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IN THEIR WORDS 11 Southern Santa Fe County commissioner wannabes and their cowboy hats

THE KID Legendary DJ Kid Koala talks with SFR ahead of his Santa Fe show about video games, creating records that span genre gaps, his Vinyl Vaudeville tour and that time he got to meet Björk with no help from Gorillaz’ Damon Albarn whatsoever.

COVER 12 COLLECTIVE UNCONQUERED After years of tirelessly working to better the lives of Santa Feans, local artist/activist Israel Francisco Haros Lopez may have found the answer with his new collective, Alas de Agua.

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MAYOR WEBBER THROWS FIRST PITCH AT ISOTOPES SANTA FE DAY GAME Alan played ball a long time ago in college, when baseballs were made of stone.

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of MIX Santa Fe. She co-founded an ostrich farm, which she bills as a sustainable source of red meat.

Romero describes her time with the regional coalition as a lesson in collaboOne of New Mexico’s most for the Regional Coalition of LANL Com- ration and reviving a group that needed munities came under scrutiny after she focus. hard-fought primaries will used organization money to pay for pricey “When I first began with RCLC, much determine who heads to drinks and ball games while hobnobbing of the leadership said the direction, basiwith officials in Washington, DC, and here cally, had gone awry,” she tells SFR. “[It the Roundhouse in Santa Fe. Romero and the coalition was] set up, essentially, to have an open backed away from each othrelationship with Los Alamos er and she no longer leads it.

National Lab and to underB Y M AT T G R U B S She, too, says the allegations stand what was going on there m a t t g r u b s @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m were politically motivated in order to inform their comand adds she’s reimbursed munities of opportunities he first thing anyone is likely to the group for spending that with environmental cleanup, hear about the Democratic priwasn’t allowed. economic development and mary in House District 46 is the One could be pardoned broader regional planning.” controversy.

She’s attracted broad supJust Tuesday, the woman who came for being tempted to stay port from the Pueblo leadforward accusing current state Rep. Carl home and not vote in the priers in her district. They’ve Trujillo of sexual harassment and un- mary. But the reality is that Andrea Romero flocked to her instead of Truwanted touching made her allegations whomever voters choose in formal, requesting the Legislature inves- the Democratic party contest on June 5 jillo, who’s clashed with them over water tigate him. It will. Laura Bonar says Tru- will likely be the representative. There’s rights and road access. She says her family, however, is party to the Aamodt water jillo stopped working with her in 2014 af- no Republican in the general election.

Dig a bit deeper, and you’ll rights case and hopes voters see in her a ter she rebuffed him. Three find a pair of candidates with person willing to talk. women who worked with qualifications for the post.

Trujillo, the incumbent since 2013, has her in the Legislature have Romero is a Santa Fe native staked his reputation said she told them about and Stanford grad who says on the work that the incidents then, and she wanted to come home af- drove some NaRep. Deborah Armstrong ter college, but the recession tive support says she heard similar alN had other plans. She landed to Romero. legations from two other with the International women. Trujillo denies the Food Policy Research claims and blames his opInstitute in Washingponent for their timing. As Carl Trujillo ton, DC, and later with of press time, he insists he’ll a non-governmental organizastay in the race.

Or perhaps it’s the string of headlines tion in Mozambique. She found from late this winter, as challenger An- her way back to New Mexico for drea Romero’s role as executive director the LANL work, and now is CEO

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“I have taken the time to understand the Aamodt settlement agreement inside and out, and the roadway issues inside and out. I’ve held … 30-40 town hall meetings since I’ve been elected. … It’s my obligation as a state representative to inform the constituency what it actually meant for them and their families,” he tells SFR. He’s gone to the Office of the State Engineer on behalf of, he says, some 500 non-Pueblo people to defend their right to pump water from the Nambé, Pojoaque and Tesuque Basin.

“I was fighting for a system that would preserve a community that would look like it did when I grew up, and for people to continue to be able to use farmlands, seeing people able to water fruit trees and small gardens,” he says.

A materials scientist at LANL, Trujillo has taken joy into digging into issues that require an in-depth look.

Trujillo insists there is much in motion when it comes to the sexual misconduct allegations against him and stands by his denials. For her part, Romero says she has never talked to the woman who’s made the claim.

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In some ways, it seems a shame that Democratic voters in the Los Alamos-dominated House District 43 have to choose between Christine Chandler and Pete Sheehey. The two, vying to replace Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard, already serve on the Los Alamos County Council and are well-versed in politics and policy. But this is democracy, and choose voters they must.

It’s a critical choice for Democrats, as they look to hang onto power in the House of Representatives. While the district’s voter registration numbers lean Democratic, Republican Jeannette

Wallace held the seat for two decades, and the GOP turns out in reliably high numbers for elections there.

Chandler, an attorney who runs a solo practice, has served as a bill analyst for the Senate Judiciary Committee four out of the past five sessions.

“That sets me up to hit the ground running,” she tells SFR. “I have strong analytical skills and I can cut through information pretty quickly. … I’m not afraid to speak up if I disagree with a decision.”

Chandler’s endorsed by EMILY’s List, a political action committee that focuses on female Democratic candidates, and points to her leadership record during two stints on the County Council. The SOURCE: NEW MEXICO LEGISLATURE

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first time her colleagues voted her to help lead the body, it was controlled by Republicans.

Sheehey is a retired LANL PhD who says the Legislature could use more scientists. He has endorsements from the Sierra Club and Conservation Voters of New Mexico.

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“Over the six years I’ve served at the County Council, I haven’t just taken positions, I’ve gotten things done,” Sheehey tells SFR, pointing to his success in adding the county to the Rio Grande Water Fund, which thins overgrown forests.

He paints himself as a consensus-seeker, pointing to a recent immigration proclamation that “rather than just ram it through [with a 5-2 Democratic majority], we rewrote the proclamation … and [had] unanimous support,” including from the two Republicans.

The district sneaks into the southwest side of Santa Fe by the historic village of Agua Fría. Garcia Richard dropped out to run for state land commissioner.

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In Their Words Four candidates for County Commission District 3 pitch voters

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seat representing the largest county commission district is up for grabs in this year’s Democratic primary election. Three contenders face off in the June 5 contest, and the winner might end up on the ballot against a former commissioner in November’s general election.

District 3, mostly in the southern part of Santa Fe County, is home to more than 50,000 people, and encompasses Edgewood, Stanley, Galisteo, Cerrillos, Madrid and La Cienega.

The rural area shares in some of the challenges as other parts of the county, including a dearth of health services described in a report released last October.

Candidates also say some, but not all, constituents want more development in the area so that residents don’t have to travel to Santa Fe and Albuquerque for work and school.

Changes on the horizon include a new First Choice Community Healthcare facility in Edgewood, financed in part by $3 million in bonds from Santa Fe County.

And the Cyclone Center in Stanley, an “allaround equine, livestock and event center” financed with $4.1 million from the county, is giving locals a place to gather.

THE EPIDEMIOLOGIST This political race is a first for rancher Donald Reece. Until two months ago, he had a contract to receive $100,000 annual-

ly from the county to operate the Cyclone arena. Then, he says, the county took over its operations.

Reece points to the center as an example of the kind of development for which he’d advocate.

“One of my priorities if I get elected is to try to attract business to southern Santa Fe County, so we can keep people employed locally and give opportunities for kids to stay,” Reece says, adding he’s also looking to lure more secondary education to the region.

He says his background working for decades in the federal health sector as well as his current position on the county’s Health Policy and Planning Commission give him insight into the layered health challenges of the area.

“Access to food, health care [and] children’s services need to be addressed individually, however we can,” he says. “It shouldn’t just be for the elite few.”

THE DIPLOMAT Rudy Garcia thinks his 25 years working for the county give him a special ability to navigate competing interests. He’s also served on the board of Santa Fe Public Schools since last December.

Garcia currently works as the legislative liaison project manager for the county.

He cites his recent work lobbying the state to soften the impact of a potential plan to end reimbursements to counties and mu-

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nicipalities for uncollected taxes on groceries as an example of his approach.

“One of the things I would like to see happen is a lot more dialogue between city, county and state governments, and see how we can all work together for planning and zoning in certain areas,” Garcia tells SFR. THE OTHER ANAYA Filandro Anaya isn’t related to current Santa Fe County District 3 Commissioner Robert Anaya, who can’t seek re-election now because of term limits, or Robert’s brother Mike, who has rebranded himself an independent and is gathering signatures for the general election.

But Filandro does come from a New Mexico political dynasty: His uncle Toney Anaya is a former governor, part of the Anaya clan in Moriarty.

“We’ve had 16 years of tag-team brothers; now it’s time for something else,” Anaya says.

His cites his experience sitting on the county’s planning commission for two years and 12 years on the Edgewood school board as reasons he is fit for the office.

Improving infrastructure in the county to make way for light industry would be a priority for him. “I’m pro-business,” Anaya says, but he doesn’t “want stuff that will pollute our ground surface water,” noting he would vote against the proposed Pilot Flying J travel center.

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This might include Mike Anaya, who was the District 3 commissioner from 2003 to 2011 and also couldn’t seek re-election due to laws that limit consecutive terms to two.

He tells SFR he chose to run as an independent candidate because he thinks the commission position “shouldn’t be party-based.” He has until June 28 to gather 220 nominating signatures in order to be on the ballot in November, and says he is maybe halfway there.

Anaya points to his role in passing the county’s oil and gas ordinance and in oversight of the Buckman Direct Diversion Project, which treats water from the Rio Grande for taps in the city and county, as top achievements during his previous stint.

He was also on the commission when the sheriff’s office grew its ranks, and says he’s receptive to adding more deputies.

Anaya, who lives in Galisteo, sees comparisons to his brother as a point of pride.

“We were always taught to respect and listen to people,” he says. “My approach is going to be the same as it was when I was county commissioner.”

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Collective Unconquered

ISRAEL FRANCISCO HAROS LOPEZ RALLIES A BOLD NEW TYPE OF SANTA FE ART COLLECTIVE

“‘The Paletero Brings All the Colors of Pacha Mama’ is a mural concept that Alas de Agua Art Collective and The New Mexico Mural Project are trying to donate to Santa Fe,” writes artist and organizer Israel Francisco Haros Lopez. “’The ice cream seller brings all the colors of Mother Earth’ is a piece about the beautiful layered truth of how much contribution our undocumented and immigrant populations bring to our communities.

The ice cream seller comes out to work on the hottest days to bring sweetness to our lives. The reality that on hot days we might want to be in the shade and relaxing, this individual does not get that luxury and has to work in order to support themselves and other family members. This is about the reality of how much strength and beauty our immigrant population does for our city, cleaning our bathrooms, our hotel rooms, taking care of our children, being our doctors, our teachers, cooking our food, in all aspects of our lives they are there bringing the sweetness, beauty in our lives, whether we see them or not they come out on the hardest days to do the labors that others might not necessarily do.”

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he first New Mexico home for Israel Francisco Haros Lopez was a tent. In the summer of 2009, he moved here from his native city of Los Angeles and set up camp not far from Santa Fe. “I was coming from East LA—Boyle Heights—which has been going through lots of gentrification battles,” Haros Lopez says. “I was getting pushed out. A two-bedroom place was already half a million, so there was no way I could ever afford land in Los Angeles.”

One day during his high desert campout, Haros Lopez headed into Santa Fe and went on a job hunt. He’d recently graduated from California College of the Arts with an MFA in creative writing, and was looking for teaching work.

“I was trying to find the place where you could register to be a substitute teacher, which is how I accidentally ended up in the Adelante office,” Haros Lopez says.

The Adelante Program, an affiliate of Santa Fe Public Schools, works to provide academic resources and other opportunities to homeless children, youth and their families.

Adelante’s director offered Haros Lopez a job as the organization’s program coordinator, and he went from temporarily homeless to uplifting homeless kids. The near-poetic twist of fate stands out as a turning point in his story, one that inspired him to harness wisdom from his own early-in-life fight for survival in service of powerful community organizing efforts. As an artist, he works with local teenagers to paint murals across the city. As a writer and performer, he hosts readings and workshops.

His latest project is Alas de Agua, a mercurial collective of New Mexico artists that directly addresses structural inequality in the art world. The group is open to all, but explicitly positions itself as a resource for artists of color, Indigenous artists, queer artists and immigrant artists. There’s nothing quite like Alas de Agua in the local creative milieu; its members envision an equitable society by modeling one in microcosm. As a uniting force behind the collective, Haros Lopez aims to shine fresh light on deep divides in the Santa Fe community—and open up space for what he calls “compassionate conflict.”

On a Tuesday afternoon in early April, Haros Lopez sits in the back corner of Counter Culture Café on Baca Street. He’s just finished his workday

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at the Adelante office, where his title is now high school homeless liaison.

His name badge from work still dangles around his neck. Tomorrow is the weekly gathering of Alas de Agua at the collective’s headquarters on Lena Street. Haros Lopez conceived of the group last May with three other local creatives: Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, John Paul Granillo and AJ Goldman.

They’d been collaborating on an ongoing series of readings called Poetry of the People, so collectivizing felt like an organic move.

The roots of Alas de Agua go back nine years to when Haros Lopez first arrived in Santa Fe. “When I got here, I felt this deep silence—physically, internally,” he says. “For a year I did not perform, I didn’t go and read poetry, I didn’t do anything.” He finally attended a writing workshop at SITE Santa Fe, and was surprised to be the only Chicano writer in the group. “It was me and 15 older white women. I wasn’t used to that dynamic, coming from Los Angeles, which was really mixed,” says Haros Lopez. He’d unknowingly crossed an invisible partition in the community, an idea that started to figure more prominently into his writing. “I realized how many spaces in Santa Fe don’t feel safe, I think, to people of color,” he says.

Not long after that, Haros Lopez participated in an open mic at El Farol on Canyon Road, and read poetry about his experiences in Santa Fe. “I had a Chicano come up to me after and say, ‘You can’t talk about that,’” he recalls. “It was a bit of a shock to hear that. This older generation Chicano who’s been in Santa Fe for a while felt that you couldn’t speak to complex

I realized how many spaces in Santa Fe don’t feel safe, I think, to people of color.

-Israel Francisco Haros Lopez

issues around Chicanismo, or issues around people of color.”

Haros Lopez has been honing his writerly voice—it’s rapid-fire and witty, with searing undercurrents—for a lifetime. He was raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom, who worked in a sweatshop but still managed to buy him notebooks to fill with words. As a 19-year-old, first-generation college student at San Francisco State University, he had a health scare that shifted his path towards writing and visual art. He completed his undergraduate degree in English with a minor in Chicano Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he started making large-scale paintings inspired by the Aztecan iconographic language of Nahuatl.

“It’s all about this intrinsic language that starts to surface, and this ancestral knowledge that we’ve been told is lost but has always been with us,” says Haros Lopez. He teaches this idea to young people in different parts of the Santa Fe community through his collaborative mural projects. Working with organizations such as the Esperanza Shelter, Milagro Middle School and the local juvenile detention center, he inspires kids to tap into their respective wells of intrinsic imagery and translate what they discover into monumental artworks.

After UC Berkeley, Haros Lopez pursued an associate’s degree in visual art at Berkeley Community College.

He continued to build his writing portfolio, and gained entry to the graduate program in creative writing at California College of the Arts. He returned to his old neighborhood in Los Angeles with three degrees, and started performing at open mics that taught him how to speak to different audiences. “I got a lot of practice pushing all kinds of boundaries, getting people to laugh and look inside,” Haros Lopez says.

“It’s compassionate conflict. People say, ‘You’re wrong’ or ‘You’re right,’ but there’s an in-between. We have so many complex ideas about what the world’s supposed to be.”

Haros Lopez brought this vast artistic toolkit into his work with Alas de Agua, with the intent of opening up spaces for tough conversations. “I really started looking at these different layered histories in Santa Fe,” he says.

“There’s a lot of silencing, there’s a lot of trauma, there’s a lot of ‘you can’t talk about that.’ I was like, ‘Um, yeah we can, and I’m going to show you.’”

Alas de Agua does not hold meetings. “For me, that’s death. It becomes a meeting about a meeting about a meeting,” says Haros Lopez. “We do art jams instead.”

