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The PNM/AVANGRID Merger What’s In It For You?
If the merger is approved there will be more than $300 million in benefits for New Mexicans:
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$1 million in scholarships for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) in the Albuquerque metropolitan area over the two years following closing;
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150 full-time jobs to New Mexico over three years following closing, and the new jobs will remain for no less than five years thereafter. Each job is expected to have an average salary of more than $90,000; and the total economic impact is estimated to exceed $200 million;
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$12.5 million ($2.5 million/year for five years) to help impacted indigenous community groups in the Four Corners region;
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Despite the inherent necessity of child care—without it, parents can’t get back to work—employees in the field have yet to see increases in wages that reflect the indispensability of their work. In some cases, early childhood educators have taken drastic measures to receive the pay they’re due. “I had to threaten that I’m leaving in order to get at least a 25 cent raise,” Natachu tells SFR, adding that she considers herself lucky compared to some other early childhood educators who work for directors who don’t respond to those kinds of appeals. “It’s really sad to hear from teachers around New Mexico, not even making $10.50,” she continues. Though workers in Santa Fe benefit from at least $12.32 per hour given the city’s living wage rule, educators around the state don’t enjoy the same support. Even though a portion of early childhood educators’ wages come from the government, these professionals can’t organize and lobby for better pay to the same extent as K-12 teachers. The Legislative Finance Committee’s August accountability report on the status of early childhood education outlines that pay has not only failed to improve—it has regressed on average: From 2017 to 2019, wages for child care workers decreased 1%, from $10.10 to $10.00, while wages for child care center directors increased 19%.
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On a larger scale, the accountability report touts investment gains in early education in New Mexico over the last decade—annual appropriations for child care programming have grown by almost 200% since fiscal year 2012. The most recent investments for early childhood education programming—$380 million from the Legislature and $435 million from federal stimulus funds—are slated for increases in child care subsidies and supporting early education centers. “It is foundational for economic development to have a childcare system,” says Kate Noble, vice president for policy and stakeholder engagement at Growing Up New Mexico. “We can’t just fund the babysitting system,” says Noble, who is also a Santa Fe Public Schools Board member. “We have
We know that across New Mexico, some communities don’t have as many resources and so child care providers have been charging families a lot less because that’s what they can afford. -Elizabeth Groginsky, secretary, Early Childhood Education Department
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arah Nelson, a lead teacher at the Early Learning Center at Kaune, has spent 15 years as an early childhood educator. Throughout that time, she’s experienced the good and the bad sides of the child care industry. No one needs to tell her how demanding the gig is. “It’s a hard job and there’s a lot to it,” Nelson tells SFR. “You don’t just have to support the kids in the classroom, you have to support the families where they’re at because if the family doesn’t have the right kind of support, then the child isn’t going to benefit.” She says her current employer, Growing Up New Mexico, a Santa Fe-based early education nonprofit that works across the state, understands the significance of her efforts. The work is historically undervalued, though Nelson says the public is finally starting to wake up. “Parents are starting to see the benefits of it because...their kids go home and they start talking about things they’ve learned,” she continues. “And they’re able to communicate their needs and their wants better at home.” Despite New Mexico’s languishing national ranking in child well-being, positive developments in early childhood work, which extends from infants to 5-year-olds, have some advocates feeling optimistic. In addition to the prospect of funds from the $3.5 trillion federal budget reconciliation framework, encouraging changes at the state level hold promise for families seeking care and centers providing services. But not everyone in early education has seen gains. Child care workers continue to suffer from depressed wages that reflect an outdated mindset of early childhood education. Ivydel Natachu, an early childhood educator with 16 years of experience, tells SFR that working during the pandemic created additional burdens. “We risked our lives, our family’s lives,” Natachu says both of the increased exposure of working in person and the additional responsibilities to keep students and staff safe.
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to look at child development and what... qualifications and expertise are needed to build that system.” Noble says increasing child care worker pay is paramount because early childhood providers are “the workforce behind the workforce.” Yet, Noble remains hopeful about what lies ahead for early childhood education in the state, citing bipartisan support at the state level to invest in child care. She and other advocates say the establishment of the Early Childhood Education and Care Department in 2020 signaled New Mexico’s progressive stance. In July, the department increased provider rates based on a more realistic cost model, as opposed to the market-rate model that’s historically been used around the nation. Washington DC was the first to change over to a cost-estimation model from market rates in 2015, under the leadership of Elizabeth Groginsky, who is now the secretary of the new department. The benefits of changing the reimbursement model extend to early education providers all over the state, Groginsky tells SFR. “There is no difference in geography, so the cost of providing care across the state of New Mexico is the same,” she says of the new model for providers. Previously, many centers had to eat the high cost of child care, Groginsky explains, because the money coming in wasn’t sufficient to support quality early education. “We know that across New Mexico, some communities don’t have as many resources and so child care providers have been charging families a lot less because that’s what they can afford, but that doesn’t necessarily cover their expenses.” The challenges faced by some providers in Santa Fe are magnified in rural areas of the state where families have fewer options and providers often need to siphon funds from improving programming to stay afloat. In addition to increasing provider rates, the department also expanded eligibility for the Child Care Assistance Program, which subsidizes child care costs for qualifying families to 350% of the federal poverty level, which works out to $92,750 or below for a family of four. Groginsky explains that both the rates the state pays providers and family eligibility drive the cost of child care. She says that the recent changes to both aspects speak to a brighter future in the state. “I knew it was going to be important, especially for New Mexico, because there’s been such a focus in this state, first of all just creating the new department,” Groginsky says. “There was a shift happening, there was going to be a new way of looking at early childhood.”
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Wildland Thinning Three-year project in Aztec Springs aims to protect Santa Fe’s watershed by reducing wildfire fuel BY WILLIAM MELHADO w i l l i a m @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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his year’s fire season in Northern New Mexico has been calmer than Nathan Miller and his team anticipated. “In state, it’s been pretty quiet,” he tells SFR. But the Santa Fe Fire Department wildland fire superintendent is also responsible for responding to calls from across the state and the country for additional crews and resources, meaning the city’s needs aren’t the only stressors. “We’ve been as far as Idaho, California, Montana” this summer, Miller says. With a relatively mild fire season, Miller has the luxury of time—he can focus his crew’s efforts on preventative strategies to stave off future wildfires. Aztec Springs, an area one mile north of Two Mile Reservoir, is the site of a thinning project that the city started years ago to reduce hazardous fuels that exacerbate wildfires. The treatment area covers 150 acres adjacent to both the city and Santa Fe National Forest. The Aztec Springs project initially had an April 2021 deadline, but restrictions put in place during the pandemic stopped the city from meeting that cutoff. “I don’t like goals being set and then not completing them,” Miller says. “Obviously things do happen and we were unable to fulfill those obligations
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by that time. So that’s when I decided we’re gonna take it on and we’re gonna request the approval for the extension and move forward with it.” On Aug. 25, the City Council unanimously extended the deadline for the thinning project until Dec. 31, which will enable the city to finish working on the remaining 49 acres in Aztec Springs, an area of land just east of the city owned by The Nature Conservancy. Due to COVID-19 social distancing mandates, Miller explains, it was difficult to complete the scheduled cutting and clearing. He says the restrictions prevented crews from working in close contact, a necessity for the job. “It’s not worth the risk of the unknown without being able to social distance properly,” he continues. “It wasn’t an emergency situation, let’s just put it that way, unlike when we have to go out to fight fires.” The city secured $286,000 in an initial 2018 contract with the state’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. Funding for the thinning project came from a Non Federal Lands grant provided by the USDA Forest Service to target hazardous fuels reduction. The thinning, Miller explains, reduces the amount of fuel in the area that can cause wildfires to grow in intensity by climbing from the forest floor to the canopy. By removing “ladder fuel” from the Aztec Springs area, Miller hopes to prevent crown fires—events that burn extremely hot and are difficult to control—from claiming an area that lies next to the city’s watershed. Wildfire in the area that’s about 1 mile from Nichols Reservoir and 3 miles from McClure Reservoir poses
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The Santa Fe Fire Department thinned this area of Aztec Springs in an effort to minimize wildfire risks.
risk of contaminating part of the city’s water supply. Clay Benton, Bernalillo District timber management officer, tells SFR Santa Fe County designated Aztec Springs as a high-treatment priority area in the county’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan. “This particular prescription was designed to reduce fuel loading and thin overgrown ponderosa pine, piñon pine, and one-seed juniper,” Benton writes to SFR in an email. “Particular attention is being paid to areas on steep slopes where wildfire has increased potential to move quickly, or run uphill.” In addition to reducing risks of “uncharacteristic wildfire,” Benton writes, prescribed “thinning is an effective method of restoring an ecosystem from the
departure of the natural fire regimes we used to see up to 100 years ago.” He expands on the benefits, citing the increased availability of resources (soil, water, air) for the remaining trees. The seasonal crew Miller’s team is working with, hired by the city every year for the last decade, will be available to cut hazardous fuels in an area rated as “high risk due to overstocked forest, high public use, on-going drought and proximity to wildland urban interface,” the initial contract between the city and the state reads. With the additional support of the seasonal crew, which stays on until Oct. 1, Miller has the goal of thinning more than 10 acres a week, which should put the city on track to meet its new deadline.
