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SEPTEMBER 22-28, 2021 | Volume 48, Issue 38
NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 THE FIGHT WITHIN 9 Facing bigger blazes, longer hours, low pay, wildland firefighters ask Congress, agencies for help GROWN AND RAISED 10 Southside farmers market bouncing back and expanding partnerships after challenging pandemic season POP QUIZ 11 Three of the four candidates for the northside City Council District 1 answer city trivia COVER STORY 12 PRISON RAT Scope of rodent infestation at New Mexico women’s prison, allegations of cover-up, much larger than previously known
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NEWS, SEPT. 15: “OPEN SPACE SHUFFLE”
NUCLEAR NEIGHBORHOOD I have been a resident of the South Meadows area for 15+ years and enjoyed walking in the green space located along the South Meadows Road between Agua Fria Road and Airport Road. This space has provided me and my neighbors solace during the COVID-19 pandemic and a cooling haven for the local wildlife. Sadly I learned that the 22 acres was quietly purchased by Homewise to build homes, school and playground. There was no neighborhood input on this purchase. No transparency! This particular site has a toxic secret. Located above 22 acres of green space is the old Eberline plant, 5981 Airport Road, that produced radioactive detection equipment. There’s always been these questions. Are there radioactive materials still on the property? Has there been any soil and ground water contamination that has leached into the green space located below? Have there been any recent environmental reports concerning this issue? I would demand that the results be made publicly available regarding
the site and green space no matter what the costs. This is my health, my neighbor’s health, and neighborhood. Honestly, it’s all about the money. Leave the green space alone.
REBECCA SCHNEIDER SANTA FE
MORNING WORD, SEPT. 17: “FUNGI FUN”
PAST PEAKING I must disagree with you about “Fungi Fun” published in today’s Morning Word. I hike the Aspen Vista Trail every week and mushroom season has been over for at least two weeks. Although wild mushrooms were plentiful this year and I photographed and identified many varieties, there were none to be found on my hike this morning. Last week I found only one hawkeye mushroom and a small patch of dying lobster mushrooms. The best time for mushrooms this year on the Aspen Vista Trail was mid-August when many Boletus were popping up everywhere! Thanks again for The Morning Word—I read it every day!
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The Fight Within he says. “And basically, it’s easier to just get outside donations to make it through.” Among the ranks of wildland firefighters, depression, trauma, drug and alcohol abuse—even suicide—are all more common than people realize. And fewer people want these jobs, which are highly specialized and physically demanding. “Ten, 15 years ago, we would have 400 or 500 applicants for an entry-level fire job on some of the crews I worked on. Now, we’re lucky if we see 50,” Cornwell says. “With those kinds of numbers, we’re headed to a train wreck, where one time there’s going to be a town here in New Mexico that’s going to call for federal assistance, federal help. And guess what? Nobody’s going to show up.” For 11 years, Jonathon Golden worked as a wildland firefighter, clocking up to a thousand hours of overtime “just to afford life,” he says. It wasn’t just low pay and lack of security that spurred him to leave the profession. He felt overwhelmed by the isolation from family and friends and the burden of missing birthdays, anniversaries, graduations. “You miss out on these significant moments and when it comes time to lie down at night and try to get some sleep you think about these things and it really begins to weigh on you: ‘What am I missing out on? What am I doing here?’” Golden says. Many firefighters feign machismo or suppress these thoughts.
Facing bigger blazes, longer hours, low pay, wildland firefighters ask Congress, agencies for help B Y L A U R A PA S K U S LauraPaskus
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he last 24 months have been particularly brutal for wildland firefighters in the western United States. As wildfire season lengthens and fires burn hotter and bigger, firefighters are immersed in emergency situations for weeks and months on end—knowing the years ahead will bring worse. “It’s a public service that I think a lot of us feel satisfied with at the end of the day,” says Marcus Cornwell, who earned his Red Card, or certification, in 1998. He spent 15 years on interagency hotshot crews and now works on an incident management team. “But the realities that we’re starting to face now with potential climate change...I would say firefighters are in a crisis mode.” Rising temperatures and drought drive some of the problems. But wildland firefighters face other challenges that have burrowed deep into the fabric of the federal workforce. Assignments keep them away from home for at least three weeks at a time— longer if they can’t make it home during their short breaks. Men and women work 16-hour days, usually sleeping on the ground and eating military-ration meals. Some live in their cars. The majority earn low pay and lack medical or retirement benefits, all while facing the daily risk of injury and death. When smokejumper Tim Hart was injured fighting the Ecks Fire this spring in southern New Mexico, his family set up a GoFundMe campaign to help cover medical bills. Hart died from his injuries. And Cornwell says it’s common for families to rely on donations, like from the nonprofit Wildland Firefighter Foundation. Federal agencies are trying to improve, he says. But he calls the Office of Workmen’s Compensation “broken.” “We have firefighters struggling, they get injured on the job, they’re struggling year after year to basically just survive these catastrophic incidents [and] they have mountains of paperwork and very little help from the federal government,”
Tim Hart died after he was injured fighting the Ecks Fire in Southern New Mexico.
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Men and women in the federal firefighting ranks often work 16-hour days, usually sleeping on the ground and eating military-ration meals. And conditions are predicted to worsen.
“You’re privately struggling on a dayto-day basis,” Golden says. “But there are only a few people who stand out, where we would have candid conversations about how we were doing mentally.” Today, Golden volunteers with Grassroot Wildlands Firefighters, a nonprofit that advocates for higher pay, professionalizing the workforce and more. A Biden-era initiative recently bumped starting pay by two dollars, to $15 an hour. And the Infrastructure Bill before Congress includes a salary increase and a change that would specifically classify wildland firefighters, instead of lumping them in with “forestry technicians.” But, says Golden, Congress also needs to fund land management agencies to address the underlying factors related to fires—and commit to building a “21st century civil service that America deserves.” Grassroot Wildlands Firefighters President Kelly Martin started fighting fires as a college student in the 1980s. For more than three decades, she worked for the US Forest Service and the National Park Service at places like the Grand Canyon, Moab and Yosemite. She also worked on national incident management teams and as a fire behavior analyst. “The immersion that we’re seeing now is way completely different than when I started 35 years ago, when I might have gained maybe 400 hours of overtime during a summer season,” says Martin, who retired in 2019. Now people regular-
ly work at least 1,000 hours of overtime, sometimes twice that in a year. “This current system that we’re talking about, built 50 years ago, is unsustainable,” Martin says. Federal agencies lack money to hire more people and compensate them fairly—nevermind fund work to decrease the risk of catastrophic fire and improve ecosystems and watersheds. Martin says federal agencies and Congress need to plan ahead, not 10 or 15 years, but 30 years or more. Meanwhile, the world around us isn’t waiting for politicians or policymakers. As a young firefighter, Cornwell worked on the Cerro Grande Fire near Los Alamos. “When that happened in 2000, it was a huge fire for New Mexico. It was the biggest fire in the books—and now that thing’s been dwarfed many times over with Los Conchas, Whitewater-Baldy,” he says. Cerro Grande burned 43,000 acres. In 2011, Las Conchas burned 156,000 acres, and in 2012, Whitewater Baldy, 297,000 acres. “New Mexico really dodged the bullet in the last few years...But all this scary stuff you see in California can easily be here,” he says. “This is coming to our door unless we start to address labor shortages, address the fuels situation.” Laura Paskus is an environment reporter at NMPBS, where this story and the full TV interview were originally published.
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Southside farmers market bouncing back and expanding partnerships after challenging pandemic season B Y B E L L A D AV I S b e l l a @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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atrons of the Southside farmers market shop for tomatoes and turnips, flowers, honey and other local products as a light rain sprinkles the stands in the parking lot of the Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center last week. Officially known as the Santa Fe Farmers Market’s Mercado Del Sur—which runs from early July to late September— the bounty of locally grown goods is at the end of its yearly season. The last day is planned for next Tuesday, Sept. 28, from 3 to 6 pm at 4801 Beckner Road. After a slow summer last year, the market is recovering, with more vendors, increased foot traffic and several partnerships with local organizations that are helping expand its reach on the Southside. In 2020, the market averaged about four vendors because many didn’t want to participate in the early days of the pandemic out of concern for their health, says manager Nery Martinez, a farmer who sold produce at the market for nearly a decade before taking the managing job. On most days last year, there were between 50 and 80 customers. On the flip side, 14 vendors had set up when SFR visited last week and at 4:30 pm, with the market halfway over, Martinez had counted about 115 customers. Included in that count was the Ortiz family. Sarah Ortiz, a Southside resident
who was browsing the stands with her husband Mike and daughter Penelope, says the Del Sur market is convenient for her family because it’s closer to their home than the Farmers Market’s other locations, including the Saturday market at the Railyard. “I think it’s really important for the Southside to have a place to get fresh vegetables and for working people to be able to come in the afternoon and evening,” Ortiz says. “Not everyone can get up on Saturday morning and go.” The Southside has long suffered from a lack of healthy food options and the problem has only worsened in recent years, with fast food restaurants and convenience stores outnumbering grocery stores at a higher ratio than ever, SFR reported. Because the market is meant to help fill that gap in access, it made sense for Del Sur to partner with Presbyterian—which has several programs focused on addressing food insecurity, including a $200,000 grant the hospital received earlier this year to get food to families—and set up shop in the medical center parking lot starting in 2019. “The market has really aligned with our community health goals and the goals of our hospital around supporting local farmers and the local economy and encouraging healthy eating,” Carrie Thielen, manager of regional community health at Presbyterian, tells SFR. Every month, Presbyterian gives employees and patients vouchers to shop at the market, according to Thielen, and the hospital cafe’s food service director buys produce from the market and other local sources. Thielen says partnerships between the market, Presbyterian and local nonprofits including YouthWorks and Cooking with Kids have helped the market grow this season.
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Southside resident Sarah Ortiz with her daughter Penelope at the Del Sur market.
“We had a lot of grassroots outreach between all of our partners, getting the word out through flyers and radio and advertising and then just our partners sharing information through their networks,” Thielen says. “I think we have seen an increase in participation and that will just continue to build.” Cooking with Kids does hands-on nutrition education with schoolchildren and families. Executive Director Anna Farrier says the organization has partnered separately with the market and Presbyterian for years, so when the market changed locations, “it all came together.” “It was a great opportunity for us to come and do mini cooking classes, just different sorts of things like watermelon salsa and hummus that don’t involve heat and feature fresh produce from the market,” Farrier says. Cooking with Kids has been a partner since 2019, but the partnership with YouthWorks, the well-known nonprofit providing vocational training and educa-
tional services to at-risk young people, is new this year. YouthWorks founder Melynn Schuyler says the partnership came about after the organization joined the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and took part in weekly meetings, which Presbyterian and the Farmers Market were also in, to figure out how to get food to people in need during the pandemic. Since July, YouthWorks has been bringing a food truck to Del Sur and selling meals including green chile cheeseburgers, plant-based burgers and Frito pie. Schuyler says they’ve seen a gradual increase in customers over the summer, partly driven by hospital employees who have shift changes during the market. “It’s really become a good stop for everybody and I think once and for all it’s going to take off and stick, which is what we’ve needed for the Southside, because in years past it didn’t really get there,” Schuyler says. “A lot of the population we serve lives on that side of town and they should have that access.”