It’s a little after 5 pm on Wednesday, and the group’s members are lounging on bright orange picnic tables in an office space in the Lena Street Lofts. Local artist Hernan Gomez Chavez has brought in a new series of sculptures for critique, while other folks are making art or just chatting. Out back, three teenage boys from a DACA activist group are painting murals on moveable walls salvaged from Warehouse 21, now Studio Center of Santa Fe. In this space, there’s no set agenda or central conversation. Sometimes the collective will hold workshops or host guest speakers, but projects typically start with one-on-one conversations. “It’s mostly about just being here every Wednesday,” says Haros Lopez. “Relationships create your sustainability.”

The door to the space reads “SEED,” which is a nonprofit that’s affiliated with the youth mentorship project Inspire Santa Fe. Todd Lopez, who cofounded SEED and Inspire, offered his space and a fiscal sponsorship in January. The previous spring, the nonprofit organization Santa Fe Partners in Education had offered the collective a fiscal sponsorship. Alas de Agua had just received a $5,000 grant from Santa Fe’s Kindle Project, and Haros Lopez was looking for a way to put it directly in artists’ hands instead of tangling it up in bureaucracy. With the offer of the SEED space, all of the pieces were finally in place.

A recent gathering of Alas de Agua finds teens from Santa Fe High School working together to create art and affect change.

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Like most aspects of Alas de Agua, the collective’s membership base is a liquid property. Anywhere from three to 30 folks show up at the weekly art jams, and the collective’s open mics and other events often draw much larger crowds. However, a circle of regulars has coalesced since the group secured the SEED space early this year.

There’s cofounder AJ Goldman, who’s spent most of his adult life bouncing around the Southwest but saw Alas

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de Agua as a reason to stick At that point you’re simply around for longer than he ever fooling yourself.” He’s a fan of has anywhere else. He’s been local projects like Meow Wolf, helping the other artists beef but when the opportunity up their websites and portcame to build his own collecfolios. Jeanette Iskat knew tive, Wellington was looking Haros Lopez back in East Los to fill a hole in the creative Angeles, where he inspired conversation. “[Meow Wolf ] her to start writing poetry and exists in this sci-fi metaphor, perform it at open mics. She which is fine; but that’s not moved to New Mexico on his enough, especially in a place suggestion, and is one of Alas that in some ways is really de Agua’s most reliable memvery divided,” he says. “It’s pobers. litely divided relative to other Like Iskat, Yvonne Sandoplaces, but it’s very divided.” val and her 8-year-old daughWellington hopes the ter Yoli (short for Yolotzin) group can spark a larger diamake the hour-long drive from logue that directly addresses Villanueva every week for the current social issues, on a loart jams. Sandoval has woven cal and national level. “That’s the collective’s activities into my main thing, that it’s foYoli’s homeschool curriculum, cused on social issues, racial and the group inspired her to issues,” he says. “To me, it’s start making art for the first a minority majority. You can time. When she was strapped have that frame of mind as for cash during the holidays, a white person, too, but this Haros Lopez offered her part space starts with minorities.”

The man himself: Israel Francisco Haros Lopez. “We need more of the Kindle Project grant burners on the stove to keep all his pots boiling,” says his wife, to buy supplies and make art Another week has passed Isabel Ribe. to sell. when Alas de Agua gathers Hallee Fresco is about to at Zephyr Community Art graduate from the soon-toStudio for the Poetry of the be-defunct Santa Fe University of Art er whose work has appeared in SFR, sits People open mic. Once a month, the group and Design, where she organized a gath- with a topsy-turvy heap of notebooks and breaks from their usual art jams for anothering of Indigenous artists as a freshman. papers in front of him. His new book of er entry in the series that they call POTP, She’s been searching for a similar sense of poetry, Life’s Prisoners, crowns the stack. which sounds like a superhero sound efcommunity ever since, and found it here. The assemblage embodies the complete fect. Around the same time the collective Yvette Serrano, also a SFUAD senior, grew arc of a writer’s process, from meander- landed in the SEED office, Zephyr’s direcup in Santa Fe and lived in Denver for three ing scribbles to an award-winning book; tor Alysha Shaw offered him a key to her Life’s Prisoners received the Turtle Island space as well. years before returning here for school.

“Look at us, we’re a bunch of weirdos Poetry Award last year. Wellington is using Along the exterior wall of Zephyr, and brown people,” says Serrano. “I always money from Alas de Agua to order another students from Santa Fe High School are feel super uncomfortable in groups where round of copies from his publisher. painting murals on enormous plywood “I’m from the South, and I would say boards. Haros Lopez hovers just inside I’m the only brown person there. We all come from these different, but somehow that there’s less discussion of racial ten- the door, rapidly stapling together copsimilar, backgrounds and experiences. sion here than there,” Wellington tells ies of the latest Poetry of the People SFR. “It’s very liberal, obviously, but chapbook. “Now because we have three That’s what keeps me coming back.”

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, another people tend to feel that it’s so liberal that volumes, in the fall I’ll put it into a book early Alas de Agua member and a writ- there’s no need to have such a discussion. format,” he says. “If you say you’re makMARK WOODWARD

Kindle Project is an initiative that’s just as radical as Alas de Agua. The local nonprofit works with young inheritors of wealth to redefine philanthropy, distributing awards and grants to leaders of the creative community in New Mexico and far beyond. “We’re really giving from a place of no strings attached,” says Sadaf Rassoul Cameron, Kindle’s cofounder and director. “We’re looking at money as a tool of colonization—how money has been used in communities as a tool for oppression—and how can we help liberate that.”

Kindle gave Haros Lopez its $10,000 Maker’s Muse award in 2016, and offered Alas de Agua the seed grant last April.

“With folks like Israel and the people that are involved in Alas de Agua, they’re doing the work anyway,” Rassoul Cameron explains. “With or without the money, they’re doing the work. They don’t need the money to validate what they’re living and breathing.”

Haros Lopez dreamed up a name for the collective that is as free-flowing as his vision for the group: Alas de Agua is Spanish for “wings of water.” Haros Lopez explains, “We’re teaching community members to be resilient and resourceful where there’s nothing but blockade borders. How do you do something just with Sharpies, or just with pencil and paper?

How do you do something when you have total access to a gallery? It’s the whole spectrum.”

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ing a book at the beginning, people start backtracking, like, ‘Oh, I’m not ready for that.’ Three chapbooks in, you can say, ‘But you’ve submitted all these poems already!’”

Haros Lopez’s wife Isabel Ribe is curled up on a squashy couch in the cozy warehouse space, sleepily watching her husband flit like a hummingbird around Zephyr. She also works for the Adelante Program, and they just had their big annual fundraiser yesterday. “Do you have an espresso shot?” she asks with a laugh.

“I had a super late night last night.” Apart from her day job, Ribe is in the final stages of a graduate program in occupational therapy.

“Lately, I kind of show up and that’s all I can do,” says Ribe of Alas de Agua.

“Izzy always kind of has this river going that I jump in and out of. I’ve never really known him to not be doing 12 projects at a time.” The couple first glimpsed each other, of course, at an open mic that Haros Lopez was emceeing. “I was like, ‘Who is this guy?’ Apparently he noticed me that night, too,” Ribe says.

Haros Lopez and Ribe have been together for six years now, and married for almost two. Last year they put their first down payment on a house in Pojoaque.

Ribe is from Washington, DC, but has family in New Mexico and has lived in Santa Fe on and off throughout her life.

“Santa Fe is a city of bubbled experiences,” says Ribe. “When I tell people who live on the east side that there are 1,700 homeless kids in Santa Fe, their jaws drop on the floor. They’re like, ‘What are you talking about, where are these people, what’s going on?’ It’s my experience that other cities don’t necessarily have that

Alas de Agua evolves week by week, but art activities for young Santa Feans are always in the mix.

level of blindness about what’s happening in their own city.”

Over the years that she’s visited and lived here, Ribe has watched communal spaces that unite cross sections of the community begin to evaporate. She sees a severe shortage of gathering places in Santa Fe outside of the commercial sphere, something that Alas de Agua is working to address. “One of the really beautiful things I’ve seen happen in Santa Fe is that whenever there’s a space, a physical space that’s empty or available, it gets filled like a vacuum,” Ribe says. “The space that’s been so beautifully and generously donated to us

by SEED is literally bursting at the seams.”

Haros Lopez isn’t just hosting the Alas de Agua meetings at the SEED space. He has also invited a DACA activist organization, a group that addresses domestic violence in Indigenous communities, and the creative collaboration 3 Sisters Collective to use the office throughout the week. It’s a packed schedule.

Further illustrating Ribe’s point, Alas de Agua members and other locals have drifted into Zephyr and sit along the walls, elbow to elbow. Haros Lopez jumps up and grabs the microphone to start the reading, but 8-year-old Yoli soon commandeers the role of emcee. “This is why we do what we do!” Haros Lopez says, beaming down at her and surrendering the spotlight.

Alas de Agua is in their Lena Street space for another Wednesday art jam, though this one feels more like a dreaded meeting. Niomi Fawn, an independent curator who owns and operates Curate Santa Fe, has convened the collective to offer them their first-ever group exhibition at ART.i.factory, the gallery portion of

the Art.i.fact consignment shop on Baca Street. It opens during the Baca Street Bash on July 21, a prime slot on the shopcum-gallery’s schedule.

Hernan Gomez Chavez has the floor, and outlines the themes he’s been exploring in his art recently. Over the last year, Chavez has exhibited an abstract sculpture series at OTA Contemporary on Canyon Road, but his new work is more political.

“How can I speak to the violence that Native people feel, or violence against women?” Gomez Chavez says. “It’s been very difficult to move outside of making those sculptures, and work towards

something that has more to do with what really speaks to me on a deeper, personal level. This new stuff that I’m making might put off my family, or art collectors who are looking for something that’s purely aesthetic.”

Fawn nods in approval. “If your family doesn’t get your art, take it as a compliment,” they say. “The point is that this show is an opportunity to be radical, and it seems like that’s where we all are. I don’t think radicalism and beauty are mutually exclusive, by any means.”

A week later, the group meets again to settle on a name for the show. Among the options are Divided States, Who Are We Now? and Divided But Unconquered. They finally pick Who Is My Neighbor? with the subtitle “Facing the future in a divided New Mexico.” The title is inspired by an art installation about gentrification that Gomez Chavez recently debuted in Chicago. Not long after the name is set, Haros Lopez arrives—a few hours late and covered in rare high desert raindrops— with good news.

“I know it hasn’t been long, but it looks like we’ve already outgrown our space,”Jaros Lopez announces to an uncharacteristically silent room. “The Kindle Project is giving us another grant, and they’ve offered to pay the rent if we can find a bigger ABOVE: “Deer space on the Southside.”

Songs,” a He tries to continue, but mixed-media he’s quickly drowned painting by out by cheers.

Haros Lopez.

Later, Haros Lopez outlines his vision for a new community gathering space somewhere near Airport Road. “You get down towards Airport, and there’s a lot of resources that aren’t there for our families,” he says. “This space, it will be an art space, but it’s a space where community members can come and know what different resources are available to them.

The art is at the center, but it’s also just an excuse. People have answers, but what we don’t have is space—until now.”

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You’re valuable, so when you get to writing plays, such as Sartre’s No Exit, we people get to checking them out. In the play, three dead souls enter hell and come to realize that an eternity of damnation might not be what they’d assumed.

Horrible transgressions are confessed, the idea of morality is examined and humans plumb the very depths of their psyches. Students from St. John’s College’s Chrysostomos Players tackle Sartre’s work and everyone else realizes they’re going to die one day. Gah. (Alex De Vore)

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We’ll never forget our first time walking down the stairs to The Matador—we only had a baggie full of quarters (true story), but consummate barman Caesar accepted them and poured our drink strong. Punk rock blared from the speakers, young people milled about chatting and the no-frills atmosphere seemed to scream, “You’ve found your place!” Fast-forward 11 years, and everyone’s favorite subterranean bar is still serving them up strong and with a smile. Let’s celebrate, shall we? With DJs and special edition T-shirts and those three-finger pours you’ve come to expect from ’em. Cheers to you, The Matador, and here’s to 11 more. (ADV) The Matador’s 11th Birthday: 9 pm Thursday May 10. Free.

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TIMES THREE SFR has had great things to say about literally every performer taking the stage at Second Street Brewery’s Rufina Taproom this Sunday night—from singer-songwriter Liv Lombardi’s self-reflective tunes and ppoacher ppoacher’s weird-out harp jams to Ten Ten Division front woman Vonnie Kyle’s love of rocking guitars and introspective lyrical style. These are strong and fearless musicians who run the gamut from folky songwriting and intense world music influences to straight-up rockand-effing-roll, all of which sounds pretty damn good to us. (ADV) Liv Lombardi, Ten Ten Division and ppoacher ppoacher: 8 pm Sunday May 13. $8.

Second Street Brewery (Rufina), 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068.

Trial by Fire Community College students bring the musical heat With summer just around the corner, there lies one obstacle for students everywhere: finals. Stacks of scattered notes around the bedroom and binders full of equations await many, but those enrolled in the Santa Fe Community College’s Intro to Live and Reason course have something else in store.

For the past 14 weeks, six students have been learning the ways of Ableton Live and Reason (two popular software programs used for music production), and this week they’ll finally strut their stuff. “I’ve always been intrigued with how to make music and music production in general, stemming from growing up on hip-hop; now I’m finally getting around to getting all the technical training,” student Ben Hoffacker tells SFR. While one semester might seem like a lot of time to learn how to use only two programs, there’s a very steep learning curve. And instead of a traditional final to test his students on all the ins and outs of their newly acquired beatmaking skills, professor Jason Goodyear has opted to go the live performance route, a method he’s used for years. “The idea is not just, ‘Here’s how you do it, blah blah blah,’” Goodyear says. “Let’s go through and learn this for the purpose of using it—stepping up in

front of people and actually doing something.”

For the performance, the class splits into two groups, but each performer still gets time to shine. Jennifer Castro, a local DJ who goes by the name BadCat elaborates: “We’re not performing one comprehensive piece together, we’re each doing our own thing. I’m going to prepare different clips of the instruments that would be used in making up my techno track, then I’ll perform that song live, and there’s some other people that are going to be playing instruments along with their tracks.”

The for-credit class is filled with people from varying experience levels and backgrounds, so each performance should have its own unique sound and style.

“It’s a great opportunity to hear a wide variety of musicianship from Santa Fe that you would normally not get to hear,” Castro adds. If that’s not your cup of tea, Goodyear jokes, “Come see music by people with nothing to lose.” (Pema Baldwin)

INPUT|OUTPUT 7 pm Friday May 11. Free.

O’Shaugnessy Performance Space, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6011

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HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Locals and tourists alike can learn new things about Santa Fe with a walking tour led by guides from the New Mexico History Museum. Kids under 17 are free with an adult.

10:15 am, $15 ¡VÁMONOS! SANTA FE: WALK WITH THE FAITH COMMUNITY Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St., 955-6949 Rise 'n' shine and head to the park to go for a stroll with Rabbi Neil Amswych. For more info, check out sfct.org/ vamonos.

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WED/9 BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK BY NATALIE GOLDBERG Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Author and Zen practitioner Natalie Goldberg presents "The True Secret of Writing."

Bring a notebook and pen, y'all.

5:30 pm, free MFA GRADUATE RESIDENCY READINGS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Hear from those about to graduate from the IAIA Low Residency MFA in creative writing program.

3 pm, free MIDDLE LENGTH LAM RIM Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second St., Ste. 35, 660-7056 Learn about Lam Rim—it means "Stages of the Path" in Tibetan.

6:30 pm, free PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Great for young kids.

10:45 am, free

DANCE DANCE FOR ALL ABILITIES AND LEVELS Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St., 577-8187 Dance with Claire Rodill. RSVP is required, so call or email crodill99@gmail.com.

2 pm, $10

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Pub quiz!

8 pm, free

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CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar.

7 pm, free DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, acid lounge, half-time and dance tunes.

10 pm, free DAVE MENSCH Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Acoustic rock and country.

8 pm, free DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Santa Fe's consummate Broadway performer.

6 pm, free GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Irish and Celtic tunes mixed with Latin flavor.

7:30 pm, free GOT SOUL El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Catch soulful jazz from the house band.

10 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH JASON REED Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fria St. Reed rekindles his open mic on Santa Fe’s newest stage.

Participants get a recording after the show.

6:30 pm, free RAMON BERMUDEZ JR. TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Latin and smooth jazz guitar.

You’ll be like, “That’s smooth.”

6 pm, free

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Brooklyn’s feminist acrobatic dance troupe LAVA joins forces with Wise Fool for its new piece, A Goddessey. It goes down Saturday and Sunday.

SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Golden Age standards.

