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As New Mexico approaches the one-year mark of the pandemic, LANL scientists host discussion on coexisting with COVID-19 JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl
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ew Mexico announced its first four COVID-19 cases on March 11, 2020. But as early as late December 2019, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory had heard “there was a cluster of unknown diseases in China,” Nick Hengartner says. A statistical modeling expert, Hengartner led the lab’s Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group for more than seven years, where mathematical modeling and computational analysis focus on a variety of issues, such as the dynamics and treatment of viral disease, as well as immune system modeling. “We’re always looking for novelty and, early on, I think as early as the beginning of January, we started to try to figure out what was happening with Wuhan,” he says. Hengartner and colleagues will host a public virtual talk and discussion at 6 pm, Feb. 24, “Coexisting with COVID-19: Disease Forecasting and Science,” as part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows Frontiers in Science series at the Bradbury Science Museum. Computational evolutionary biologist Will Fischer and biological physicist Judy Mourant will also be part of the event, which will address topics such as how scientists forecast disease; the impact vaccinations have on the spread of the virus; and the impact SARS-CoV-2 variants may have on transmission.
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Throughout the pandemic, LANL’s modeling has played a key role in the state’s public health policies. Each week, the updated model forecasts six weeks of best- to worst-case scenarios for case counts, growth rates and deaths. Other models LANL created for public officials over the last year evaluated the impact school openings would have on the pandemic’s trajectory. During this week’s talk—in which attendees also will have the opportunity to submit questions—“we’ll be discussing a little bit [about] what are the elements of those models and how they’re used,” Hengartner says, “so that people understand what information gets aggregated and condensed and what those models are telling us, and possibly even what accuracy those models had.” While LANL had similar models in place prior to COVID-19 that had been used to evaluate other diseases, it “took us a while” to adapt them to meet COVID-19, Hengartner says. Every disease is distinct and “the specific details of every disease matters.” The models, thus, are complex and individualized, incorporating particular mitigation efforts, such as testing and quarantining. “So all these factors are included,” Hengartner says, and “are very useful to help provide information to decision makers so that they can, you know, play ‘what if’ scenarios, and also understand the impact of different actions that they’re contemplating.” The models also forecast at the regional and county level, predicting case counts and hospitalizations, as well as projecting transmission rates based on counties’ status under the public red-to-green framework. Of late, the LANL models have begun incorporating vaccination, with last
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week’s report—the most recent available at press time—indicating vaccination is lowering daily incidence by more than 20%. That particular data point assumes the current vaccines in play—from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech—have a 90% efficacy rate. An open question remains about how effective they and other vaccines will ultimately be against new strains of the coronavirus that creates the disease COVID-19. “Now the question is: Well, what happens with those new variants? Does that [efficacy] go down? If so, how much does it go down? What’s going to happen over time?” Hengartner says. And so part of the talk will focus on “the impact of evolution or the emergence of new strains in vaccination.” Hengartner’s own work modeling diseases began with Ebola in the early 2000s and then moved on malaria among children in Kenya. While there have been location-specific aspects to the modeling, such as the work in New Mexico, diseases, he says, “are not a local problem, they’re a global problem” scientists model in the hopes of having “a positive impact.”
As for COVID-19, while unknowns remain, Hengartner describes himself as “optimistic,” observing that “we’ve learned to live with other diseases.” After all, he adds, four other coronaviruses “are circulating in the human population” and we just call them the “sniffles” or a “cold.” His optimism, he says, also stems from knowing scientists have created a vaccine for HIV (created by LANL scientist Bette Korber and currently in clinical trials), a virus that mutates much more quickly than SARS-CoV-2. “If we can get a vaccine for HIV, we can develop a vaccine for all those emerging variants, as well,” he says. “And so, in the long run, we have the ability to at least get the [COVID-19] vaccines and, I believe what will happen is that the virus will adapt and our immune systems will adapt as well.” FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE “Coexisting with COVID19: Disease Forecasting and Science” 6 pm Wednesday, Feb. 24 Free, but requires advanced registration: tinyurl.com/lanlcovidtalk
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Before the city redeveloped the Santa Fe Railyard it was in a state of disrepair. Now it’s a center of activity.
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he fate of Midtown Campus seems as uncertain as ever. In January, the city of Santa Fe and master developers KDC/Cienda Partners mutually terminated an exclusive negotiation agreement after the developers said the needed improvements to the site would cost more than they were willing to pay. Now debate centers around how much the city should invest in infrastructure and other upgrades on the 64-acre property and how to re-engage residents to make sure community objectives for affordable housing, educational facilities and community spaces are met. Meanwhile, each year the city spends $1.7 million on debt payments, and operating expenses budgeted for the current fiscal year are an additional $3 million. This is not the first time Santa Fe has embarked on a high-stakes redevelopment project aimed at creating a new focal point for city activity. Just 3 miles north of Midtown, the redevelopment vision for the 50 acres of city-owned land at the Santa Fe Railyard is finally nearing completion after decades of work overseen by the Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation, a nonprofit created in 2002 for the explicit purpose of managing real estate, infrastructure and economic development of the site on contract with the city. The city retains ownership of the land and five buildings on the property, while the nonprofit leases out 42 individual land and building parcels.
“We operate as if we were a privatesector real estate company but we have a public purpose. So it’s very unique,” says Richard Czoski, the executive director of the nonprofit. “All the profit we make goes back to the city to pay off the debt the city incurred.” The completion of the Railyard has been a long time coming, it’s been expensive, and it hasn’t always felt like a success. But now, despite COVID-19, it seems close to a full realization of the vision espoused by residents who took part in an intensive community engagement process in the late ’90s. Could the Railyard’s nonprofit model work at Midtown? The city bought the Railyard property for $23 million in 1995, after public opposition led the City Council to reject a plan by the rail company to create a new commercial area with buildings up to six stories high. After months of public meetings, the city brought in a team of national and local architects and planners through the American Institute of Architects’ Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team program to create a community plan based on the values expressed by residents: celebration of local art and culture, a focus on local businesses, walkability, parks and community spaces and ongoing community governance. The city spent an additional $14 million to build out infrastructure on the site and celebrated a grand opening in 2008, just before the economy tanked. Czoski says the ill-fated timing was a serious setback to the success of the redevelopment. While previously the Railyard Corporation had been able to lease 92% of the space to businesses and artists, that number dropped to 72% during the recession. For years, empty storefronts and high turnover plagued the project. These problems haven’t been entirely overcome, but the Railyard as it exists today is pretty darn close to the vision
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of the original community plan: Before COVID-19, it was the place to go in the summer for outdoor concerts, art and science festivals, or to grab a beer and a movie at Violet Crown. El Museo Cultural and SITE Santa Fe hold down the art scene while the farmers market building hosts the thriving market on Saturdays and occasional quinceñeras at night. Czoski says the site is once again 95% leased, and the nonprofit has paid off nearly half of the city’s debt on the property. Despite many businesses grinding to a halt during the pandemic, he believes economic recovery will be fairly swift for the Railyard. “I think one of the reasons that the project has been successful is that the master plan has endured and we’ve stayed true to it,” says Czoski, attributing much of the organization’s ability to stick to its original vision to its nonprofit status, which frees it from the whims of politics and much of the bureaucracy of government, while resisting the pull of development just for the sake of profit. Czoski says when the city bought the Railyard, the site shared many of the problems master developers cited at Midtown, such as lack of modern infrastructure and environmental contami-
City Council faces tough choices about whether to sell the Midtown Campus “as is” to the highest bidder or invest millions more in redevelopment.