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SCORE: 4 / 5 BRIAN GUTIERREZ
In the upcoming Nov. 2 municipal elections, most of the races are between two candidates, but that’s not the case for northside District 1. Four candidates will face off to represent the district with the most registered voters in the city, and SFR quizzed three of them to test their Santa Fe scholarship. Candidate Roger Carson declined to participate. For all of SFR’s election coverage, including the details on where, when and how to vote and the Pop Quiz on the mayor’s race, visit sfreporter.com/elections. To keep the candidates honest, SFR asked them to pledge to be fair participants—that means no internet sleuthing or phoning a friend for help. (William Melhado)
The owner of Santa Fe Recycles, Gutierrez was appointed to the Planning Commission by then-Mayor Javier Gonzales and serves as its chairman. 1.
We have the Santa Fe River, the reservoirs that the Santa Fe River runs into. Buckman Direct Diversion from San Juan Chama. And we also have the city well fields...and of course the Buckman well fields.
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I would say tan is one, white and buckskin, off-tan I guess.
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You’ll probably need, of course, the application to apply, you’ll need proof of ownership and insurance.
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Anybody. Because I know my baby had one and it was under her and I think my wife just signed for her.
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False.
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tones. I don’t know the specific colors or earth tones. I know it’s brown, green. I think, knowing my history with the Pink Adobe [restaurant], we were able to do an adobe rose.
SCORE: 3 / 5
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Name the four sources of water that the city of Santa Fe currently uses to supply residents with drinking water.
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According to the city code, in the historic district, stuccoed buildings can be one of three colors. What are they?
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Name three documents that are needed to apply for a short term rental permit?
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Who is eligible to get a library card from the public library?
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True or False: For graffiti reported on private property, the property owner has 48 hours to remove the graffiti.
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Hoback is the former president of Land of Enchantment Credit Union. His family started and ran the Pink Adobe restaurant for decades. 1.
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We have the Buckman Diversion...Then you actually have the Buckman diversion wells that are actually located within the north part of town, the wells themselves out of Buckman. The third source are the reservoirs, McClure and Nichols reservoir up on the east side on the upper end of Canyon Road. And the fourth source are the city wells.
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There has to be a fire inspection, you have to have a business license. And I think you have to have a certificate of occupancy by the city. [A fire inspection is required, but after an application has been submitted.]
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Everyone.
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False. You can call the graffiti hotline...I think you have more than 48 hours.
Adobe brown, they’re all earth
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City wells, Buckman wells, Buckman Direct Diversion and Santa Fe watershed or reservoirs. The color of stuccoed buildings shall predominantly be brown, tan, or “local earth” tones. What exactly is an “earth tone,” one asks? In anticipation of a much-heated debate over this detail, SFR opted to give candidates the benefit of the doubt here. Proof that you are the owner of the property, a site plan showing offstreet parking, a floor plan showing all bedrooms, liability and property damage insurance and a New Mexico Combined Reporting System (CRS) number, which owners can use to secure a business license.
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Anyone who lives, works or goes to school in Santa Fe or Santa Fe County.
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False. Property owners have 10 days.
SCORE: 4 / 5 SIGNE LINDELL
you don’t have a homeowner’s association that prohibits short term rentals. You have to have a document that would show that you have given notice to your neighbors. And you need to also have a business license. [Owners give notice after permit is issued.]
Lindell seeks a third term as District 1 councilor. She has prior experience on the Ethics and Rules Committee and on the Planning Commission. 1.
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Buckman wells, city wells, Buckman Direct Diversion and the city reservoirs. I know buckskin is one color. I don’t even know if there’s a color called taupe. And I’ll play it safe on the final color: brown. You have to sign an affidavit that
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I don’t think you don’t have to be a citizen, maybe you have to live or work in the city or the county.
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I’m gonna say false, because I do believe that you can call the city and the city will come and remove that graffiti.
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adonna Evans was serving a nine-year sentence for a drug conviction at the Northwestern New Mexico Correctional Facility when moving day came. State prison officials took the 42-yearold Tucumcari native and a handful of others from what was the women’s prison to a new, remote location several miles north on the very eastern edge of Grants. The women approached a housing unit across the highway from what is now called the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility, where about a dozen trailers had been modified to fit two pods per trailer. It was October 2016. Walking toward the trailers, Evans saw a rat scurrying through the dirt and initially thought it was normal, since she was outside. In an interview with SFR, she even recalls thinking it was funny. Then the humor stopped when Evans and the others entered the prison itself. “We started seeing them inside, inside the kitchen, inside the chow hall, in our food,” she says in an Aug. 16 interview. “It
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was like, ‘OK, this is a issue, there are rodents inside the prison.’” The issue did not stop, SFR has found through a series of interviews and a review of government records and court filings. Rather, a large-scale rodent infestation peaked in the prison around 2018, keeping imprisoned women fearful and potentially exposed to the sometimes-fatal respiratory illness Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome—in a county that has helped drive New Mexico’s reported cases of the disease higher than in any state in the nation. The state Department of Corrections is well aware of the problem and has employed some curious strategies to address it, current and former inmates tell SFR. Among them: allowing several feral cats to roam the prison and hunt the rodents and, more recently, bringing in a domestic feline that goes by various names, including Ruffles. Prison guards also handed out clicktop plastic bins—and kept them in the commissary area—encouraging women to store food and belongings in them as a defense against mice and rats. Prisoners also took matters into their own hands, blocking the bottoms of their
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cell doors with tape, books and whatever else they could find to keep the rodents out, according to women currently and formerly locked up at Western. The situation has improved, according to current and former prisoners, though the prison remains far from rodent-free. It is not clear whether the corrections department has undertaken a full remediation effort, though SFR’s review of records shows that corrections required the state Environment Department to give Western a heads-up before coming out to inspect the prison for rodents and other potential health hazards. In February 2020—three and a half years after Evans saw a rat outside Western, then many more inside—Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the corrections department and Attorney General Hector Balderas agreed to deploy exterminators at both Western and the men’s prison in Grants at least once a month. The agreement came as part of the latest consent decree in Duran v. Grisham, the class action lawsuit first brought in 1977 to end overcrowding and other unconstitutional conditions in the state’s prisons. Now, SFR has learned that Evans is one of 40 current and former prisoners and staff at Western who have signed sworn declarations describing the prison’s kitchen and cafeteria, including multiple accounts of rodents breeding in the kitchen’s ventilation and in an old food cart, and defecating on the floor, counters, food trays and other surfaces. The New Mexico Prison & Jail Project, a nonprofit legal organization that litigates on behalf of incarcerated people in the state, collected the declarations as part of a lawsuit on behalf of two wom-
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en against the state and Summit Food Service, LLC, the prison’s food service contractor. The lawsuit was filed Feb. 21 in US District Court arguing that prison and Summit officials violated the women’s rights to be free from cruel and unusual punishment guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution. On July 16, high-ranking officials from the corrections department and CoreCivic, the private prison company that runs the men’s prison at Northwestern, traveled there to announce to facility staff and prisoners that the state will be taking over its operations. Jessica Vigil-Richards, interim warden of Western, joined them. She declined SFR’s request for an interview about the infestation, and Eric Harrison, a department spokesman, declined to answer questions related to the lawsuit, citing the department’s policy of not speaking publicly about issues that are the subject of current litigation. Harrison also declined to set up an interview about SFR’s reporting that isn’t related to the lawsuit. Harrison did, however, send an email listing several cleaning procedures in place at Western, including twice-monthly visits from pest control specialists. Harrison’s email did not address the cats, but said prison officials allow women to grow mint outside their housing units “to prevent mice, as it is known as a natural deterrent.” SFR’s recent visit to the prison confirms the mint: It grows in thickets in several locations on the grounds. The corrections department “takes pest control and the health and wellbeing
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These rodents of New Mexico are known carriers of the hantavirus, which causes a potentially fatal respiratory disease: 1. House mouse. 2. Roof rat. 3. Norway rat. 4. Deer mouse.
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Scope of rodent infestation at New Mexico women’s prison, allegations of cover-up, much larger than previously known
A privately run state prison teeming with rats and mice sounds terrifying, unsanitary—downright disgusting, even. Real health risks come with the grim image. Rodents carry hantaviruses, which in turn cause Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, a severe respiratory disease that kills. The illness is transmitted by infected rodents through feces, saliva and urine. Humans contract it by breathing in the aerosolized virus. New Mexico leads the nation in reported cases of the disease from 1993 through 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC also reports that rodents in remote, rural areas are more likely to carry the viruses. The state Department of Health would not say whether there have been confirmed cases of the disease at Western; Harrison says no cases have been reported. But dig into the data compiled by the health department, and it’s clear that the disease is nearby. There have been 118 cases reported statewide since 1975, according to the health department, with 51 deaths. Among New Mexico counties, Cibola, where the women’s prison at Western sits, has the fourth most cases, with nine. That trails only Taos (11), San Juan (13) and McKinley (53). McKinley is Cibola’s immediate neighbor to the north. Both counties are classified as rural, and the patch of land where Western sits is nothing if not remote—in virtual isolation, surrounded by vast expanse and nothing else. None of this is lost on current and former Western inmates. At the infestation’s height, according to two current inmates, “everywhere you went, there were dead mice.” Droppings sprinkled bowls of oatmeal and cereal. Nests with baby mice packed ventilation ducts. The women were afraid. While imprisoned at Western, Evans became terrified of rodents and was particularly scared that she might contract hantavirus or some other dangerous disease transmitted by them. She did everything she could to avoid eating food served from the prison’s kitchen because she knew it was contaminated. Evans frequently got sick in the prison, including severe stomach aches and diarrhea, which occurred shortly after she was forced to eat food served by the kitchen. Many prisoners say they got sick from
In September 2019, when Evans was taken out of a 90-day stint in segregation, she was “extremely skinny because I had tried to avoid eating the contaminated food served to me from the [Western] kitchen,” according to a sworn declaration. Another woman incarcerated at Western from 2017 to 2019 signed a sworn declaration saying that Arthur Sanchez, the prison’s fire safety sanitation officer, and Berleen Estevan, the Summit employee in charge of food service at the prison, failed to ensure that safe food practices were followed in the kitchen and “blamed each other for the... unsanitary conditions in the...kitchen and cafeteria.” Neither of them took responsibility for addressing the danger posed by the infestation, the woman wrote in her declaration. “It is definitely possible that I got sick at [Western] because I was forced to eat food contaminated by rodents,” the woman wrote. At times, guards would laugh when prisoners filed grievances about the infestation. Evans says when prisoners would bring up the rodents to prison staff, they would reply: “Don’t come to prison.” “They were like, ‘Who cares. I get to go home where it’s rat-free,’” she tells SFR. “‘So if you guys don’t like it, don’t come to prison.’”