6:30-9:30 pm, free SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Folky-rocky tunes from a singer-songwriter type.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

THEATER NO EXIT St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 Three damned souls find themselves mysteriously brought together in Hell, but damnation is not what they expected. Great Hall, Peterson Student Center (see SFR Picks, page 17).

7 pm, free

THU/10 BOOKS/LECTURES MFA GRADUATE RESIDENCY READINGS Lannan Foundation 313 Read St., 986-8160 Hear from students of the IAIA Low Residency MFA in creative writing program.

7:30 pm, free

MARY MORRIS: ENTER WATER, SWIMMER Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Morris reads from her new collection of imaginative and vivid poems. Ah, poetry—the kind of stuff that makes life worth living. Our calendar editor loves poetry so much.

6:30 pm, free

JOHN RANGEL'S DUET SERIES El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz piano maestro Rangel performs with a guest.

7 pm, free KID KOALA'S VINYL VAUDEVILLE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Koala brings his traveling show of music and craziness (see Music, page 22).

7 pm, $20-$25 MATADOR'S 11TH BIRTHDAY The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Matador's turning 11, so party till ya drop (see SFR Picks, page 17)!

9 pm, free NORTH BY NORTH, SEX HEADACHES AND BODIES Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 North by North brings rock from Chicago. Locals Sex Headaches bring the punk.

9 pm, $8 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar from the jazziest solo jazz guitar guy around. Seriously, Malone is a local treasure.

6 pm, free

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Have someone else read to your kids.

11 am, free

DANCE O2 SWING NIGHT Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Swing dance the night away.

8 pm, $10

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Quiz hard, drink well.

7 pm, free HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 A walking tour led by guides from the New Mexico History Museum.

10:15 am, $15

FILM

MUSIC BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Original dharma songs.

10 am, free BROTHERHOOD SOUND SYSTEM Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Reggae and hip-hop.

10 pm, free GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Irish-Latin fusion jams.

7:30 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, rock and contemporary favorites on piano with vocals.

6:30 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Americana and honky-tonk.

7 pm, free

PHYLLIS LOVE Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards and this one Italian dish that has pink noodles. Pink!

6 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic songs from the ’60s, ’70s and beyond. We like to think the “beyond” part is weird jams from some unseen astral plane.

5:30 pm, free SOCIETY OF BROKEN SOULS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk noir all the way from Iowa, a place where we think folk music might have been born. Jay-kay. But furreal, they’re pretty good.

8 pm, free

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ART OPENINGS BEGINNINGS II OTA Contemporary 203 Canyon Road, 930-7800 Celebrate the gallery's first birthday with works by Kiyomi Baird and Robert Koch. We hear there’s wine (see A&C, page 27).

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IAIA STUDENT FILMMAKER FESTIVAL Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 The creme de la creme of student films from the Institute of American Indian Arts.

6:30 pm, free SPRING FILM SMASH BASH Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Films from a variety of genres certain to scratch that film buff itch of yours.

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The official ballot for the Best of Santa Fe 2018 NOMINATED! Local Living Best Business Downtown

Century Bank Doodlet’s Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Los Alamos National Bank Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar

Best Business in the Railyard/ Guadalupe District Boxcar Century Bank Fruit of the Earth Organics Santa Fe Farmers Market Second Street Brewery Violet Crown Cinema

Best Business in the Siler Road Corridor Big Jo True Value Hardware Java Joe’s & Groovy Bean Coffee Roasters Kitchenality Meow Wolf Second Street Brewery Rufina Taproom SolCore Fitness

Best Business on Cerrillos Road Artisan Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Jambo Café Los Alamos National Bank Santa Fe Climbing Center

Best Business on St. Michael’s Drive/ Triangle District Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Renewal Health & Wellness Club The Candyman Strings & Things

Best Business on the Southside

Century Bank Joe’s Dining Look What the Cat Dragged In Pet Suites Plaza Café Southside Tribes Coffeehouse

Best Hiking Trail Aspen Vista Atalaya Dale Ball Trails Galisteo Basin Preserve Picacho Peak Winsor Trail

Best Nonprofit Adelante Gerard’s House Kitchen Angels Renesan Institute for Lifelong Learning Smiles From Drew The Food Depot

Best Nonprofit for Animals

Assistance Dogs of the West Española Humane Felines & Friends Look What the Cat Dragged In New Mexico Center for Therapeutic Riding Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society

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Best Nonprofit for the Environment Commonweal Conservancy New Energy Economy New Mexico Environmental Law Center Santa Fe Conservation Trust Santa Fe Watershed Association WildEarth Guardians

Best Public Servant Javier Gonzales Martin Heinrich Peter Ives Ronald Trujillo Signe Lindell Tom Udall

Best Youth Program

Boys & Girls Club of Santa Fe Girls Inc. Ms. Cohen’s Homeschool Classroom Santa Fe Climbing Center Upstart Crows YouthWorks

Services

Best Acupuncturist Blue Lotus Integrative Healing Arts Dr. Alix P. Bjorklund Dr. Fiquet H Duckworth Dr. Jeffrey Meyer Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine We the People Community Acupuncture

Best Aesthetic Treatment

Dare to Bare Wax Den Eldorado Skin Care Glow Skin, Lash and Spray Tan Boutique Mist Skin Care Sterling Aesthetics Ten Thousand Waves

Best Alternative Healing Practitioner

Dr. Jeffrey Meyer Modern Aphrodite and Dr. Anne Ridley Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Renewal Health & Wellness Club Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Scher Center For Wellbeing

Best Art Frame Shop Fine Art Framers Frontier Frames Get Framed Gold Leaf Framemakers Justin’s Frame Design Wilkinson & Co. Fine Art Framers

Best Barber Shop

Dino’s Drive-In Barbershop Guadalupe Barber Shop Klean Cut Kenny Nick’s Barber Shop The Center Barber & Beauty Shop TNA Hair Salon

Best Cannabis Dispensary

Vote THROUGH May 31

Fruit of the Earth Organics Kure Cannabis Minerva Canna New Mexicann Natural Medicine Sacred Garden Ultra Health

Best Car Repair

Ace Automotive Certified Experts Alex Safety Lane Honest Automotive Mora’s Auto Repair The Auto Angel Toyota of Santa Fe

Best Chiropractor

Blue Lotus Integrative Healing Art/ Josh Sinberg, DC Connerly Chiropractic, Acupuncture & Physical Medicine Group Dr. Windy Carter/ Winds of Choice Chiropractic Center ElleWell Scher Center for Wellbeing

Best Computer and IT Services

4Leet Managed IT Services & Computer Repair Capitol Computer & Network Solutions Dotfoil Computers Hope Kiah - Santa Fe Web Design Santa Fe Computer Works Synergy Tech

Best Dentist/ Dental Practice

Ahh Dental, Dr. Renae Moreschini Divine Dental of Santa Fe Dr. Patrick McQuitty, DDS Milagro Dentistry Eldorado Dental, Dr. Haley Ritchey Jensen Elledge Dental

Best Facial

Eldorado Skin Care Glow Skin, Lash & Spray Tan Boutique Mist Skin Care Santa Facials Shunay Mineral Cosmetics Ten Thousand Waves

Best Financial Institution

Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Guadalupe Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank New Mexico Bank & Trust State Employees Credit Union

Best Fitness Facility

ANK Santa Fe Muay Thai Da Vinci Body Studio Fitness Bootcamp Santa Fe Genoveva Chavez Community Center Railyard Fitness SolCore Fitness

Best Hair Salon

Chrome Salon and Blowout Bar Evolution Hair Design Rock Paper Scissors Salon Spa Salon del Mar The Center Barber & Beauty Shop Unique Expressions

Best Health Care Aspen Medical Center La Familia Medical Center Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Presbyterian Medical Group Scher Center for Wellbeing Southwest CARE Center

Best Insurance Agency

HUB International Insurance Reynolds & Rodar Insurance Group Rio Grande Insurance Services State Farm (James Armijo) State Farm (Bryan Doerner) State Farm (Garrett Seawright)

Best Landscaping Company

Cassidy’s Landscaping Chamisa Landscaping Glorious Earth Landscapes McCumber Fine Gardens Northern New Mexico Gardens San Isidro Permaculture

Best Law Firm

Clark, Jones & Pennington Dan Cron Law Firm Egolf + Ferlic + Harwood Katz Herdman MacGillivray & Fullerton Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid The Sommer Udall Law Firm

Best Lender

Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Gateway Mortgage Group Guadalupe Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank State Employees Credit Union

Best Lodging

Drury Plaza Hotel Inn of the Governors Inn on the Alameda La Fonda on the Plaza La Posada de Santa Fe Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi

Best Massage

Blue Lotus Integrated Healing Arts High Desert Healthcare & Massage Joy’s Hot Stone Massage Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Ten Thousand Waves

Best Nail Salon

CA Nails Chrome Salon & Blowout Bar Ivy’s Nail Spa Nail Experts Nail Time Serenity Nail Salon

Best Pet Grooming Barks & Bubbles Cheeky Bubbles Paws Plaza Pet Suites Shelby’s Pet Styles Turquoise Tails

Best Pet Daycare Barks & Bubbles Happy at Home Paws Plaza Pet Suites Santa Fe Tails Top Dog Pet Resort

Best Pilates Studio Aware Pilates Da Vinci Body Studio Pilates Bodies Pilates Santa Fe Rise Pilates The Movement Studio

Best Plumbing Company

Anytime Plumbing Aranda’s Plumbing, Heating & Supply Glenn’s Plumbing & Heating Pipeworks Plumbing Roadrunner Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration Inc. TLC Plumbing Heating & Cooling

Best Real Estate Agency

Barker Realty Keller Williams Realty Logic Real Estate Santa Fe Properties, Inc. Santa Fe Realty Unlimited Sotheby’s International Real Estate

Best Roofing Company

Brian McPartlon Roofing Fix My Roof Goodrich Roofing of Santa Fe Mike Lopez Roofing Northway Roofing Santa Fe Stucco and Roofing

Best Solar Energy Company

Amenergy Eclipse Electric GO Solar NM Solar Group Sol Luna Solar SunPower by Positive Energy Solar

Best Spa

Body of Santa Fe High Desert Healthcare & Massage Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort & Spa Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Sunrise Springs Spa Resort Ten Thousand Waves

Best Storage Facility

A-1 Self Storage AAA Self Storage Warehouse Extra Space Storage Santa Fe Self Storage St. Michael’s Self Storage Wagon Self Storage

Best Tattoo Shop

Dawn’s Custom Tattoo Four Star Tattoo Lost Cowboy Tattoo & Gallery Talis Fortuna The Dungeon Tattoo & Piercing Tina’s Ink

Best Urgent Care

Aspen Medical Center Urgent Care & Primary Care Christus St. Vincent MinuteClinic at CVS Presbyterian Urgent Care Railyard Urgent Care ultiMED

Best Veterinarian Cedarwood Veterinary Clinic Gruda Veterinary Hospital Happy at Home Northside Veterinary Clinic Santa Fe Animal Hospital Smith Veterinary Hospital

Best Yoga Studio

Blue Moon Hot Yoga Body of Santa Fe Fitness Bootcamp Santa Fe Paradiso Santa Fe Santa Fe Community Yoga Center YogaSource

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Shopping

Best Bike Shop Bike n Sport Mellow Velo Rob & Charlie’s Sirius Cycles SpinDoc The Broken Spoke

Best Bookstore

The Ark Big Adventure Comics Book Mountain Collected Works Bookstore & Coffee House Garcia Street Books Op.Cit Books

Best Car Dealer Capitol Ford Lincoln Great Little Cars Honda of Santa Fe Lexus of Santa Fe Santa Fe BMW Toyota of Santa Fe

Best Children’s Store Doodlet’s Double Take Indigo Baby Merry Go Round Moon Rabbit Toys Toyopolis

Best Consignment

Double Take Indigo Baby Nina’s Closet Santa Fe Antiques and Flea Market Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery The Raven Fine Consignments

Best Floral Shop Amanda’s Flowers Artichokes & Pomegranates Barton’s Flowers Cutting Edge Flowers Pacific Floral Design Silene Floral

Best Garden/ Plant Supplies

Agua Fria Nursery Cedar Grove Nursery & Farm Newman’s Nursery Payne’s Nurseries Plants of the Southwest WATERWISE Gardening

Best Gift Store Curiosa Detours at La Fonda Doodlet’s Earthfire Gems Gallery Indigo Baby Nambe Trading Post

Best Hardware Store

Ace Hardware of Santa Fe Alpine Builders Supply Aranda’s Plumbing, Heating & Supply Big Jo True Value Hardware Eldorado True Value Empire Builders Supply

Best Head Shop

Concrete Jungle Smoke Shop Electric Gold Vapor Fruit of the Earth Organics Red House Smoke Shop Sacred Garden

Best Interior Home Store Design Warehouse Double Take Malouf on the Plaza Nambe Trading Post NEST Santa Fe Reside Home

Best Jewelry Store Diva Diamonds and Jewels Earthfire Gems Gallery James Kallas Jewelers Malouf on the Plaza Santa Fe Goldworks Wind River Trading Company

Best Mattress Shop Denver Mattress Company Mattress Firm Santa Fe Sachi Organics Sleep & Dream

Best Men’s Store Corsini Eternity of Santa Fe Harry’s Lancaster York Gentlemen’s Apparel Mavericks on the Plaza Red River Mercantile

Best Optical Shop Accent on Vision Eye Associates Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Ojo Optique Optical Shop of Santa Fe Quintana Optical

Best Pet Store

Eldorado Country Pet Jurassic Pets Pooch Pantry Bakery & Boutique Teca Tu A Pawsworthy Pet Emporium The Critters & Me Tullivers Pet Food Emporium

Best Shoe Store

Goler Malouf on the Plaza On Your Feet Street Feet The Running Hub Wind River Trading Company

Best Specialty Food/Cooking Store

Cheesemongers of Santa Fe Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Kitchenality La Cosas Kitchen Shoppe Santa Fe Olive Oil & Balsamic Company Santa Fe School of Cooking

Best Thrift Store

Barkin Boutique Double Take Kitchenality Look What the Cat Dragged In Savers The Hospice Thrift Store

Best Women’s Clothing Cupcake Clothing Double Take Get it Together Malouf on the Plaza Maverick’s of Santa Fe WearAbouts

Best Western Wear Back at the Ranch Double Take Kowboyz Lucchese Maverick’s of Santa Fe Santa Fe Hat Company

Arts and Entertainment Best Art Collective

City of Mud Meow Wolf Santa Fe Society of Artists Santa Fe Studio Tour Strangers Collective The Sculpture Union

Best Band

Cloacas Fun Adixx Hella Bella JJ and the Hooligans Nosotros The Hollyhocks

Best Bar

Bar Alto at the Drury Plaza Boxcar Del Charro Saloon La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room The Matador

Best Bartender

Clifford Pena, Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room Josie Mae Ortega, Jinja Leahi Mayfield, The Palace Leo Granados, La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Mark Kimble, Maize Zane Duffy, Violet Crown Cinema

Best Dance Company

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Nataraja Dance Company NDI New Mexico Pomegranate/ MOSAIC Dance Company The Saltanah Dancers Zircus Erotique

Best Date Spot

Boxcar Meow Wolf Milad Persian Bistro Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Ten Thousand Waves Violet Crown Cinema

Best DJ

DJ Dynamite Sol DJ Feathericci DJ Garronteed DJ John Edwards DJ Oskar Felix Cordova

Best Gallery

form & concept Kenny’s on the Plaza Nedra Matteucci Galleries New Concept Gallery Niman Fine Art Wow! Gallery

Best Hotel Bar

Agave Lounge, Eldorado Hotel Bar Alto, Drury Plaza Hotel Del Charro Saloon, Inn of the Governors La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Secreto Lounge, Hotel St. Francis Staab House, La Posada

Best Instagram Feed @fishbowlsoul_ @haydenfold @kuresantafecbd @meow_wolf @simplysantafenm @strangerscollective

Best Live Music Venue

Boxcar La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Lensic Performing Arts Center Meow Wolf Plaza Bandstand Santa Fe Opera

Best Movie House

Center for Contemporary Arts Cinematheque Jean Cocteau Cinema Lensic Performing Arts Center Regal Cinemas The Screen Violet Crown Cinema

Best Museum

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Museum of International Folk Art New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors New Mexico Museum of Art SITE Santa Fe

Best Performing Arts Venue

Adobe Rose Theater Lensic Performing Arts Center Meow Wolf Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Playhouse Teatro Paraguas