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ederal funds from the state-run Emergency Rental Assistance Program are slowly making their way to Santa Feans. Very slowly. And with the reality of state and City of Santa Fe eviction moratoriums one day expiring and funding distribution deadlines looming, fear and concern are ramping up. City officials and community organizers say there hasn’t been enough government outreach to raise awareness about the program among renters. Frustrating matters: The application process is overly complicated. State and local governments nationwide have distributed 11% of the tens of billions of federal dollars set aside for rent assistance, the Associated Press reported last week. New Mexico has distributed about 19% of the available funds, with about $33.6 million having gone out since the program launched in early April. Program spokesman Henry Valdez says the US Department of the Treasury dictated earlier this year that states that didn’t distribute 65% of the funds by Sept. 30 would risk losing funding. Since then, Treasury has told states they have “breathing room” around the deadline, Valdez says, but New Mexico is still trying to meet that target. The state has received nearly 2,000 applications from Santa Fe County residents and has distributed about $3.1 million, according to Valdez. It’s not clear which part of town has seen the largest share of those applications, but a recent analysis from the
nonprofit Urban Institute used several factors—including the number of severely cost-burdened, low-income renters and jobs lost to the pandemic—to conclude that the southwest portion of the county should be prioritized for emergency rental assistance. A report from the local nonprofit Chainbreaker Collective found that as many as 5,700 Santa Fe renter households were at risk of eviction should moratoriums be lifted. While the federal moratorium is no longer in effect, the New Mexico Supreme Court issued an open-ended order in March 2020 pausing evictions across the state. The court hasn’t indicated when the pause will end. Chainbreaker community organizer Cathy Garcia says the relatively low number of applications compared to the number of households the group identified as at-risk points to failures by state and local governments to reach Santa Feans most in need. Treasury allows state governments to use up to 10% of the program funds for administrative costs. Valdez says the state Department of Finance and Administration, which is overseeing the program, “isn’t even close to that [10%]” and doesn’t plan to increase administrative spending because the department “wants to have more money to give to New Mexicans for rent.” Valdez adds that rising COVID-19 cases have interfered with the state’s plans to do in-person outreach events. Alexandra Ladd, director of the city’s Office of Affordable Housing, tells SFR the city doesn’t have the staffing nor the technological capabilities to adequately get word of the program out to communities that are low-income, don’t speak English or lack reliable internet access. “We need kiosks set up in the mall, we need people manning tables with laptops or tablets to just help walk people through the process, and the city definitely doesn’t have that capacity,” Ladd says, conceding that the city has left much of the work to groups like Chainbreaker. Garcia says that shows rental assistance isn’t a priority.
“It’s about political will,” she says, “and it’s about what we as a city decide is actually important to us.” Outreach isn’t the only issue. Ladd says the City of Santa Fe has raised concerns that the application process is challenging with the state finance department. “In many meetings, the city has pointed out to the state that the application is hard to navigate,” Ladd says. “The language is pretty dense and high-level. Everybody knows what the shortcomings are.” Garcia says Chainbreaker has encountered a host of challenges in trying to help renters apply for assistance, from language and tech accessibility to burdensome documentation requirements. The application requires documentation showing income for all adult household members; at least one household member being at risk of homelessness or housing instability; the applicant having been impacted by COVID-19; and proof the applicant rents a residential dwelling. “There are tenants we’ve been working with for weeks to get all their paperwork together,” Garcia says. She adds that the documentation requirements are an obstacle for renters who don’t have rental contracts or whose landlords don’t want to participate in the program. “They’re renting a room but they might be undocumented so they didn’t want to have a contract in the first place,” Garcia says. “Then there are landlords
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who maybe haven’t been permitted to be renting out spaces, so they don’t want to participate in the whole thing because they’re worried they’re going to get in trouble.” Even the self-attestation forms—an alternative option for renters dealing with hurdles like uncooperative landlords—are onerous, Garcia says, for people who aren’t technologically savvy. “It may sound super intuitive, but I swear to God I’ve had to teach people how to use Gmail,” Garcia says. Amid difficulties in getting rental assistance, Garcia wants to remind Santa Fe renters they’re still protected. On Thursday, the US Supreme Court ended the national eviction moratorium. As of Aug. 16, about 3.5 million people nationwide said they face eviction in the next two months, according to the US Census Bureau’s Household Purse Survey. Santa Feans remain protected by moratoriums on evictions for non-payment enacted by both the state Supreme Court and the city, although a Searchlight New Mexico investigation found a number of people were illegally evicted throughout the state during the pandemic. Garcia says Chainbreaker has worked with Santa Fe renters who were evicted despite the moratoriums. “All of these politicians are talking about this rental assistance as if it’s something completely theoretical and I’m sitting here with a tenant face-to-face every day,” Garcia says. “This crisis has a name, it has an address.” New Mexicans in need of rental assistance can apply online or request a paper application at renthelpnm. org, or speak to program representatives by calling (833)485-1334. Chainbreaker Collective can be reached at (505)989-3858.
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n paper, evidence shows businesses in Santa Fe are bouncing back after last year’s COVID-19 shutdowns made a circus out of the economy. Taxable gross receipts are up in several sectors including accommodation, food services and retail trade. Hotel occupancy rates rose back to pre-pandemic levels this summer and tourist spending wasn’t too far behind. Like visitors to the Plaza, hope has returned a year and a half into the pandemic. But the hope is tempered, SFR finds in numerous conversations with business owners, workers, economists and trade groups, by both immediate and long-term concerns. Supply chain disruptions have challenged businesses across sectors—from restaurants to construction companies to hotels. Like their national counterparts, local business owners have had trouble hiring, with some making changes to accommodate the surging labor demands. Masks again cover faces around town. With another surge of cases, the state reinstated an indoor mask mandate on Aug. 20, requiring businesses to once again warn customers with storefront signs. The specter of renewed restrictions is daunting, some business owners say, as is the prospect of once again facing tension with customers resistant to mask policies. One of the city’s biggest hotels is now reporting reservation cancellations. After reviewing February’s figures in May, city staff said they were “cautiously optimistic” that a positive trend in gross receipts tax revenue would continue into the summer. When a new report for June was issued Aug. 30, the optimism remained. After being able to operate at full capacity for the past two months, things are looking up for the city’s restaurants. Taxable gross receipts in accommodation and food services grew $33.8 million in June—the most recent figures available— compared to June 2020, an increase of 139%, but they also surpassed June 2019 levels by 12%. Almost every other sector is also showing vast improvement: • Real estate, rental and leasing was up about 133% in June from last year—an amount equal to 72% over June 2019. • Arts, entertainment and recreation increased 172% from the same period last year and beat 2019 by 9.3%. • Taxable gross receipts in construction jumped $15.6 million, or 33.2%, from last year.
Santa Fe’s trend lines—seemingly a bit of a tightrope walk, for now—are reflected across New Mexico, with recovery in progress, at least by traditional measures. The city’s GRT increased from $3.4 billion in fiscal year 2020 to $3.45 billion this year, but is short its pre-pandemic $3.6 billion. “We’re improving, but we’re not back to 2019 levels yet,” New Mexico State University Regents Professor Jim Peach tells SFR. “It’s good that we’re gaining some employment back; retail sales are back, but we’re not at the end of the recovery. It’s going to take a while for the economy to recover; and the Delta variant...will not yet show up in the money.” With the gains made in the past few months come a handful of challenges like supply and staff shortages.
It’s like a perfect storm with a combination of raw material shortages along with a lack of labor. -Matt Segura, co-owner, Southwest Spray Foam
Nellie Tischler, who owns local South Indian restaurant Paper Dosa with her husband Paulraj Karuppasamy, says getting supplies has been difficult because many items are low in stock and are more expensive. Tischler points to napkins and yogurt. Chicken, she says, used to cost $35 a case but goes for close to $90 now, causing some restaurants to take it off their menus. Matt Segura, co-owner of Southwest Spray Foam and Roofing and the president of the Santa Fe Homebuilders Association, says all sorts of building materials are in short supply, including lumber, metal roofing and, an essential for his own business, spray polyurethane foam for roofing and insulation. In the past, the wait for these materials would’ve been a week or two. Now it can take months. The supply inconsistencies have left Segura struggling, he says, to balance clients’ needs on smaller, simpler projects
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The lobby of La Fonda last week is testament that it’s tourist season in Santa Fe. Taxable gross receipts in accommodation and food services grew to more than $58 million in June, higher than pre-pandemic reports of $52 million in June 2019 and just $24.4 million last year.
cited difficulty in hiring, with 80% reporting people applying and then not showing up to interviews. “Some businesses have been caught in that sort of Catch-22 of ‘Do I bring more people on? What happens if the bubble bursts and my business drops off again or cases rise?’” Kathy Komoll, CEO of the association, tells SFR. “I think people are optimistic, but there’s still just this level of uncertainty.”
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against larger-scale, more lucrative jobs. Violet Crown Cinema owner Bill Banowsky says the theater has experienced supply disruptions, too. “It’s a little bit different for us because our primary product is movies from Hollywood,” Banowsky says. “The Hollywood distribution system has not fully opened up its pipeline of movies, so there’s a huge backlog of high-quality films that are going to draw people into the theaters.” Banowsky says the theater has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, and he believes that’s due mostly to the amount and quality of movies that are out rather than people feeling uncomfortable going to theaters. Labor is also in short supply—or, at least, that’s how it feels to business owners who spoke with SFR. Segura says his company has several open positions that don’t require any prior experience, but he hasn’t been able to fill them. “It’s like a perfect storm with a combination of raw material shortages along with a lack of labor,” Segura tells SFR. “Demand has not changed; in fact, demand has increased. If we had the supplies we needed and the labor we needed we would probably be up 30 or 40%.” Hiring has evidently been a hurdle for many businesses regardless of sector. The New Mexico Hospitality Association conducted a statewide survey of 123 restaurants, hotels and tourist-dependent shops, about 20% of which are in Santa Fe. The majority of respondents
Owner Bill Banowsky reopened Violet Crown movie theater in the Railyard in May.