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of our inmate population very seriously,” Harrison writes.
ABOVE: This satellite image shows just how remote the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility is—it sits in Cibola County, one of the state’s leading spots for hantavirus during the past four-plus decades. BELOW: A view of the guard tower at the women’s prison in Grants, where prisoners allege a huge rodent infestation has lingered for years.
the kitchen’s food, including Susie Zapata and Monica García, the two named plaintiffs in the Prison & Jail Project’s lawsuit. Whenever possible, Evans says she tried to rely on commissary food. But a $2.50 can of Spam and a $1.12 pack of tortillas become prohibitively expensive for a prisoner making as little as 10 cents an hour pulling weeds around the perimeter of the prison, she says. Other jobs might pay 20 cents or 50 cents an hour. Evans worked in the kitchen from
June 2018 through November 2018, at the same time as Zapata and García. She found rodents or their feces in the cookware almost daily and frequently found rodents or their feces in the food. She also saw them running around the areas where workers prepared food. “After your hygiene, coffee, creamer and sugar, you might get a burrito that month, you might not,” she says. “If you don’t have outside help, you’re eating in the chow hall.”
On Jan. 23, 2019, a New Mexico Environment Department Food Program inspector, Ramon Orona, found rodent droppings in the kitchen and in two dry storage rooms. He told prison staff to seal holes in the wall and ceiling of the maintenance room and provided glue traps to catch the mice. The traps were largely ineffective, according to one current prisoner, who conveyed her experience to SFR on the condition of anonymity citing fear of retaliation. But they presented a gruesome phenomenon: “gangster mice.” The mice were so named, according to the woman, on account of their toughness. They would get stuck in the traps, then drag the death machines to a nearby door jam and pry themselves loose, skittering away and leaving nothing behind but blood, fur and a failed trap. In any case, Sanchez signed the January 2019 inspection report, which also cited the prison for failing to prevent contamination during food preparation and storage. It marked the only documented presence of rodents among eight inspection CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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directly with inspectors about the enormity of the infestation. “According to Mr. Orona, if the rodent infestation at [Western] occurred at a commercial food establishment serving the general public, that establishment would immediately be shut down until the infestation was eliminated,” the suit states. Lucero-Ortega’s attorneys have denied any wrongdoing on her part. In a court filing on July 27, they argue that she is protected by qualified immunity—a judicially created legal doctrine that shields state actors from liability for violating people’s constitutional rights—and that the prisoners were never harmed as a result of her actions, among many other defenses.
Attorneys for Summit admit that Estevan saw rodents at Western, but they deny that there is an “infestation.” They argue in an April 30 response to the lawsuit that the state and their staff regularly inspected the kitchen and cafeteria. Summit “admits that Defendant Estevan and its other staff would require inmates to clean the kitchen on a regular basis, but states that these cleaning procedures in no way were modified or intensified in advance of an upcoming inspection,” they wrote. The attorneys concede that “certain bags of Frito chips were at times found to have been gnawed on by rodents but [deny] the characterization of these oc-
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reports covering 2016 to June 2021 provided to SFR by the environment department in response to SFR’s request under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. Attorneys for the prisoners and Orona allege that corrections and Summit officials covered up evidence of the infestation. Sanchez and Estevan were allegedly always told multiple days in advance when an inspection was about to occur at Western. The suit alleges that the kitchen “was never cleaned adequately except when an inspector was expected” and that former warden James Yates, one of his predecessors, Roberta Lucero-Ortega and Sanchez would not allow inspectors inside Western without providing advance notice. After getting the heads-up, Estevan required Zapata, Garcia and other prisoners to scrub the entire kitchen—a twoday job. Estevan recruited additional prisoner volunteers to help clean the kitchen before an inspection and offered them sack lunches in return, which prisoners say were mostly prepackaged and less likely to be contaminated by rodents. It was an attractive offer. Orona works out of an office in Milan, a 15-minute drive from the prison. He has been responsible for conducting inspections at the prison since at least 2016, according to the inspection reports. When the Food Program inspects commercial food establishments open to the public, they typically arrive unannounced, show the owner their badges and immediately start the inspection. That’s not how it worked at Western. Once he got there, Orona was at the mercy of Yates, Lucero-Ortega, Sanchez and others about where he could go in the prison. That made it possible for prison leadership to partially hide the scale of the infestation. Sanchez and Estevan allegedly never allowed prisoners to speak
Monica Star García, left, and Susie Zapata worked in the kitchen at the state women’s prison in Grants, where they say they were required to clean up rodent droppings. They are suing the corrections department and its food service vendor for alleged constitutional violations.
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currences as ‘often.’” The prisoners allege that Estevan and other Summit staff refused to eat the contaminated food and instead brought food from outside the prison for their own meals. Sanchez’s attorneys have denied any wrongdoing on his part. In a response to the complaint filed on May 20, they argue he was not responsible for pest control and he is protected by qualified immunity. Sanchez “admits that he was aware of rodent problems at the facility but denies that he was ‘in charge of sanitation and safety’ for the entire facility,” his lawyers wrote. A woman incarcerated at Western from 2017 to 2019 signed a sworn declaration saying that she never saw Sanchez take any significant steps to address the infestation. She also corroborated the other prisoners’ accounts that the kitchen was only thoroughly cleaned ahead of inspections. “Because of the rodent infestation, it felt like torture to me to work in the kitchen at the women’s prison,” she said. “Because of their complete indifference to the rodent infestation and their willingness to serve food contaminated by rodents, I believe that Defendants didn’t care whether inmates at the women’s prison lived or died.” Plastic containers in the commissary were, at one point, about all the staff seemed willing to provide prisoners to keep food and other essential items from becoming contaminated, according to several women. And cats appeared to replace a broader strategy for ridding Western of rats and mice, according to one current prisoner. At first, a handful of feral cats patrolled the corridors, seemingly on the hunt. They’re gone now, according to the woman, replaced by Ruffles, or, as others call the housecat, Prison Cat. According to the woman, prisoners are discouraged from feeding Ruffles, who has
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A guard strolls along outside one of the housing units at New Mexico’s women’s prison, where prisoners are encouraged to grow mint (pictured in the foreground) as a deterrent against rodents.
In December 2019, Nicole Ramirez took a job with Centurion Health and started working at Western as a clinical social worker. Prisoners started telling her that they were finding rodent feces in their food. The following April, prisoners and other staff told Ramirez that rice with rodent feces in it had been served to pris oners. She felt a “professional obligation to file a complaint about the infestation,” according to the Prison & Jail Project lawsuit. “Statements from staff members when inmates brought this situation up were comments like ‘sounds like extra protein’ or ‘file a grievance,’” she recounted on April 14, 2020 in a written complaint filed with the corrections department’s Office of Professional Standards. “I just do not see how staff members have allowed ro dents to be in the kitchen where the food [is] stored and prepared for several hun dreds of people.” That day, former deputy warden Vincent Vigil called Ramirez into a meet ing with another Centurion employee, and eventually got her supervisor, Laura Sedillo, on the phone. Sedillo wrote Ramirez up and ordered an improvement plan because she filed the complaint, ac cording to the lawsuit.
According to the suit, it was the only discipline Ramirez ever received at Western. She started fearing for her safety after her access card allegedly stopped working. She resigned from Centurion on May 11, 2020. Two days later, when she tried to arrange to get her belongings, Sedillo wrote to her in an email that “the Administration at [Western] has made the decision to pull your securi ty clearance to enter the facility due to
untruthful statements in an [Office of Professional Standards] investigation.” The Prison & Jail Project sued Correc tions for allegedly retaliating against Ramirez. The group alleges her bosses sought to make her job intolerable and that she was forced to resign. Lawyers for the corrections depart ment argue that Ramirez is not protected by state whistleblower law because she is an independent contractor. They deny any retaliation and argue that any action
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become a friend and source of comfort to some—presumably so that the feline remains willing to catch and kill rodents. Prisoners have taken steps them selves, too. They built barriers at the bottoms of their cell doors to prevent rodents from entering, according to two wom en. Whatever they could find would have to do: tape, books, other personal belongings.
Prisoners prepare lunch in the kitchen at the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility, where several women allege rodents have contaminated the food during the past several years.
taken was “due to her misconduct, poor job performance, a reduction in workforce or other legitimate business purpose.” That’s contradicted by one of her former colleagues at Western, Deborah Rhynes, who spoke with Ramirez many times about the infestation and consult ed with her while Ramirez drafted her complaint. In a sworn declaration signed March 18, Rhynes said that Ramirez “had more experience and a higher degree of pro fessional integrity than most other staff employed by Centurion Health” at Western. Rhynes learned that prisoners had overheard conversations between guards and she became convinced that Vigil, the former deputy warden, was trying to find an excuse to fire Ramirez because of her complaint. “The rodent infestation at [Western] is completely unacceptable because it violates the basic human needs of in mates at the women’s prison to live, eat and sleep in humane conditions,” Rhynes said. “Defendants need to take steps to bring the rodent infestation...to an end.” In November 2020, the Prison & Jail Project asked the corrections de partment for public records related to rodents at the prison, including any complaints filed about the infestation. The department’s attorneys on June 10 admitted that Ramirez’s complaint was not included in its response to the request. They argued in a separate case that’s still pending that the department did not wrongfully deny the group’s re cords request. Evans, the former prisoner, says she built bonds with the women still inside. She worries about their health, and would like some reassurance that con ditions in the prison are more sanitary than when she was there. While they’re incarcerated, she says, women endure poor treatment from guards and difficult living arrange ments. According to court records, one of the pods at Western contains dou ble cells without toilets, sinks or water, and prisoners reported multipleday lockdowns and frequent overnight lock downs requiring them to defecate and urinate in their cells because they can’t use the restroom, creating a risk of con tact with other diseases. Another pod at the prison frequent ly does not have heat, sometimes over night when the temperatures drop into the teens. “We got sent to prison as our punish ment,” she says. “We should not have to get punished on top of that.”