Best Theater Group Adobe Rose Theater Santa Fe Playhouse Teatro Paraguas Theater Grottesco Upstart Crows Wise Fool

Food and Drink Best Artisan Chocolate

CG Higgins Confections Cacao Santa Fe Chocolate Maven ChocolateSmith Kakawa Chocolate House Todos Santos Chocolates

Best Asian Restaurant

Chow’s Contemporary Chinese Izanami Restaurant Yin Yang Chinese Restaurant Jinja Bar & Bistro Lu Lu’s Chinese Cuisine Saigon Café

Best Bakery

Boultawn’s Bakery and Café Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Dolina Bakery & Café Dulce Bakery + Coffee Sage Bakehouse

Best Breakfast Café Fina Clafoutis La Plazuela at La Fonda on the Plaza Tecolote Café The Pantry Tia Sophia’s

Best Breakfast Burrito Blake’s Lotaburger Burrito Spot Café Fina El Parasol The Pantry Tia Sophia’s

Best Brunch Café Fina Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Midtown Bistro Opuntia Café The Hollar

Best Burger

Blake’s Lotaburger Del Charro Santa Fe Bite Second Street Brewery Shake Foundation The Burger Stand at Burro Alley

Best Chef

Ahmed Obo, Jambo Charles Dale, New Mexico Fine Dining Mark Connell, State Capitol Kitchen Martin Rios, Restaurant Martín Nou Kimnath (Chef Nath), Sweetwater Xavier Grenet, L’Olivier

Best Chile

Atrisco Café & Bar Horseman’s Haven Café La Choza The Pantry The Shed Tomasita’s

Best Cocktails

Coyote Café & Rooftop Cantina Del Charro Saloon Radish & Rye Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room Secreto Lounge Tonic

Best Coffee

Betterday Coffee Iconik Coffee Roasters Java Joe’s Ohori’s Coffee Roasters Sky Coffee The Coffee Wheel

Best Curry

Annapurna Café India House India Palace Jambo Café Paper Dosa Thai Café and Noodle Treats

NOMINATED! Best Dessert

Chez Mamou French Bakery & Café Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Dulce Bakery + Coffee Harry’s Roadhouse The Teahouse

Best Fine Dining

The Compound Coyote Café & Rooftop Cantina Geronimo L’Olivier Radish & Rye Restaurant Martín

Best Food Cart/ Truck/Stand Bang Bite Bruno’s El Chile Toreado Jambo Hapa Palate SantaFamous Street Eats

Best Frito Pie

Chicago Dog Express Del Charro El Parasol Five & Dime Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Trujillo Family Farm

Best Happy Hour

Agave Lounge, Eldorado Hotel Boxcar Il Piatto San Francisco Street Bar & Grill Santa Fe Capitol Grill Santacafé

Best Ice Cream/ Gelato/Frozen Yogurt

Ecco Espresso and Gelato Freezie Fresh Frogurt Self-Serve Frozen Yogurt La Lechería Paleteria Oasis Santa Fe Espresso Company (Häagen-Dazs)

Best International Cuisine India House Izanami Restaurant Jambo Café L’Olivier Milad Persian Bistro Paper Dosa

Best Italian Restaurant Andiamo!

Café Grazie Il Piatto Osteria D’Assisi Piccolino Trattoria a Mano

Best Locally Brewed Beer

Blue Corn Café & Brewery Duel Brewing Marble Brewery Rowley Farmhouse Ales Santa Fe Brewing Company Second Street Brewery

Best Margaritas

Del Charro Saloon La Choza La Fonda on the Plaza Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen The Shed Tomasita’s

Best New Mexican Restaurant Atrisco Café & Bar Café Castro La Choza Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen The Shed Tomasita’s

Best New Mexico Winery Black Mesa Winery Casa Rodena Winery Gruet New Mexico Hard Cider St. Clair Winery Vivac Winery

Best New Restaurant

Dolina Bakery & Café Maize Milad Persian Bistro Opuntia Café Paloma Restaurant Trattoria a Mano

Best Patio

Harry’s Roadhouse Iconik Coffee Roasters La Casa Sena Santacafé The Bell Tower Bar at La Fonda on the Plaza The Hollar

Best Pizza

Back Road Pizza Bruno’s Il Vicino Pizza Centro Rooftop Pizzeria Upper Crust Pizza

Best Sushi Restaurant Kai Sushi & Dining Kohnami Masa Sushi Shohko Café Sushi Land East Tokyo Café

Best Tacos

Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill El Chile Toreado El Parasol Felipe’s Tacos Palate Taco Fundación

Best Taproom

Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom Rowley Farmhouse Ales Santa Fe Brewing Company Second Street Brewery Violet Crown Cinema

Best Tea

ArtfulTea Chocolate Maven Iconik Coffee Roasters Opuntia Café Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar The Teahouse

Best Vegetarian

Love Yourself Café Annapurna Café Renewal Life Bar Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen Vinaigrette

The official ballot for the Best of Santa Fe 2018 NOMINATED! Local Living Best Business Downtown

Century Bank Doodlet’s Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Los Alamos National Bank Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar

Best Business in the Railyard/ Guadalupe District Boxcar Century Bank Fruit of the Earth Organics Santa Fe Farmers Market Second Street Brewery Violet Crown Cinema

Best Business in the Siler Road Corridor Big Jo True Value Hardware Java Joe’s & Groovy Bean Coffee Roasters Kitchenality Meow Wolf Second Street Brewery Rufina Taproom SolCore Fitness

Best Business on Cerrillos Road Artisan Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Jambo Café Los Alamos National Bank Santa Fe Climbing Center

Best Business on St. Michael’s Drive/ Triangle District Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Renewal Health & Wellness Club The Candyman Strings & Things

Best Business on the Southside

Century Bank Joe’s Dining Look What the Cat Dragged In Pet Suites Plaza Café Southside Tribes Coffeehouse

Best Hiking Trail Aspen Vista Atalaya Dale Ball Trails Galisteo Basin Preserve Picacho Peak Winsor Trail

Best Nonprofit Adelante Gerard’s House Kitchen Angels Renesan Institute for Lifelong Learning Smiles From Drew The Food Depot

Best Nonprofit for Animals

Assistance Dogs of the West Española Humane Felines & Friends Look What the Cat Dragged In New Mexico Center for Therapeutic Riding Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society

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Best Nonprofit for the Environment Commonweal Conservancy New Energy Economy New Mexico Environmental Law Center Santa Fe Conservation Trust Santa Fe Watershed Association WildEarth Guardians

Best Public Servant Javier Gonzales Martin Heinrich Peter Ives Ronald Trujillo Signe Lindell Tom Udall

Best Youth Program

Boys & Girls Club of Santa Fe Girls Inc. Ms. Cohen’s Homeschool Classroom Santa Fe Climbing Center Upstart Crows YouthWorks

Services

Best Acupuncturist Blue Lotus Integrative Healing Arts Dr. Alix P. Bjorklund Dr. Fiquet H Duckworth Dr. Jeffrey Meyer Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine We the People Community Acupuncture

Best Aesthetic Treatment

Dare to Bare Wax Den Eldorado Skin Care Glow Skin, Lash and Spray Tan Boutique Mist Skin Care Sterling Aesthetics Ten Thousand Waves

Best Alternative Healing Practitioner

Dr. Jeffrey Meyer Modern Aphrodite and Dr. Anne Ridley Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Renewal Health & Wellness Club Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Scher Center For Wellbeing

Best Art Frame Shop Fine Art Framers Frontier Frames Get Framed Gold Leaf Framemakers Justin’s Frame Design Wilkinson & Co. Fine Art Framers

Best Barber Shop

Dino’s Drive-In Barbershop Guadalupe Barber Shop Klean Cut Kenny Nick’s Barber Shop The Center Barber & Beauty Shop TNA Hair Salon

Best Cannabis Dispensary

Vote THROUGH May 31

Fruit of the Earth Organics Kure Cannabis Minerva Canna New Mexicann Natural Medicine Sacred Garden Ultra Health

Best Car Repair

Ace Automotive Certified Experts Alex Safety Lane Honest Automotive Mora’s Auto Repair The Auto Angel Toyota of Santa Fe

Best Chiropractor

Blue Lotus Integrative Healing Art/ Josh Sinberg, DC Connerly Chiropractic, Acupuncture & Physical Medicine Group Dr. Windy Carter/ Winds of Choice Chiropractic Center ElleWell Scher Center for Wellbeing

Best Computer and IT Services

4Leet Managed IT Services & Computer Repair Capitol Computer & Network Solutions Dotfoil Computers Hope Kiah - Santa Fe Web Design Santa Fe Computer Works Synergy Tech

Best Dentist/ Dental Practice

Ahh Dental, Dr. Renae Moreschini Divine Dental of Santa Fe Dr. Patrick McQuitty, DDS Milagro Dentistry Eldorado Dental, Dr. Haley Ritchey Jensen Elledge Dental

Best Facial

Eldorado Skin Care Glow Skin, Lash & Spray Tan Boutique Mist Skin Care Santa Facials Shunay Mineral Cosmetics Ten Thousand Waves

Best Financial Institution

Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Guadalupe Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank New Mexico Bank & Trust State Employees Credit Union

Best Fitness Facility

ANK Santa Fe Muay Thai Da Vinci Body Studio Fitness Bootcamp Santa Fe Genoveva Chavez Community Center Railyard Fitness SolCore Fitness

Best Hair Salon

Chrome Salon and Blowout Bar Evolution Hair Design Rock Paper Scissors Salon Spa Salon del Mar The Center Barber & Beauty Shop Unique Expressions

Best Health Care Aspen Medical Center La Familia Medical Center Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Presbyterian Medical Group Scher Center for Wellbeing Southwest CARE Center

Best Insurance Agency

HUB International Insurance Reynolds & Rodar Insurance Group Rio Grande Insurance Services State Farm (James Armijo) State Farm (Bryan Doerner) State Farm (Garrett Seawright)

Best Landscaping Company

Cassidy’s Landscaping Chamisa Landscaping Glorious Earth Landscapes McCumber Fine Gardens Northern New Mexico Gardens San Isidro Permaculture

Best Law Firm

Clark, Jones & Pennington Dan Cron Law Firm Egolf + Ferlic + Harwood Katz Herdman MacGillivray & Fullerton Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid The Sommer Udall Law Firm

Best Lender

Century Bank Del Norte Credit Union Gateway Mortgage Group Guadalupe Credit Union Los Alamos National Bank State Employees Credit Union

Best Lodging

Drury Plaza Hotel Inn of the Governors Inn on the Alameda La Fonda on the Plaza La Posada de Santa Fe Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi

Best Massage

Blue Lotus Integrated Healing Arts High Desert Healthcare & Massage Joy’s Hot Stone Massage Mountain Spirit Integrative Medicine Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Ten Thousand Waves

Best Nail Salon

CA Nails Chrome Salon & Blowout Bar Ivy’s Nail Spa Nail Experts Nail Time Serenity Nail Salon

Best Pet Grooming Barks & Bubbles Cheeky Bubbles Paws Plaza Pet Suites Shelby’s Pet Styles Turquoise Tails

Best Pet Daycare Barks & Bubbles Happy at Home Paws Plaza Pet Suites Santa Fe Tails Top Dog Pet Resort

Best Pilates Studio Aware Pilates Da Vinci Body Studio Pilates Bodies Pilates Santa Fe Rise Pilates The Movement Studio

Best Plumbing Company

Anytime Plumbing Aranda’s Plumbing, Heating & Supply Glenn’s Plumbing & Heating Pipeworks Plumbing Roadrunner Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration Inc. TLC Plumbing Heating & Cooling

Best Real Estate Agency

Barker Realty Keller Williams Realty Logic Real Estate Santa Fe Properties, Inc. Santa Fe Realty Unlimited Sotheby’s International Real Estate

Best Roofing Company

Brian McPartlon Roofing Fix My Roof Goodrich Roofing of Santa Fe Mike Lopez Roofing Northway Roofing Santa Fe Stucco and Roofing

Best Solar Energy Company

Amenergy Eclipse Electric GO Solar NM Solar Group Sol Luna Solar SunPower by Positive Energy Solar

Best Spa

Body of Santa Fe High Desert Healthcare & Massage Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort & Spa Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Sunrise Springs Spa Resort Ten Thousand Waves

Best Storage Facility

A-1 Self Storage AAA Self Storage Warehouse Extra Space Storage Santa Fe Self Storage St. Michael’s Self Storage Wagon Self Storage

Best Tattoo Shop

Dawn’s Custom Tattoo Four Star Tattoo Lost Cowboy Tattoo & Gallery Talis Fortuna The Dungeon Tattoo & Piercing Tina’s Ink

Best Urgent Care

Aspen Medical Center Urgent Care & Primary Care Christus St. Vincent MinuteClinic at CVS Presbyterian Urgent Care Railyard Urgent Care ultiMED

Best Veterinarian Cedarwood Veterinary Clinic Gruda Veterinary Hospital Happy at Home Northside Veterinary Clinic Santa Fe Animal Hospital Smith Veterinary Hospital

Best Yoga Studio

Blue Moon Hot Yoga Body of Santa Fe Fitness Bootcamp Santa Fe Paradiso Santa Fe Santa Fe Community Yoga Center YogaSource

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Shopping

Best Bike Shop Bike n Sport Mellow Velo Rob & Charlie’s Sirius Cycles SpinDoc The Broken Spoke

Best Bookstore

The Ark Big Adventure Comics Book Mountain Collected Works Bookstore & Coffee House Garcia Street Books Op.Cit Books

Best Car Dealer Capitol Ford Lincoln Great Little Cars Honda of Santa Fe Lexus of Santa Fe Santa Fe BMW Toyota of Santa Fe

Best Children’s Store Doodlet’s Double Take Indigo Baby Merry Go Round Moon Rabbit Toys Toyopolis

Best Consignment

Double Take Indigo Baby Nina’s Closet Santa Fe Antiques and Flea Market Stephen’s A Consignment Gallery The Raven Fine Consignments

Best Floral Shop Amanda’s Flowers Artichokes & Pomegranates Barton’s Flowers Cutting Edge Flowers Pacific Floral Design Silene Floral

Best Garden/ Plant Supplies

Agua Fria Nursery Cedar Grove Nursery & Farm Newman’s Nursery Payne’s Nurseries Plants of the Southwest WATERWISE Gardening

Best Gift Store Curiosa Detours at La Fonda Doodlet’s Earthfire Gems Gallery Indigo Baby Nambe Trading Post

Best Hardware Store

Ace Hardware of Santa Fe Alpine Builders Supply Aranda’s Plumbing, Heating & Supply Big Jo True Value Hardware Eldorado True Value Empire Builders Supply

Best Head Shop

Concrete Jungle Smoke Shop Electric Gold Vapor Fruit of the Earth Organics Red House Smoke Shop Sacred Garden

Best Interior Home Store Design Warehouse Double Take Malouf on the Plaza Nambe Trading Post NEST Santa Fe Reside Home

Best Jewelry Store Diva Diamonds and Jewels Earthfire Gems Gallery James Kallas Jewelers Malouf on the Plaza Santa Fe Goldworks Wind River Trading Company

Best Mattress Shop Denver Mattress Company Mattress Firm Santa Fe Sachi Organics Sleep & Dream

Best Men’s Store Corsini Eternity of Santa Fe Harry’s Lancaster York Gentlemen’s Apparel Mavericks on the Plaza Red River Mercantile

Best Optical Shop Accent on Vision Eye Associates Oculus/Botwin Eye Group Ojo Optique Optical Shop of Santa Fe Quintana Optical

Best Pet Store

Eldorado Country Pet Jurassic Pets Pooch Pantry Bakery & Boutique Teca Tu A Pawsworthy Pet Emporium The Critters & Me Tullivers Pet Food Emporium

Best Shoe Store

Goler Malouf on the Plaza On Your Feet Street Feet The Running Hub Wind River Trading Company

Best Specialty Food/Cooking Store

Cheesemongers of Santa Fe Kaune’s Neighborhood Market Kitchenality La Cosas Kitchen Shoppe Santa Fe Olive Oil & Balsamic Company Santa Fe School of Cooking

Best Thrift Store

Barkin Boutique Double Take Kitchenality Look What the Cat Dragged In Savers The Hospice Thrift Store

Best Women’s Clothing Cupcake Clothing Double Take Get it Together Malouf on the Plaza Maverick’s of Santa Fe WearAbouts

Best Western Wear Back at the Ranch Double Take Kowboyz Lucchese Maverick’s of Santa Fe Santa Fe Hat Company