The association posted a job listing board on its website in July and this week, the New Mexico Restaurant Association launched a campaign that also includes an online job board in an effort to draw workers back to the understaffed industry. In between taking orders and making drinks during a barista shift, Tai Ayers, co-owner of Ohori’s Coffee Roasters, says she’s had applicants go through the interview process and then either not show up for their first shift or turn down the job after deciding it didn’t pay enough. “I interviewed a person with a lot of good experience and they thought about the job and they just came back to me and said, ‘The pay won’t match what I need to be able to pay my rent in Santa Fe, so I have to keep looking,’” Ayers says, adding that Ohori’s will likely raise prices soon to be able to raise wages. Tischler says when the pandemic began and Paper Dosa transitioned to takeout only, the restaurant’s servers chose to leave because they were eligible for unemployment, while kitchen staff stayed on along with hosts and food runners who helped prepare takeout orders. When Paper Dosa reopened for dinein, the servers who left didn’t return and Tischler and Karuppasamy competed with other restaurants for new staff. “Everybody started hiring at the same time,” Tischler says. “When dine-in opened up, it created this frenzy with the general public and the restaurant industry. It was dormant for a very long time
and then it just exploded within a month. When you have hundreds of restaurants hiring at the same time, it makes it really difficult for everybody.” Statewide, there are about 2,800 more unemployed people than the number of online advertised job openings, according to the latest figures from the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions. The department reported in its May labor market review that this ratio means there isn’t a true labor shortage; rather, there are “labor market inefficiencies that give the appearance of a labor shortage.” “The state’s reopening has brought a massive increase in the demand for goods and services, which businesses may be unable nor prepared to meet in the short term,” the report reads. Nationally, there are 10.1 million vacant jobs, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which reported the largest job opening increases in professional and business services, retail trade, and accommodation and food services. Tischler says she and her husband want to prioritize the employees who have stayed at Paper Dosa over the past year and a half rather than offering hiring bonuses like some businesses have done to attract new workers. La Fonda on the Plaza offered $300 hiring bonuses from May to July, plus $500 “appreciation bonuses” for existing hourly staff, according to Chairwoman Jenny Kimball. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Tightrope Economy jobs. Government support during the pandemic, he says, has given people the space to do so. The upshot: Many people are no longer as tolerant of low-paying jobs that lack benefits. Peach at NMSU echoes Cooper’s analysis, telling SFR some workers have used increased demands for labor as an opportunity to move into other industries. “When labor was short in some other industries, some people undoubtedly moved from the hotel, restaurant and tourism industries into industries that pay better and have better benefits, like retail freight and wholesale freight,” Peach says. “FedEx and UPS, they needed drivers and delivery people and they have good benefits.” Miles Devesty worked at Violet Crown for a couple years before being furloughed and then eventually laid off last spring. He was on unemployment for about six months and then worked as an assistant editor at a post-production house before coming back to the theater when the editing job fell through.
He says that for many workers, collecting unemployment benefits made more sense than showing up for low-paying, risky work. Unemployment “was nuts, the money was insane,” Devesty says. “Most of us were like, ‘I don’t want to go back to work for $12 an hour, $11 an hour.’ It was definitely more of a pull when jobs started popping up with $15 an hour, which should’ve already been a thing. Now we’re getting to what we should actually be making.” Liam Bell started working as a barista at Ohori’s about a month ago. When the pandemic began, getting on unemployment and living with his parents allowed him to quit his job bussing tables. He says Ohori’s provides a better work environment than his last job. In response to worker concerns and preferences, some businesses have made changes to how they operate, such as flexible scheduling. Ayers says her 20 or so employees were worried about their health when the pan-
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“It’s unprecedented. I’ve never seen this before,” Tischler says of the bonuses. “I do think that there’s a level of opportunistic behavior and it’s going to be shortlived. We’re really about taking care of the people who got us through the pandemic, and if we have to scale down our business to be able to support them, we’re going to do that.” Banowsky at Violet Crown says he had a hard time hiring when the theater first opened back up in early May, so he raised the minimum wage from $12.50 to $15 an hour plus tips to fill a small staffing gap. “I think it’s no different than the restaurants,” Banowsky says. “It was hard in the early weeks, finding enough qualified people to do the jobs. We were fortunate because we had a really terrific group of employees before COVID and we were able to bring back most of our key employees and, over time, we’ve been able to fill the positions.” Promising GRT numbers from City Hall and cautious optimism from business owners only tell part of the story when it comes to economic health. Click the kaleidoscope a few times, and the picture shifts to the perspective of wage workers. David Cooper, senior economic analyst at the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute, tells SFR employers raising wages indicates workers are in a position of slightly elevated power for the first time in decades. But the shift is unlikely to last, Cooper says, because the demand for labor will decrease over time and no structural changes, like raising the federal minimum wage, have been made. “I think we’re going to get to a point in the next six months to a year where employers will have staffed up enough to meet that surge in demand and things are going to get back on trend,” Cooper says. Even if wage increases falter, Cooper says businesses’ hiring struggles indicate many workers across the country are reevaluating and expecting more from their
Tai Ayers, co-owner of Ohori’s Coffee Roasters, says she’s had some trouble hiring.
demic began and didn’t want to work as much, so many of them switched to parttime, making their shifts five hours long instead of 11. “We’ve really looked at people’s lifestyles as they work, like how can people take enough time off to feel healthy and work the right amount of hours,” Ayers says. “One thing COVID has done is just make us so much more flexible.” Ayers says the adjustment was especially important given that interacting with customers can be taxing for workers, who have become de facto enforcers of public health guidelines. After temporarily lifting the statewide mask mandate for fully vaccinated people on May 14, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham reinstated it on Aug. 20. SFR spoke with Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse owner Dorothy Massey a week before the mandate came back into effect, but the store has had its own mask requirement since it reopened to customers in June after offering only online ordering for over a year. “We were giving away probably 100 free masks a week,” Massey says. “We have them at all the doors and the reaction to that from the public has been varied, from ‘Thank you very much for enforcing the mask order’ to obscenities and a march out of the store. But we’re pretty inured to that at this point.” Massey says the bookstore had a successful reopening, reflected in the city’s $109.8 million in retail gross receipts, up 32.4% over June 2020. The tourism industry appears to be rebounding as well, which bodes well for Santa Fe businesses. On a recent afternoon, dozens of tourists—some masked and some not—milled about the Plaza in the late August heat, checked into hotels and popped off the store-lined sidewalks to browse trinkets, jewelry and clothes. Music and laughter drifted out of a busy restaurant. Cody Johnson, a spokesman for the
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state Tourism Department, tells SFR the department considers two major indicators to gauge industry health: hotel occupancy rates and estimated visitor spending. They’re both looking up. Since December, New Mexico has outpaced the rest of the country in terms of visitor spending recovery, according to Johnson. He attributes some of that to the state’s public health response, which garnered national recognition early on in the pandemic. “Since we’ve always really leaned into public health precautions first and foremost, we’ve established our state as a safe place,” Johnson says. “That really helped us last year when the traveling public were looking for places that were safe to go.” Johnson says in June, estimated visitor spending rates were about 14% lower than they were in 2019. That’s up from the same month in 2020, when spending rates were down 50% from 2019. Hotel occupancy rates have recovered alongside estimated visitor spending. When the state shut down for a couple months in the spring of 2020, occupancy rates took a nosedive. Rates started to climb back up in the summer but were hindered by occupancy restrictions and quarantine requirements for out-of-state visitors. Occupancy rose at the beginning of this year. By summer, rates had peaked, nearly reaching pre-pandemic levels, with hotels
The state Tourism Department says visitor spending like this near the corner of Water Street is up from 2020 but down from 2019.
statewide seeing about 73% occupancy. During the same period last year, the rate was around 45%. In what the tourism department considers the north central region, of which Santa Fe is a part, the occupancy rate was just under 80% in July. “If Santa Fe thrives, the state thrives,”
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Gross receipts tax collections crashed in Santa Fe—as they did pretty much everywhere else—as the COVID-19 pandemic forced government into an unenviable choice between public health and economic stability during fiscal year 2020. The most recent figures from the city showing GRT collections in June are somewhat hopeful, indicating that things are bouncing back, at least in terms of traditional economic measurements.
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Accommodation and Food Service
$52,016,522
$24,423,747
$58,269,031
Retail Trade
$89,848,572
$82,979,562
$109,826,674
Construction
$41,608,375
$46,875,204
$62,450,934
Real Estate, Rental and Leasing
$10,055,865
$7,447,094
$17,314,766
Arts, Entertainment and Recreation
$5,047,646
$2,026,760
$5,516,199
$329,150,419
$284,735,196
$409,944,963
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Johnson says. While enjoying recovered occupancy rates during the summer, hotels haven’t been immune to supply and staff shortages. “We’re short-staffed mainly in the kitchen, the bar and the restaurant,” Kimball of La Fonda tells SFR. “We have supply issues throughout the hotel, from wine and alcohol to the food costs are higher than normal because they’re harder to get. We still don’t have patio furniture that we ordered four or five months ago.” Kimball says the hotel thrived over the summer. But just last week, the staff started noticing reservation cancellations, which she believes is due both to surging cases and the newly-reinstated mask mandate. “It depends on what side of the equation you’re on,” Kimball says. “If you’re scientific and worried about your health, our governor has done a good job of being proactive. But if you think it’s all made up or that masks aren’t that helpful, then it’s been difficult for New Mexico because Texas and Arizona, our big competing tourism states, have gone the opposite direction.” When taxable gross receipts surpassed pre-pandemic levels for the first time in February, Mayor Alan Webber said the city’s optimism for continued economic recovery was “contingent upon not having another spike in cases, not having a variant show up in New Mexico that leads to a serious reversion where we’ve got to go into a more constrained mode.” Four months later, the Delta variant is spreading, vaccination rates have slowed and hospitals are filling up again. Among business owners, feelings about the possibility of another lockdown are
mixed. Some say they wouldn’t mind having to limit operations again while others think tighter restrictions are unlikely to return. Tischler says Paper Dosa did well with takeout, but she and her husband felt compelled to open back up for dine-in because even though it’s “nerve-wracking” and puts the health of the staff at risk, it’s what customers expect. “We don’t know who’s vaccinated or if someone actually has COVID,” Tischler says. “We try to sanitize and clean our hands as much as possible but it’s very high-risk, so do we want it? Not really. I wish that we didn’t have to right now. People who work in the restaurant industry, they have to risk their lives. Restaurant employees are not protected at all.” At a news conference last week, Acting Health Secretary Dr. David Scrase said he believes individuals and communities need to take the lead to curb the spread of the virus, rather than the state government mandating more closures. “I feel like up until this point in the pandemic, we sort of all thought about how we fight COVID like a giant electrical on-off switch, either everything is open or everything is closed…but we can’t just enforce absolute compliance with a shutdown for four or five years if this pandemic were to go on from variant to variant,” Scrase said. Still, the outlook for prolonged recovery is unclear to many. “I’m concerned about my staff, and we still have to be on the watchout for health and our community,” Ayers at Ohori’s says. “Nothing seems normal. As a business owner, things aren’t normal.”