nation, though there were not nearly as many buildings in disrepair as exist at the old university campus. Still, he says, he thinks the Railyard model could work for Midtown if the right people were in charge, even though the city has not so far considered it as a serious option and not all councilors are convinced it would work. “It was a good idea for the time when the Railyard Corporation was created… with the goal to be more transparent and take politics out of the development,” says Councilor Joanne Vigil Coppler in an interview with SFR. However, she says, it also moved the course of development outside of the control of the governing body and she thinks the issues with attracting businesses to the Railyard go beyond the impacts of the recession. “I do believe that it’s been real difficult for attracting permanent businesses because they don’t own the land underneath it, and the vacancies are cyclical,” she says. “For the Midtown campus, I would like the framework to be set up by the governing body and then let it take its course within those parameters.” The city has created multiple teams of city staff to assess the problems raised by KDC/Cienda Partners. These teams report every two weeks about their progress. Most recently, staff presented the City Council with three options: sell now “as is” to the highest bidder; make some basic primary investments and sell within the next year; or hold onto the campus for the long term and make major investments that will help guarantee the outcomes the city is looking for. The city has already invested $50,000 to conduct a new community engagement process led by a group from UNM that will last at least a year. The group plans to give small grants of up to $5,000 each to local community organizations for special engagement projects and policy recommendations by the end of the year. For now, at least, the city seems committed to the long haul. Staff will present the latest update about Midtown at the City Council meeting that starts today, Feb. 24, at 4pm. Watch the livestream on the city’s Youtube channel.
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The Lending Shuffle Interest rate cap on small-dollar loans has perhaps its best shot ever, but challenges for reform remain BY J E F F P RO CTO R A N D K AT H E R I N E L E W I N a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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he most recent push in a yearslong fight to rein in interest rates and fees for short-term, small-dollar loans in New Mexico must clear several hurdles—old and new—as this year’s legislative session passes the midway point. Senate Bill 66 would align New Mexico with most of the US, not to mention federal law designed to protect military families, by capping the total amount of rates and fees from storefront lenders at 36%. The rate now is restricted to 175%—the result of 2017 “compromise” legislation that still left New Mexico among a tiny number of states that allows triple-digit interest rates. That’s a hallmark of what’s often called “predatory lending,” as SFR reported in a cover story on Jan. 12. This year’s bill, co-sponsored by Democratic Sens. William Soules of Las Cruces and Katy Duhigg of Albuquerque, passed the Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee on Feb. 9 on a 7-4 vote, with each of the committee’s Republicans against. Next up was the Senate Judiciary Committee, where members heard three hours of testimony and debate Monday, which began with an agreement to postpone a vote until a substitute version of SB 66 could be prepared for a second hearing today. Monday offered a preview of support and opposition. Several high-profile lobbyists, including former state House Speaker Raymond Sanchez, lined up in the Zoom waiting room to rail against the measure. Sanchez’s arguments, some of which were echoed by business owners and the committee’s three Republican mem-
bers, were familiar to reformers who have pushed for tighter regulations on the industry for more than a decade: Restricting storefront lenders will shutter small lending shops, leaving low-income people high and dry and with no other way to secure a little cash in a pinch. “The claim that all the lenders will leave the state, that they can’t do business at lower rates, that it will harm people rather than help people—all of those are the same arguments that were raised when there was a multi-year effort to eliminate payday lending,” Karen Meyers, an Albuquerque-based consumer attorney and an expert witness for SB 66’s sponsors, tells SFR. That regulation finally came in 2017 and did away with single-payment, short-term loans in which the rates were 400% to 1,000%. Loans still allowed are multi-payment, with a rate of 175%. “That’s still excessive, in my opinion,” says Meyers, who was speaking generally about the years she’s spent fighting for reform, not responding directly to specific senators during this year’s session. “The number of companies doing business in
New Mexico has been reduced slightly, but is still around 600 licensees. You can still drive up and down many streets and see high-cost lender after high-cost lender.” Soules tells SFR he remains optimistic about the chances for his bill to pass. And Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham listed lending reform among her priorities for this year’s session. But in Senate Judiciary, all three Republicans—Mark Moores of Albuquerque, Greg Baca of Belen and Cliff Pirtle of Roswell—indicated Monday that they’re likely to vote against it. And even if the bill receives enough votes from the committee’s six Democrats to move to the full Senate, a new strain of opposition raised at Monday’s hearing may stand in its way. Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto, D-Albuquerque, grew frustrated several times during Monday’s hearing when trying to determine whether SB 66 would constrain refinancing of small, short-term loans—a tactic used by the industry and often cited by reformers as a way to trap borrowers in ever-increasing debt. Proponents conceded that the proposal caps interest rates and fees, but does not prohibit “rollover loans.” “It appears we are just trying to contain the predatory practices instead of addressing them,” Ivey-Soto said. “I would like to see a more comprehensive approach.” Had SB 66, without Ivey-Soto’s suggested expansion, been law 15 months ago, it may have saved Michael Yazza some money, but not the experience of a typical
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industry pattern. In December 2019, Yazza wanted to buy Christmas gifts for his children, 10 and 8, and his nieces and nephews. Yazza’s auntie told him about The Cash Store, an installment loan chain located near his home in Navajo, New Mexico. He easily took out a $300 loan. But when he went into the store to make a payment before the COVID-19 pandemic began last spring, employees convinced him to refinance for $800 and then again for $1,000. Yazza was short on cash, had just lost a family member and had transferred to a new job that hadn’t paid him yet, so it didn’t take much to push him into taking out larger and larger loans. He quickly fell behind on payments for the refinanced loan, which carried a hefty 174% APR. Now, The Cash Store is suing Yazza for the amount, upwards of $1,100. SFR reviewed documents detailing Yazza’s loan; they confirm industry tactics decried by reformers. Yazza tells SFR he thinks the cap would be “really good,” considering the high interest rate on his loan and how the lender convinced him to roll it over. “They made it sound like it was a good opportunity, they didn’t really explain… the financing charges,” Yazza says. Soules tells SFR he would consider an amendment from Ivey-Soto to address the refinancing issue. “As long as it’s not gonna slow it down or weaken the bill, that’s not a problem,” he says. “However, that’s a more nebulous thing to try and figure out. So, I think it’s important that we get this through with a 36% all-in cap and, if [a new refinancing strategy] is a way the industry tries to get around that cap, maybe we come back with legislation in two years for rollovers.” The senator more quickly brushes off arguments against reform from the industry, its lobbyists and his Republican col colleagues—particularly the notion that alternatives to storefront lending from credit unions, banks and others keep those most in need of a quick cash infusion less than $1,000 or so from getting it. “This is not about access to credit,” he told the Judiciary Committee on Monday. “It’s about exposure to debt. If companies can’t afford to make small-dollar loans at 36%, they shouldn’t make the loans.” Wednesday’s hearing is scheduled for 1:30 pm. If the bill passes, it would likely head to the full Senate either Friday or early next week. The legi legislative session ends March 20.