Arts and Entertainment Best Art Collective

City of Mud Meow Wolf Santa Fe Society of Artists Santa Fe Studio Tour Strangers Collective The Sculpture Union

Best Band

Cloacas Fun Adixx Hella Bella JJ and the Hooligans Nosotros The Hollyhocks

Best Bar

Bar Alto at the Drury Plaza Boxcar Del Charro Saloon La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room The Matador

Best Bartender

Clifford Pena, Santa Fe Spirits Tasting Room Josie Mae Ortega, Jinja Leahi Mayfield, The Palace Leo Granados, La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Mark Kimble, Maize Zane Duffy, Violet Crown Cinema

Best Dance Company

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Nataraja Dance Company NDI New Mexico Pomegranate/ MOSAIC Dance Company The Saltanah Dancers Zircus Erotique

Best Date Spot

Boxcar Meow Wolf Milad Persian Bistro Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar Ten Thousand Waves Violet Crown Cinema

Best DJ

DJ Dynamite Sol DJ Feathericci DJ Garronteed DJ John Edwards DJ Oskar Felix Cordova

Best Gallery

form & concept Kenny’s on the Plaza Nedra Matteucci Galleries New Concept Gallery Niman Fine Art Wow! Gallery

Best Hotel Bar

Agave Lounge, Eldorado Hotel Bar Alto, Drury Plaza Hotel Del Charro Saloon, Inn of the Governors La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Secreto Lounge, Hotel St. Francis Staab House, La Posada

Best Instagram Feed @fishbowlsoul_ @haydenfold @kuresantafecbd @meow_wolf @simplysantafenm @strangerscollective

Best Live Music Venue

Boxcar La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda on the Plaza Lensic Performing Arts Center Meow Wolf Plaza Bandstand Santa Fe Opera

Best Movie House

Center for Contemporary Arts Cinematheque Jean Cocteau Cinema Lensic Performing Arts Center Regal Cinemas The Screen Violet Crown Cinema

Best Museum

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Museum of International Folk Art New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors New Mexico Museum of Art SITE Santa Fe

Best Performing Arts Venue

Adobe Rose Theater Lensic Performing Arts Center Meow Wolf Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Playhouse Teatro Paraguas

Best Theater Group Adobe Rose Theater Santa Fe Playhouse Teatro Paraguas Theater Grottesco Upstart Crows Wise Fool

Food and Drink Best Artisan Chocolate

CG Higgins Confections Cacao Santa Fe Chocolate Maven ChocolateSmith Kakawa Chocolate House Todos Santos Chocolates

Best Asian Restaurant

Chow’s Contemporary Chinese Izanami Restaurant Yin Yang Chinese Restaurant Jinja Bar & Bistro Lu Lu’s Chinese Cuisine Saigon Café

Best Bakery

Boultawn’s Bakery and Café Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Dolina Bakery & Café Dulce Bakery + Coffee Sage Bakehouse

Best Breakfast Café Fina Clafoutis La Plazuela at La Fonda on the Plaza Tecolote Café The Pantry Tia Sophia’s

Best Breakfast Burrito Blake’s Lotaburger Burrito Spot Café Fina El Parasol The Pantry Tia Sophia’s

Best Brunch Café Fina Chocolate Maven Clafoutis Midtown Bistro Opuntia Café The Hollar

Best Burger

Blake’s Lotaburger Del Charro Santa Fe Bite Second Street Brewery Shake Foundation The Burger Stand at Burro Alley

Best Chef

Ahmed Obo, Jambo Charles Dale, New Mexico Fine Dining Mark Connell, State Capitol Kitchen Martin Rios, Restaurant Martín Nou Kimnath (Chef Nath), Sweetwater Xavier Grenet, L’Olivier

Best Chile

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The Kid Kid Koala on dance parties, video games and meeting Björk

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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hen a DJ steadily releases killer albums for over 20 years, lends a hand to bands like Gorillaz and Radiohead, and becomes one of the biggest names of a generation, they start to look at other means of creation. Y’know, to diversify the portfolio. This is how Eric San, aka Kid Koala, busted into the world of music and rhythm-based video games with the Nintendo Switch title Floor Kids, a hand-animated affair that challenges players to take that B-Boy and B-Girl game to the next level. On top of that, he’s mashed up his support of the game with his Vinyl Vaudeville tour, a carnival-like event that showcases his very best alongside over-the-top production design and dance party mayhem. We caught up with Koala ahead of his upcoming Meow Wolf appearance to get the good word on what’s going on.

Let’s talk about video games for a sec. You’ve got Floor Kids out on the Nintendo Switch, but as I hear it you’re not much of a gamer yourself.

Think you’ll convert?

I think the last console that I put a lot of time into would have been Sega Genesis.

Prior to that, the NES, and then at one point I kind of just got deeper into the whole music and scratch kind of thing and started being in the studio rather than gaming. Over the course of the last five years that we’ve been working on

Kid Koala in the studio.

BELOW: Hand-drawn characters from the Nintendo Switch game Floor Kids.

Floor Kids, I was reintroduced to all the stuff that’s happening in the game scene, and it’s really exciting what’s possible; the game engines being faster, the ability to have … more memory to actually do music.

Some of these games that are out now are like films. With Floor Kids, [animator] Jonathan Ng didn’t really know; ... he wasn’t deep into filmmaking or animated film. We connected through the B-Boy scene; he’s a dancer, I’m a DJ, and when we linked up with the coding team, they said we could probably design an engine that could somehow run through these tens of thousands of frames of animation that links to the controls in a way that’s more intuitive.

How involved with the music production were you?

I think that Jon Jon and I were just trying to hit the mark and turn a certain feeling that it’s going for. From my experience of DJing

at break battles over the years, the battle tracks required a certain kind of energy and propulsion to them. They had to knock, first off. Normally when a dancer will jump, they’ll go into it for 16 to 32 bars, then they kind of end their little set, at which point the DJ either scratches in a new break or you go to a chorus section where every crew member jumps in. The whole point was to see if we could capture that feeling.

It’s very open; it’s not like a rhythm game in that sense. That was, for me at least, trying to capture that energy in a break battle. Other than that, I was just really just trying to score to the picture, the animations, whether it was in the grocery store [level] or the arcade, I looked at the drawing of the venue and tried to make the music.

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How does the game play into the Vinyl Vaudeville tour or vice-versa?

Vinyl Vaudeville is a show we started around the 12-Bit Blues tour. Essentially what it is is a variety show threaded together through turntables, wherein each track or each song in the setlist is its own act, its own choreography.

We’ve got costume changes, dancers, puppeteers. Obviously I’m up there with turntables doing all the music. The spectacle of each track is meant to be vaudevillian in that it starts with the spectacle and progressively gets stranger and more wild. What I love about the format is that it allows me to run through different eras of my repertoire and put it into the show and have it balance with the show. For instance, I can do something from Carpal Tunnel or Floor Kids, and each track, when it happens, will have its own animation. I’m using the word ‘animation,’ but I mean something onstage amplifying the feeling of that track. Sometimes it’ll

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be with the dancers, sometimes it’ll be with a giant 9-foot ogre walking on the stage, sometimes it’ll be dancing laptops.

And there’s music from all of my albums featured, there are also new tracks we’ve developed only for the show that I’m not actually sure I’m even going to release. It just makes sense in a live situation when you’re watching two giant ants playing, that it’s the silliest show on earth, and we’re trying to live up to that. We’re going to set up custom Floor Kids arcade consoles in the room, so prior to the show you can battle your friends.

Was the development of the show really intense?

It does all start with the music, and originally it was talking about when 12-Bit Blues was released, a lot of those were 6-8 in meter and downtempo tracks, they wouldn’t really make sense for a dance floor situation. So I had two options: I either speed all the tracks up, or I find some way to present the music in a context that it would made sense.

When I met Adira Amram and her dance troupe, we thought maybe there was a way those guys can animate the stage or the narrative in a fun way. It could be a giant paper airplane, a kazoo battle—we just tried to see what stuck and what didn’t. As far as the version you’ll be seeing, they’re the reinvented ones we’ve been doing for a few years and others, I just had a meeting with the set builders, in fact, for some things that we’ll be trying for the first time on this tour.

Where do you suppose your place is in music when some people call you hip-hop, some dance music, some other things … ?

I dunno. I will say, ironically, the Floor Kids soundtrack and the first Kid Koala album you can actually dance to in a non-interpretive way. If you were looking up my earlier albums, those were more inspired by Monty Python or The Muppet Show or The Mighty Boosh—like, some demented show of characters. Those records, it was never really about the dance floor then, I just wanted to create using vinyl. Some of those tracks are literally 90 seconds.

The whole point is you just get dropped into this situation, like on a track like ‘Bar Hoppers,’ it was, ‘OK, let’s just paint this picture of someone at a bar coming up with the worst pickup lines and someone responding to them.’ It was really more about exploring audio.

As time went on, it kind of branched out into different directions. We wanted to do a Paul’s Boutique-style rock record on turntables. A rock record that DJ kids could get with. Or a DJ record that

MUSIC rock kids could get with. And I’ve got a new series of winter-inspired music, all ambient electronic music featuring vocalists. I’m trying to make music that puts you in that creative space. Floor Kids actually required a hand-drawn animated kid for me to say, ‘All right, I’m gonna do some tracks for breakers.’

That was what was fun about it. I wanted some of it to sound like ’70s break anthems, old funk tracks from kungfu flicks. In the ’80s, everything went electro and 808, in the ’90s it was all 12-bit samples and jazz records and beyond and by the time you get to the peace summit [level] in the game, I’m making beats out of modular synths.

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-Kid Koala

OK, last question—I read that Damon Albarn was supposed to introduce you to Björk. Did you ever get to meet Björk?

[Laughs] I have! And it wasn’t through Damon or Gorillaz. When I did work on the first Gorilaz album, I wasn’t paid.

Dan the Automator was like, ‘Come in and do some cuts and he can introduce you to Björk.’ I was able to meet her many years later just through my own channels. A promoter who knew me and knew that I was super into her work gave her a copy of my graphic novel, and for one show in Toronto, I guess the opening act couldn’t make it, and at the time she had this copy of the graphic novel and was like, ‘I’m gonna ask this kid to come open.’ I got the call, like, 20 hours before the show. You’re just at home doing what you normally do and the next minute the Björk people call, and it’s like ‘YES!’ I had to rent a car and practice for hours.

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First let me say that I think you give excellent advice, even if it is a bit pedestrian at times.

I have a small problem: Last fall, my penis bent up and to the left at an almost 90 degree angle. I know from Google that this is not an unusual problem. And at 59, I am thankful that things are working as well as they are.

But I fly gliders, and the relief system is a “Texas catheter” with a drain line to outside the glider. I believe that the bending on my penis may be the result of trauma caused by removing the catheter. In your many years of dealing with penis problems—I know you are not a urologist, but still—have you run across problems of a similar nature? Is there a way to remove adhesive from the penis that will not cause trauma? Gliding season will be starting soon, and I dread using the same system if it will cause more damage. My partner is an amazing woman—70, by the way, and by far the best partner I have ever had (oh, my brethren, do not look only to youth!)—but I dread further damaging my member.

-Hanging Under Nice Glider First let me say thank you for the qualified compliment—you sure know how to flatter a girl— and I’ll try to keep my trademark excellent-if-pedestrian advice coming, HUNG. Also, you’re right, I’m not a urologist. But Dr. Keith Newman is. He’s also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and my go-to guy for dick-related medical questions.

“It is not likely that HUNG’s drainage system caused the problem,” said Dr. Newman. “His condition sounds like Peyronie’s disease, a possibly autoimmune disease thought to be related to microtrauma, though some penile fractures may result in similar deformity.”

Men with Peyronie’s disease come down with, well, bent dicks. Sometimes the bend is slight and doesn’t interfere with reasonable penile functions. Sometimes the bend is severe enough to make erections painful and intercourse impossible.

“Most sufferers will return to within 10 to 20 percent of their baseline curvature within two years without intervention,” said Dr. Newman.

“Thus, it is considered best to defer therapy until such time has elapsed. Ninety degrees is quite a big bend, however, and less likely to resolve spontaneously, but its still worth waiting.”

If your big bend doesn’t resolve spontaneously, HUNG, there are treatment options.

“The only real therapies are Xiaflex injections and surgical repair,” said Dr. Newman. “The former is not approved for patients less than two years from diagnosis or with less than 35 degrees of curvature. The latter is fraught with increased complication rates due to scarring so near the tip. Both can straighten the penis, but at a cost of length in many cases. As for drainage alternatives while gliding, I suggest the following product: freedom.mensliberty.com.”

I’m a 37-year-old male. I’ve been with my wife for 15 years. I know that passion transitions in a long-term relationship, but I’m having a hard time finishing lately. Yes, I’m on SSRIs— antidepressants—but that has only exacerbated the issue. We all know that a lot of people who own a vagina enjoy foreplay to help the orgasms along. Will foreplay help people who own a penis get to the moment faster?

I’m pretty sure I know the answer, and I figured you’re the one to ask what the best foreplay options are because your sexual knowledge is vast and you regularly deal with two penises at a time. As someone who pleasures a penis and who has a penis that is pleasured, what is the best preparation to get guys off before the insertion happens?

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Foreplay isn’t just for vagina-havers, SWOMPS! Penis-havers have nerve endings all over their bodies—inside ’em, too—and while many younger men don’t require much in the way of foreplay, older men and/or men taking SSRIs often benefit from additional forms of stimulation both prior to intercourse and during intercourse. Like tit play. I know some men can’t go there because that titplay shit—like feelings, musicals, sit-ups, and voting for women—could turn you gay. But if you’re up for it, SWOMPS, have the wife play with or even clamp your tits, and then shove a plug in your ass that stimulates your prostate while also remembering to engage what’s often called “the largest sex organ”: your brainz.

Talk dirty to each other! If you’re already proficient at JV dirty talk—telling ’em what you’re about to do (“I’m going to fuck the shit out of you”), telling ’em what you’re doing (“I’m fucking the shit out of you”), telling ’em what you did (“I fucked the shit out of you”)—move on to varsity dirty talk: Talk about your fantasies, awesome experiences you’ve had in the past, things you’d like to try or try again with your partner. To get your dick there—to push past those SSRIs—fire on all cylinders (tits, hole, brain, mouth, and cock) before and during insertion.

I’m a 32-year-old English guy, and this morning I was diagnosed as HIV-positive. I’m in a bit of a state. I haven’t told anyone, and I needed to get it out. I’m in a long-term, mostly monogamous relationship, but my boyfriend is overseas for work at the moment, so I can’t really talk to him about it. So I’m talking to you.

-Diagnosed And Dazed And Confused I’m so sorry, DADAC. I hope you have a friend you can confide in, because you need a shoulder to cry on and I can’t provide that for you here.

What I can provide is some perspective. I’m just a little older than you—okay, I’m a whole lot older than you. I came out in the summer of 1981—and two years later, healthy, young gay men started to sicken and die. During the 1980s and most of the 1990s, learning you were HIV-positive meant you had a year or two to live. Today, a person with HIV is expected to live a normal life span—so long as they have access to treatment and they’re taking their meds. And once you’re on meds, DADAC, your viral load will fall to undetectable levels and you won’t be able to pass HIV on to anyone else (undetectable = uninfectious). Arguably, your boyfriend and your other sex partners are safer now that you know than they were before you were diagnosed. Because it’s not HIV-positive men on meds who are infecting people, it’s men who aren’t on meds because they don’t know they’re HIV-positive.

I don’t mean to minimize your distress, DADAC. The news you just received is distressing and life changing. But it’s not as distressing as it was three decades ago, and it doesn’t mean your life is over. I remember holding a boyfriend on the day he was diagnosed as HIV-positive more than 25 years ago, both of us weeping uncontrollably. His diagnosis meant he was going to die soon.

Yours doesn’t. You have a lot of time left, and if you get into treatment and take your meds, DADAC, you will live a long and healthy life, a life filled with love, connection, and intimacy.

Spend some time feeling sorry for yourself, feel the fuck out of those feelings, and then go live your life—live it for all the guys who didn’t get to celebrate their 33rd birthdays.

P.S. Don’t wait until your boyfriend returns to tell him. He needs to get tested right away.

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CHRISTY HENSPETTER: BETWEEN LIFE AND THE DREAM Convergence Gallery 634 Canyon Road, 986-1245 Henspetter presents luminous oils. Through June 3.