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Meanwhile LANL’s produc�on capacity is too small to support more than a frac�on wenty-two miles from the Santa Fe Plaza, the Na�onal Nuclear Security of today’s arsenal, even if LANL could produce pits reliably for a long �me without Administra�on (NNSA) has a crash program to build a plutonium processing building a new factory, which nobody seriously believes is possible. center and nuclear weapons factory at Los Alamos Na�onal Laboratory (LANL). The U.S. has not had Its purpose is to make plutonium warhead cores (“pits”) for a new a func�oning pit factory kind of warhead for a new $10 billion intercon�nental ballis�c missile since 1989. There is (ICBM). To create the new factory LANL is remodeling its 1970s ◾ Los Alamos Na�onal Laboratory (LANL) is building a tremendous poli�cal vintage plutonium facility factory for plutonium nuclear weapons cores (‘”pits”). pressure to build an while also construc�ng new adequate, reliable infrastructure on a large scale. ◾ It is the costliest project in the history of New Mexico. factory, beyond LANL’s Why a crash program? ◾ New pits aren’t needed for any U.S. nuclear weapon. jerry-rigged, temporary one. To this end NNSA Why at LANL? ◾ LANL’s old facili�es don’t meet federal safety standards. is remodeling a The answer lies in the obscene par�ally-built ◾ A new, safer pit factory is being built in South Carolina. profits available from the new plutonium facility in ◾ The LANL factory would have huge regional impacts. South Carolina (SC), nuclear arms race, a perceived need to grow the U.S. nuclear which is large enough to make as many pits as needed without calling upon LANL for weapons complex to offset declining U.S. global anything more than research, development, and training. power, and the constant efforts by New Mexico The brand-new, safer SC facility will be opera�ng by 2035 at the latest. This is plenty poli�cians to increase nuclear pork-barrel soon enough to make pits – or to not make pits, the wiser choice. The SC facility is spending in the state – while neglec�ng the also ten �mes as far state’s real priori�es. from surrounding Since 1989 LANL has failed four �mes in its a�empts to build a pit factory. In 2019, communi�es as LANL’s. the Ins�tute for Defense Analyses warned NNSA that crash efforts are likely to fail. Unlike LANL, the SC Even if LANL succeeds, without accidents, the program provides no addi�onal facility is not located “nuclear deterrent” value. adjacent to powerful earthquake faults and LANL pit production has nothing to do with maintaining sacred Indian lands. existing U.S. weapons As NNSA has tes�fied, finishing the SC facility Every U.S. nuclear warhead and bomb contains a pit. These slowly age. If for some is faster and cheaper than trying to build a proper new plutonium facility at LANL, reason the U.S. is s�ll building nuclear warheads in the late 2030s and 2040s – assuming a loca�on for such a facility could be found – which is doub�ul. which we can be sure will be an era of deepening climate collapse, global famine, Thus, from any but the most ideological and par�san perspec�ves, LANL’s program and other severe crises threatening the very existence of the U.S. – they might need is wasteful, dangerous, and destruc�ve. new pits. At the earliest. The LANL pit factory and related expansion is the Un�l then, at least 15-25 years from now (or even longer if the U.S. stockpile shrinks), no new pits are needed. Right now, the U.S. has a gigan�c arsenal of 2,000 costliest project in New Mexico history deployed warheads with 1,800 in reserve and 1,750 re�red warheads, plus about Construc�on and startup costs for the factory lie in the $11 billion range, far above 5,600 aging but useable spare pits, depending on type. ini�al es�mates. Opera�ng costs will run about $1 billion each year. LANL pits will cost an absurd $50 million each − minimum. Preparing this factory is the most expensive construc�on project in the history of New Mexico, rivalling construc�on of all the state’s interstate highways put together. This gigan�c undertaking already employs more than 2,000 people full-�me, plus hundreds of subcontract workers. When and if it starts, pit produc�on would be a 24/7 endeavor, because the LANL facili�es are so crowded. LANL wants to hire another 2,000 pit produc�on workers for round-the-clock work. Many safety issues remain unresolved. Shipping the large quan��es of nuclear waste produced during produc�on will take precedence over the removal of LANL’s extensive Cold War wastes. As a result, cleanup may never happen.
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LANL facilities: old, unsafe, unreliable
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More nuclear weapons jobs will not bene�it the region Even a�er decades of rising lab budgets coupled with falling economic and social performance rela�ve to other states, many people in New Mexico s�ll “look to the
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espite climate collapse, crying social and economic needs labs” for economic salva�on. Besides perrmanent pollu�on and more than 1,600 federally-documented occupa�onal deaths, what does the region have to show for all the money and talent poured into LANL? Labor markets are distorted as LANL absorbs local talent. Housing markets are likewise bid up. And scarce resources such as water and road capacity are consumed. Taxpayers in LANL bedroom communi�es pay the cost of public services for LANL commuters, o�en with net nega�ve impacts. Over its history LANL has spent $130 billion in Northern New Mexico, a vast sum anywhere but especially here. Yet LANL has generated neither shared prosperity nor social development. A few have benefited economically, but most have not. As a result, LANL drives regional inequality, with Each LANL bomb core devasta�ng social, economic, and poli�cal impacts. Perhaps worst of all, poli�cal leaders come to focus would cost $50 million, and depend on LANL and its wealthy employees – or enough for 1,000 else fear its power, exerted indirectly through poli�cal teachers – or thousands par�es and organiza�ons. imagina�ons are s�fled as of solar installa�ons. narra�ve dominance becomes complete. Poli�cal leaders become unable to “think outside the labs,” an outcome carefully engineered at taxpayer expense by LANL. Green, social goals – the an�thesis of LANL’s core missions – are derailed and deferred. LANL suborns the a�en�on and loyalty of our poli�cal and civic leadership and provides false, self-serving answers to the economic, environmental and social problems we face. Instead of coming together to truly grapple with these problems, our leaders talk about LANL “jobs,” a narra�ve that centers our a�en�on on LANL – not where it belongs, in our communi�es.
Our state & country desperately need wholesome priorities, not an arms race How can we build strong, resilient communi�es with priori�es such these? How can we address the existen�al crisis of climate change? How can we provide a good educa�on for all our children, and support for our elderly? How can we provide real voca�ons, with real meaning, for the rising genera�on? More war, and more prepara�ons for nuclear war, are the opposite of any answer.
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The scale of these wrong-headed investments corrupts our poli�cians, drains our treasury, and degrades our morality, dragging down our city, our state, our country, and our world, without even considering the rising risk of nuclear war. How can we provide real voca�ons, with real meaning, for the rising genera�on? More war, and more prepara�ons for nuclear war, are the opposite of any answer. The scale of these wrong-headed investments corrupts our poli�cians, drains our treasury, and degrades our morality, dragging down our city, our state, our country, and quite possibly our world, without even considering the rising risk of nuclear war. NNSA needs silence and acquiescence from Santa Fe in order to con�nue this reckless folly. The last thing LANL and NNSA want is to have to jus�fy their plans in public. Meanwhile LANL hopes to subordinate our educa�onal ins�tu�ons to their needs, so our children can enter their “pipeline” of plutonium workers to be cannon fodder for dreams of world domina�on.
What can be done, and how you can help LANL’s semi-secret plans are unclear even to LANL. And they are expanding. Two additional billion-dollar nuclear facili�es are now planned. Once produc�on is underway, a large new plutonium facility will also be needed. According to LANL, 2,000 to 3,000 workers must soon be brought to the site daily in buses because LANL has outgrown local road capaci�es. Meanwhile LANL is nego�a�ng with the Pueblos to build trailer parks for its an�cipated army of construc�on workers. Our Senators, Congresswoman Fernandez, and our Governor all support LANL’s new mission without reserva�on, without even knowing what it entails. So far, these poli�cians oppose transparency and environmental analyses. We have asked many �mes. Don’t bother asking − it only encourages their disdain. Given the widespread lack of knowledge we are organizing a public informa�onal and planning mee�ng, to which our congressional delega�on, Governor, and local leaders will be invited. Further ac�on will be necessary, ideally coupled with a rising �de of impa�ence rela�ve to our climate and social emergencies. We need a sustainable, just society that is working to address climate collapse and other crises straight on, not the moral and fiscal black hole of a new Cold War. PLEASE COME IF YOU CAN, AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS.
Information & Planning Meeting
• Thursday, September 30th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm • Gathering Room, St. John’s United Methodist Church, Santa Fe, 1200 Old Pecos Trail • This is a large hall with superior ven�la�on. Wear a mask.
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▯I will be there on September 30th. ▯ I will recruit my friends and contacts to come. ▯I endorse the “Call for Sanity, Not Nuclear Production” (https://lasg.org/wordpress/we-call-for-sanity-no-nuclear-production/) I prefer ▯in person events, ▯on-line events, or ▯neither. I might be able to help with ▯outreach prior to events, ▯other. I would like ▯national email updates (~1x/2 weeks), ▯New Mexico updates & invitations (~1x/week), or ▯neither. I can help financially with ▯a one-time gift, ▯a monthly donation (https://lasg.org/contribute.htm), ▯in other ways.
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The City is hosting a series of authentic, fun, creative, interactive, virtual and drop in events to ensure we reach as many people in as many ways and times to give everyone a chance to participate in planning the most consequential development of a generation in the future life of Santa Fe. Learn how by visiting at MidtownDistrictSantaFe.com/All-Events
Midtown Moving Forward Para Todos
La ciudad está organizando una serie de eventos virtuales y presenciales genuinos, divertidos, creativos e interactivos para poder acercarnos al mayor número de personas posible, de muchas maneras diferentes y en distintos momentos del día. Esto con el fin de darles a todos la oportunidad de participar en la planificación del desarrollo más importante de esta generación para el futuro de Santa Fe. Entérate cómo visitando MidtownDistrictSantaFe.com/All-Events Lend your voice to help the City answer these questions to create land use and development plans:
• How will the Midtown Site be connected to adjacent neighborhoods and commercial areas to create a new city center?
• What kinds of public open spaces can and should be in Midtown? • How will existing buildings be incorporated and reused? • Where and what kinds of new housing can be accommodated? • What type of commercial development is possible to generate new jobs and career paths?
• What green building and environmentally responsible site planning strategies can be implemented at the Midtown Site?
• How can the land be reused to create a place that is truly Santa Fe in recognition of its culture, people and history?
• What investments can the City make at Midtown to best benefit your community?
• What could happen at Midtown that would make your life better?
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• ¿Cómo se conectará el complejo de Midtown con los vecindarios y las zonas comerciales de los alrededores para crear un nuevo centro de la ciudad?
• ¿Qué tipo de espacios públicos abiertos pueden y deben existir en Midtown? • ¿Cómo se incorporarán y reutilizarán los edificios existentes? • ¿Dónde y qué tipo de nuevas viviendas podrán ser incluidas? • ¿Qué tipo de desarrollo comercial es posible para generar nuevos empleos y carreras profesionales?
• ¿Qué estrategias de construcción ecológica y de planificación del sitio que
sean conscientes del medio ambiente pueden ser implementadas en Midtown?