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CAN’T BE STOPPED New Mexico Actors Lab founder and Managing Director Robert Benedetti brings his fifth rendition of the 1937 Marc Blitzstein musical The Cradle Will Rock to the local stage this week. The show opens with what inspired Benedetti to first direct it 42 years ago—the story of how it almost never premiered. In 1936, the show’s originating theater was locked and the union banned the actors from performing. But with Orson Welles as the director, “no” became “yes,” and the night was triumphant. Benedetti says yes, too, to the not-quite-play, not-quite-opera, not-quitemusical. Be ready to start in the parking lot. (Liane Pippin) The Cradle Will Rock: 7:30 pm Thursday, Sept. 2-Saturday, Sept. 4 2 pm Sunday, Sept. 5. $25. New Mexico Actor’s Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B, (505) 395-6576
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EVENT SAT/4 ART OPENING FRI/3 UNDER THE STARS The stars shine bright over Santa Fe, but at Fort Union National Monument in the tiny town of Watrous, New Mexico, views expand into virtually unobstructed wonders. See it for yourself this week (with almost zero light pollution)—just make sure to bring a jacket, water and walking shoes before learning about what the National Park Service website describes as “a significant natural resource” (aka starlight). Telescopes will be provided, so there’s no need to bring your own. Be prepared to listen and learn about the site itself, not to mention the ever-expanding sky above. It’s free, it’s outside and we’re lucky here in New Mexico—no sky is like ours. (LP) 2021 Night Sky Programs: 7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 4. Free Fort Union National Monument 3115 NM Hwy. 161, Watrous (505) 425-8025, ext. 0
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MUSIC SUN/5 THE NEXT ROCK LEGEND Bonafide shredder guitarist Gary Clark Jr. could have performed at Woodstock if he’d only been alive, but that doesn’t make his jamz sound dated—more like universal. In fact, you don’t even have to know his music to enjoy it, and it’s easy to sing along with and even better for dancing. Don’t let those sexy guitar solos fool you, either. Clark Jr.’s screaming for his basic human rights. Not one to shy from truth, his pain is palpable, and you can’t help but dance and wonder if simply doing so is the response he deserves. When someone shreds like Hendrix and grooves like Gaye while remaining distinct, you know he’s creating something almost brand-new. Look out Santa Fe—Clark Jr. will not be ignored. (LP) Gary Clark Jr.: 7 pm Sunday, Sept. 5. $54-$69 The Bridge@Santa Fe Brewing Co., 37 Fire Place (505)575-6182
“This is the role they play” New local exhibition highlights the work of photojournalists on 9/11 Michelle and Sidney Monroe of Santa Fe’s Monroe Gallery of Photography were a mere nine blocks north of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Back then, well before the Monroes moved to Santa Fe, their New York space was already highlighting the work of photojournalists around the world. Captivating images of joy, terror or all points in between is just part of the job, and you never know when they might flare into existence. Still, the aftermath of 9/11 stuck with the Monroes, and the gallery opens a new show this week about the history of the buildings themselves, as well as that most harrowing day in American history. “I’m a New Yorker, and I remember [the towers] being built,” Sid tells SFR. “The exhibit traces that planning, construction, landscape and the aftermath of that day. It’s like a memory, a history of those buildings.” The gallery is an extension of the Monroes’ long career in documenting photojournalism and the photographers who often risk their own lives to record history. 9/11: In Remembrance takes a look at that role but, beyond the national trauma, also attempts to capture how the World Trade Center represented
American ingenuity in the 20th century. “It’s definitive photojournalism,” Michelle explains. “We’ve been inspired to illustrate the calling of this career to understand history—and that’s our gallery mission.” Photographers in the show include Tony Vaccaro, who catalogues a friendship with World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki, and Eric O’Connell, who grabbed his cameras as the towers burned and caught crisp black and white images of the destruction. “There are times when people become witnesses to history, and that changes you,” Sid explains. “We knew so many people that were lost, and people who lost others.” As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the images of that fateful day may be seared into our collective consciousness forever. But what about the photographers themselves? “This is the role they play,” Michelle says. “This is history.” (Riley Gardner)
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ONGOING ART RAVEN @ THE BIG BANG TAI Modern 1601 Paseo de Peralta (505) 984-1387 Ramona Sakiestewa is a central figure among contemporary Native American artists. This exhibition features renditions of ravens, a prevalent animal in many Native American cultures. All day, free ENDURING WEST Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 Paintings of the West from artist Kathryn Stedham. All day, free STORY PAINTINGS IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Artist Rebecca Lee Kunz’ paintings tell stories. In her work, Cherokee mythology is re-imagined from the perspective of animals living in the modern world. All day, $0-$10 EXPOSURE: NATIVE ART AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Artists explore how nuclear weapons testing affects Native populations. All day, free
“May 10, 2020” from Our Lives Now: A Photographic Journal of Life During the Pandemic by Don J. Usner, opening Sep 3 at El Zaguán.
GIVING VOICE TO IMAGE ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 Gallery artists plus local poets created art inspired by each other’s conceptual visions. All day, free GO WEST SAID A SMALL VOICE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Landscapes, woodblocks and more by Gustave Baumann. All day, $0-$12 HORSE Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie Raven Halfmoon’s (Caddo Nation) solo show presenting horse sculptures, expressing their importance to Indigenous cultures over time. All day, free
SEETHE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403 Solo show from Jennifer Van, a photographer who’s centered on the emotional expression and the human form and the fluidity of the world around us. All day, free NATIVE VISIONS Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 Chiaroscuro’s 15th Annual Contemporary Native Show. All day, free NAVIGATORS Vital Spaces 220 Otero St. Diagrams, infograms, drawings and sculpture. Open by appointment. Contact jerrywellman1@gmail.com. All day, free
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PATTERNS OF EXPRESSION Nuart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 Group exhibition featuring new works by Rose Masterpol and Sunny Taylor. Expect bold geometrical patterns. All day, free ONE TRICK PONY GF Contemporary 707 Canyon Road (505) 983-3707 Tiny horses on huge canvases. Tiny, as in 2” by 2”, on a canvas as large as 5’ by 5’. All day, free PEOPLE Southside Public Library 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Black and white portrait studies, with many subjects from Santa Fe. All day, free
SHE Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 Exhibit about young women in the US and in the Middle East entering adulthood. All day, free BALANCING CULTURES Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 Show displaying the impacts of the incarceration of JapaneseAmericans and legal residents during WWII. All day, free PLAY THE GAME Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Art from Juan Manuel Sanabria, whose work explores digital “dis-connection.” All day, free
RECONCILIACIONES Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road (505) 916-1341 Alberto Cruz’s first solo show in the US, inspired from Shinto and Mexican traditions. 5-7 pm, free RIO BRAVO FINE ART Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000 Paintings, sculpture and fiber art from 28 featured artists. All day, free RON COOPER: CARS & BARS Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Cooper uses plexiglass, resin and lacquer to capture and manipulate light. Vintage cars included. All day, free
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TERMS & CONDITIONS Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Porter Lara is a conceptual artist who is interested in the ways humans use ideas about what is “natural” to naturalize political constructs. Expressed via sculpture, printmaking and sign-making, as well as sewing and embroidery. All day, free FIREBRANDS: JUDY CHICAGO, SWOON, AND HUNG LIU Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 Rarely seen pieces from three legendary artists. All day, free
WED/1 BOOKS/LECTURES THE APACHE TREATY OF 1852 Online bit.ly/2Y2yiKL From the Friends of History and the New Mexico Museum Foundation. History lecture series with Professor Jeffrey P. Shepherd, examining the controversial treaty which we can bet got ignored anyways. Noon, free
DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Wine, tapas, dance and a lot of mesmerizing dress beads. 6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 High class flamenco with La Emi and company, where authentic Spanish dances rule. 8 pm, $20-$50
MUSIC ELIZABETH AND A PIANO The Hollar 2849 Hwy 14, Madrid (505) 471-2841 Elizabeth doesn’t just bring rocking covers but also her originals—expect Otis and Waylon with all sorts of country and blues. 5 pm, free GERRY CARTHY La Posada de Santa Fe 330 E Palace Ave. (505) 986-0000 Irish tunes for the Southwest, for the times you’re feeling tired of desert views and want something more green. 6-9 pm, free
PINK MARTINI Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop— supposedly the cutest little awesomest band you’ll ever see, maybe. 6:30 pm, $41-$97 JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Sweet tunes Expect old favorites, clever rhythms and new loveable storytelling songs. At La Reina, the beloved bar within El Rey Court. 8 pm, free (but bring money to tip the musicians and your bartender)
EVENTS CLOWN IN THE PARK Rose Park 1320 Galisteo Pkwy. If you’ve always wanted to take clown lessons but you just never got around to it, it’s not too late. Exploring breath, comedic timing, duos and trios and more. Fun promised. Email sarahjanemoody@yahoo.com to register. 10:30 am-noon, $15