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“We don’t impose a plan, we bring a program which helps the kids with climate science, science, resilience, arts and advocacy,” Global WE’s Executive Director Genie Stevens, Weber’s mother, tells SFR. “They found when they brought those issues to adult leaders, they listened and paid attention.” Woosley signed up immediately and has remained involved since. Her activism and speeches mostly focus on disability rights in the climate crisis. At 11, she has a matterof-fact perspective on how climate change will impact New Mexico over the next five to 10 years. “I would say there will be more drought, and an increase of extreme weather and fires, more carbon dioxide in the air from pollution…possible earthquakes from fracking, and our ecosystems and food habitat
World of Difference At 11, Sierra Woosley is fighting for the earth and disability rights By Magnificent Farrell
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hree years ago, then-8-year-old Sierra Woosley read The Global Warming Express, a children’s book about the dangers of climate change. Now 11, Woosley is a deaf-blind activist whose combined hearing and vision loss informs her experiences and knowledge. “My experience as a deaf-blind person means that self-advocacy can be hard,” she tells SFR, in an interview via email. “Every day, I learn about new barriers in our society, and there’s not enough information with people’s needs for access. For example, information access like captions, certified deaf interpreters, location and lighting, color-font changes on computers so that deaf-blind people can remove barriers.” Woosley was born in Oregon, lived in Vermont and has been in New Mexico for the past seven years. After she read The Global Warming Express, she knew she wanted to make a difference. “The book has a lot of important information. And it is powerful that children wrote it, and that it is about climate crisis and protecting the environment,” she says. The book tells the story of an Earth imperiled in familiar ways—oil spills, global warming, environmental neglect—and the animals who try to save it. Fellow Santa Fean Marina Weber, now 18, began writing the book when she herself was around 8 years old. The final version, which includes illustrations by her classmate Joanna Whysner, eventually made it to President Barack Obama and includes an introduction by former Sen. Tom Udall. After Woosley read it, she began having discussions with her parents and others about climate change, and how it’s affecting the Earth. In 2018, she met Weber and learned about the Global Warming Express, the by-kids-for-kids nonprofit Weber co-founded in 2012, geared at children ages 8 to 12 (a new program called the Global Warming Emergency is in development for ages 13 and up).
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t the start of 2021, a coalition of youth-led organizations drafted a memo calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to create an “Office of Young Americans” within the president’s executive office, and to appoint a director of youth engagement to oversee it. “As the generation that led social movements over the last several years and fundamentally changed the political landscape that determined the election, we have more than earned our seat at the table,” the memo reads. Indeed, from climate change to social justice, youth activists across the country and in New Mexico have increasingly played vital roles, big and small, in addressing political, cultural and social change. For this week’s cover story, four interns accepted into the Winter 2020 training cohort for the New Mexico Fund for Public Interest Journalism, SFR’s nonprofit partner, identified a few key issues driving youth activism—climate change, immigration, LGBTQ rights and social justice— and sought out youth who have worked on these concerns. The project spotlights four activists ranging in ages from 11 to 28, working with and for local nonprofits Wise Fool New Mexico, the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, Youth United for Climate Crisis Action and Global Warming Express, as well as other initiatives. While each activist has areas of specific focus, their overlapping motivations soon became clear. As Artemisio Romero y Carver, who works both as a climate change and social justice activist, says: “To know that there were wrong things in this world and to know that as a person, I have to do something to stop those wrong things from continuing.”
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Sierra Woosley, a deaf-blind activist, advocates for climate change and for equal access.
Magnificent Farrell is a student at the Santa Fe Community College. They’ve aspired to be a writer for some time now, and have written for various blogs. They have also done various projects with Wise Fool New Mexico, performing in many shows in the past four years. When Magnificent isn’t writing, they find an interest in forensic science, and studying that field of work.
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t a lively weekend class for 4- to 6-year-olds in aerials, trapeze, obstacle courses and creative movement, 17-year-old Revely Rothschild introduces herself to the bouncy children with her pronouns. She then explains the different pronouns the children can use to describe themselves—he, she or they—and says they should choose whatever they are comfortable with for the day. Open-mindedness and inclusivity feature heavily at Santa Fe nonprofit Wise Fool New Mexico, which annually holds classes for 2,000 youth and adults, and promotes social justice through puppetry, theater and circus art performances. The organization’s core values of community, art accessibility and social justice, Rothschild says, “helped me learn to support other people and lift them,” and inspired her last June to start her own LGBTQ youth support group (SFLGBTQ).
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may be at risk,” she says, adding: “But this can be reversed if we change our behavior.” The next 10 years, she notes, there will “likely be people fighting over resources, severe shortage of resources, increased rate of people getting cancer from chemicals, and severe poverty.” To change this trajectory, “we will need to learn how to work together without hatred and we will need to learn how to reuse materials and use public transportation.” While the Global WE is kid-focused, Woosley has many opportunities to work with older activists, which she says can be motivating. “When I work with older activists, it is very inspiring, and I often look up to them and learn new facts,” she says. “My experience is interesting with older activists because they can become really powerful when they talk about climate change.” Woosley herself inspires others, including her mother, Marisa Soboleski. “When Sierra was a baby, we gave her a sign name with a S from the shoulder indicating ‘boldness, bravery’ in American Sign Language,” Soboleski says. “Eleven years later, this is absolutely still the case—she’s not afraid to speak her mind, stand in front of a crowd, and fight for social and human rights. It’s been quite a journey and I look forward to her continuing her journey. I have learned so much from her and I am so humbled and lucky to be her mother.” As for Woosley, she offers this advice to her peers: “Keep an open mind, work together, don’t exclude anyone we’re different from. We work together.”
Wise Fool provided a safe place for Revely Rothschild, who turned around and created a safe place for LGBTQ+ youth.