• ¿Cómo se puede reutilizar el terreno para crear un lugar que sea
verdaderamente Santa Fe en reconocimiento de su cultura, su gente y su historia?
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FLINGIN’ TO THE MAX Those waning days of summer stand before us like a quickly dissipating mist, and before you know it, you’ll basically have to strap skis or a board to your feet to get the most of the great outdoors. Before then, might we recommend taking on a little disc golf? This week, find a free game with a free lesson and free loaner discs, plus a nine hole popup course at Ashbaugh Park—all of which is suitable for any burgeoning discers free of charge. It’s fun, it’s outside, it’s safe. Just email robinmcis@yahoo.com to start on your journey and make the most of whatever time we have left. (ADV) Santa Free Disc Golf: 5:30 pm Thursday, Sept. 23 Free. Ashbaugh Park, 1731 Cerrillos Road
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EVENT SAT/25 HOT, HOT FIRE If the impending fall sounds glorious to you, but more in that sweaters-cocoa-and-a-fire kind of way, the fine, fun circus weirdos of Wise Fool New Mexico are out to celebrate such autumnal realities alongside a healthy dose of storytelling and community. At the upcoming Fall Cabaret: Fireside Tales, a cadre of performers tell tales by the fire in attempts to solidify closeness and communal bonds while also making us laugh, cry, ponder and all points between. As one of Santa Fe’s most effective performance ensembles, activist cells and safe spaces for queer folks and PoC, Wise Fool provides invaluable services—and you can attend virtually, too. (ADV) Fall Cabaret: Fireside Tales: 2 pm and 6 pm Saturday, Sept. 25. $5-$20. Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road B. wisefoolnewmexico.org
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MUSIC TUE/28 WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN’ It’s always cool to see more hip-hop coming to Santa Fe, particularly in the case of 070 Shake. Ummm, she’s on Def Jam, y’all, but before you assume you know what it is, maybe look it up and take a listen? You’ll find elements of R&B, pop, electro-pop and even doo-woppy melodies within Danielle Balbuena’s jamz. Might we recommend straight up emotional banger “Guilty Conscience” from last year or “I Laugh When I’m With Friends But Sad When I’m Alone?” from 2018? 070 Shake has lots to discover, but through those two songs you’ll find both vocal excellence and a straight-up fire flow and an intense vulnerability doled out through storytelling. You’ll bop your head, you’ll feel the feels, you’ll remember why hip-hop might be the most vital music of our time. You must be vaxx’d to attend. (ADV) 070 Shake: 7 pm Tuesday, Sept. 28 $21.50-$128.50. Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
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Somewhere Out There Plein air painter Michelle Chrisman isn’t wasting any time “My first passion was the way turpentine and oil paint smelled,” says Taosbased painter Michelle Chrisman. Growing up with a sculptor father in Santa Fe, visits to his art friends’ studio spaces were commonplace for her, and before Chrisman even realized painting was a viable career path, she was already obsessed. Eventually, she’d travel to New York City for art school at FIT and the School of Visual Arts, but her stint working roughly nine years as an art director for Macy’s made things even more magical. By the time she was nearing her 30s, she says, “I realized I’d always felt this calling and always knew someday I’d paint.” Chrisman came home and opened a graphic design business, but, she says, it still wasn’t her passion. By the time she hit her early 40s, however, a plein air workshop in Taos sealed the deal—she finally phased to painting full time, kicking off a burgeoning figurative and plein air landscape practice and showing in galleries like the sadly defunct Joe Wade in Santa Fe and Wilder Nightingale in Taos. This week, Chrisman shows off her new stuff during a solo show at The
Signature Gallery, where she has been represented for years. A stunning array of landscapes, Colors of Autumn both shows off Chrisman’s dedication to bold and unexpected color study, but also in what she calls “skating on the edge of disaster.” “I have a belief system, and it’s in the aspect of putting a time frame on how much time you’re going to spend on a painting,” she explains. “I use speed to my benefit. I like that in painting. I don’t want my paintings to be overly-wrought, overly thought-out. I finish them on location. If I take them back to my studio, I’ll drain it of my visceral reaction.” Chrisman works most often with a palate knife, creating thick compositions that remind the viewer that there’s technique to painting rather than simple representation. “I’m more interested in that feeling of place,” Chrisman concludes. (Alex De Vore) MICHELLE CHRISMAN: COLORS OF AUTUM 5-7 pm Friday, Sept. 24. Free The Signature Gallery, 102 E Water St. (505) 983-1050
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ONGOING ART 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, following the construction, prominence and destruction of the World Trade Center. All day, free A PLACE LIKE NO OTHER: PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE NEW MEXICO BADLANDS Edition One Gallery 728 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385 Examination of the Bisti Badlands, a part of the Navajo Nation in the northwest portion of the state where unique and strange formations cover the landscape. 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 CHRIS MAYNARD: NEW WORKS Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Intricate designs using feathers and shadowboxes. All day, free
“This Fire in the Flood” by Dexter Wayne from his new show Elementalism, opening Sept. 24 at Daniel Tucker Gallery.
THE BOUNDING CIRCLE Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Rhythm-oriented paintings from Max Cole, placing the viewers within their own perspectives on the world. All day, free OUR LIVES NOW El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Described as a photographic journal of life during the pandemic, this is a showcase of rural and small-town life from all corners of the state. All day, free
RUNNIN’ RUNNIN’ Vital Spaces Midtown Annex Southwest Annex 1600 St. Michael’s Drive Mexico’s and the USA’s mutual impact on violence in the ongoing drug war. To view, email hgomez@artic.edu. Open by appointment, free SACRED CREATURES | DOWNFALL GODS Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Paintings by Fran De Anda and Milka Lolo, inspired by ancient mythology and Central American folktales. All day, free
SHE Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 Photography contrasting girls coming of age in America and in the Middle East as they enter adulthood. All day, free SHOELUCCINATIONS: THE SECRET LIFE OF SHOES Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Untraditional show where shoes are turned into various art pieces. From artist Barbara Burzillo. All day, free
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STRATA: A PROLOGUE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C/1D (505) 780-5403 Multiple mediums from over a dozen artists. All day, free THE SPACE BETWEEN MEMORY AND EXPECTATION Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 Aller's photographs speak to how interconnected environments help us define our world and our place in it. All day, free
WED/22 BOOKS/LECTURES CAN FOGGY BOTTOM BE REVITALIZED: A CONVERSATION WITH AMBASSADOR RONALD E. NEUMANN Online sfcir.org From the Santa Fe Council on International Relations— Neumann identifies and suggests how to reform pervasive problems that handicap the Foreign Service. 6 pm, $10
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ENGAGING THE FUTURE: CONVERSATIONS WITH VALERIE JADE CALABAZA Online bit.ly/3zhcg3T Calabaza (Santo Domingo Pueblo) learned traditional inlay on spiny oyster shells from her grandparents. Much of her work is inspired by the thunderbird necklaces made during the Great Depression at Santo Domingo Pueblo. Tune in to check out her artistic process and thoughts. 10 am, free HISTORY AND CULTURE TALKS 35˚ North Coffee 60 E San Francisco St. (505) 983-6138 Join historian Christian Saiia for history and humor, coffee and conversation. Fun and informative talks about the region we call home. Noon-2 pm, free FAIR DISTRICTS NEW MEXICO PUBLIC MEETING Online fairdistrictsnm.org The Citizen Redistricting Committee has released a few proposals for new state congressional maps—and yeah, some of you probably have thoughts. Join to give your opinions in a peaceful manner, please. 10 am, free
RIVER TALK: WHY RAIN GARDENS? Cathedral Park 131 Cathedral Place (505) 955-2143 Why indeed? Well, find out why in this tour of the newly constructed Brother’s Lane Rain Garden with discussion on the importance of these gardens. Email zrisaacson@santafenm.gov to reserve a spot. 5:30-7 pm, free
DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: FALL SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Wine, tapas and flamenco that’s fine as fine can be. 6:30 pm, $25-$40
EVENTS GOVERNOR'S MANSION TOUR New Mexico Governor's Mansion One Mansion Drive (505) 476-2800 Docent led tour of the Governor's Mansion, where a bunch of cool old stuff resides with a few new things added in. Maybe that includes the residents. Tours by appointment. Noon-2 pm, free
HOTLINE BINGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Bingo like you've never bingoed it before—pay per round. Be moderately competitive and maybe come in costume. Tip your bartenders too. 7 pm, $2-$10
FOOD GREEN TRACTOR FARM TOUR Green Tractor Farm 47 Paseo C’de Baca, La Cienega greentractorfarm.com Meet a multi-generational farming family, learn about the farm and its history and hear about the current growing season and its challenges. Then take a tour of the fields and greenhouses and maybe buy some produce. 1-3 pm, free
MUSIC ELIZABETH AND A PIANO The Hollar 2849 Hwy 14 (505) 471-2841 Blues, R&B, outlaw country, Americana and folk—all on the piano. 5 pm, free
THU/23 BOOKS/LECTURES MARGARET RANDALL: AUTHOR TALK Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 Poet and author Randall joins Collected Works to discuss and read from her two new books: Out of Violence Into Poetry and Thinking About Thinking. 6 pm, free THE LANGUAGE OF LIBERTY: A CITIZEN’S VOCABULARY Online. santafelibrary.org Language of Liberty is for anyone who wants to understand our political system: An owner’s manual for the American government. With author with Edwin Hagenstein. 4 pm, free
DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: FALL SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Where Spanish dance shines. 6:30 pm, $25-$40
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LA EMI: FALL FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Performances from New Mexico’s shining flamenco star, as if the Mediterranean just rolled right up to us. Consider this practice for that eventual Europe trip. Special dancing guests included. 8 pm, $20-$50
EVENTS APPLE PICKING Los Luceros Historic Property West of Hwy. 68, Alcalde (505) 476-1165 Aww yes. That's right, the autumnal winds are upon us, and what could be more delightful than a day on a bucolic orchard? Apple picking is an essential part of fall activities, according to Instagram. All day, free SANTA FREE DISC GOLF Ashbaugh Park 1703 Cerrillos Road Nine hole pop-up course with free lessons and loaner discs. All ages, genders and experience levels. Email robinmcis@yahoo.com for the sweet deets (see SFR picks, page 17). 5:30 pm, free
MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., (505) 982-9966 The leaves are turning, but Al Rogers at the piano is an unturning joyous consistency. 6:30 pm, free SON LITTLE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 The New York Times describes Son Little as “bluesy distorted guitar chords, a hint of Latin rhythm and perhaps a distant echo of the Zombies." In other words: hell yeah. 7:30 pm, $20
FRI/24 ART COLORS OF AUTUMN The Signature Gallery 102 E Water St. (505) 983-1050 See Michelle Chrisman's latest fall-themed paintings. We hope it makes you feel, warm, cuddly and far away from the chaos of the world, like you just chugged some warm apple cider (see SFR picks, page 17). 5-7 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 23
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After working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in experimental physics for 30 years, Robert F. Benjamin turned to playwriting in his retirement under the guidance of what he describes as “a calling.” Well, thank God he listened, because Benjamin has produced six full-length plays and about 24 shorts, four of which have made their debut at Santa Fe’s own, Teatro Paraguas. His newest work, Hunker Up (7 pm Friday, Sept. 24 and Saturday, Sept. 25; 4 pm Sunday, Sept. 26. By suggested donation. Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601), is the sequel to a previous work dubbed Hunker Down that was produced in 2020. Set one year apart, the series follows characters Kevin and Bri, two seniors continuing a relationship that developed during the COVID-19 shutdowns in May 2020. Now in 2021, they grapple with adapting that relationship when things start opening up and family and friends start to visit. (Liane Pippin) Are you expecting to write a third? Maybe Hunker Down Again: Good God Make it Stop!? I thought about it, and it’s not on my drawing board right now. I won’t say no because I’ve said no to so many things along this path that I’ve had to say yes to subsequently. So, I’m really shy about saying no to ideas because I’ve had to eat my words so many times. I can’t say no, but it’s not something I’m actively pursuing now. The conversations that I’ve had with the characters in my imagination have all been around Hunker Up and trying to see if there’s some way that the characters can stay together. I’m rooting for the characters. They’ve been working real hard on me to make it an interesting play, so there is a lot of drama in the play. It’s not looking real good for them initially. They have to work each other pretty hard, which, as you well know, that’s what plays are about.