THU/2 ART PARADIGM Ventana Fine Art 400 Canyon Road (505) 983-8815 Paintings from Bette Ridgeway, in tandem with sculptor Mark Yale Harris. All day, free
DANCE BEGINNING SALSA WORKSHOP Dance Station Solana Center, 947-B W Alameda St. (505) 989-9788 Have you always wanted to move your hips like that guy who shows up at all the weddings and shocks the grandparents with his Latin American dance moves? It's time for your shot, too. 7:30 pm, $20 ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 More flamenco means more joy. Add to that some wine and signature tapas and you just might end up with a hell of a night. 6:15 pm, $25-$40
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EVENTS 20S AND 30S VOLUNTEER NIGHT Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596 As the existence of young-ish people of Santa Fe is constantly called into question, the Railyard Park Conservancy not only believes in the youth but that they can do great things! Bring a 20-30 something and volunteer on a whole host of projects to help improve the Railyard park. 6 pm-7:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery at the Railyard 1607 Paseo De Peralta Ste. 10 (505) 989-3278 Trivia night! Prove to the world how smart you are, or prove to yourself that you need to read more. 8 pm-10 pm, free
FOOD PAINT AND WINE NIGHT Cake’s Corner Cafe 228 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 989-3278 Just as it sounds. Perhaps there will be cake, but no promises. 6 pm, $35
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If you’re the type of film buff who scours the internet for the latest trailers, you might have seen the recent preview for the upcoming Western Apache Junction starring Stuart Townsend and Thomas Jane. The eagle-eyed among you might have also noticed Kansasborn/now-New Mexican actor Ricky Lee (Cree and Lakota), a veteran film worker both in front of and behind the camera who has appeared in movies like Hell or High Water and The Ridiculous 6. Apache Junction hits theaters and VoD on Sept. 24, but we spoke with Lee ahead of its release to learn more about the movie, his career and his thoughts on the film industry in the state. (Alex De Vore) Tell us a little about your background. How did you get into acting and directing for film and television? When I was 16 or 17 and living in Kansas, a movie came through called The Gypsy Moths. It was directed by the famous John Frankenheimer, so I went out and got a job for the summer working for MGM as an extra. It was awesome, and I met Burt Lancaster, Debra Kerr and Gene Hackman—it got me hooked. I went to college as a theater and art major at Wichita State University, but then I got drafted and went to Vietnam, came back, finished up school, got back into theater and, in the early ’80s, I was with the American Indian Theater Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Almost all the Native actors started out there because, at that time, it was the only Native theater in the country. We worked with George C Scott, David Carradine and a lot of major actors who supported us. Wes Studi was there— I’ve known Wes for years—and Gary Farmer was there and...Graham Greene. Sterlin Harjo, too, who wrote several plays we did. Years earlier, I had met David Carradine while he was doing Bound for Glory and also working on a passion project in Kansas—he hired me to paint carousel horses. I ended up working with him again in the ’80s and then in New York in the ’90s and again in Los Angeles before he died. But then we worked together [in Tulsa] and he really encouraged me. He was the kind
of guy if you were working with, he was always teaching, and those lessons were invaluable. I’m proud of my theatrical background. A lot of movie actors can be young kids coming up, and they don’t have any theater background, but I think that’s important. I’ve paid my dues. To me, true acting is...you’re on the stage, and if you screw up, you know it. Can you give up any details about your role in Apache Junction? So I have a friend who lives here, an actress who lives in town, and she calls me up at 11, 12 o’clock at night, and she says ‘Richard, you have to come to [El Dorado Hotel & Spa]. I’m sitting down with these producers and directors, and they want to see you.’ I said ‘I’m going to bed,’ but she calls me back and says ‘Come. Back. Now.’ So I get dressed, go down there, walk in the door—and they hire me. They said I was perfect for what they want, this small part. The next day, they send me the sides and it’s, like, 30 freaking pages, and I’m thinking, ‘This isn’t just a little in-and-out kind of thing.’ I ended up in a supporting lead role, and I play Stuart Townsend’s roommate and sidekick outlaw. In the town of Apache Junction, we’re hiding out because we’re retired outlaws. My character’s named Wasco, and I’m kind of his conscience. It’s like the original odd couple—a Native and a cowboy, and there’s a lot of joking around and kidding each other back and forth, because we know each other; we’ve been through hell; we’re good friends and brothers. Long story short, this reporter hears about this lawless town in the West, so she convinces her editor to send her out to do a story. She shows up, gets in trouble, Stuart tries to save her and I jump in and knock out a bunch of bad guys. It was filmed [in New Mexico], starting in March 2020, but we had to stop. We were the last project to be filming in New Mexico. Who knew about COVID back then at that point? We thought it was going to be a couple weeks, we’d be back. That didn’t happen, and I think in June there was talk about filming in Costa Rica, and we had a plan but found out we could go there, but not come back. We had a plan to go to Spain, that fell through. We had a plan to go to Oklahoma, that fell through. We ended up finishing the film in Joshua Tree out in California. We’re always hearing New Mexico is a great place for film workers right now. Would you say that’s true? I think overall that’s true. Right now, I mean, who wouldn’t want to live here? It’s the film capital of the world right now. A lot of my friends in LA and other places want to move here. Early on, one of the first films I did was the CBS miniseries Buffalo Girls. Back then, the industry was so much different. There was a handful of people, and everyone seemed to be far more together as far as backing each other up. The industry has changed a lot, but still, I think it’s changed for the best. It’s a great opportunity if you get to go home at night. I don’t plan on going anywhere.
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THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Orson Welles and John Houseman are locked out by the WPA administration, but the show must go on. (see SFR picks, page 19) 7:30 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 The Fiesta Melodrama pokes fun at local events, politicians and our general weirdness. Comedy, improvisation. and audience participation (so fair warning). 7 pm, $15-$25
WORKSHOP IMPROV FUNDAMENTALS Santa Fe Improv santafeimprov.com 1202 Parkway Drive, Unit A This six week, daytime, beginner’s class is open to all. No experience necessary and no requirements to be funny! Frankly, it might be better not to try at all. 10 am-noon, $150
FRI/3 ART SO BE IT. SEE TO IT. Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa Streets axleart.com Tigre (Bailando) MashaalLively creates art inside the Axle Contemporary Mobile Artspace, ranging from mixed-media sculpture, drawing, sound and writing. 5-7 pm, free 9/11: IN REMEMBRANCE Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave. (505) 992-0800 Exhibition of photographs commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11, exhibiting the construction, prominence and destruction of the World Trade Center. (see SFR picks, page 19) All day, free
OUR LIVES NOW El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Photographer Don Usner ventured around the state, from the Four Corners region and the Navajo Nation to bear witness with his camera to see rural life during the pandemic. Check out what he captured. 5-7 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES THE TRADITION OF ZOZOBRA Southside Branch Library 6599 Jaguar Dr. (505) 954-5700 Zozobra story and craft session, all outdoors, led by author Andrew Lovato. Free copies of his book Elvis Romero and Fiesta de Santa Fe while supplies last. Masks required. 3 pm, free
DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Where you can watch dance, and you yourself can jive, and you can maybe even have the time of your life. 6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI SUMMER FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Ooh, see La Emi, watch La Emi, digging that dancing La Emi. 8 pm, $20-$50
EVENTS 97TH ANNUAL BURNING OF ZOZOBRA Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. burnzozobra.com Time to mimic a human sacrifice for the 97th time, which is better than actually, you know, doing it. Proof of vaccination or 72-hour negative COVID-19 test required. Masks for everyone—don't risk Delta for two minutes of a screaming burning paper man. Buy tickets in advance. 4-9:30 pm, $17-$263
IN SEARCH OF DOMÍNGUEZ AND ESCALANTE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5100 In 2003, the late Siegfried Halus and Greg Mac Gregor set out to document contemporary changes to the lands of the American West that Franciscan friars traversed in 1776. This showcase compares historic journal entries contrasted with modern photography. All day, $7-$12
MUSIC LEAF & BURN Leaf & Hive 1208 Mercantile Road, Ste. A (505) 699-3055 Alcoholic kombucha. DJ’s include Spoolius, Ana M, Chiddy, DJ Sapo and Ulione. Come post-burning or in lieu of burning. 8 pm-late, $10 WASHED OUT Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 After Zozobra becomes a smoldering pile of desolated dreams, scoot on down for Washed Out’s DJ set. Let go of the gloom and embrace the dance. Best of all, the exhibit will be open during the event. 21+ folks only. 9 pm-1 am, $24
THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 It’s like being on Broadway, except you’re not, but maybe just as fun (see SFR picks, page 19). 7:30 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Second chance to see a Santa Fe Tradition since 1919, the Fiesta Melodrama is written to poke fun at local events and politicians. This show will involve broad comedy, improvisation and audience participation. 4 pm, $15-$25