Rothschild identifies as bisexual and recalls one of the “hardest things for me about coming out that I’ve heard true for many other people as well is feeling alone.” It’s a sentiment fellow Wise Fool member Arlo MacGillivray, 16, echoes. “Being in the [LGBTQ] community can be terrifying. While the community is very supportive, it can be terrifying to exist as a trans person or really as anything that is not a cisgender hetero person.” Before the pandemic hit, the group gathered to talk, as well as share and discuss work by artists in the LGBTQ community. “Some themes of our conversations included labels,” Rothschild says, “what it might be like in other countries, and our experiences at schools with [Gay Student Alliance] organizations. We also talked about important queer historical figures and compared artists like [painter] Mickalene Thomas with artists like [multi-media artist and author] Slava Mogutin.” Leading a group where vulnerability is the center of many conversations can be difficult, Rothschild notes, but also rewarding. “It was very interesting for me to…make a place where everyone could feel welcome and heard,” she says, recalling a conversation that took place between a friend in Dubai and one in Arizona regarding the differences between living as an LGBTQ person in their two different environments. “Even though they had such different [life] experiences,” Rothschild notes, “I think someone made a joke and then everyone started laughing and we just really connected in that moment. It was really powerful to just see, like, even though we come from such different places in the world, we can truly bond in such a strong way over a shared experience.” Rothschild has been involved with Wise Fool since she was 5 years old, and professionally involved for the last six years, now participating as both a member and assistant coach. Wise Fool, she says, is a place
“to express myself through performance, not even in relation to LGBTQ rights, but [Wise Fool] has really made me more confident as an LGBTQ person [and] also directly helped me connect with the LGBTQ community.” Rothschild’s experience tracks with the organization’s foundation. “Social justice helps us all be better people,” Wise Fool Co-Executive Director Kristen Woods says. “Learning about the issues that are affecting the lives of our community members can help us to treat others better, work to create positive change in our community and change attitudes in ourselves that are harmful. We hope that the youth that visit Wise Fool leave as more accepting and brave, and more thoughtful about the lives of others.” All classes welcome people of different ages, sizes, genders and backgrounds. The classes honor personal pronouns and encourage community engagement with posters and signs from protests and actions around the space. Youth are key to the organization. “This year, the youth group has been pretty much the heart of the school,” Woods says. “The passion and energy, the love, the connections, and the friendships.” And for the youth, Wise Fool has offered a much-needed space before and during the pandemic. “Being able to open up and express themselves at Wise Fool…I feel is really important,” Indigo Austin, another 16-year-old Santa Fean and member of the Wise Fool community, says. “As a trans and [bisexual] person…I feel like it’s just having everyone in the [LGBTQ] community being treated equally to everyone” that makes the work essential. “And from a personal standpoint, it was…one of my only real outlets because I was just stuck at home all the time…It was so nice to be able to come here and express myself creatively.” While the pandemic and busy schedules have limited their meeting time, the group remains important to Rothschild as a rising college freshman, where she hopes to possibly study education or psychology. She plans to pass the baton on to another one of Wise Fool’s youth and offers this piece of advice to any queer activist: “…I would say…find a place where you feel like you are supported and where [there are other people] who you trust to love you no matter what… Wise Fool has definitely, definitely been that.” Anyone interested in joining the group should email revely.rothschild@gmail.com. Urmi Vallassery is a senior at the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in Montezuma. She moved to New Mexico a year ago, but is originally from Texas and India. From the time she was born, she moved across five different countries with her family and was exposed to a vast array of cultures. Because of this, she has always been interested in social justice, international relations and activism. She hopes to continue her passions in these fields in college, but for now, she’s enjoying the time she has left in Montezuma! While she’s at home, she enjoys spending time with her family, playing with her dog, learning new knitting patterns and baking pastries. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Artemisio Romero y Carver believes empathy can change the world By Nicholas Romero
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s Americans across the nation took to the streets last spring calling for police reform in the wake George Floyd’s killing by police in Minneapolis, Artemisio Romero y Carver and a group of artist activists were constructing an altar at the Santa Fe Railyard in response to the killing. They built the O’Gah Po’Geh Altar Project as a place for healing, reflection and meditation, as well as in recognition of the struggle of marginalized individuals in New Mexico. Constructed with reclaimed wild-harvested wood and adobe, each of the altar’s four sides align with the four cardinal directions and feature work by local artists within the Indigenous, Mestize/Chicane, Black and immigrant communities. Merging art and social justice action reflects Romero y Carver’s dedication to both. As he finishes his last year of high school at the New Mexico School for the Arts, Romero y Carver, 18, juggles multiple jobs, a social life and work with several organizations around Northern New Mexico that focus on climate change and fighting for marginalized people. He’s also finishing up his term as the City of Santa Fe’s youth poet laureate. His venture into environmental activism grew out of involvement with a school speech and debate club. While preparing for a debate, Romero y Carver encountered a report from New Zealand, he says, which forecasted an existential threat from carbon emissions by 2050. “They describe the potential of a hot Earth that has been so super-heated that it is essentially unlivable, and that was terrifying…I was like, ‘Oh my god!’ There’s this larger injustice being perpetrated against the entire human species…That’s when I decided to take arms or, you know, decided to become an activist.” Romero y Carver delved deeper into environmental policy and encountered the proposed federal Green New Deal. “That…document told me…there is a space where I could be representative of my community and my community could be represented,” he says. “Here is a description of a better future…I believed that I had to do everything I could, and I still
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Artemisio Romero y Carver believes activism “at its core is the constant and active practice of empathy.”
believe I have to do everything I can in my power, to get us to that future.” Romero y Carver helped found the youth-led nonprofit Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA), for which he serves on the steering committee, and is currently serving as the lead lobbyist for YUCCA’s lobbying arm, YUCCA ACTION, at the Legislature. Romero y Carver says the group’s top priorities include Senate Joint Resolution 3, which would amend the state constitution to add environmental rights; the Community Solar Act (House Bill 106); amendments to the Produced Water Act that would have increased oil and gas industry regulation as it relates to water (Senate Bill 86, which was tabled by the Senate Judiciary committee); and a bill to lower the voting age for local elections to 16. “It’s been a learning curve,” Romero y Carver says. “I took one government class in high school and then I started doing lobbying. I was very intimidated at first, but I think a lot of it comes down to articulating and under-
standing historical context and I’m feeling OK with it. We’ve had some small victories. It’s been wonderful to contribute to those victories.” Alongside his environmental activism, Romero y Carver, who grew up as on Santa Fe’s Southside and in Lamy, aligns with anti-racism activism and what he describes as systemic racism in Northern New Mexico. He points to the Department of Cultural Affairs’ removal of the “Multi-Cultural” mural as an example. “The removal of that mural is part of a larger process of gentrification that has removed nonwhite expression and peoples from downtown Santa Fe,” he says. Romero y Carver also helped organize protests in Santa Fe alongside Walk the Talk Santa Fe, another youth-led group focused on addressing police brutality and systematic racism. “He has been able to bring the voices of Chicanx, or Latinx [people] in Santa Fe to the forefront of a lot of different issues,” fellow organizer Mary Ann Maestas, a campaign organizer with Earth Care, says. “He shows up in a way that’s like, ‘I’m here to show you that from my own identity I stand in solidarity with you all. I will show up for you all…And he has really worked to be a connector between different groups, different people, and broadening the network, I think in Santa Fe especially, around these different movements.” As for what comes next—that would be college. Romero y Carver applied to 19, and says he hopes to embark on a dual program to study political science and fine arts. Needless to say, he intends to remain active. “I think activism at its core is the constant and active practice of empathy,” Romero y Carver says. “To know that there were wrong things in this world and to know that as a person, I have to do something to stop those wrong things from continuing.” Nicholas Romero is a staff photographer and freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo, and a senior at the University of New Mexico majoring in Mass Communication/Journalism, on track to graduate in the spring of 2021. During his free time, Nicholas is found spending it with his two dogs, hiking, taking photographs, or playing sports. Nicholas has a passion for sports, animals and culture with hopes of using his photography and writing to make a positive impact on those fronts. He has spent the last two years taking photographs of sports, culture and protests around the City of Albuquerque.