For anybody who hasn’t seen the first one, do you think they need to, to really understand what Hunker Up is about? Definitely not. I’ve thought carefully about that when I was composing Hunker Up. So, Hunker Up is a selfcontained play. It makes reference to Hunker Down events, but it does so in a way that if you haven’t seen Hunker Down, you still get the idea. You still understand what’s happening. It’s definitely a sequel but you don’t have to have seen Hunker Down to appreciate Hunker Up. Thematically they’re different, because Hunker Down had to do with seniors coping with the isolation and the loneliness that came with single seniors dealing with it back in Spring of 2020. Hunker Up has to deal more with how do we use our pandemic experience and our old normal before COVID? How do we combine those into some new lifestyle? You know, what does our new normal look like, based on a combination of the pandemic experience and what came before it? When you write for theater, that’s obviously an in-person experience. Were you aware that you were writing this for a different medium, Zoom specifically, and do you think virtual theater like this has a future? Do you plan on continuing these kinds of presentations? I was consciously aware when I was writing this play that I was writing for a new medium that was unfamiliar to me—and it was also unfamiliar to audiences and it was also unfamiliar to play directors and actors. it was just a new animal. A completely new thing. The thing that I worried about the most when I first started this project back in March/April of 2020 was, will an audience relate to the emotionality of characters by watching the characters make a Zoom call to each other? I was very skeptical. I watched a couple of Zoom shows, you know, on Zoom but the characters were not on Zoom. They were not interacting on Zoom, they were on the stage and I was watching it on Zoom. And I could not relate to what the characters were feeling. So, I was rather discouraged from that. But then I had the idea, well, if audiences are watching it on Zoom, maybe the characters need to be on Zoom too so they empathize more with each other. I started off Hunker Down as a stage play, but then I said ‘No, no I’m going to put them on Zoom instead and see how that plays.’ I still had the big question in my head, will audiences respond emotionally to characters who are on a Zoom call with each other? I was happy to see after it was produced a couple of times that the answer to that is yes. I was surprised and delighted.
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ELEMENTALISM Daniel Tucker Gallery 227 East Palace Avenue, Ste. P (2nd Floor) Described as “a blossoming of elemental forces—meticulous reflections of awe and respect for the dynamic power and beauty of nature’s animating energies.” Lots of “whoa“ energy going on here. 5-8 pm, free GOLDEN LIGHT, LONG SHADOWS AND ROADSIDE FLOWERS Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road (505) 916-1341 Daniel McCoy Jr. (Muscogee Creek/Citizen Band Potawatomi) paints and draws psychedelic and funny visions that reference pop culture and make use of vivid recurring characters. McCoy’s new exhibition places attention to the landscapes of Northern New Mexico and of Indigneous pre-colonial life. All day, free TAKE A CLOSER LOOK Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 In this new series of paintings, Jim Vogel explores the idea of "how we do not really look at things closely." He challenges the viewer in this series to embrace the idea of looking hard at the work before them—they may even find something hidden that was not immediately obvious upon the casual glance. 5-7 pm, free TOTEM TONDO Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800 Widely known for his maximalist paintings of wildlife, including birds, rabbits and butterflies, Hunt Slonem’s work draws heavily on the visual use of repetition and reiteration, aiming to create a unified mantra that builds a sense of prayer and spirituality. All day, free
DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: FALL SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Flamenco is made up for four elements: the cante (or voice), the baile (the dance), toque (the guitar) and the jaleo, which means something along the lines of “raising hell.“ Plus, there’s tapas. 6:30 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: FALL FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Also, did you know there’s some evidence that flamenco origins might actually be from the Indian subcontinent and not Spain? Neat. Watch this show. 8 pm, $20-$50
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COMMUNITY POETRY READING Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 Poets include Daisy Atterbury, Elizabeth Jacobson, Oz Leshem, James Thomas Stevens and Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, Santa Fe’s poet laureat, reading selections of their work. Vax proof or recent negative COVID-19 test required. 6 pm, free VAMANOS! SANTA FE WALKS Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St. Meet near the MEG Senior Center at Bicentennial Pool/ Alto Park for an easy stroll on the River Trail where you can meet your neighbors. Wear good shoes and bring water. 10-11 am, free
COMEDY IMPROV SHOW Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 Featuring Santa Fe Improv's two performance teams: The Faculty and Sibling Rivalry. First 2021 in-person performance! Masks required. 7 pm, $15 HUNKER UP Online teatroparaguas.org A romantic comedy sequel directed by Duchess Dale and written by Robert F. Benjamin, following up his previous play Hunker Down. Having bonded during the shutdown, Bari and Kevin now cope with emerging from the pandemic. As restrictions ease, Bari eagerly resumes in-person contact with family and friends but her COVID-beau, Kevin, feels abandoned. In this upbeat tale, will Bari’s “new normal” undermine their remarkable romance? 7 pm, free (but please donate)
MUSIC BLUE RHAPSODY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 There are no blues when this husband and wife duo take the musical helm. Pair them with a good wine. 6:30 pm, free MUSIC & PLAY Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St. (505) 982-9966 An all-ages, family-friendly event featuring live and recorded music, movement, improv games, yoga and sound healing. Music sets from DJs Maru and Michael Meade. 6:30 pm, $5-$20 RICKIE LEE JONES Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta ampconcerts.org The two-time Grammy winner, considered by some to be one of the greatest women in rock’n’roll, plays for the Fe. 7 pm, $69 TGIF CONCERT First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 Featuring David Solem on piano. The program includes, Toccata in F sharp minor, BWV 910 by J.S. Bach, Sonata No. Five, opus 38 (1923) by Sergei Prokofiev and Allegro Tranquillo Andantino Un Poco Alegretto. Attendees must wear masks, social distance and be fully vaccinated. Doors open at 5:15 pm. 5:30-6 pm, free BATTLE OF THE BANDS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Everyone’s favorite middle school activity comes to le ‘ol Wolf. Bands include Slums of Harvard, Dream Noise, The Ordinary Things and Saint Bruno. 9 pm-midnight, $18-$24
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BOOKS/LECTURES SOUTHWEST RISING: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE LEGACY OF ELAINE HORWITCH New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Discussion on the life and career of this iconic figure who launched a number of Southwestern artistic careers. 4:30 pm, free
49th Annual Harvest Festival Saturday, October 2 & Sunday, October 3, 10 am to 4 pm Featuring Traditional Spanish Market Artists Chile Ristra Making Apple Cider Pressing Grape Stomping Pumpkin Patch Tortilla Making Amazing Artist Demonstrations Tickets must be purchased in advance — no walk-up sales, please. Masks required indoors. Las Golondrinas Members are admitted free – join today! go to golondrinas.org for tickets and more information
DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: FALL SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 So, the dancers’ heels have specialized nails in the soles to enhance the clicking. It’s very neat. 6:30 pm, $25-$40
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LA EMI: FALL FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Flamenco has two different types of hand-clapping: One is palmas sordas and the other is palmas abiertas, which use different parts of the hand to produce different sounds. Check it out so you can learn fancy clappings. 8 pm, $20-$50 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Traditional Indigenous dances. 3:30-5 pm, free
EVENTS BIRD WALK Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road La Cienega (505) 471-9103 Spend a morning in the unique wetland habitat and learn about the diversity of birds from Rocky Tucker, volunteer bird guide. No registration needed. 8-10 am, $3 NORTHERN NEW MEXICO FINE ARTS & CRAFTS GUILD JURIED SHOW Cathedral Park 131 Cathedral Place artsandcraftsguild.org For all your gift buying needs, whether for yourself or those around you. Chat with the artists and enjoy an open-airfine-art-buying experience with wood inlay, pottery, painting, fiber arts and more. 10 am-5 pm, free RALLY FOR RECOVERY Online sfrecovery.org/rally Celebrate everyone in recovery, those who reduce the stigma surrounding recovery from the disease of addiction and other behavioral illnesses. Hear recovery stories, meet care workers and orgs, lean about peer support worker programs and discover how art therapy can aid in recovery. Presented by Santa Fe Recovery Center. Noon-1:30 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET The West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Abundant pottery selections, various jewelry choices, paintings in booth after booth, photographs, sculptures and more. North of the water tower. 8 am-2 pm, free
FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 It is officially fall, and we’re seeing new seasonal produce coming around. It isn’t deathly hot anymore (we assume at the time of writing this), so now you can loiter around even longer. 7 am-1 pm, free
MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 For those who took piano lessons when you were 12 and gave up because your parents stopped forcing you to go, you could've been like Al Rogers. Go listen to him play, have a glass of wine and imagine what your life could've been. 6:30 pm, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: WELCOME BACK! SEASON OPENING CONCERT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 An exciting selection of orchestral and chamber music, if that stuff excites you. Conductor Benjamin Hochman and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott take to the stage for a concert of favorites by Mozart and Beethoven. 7 pm, $25-$90 DJ MR. GRAY Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Classic vinyl will spin, a wave of the undogmatic collectively curated with love, energy and appreciation of the present. 6-9 pm, free (no cover) STOP MAKING SENSE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Tony O and The Greatest Band Ever return with an encore presentation of Talking Heads’ music. 8 pm, $15 WALKER & ROYCE DANCE MUSIC Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Now, one can dance to any music, but Walker & Royce were trained in NYC's dance music scene. Yes indeed— electronic dance music to make you feel urban in our little un-urban town. 8 pm-midnight, $22-$25 SPOOLIUS & DJ ERIN E Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196 House and techno, agricultural style. Family-friendly raving. 6 pm-10 pm, $15 LEAF & FREQUENCY Leaf & Hive 1208 Mercantile Road (505) 699-3055 Fermented alcoholic tea plus DJ’s, like BasketOFries, WessBeats, Quest and Cuzzn’ Charles. 21+. 8 pm-late, $10
THEATER JULESWORKS FOLLIES END OF MONTHLY SHOWCASE Online youtu.be/727vo4LApGQ Variety, so much variety! Performance, music, poetry and of course much more. See your talented community (see AC, page 27). 5 pm, free
HUNKER UP Online teatroparaguas.org Hey, maybe we can all handle COVID-19-inspired theater now. 7 pm, free (but, like, donate) WISE FOOL'S FALL CABARET: FIRESIDE TALES Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B. (505) 992-2588 In this delightful cabaret, each performer shares a part of their story—you might laugh, you might cry, but you will most certainly be in awe. It's by the fire with storytelling (see SFR picks, page 17). 6 pm, $5-$20
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EVENTS WOLF PACK TRAIL RUN Santa Fe Waldorf School 26 Puesta del Sol santafewaldorf.org/trailrun Support the Santa Fe Waldorf School’s Booster Club at their 7th Annual Wolf Pack Trail Run. Enter the race as a runner (or a walker) and enjoy a 5K or 3K. 8:30 am, $10-$30 YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. All levels vinyasa flow class. Your body will pop more than those weird Met Gala outfits (and also be more functional). 10 am, $10 FALL FEST Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196 You all getting sick of the many seasonal activities we’re getting overloaded by? Too bad. Facepainting. Mini pony rides, apple picking, cider presses, hayrides and more. That’s right—it’s decorative gourd season. 3 -6 pm, $20 COMMUNITY YARN SWAP Harvey Cornell Rose Park 1320 Galisteo Parkway If you’ve got yarn but also want yarn for your knitting projects, empty out those many unused boxes and get some new project inspiration. Meet other crocheters, spinners, felter and weavers. Maybe share a few yarns too. 3-6 pm, $20
“Canyon Walls Near Abiquiu” by Daniel McCoy from Golden Light, Long Shadows and Roadside Flowers at Hecho e Mano. Opens Sept. 24.
