the rich, which is always fun.
Directed by Russell
With Bale, Washington and Robbie Violet Crown, Regal, R, 134 min.
Florence Pugh (Midsommar) is too good an actor for Don’t Worry Darling, the newest entry from Booksmart director/actor Olivia Wilde and a rather toothless and tactless primer on gaslighting and feminism-lite as doled out through bits and pieces of other and often better films.
In fact, Pugh is probably too good for all the drama that’s surrounded the film, from Wilde publicly claiming actor Shia LaBeouf—who was originally attached through a role that ultimately went to singer Harry Styles—was fired from the film to allegedly make the set safer for Pugh, to rumors that Wilde herself was unprofessional during filming. With the caveats that safety for women in film is of paramount importance, and we absolutely need non-cis-hetero bros in the movies—not to mention how nobody wants a shitty work environment—these things hang like a dark cloud over Wilde’s new opus, and it’s hard to disconnect from them while watching.
In Don’t Worry Darling, Pugh is the doting Alice, a young wife whose 1950- or 1960-something existence boils down to cleaning by day, serving her hardworking husband, Jack (Styles), by night and hanging out with the neighborhood gals for shopping and drinking and, for some reason, ballet class. Alice and Jack live in one of those Levittown kind of places run by something or other called the Victory Project. Everything seems too clean and too quote/
unquote normal, but obviously there’s scary shit lying in wait just beneath the surface. Jack and the other husbands go off to mysterious jobs each day they can’t discuss; the wives wait at home. It seems idyllic and all, but when another neighborhood woman starts acting erratically and asking questions of the charismatic town leader Frank (Chris Pine), Alice starts to feel like something ain’t right. And so it goes.
All hail Pugh as the gaslit housefrau who repeatedly finds herself at odds with her environment and all the people in it. Something indeed is awry with the Victory Project, and Pugh soars through her dialogue with the salt and powerful nature of cinema’s greats. Against Styles’ stilted and timid delivery, however, things stall, and there’s only so much Pugh can do.
Pugh and Pine sing, though, particularly in their all-too-brief scenes together. As a sort of Alex Jones/Joe Rogan type, Pine crafts quiet and subtle horrors that threaten to emerge but never quite do—making it all that much scarier.
Don’t Worry Darling lacks subtlety, exchanging the joy of discovery and post-screening conversation with tedious hand-holding and finger-wagging. Find also what is hopefully homage and not thievery from films like The Matrix, The Truman Show and The Village; though it’s impossible to know if Wilde and writers Katie Silberman, Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke are familiar enough with the Fallout series of video games to know what narrative elements they’ve repeated almost wholesale.
Violet Crown, Regal, R, 122 min.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Magic Realism Bot” is a Twitter account that generates ideas for new fairy tales. Since you will benefit from imagining your life as a fairy tale in the coming weeks, I’ll offer you a few possibilities.
1. You marry a rainbow. The two of you have children: a daughter who can sing like a river and a son who is as gleeful as the wind. 2. You make friends with a raven that gives you savvy financial advice. 3. You invent a new kind of dancing; it involves crying and laughing while making holy prayer gestures toward your favorite star. 4. An angel and a lake monster join forces to help you dream up fun new adventures. 5. You discover a field of enchanted dandelions. They have the power to generate algorithms that reveal secrets about where to find wonders and marvels.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): On February 1, 1976, singer Elvis Presley was partying with buddies at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. As the revelry grew, he got an impetuous longing for an 8,000-calorie sandwich made with French bread, peanut butter, blueberry preserves, and slabs of bacon. Since this delicacy was only available at a certain restaurant in Denver, Colorado, Elvis and his entourage spontaneously hopped onto his private jet and flew 900 miles to get there. In accordance with astrological omens, Taurus, I encourage you to summon an equally keen determination to obtain pleasurable treasures. Hopefully, though, they will be more important than a sandwich. The odds of you procuring necessary luxuries that heal and inspire are much higher than usual.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini writer Nikki Giovanni reminds us, “It cannot be a mistake to have cared. It cannot be an error to have tried. It cannot be incorrect to have loved.” In accordance with astrological omens, I ask you to embody Giovanni’s attitude. Shed any worries that your caring and trying and loving have been blunders. Celebrate them, be proud of them, and promise yourself that you will keep caring and trying and loving. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to renew your commitment to your highest goodness.