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SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET CHACO The West Casitas Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 1612 Alcaldesa St. 614 Agua Fría St. (505) 310-8766 (928) 308-0319 FOOD Pottery, jewelry, paintings, A show designed to honor COOKING CLASS: photographs, even full on the ancient cultures of New RED CHILE WORKSHOP furniture. North of the water Mexico through depictions Santa Fe School of Cooking tower. of the art, architecture and 125 N Guadalupe St. 8 am-2 pm, free sacred landscapes of Chaco (505) 983-4511 Canyon. SEE THE STARS We love it. It's not even a 5-9 pm, free Fort Union National Monument question. Perhaps, to some, it 3115 NM-161, Watrous FIRST SATURDAY OPEN is the superior chile, but we (505) 425-8025 HOUSE won’t wade into that. Learn to Telescopes? Free. Couse-Sharp Historic Site make corn tortillas, roasted Reservations? Nope. 146 Kit Carson Road, Taos SFP21 -Seeing POSTER - FIESTA MELODRAMA - 12 X 18 - .25in Bleed/.5in Slug tomato and chipotle sauce and the stars in a super dark sky (575) 751-0369 red chile sauce. Oh yeah, they at a National Monument? Oh Tour the studios of E. I. Couse got the spice. yes. Gates open at 7:30 pm if and J. H. Sharp, two of the 2-4 pm, $84 you want that prime spot. founders of the Taos Society SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET (see SFR picks, page 19) of Artists and enjoy a stroll Farmers Market Pavilion 9-11 through SFP21 Virginia Couse's - POSTER - FIESTA MELODRAMA - 12 X 18 -pm, .25in free Bleed/.5in Slug 1607 Paseo de Peralta, historic garden. Artist FIESTA FINE ARTS AND (505) 983-7726 demonstrations included. CRAFTS MARKET Tomatoes, craft-soap, honey, 2-5 pm, free Santa Fe Plaza leafy greens, smoked meats, 100 Old Santa Fe Trail I HEART JEMEZ ARTS some really cool performers Booths will line the Plaza and Jemez Plaza under the water tower. offer all sorts of unique hand 80 Jemez Springs Plaza 7 am-1 pm, free fashioned jewelry, pottery, chic seesandoval.org clothing, photography, etc. Artist demonstrations, handsMUSIC All day, free on workshops, live music, and art sales by Jemez Valley FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS: BOB MAUS artists with special events and BENEFIT FOR THE DIXON Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) a kids’ area in the Jemez Plaza. ANIMAL PROECTION 5 Colina Drive Drop ‘em off and and drop in SOCIETY (505) 471-1111 the springs. Vivac Winery Pizza plus Irish music. 10 am-6 pm, free 2075 NM-68, Dixon 5:30-8:30 pm, free (505) 579-4441 MARIACHI EXTRAVAGANZA dapsnm.org DANCE DE SANTA FE Event to raise money for the Santa Fe Opera ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER above mentioned society 301 Opera Drive SEASON (DAPS)—featuring musical (505) 986-5900 El Flamenco Cabaret acts like Jenne McIntosh and Swirling dresses, stamping feet 135 W Palace Ave. Small Birds of Sound. Food and ringing trumpets. Award(505) 209-1302 by Southwest by Southwest. winning artists and rising stars Mamma mia, here we go Donate to the above link as a in the genre of mariachi. again! My my, flamenco, how ticket for entry. 7:30 pm, $18-$58 can we resist you?! 4 pm, entry by donation 6:15 pm, $25-$40
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DJ EARWAY Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Bred and spread in New Mexico, DJ Earway serves up vinyl sets that are lusciously influenced by post punk, dark wave and sexy funk. Some classics thrown in too. 6-10 pm, free (no cover) DJ JUSTIN MARTIN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Wow. An event that goes until 2 am in Santa Fe? And it's DJ Justin Martin, who knows how to help you dance for hours on end. Exhibit is open all show if you want to mix your music and your explorative spirit. 9 pm-2 am, $20 STRINGS IN THE WOODS Santa Fe Canyon Preserve 1670 Upper Canyon Road bit.ly/2Y9XX4i Begins with a guided nature and fiddle walk, meditation included. Intimate concert in the woods, from guitarist Libby Kirkpatrick and fiddler Will Taylor. 6:30 pm, $30
THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Another chance to check out this show—and remember it starts in the parking lot. (see SFR picks, page 19) 7:30 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Come for the laughs. Heck, come twice. With improv elements it’s a little different every time. Actually, why don’t you just go again and again and again and— 6:30 pm, $30
WORKSHOP THE GATHERING OF THE CREATIVES Eldorado Hotel & Spa 309 W San Francisco St. bit.ly/3mGbFG3 More unleashing and more discovery of the inner creative spirit. Lectures, books, networking and on and on. Julia Cameron, best-selling author of The Artist’s Way, leads the gathering. All day, $997-$1197
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BOOKS/LECTURES LET'S TALK: A READING AND A DISCUSSION Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Santa Fe’s new Poet Laureate, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, presents a reading and discussion entitled Let’s Talk. Wellington’s essays on poverty, economic justice, race relations, African American history and civil rights history have appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, The Progressive, Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, Dissent, Crisis (NAACP’s magazine) and, of course, SFR. 5 pm, free
DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright, Flamencoooooo. 6:15 pm, $25-$40 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Traditional Indigenous hoop dance every Saturday and Sunday on the Plaza. 3:30-5 pm, free
EVENTS YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. All levels vinyasa flow class. Bring your own mat and get ready to pop those joints and feel the streeeeeetch. 10 am, $10 FIESTA FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS MARKET Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Need more fiesta doses even though we’re just getting started? Come check out some paintings, wood workings, crafted glassworks. Music entertainment throughout. All day, free ROWLEY ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Rowley Farmhouse Ales 1405 Maclovia St. (505) 428-0719 Join Rowley for food, music, and community as we celebrate Rowley Farmhouse Ale’s fifth anniversary. 3 pm, free
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THEATER THE CRADLE WILL ROCK The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Orson Welles and John Houseman find themselves locked out by the WPA administration. Instead of giving up, they find a vacant theater in which the show must go on. The Santa Fe audience needs to know the show begins with a 15-minute prologue in the parking lot. 2 pm, $25-$90 A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 A Santa Fe Tradition since 1919, the Fiesta Melodrama is written to poke fun at local events and politicians. This show will involve broad comedy, improvisation and audience participation. 4 pm, $15-$25
WORKSHOP THE GATHERING OF THE CREATIVES Eldorado Hotel & Spa 309 W San Francisco St. bit.ly/3mGbFG3 Let the inner-creative be unleash in the third and final day of this massive conference, where you can finally get those creative juices flowing. Hopefully without tears. All day, $997-$1197
MON/6 DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Lindy hop, shag and more. Classes start at 7 pm, open dance at 8 pm. Masks and proof of vax required. 7 pm, $3-$8
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FIESTA FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS MARKET Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Fiesta shop until you give out in a melodramatic fashion. All kinds of artists and goods for sale, from traditional paintings to modern artististic novelties—come to shop or just to browse. All day, free
YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. Community yoga class for all levels. Breathe in the fresh air and enjoy the outdoors while certified yoga instructor Kristyn Arnold leads an energizing Vinyasa Flow class. Bring your own mat or embrace the earth. Noon, $10
TUE/7 ART OPENINGS SHOELUCCINATIONS: THE SECRET LIFE OF SHOES Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Shoes, glorious shoes! Barbara Burzillo, faced with a closet full of shoes which no longer reflected her lifestyle, transformed them into whimsical sculptures. Promised to be anything but traditional and even occasionally pun-based. All day, free
FOOD COOKING CLASS: SPANISH FOOD Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 In this class, learn about historical food changes within New Mexico. Learn to make Melon gazpacho, cucumber salad, traditional paella and crema catalana. 10 am, $95 SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Such Tuesday, much arugula. 7 am-1 pm, free
SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET DEL SUR Presbyterian Health Park 4801 Beckner Road (505) 983-7726 Did you know New Mexico grows a lot of onions? Like, a huge amount? Maybe try some of this home-grown magic. 3-6 pm, free
MUSIC NOSOTROS Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing Nosotros is one of the most recognizable Latin bands in the Southwes. Featured on NPR's Alt Latino, and with 13 New Mexico Music Awards, Nosotros shares the stage with some of the biggest names in music—and now with Reunity Resources. Wicked cool. 6:30-8:30 pm, $10
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So You’re Looking For a Breakfast Burrito [Vol. 2] Sunrise Family Restaurant and Fusion Tacos BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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efore we begin, let it be known to all readers that your feelings on El Chile Toreado’s breakfast burrito have been duly noted. Furthermore, I tried real hard to get one, only to learn that everybody’s favorite Early Street food truck (or stand or whatever you’d call the thing from which Toreado serves) really adheres to that street name and stops breakfast burrito-ing at 10 am. I know, I know—I know what you’re thinking (something rude, no doubt, about how that’s not even that early), but I’m a nighttime guy, and on some days, asking me to be someplace before 10 am is tantamount to me admonishing a morning person for not being down to clown at 2:30 am when I’m most active. Anyway, the point is that everyone loves a place that serves breakfast all day, and while I would never begin to trash a restaurant for serving how it wanted, I’d just point out that if anyone from El Chile Toreado comes across this piece, please know that I love your spot mightily and recommend it all the time—I just wish I could get a breakfast burrito for lunch. But I digress (and otherwise promise I will work out how to get to that burrito) because I regrouped and found some other excellent options for breakfast burritos in Santa Fe this week, so let’s dig in, huh?