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s a transgender, nonbinary individual, ben found their passion working with the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, transporting transgender asylum seekers from ICE detention centers—providing friendship, warm food and community. SFR is not including ben’s last name at their request. Now 28, ben has been involved with activism since they were a teenager growing up in Littleton, Colorado. There, ben attended a unique charter school that exposed students to different ways of learning, sometimes holding classes in downtown Denver and discussing topics such as racial justice. “I just learned so much,” ben says. “It was so expansive.” Some fellow students were undocumented, while others had status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Observing teachers who protected and ensured those students had their needs met, “I
At the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, ben helped transgender immigrants feel safe again.
realized how much [immigration] impacts people’s lives,” ben says. After leaving school at 15 and getting their GED, ben became more involved in activism, joining an organization called the Buried Seedz of Resistance, a youth-driven group that worked to end violence against LGBTQIA+ people. Yet as they came into their queerness, a divide developed between ben and their parents, and they were asked to move out at the age of 17. After that, ben spent many years struggling to stay afloat. As an adopted, mixed-race and queer kid, ben struggled to find their place in society and within their own family. However, they believe those struggles “allowed [them] to tap into some deep…empathy as a young person.” Moving to New Mexico in the summer of 2019, ben says, allowed them to become more involved in activism and community work, and feel they were no longer “in survival mode for the first time in really a long time.” After learning about SFDP’s work with post-release trans women, ben applied for and became a fellow with the nonprofit in the summer of 2019 through Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program. Before moving here, ben had done work with the organization, getting “just a peek” of the post-release program. “When I moved here it was like, ‘Yes, I want to do that full-time, all of the time,’” ben says. That work consisted of picking up immigrants after their release from Cibola County Correctional Center—located in Milan—and bringing them to the house where they would stay. There, they would receive bienvenidos meals, which ben describes as the “first hot, familiar meal that they would have in months, sometimes years.” The meals would be eaten communally and then ben would take them shopping for gender-affirming clothing at Thrift A Lot and makeup at Walmart. On average, ben would spend a week with each person. “We’d be in my car playing music way too loud, listening to the same freaking Camila Cabello song over and over,” and ben would watch them transform from suffering in detention to living in a “wildly affirming safe space [where they would] just be silly and listen to music and eat good food.” SFDP’s program ended overnight when Cibola closed the unit for transgender women in January 2020 and transferred them to ICE facilities in Tacoma, Washington, and Aurora, Colorado.
Interim Executive Director Michael Santillanes says project staff have been working with agencies in those communities to help continue the services SFDP offered. For instance, ben helped set up a post-release program in Colorado. “I’m sad that I’m not a part of it,” ben says. “But I also would love for me to not have this job ever again and for detention to just end.” During the Trump administration, Santillanes says, SFDP was in “crisis mode…A lot of our work has been reactive, trying to meet…incredibly pressing emergencies.” Now, the program is working to prepare current trans asylum seekers in Juarez and Tijuana, Mexico, for entrance into the US and hoping to see the new Biden administration press forward with important changes to US immigration policy. Ben’s current focus is on sponsor outreach, creating materials for both sponsors and those being sponsored. “I’m still learning all the time about immigration,” ben says, but they encourage young activists to engage with issues that matter to them and not worry about making mistakes along the way. “Young people are so vital to any movement. You’ll be leaders so soon, so developing those skills and building up your knowledge base is so important right now.” Kiera Ortiz is a junior in the International Baccalaureate program at Sandia High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is interested in pursuing a college education in journalism with a focus on International Relations. In her free time, she enjoys painting and drawing, caring for her many houseplants and listening to podcasts about psychology.
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If you’ve got DJ friends (which you totally should, because DJs are cool), you’ve probably seen the social media posts or gotten the texts bemoaning the loss of dance parties. How on Earth are we supposed to do a thing that, at its core, is about being right next to people and getting all sweaty? Outdoors, duh. Meet Eros Silent Disco and its Snow Moon Dance event at Patrick Smith Park, which is out to celebrate February’s full moon, aka the snow moon. It’s one of those silent discos wherein you’re issued your own set of wireless headphones to which the featured DJ (Omi Loü in this case) beams dance jams. From the outside, it looks like a bunch of maniacs writhing to silence; in your own head, it’s a dance party and a half. Simply Venmo $10 to venmo.com/leafylief anytime before the event, show up with water, a mask and your ID, and go wild (while distant). (ADV) Snow Moon Dance: 3 pm Saturday, Feb. 27. $10. Patrick Smith Park, 1010-1098 E Alameda St., facebook.com/ErosSilentDisco
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ONLINE LECTURE MON/1 FEMINIST STUDIES Feminism’s place in the arts is fraught with more information than seems digestible, but when your friends at SITE Santa Fe set out to demystify and educate, the topic seems far less daunting. Instructor Jennie Hirsh (a PhD, y’all) breaks it down with the upcoming four-week online course Feminism & Contemporary Art. Hirsh first digs into the politics and history of feminism, creating a deeper understanding of why its importance in art is so universal. Later classes include the early works of the 1960s and ’70s, the second wave of artists like Rebecca Bellmore, Coco Fusco and others; and then, finally, she’ll delve into the creators and output of the 21st century. Take the class to expand your knowledge, your own practice, your appreciation—just take it. (ADV) Feminism & Contemporary Art: 2 pm Monday March 1. $10-$30 (free for SITE members). sitesantafe.org
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Manuscript Replica José Guadalupe Posada comes to Hecho a Mano The art world is rife with copies, forgeries and knockoffs, and the issue persists tenfold in the realm of prints. Once the plates are made, who decides what’s an original or not? It’s tricky to be sure, but when it comes to an artist like José Guadalupe Posada (you know the guy; he did that famous floppy hat skeleton lady), it can be even harder to judge what’s collectible, what’s not—and what’s even from an era when Posada himself roamed the land. “Basically, he was an illustrator under contract with a publisher, Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, who ran this printshop in Mexico City along with all these other printmakers,” Hecho a Mano gallery owner Frank Rose tells SFR. “Posada didn’t really own his designs—it’s a lot like musicians who find themselves signing with a big label and not owning any of their work—so after he died, his publisher owned the plates, and then his grandson really engaged in a lot of duplication and just made a ton of them.” Much of Posada’s post-death popularity, Rose says, came after iconic artists like Diego Rivera started to include Posada-esque designs in their own work, reframing his legacy as more revolutionary than it actually was. Still, book covers, newspaper illustrations and leaflet artworks abound in private collections
throughout Mexico and beyond, and Rose’s recent acquisition of two large lots featuring just those things becomes a public show opening this Friday. But how can we tell they’re indeed earlier prints? “You’ll see things like, the images were usually associated with text of some kind, so seeing the image disconnected from text is a clue it’s not original. And then the kind of paper they’d use at the time was really, really thin,” Rose says. “I’ve seen pieces printed on really nice paper, and that’s not real.” Rose says the show is particularly impressive in that Posada died in 1913, meaning the pieces have been cared for for well over 100 years. Additionally, you won’t much see the floppy hat skull lady or ambulatory sombrero-clad mustachioed skeleton for which Posada is more readily known; rather, it’s packed with works for chapbooks, fliers and other such things. “As much as I’d love to have those other pieces in the show, I think it’s really interesting to see the lesser-known things,” Rose adds. (Alex De Vore) POSADA! CALAVERAS, CHAPBOOKS AND BROADSIDES FROM 1880-1910 All day Friday, Feb. 26. Free. Hecho a Mano, 830 Canyon Road, 916-1341