MUSIC CHAMELEONS Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196 Brunch at the farm featuring a jazz, latin and eclectic quartet. Kick-ass local band with Dan Burke on guitar, Rich Schraeder on bass, Westin McDowell on guitar and Marc Kolman on cajon. 10 am-noon, $10 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 It's like Ryan Gosling in La La Land, except we live in a small desert town and the piano playing is maybe a little less aggressive. Maybe. 6:30 pm, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: WELCOME BACK! SEASON OPENING CONCERT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Another round of delightful chamber music joy. 3 pm, $25-$90
THEATER WISE FOOL'S FALL CABARET: FIRESIDE TALES Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B. (505) 992-2588 Life is a cabaret old chum, come to the cabaret (see SFR picks, page 17). 2 pm, $0-$20 HUNKER UP Online teatroparaguas.org The world is made up of sequels these days, why not let our local theater scene in on the trend? 2 pm, free
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MAYORAL FORUM Online bit.ly/3CwLRAW Featuring incumbent mayor Alan Webber, City Councilor JoAnne Vigil Coppler and former CD-3 candidate Alexis Martinez Johnson. 7 pm, free
DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Start your week dancing jitterbug or East Coast swing. $8 for the class at 7 pm and the dance, $3 just for the dance at 8 pm, for those who’ve already got the swing in them. Masks required— bring CDC vax proof. 7 pm, $3-$8
FOOD COOKING CLASS: GREEN CHILE WORKSHOP Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-7726 Learn your chile skills so you can put it random foods and weird out the tourists. 2-4 pm, $84 SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Speaking of proper green chile, I wonder where you can get proper green chile? Oh if only there were a local farm-totable event where fresh foods and crafty goods were sold! 7 am-1 pm, free
MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Doug Montgomery's got the good vibes, waiting to unleash them in a legendary C-Major major scale. Or D-Major. Or E. Or any minor keys. Or any notes, really. 6:30 pm, free
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MUSIC 070 SHAKE AT MEOW WOLF Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 New Jersey's 070 Shake, with a jaw-dropping voice comes to Santa Fe to belt out unearthly tunes over thumping bass (see SFR picks, page 17). 7-11 pm, $21-$128 TESSA LARK Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place (505) 988-1234 Violinist Tessa Lark is consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds, and technical agility. 8 pm, $35
EVENTS SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET DEL SUR Presbyterian Health Park 4801 Beckner Road (505) 983-7726 Support your local farmers on any side of town you wish. Quality legumes will change your life (see News, page 10). 3-6 pm, free YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. Many of us had a yoga phase during lockdown. Don’t let it die. Come stretch in a place that isn’t your living room. Noon, $10
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Rapid Fire: With Stephen Jules Rubin Julesworks Follies founder answers questions as quickly as possible 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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e tossed as many questions as we could at local writer, performer and DJ Stephen Jules Rubin ahead of his upcoming virtual version of the Julesworks Follies Showcase, one of Santa Fe’s longest-running performances and an enjoyably weird and funky variety type show. Here’s what we learned: What’s your name and what do you do? Stephen Jules Rubin, and, well, I do a lot of things. I wait tables at Jambo Café and I’m a volunteer DJ and have been since [Madrid-based radio station] KMRD started six-ish years ago. What’s your art background? I have this thing called dysgraphia, which is very annoying. I grew up on the East Coast in one of the worst public school systems in the country and was banned from art classes for having dysgraphia. Santa Fe was the first place I lived where I wasn’t called weird for being who I am. I’m not a musician, but love music. And acting. I’ve always been a writer; a little bit of everything. I’m a dabbler. I may not be good at anything, but I don’t mind trying everything. What is dysgraphia? Basically, it’s an impediment or learning disorder, and the only people who really know about it are the few people who have it and educators. As it happens,
my mom is an educator. Short answer? Our perception is off. Our dimensionality is off. I can’t catch a ball. Everybody sees things differently, but I see things differently. I think I don’t see things in 3D like people do. Some people probably never know they have it. It’s an annoyance, but since most people haven’t heard of it, it sounds like you’re making excuses.
Looking at now, today, what is the Julesworks Follies and what’s the elevator pitch? The elevator pitch, better known as the bathroom pitch—it’s a live variety show. George RR Martin said we were trying to bring vaudeville back and he was correct. It is meant as a safe environment for performers. Anybody can be involved and perform for a live audience or a digital/ virtual audience. How long have you been doing the show? For a decade. Our 63rd live show was going to happen at the end of April 2020.
Where on the East Coast did you grow up? Baltimore, mostly, but partly Virginia. I have a lot of cousins in New York, and I lived there briefly. How did you end up in Santa Fe? My uncle has always lived here. I’d visit, always loved it, though I didn’t know I was going to move here. I was miserable in New York—came here one April knowing only that I was fleeing New York. Did you go to college for arts? My major was Latin American studies, my concentration creative writing. Where? University of Virginia. Did you graduate? Yeah. Have you been out of country? The first time I was out of the country was a high school exchange to France. And for my grandparents’ 50th anniversary—my grandpa didn’t go, because he had a fit of some kind, but the rest of us spent a month in the south of France.
Why did you want to go variety/ vaudeville? I’m someone who had been in plays early and I started getting a hankering to do something, but given life, getting older, I didn’t have a full script. At first there was more playlets and serious things. I would never call it a comedy show, but we had a running joke that we wanted to shut down every venue in town.
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Do you take on anyone who wants to try? Absolutely, whether it’s somebody who’s performed or never performed. How close to your ideal vision of the program have you come? I don’t have one, to be honest. But the way it has come together is far beyond my vision. Santa Fe seems to have more than its fair share of theater troupes, how does yours carve out its own identity? That’s a tough one, and we’re certainly lucky to have found a venue any time we’ve needed one. If your’e trying to make money out of theater, not only are you in the wrong society, you’re in the wrong town, so I think the thing is to just do it. If you want to do it, just do it. Living in Santa Fe a long time helps, because you know people. My advice? Start smaller. The dreaded pandemic question—did you get more creative during COVID-19? Less? Both? One thing I’ve said for a long time now is that there’s a ‘B’ word not in my lexicon, being boredom. When people were crying about being stuck at home during lockdowns, I was like ‘Why don’t you let me stay at home and be creative?’ The pandemic became a horrible thing pushing us to do something that we’re not going to stop doing, which is having an online presence. I had to learn a whole bunch of technical stuff, and I now have the best non-Apple products for editing radio and video. I took the time to learn to do it, and it wasn’t easy. I want to help people if I can. I’d love for it to build into more, but, knock on wood, having aired at least 10 live streams by now, I can livestream pretty competently. JULESWORKS FOLLIES END OF MONTHLY SHOWCASE: 5 pm Saturday, Sept. 25. Free. bit.ly/3Cwk9V3
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Cry Macho Review BEST MOVIE EVER
More like ‘Why, Macho?’