Sunrise Family Restaurant 1851 St. Michael’s Drive, (505)-820-0643; Breakfast and Lunch Every Day A sign by the front cash register advises patrons that Sunrise Family Restaurant’s breakfst burrito was named the “Best Breakfast Burrito in the Santa Fe area for 2020 as voted on by local business communities.” This information feels vague, but just know that it’s not really far off the mark, even if naming a single best burrito isn’t possible. The woman who answered the phone and took the order was kind and pleasant and, honestly, sounded pretty pumped that someone was searching for a breakfast burrito; she didn’t use any kind of tone when the offer of meat was declined or when I requested red chile on the side, and she sounded really cool and collected when she said “It’ll probably only be, like, 10 minutes.” Deciding to test this theory, I bolted to the car and arrived 10 minutes later on the dot to find my burrito waiting, and the thrill continued all the way back to my office, whereupon I learned that the burrito’s construction must have been recent as it was still piping hot with the cheese melty and looking perfect. Sunrise Family Restaurant offers up three choices for sides: house potatoes (think cubes), beans or hash browns. Naively, I assumed these would be in-burrito items, so I ordered mine with hash browns because, and hear me now, every restaurant that does breakfast burritos:
the crunch of hash browns in a burrito has no rival or even equal. Admittedly, learning the potatoes came on the side felt sad at first, but having the power to choose my own egg-to-potato ratio was actually a game-changer. We’ve all had that burrito that is basically potatoes in a tortilla (looking at you, Burrito Spot), but Sunrise’s version came with so many fluffy eggs, the rest of my day was spent with enough protein-fueled energy to not feel like I’d fall asleep at my standing desk. The chile was excellent, too, though its viscosity felt a little thinner than I generally like. A thick red is one of the purest joys of being a New Mexican, but whereas flavor can often trump texture (though both are important, mind you), this red came in clutch with its aromatic medley of seasoning. We want to know our red has cumin, but never do we want that to overpower the situation; whoever’s in the kitchen at Sunrise Family Restaurant knows what to do, and that includes the eggs, which, as I mentioned before, were delightfully fluffy, but held together well enough that they never fell out of the tortilla. At $7.95, the burrito’s a steal, too, especially considering the mountain of hash browns with just the right amount of gooey cheddar on top. Let this forever be a reminder that sometimes the most unassuming restaurants (Sunrise is, for lack of a better term, not the most design-forward and spotless place you’ll ever eat) have the greatest secrets to uncover. The verdict in the end? Oh, this one’s going on the regular rotation.
Fusion Tacos 5984 Airport Road, (505) 501-3677; Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner MondaySaturday; Breakfast and Lunch Sunday I can practically feel you thinking “Pshshsht! Breakfast burrito from a celebrated taco truck? What’re you doing, bro?” I’ll tell you what I’m doing, friendo—I’m looking for breakfast burritos.
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It Started Out With a Fist Artist Shakti Howeth’s journey to visual storytelling BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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ow did it end up like this? A fist. Or a hand, anyway—a series of sculpted hands emblazoned with tattoos made from Sculpey, polymer and/or epoxy from artist Shakti Howeth. I discovered these glorious hands some months back when Howeth, a Meow Wolf employee, launched her first website, relocated temporarily to Las Vegas and Denver to help open the arts corporation’s Omega Mart and Convergence Station installations and continued to realize what she calls “baby steps” toward a more rounded practice. The website (shaktihowethart. squarespace.com) was one of the first steps, and the next thing in the lineup is continuing her painterly escapades, a possible children’s book (or children’s book for adults—which, she says she realizes, sounds like a graphic novel, but isn’t necessarily) and more work for Meow Wolf. But this isn’t a story about Meow Wolf so much as it’s about the path Howeth took to get here. She grew up in Southern California, but when Howeth was roughly 5, a traveling guru helped her parents realize life made more sense on a yoga ashram near Charlottesville, Virginia. Don’t think of it like a cult. Or maybe I just put that idea into your head? Either way, it’s not a cult, and they were free to leave; Howeth attended school on the ashram until seventh grade, whereupon the family moved into Charlottesville proper and our heroine attended mainstream school, falling in love with the performing arts. After high school, the family would move back to the ashram and Howeth would pursue that love all the way through college at San Francisco State University. “I was just really into being with a group of people who can make life more
fun or interesting,” she tells SFR. “I found a community of cool weirdos and felt more accepted and good than I ever had. I stuck with that vibe.” That vibe was especially helpful when, in 2015, Howeth escaped an abusive relationship while attending a wedding in Santa Fe. Wanting to leave that life behind, she stayed permanently and worked for Whole Foods, meeting Meow Wolfers on the regular and eventually securing a job there
shortly before The House of Eternal Return opened in 2016. She started as a docent, but as she’d observed her father painting her whole life and had indulged in her own practice as far back as she could remember, Howeth created a portfolio that impressed some higher up at Meow Wolf. She climbed the ladder and today works in the Artistic Design & Production department. When I meet Howeth at her secluded Upper Canyon Road home/studio space, she’s set out a number of in-progress paintings: an alien, some small figurative semi-nudes, a new series based on positive father figures and their children. “The models are my friends,” she points out. “I got this idea about the representation of masculine, fatherly love with young people; that sweet father love that impresses me. But I’m going to limit my palette for these paintings.”
Previously, Howeth says, her practice revolved around bolt-of-lightning moments of sudden inspiration. Now, in an effort to evolve, she’s trying to plan more—in the long run, a way of challenging routines and shaking up habits. Still, she says, “My dad has been a public school teacher, and his painting has always happened in his free time and in his shed; he’s a soul painter, and he helps me remember you can be free if you do your own thing and not listen to people who don’t feel good to listen to.” Howeth then points out her collection of children’s books. Something about the illustrations in the books she’s kept transport her to other dimensions, she says shyly. “I love to create that same magic through a visual medium, but imbued with a story,” she explains. “I’m interested in taking that to the next level with something darker. Kids are smarter than they seem.” The idea behind all of it is comfort through expression and a sense of possibility. “Like aliens,” she says. “I say that jokingly, but I’m seriously obsessed with the paranormal and
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strange experiences—even just as a metaphor. The thought that there’s a whole other group of beings we could interact with, whether that’s ultra-dimensional or whatever, gives me hope.” That idea could result in any number of mediums and projects, she notes. Fantasy and sci-fi art, she continues, are borderline obsessions. But still someplace in all of that beats the heart of a sincere creator more interested in the work than the endgame. Howeth hasn’t shown in galleries because “it feels a little cold and inaccessible,” though she does say she’d be interested if it were the right place. Even so, she’s quick to point out how a certain arts vernacular can leave would-be art lovers and collectors feeling left out or intimidated. “I feel like art is a conversation,” she tells SFR, “and I don’t have the typical art school background to discuss it in the ways people might expect, but I think it can be stifled when you’re looking at things through specific academic lenses as opposed to having your own unique experiences; the idea that only artists can or should talk about art, only people who went to art school can understand it—that whole notion is off-putting to me.” She cites the skaters she grew up with, drawing in their sketch pads, the statues of Hindu deities from the Virginia ashram of her youth; a sincere interest in extra-terrestrial life, farfetched though it may be. “Truth is one, but paths are many,” Howeth posits. “You can do anything you want.”
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This weekend, horror film Candyman earned over $20 million, making it the first profitable theater-only release in a post-pandemic world and earning writer/director Nia DaCosta the title of first Black female director with a No. 1 movie in its opening weekend—and she’s only 31. DeCosta’s sequel to the 1992 Bernard Rose flick of the same name feels like a reboot largely due to its character improvements and assistance from writers and producers Jordan Peele (Get Out) and Win Rosenfeld (BlackKkKlansman). In DaCosta’s vision, the plot mirrors the original film wherein folklore legend declares speaking the name “Candyman” five times into a mirror makes the ethereal baddie appear and kill you. In the ’92 version, grad student Helen (Virginia Madsen) skeptically invites the monstrosity into being. But whereas Rose’s film suggests Candyman represents a subconscious reflection of urban fears—an explanation for the violent environment of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project. In DaCosta’s sequel, struggling artist Anthony McCoy (played beautifully by Yahya Abdul-
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Did you see the 1995 sci-fi flick Strange Days, wherein Ralph Fiennes is a drug dealer whose product is memories that users can experience? Did you see Christopher Nolan’s Inception, wherein the concept of manipulating dreams and memories is explored? Ever catch Dark City? Blade Runner? Minority Report? Have you ever heard of or played the Lovecraftinspired video game The Sinking City? If you answered yes to any of these, you’ve already seen what the new Hugh Jackman movie Reminiscence is about—and you’ve seen it done better. From Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy comes the latest steaming pile of sci-fi wherein Jackman is Nick Bannister, a former soldier and current memory...uh...guy living in a future-esque flooded version of Miami. The oceans rose, buds, and Bannister’s business is all about folks using a sciencey water tank and headgear to literally relive their favorite memories. Bannister does this iffy science with his good buddy Watts (Westworld alum Thandiwe Newton), and when the most beautiful nightclub singer/dresses with high leg slits enthusiast wanders in and kicks off a relationship with our hero, something, something, something—who cares? The lady is Mae (Rebecca Ferguson), and she promptly disappears, leading Bannister to get hooked on his own science tank as he searches for answers, walks places very slowly and makes stern faces at good guys and bad guys and regular guys and anyone else around. 28
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Mateen II) summons Candyman back, bringing with him a new past filled with dimension and showing a different kind of scary compared to Tony Todd’s performance in the ‘92 version. And even though Todd absolutely kills it, the script lacks effective character development. Originally comparable to other slasher antagonists like Jason or Michael Myers, DaCosta encourages us to fear and pity Candyman. His more nuanced portrayal represents manifestations of fear, guilt and hatred, and, more specifically, white supremacist fear of Black livelihood. Here Candyman represents what happens when belligerent rumors and stereotypes leave someone no choice but to become that stereotype. The film’s messaging is so blatant, however, that viewers might roll their eyes from what one character describes as the “overuse” of the Black experience. Still, that reflects society’s behavior
Jackman’s newest might get points for being pretty (flooded Miami does look pretty cool), but in the originality and enjoyment departments, it leaves a lot wanting. Joy’s noir-lite thriller would surely work a lot better if it wasn’t so obsessed with checking off tired detective movie tropes: the dirty cop, the dame with the tortured past and the dogged lead with the struggling business who just wants answers. Let’s not forget the wise-cracking best pal and the contemptible robber baron who you just know has a deeper connection to everything. Let us also not forget it’s hard to care. Jackman’s fine as Bannister, as is Newtown on the periphery. Ferguson does what she can with ham-fisted dialogue, but in the end it feels better that she’s not around so much. When veteran character actor Cliff Curtis shows up, it’s easy to think things might get better. They don’t, however, and when the big reveal finally happens, it’s easy to wonder why we were supposed to be surprised, let alone invested. Be glad you can stream this one on HBO, but know there are plenty of films out there to scratch a similar itch without all the tedium and chewed scenery. (Alex De Vore) HBO Max, PG-13, 116 min.