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Reading in the Arroyo: An Occasional Column About Books Beyond genre: Outlawed and Santa Fe Style B Y M O L LY B O Y L E a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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My favorite literary experiences are genre-bending works that defy categorization—but it’s a bonus when books turn out to be gender-benders, too, blurring the binaries past man, woman, straight, gay. Take the poem “Witch-Wife” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. It begins in the voice of someone, presumably a man, adding up a woman’s charms in the style of a folk ballad: “She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,/ And her mouth on a valentine.” Two stanzas later, the poem becomes a feminist, possibly lesbian manifesto: “But she was not made for any man,/And she never will be all mine.” Factor in the title “WitchWife,” and what starts as a simple ode rapidly shapeshifts, for the reader, into an expertly layered cri de coeur published in 1917 by a queer, polyamorous woman who married a man. That kind of skillful reversal of expectations abounds in Anna North’s Outlawed (Bloomsbury). The new novel begins, “In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.” That sounds like every Western you’ve ever read or watched, until you
realize the narrator is Ada, a 17-year-old girl from the Dakota Territory who has left her town under a cloud of suspicion that she’s a witch. And why do the people of Fairfield think she’s a witch? Because she’s been married for more than a year and hasn’t gotten pregnant, mostly. She flees to a convent. There, the Mother Superior doesn’t quite know what to do with the free-thinking Ada, a midwife’s apprentice who is particularly interested in the library’s books on reproductive health. So, the crafty nun refers Ada to the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of cross-dressing outlaws led by a mysterious figure known only as the Kid. They’re all barren, like Ada, and some are queer, and strateif it weren’t for their strate gically located and fortified hideout, they’d all be hanged as witches. North’s adoption and ultimate subversion of well-trod, masculine Western motifs—like the real-life Hole-in-the-Wall hideout in Wyoming and the Kid moniker (see also Sundance, and Billy the)—feed this topsy-turvy tale. Every gang member has a role. Ada settles into hers as Doc, using her medical skills to keep the band going through a bleak winter until they can pull off a bank heist that just might change all their fortunes. The resulting story is rollicking, surprising, sad and gratifying. Ada’s clearsighted grit, along with North’s
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semi-absurdist narration, put me in mind of Charles Portis’ True Grit, another Western that transcends its genre. You’ll be reluctant to leave this land of lawless women, if only because North is also a master of straightforward, gorgeous Western prose. Here’s a striking passage on daybreak: “In that time the sky went from blue-black to royal blue to aquamarine and then, in the sudden manner of the mountain regions, bright with streaks of gold and pink like the tails of gleaming horses…Coyotes chuckled in the predawn and then went silent, shamed out of their scavenging by the light of day.” Reminds me of sunrises I’ve seen in the Sangres. Anyway, Outlawed also reminds me that one of my choice genres is “feminist Western.” I’d like to see a lot more examples filling up the shelves on the heels (well, boots) of North’s novel. For now, I’m content to know the book has been optioned for a TV adaptation by A24 and actor Amy Adams’ production company, Bond Group Entertainment. I’ll watch the hell out of that show.
Santa Fe Style
I was scanning my shelves recently, looking for oversize red and pink art books to put out for Valentine’s Day. (Once you work in a bookstore, you might spend the rest of your life pretending you still do.) When I pulled out the 1986 gem Santa Fe Style by Christine Mather and Sharon Woods, I realized I needed to amend last month’s column about books every Santa Fe newbie should read (“New In Town? Read all about it,” Jan. 26). Santa Fe Style should be on that list. I don’t know why Santa Fe Style wasn’t reissued by Rizzoli after the ’90s, since I used to get requests for it all the time as
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a bookseller (plenty of affordable copies are available online, too). Though it’s gorgeously designed by Paul Hardy, with stunning full-page photos by Robert Reck, Jack Parsons and others, it’s much more than a coffee-table book. It’s bound and bolstered by the collaboration between writer Mather, an expert on Spanish Colonial and folk art, and photography curator Woods, who has been building custom homes in town for more than 40 years. In chapters with simple but expansive titles (“Santa Fe Setting,” “Hacienda and Ranch,” “Gardens and Outdoor Life”), Mather and Woods illustrate the tiny architecarchitec tural and culturcultur al details of City Different living that add richness to our days. Mini lessons are on every page: “Santa Fe walls are simple, undulating, and monochromatmonochromat ic; windows are the playground of the imagination,” one digression on windows reads. Soon enough, you’ll be walking down East De Vargas or West San Francisco and suddenly notice a traditional shuttered window beside a Gothic revival embellishment, looking at the city with new, more educated eyes. Speaking of building community, something Mather wrote about the Plaza struck me as particularly poignant in our current moment: “The Plaza is a kind of family dinner table—a place to renew ties and resolve differences.” I hope the city government, and especially those planning the new CHART (Culture, History, Arts, Reconciliation and Truth) community dialogues, will consider picking up an old copy of Santa Fe Style. We could all use a reminder of what makes this town beautiful.
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Thai a Knot in Our Hearts Santa Fe’s Thai on Canyon is a welcome and wonderful addition to our foodie scene
BY RILEY GARDNER a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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hen a new restaurant opens in the pandemic times, it’s like a baby being born with all the majesty and miracle of life’s ooohs and aaaahs. Santa Fe’s newest little restaurant-baby is Thai on Canyon (802 Canyon Road, 309-9024), which, as the name suggests, is a Thai restaurant that is indeed on Canyon Road, right beside El Farol. The location’s a bit curious for an area that has traditionally catered more to the countless tourists milling about in search of that Santa Fe experience, but nevertheless, the new spot is brought you by the folks from Midtown brunchy/bakery spot Madame Matisse, and we’ve needed more Thai joints in this town since always. Lovely! Originally scheduled for a 2020 opening, you-know-what happened, forcing owner Siriporn “JJ” Khongkabrirat to pause. With the lower COVID-19 numbers and relaxing health orders of late, however, the lead-up to spring and summer feels as good a time as any to get noodling, so to speak.
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First things first: Thai on Canyon is a takeout-only spot for now, it’s closed on Tuesdays and the service is stellar. Perhaps it’s trivial to laud how the employee on the phone was “remarkably clear, professional, exact and simple,” but those are, verbatim, the words my partner used after placing our order. Sadly, a popularity boom meant a number of items were unavailable—which is actually kind of a good sign for a newer place—but even the experience of picking up was pleasant. Thai on Canyon’s workers were speedy and friendly with nary a negative vibe. Experience, particularly at this juncture in human history, can shine through and make all the difference. We began with the buddha dumplings, a delightful stuffed number with chicken, drenched in a green curry-coconut sauce with basil and bell pepper. Even as an appetizer, the small size was initially off-putting, but it wound up being a blessing in disguise: small or not, each was packed with flavor. The sauce packed an aromatic punch, and while a little pricey
for a starter ($8.95 for five), if you have splurge money it’s worth a try. Shouldn’t any good palate-teaser excite you for what comes next? Pad Thai is the Thai food go-to dish, and it’s safe to say if a restaurant can’t pull it off, there’s not much hope for the rest of the menu. Never fear—Thai on Canyon’s ($14.95 with chicken, $15.95 with shrimp) sent me to my happy place. Thai restaurants don’t always have the best rice noodles, and nothing hurts a meal like a soggy order. Here, though, the noodles found the right middle
Thai on Canyon’s drunken noodle (top) and pad Thai both proved excellent dishes.