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Clint Eastwood returns to the director’s chair for the first time since 2019’s Richard Jewell with Cry Macho, a filmed-in-New Mexico sort of neo-Western in which Eastwood also stars and about which the best one can say is that it probably won’t be the worst thing to happen to someone this week. Eastwood is Mike Milo, a former ranch hand/cowboy/rodeo star who, we learn, broke his back in a bucking bronco accident some years earlier, took up with pills and booze and is now bumming out his boss Howard (Dwight Yoakam) real hard. No shit on the elderly here, but it’s almost funny that Eastwood’s Milo is fired from cowboy-ing for being chronically late rather than objectively ancient, but we go with it because Eastwood was once a badass. That suspension of disbelief becomes harder, of course, when Milo’s former boss hires him to head into Mexico to find said boss’s teenaged son Rafo, who is apparently being abused by his mother Leta (Fernanda Urrejola) in ways not worth defining to the audience. Milo reluctantly agrees and sets off on the odyssey with his cowboy hat shining and his willingness to sleep out in the open on full display. Once in Mexico, Milo meets and then runs afoul of the young boy (a painfully wooden Eduardo Minnett) with very little difficulty; the scene wherein his un-
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“It’s all glittery plastic!” says a rather meta character. In suburban Sheffield, England, 16-yearold Jamie wants nothing more than to be a drag queen. But Amazon Prime’s new musical adapted from the West End stage show doesn’t have much else going on. Don’t worry, though, because they did sprinkle in daddy and school bully issues for flavor. Jamie is also a terrible person. His desire is intriguing enough, but as the first number states, he believes he’s “going to be the one.” This vague, Disney Channel-esqe dream seems to give him authority to be cruel, often attacking people for being average (AKA not wanting to be famous). Like any fantasy film worth the time, any musical universe needs rules, hence the importance of what an opening number can and should establish. Merely singing isn’t enough—that’s how you can tell Jamie isn’t
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stable yet powerful mother demands sex from Eastwood just feels silly, though. Rafo and Milo flee to trek across Mexico with Leta’s never-explained henchman not far behind. Together, our heroes meet a colorful cast of crooked cops, restauranteurs with hearts of gold, friendly and not-so-friendly folks and, like, cockfighting promoters and stuff. Minnett struggles to find balance playing against Eastwood’s gravitas while Eastwood, it seems, landed on playing his cowboy as befuddled most of the time, though he does somehow get the better of gun-toting goons and the authorities again and again. And so it goes for what feels like too long (but isn’t; Cry Macho doesn’t even run two hours), and with only the semblance of backstory for basically every character, any attachments we might have formed don’t come. Is it on the nose for someone like Eastwood to play some old guy whose glory days seem long behind him? Maybe so, but it’s even more exhausting to watch overthe-top performances from basically every oth-
particularly interested in its musical medium. It really wants to linger in its high school and parental melodrama, only remembering at the last moment that singing is required. As such, the songs are an amalgam of weak vocal prowess and even weaker lyrics and melodies that seemingly establish already apparent mood and plot beats. There’s temptation to skip through most of the numbers, too, since characters tend to pretty much just sit and sing. Sometimes, bravely, they walk and sing, which leaves Jamie crying for high energy editing that doesn’t come. The editing room was either uninspired and/or vastly underpaid and perhaps wanted to move along to a better project. Yet beyond this, what infuriated me the most about Everyone’s Talking About Jamie is how it associates authenticity with fame—that the only reward for being true to yourself is adoration from others. In other words, to be a successful queer, you’ve got to be successfully noticed. Being authentic with yourself and with gender-bending norms is a wonderful thing—so why isn’t that enough here? (Riley Gardner) Amazon Prime, PG-13, 115 min
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er actor (though we’ll give a shoutout to Santa Fean Pablo Paz for the back of his head’s appearance as some cop). Maybe Eastwood’s subdued appearance spurred them to try harder? And why would you bring in someone like Yoakam, who has shown he has chops, to say three things and then disappear? The answer ultimately doesn’t matter, but it feels sad—and not in that we all age and it’s hard way, more in how Cry Macho’s little universe simply isn’t fleshed out enough. Because of that, it feels like half a movie that could have been something, and one that relies heavily on the star power of a once glorious cinema titan. Stream this one on HBO Max if you have it, but don’t hit the theater. It’s not worth it.
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The Voyeurs is a dark, brooding film—dark because the lighting is pretty bad, brooding for the sole purpose of...brooding. Pippa (Sydney Sweeney) and her boyfriend Thomas (Justice Smith) are over the moon about their awful loft apartment in downtown Montreal. As they settle in, the bright lights of the apartment opposite their unit capture their attention, and the couple discovers the sex life of their neighbors on display. These neighbors curiously never bother to close their curtains even though they bloody well have them. And so, of course, curiosity blooms into obsession for Pippa and Thomas and, like any good obsessed-with-myneighbor film, the obsession turns down a dark, disturbing path—again, dark because you have to strain your eyes to see. As an erotic thriller, The Voyeurs is rarely either erotic or thrilling. Director Michael Mohan cited similar features like Rear Window and Body Double as inspirations for his directorial debut (Mohan
CRY MACHO Directed by Eastwood With Eastwood, Minnett, Urrejola and Yoakam Violet Crown and HBO Max, PG-13, 104 min.
also penned the script), a pretty obvious statement if you’ve seen those movies. Mohan’s dedication to this tribute means The Voyeurs is not as bad as it could be, though that’s really more about Hitchcock and DePalma being masterful than it is about Mohan paying homage. Smith, bless him, does his best to be charismatic here, while Sweeney forces every line, giggle and breath as if to tell us “I went to acting school!” She’s woefully miscast and far too genteel in her vocals and expressions to make Pippa worth watching for two hours. Even so, an unexpected twist in the third act holds up well, at least until you spend a few minutes thinking about it. It’s a reminder Mohan’s film wavers between serious and campy without ever meaningfully claiming either territory. Instead, it promotes itself as super-serious when the screenplay pulls the shooting style in another direction. Mercifully, nothing here is a matter of being outright bad, but more of a collection of misguided directorial decisions. If there’s one silver lining to The Voyeurs, it’s that it’ll inspire you to turn those other movies on instead, Jimmy Stewart and all. (Riley Gardner) Amazon Prime, R, 116 min
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Week of September 22nd
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Steve Maraboli says, “The best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” If that strategy appeals to you, the next eight weeks will be an excellent time to put it to maximum use. You’re entering a phase when you can have an especially beneficial effect on people you care for. You’ll be at peak power to help them unleash dormant potentials and access untapped resources.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Happy Birthday sometime soon, Libra! As gifts, I have collected six useful minioracles for you to meditate on during the rest of 2021. They’re all authored by Libran aphorist Yahia Lababidi. 1. Hope is more patient than despair and so outlasts it. 2. Miracles are proud creatures; they will not reveal themselves to those who do not believe. 3. A good listener is one who helps us overhear ourselves. 4. One definition of success might be refining our appetites, while deepening our hunger. 5. With enigmatic clarity, life gives us a different answer each time we ask her the same question. 6. Temptation: seeds we are forbidden to water, that are showered with rain.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s a good time to ruminate about things you wish could be part of your life but aren’t. You will be wise to develop a more conscious relationship with wistful fantasies about impossible dreams. Here’s one reason why this is true: You might realize that some seemingly impossible dreams aren’t so impossible. To get in the mood for this fun exercise, meditate on a sample reverie: “I wish I could spend a whole day discovering new music to love. I wish I owned a horse and a boat and a vintage brown and orange striped bohemian cardigan sweater from the 1970s. I wish I knew the names of all the flowers. I wish I felt more at ease about revealing my hidden beauty. I wish I could figure out how to eliminate unnecessary stress from my life.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poet, essayist, and translator Anne Carson calls her husband Robert Currie the “Randomizer.” His role in her life as a creative artist is to make quirky recommendations that help her avoid being too predictable. He sends her off in directions she wouldn’t have imagined by herself. Here’s an example: At one point in her career, Carson confessed she was bored with her writing. The Randomizer suggested, “Let’s put dancers into it.” In response, she repurposed the sonnets she had been working on into a live theatrical performance featuring many dancers. I think you would benefit from having a Randomizer in your life during the coming weeks. Know anyone who could serve? If not, look for one. Or be your own Randomizer.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Pioneering psychologist Carl Jung wrote, “I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.” But it’s important to add that some dark sides tend to be destructive and demoralizing, while other dark sides are fertile and interesting. Most of us have a share of each. My reading of the planetary omens suggests that you Scorpios now have extra power to upgrade your relationship with the fertile and interesting aspects of your dark side. I hope you will take advantage! You have a ripe opportunity to deepen and expand your wholeness. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke was a complicated person with many mysterious emotions and convoluted thoughts. And yet, he once wrote that life occasionally brought him “boundless simplicity and joy.” I find it amazing he could ever welcome such a state. Kudos to him! How about you, dear Sagittarius? Are you capable of recognizing when boundless simplicity and joy are hovering in your vicinity, ready for you to seize them? If so, be extra alert in the next two weeks. I expect there’ll be a visitation or two. Maybe even three or four.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Baltasar Gracián was not a 21st-century New Age self-help teacher. He was a 17th-century Jesuit philosopher born under the sign of serious, diligent Capricorn. I hope you will be extra receptive to his advice in the coming weeks. He wrote, CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you so desired, you “Know your key qualities, your outstanding gifts. could travel to Munich, Germany and eat beer-flavored Cultivate them. Redouble their use.” Among the ice cream. Or you could go to Rehoboth, Delaware and key qualities he gave as examples were disciplined get bacon-flavored ice cream. If you were in Taiwan, discernment and resilient courage. I bring his thoughts you could enjoy pineapple shrimp ice cream, and if to your attention because the coming weeks will be a you were in London, you could sample haggis-flavored rousing time to heed his counsel. It’s time for you to ice cream, made from sheep innards. But my advice identify and celebrate and give abundant expression right now is to stick with old reliables like chocolate, to your key qualities. vanilla, and strawberry ice cream—which are still delicious even if they’re not exotic. What’s my reasoning? In general, the astrological aspects AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): After studying the suggest that during the coming weeks, you’re genes that create feathers in birds, scientists found most likely to thrive on trustworthy standbys and that humans have all the necessary genes to grow experiences you know and trust. feathers. (I read about it in National Geographic magazine.) So why don’t we grow feathers, then? Well, it’s complicated. Basically, the feather-making LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Celebrated novelist Jane genes are not fully activated. Who knows? Maybe Austen (1775–1817) wrote, “Sometimes I have kept my someday, there’ll be technology that enables us to feelings to myself, because I could find no language to switch on those genes and sprout plumage. I bet my describe them in.” People who aren’t as articulate as Aquarian friend Jessie, whose body has 30 tattoos Austen experience that problem even more often than and 17 piercings, would take advantage. In the coming she did. But the good news, Leo, is that in the coming weeks, it might be fun for you to imagine having weeks, you’ll be extra skillful at expressing your feelbird-like qualities. You’re entering a high-flying ings and thoughts—even those that in the past have phase—a time for ascension, expansion, soaring, been difficult to put into words. I invite you to take and seeing the big picture from lofty vantage points. maximum advantage of this grace period. Communicate with hearty poise and gleeful abandon. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are there sensual and erotic acts you’ve never tried and are curious about? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “When you know what’s Are there experimental approaches on the frontier of important, it’s a lot easier to ignore what’s not,” your desires that would be intriguing to consider? writes author and life coach Marie Forleo. Let’s make Might there be lusty experiences you’ve barely imagined or don’t know about—but that could be fun to her thought the basis of your work and play in the play with? According to my analysis of the astrological coming weeks. Get vibrantly clear on what is of omens, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to supreme value to you, which influences bring out explore such possibilities. Be safe and prudent, of the best in you, and which people make it easy for course. Don’t be irresponsible or careless. But also be you to be yourself. Then compose a second list of trivial situations that are of minor interest, influences willing to expand your notions of your sexuality. that make you feel numb, and people who don’t fully appreciate you. Next, Virgo, formulate long-term plans to phase out the things in the second list as Homework: It’s time for Brag Therapy. Send me your proud and shiny boasts. you increasingly emphasize your involvement in the Newsletter@FreeWillAstrology.com pleasures named in the first list.
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