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Old age for Pat Pitsenberger (Udo Kier of Bacurau) is seemingly about little more than wasting away in a nursing home. It’s just as drab as you can imagine until the retired hairdresser (nicknamed the “Liberace of
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and it’s devastatingly common to see viral videos of racial profiling, violence and police brutality. And some people still don’t believe discrimination exists. Thankfully, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (of brilliant British series Utopia and Misfits) serves humor worthy of a chef’s kiss and Teyonah Parris (Wandavision) shines as the real standout performer. Pity, then, that frequent flashbacks meant to develop the characters appear jarring rather than intimate. Yes, the slasher persona in this new iteration diminishes, but like Peele’s previous works, horror sometimes works better when the truth stands bare.
Sandusky”) gets a chance for one more do-up when he learns a former estranged client has died and needs to look her best before she’s put in the ground. To get to the funeral home, he takes a long walk through Sandusky, Ohio—but oh, how the city has changed. Pat inhabits an overcast world, and his long sojourn is almost like a metaphor for the devolving Rust Belt itself. Half the locations he passes are shut down, boarded up, decaying or outright vanished, and director Todd Stephens’ desire to produce an ode to queer safe spaces that, like the region itself or the memories of old age, dissipate as time chugs along, catches the viewer off-guard. Pat’s dual fascination with what’s lost alongside his internalized mourning present a career-high for 76-year-old Kier, a German native who jumps from relatively obscure cinema to embodying an Ohio hairdresser with a mountain of empathy. Swan Song often leans into pure camp, too, and never apologizes for its outlandish moments. Like most festival circuit works, Stephens’ opus is not the cleanest film, nor is every directorial decision the most coherent. In fact, its low-budget vibe and supporting roles aren’t even close to convincing much of the time. There is a strong screenplay, however, anchored by a deep thematic core, and in moments wherein Swan Song’s melancholic scenes are well-balanced and tempered with rumination on life’s inevitabilities, a tear or two might fall. For all of its obvious limited production values, Swan Song does stand out within the indie world and holds its own as one of the most heartfelt films of 2021 thus far—its selection into festivals like SXSW are well deserved. (RG) VoD, NR, 101 min
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I can’t remember the last time a Taiwanese film didn’t try to rip my guts out, and even though Man in Love is a remake of a 2014 Korean film, it still gives that ol’ Taiwanese gut-ripping try. A-Cheng (Roy Chiu of the well-admired Dear Ex) lives a conundrum. He’s a brutal, violent debt collector with a major handicap in his line of work: empathy. A-Cheng often gives debtors breaks, pays for their financial difficulties himself and doles out much-needed life advice. When he develops a crush on one of his debtors (Tiffany Hsu), however, he tries to win her over using his gangster persona, much to her obvious displeasure—and Hsu does deadpan comedy well. Yeah, yeah, it’s not even remotely close to original territory. The same plot was getting tired in the silent film era. But in fairness, Man in Love offers a good example of directorial confidence that seems to shout “Sure, I’m dated! But look at how cute I am!” And oh boy, is it cute romantic escapism even if the massive tonal shift from rom-com to emotional melodrama might leave some nonplussed. It almost feels like director Chen-Hao Yin was fired mid-way through production, and like all films with confidence, it can taken a bit far. Man in Love is a film that stays too long, but even with its dated concepts, it’s easy to invest in the thing, and it’s even pretty funny. This is Bollywood-esqe, bright and wild, and an exploration of how men’s inability to understand performative violence never makes them desirable. Its heart makes it worth a watch, even if its expression is off. (Riley Gardner) Netflix, NR, 115 minw
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Anna Kamienska wrote, “I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.” In the coming weeks, I suggest you adopt her perspective as you evaluate both past and present experiences. You’re likely to find small treasures in what you’d assumed were wastelands. You may uncover inspiring clues in plot twists that initially frustrated you. Upon further examination, interludes you dismissed as unimportant or uninteresting could reveal valuable wrinkles.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Several states in the US have statutes prohibiting blasphemy. Saying “God damn it” could theoretically get you fined in Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Wyoming. In the coming days, it’s best to proceed carefully in places like those, since you’ve been authorized by cosmic forces to curse more often and more forcefully than usual. Why? Because you need to summon vivid and intense protests in the face of influences that may be inhibiting and infringing on your soul’s style. You have a poetic license to rebel against conventions that oppress you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): After studying your astrological omens, I’ve decided to offer you inspiration from the ancient Roman poet Catullus. I hope the extravagant spirit of his words will free you to be greedy for the delights of love and affection. Catullus wrote, “Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred; then another thousand, then a second hundred; then yet another thousand.” I’ll add the following to Catullus’s appeal: Seek an abundance of endearing words, sweet favors and gifts, caresses and massages, help with your work, and fabulous orgasms. If there’s no one in your life to provide you with such blessings, give them to yourself. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini author Elif Batuman writes that the Old Uzbek language was rich in expressions about crying. There were “words for wanting to cry and not being able to, for loudly crying like thunder in the clouds, for crying in gasps, for weeping inwardly or secretly, for crying ceaselessly in a high voice, for crying in hiccups, and for crying while uttering the sound ‘hay hay.’” I recommend all of these to you in the coming days, as well as others you might dream up. Why? It’s prime time to seek the invigorating release and renewal that come from shedding tears generated by deep and mysterious feelings. CANCER (June 21-July 22): A blogger named MythWoven imagines an “alternate universe where I literally go to school forever (for free) so I can learn about art and literature and history and languages for 100 years. No job skills. No credit requirements. No student loans. Just learning.” I have longings like hers. There’s an eternal student within me that wants to be endlessly surprised with exciting information about interesting subjects. I would love to be continually adding fresh skills and aptitudes to my repertoire. In the coming weeks, I will give free rein to that part of me. I recommend you do the same, my fellow Cancerian.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Everyone dreams at least three dreams per night. In a year, your subconscious mind generates over 1,100 dreams. About this remarkable fact, novelist Mila Kundera writes, “Dreaming is not merely an act of coded communication. It is also an aesthetic activity, a game that is a value in itself. To dream about things that have not happened is among humanity’s deepest needs.” I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because September is Honor Your Dreams Month. To celebrate, I suggest the following experiments. 1. Every night before sleep, write down a question you’d like your dreams to respond to. 2. Keep a notebook by your bed and transcribe at least one dream each time you sleep. 3. In the morning, have fun imagining what the previous night’s dreams might be trying to communicate to you. 4. Say prayers of gratitude to your dreams, thanking them for their provocative, entertaining stories. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In her autobiography Changing, Sagittarian actor Liv Ullmann expresses grief about how she and a loved one failed to communicate essential truths to each other. I propose we regard her as your anti-role model for the rest of 2021. Use her error as your inspiration. Make emotionally intelligent efforts to talk about unsaid things that linger like ghostly puzzles between you and those you care about. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I could do with a bit more excess,” writes author Joanne Harris. “From now on I’m going to be immoderate—and volatile,” she vows. “I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.” Let me be clear, Capricorn: I’m not urging you to be immoderate, volatile, excessive, and rampant every day for the rest of your long life. But I think you will generate health benefits and good fortune if you experiment with that approach in the coming weeks. Can you think of relatively sane, sensible ways to give yourself this salubrious luxury?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): While wading through the internet’s wilder terrain, I found a provocative quote alleged to have been uttered by the ancient Greek phiLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 2016, the International losopher Socrates. He supposedly said, “My ultimate Garden Photograph of the Year depicted lush lupine flowers in New Zealand. The sea of tall purple, pink, and goal is to look totally hot, but not be unapproachable.” I blue blooms was praised as “an elegant symphony” and confess that in the past I have sometimes been fooled “a joy to behold.” What the judges didn’t mention is that by fake quotes, and I suspect this is one. Still, it’s amusing to entertain the possibility that such an august perlupine is an invasive species in New Zealand. It forces sonage as Socrates, a major influencer of Western culnative plant species out of their habitat, which in turn ture, might say something so cute and colloquial. Even if drives away native animal species, including birds like he didn’t actually say it, I like the idea of blending the wrybill, black stilt, and banded dotterel. Is there a ancient wisdom with modern insights, seriousness with metaphorically comparable phenomenon in your life, silliness, thoughtful analysis with good fun. In accorLeo? Problematic beauty? Some influence that’s both dance with astrological omens, I recommend you experiattractive and prickly? A wonderful thing that can also ment with comparable hybrids in the coming weeks. be troublesome? The coming weeks will be a favorable (PS: One of your goals should be to look totally hot, but time to try to heal the predicament. not be unapproachable.) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I often wonder who I am and where is my country and where do I belong and why was I ever born at all,” wrote Virgo author Jean Rhys (1890–1979). I don’t think you will be agitated by those questions during the next eight weeks, Virgo. In fact, I suspect you will feel as secure in your identity as you have in a long time. You will enjoy prolonged clarity about your role in the world, the nature of your desires, and how you should plan your life for the next two years. If for some inexplicable reason you’re not already enjoying these developments, stop what you’re doing and meditate on the probability that I am telling you the bold truth.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “If you don’t know what you want,” writes Piscean novelist Chuck Palahniuk, “you end up with a lot you don’t.” Very true! And right now, it’s extra important to keep that in mind. During the coming weeks, you’ll be at the peak of your ability to attract what you want and need. Wouldn’t you prefer to gather influences you really desire—as opposed to those for which you have mild or zero interest? Define your wants and needs very precisely. Homework: What’s your greatest blessing? Newsletter@FreeWillAstrology.com
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