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ground between tender and gelatinous, and the generous portion includes egg, and bean sprouts, which added a great little crunch. The order was so large, in fact, we managed to make the pad Thai a two-day leftover affair. After that came the pad kee mao, otherwise known as the drunken noodle (also $14.95 with chicken, tofu, or vegetables, $15.95 with shrimp). These were thicker and flatter rice noodles, nicely sautéed with basil, bell pepper, tomatoes and green beans. The requisite Thai chili was there, too, of course, and despite our dedication to spicy New Mexican dishes, this one kicked our asses. It didn’t feel hot for the sake of it, however, so consider it a challenge rather than a warning. Overall, both dishes felt wellconsidered. Every ingredient added a welcome flavor, and nothing was over- or under-cooked, while the tender chicken and delicious vegetables came together in a melange that feels almost miraculous, given Thai on Canyon’s recent opening date. The restaurant also feels properly geared toward locals, making it easy to imagR ine some point NE RD GA in the future when Y E RIL we’ll dine on the patio and gawk at passing tourists. On a street that errs more toward expensive fine dining experiences, Thai on Canyon’s mid-range pricing feels like a win for more everyday folks. The options are simple and lacking in pretentiousness—they’re just good, solid Thai dishes done well. It’ll remind you of better days.
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Silk Road Review Despite performances, Silk Road’s emphasis on style leaves it hollow
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Silk Road opens with a title card: “This story is true. Except for what we made up or changed.” This sets an oddly light tone for a film that seems to take itself fairly seriously. Ross Ulbricht (played by Nick Robinson of Love, Simon) and washed-up DEA agent Rick Bowden (Jason Clarke of The Great Gatsby) both feel they’ve wasted their lives. Bowden wants to pursue criminals the old-fashioned way (read: with little oversight), while Ulbricht is a marvel of the emerging dark web. Upon launching Silk Road—a site like eBay where drugs are trafficked in the name of libertarian freedom—Ulbricht senses impending arrests everywhere, while Bowden senses a chance at redemption.
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Channeling noir in modern cinema often feels like a pale imitation. Shine some filtered light and boom—you’ve got it. Judas and the Black Messiah culls from the great noir tradition, though it feels nothing like an imitation. It’s presented with such precision, in fact, that it boasts a fresh yet classic atmosphere, giving off an air of both doom and hope in simultaneous moments; no small feat from director/writer Shaka King. American films seem to struggle with portraying the Black Panther movement, save for peripheral nods here and there. King, however, shrewdly drops us into William O’Neal’s perspective, letting us see the world with fresh eyes. Held in custody after a failed carjacking, O’Neal (Sorry to Bother You’s LaKeith Stanfield) is recruited by an FBI agent (Jesse Plemons of Breaking Bad) to infiltrate the local Black Panthers chapter and gather intel on the up and coming so-called “black messiah” of Chicago, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out). J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen, weirdly) obviously hates him. Unavoidably, however, Hampton’s charisma tears O’Neal between his more immediate shot at freedom from law enforcement and the freedom of promise offered by Hampton’s proposed future. Characters come and go in King’s film, picked off one by one by the powers that be. Still, Judas finds sure footing between gripping and inspiring as King doesn’t shy away from the Black Panthers’ militarism. He doesn’t gloss over the novel, rare and true portrayal of women Panthers and the organization’s free community social programs, either. The government’s hostility toward the Panthers’ agency helps balance opposing con20
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To its credit, Silk Road is paced well and remains captivating throughout. It’s just too bad the characters are all insufferable assholes whom you’d love to see tossed over a cliff. There’s an inkling of a good story in the white-boy-takeson-the-internet subgenre (see Snowden and The Social Network), and while Silk Road doesn’t bore per se, it never feels like it knows what it wants to be outside of moody. The actors, bless them, give the film much more life than it might otherwise have had, yet the way it’s shot—rough handicam, a dusty color scheme and an odd abundance of freeze frames— is more distracting than engaging. The camera
cepts of violence and charity, and members of the movement display conflicted natures and motivations. This feels vulnerable in a way mainstream cinema rarely approaches when culling tales from the real-life Panthers. These are layered and flawed people, not one-dimensional angry Black folks. Kaluuya absorbs Hampton’s leadership and determination, while Stanfield achieves a remarkable level of sympathy within the framework of a morally questionable character. There’s just something about his eyes. King wrenches each character’s deepest bits of humanity, letting the camera linger on facial expressions a beat or two longer than we’re accustomed to in our movies, providing the opportunity to examine their pains and joys, driving both home deeply but subtly. Judas is thus the best kind of modern filmmaking—competent and confident, visually arresting with performances so exceptional, it’s enveloping from the first moments. Riveting, tense and often spellbinding, Judas stakes the claim as 2021’s first can’t-miss movie. (RG) HBO Max, R, 126 min.
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Director Lee Isaac Chung wows with his new semi-autobiographical film Minari, which harks to the intricacies of Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age tale Boyhood with a bit of John Ford sentimentalism à la How Green Was My Valley. Yet, in some ways, this one feels more guided by America’s literary tradition than its cinema (there are evident echoes of Steinbeck and Morrison). What emerges is far from a repeat of the author’s past—Minari is an astonishing work of art capable of standing on its own.
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sometimes rotates around subjects so fast, in fact, you might find yourself feeling a bit wobbly (I did). Still, when director Tiller Russell’s understated naturalism shines from his actors, Silk Road starts to feel good-adjacent, even if the space for the actors to stretch into their roles a bit more is in short supply.
In the 1980s, a Korean-American family led by Jacob (Steven Yeun) and Monica (Han Ye-ri) relocate to rural Arkansas to start a farm. Told from the perspective of 7-year-old David (based on Chung himself; Alan Kim), Minari often finds Monica exclaiming, “It’s not what you promised!” in response to Jacob’s increasingly obsessive bucolic dream. As the family splinters, Monica enlists her mother Soonja (a scene-stealing Youn Yuh-jung) to help alleviate the tension, but as pressures mount, isolation spreads. Unlike other films in the realist movement, Minari avoids artificial nostalgia spurred by endless panoramic nature shots. Basing the bulk of the narrative on his own memories, Chung gives himself the breathing room to better emphasize the film’s production design, score, costuming and other oft-disregarded cinematic elements. The smaller things add up in Minari, exchanging flashy cinematography in favor of building a child’s world with honesty. Yuh-jung dominates every time she’s on screen as the grandmother, while Ye-ri’s bold decisions in portraying the complexities of a torn mother unsure how to save her family are nothing short of phenomenal. Still, it’s the overall cast that works so well together in making Minari a real standout even a year after wowing crowds at Sundance. (RG) A24 Screening Room, VoD (Feb. 26), PG-13, 115 min.