5 pm, free JOHN STEVENS AND DEAN HOWELL: CONVERSATIONS IN PAINT AND STEEL The Agora Center 7 Avenida Vista Grande, Suite B-8, Eldorado, 466-2602 Stevens and Howell get to sculpting. Through June 8.

5 pm, free LUCIA ANTONELLI: BOOGIE WOOGIE BEAUTY Patina Gallery 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 Found and reclaimed materials transform into one-of-akind necklaces and earrings.

Through June 10.

5 pm, free MAY FLOWERS & JADE TOWERS Globe Fine Art 727 Canyon Road, 989-3888 Buoyant paintings and deco-inspired glass and steel towers by Curt Sullan, Richard Potter and Stephanie Shankare. Through June 8.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES CRAIG CHILDS: ATLAS OF A LOST WORLD Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Craig Childs recalls his journey tracing the path made by the first people to come to the Americas.

6:30 pm, free

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Locals and tourists alike can learn new things about Santa Fe. We’re huge fans of finding out what’s in your own backyard with the pros.

10:15 am, $15 INPUT|OUTPUT Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6011 Students of the Intro to Reason and Live class at Santa Fe Community College take the stage for a multimedia audio-visual performance (see SFR Picks, page 17).

7 pm, free

MISTY LEE Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Magician Lee blows minds, has a honey badger in her act (see 3 Questions, page 25).

8:30 pm, $10-$20 SEAT OF LEARNING Axle Contemporary 670-5854 Bring an important object from your life, sit in the mobile gallery and recount the story of your object.

For today's event, head to Santa Fe Community College (6401 Richards Ave.).

10 am-3:30 pm, free

MUSIC BEAT WARS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Underground electronic and hip-hop forces unite for a beat battle with a $250 grand prize. Star Wars attire and costumes encouraged.

8 pm, $15-$20 CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Pianist-turned-satirist Charles Tichenor and pals get together for a musical respite.

6 pm, free CHIRGILCHIN Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4414 Hailing from central Asia, Tuvan music features monotone sustained notes with slight shifts in pitch, giving it a meditative drone quality.

7:30 pm, $20-$30 DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, funk, reggaeton and hip-hop from the beloved local DJ. 10 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Broadway faves and standards on piano from a guy who literally worked with Sondheim. Sondheim, you guys. That’s incredible. We love you, Geist!

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical, pop and Broadway tunes on piano.

Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm. Drink wine. So much wine.

6 pm, free

IRON CHIWAWA Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Classic rock and the best band name of the day.

8:30 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

9 pm, $5 JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Amorous and romantic Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free JOSH NEWCOM Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 From aggressive 'n' rowdy Southern metal to good ol' country music. It's on the deck.

5 pm, free KARAOKE WITH McLAIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Come sing your favorite tunes.

8 pm, free MAIA TRIO First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The trio (featuring Donna Bacon on violin, cellist Elizabeth Purvis and Maxine Thévenot on piano) presents a program of music by Pachelbel, Franck, Handel and more.

5:30 pm, free MARC SANDERS Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free O2 LIVE ART + DANCE PARTY FT. TONE RANGER Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar 137 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Put on your swing shoes and swing, dammit!

8 pm, $5-$10 PSIRENS: ALIVE ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Paris Mancini (aka PSIRENS) traveled across the nation to record with each of her accompanists. The result is a 12-track album of strippeddown, jazz-inflected songs.

6 pm, $5-$25 PETE WHITE AND KARINA WILSON Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Americana and bluegrass.

5:30-8 pm, free PLEASURE PILOTS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Old-school R&B, both covers and originals.

8 pm, free

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RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish style classical guitar.

7 pm, free STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Rock and blues.

6 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A swinging jazz trio features a special guest every Friday night.

7:30 pm, free TONIC JAZZ SHOWCASE Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Get some late-night jazz.

9:30 pm, free VANILLA POP Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Almost every cover you could ever want, done impeccably by the sequin-spangled duo of Al Dente and Lester Moore.

10 pm, $10 WHISKEY DIABLO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Unpredictable. Chaotic.

Hedonistic. Enjoy a wild night with this country, jazz and chainsaw rock 'n' roll fusion band.

8:30 pm, free

SAT/12 ART OPENINGS EYE OPENER Ralph T Coe Foundation for the Arts 1590 B Pacheco St., 983-6372 The Coe Center's Hands-On Curatorial Program sees students working hands-on with a collection of over 2,000 works of Indigenous art. See what they've come up with this year.

5 pm, free

DANCE CONTRA DANCE Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join the New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society for a contra dance. Get a lesson at 7 pm, dance at 7:30 pm.

7 pm, $8-$9 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco. Do it now. Did you do it? OK, good.

These dancers slay.

6:30 pm, $25

THE CALENDAR with Misty Lee

COURTESY MISTY LEE

Magician Misty Lee isn’t your average performer. Oh sure, she’s got a stellar show that features a honey badger (for real) and culls her act from numerous performance styles, but she’s also a voice actor and performer of the highest order. Lee travels all the way from Los Angeles to do her thing this week at the Jean Cocteau Cinema (8:30 pm Friday May 11; 2 and 8:30 pm Saturday May 12. $10-$20, 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528) namely, blowing minds and being cool. We called her up. (Alex De Vore) Do you have to work hard to overcome the ‘magic is dorky’ stigma?

I don’t know, because I think magic is dorky! When I first got into this, I didn’t want to be a quote-unquote ‘magician,’ because magicians are nerds! But what I did was I found five magicians who were very successful and wonderful thinkers who’ve been very encouraging but also ass-kickers. I respect the art as an art, but what ended up happening was, because I didn’t come from the same emotional place they did, my work has always been different. It became a journey of trying to figure out my flavor and then trying to find the people who like it. The flavor that we bring is not necessarily beloved by the technical guys, but now even they are coming around and saying, ‘Yeah, she’s pretty fun.’

The journey for me has been finding a happy medium of, ‘This is my flavor, this is where I fit in the industry,’ and instead of worrying about what other magicians think, I worry about what I think, what the people I care about think, what my audience thinks.

The sub-genrefication of magic has gotten a little out of control. What do you call what you do?

I tell people that I’m a magician and I let them subgenre as appropriate to them. The subgenres kind of boil down to three things: cards and coins, or up-close magic; stuff that can fit in a briefcase, or parlor magic; and bigger stuff that’s on a stage. In our show, we practice all three of those disciplines, so it would be silly of me to super-identify with one genre. Most of what we do falls into parlor magic or stage illusion. On our list is two card tricks, but they would still fall into the parlor magic side. Which one do I love the most? I love them all for different reasons.

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You know those people who really just want to know how tricks are done?

I think there are several different kinds of people who go to a magic show. There are people who are like ‘No, I don’t wanna know because mystery exists!’, and there are people who have to know, and then there are people who think they know—the internet is full of those. I have found the internet is useful; I’m a gotta-know person. As a young fledgling magician I learned so much from watching the Masked Magician, but unfortunately, the tricks he exposed were not all his, and the same goes for people on the internet. If you invented the trick and you wanna blow it, that’s your business. If you want to blow someone else’s trick, that’s not. As far as doing research, I’m glad it exists. Some of the ideas these people come up with are so contrived and off-base and the truth is so much simpler.

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THE CALENDAR LAVA PRESENTS: A GODDESSEY Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B, 992-2588 A Goddessey is the synthesis, culmination, and explosion of 15 years of earth-moving feminist acrobatic dance by Brooklyn-based acrobatic dance crew, LAVA. 7 pm, $5-$15

EVENTS

Pandemonium Productions

Saturdays & Sundays 2:00 pm May 12, 13, 19, 20

Fridays 7:00 pm May 11 and 18 Performances at The James A. Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road

505-982-3327 for tickets and information or visit www.pandemoniumprod.org This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, by the National Endowment for the Arts and New Mexico Childrens Foundation

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BIRD WALK Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road, 983-4609 Head to the hills for a guided birding hike with experienced bird nerds.

8:30-10 am, free GREYHOUND MEET 'N' GREET Pooch Pantry 301 N Guadalupe St., 820-1130 Join the Greyhound Adoption League of New Mexico and Texas for a meet 'n' greet with their adoptable dogs or learn how to be a foster.

2:30-4 pm, free HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Locals and tourists alike can learn new things about Santa Fe with a walking tour led by guides from the New Mexico History Museum.

10:15 am, $15 IAIA COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 The public is invited to congratulate the new college graduates at IAIA and celebrate George Rivera, who receives an honorary doctorate of humanities.

11 am, free JAMIE CHASE: FIGURATIVE PAINTING DEMONSTRATION WITH A MODEL Mill Contemporary 702 Canyon Road, 983-6668 Working in acrylic, Chase paints in the gallery’s mediation garden, working with a live model.

Noon-3 pm, free MISTY LEE Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Lee is the first female staff medium at the world-famous Hollywood Magic Castle, which is kind of a big deal, if you know your magician lore (see 3Qs, page 24).

2 pm and 8:30 pm, $10-$20 PLACITAS STUDIO TOUR Various Locations Town of Placitas, placitasstudiotour.com Get a personal and educational behind-the-scenes look at local creators’ artwork.

10 am-5 pm, free

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SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more from a juried group of local artists. It's in the Railyard, just north of the water tower.

8 am-2 pm, free SEAT OF LEARNING Axle Contemporary 670-5854 Bring an important object from your life and recount the story of your object at the shade structure at the Farmers Market in the Railyard.

2-6 pm, free WELLS PETROGLYPH PRESERVE PUBLIC TOURS Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project 1431 Hwy. 68, Velarde, 852-1351 The nonprofit offers tours of the Wells Petroglyph Preserve. Go online for more info: mesaprietapetroglyphs. org.

9:30-11:30 am, $35 ¡VÁMONOS! SANTA FE: FAMILY WALK Santa Fe River Trail W Alameda Street and Placita de Oro Grab the kids and head to the park to go for a stroll with Anne Nelson of the Railyard Park Conservancy. For more info, check out sfct.org/ vamonos.

9-10 am, free

MUSIC BRUCE DUNLAP AND BRAHIM FRIBGANE GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. Acoustic jazz guitarist (and stalwart GiG proprietor) Dunlap is joined by Moroccan percussionist Fribgane for an evening surely to be entrancing.

7:30 pm, $20 THE BUS TAPES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Alternative folk-rock.

8:30 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, local musician Charles Tichenor and pals get together for a musical respite from the outside world—or is it political subversion through music? It can be both!

6 pm, free DAVID GEIST'S ALL-STARS Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 The Broadway-style piano master is joined by buddies Jamie Russell and Casey Anderson. And get the pear pizza. Just trust us there.

6 pm, $2

DETROIT LIGHTNING Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Santa Fe’s preeminent Grateful Dead tribute band.

8 pm, $10 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical, pop and Broadway tunes on piano: Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Americana, blues, cumbia, jazz, ranchera, swing, TexMex and zydeco.

10 pm, free GREG BUTERA Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 The frontman of the Gunsels goes solo to bring us his brand of Cajun Americana and honky-tonk.

6 pm, free THE GRUVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Soul and R&B and none of that spelling-words-right nonsense getting in the way.

9 pm, $5 HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and Americana.

1 pm, free KING LIL G The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, 557-6182 Influenced by '90s West Coast rap about women, weed and palm trees, King Lil G also draws from Mexican folk ballads.

8 pm, $20 LOS PRIMOS MELØDICOS Cava Lounge Eldorado Hotel, 309 W San Francisco St., 988-4455 The authentic sound of Latin America, Cuba and Puerto Rico—and one heck of a happy hour, so come early for that.

8 pm, free NOSOTROS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Everyone's favorite Latin jammers.

10 pm, $7 PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail Santa Fe, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar.

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she went to Europe to study contemporary dance in her early 20s, Baird continued to make artwork on the side. One day, she says, “I had an experience, a shift in consciousness, and I became much more interested in painting.” A preoccupation with the circle—now the most recognizable form in Baird’s work—began then and there. “It’s the enzo sign—no beginning, no end,” explains Baird, referencing a symbol with roots in ancient Asian art.

“Birth of a Star” employs a peach-rimmed, multi-hued enzo front and center, in this case softly surrounded by glowing golds and cream.

Pale sky blue beyond invokes an unmistakable sense of the heavens, and the work is calming and quiet, like a view from a cloud. In others, little hints of cherry blossoms, lotuses, and distinctively curvilinear lines point to Far East influences.

Show partner Robert Koch’s curvy, abstracted metal sculptures offer a pleasing physicality.

His steel work “Slender Open Pod” is just what it sounds like: a lean, elongated metal form with a top-to-bottom slit, opened widest at its middle.

“Spheres,” globe-like forms of crisscrossed, cordlike metal, are wonderfully correct, if obvious, complements to Baird’s enzos.

Baird readily acknowledges the challenge of both showing her work and running a gallery that houses it, remarking that the past year has been an eye-opener. “I had a lot of learning to do,” she says. “I came [to Santa Fe] fresh, like a child.”

She isn’t a complete babe in the woods, though; decades ago, Baird opened a gallery (also named OTA) in San Francisco, then eventually made her way to the East Coast, and now has gallery representation in New York City. Moving to Santa Fe was a decision she and husband Ed made several years ago, and it doesn’t sound like there’s any going back. “I hope it can be a destination point for people,” Baird says. “There’s a very supportive audience here.” OTA’s kickoff opening included live dance, fancy food and sparkling wine. This year’s event will be much more low-key, but Baird is still excited. “We’ll have Sigmund Jenssen, who is a musician, but also a neurologist, playing the keyboard,” she says. Musically, he will improvise, depending on the mood of the room.

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anyon Road’s OTA Contemporary has been open rapher and ink-brush artist, a deeply artistic man who since May 2017, but to call it a year old is some- encouraged his daughter’s creative side. “He was enthuwhat deceptive. “It took us nine months to just get siastic about art, it was just always around,” Baird says. past the historic board, and another three months to do “It’s what I did as a child to play.” Like many little girls, demo and construction,” gallery owner Kiyomi Baird tells Baird wanted to be a professional ballerina, and she studSFR. “Altogether it was a year to even get the door open.” ied dance from toddlerhood into her adult years. Though Unlike galleries that preceded it, OTA (pronounced oh-tah) has no rugged cowboys in the window, no wintry, adobe-dotted landscapes. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything with an overtly Southwestern slant, or even anything representational for that matter. The gallery is One year into the Santa Fe art scene, sleek and minimal, wired for high-tech audio and lighting, evincing a wholly non-artsy-craftsy moKiyomi Baird’s OTA Contemporary is dernity which is refreshingly unusual for Santa on a roll Fe’s historic arts district. To mark its anniversary, Beginnings II, which opens this Friday, showcases metal sculptures by Robert Koch and 2-D works

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by Baird, who is both gallery owner and gallery artist. “Robert is really into texture and patterns,” says Baird. “That’s what I’m into also, so it’s kind of like we’re speaking the same language.”

OTA Contemporary is just a saunter down from Gerald Peters Gallery on Paseo de Peralta, right at the entrance of Canyon Road. “The most common question we get,” Baird says with a laugh, “is probably ‘What color are the walls?’ and ‘How do you get the floors to look like that?’”

(Super White by Benjamin Moore; cement polished multiple times to achieve a high gloss, in case you were wondering.) Anyone who’s worked in galleries expects these kinds of sometimes annoyingly not-remotely-related-to-art-sales questions, but Baird sounds undaunted. “If a person comes in and the environment speaks to them, then that’s the first step. That’s what I want, for people to get in touch with their curiosity.”

The gallery’s roster is diverse and draws from regional and out-of-state artists alike. The main requirement, says Baird, is that “artists have a voice that’s developed, and their philosophy is in line with ours.” Baird’s exhibition history belays a strong penchant for abstraction, exemplified in shows like last fall’s Enigma, in which the texturally and colorfully playful paintings of Nola Zirin acted as surprisingly sublime counterparts to August Muth’s holographic works.

Baird, a third-generation Japanese American, Kiyomi Baird’s “Birth of a Star,” part of OTA Contemporary’s one-year grew up in California. Her father was a photoganniversary exhibition, Beginnings II.

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BEGINNINGS II 5:30 pm Friday May 11. Free.

OTA Contemporary, 203 Canyon Road, 930-7800

Flight Plan, by Marguerite Louise Scott at Santa Fe Playhouse:  East De Vargas Street

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THE CALENDAR RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar from the award-winning musician.

7 pm, free SHANE WALLIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck.

3 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Nanci and Cyndy are your hosts. Today’s suggestion from your pals at SFR: “What’s Going On” either by 4 Non-Blondes or Marvin Gaye. Or both. Do both.