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I was born near Amarillo, Texas, where the US Energy Department stores over 20,000 plutonium cores from old nuclear warheads. Perhaps that explains some of my brain’s mutant qualities. I’m not normal. I’m odd and iconoclastic. On the other hand, I don’t think my peculiarity makes me better than anyone. It’s just who I am. I love millions of people who aren’t as quirky as me, and I enjoy communicating with unweird people as much as I do with weirdos. Everything I just said is a preamble for my main message, Cancerian: The coming weeks will be prime time for you to give extra honor and credit to your personal eccentricities, even if they comprise a minor part of your personality.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Jennifer Huang testifies, “Poetry is what helps me remember that even in my fragments, I am whole.” What about you, Leo? What reminds you, even in your fragments, that you are whole? Now is an excellent time to identify the people, animals, and influences that help you generate a sense of unity and completeness. Once you’re clear about that, spend quality time doing what you can to nurture those healers. Maybe you can even help them feel more cohesion and harmony in themselves.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo journalist Sydney J. Harris described “the three hardest tasks in the world.” He said they weren’t “physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts.” Here they are: 1. to return love for hate; 2. to include the excluded; 3. to say “I was wrong.” I believe you will have a special talent for all three of these brave actions in the coming weeks, Virgo. Amazingly, you’re also more likely than usual to be on the receiving end of those brave actions.
Congratulations in advance!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When he was young, Libran poet W. S. Merwin had a teacher who advised him, “Don’t lose your arrogance yet. You can do that when you’re older. Lose it too soon, and you may merely replace it with vanity.” I think that counsel is wise for you to meditate on right now. Here’s how I interpret it: Give honor and respect to your fine abilities. Salute and nurture your ripe talents. Talk to yourself realistically about the success you have accomplished. If you build up your appreciation for what is legitimately great about you, you won’t be tempted to resort to false pride or self-absorbed egotism.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his absurdist play Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett offers us two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, who patiently wait for a white-bearded man named Godot. They’re convinced he will provide them with profound help, perhaps even salvation. Alas, although they wait and wait and wait, Godot never arrives. Near the end, when they have abandoned hope, Vladimir says to Estragon, “We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment.” My sense is that you Scorpios, like Vladimir and Estragon, may be close to giving up your own vigils. Please don’t! I believe your personal equivalent to Godot will ultimately appear. Summon more patience.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet Charles Wright has testified, “I admire and revere and am awed by a good many writers. But Emily Dickinson is the only writer I’ve ever read who knows my name, whose work has influenced me at my heart’s core, whose music is the music of songs I’ve listened to and remembered in my very body.” In my astrological reckoning, now is an excellent time for you Sagittarians to identify artists and creators who provide you with similar exaltation. And if there are no Emily Dickinson-type influences in your life, find at least one! You need to be touched and transformed by sublime inspiration.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ve read and studied poetry for many years, but only recently discovered Capricorn poet Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856–1935). How is it possible I missed her? Her contemporary, journalist H. L. Mencken, described her work as “one of the imperishable glories of American literature.” She received many other accolades while alive. But today, she is virtually unknown, and many of her books are out of print. In bringing her to your attention, I am announcing my prediction about you: Anything in your life that resembles Reese’s reputation will change in the next 12 months. If you have until now not gotten the recognition or gratitude you deserve, at least some of it will arrive.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Author Sophia Dembling defines a friend as a person who consoles you when you’re feeling desperate and with whom you don’t feel alone. A friend is someone whose life is interesting to you and who is interested in your life. Maybe most importantly, a friend must not be boring. What’s your definition, Aquarius? Now is an excellent time to get clear about the qualities you want in a friend. It’s also a favorable phase to seek out vital new friendships as you de-emphasize mediocre and overly demanding alliances.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you or do you not wish to capitalize on the boost that’s available? Are you or are you not going to claim and use the challenging gift that would complicate your life but also expedite your growth? Act soon, Pisces! If you don’t, the potential dispensation may disappear. This is an excellent chance to prove you’re not afraid of achieving more success and wielding more power. I hope you will summon the extra courage necessary to triumph over shyness and timidity. Please claim your rightful upgrade!