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If you’ve ever feared a Reddit post coming to life and whispering its no-doubt super-edgy edgelord nonsense in your ear, those nightmares have now come true with the new “documentary,” A Glitch in the Matrix.
SILK ROAD Directed by Russell With Clarke and Robinson VoD, R, 112 min.
One of the more questionable entries at this year’s Sundance film fest, The Nightmare director Rodney Ascher’s newest lingers in a gray zone between comedy and true crime. It would almost be impressively self-assured in its boldness but, in actuality, it’s the film equivalent of the dude who crowds you at a bar to rant incessantly about his internet search history, or your stoner buddy asking you if you’ve ever contemplated the cosmos, man?! Glitch asks the existential question of our reality: Are we living in a simulation, a la The Matrix? Setting aside how absurd it is to base a so-called documentary on a film that we now know is about coming to grips with being trans, the people interviewed in the film say their anecdotal experiences are proof computer algorithms set our day-to-day lives. Ascher doesn’t clarify who these subjects are or why we should take them seriously—we don’t even get names; the good news is that we already don’t take them seriously. The Matrix, you see, is a work of fiction. So are Phillip K. Dick’s works. Ditto the YouTube video essays from the depths of the internet where only the bearded truck ranters dare to tread. To these nefarious subjects, though, their “facts” are indeed facts—and grave warnings. Ascher deserves some credit for not shying away from the darker sides of conspiracy beliefs, but Glitch runs away with its own rambling. Movie clips and frightening amateur animation do even less for credibility, and Ascher’s confidence feels more like a mask for a hollow and exploitative nonstarter topic. Ascher doesn’t know what he’s going for. His film is somehow comedic, dark and dull all at once, and he seemingly decides skimming the surface will do. Glitch is a 108-minute equivalent of a shrug. The automated voice that reads Wikipedia articles out loud would leave you with more. (RG) VoD, NR, 108 min.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to think about one or two types of physical discomforts and symptoms that your body seems most susceptible to. Meditate on the possibility that there are specific moods or feelings associated with those discomforts and symptoms—perhaps either caused by them or the cause of them. The next step is to formulate an intention to monitor any interactions that might transpire between the bodily states and emotional states. Then make a plan for how you will address them both with your own healing power whenever they visit you in the future.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with your overall health, Libra. In fact, I expect it’s probably quite adequate. But from an astrological point of view, now is the right time to schedule an appointment for a consultation with your favorite healer, even if just by Zoom. In addition, I urge you to consult a soul doctor for a complete metaphysical check-up. Chances are that your mental health is in fair shape, too. But right now it’s not enough for your body and soul to be merely adequate; they need to receive intense doses of well-wrought love and nurturing. So I urge you to ask for omens and signs and dreams about what precisely you can do to treat yourself with exquisite care.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet Billy Collins describes “standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.” I have high hopes that your entire life will be like that in the coming weeks: that you’ll feel as if the world is alive with special messages just for you; that every situation you’re in will feel like you belong there; that every intuition welling up from your subconscious mind into your conscious awareness will be specifically what you need at the moment it arrives.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Love commands a vast army of moods,” writes author Diane Ackerman. “Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate.” This fact of life will be prominently featured in your life during the coming weeks. Now is a fertile time to expand your understanding of how eros and romance work when they’re at their best—and to expand your repertoire of responses to love’s rich challenges. Don’t think of it as a tough test; GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re entering a potential- imagine it as an interesting research project. ly heroic phase of your astrological cycle. The coming weeks will be a time when I hope you will be motivated SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet and visual artist William Blake (1757–1827) cultivatto raise your integrity and impeccability to record levels. To inspire you, I’ve grabbed a few affirmations from ed a close relationship with lofty thoughts and mystical visions. He lived with his wife Catherine for the a moral code reputed to be written by a 14th-century Samurai warrior. Try saying them, and see if they rouse last 45 years of his life, but there were times when you to make your good character even better. 1. “I have he was so preoccupied with his amazing creations no divine power; I make honesty my divine power.” 2. “I that he neglected his bond with her. Catherine once have no miracles; I make right action my miracle.” 3. “I said, “I have very little of Mr. Blake’s company. He is always in Paradise.” I hope that you won’t be like have no enemy; I make carelessness my enemy.” 4. “I that in the coming weeks. Practical matters and intihave no designs; I make ‘seizing opportunity’ my design.” 5. “I have no magic secrets; I make charac- mate alliances need more of your attention than usual. Consider the possibility, at least for now, of ter my magic secret.” 6. “I have no armor; I make spending less time in paradise and more on earth. benevolence and righteousness my armor.” CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle,” writes Cancerian author and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. I disagree with him. There are many other modes of awareness that can be useful as we navigate our labyrinthine path through this crazy world. Regarding each minute as an opportunity to learn something new, for instance: That’s an excellent way to live. Or, for another example, treating each minute as another chance to creatively express our love. But I do acknowledge that Kornfield’s approach is sublime and appealing. And I think it will be especially apropos for you during the coming weeks. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The coming weeks will be a poignant and healing time for you to remember the people in your life who have died—as well as ancestors whom you never met or didn’t know well. They have clues to offer you, rich feelings to nourish you with, course corrections to suggest. Get in touch with them through your dreams, meditations, and reminiscences. Now read this inspiration from poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.” (Translation from the German by Stephen Mitchell.) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m fond of 18th-century Virgo painter Quentin de La Tour. Why? 1. He specialized in creating portraits that brought out his subjects’ charm and intelligence. 2. As he grew wealthier, he became a philanthropist who specialized in helping poor women and artists with disabilities. 3. While most painters of his era did self-portraits that were solemn, even ponderous, de La Tour’s self-portraits showed him smiling and good-humored. 4. Later in his life, when being entirely reasonable was no longer a top priority, de La Tour enjoyed conversing with trees. In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose that we make him your patron saint for now. I hope you’ll be inspired to tap into your inner Quentin de la Tour.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Poet Robert Graves regarded the ambiguity of poetry as a virtue, not a problem. In his view, poetry’s inscrutability reflects life’s true nature. As we read its enigmatic ideas and feelings, we may be inspired to understand that experience is too complex to be reduced to simplistic descriptions and overgeneralized beliefs. In fact, it’s quite possible that if we invite poetry to retrain our perceptions, we will develop a more tolerant and inclusive perspective toward everything. I’m telling you this, Capricorn, because whether or not you read a lot of poetry in the coming weeks, it will be wise and healthy for you to celebrate, not just tolerate, how paradoxical and mysterious the world is. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to shed old habits that waste your energy, and create constructive new habits that will serve you well for months and years to come. To inspire and guide your efforts, I offer these thoughts from author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau: “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean author Anaïs Nin was a maestro of metamorphosis, a virtuoso of variation, an adept at alteration. She regarded her ceaseless evolution as a privilege and luxury, not an oppressive inconvenience. “I take pleasure in my transformations,” she wrote. “I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.” Her approach is a healthy model for most of you Pisceans—and will be especially worth adopting in the coming weeks. I invite you to be a Change Specialist whose nickname is Flux Mojo. Homework: “We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings,” wrote Audre Lourde. True for you? FreeWillAstrology.com.
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