8:30 pm, free SOFI TUKKER Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Viral jungle-pop dance tunes from the Grammy-nominated duo. Bonus: Tukker has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold will go to support Planned Parenthood.

7 pm, $16-$19 STRINGMASTERS Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Western swing.

9:30 pm, free SWING SOLEIL Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Swingin' jazz.

6 pm, free TIM NOLEN AND RAILYARD REUNION Santa Fe Farmers Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Ever wanted some original jaunty bluegrass and Americana to accompany your local produce-buying adventure? Well shoot, looks like this is your lucky day!

9 am-noon, free WHISKEY DIABLO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country, jazz and swing.

8 pm, free

THEATER FIESTA PARA BEBÉS El Camino Real Academy 2500 South Meadows Road, 467-1300 A celebration of the first five years of life.

10 am-1:30 pm, free NOCHE DE FLAMENCO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Live tablao flamenco performance with La Emi Arte Flamenco. Reservations required and you pay that cover in cash, so call ahead and be prepared.

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WORKSHOP CACTUS PROPAGATION Santa Fe County Fairgrounds 3229 Rodeo Road Bring sturdy gloves, long sleeves, and long-handled tongs. Hats and water as well.

Head to sfmga.org for info.

9-11 am, free INSIDE-OUTSIDE ADVENTURES: WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT HIKE Los Alamos Nature Center/ Pajarito Environmental Education Center 2600 Canyon Road, Los Alamos, 662-0460 Body-connection coach Michelle Harkey and posture alignment coach Sandra West lead a series of experiential outings for women this year.

Register to save your spot.

8:30 am-3:30 pm, free

SUN/13 BOOKS/LECTURES ENLIGHTENED COURAGE Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second St., Ste. 35, 660-7056 Geshe Thubten Sherab on the wisdom to be committed to the peaceful and courageous path of full awakening.

10 am-noon, free JOURNEYSANTA FE: KARL BROOKS Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Mayor Alan Webber and Bill Dupuy host a conversation with Karl Brooks, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in Region 7.

11 am, free

DANCE LAVA PRESENTS: A GODDESSEY Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B, 992-2588 A Goddessey is the synthesis, culmination, and explosion of 15 years of earth-moving feminist acrobatic dance by Brooklyn-based acrobatic dance crew, LAVA. 4 pm, $5-$15

EVENTS LOVING MORE SANTA FE: MONTHLY MEETING Bourbon Grill 104 Old Las Vegas Hwy., 984-8000 Open to all who want a safe space to discuss all types of relationship issues—namely polyamory, but everyone’s welcome.

5-8 pm, free MEDITATION & MODERN BUDDHISM: A BETTER, HAPPIER YOU Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Take a deeper look into your attitudes and use meditation to cultivate a lighter, more positive daily experience.

10:30 am-noon, $10

PLACITAS STUDIO TOUR Various Locations Get a personal look at Placitas’ artists. Get info and a map at PlacitasStudioTour. com.

10 am-5 pm, free ZEN MEDITATION INSTRUCTION Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 An opportunity for those new to Upaya to get acquainted with Zen meditation and temple etiquette. Registration is recommended.

3 pm, free

MUSIC SERENATA OF SANTA FE: WOMEN & CHILDREN: STORIES FROM IRAQ First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Rahim AlHaj, virtuoso oud musician and composer, was born in Baghdad and tells the stories of his homeland through music.

3 pm, $20-$40 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free LIV LOMBARDI, TEN TEN DIVISION AND PPOACHER PPOACHER Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Soulful vocals, rock and weirdo loops (see SFR Picks, page 17).

8:30 pm, $8 LONE PIÑON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Ranchera, cumbia y más.

3 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Covers and originals.

6 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted Latin music.

7 pm, free OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Bring your listenin' ears and your playin' fingers.

3-7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazz.

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Fresh off the Tortilla Press Classic Mexican food in an unpretentious setting hidden away in Lower Siler District

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ecently, midtown has seen a growing number of new businesses open their doors, such as the Second Street Brewing Company’s Rufina Taproom and Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, which also share the neighborhood with Wise Fool New Mexico and the art juggernaut that is Meow Wolf. But there have always been great businesses hidden away in the gritty corner of town known as the Siler-Rufina nexus, and Alicia’s Tortilleria has been quietly nestled in a one-story shopping center since 1997, providing Santa Fe with thick, fresh stacks of corn tortillas made in-house every day.

Alicia’s has a takeout menu written on a whiteboard hanging over the counter as well as a little attached dining room where you can sit and wait for your order and devour it on the premises, washed down with a glass bottle of Coke (featuring real sugar!). The whole place is so casual and unassuming it almost sneaks up on you how delicious your food is.

Alicia’s also counts some popular local restaurants in their list of wholesale customers, such as Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill, but at some point you might as well cut out the middleman and eat here because everything is excellent, from the chile marinated meats to the spicy jalapeño salsa to the tortillas themselves.

Owners Jorge and Alicia Lovoya originally hail from Chihuahua, Mexico, but their grandparents owned a tortilleria in Juarez that is still run by the family to this day. “Our family still sends us recipes,” says Alicia Saenz, the Lovoyas’ daughter.

“We based our business on what they do.

The concept is the same, except over there they drop off 2-pound bags of tortillas at people’s houses, and we don’t do that.”

Everything is made in-house, including the masa for the tortillas, which come in corn, regular wheat or whole wheat, and are baked by machine in an airy space behind the front counter. A pound of each costs $1.95 or $3 for the latter two, respectively, and you can also get the masa itself for $1.50 a pound, if you have the means to make your own tortillas at home.

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ferent breakfast burritos and 12 different lunch options, all for $4.50 and ranging from chicharron to mole to chile colorado.

The mole is fantastic, by the way—spicy with a hint of sweetness and thick without feeling weighty. There are seven kinds of tortas as well, all for $7. Many hinge on the same meat available for the burritos prepared in different ways, such as bistek, desebrada, picadillo and azada. Bistek is braised sirloin, desebrada is slow-cooked beef that is then shredded, picadillo is a beef that’s prepared in a spiced stew with potatoes, and azada is roasted.

If you don’t like beef, find plenty of chicken and fish options on the menu, such as camaron and pescado tacos for $10. There’s even a mojarra frita ($12), a whole fried tilapia served with the head and tail still attached. I ordered it just to

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have something other than burritos and tacos in my takeout, and it was absolutely delicious, if not a little terrifying in terms of presentation. The added bonus was that it came with salty, spiced papas that were served in strips like French fries and were definitely my favorite pointlessly delicious carbohydrate served on the side (although the rice and refried beans were also tasty).

Alicia’s is so cheap and good, in fact, I came back a second time for an order of flautas ($10), a mixture of shredded chicken and beef served with a side of whipped guacamole that is so creamy and fluffy I could eat it with a spoon like ice cream.

And if you don’t eat meat, I would still give this place a try, because everything is clearly made with care and demonstrates a real depth of flavor, from the potatoes to the beans and rice.

At least take home a stack of tortillas, which don’t lose their magic even when served in different ways. For example, I picked up an order of chips ($3.50), made from fried tortillas. They came in a plastic bag that was roughly the equivalent of 8 ounces and were crunchy, light, and not at all salty but still slightly warm. It was one of the best things I ate, and I ate a lot of pretty amazing things over the course of two takeout orders.

I wish I could come up with a more glamorous way of describing it, but nothing about Alicia’s Tortilleria is trying to be glamourous. The food is cheap and unpretentious and feels satisfyingly filling like junk food but doesn’t weigh you down with grease and make you feel gross after you eat it. I’d highly recommend Alicia’s to anyone with a deep, abiding love for Mexican and New Mexican food. Places like this make you feel like you’ve found another good reason to call Santa Fe home.

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Mojarra frita served with tortillas (not pictured), from which tacos can be constructed.

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1314 Rufina Circle, 438-9545 8 am-6pm Monday-Saturday; closed Sunday

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THE CALENDAR PETE AMAHL Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Smooth jazzy tunes.

6 pm, free THE SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and Americana.

Noon, free TJ GEORGE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 A healthy mix of pop, R&B, folk and soul.

8 pm, free

MON/14 BOOKS/LECTURES UPWARD SUN RIVER INFANTS & EARLY AMERICAN DISPERSAL: GENOMES, CONTROVERSY, CONCORDANCE Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Part of Southwest Seminars' Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories lecture series.

6 pm, $15 VIVACE SERIES: LIVING OPERA BY JOSHUA JAMPOL Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 A book club dedicated to all you opera geeks out there.

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 You think you’re all smart?

7 pm, free HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Led by guides from the New Mexico History Museum.

10:15 am, $15 SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Discuss your concerns and try group activism like writing postcards to deliver to our reps in Congress. Newcomers are always welcome.

7 pm, free THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 699-6922 All who can sing welcome.

6:30-8 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana from a flat-pickin’ legend.

7:30 pm, free

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COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 You know damn well what it is.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 DJ Sato spins some jams to calm you down.

10 pm, free THE NATIVE HOWL, THE IMPERIAL ROOSTER AND GARRY BLACKCHILD Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Zany and perhaps thrashy metally-punk-folk-adjacent tunes, led by Michigan-based Native Howl.

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Pub-quiz? You bet!

8 pm, free HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 A walking tour led by guides from the New Mexico History Museum. Kids 17 and under are free with an adult.

10:15 am, $15 NEW MOON WATER WHEEL CEREMONY Frenchy's Field Osage Avenue and Agua Fría Street Pray for moisture, bless the waters and offer up items for blessings.

6 pm, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group to put into action the planning you did last night.

8:30 am, free ¡VÁMONOS! SANTA FE: WALK WITH A COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER Plaza Contenta 6009 Jaguar Drive, 550-3728 Head to the Plaza Contenta (across from Cesar Chavez Elementary School) for a stroll with Alondra Hernandez.

Walkers in this series se habla español, too! For more info, check out sfct.org/vamonos.

5:30-6:30 pm, free

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AN EVENING WITH LAMBDA AWARD FINALISTS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The LAMBDA Literary Awards are given to authors who focus on LGBTQ themes.

Three of this year's finalists, Ariel Gore, Hida Viloria and Candace Walsh, read from their nominated works.

6:30 pm, free NOTES ON MUSIC: BRAHMS United Church of Santa Fe 1804 Arroyo Chamiso, 988-3295 Lecturer Joe Illick is all about that Brahms.

7:30 pm, $15-$30 PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Stories for your dang kids.

10:30 am, free

CREATIVE GREENS COMPETITION Santa Fe Farmers Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 To kick off the 2018 Tuesday market season, the Santa Fe Farmers Market hosts its first-ever Creative Greens Competition. Vendors show off what they can do with greens, you provide the mouth and the vote.

8 am-1 pm, free

THEATER STAGED READING: PARTED WATERS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A drama about three generations of a Hispanic family in Northern New Mexico with crypto-Jewish roots.

7:30 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Put on your best tango shoes and join in (or just watch).

7:30 pm, $5

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana.

7:30 pm, free BILL PALMER Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fria St. Rock 'n' roll, dirty country and beautiful acoustic ballads galore.

5-7 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Santa Fe's historic night of music and camaraderie. Sign up if you want to join in, but be cool, too.

8 pm, $5

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CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free CLARKE AND THE HIMSELFS, PRISM BITCH AND LUKE CARR Ghost 2899 Trades West Road Psych rock band from Boise, Idaho, plus locals Prism Bitch (local rock) and Carr (of Storming the Beaches with Logos in Hand, one of our all-time favorite local bands).

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8 pm, $5-$10

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DOUG MONTGOMERY AND AL ROGERS Vanessie 427 W Water St.,982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway tunes.

6 pm, free ERYN BENT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country, folk and Americana tunes from the local fave.

8 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free

OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Hosted by John Rives and Randy Mulkey.

7 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free VINTAGE VINYL NIGHT The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Punk, surf, country.

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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 The Black Place: Georgia O’Keeffe and Michael Namingha. Through Oct. 28. Journey to Center: New Mexico Watercolors by Sam Scott. Through Nov. 1.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Work By Women. Erin Currier: La Frontera. Jolene Nenibah Yazzie: Sisters of War. All through May 13.

Nikesha Breeze: Within This Skin. Through May 27.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 IAIA 2018 BFA Exhibition: Breaking Ground. Through May 12. Art & Activism: Selections from The Harjo Family Collection. Through May 13. The Abundant North: Alaska Native Films of Influence. Through June 3. Action Abstraction Redefined. Through July 27.

Without Boundaries: Visual Conversations. Through July 29. Rolande Souliere: Form and Content. Through Jan. 27, 2019.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 From Ancient Beeswax to the Modern Crayon.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West. Through Sept. 3. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans.

Through Dec. 31. Maria Samora: Master of Elegance.

Through Feb. 2019.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate: Strategies Folk Artists Use in Today’s Global Marketplace. Through July 16. Artistic Heritage: Syrian Folk Art. Through July 29.

No Idle Hands: The Myths & Meanings of Tramp Art. Through Sept. 16.

Beadwork Adorns the World.

Through Feb. 3, 2019.

Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. Through March 10, 2019.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 GenNext: Future So Bright.

Through Nov. 25.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 The Land That Enchants Me So: Picturing Popular Songs of New Mexico. Through Feb. 24, 2019.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives. Through Oct. 8. Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art. Through Nov. 25.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Tesoros de Devoción.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 In T’owa Vi Sae’we.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Dan Namingha: Conception, Abstraction, Reduction.

Through May 18.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Future Shock. Through June 10.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry.

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After a Best Foriegn Language Film Oscar win for A Fantastic Woman, director Sebastián Lelio is all the rage. Thus, Santa Fe finally gets a look at his other 2017 film, Disobedience, the tale of a young Jewish woman named Ronit (Rachel Weisz) who returns to her strict Jewish community in London after the death of her father and years away. No one is thrilled to see Ronit, but when she reunites with her childhood friend Esti (Rachel McAdams), sparks fly and we get a clearer idea of why she left her life behind so easily.

Similarly to last year’s excellent Menashe, it’s fascinating to glimpse the inner workings of insular Jewish communities, and Leilo handles the traditions and customs and strictures with care. Still, we definitely feel like outsiders looking in right alongside Ronit, and it’s uncomfortable at best. Rightly so. Family members and friends consistently judge and admonish Ronit for her choices, but as the chemistry ramps up between her and Esti, a knee-jerk true-love defense starts to kick in. Further complicating things is

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Esti’s husband Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), the next in line for the top rabbi position who senses something is amiss with his wife.

Weisz feels lackadaisical as Ronit, constantly swallowing her pride and feelings but never truly embracing them before shirking them off as fundamental differences between her and her people. We get a sense that she’s upset, but it feels more like she’s reciting words than embodying her character’s unenviable position. McAdams, on the other hand, is a revelation, all at once cold out of self-preservation, melancholy out of loss and torn between her responsibilities to herself and to her husband and faith. Most scenes without her lag, and we truly do empathize with her

position, especially after one of the most intense sex scenes in modern film.

Still, we can’t help but resent Ronit for showing up, kicking the hornet’s nest and then fleeing.

This could be because we come to feel protective of Esti, or it could be in how we project the aftermath of our own poor decisions onto the characters. Either way, it’s all well and good to say things like “love conquers all;” it’s another thing entirely to live by that.

DISOBEDIENCE Directed by Lelio With Weisz, McAdams and Nivola Violet Crown, R, 114 min.

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It’s all been leading to this—y’know, not counting some of those X-Men movies.

Or Spiderman. Or the Spiderman reboot.

Anyway, all the Marvel Studios movies we’ve been watching since Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. gave us a decent Iron Man flick in 2008 have been leading to this, and while it might not disappoint from an action standpoint or a tying-plotlines-together standpoint, Avengers: Infinity War is basically a bazillion scenes of explosions layered between melodrama, a whole lot of “remember when?” moments, and the kind of CGI that makes your moviegoing companion say, “Damn, that’s really good CGI.” When last we left the Avengers, the team was split and ultra-villain Thanos was hanging around the galaxy trying to get his absurdly gigantic hands on the six infinity stones forged in the crucible of the Big Bang— stones that would give him dominion over

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time, power, soul, earth, wind and fire (jay kay about the last three—he just really likes that band). See, the plan is to snuff out half the universe’s population so nobody suffers as much anymore—which Thanos sees as mercy—but, since they’re apparently good and all, the Avengers (and their offshoot pals like

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Spider Man, Dr. Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy and pretty much anyone else who can hold a gun or use mind powers or blast lasers from their fingers) set out to stop him. Caught up? Cool.