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-PB-2022-00174
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
COUNTY OF SANTA FE
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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LISA GILL CLARK, Deceased NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that William J. Clark has been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of any published Notice to Creditors or 60 days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned counsel for the personal representative at the address listed below or filed with the First Judicial District Court, County of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Respectfully submitted by: JAY GOODMAN & ASSOCIATES LAW FIRM, P.C. /s/ Thomas E. Dow, Esq. Jay Goodman & Associates Law Firm, P.C.
Attorney for Personal Representative 2019 Galisteo St. #C3 Santa Fe, NM 87505 T: (505) 989-8117 E: tdow@jaygoodman.com
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF SELAH SANTOS
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF YASMIN ALEJANDRA NUÑEZ VALDEZ
Case No.: D-101-CV-2022-01720
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 Yasmin Alejandra Nuñez Valdez will apply to the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:30 a.m. on the 20th day of October, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Yasmin Alejandra Nuñez Valdez to Yazmin Alejandra Paredes Nuñez. KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Bernadette Hernandez Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Yasmin Alejandra Nuñez Valdez Petitioner, Pro Se
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO: D-101-SA-2022-00021
IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION PETITION OF DARIUS ESFANDI
NOTICE OF FILING OF PETITION OF ADOPTION TO: NAZARETH JIRON
PLEASE BE NOTIFIED that Petitioner has filed a Petition for Adoption on July 28, 2022, in the First Judicial District Court. The matter has been assigned to the Honorable Bryan P. Biedscheid.
Pursuant to NEW MEXICO
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Notice is hereby given that on the 20th day of October, 2022
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A-1 Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any and all bids or cancel sale without notice. Owners of the units may pay lien amounts by 5:00 pm October 19, 2022 to avoid sale. The following units are scheduled for auction.
Sale will be beginning at 09:00 am October 20, 2022 at 3902
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OF Christopher John Routson, DECEASED. No. 2022-0127
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: P.O. BOX 1985, Santa Fe, N.M. 87504
Dated: September 28, 2022 Marcella Walsh PO Box 802 Cerrillos, NM 87010
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Case No. D-101-PB-2022-00213
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Bertrea Margaret Bratcher, Deceased.
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NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 408-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Selah Santos 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 12:45 p.m. on the 14 day of October, 2022 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Selah Santos to Raven Rose Michael Santos.
KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk
By: Johnny Enriquez-Lujan Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Selah Santos Petitioner, Pro Se
The Petitioner is required to give Nazareth Jiron notice that the above-referenced Petition for Adoption was filed, as the biological father of J.F.G. of Santa Fe, New Mexico, born to J.G n/k/a J.E on September 4, 2018.
PLEASE BE FURTHER NOTIFIED and advised that pursuant to the New Mexico Statues annotated Section 1978, 35-A-5-27 (A) (1999), you have twenty days from the date of publication in which to respond to the Petition. Clerk of the District Court By: Jill Nohl Deputy Submitted by: /s/
DENISE E. READY Atkinson & Kelsey, P.A. Attorney for Petitioner P.O. Box 3070 Albuquerque, NM 87190 (505) 883-3070
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO
IN THE PROBATE COURT
SANTA FE COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jane Chavez and Fabian Chavez, whose address is c/o The Wirth Law Firm, P.C., 708 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New MExico 87501, have been appointed as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Bertrea Margaret Bratcher, deceased. Creditors of the estate must present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or within sixty (60) days after mailing or other delivery, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the Co-Personal Representatives, Jane Chavez and Fabian Chavez, in care of The Wirth Law Firm, P.C., 708 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, or filed with the First Judicial District Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Dated October 3, 2022 Respectfully Submitted, The Wirth Law Firm, P.C. Attorneys for the Estate of Bertrea Margaret Bratcher 708 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 98801668 ext. 103 By /s/ Carol Romero-Wirth Carol RomeroWirth