Obviously, this film was bonkers-expensive to make and, as such, comes with some of

“These are my shoulders and that’s my giant Iron Man” -Black Panther, Battle of Blood Field, 2018.

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the best special effects of all time. Thanos alone looks far better than trailers have led us to believe, and it’s hats-off to Josh Brolin for bringing the heat with both voice and mo-cap work. The odd thing is his utter calmness in the face of his own genocide plan, but this makes him far scarier than he had any right to be; the wrinkled chin thing doesn’t do him any favors, though.

The rest of the cast boils down mostly to the quips for which they’re known. Iron Man (Downey Jr.) is, of course, his arrogant self, while Spider-Man (Tom Holland) cracks cutesy and wise in the vicinity of Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), who does his whole stoic-master-of-the-universe thing; Star Lord (Chris Pratt) gets goofy while Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is still a little more silly after his last outing in Thor 3: The Search for More Money. The problem, however, is that for every scene that kicks off amping up the audience with a superhero we feel we know, there’s such a brief window in which to provide exposition before it’s on to the next. It’s exciting at first, but grows a little tiresome without enough screen time for … well, for much of anything.

Fight scenes are cool, alright, they’re just stuffed in alongside so many other things that the pace feels frantic and the overall oomph of the ending feels pointless. I mean, if we really CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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wanna talk spoilers, here’s the elephant in the room: They’ll probably win.

Still, it’s Thanos’ show, and Brolin doesn’t disappoint. It’s another story altogether for flat jokes from Groot, Paul Bettany’s over-the-top drama as Vision and Peter Dinklage’s mindbogglingly awful British accent and ham-fisted performance as a space dwarf (their words, not ours) who makes crazy weapons for gods with a forge powered by a dying star. Scarlett Johansson may as well not even be in this thing, as she pretty much just punches a space monster or two. Elizabeth Olsen is fine as Scarlet Witch. She’s fine.

We’ll definitely hand out points for directors Anthony and Joe Russo’s ability to smartly capture the differing tones of the multiple Marvel films in a cohesive way, we just hope the sequel (did you doubt there’d be one?) slows its roll a little or at least gives us a chance to catch our breath with a bit more character development. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 149 min.

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We really weren’t expecting much. But for the same reason that tens of thousands of diehard fans flocked to the eighth Star Wars movie or the decades-later sequel to Blade Runner, we were kind of excited about Super Troopers 2.

Yes, we laughed when the opening scene showed a bus getting tailed by a car with bubblegum lights—even before a single glimpse of the old gang of goofy highway patrol officers—and yes, the laughs kept coming. But the groans came too. Along with sneak peeks at the phone to see how much longer it would last.

The drug-smuggling plot of the long-awaited sequel closely mirrored the first Troopers flick from Broken Lizard in 2001, only this time it stars unidentified pills rather than bricks of weed. And instead of infighting between city and county cops, this one was about a turf war between Canadian Mounties and US patrolmen. It’s also more than remarkable that the same core cast of characters came through for continuity— though an insane multimillion-dollar crowdfunding campaign is mostly responsible for that.

Yet, it’s disappointing the jokes are pretty much the same, too. Right down to the liter’a cola. Everybody still hates Farva, and this time the schtick from Kevin Heffernan saves the show; the script from writer-director-actor Jay Chandrasekhar not giving any of the other characters much to remember. Chandrasekhar’s amazing mustache as patrolman Thorny just isn’t enough this time to make him the fan favorite. And his

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“Who wants to have the complexities of self esteem and how we perceive ourselves and others boiled down into 90 minutes of not-good-enough?” asks Amy Schumer in I Feel Pretty. main storyline is full of annoying sexist tropes.

We loved the idea that Linda Carter would make an appearance, but her actual performance is wonderless. Thank goodness, then, that Rob Lowe’s bigger role as the mayor of a Canadian town is sharp and funny.

This movie is mostly worth seeing for the nostalgia. And we’re sure we know some people who will quote it over shots for the next 17 years, too. (Julie Ann Grimm) Regal, Violet Crown, R, 103 min.

But even Rory spends his first few scenes being weirded out that Renee would be confident (y’know, because she’s apparently hideous) before her winning personality tricks him into falling in love. The gorgeous family that helms the makeup empire also gives her a chance, though in a kind of mean-spirited way and more because they’re launching a line aimed at women who shop at Target (y’know, who are apparently hideous and poor).

Of course, though, she sustains another

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Amy Schumer continues with her oh-so-coolgirl shtick in I Feel Pretty, a nominally funny twist on the Big/Freaky Friday-esque formula wherein a young woman named Renee (Schumer) injures her head, which somehow causes her to see herself as super good-looking while the rest of the world still perceives her as the perfectly normal, actually-probably-a-little-bit-moreattractive-than-most-people person she is.

Seems Renee’s wildest dreams have been to attain unapproachable beauty. Dating’s been rough, but her “normie” friends (a dimensionless Busy Philipps of Freaks and Geeks and the ultracharming and tragically underused Aidy Bryant) have stood by her despite how she’s not a supermodel. What good people they must be!

Anyway, once Renee thinks she’s beautiful, her confidence skyrockets, landing her a cushy job at the makeup company where she works and a dorky-hot boyfriend named Ethan (Rory Scovel) with absolutely no character development whatsoever outside of a singular line about how he wants to be a cameraman.

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blow to the head, sees herself regularly again and we’re given a final act wherein she realizes the real problem was probably hers. Sacre bleu! But of course she was gonna learn to love herself. Obviously. What more adequately sums up film’s problems is that almost anyone who interacts with Renee is, like, flabbergasted that she’d find herself attractive and isn’t afraid to show it. And then they don’t learn anything or change their ways. In fact, it seems they’re really only psyched on her because she knows just how to market to everyday makeup consumers.

Ugh. From there on out, it’s a beyond-predictable happy ending with a 40-second speech from Renee about how people really should be nicer to each other. OK, so there’s obviously truth to that, and Michelle Williams is actually pretty funny as the CEO of the makeup empire. It’s just that everyone else is so horrible, the jokes are so stale and the themes at play are so under-analyzed that one can’t help but wonder what the point was. Stop judging people? Cool.

Thanks, I guess. (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 110 min.

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OK, hear me out: Rampage, based on the ’80s arcade game of the same name, ain’t that bad.

Oh, it’s dumb alright, no question, from beginning to end. But at its core you’ll basically find an overthe-top Godzilla-like movie—and there’s nothing wrong with that, at least not in the summertime blockbuster sense.

Dwayne Johnson is Davis Okoye, a soldier-turned-primatologist for the San Diego Zoo. Davis doesn’t much care for people because of something-or-other about poachers he used to hunt for the Army in his previous life (morality!), but he totally gets along with his albino gorilla pal George (friendship!), possibly because George knows ASL and has a weird sense of humor (complexity!), possibly because Johnson is not entirely unlike a gorilla himself (muscles!). Either way, it’s bad news when a black ops science project carried out in space (not kidding) crash lands to Earth, transforming George into a towering behemoth of an ape with rage issues who—get this—goes on a total rampage across heartland America and Chicago.

Elsewhere, other fallout from the space-based experiments winds up mutating a wolf and a crocodile. They also rampage, with their particular mutations providing them with super powers, like flight or spikes they can shoot out of their bodies or super speed; George, meanwhile, just gets huge. What a ripoff.

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Turns out the culprit is some mega-corp run by an evil sister-brother team (Watchmen’s Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy of The Office), who both suck so hard in this movie it’s particularly notable. Lucky, though, a beautiful geneticist named Kate (Naomie Harris) who was tricked into developing the rampage-inducing experiment (which was in space, remember) teams up with Johnson to stop the, um, rampaging. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) also appears as some shadowy government operative, but his role is literally just him saying stuff like “whirlybird” and “grandpappy” and “this old cowboy” while The Rock is busy asking monsters if they can smell what he’s cooking. You bet your ass they can.

Explosions ensue. Everyone runs places.

Helicopters are flown, guns are fired and, like the game itself, buildings are punched into piles of rubble. And then, in a way that isn’t so much subtext as it is a tacked-on, barely-there sentiment, we get the idea that humans don’t always treat animals very nicely. We probably should, lest we become victims of a rampage.

Still, there’s no denying Dwayne Johnson’s immutable charm, and not every movie can be Citizen Kane. In fact, sometimes we just gotta see gigantic beasts tear shit up. Rampage, if you will. (ADV) Note: Rampage also comes in 3-D, though SFR saw the standard version.

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Jupe is fine as the token “I’m a-scared!” kid, but Simmonds is particularly bothersome as a melodramatic pre-teen who is deaf (handy, though, since the entire family knows sign language because of it) and definitely blames herself for the film’s harrowing opening sequence. While believable that a young girl would be defiant and moody and self-absorbed, it feels false that she would prioritize these feelings over, say, continuing to breathe.

Regardless, both Krasinski and Blunt nail the family dynamic, demonstrating just how far a parent would go to protect their brood.

The creature, meanwhile, is the true star of A Quiet Place—a spookily designed monstrosity that harks back to creature-feature horror while asserting its own identity, even if it does owe a debt of gratitude to movie monsters from classics like Alien and Predator.

Krasinski and company must be commended for keeping the monster under wraps in the trailers, and trust us—it’s definitely scary.

Still, the ultimate resolution isn’t quite as satisfying as it could be, and the no-sound shtick comes perilously close to outstaying its welcome, even if it is relatively inventive. As far as simple, atmospheric horror goes, though, you could do a hell of a lot worse than A Quiet Place.

Just be prepared for them jump-scares. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 90 min.

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John Krasinski dons his writer, director and actor caps for A Quiet Place, a sort of hybrid horror/sci-fi flick set in post-apocalyptia that finds a man and his family forced into constant silence to stay alive. Mysterious creatures have appeared in Farmland, USA, and seeing as they’re blind, they navigate and hunt by sound—kind of like bats, only not adorable. Krasinski’s clan thus adopts a million neat survival tricks to stay ahead of the game.

It’s a simple but smart idea, from the clever pathways laid with sand to the series of color-changing lightbulbs strung up around the farm to soundlessly warn of imminent danger.

Krasinski plumbs surprisingly moving emotional depths as a father facing loss who must also prepare his kids for the new world order. Ditto for Emily Blunt, also his real-world wife, who conveys terror sans dialogue in very meaningful and downright stressful ways. The children (Noah Jupe, Suburbicon, and Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck) are another story altogether, both in terms of the hammy expressions they lean into and the annoying plot lines with which they’re saddled.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Torah is a primary sacred text of the Jewish religion. It consists of exactly 304,805 letters. When specially trained scribes make handwritten copies for ritual purposes, they must not make a single error in their transcription. The work may take as long as 18 months. Your attention to detail in the coming weeks doesn’t have to be quite so painstaking, Aries, but I hope you’ll make a strenuous effort to be as diligent as you can possibly be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night hangs on a wall in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He created it in 1889 while living in a French asylum. Around that same time, 129 years ago, a sheepherder in Wyoming created a sourdough starter that is still fresh today. A cook named Lucille Clarke Dumbrill regularly pulls this frothy mass of yeast out of her refrigerator and uses it to make pancakes. In the coming weeks, Libra, I’d love to see you be equally resourceful in drawing on an old resource. The past will have offerings that could benefit your future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Born under the sign of Taurus, Edmund Wilson was a renowned twentiethcentury author and critic who wrote more than 30 books. He also served as editor for Vanity Fair and The New Republic, and influenced the work of at least seven major American novelists. When he was growing up, he spent most of his free time reading books: 16 hours a day during summer vacations. His parents, worried about his obsessive passion, bought him a baseball uniform, hoping to encourage him to diversify his interests. His response was to wear the uniform while reading books 16 hours a day. I trust you will be equally dedicated to your own holy cause or noble pursuit in the coming weeks, Taurus. You have cosmic clearance to be single-minded about doing what you love.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Love everyone twice as much and twice as purely as you ever have before. Your mental health requires it! Your future dreams demand it!

And please especially intensify your love for people you allegedly already love but sometimes don’t treat as well as you could because you take them for granted. Keep this Bible verse in mind, as well: “Don’t neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): After meditating on your astrological aspects for an hour, I dozed off. As I napped, I had a dream in which an androgynous angel came to me and said, “Please inform your Sagittarius readers that they should be callipygian in the next two weeks.” Taken back, my dreaming self said to the angel, “You mean ‘callipygian’ as in ‘having beautiful buttocks’?”

“Yes, sir,” the angel replied. “Bootylicious. Bumtastic.

Rumpalicious.” I was puzzled. “You mean like in a metaphorical way?” I asked. “You mean Sagittarians should somehow cultivate the symbolic equivalent of having beautiful buttocks?” “Yes,” the angel said. “Sagittarians should be elegantly well-grounded. Flaunt their exquisite foundation. Get to the bottom of things with flair. Be sexy badasses as they focus on the basics.” “OK!” I said.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s possible you could pass for normal in the next three weeks; you might be able to fool a lot of people into thinking you’re an average, ordinary contributor to the dull routine. But it will be far healthier for your relationship with yourself if you don’t do such a thing. It will also be a gift to your less daring associates, who in my opinion would benefit from having to engage with your creative agitation and fertile chaos.

So my advice is to reveal yourself as an imperfect workin-progress who’s experimenting with novel approaches to the game of life. Recognize your rough and raw features as potential building blocks for future achievements. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a favorable time to discuss in elegant detail the semi-secret things CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Paradise is scattered over that are rarely or never talked about. It’s also a perfect the whole earth,” wrote the scientific poet Novalis, moment to bring deep feelings and brave tenderness “and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.” into situations that have been suffering from halfLuckily for you, Cancerian, quite a few fragments of truths and pretense. Be aggressively sensitive, my dear paradise are gathering in your vicinity. It’ll be like a big Capricorn. Take a bold stand in behalf of compassionhappy reunion of tiny miracles all coalescing to create ate candor. And as you go about these holy tasks, be a substantial dose of sublimity. Will you be ready to entertaining as well as profound. The cosmos has deal with this much radiance? Will you be receptive to authorized you to be a winsome agent of change. so much relaxing freedom? I hope and pray you won’t AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his 1931 painting The make a cowardly retreat into the trendy cynicism that Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali shows three clocks so many people mistake for intelligence. (Because in that seem to be partially liquefied, as if in the process that case, paradise might remain invisible.) Here’s my of melting. His biographer Meredith Etherington-Smith judicious advice: Be insistent on pleasure! Be voracious speculated that he was inspired to create this surrealfor joy! Be focused on the quest for beautiful truths! istic scene when he saw a slab of warm Camembert cheese melting on a dinner table. I foresee the possibilLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): These days, your friends and ity of a comparable development in your life, Aquarius. allies and loved ones want even more from you than they usually do. They crave more of your attention, more Be alert for creative inspiration that strikes you in the of your approval, more of your feedback. And that’s not midst of seemingly mundane circumstances. all. Your friends and allies and loved ones also hope you PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “My whole life is messed will give more love to yourself. They will be excited and up with people falling in love with me,” said Piscean they will feel blessed if you express an even bigger, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She spoke the truth. She brighter version of your big, bright soul. They will draw inspired a lot of adoration, and it stirred up more chaos inspiration from your efforts to push harder and stronger than she was capable of managing. Luckily, you will to fulfill your purpose here on Planet Earth. have fewer problems with the attention coming your VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the advantages you way, Pisces. I bet you’ll be skilled at gathering the benefits and you’ll be unflummoxed by the pitfalls. But get from reading my horoscopes is that I offer confidential information about the gods’ caprices and lean- you’ll still have to work hard at these tasks. Here’s some help. Tip #1: Stay in close touch with how you ings. For example, I can tell you that Saturn—also really feel about the people who express their interest known as Father Time—is now willing to allot you a in you. Tip #2: Don’t accept gifts with strings attached. more luxurious relationship with time than usual, on one condition: that you don’t squander the gift on trivi- Tip #3: Just because you’re honored or flattered that someone finds you attractive doesn’t mean you should al pursuits. So I encourage you to be discerning and unquestioningly blend your energies with them. disciplined about nourishing your soul’s craving for interesting freedom. If you demonstrate to Saturn how Homework: Do you allow your imagination to indulge in constructively you can use his blessing, he’ll be inclined fantasies that are wasteful, damaging, or dumb? I dare you to stop it. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.. to provide more dispensations in the future.

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