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NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 ROOM FOR MORE 9 The developer for a Southside housing project will return with a new proposal in October WTF IS AN IRB? 11 Two multi-million dollar projects are looking to use this city-issued financing tool, so here’s what you need to know COVER STORY 12 COUNCIL KART 4 We introduce the three candidates running for District 4’s City Council seat in the municipal election that is right around the corner

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COVER, AUG. 28: “CASE NOT CLOSED”

FROM A PUBLIC DEFENDER Important and well-done article—thank you!

As a public defender I fully support the idea of the LOPD [Law Office of the Public Defender] playing a role in these types of cases!

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OPINION, AUG. 28: “WHERE’S LA EMI?”

I AGREE! I strongly agree with Catherine Oppenheimer’s letter. Inclusion of Emi [Grimm] in the cover story would have been appropriate to illustrate how far teens in the story might blossom as major, adult flamenco artists. ... I recall being impressed a decade and more ago by Emi’s dancing and potential at the Plaza as a teen in Maria Benitez’s youth company, Flamenco’s Next Generation. I now am amazed by her adult dancing and persona.

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To your point, I don’t think Santa Fe is ready for Michelin-worthy dining just yet.

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7 DAYS, AUG. 14: IN DEFENSE OF RICHARDSON Item 6 suggests, in fact implies, that Richardson was involved with a teen-age “sex slave.” Yet, a close reading of The New Mexican story and the material upon which it was based indicated only that the young woman said she was told by Epstein’s so-called madam to contact Richardson and other well-known men. Nowhere does it say, or imply, that she followed through on the order and contacted any of those men.

Big difference, wouldn’t you say?

FOOD, AUG. 28: “BOWL OF CONFUSION”

ALL DELISH After several visits, my experience has been very different (all delicious) but consistency is one of the biggest problems facing new restaurants.

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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS TURNS 40 THIS WEEK …

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…WHILE CANDYMAN STRINGS & THINGS TURNS 50 LATER THIS MONTH That’s 50 years of thinking your band is going to make it. It’s not. It’s really not.

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W E A R E WAY M O R E TH A N W E D N E S DAY H E R E A R E A CO UP LE O F O N LI N E E XC LUS I V E S :

MODERNIZING MINING LAW A new ordinance passed by the county overhauls hard rock mining regulations and puts Santa Fe squarely on the progressive side of things.

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appreciate that for the most part the overall dialogue and personality of Santa Fe is open, relevant, honest, inviting and sometimes wild. Art, land, relationships, family and reciprocity are also characteristics of this city. In a lot of ways, the larger public conversations that I have seen in this community don’t really happen anywhere else in the world.

We are blessed this way. Things move slower here. There are background stories for everything and everybody. The stories and social, cultural and political identities of this community have been built, and perhaps, burnt down and then rebuilt over time, for hundreds and hundreds of years; so the deep connectedness of the people, the land and the narratives are things that are not taken lightly, both then and now.

Santa Fe is a place for extraordinary people, whether they be artists, creative economy professionals, writers, critics, academics, chefs and possibly just serious thinkers who live their lives in the Southwest. I recently heard local famous feminist artist Harmony Hammond say something like, “we do what we want, we live in outlaw territory.” It resonates and rings true in a lot of ways.

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2019–2020 READINGS & CONVERSATIONS

READINGS & CONVERSATIONS

Lannan presents Readings & Conversations, bringing inspired writers of fiction and poetry, as well as advocates of cultural freedom and liberation, to read from and discuss their work.

BOOTS RILEY with

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WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Boots Riley is a provocative and prolific poet, rapper, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, director, community organizer, and public speaker. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. His directorial debut, the comedy-fantasy-sci-fi film Sorry to Bother You, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Fervently dedicated to social change, Riley was deeply involved with the Occupy Oakland movement and was one of the leaders of the activist group the Young Comrades. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Tell Homeland Security—We Are the Bomb.

Robin Davis Gibran Kelley, UCLA Professor of History, is the author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, and Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century.

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VIJAY PRASHAD with

MELANIE K. YAZZIE

WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Vijay Prashad is a Marxist historian and journalist. He is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a movement-driven research institution based in Argentina, Brazil, India, and South Africa.

He is also chief editor of LeftWord Books, a 20-year-old Marxist publishing house based in New Delhi. Additionally, Prashad is the chief correspondent for Globetrotter and writes a regular column for Frontline (India) and BirGün (Turkey). He has written 25 books, including The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and has appeared in two films: Shadow World and Two Meetings.

Melanie K. Yazzie is an assistant professor of Native American studies and American studies at the University of New Mexico. She is also the national chair of The Red Nation, a grassroots organization committed to the liberation of Native peoples from colonialism and capitalism.

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Above: Land off Airport Road proposed for a neighborhood of manufactured homes. Left: Debra Synderman says she and other area residents have concerns about density and traffic.

Room for More The developer for a Southside housing project will return with a new proposal in October B Y K AT H E R I N E L E W I N k a t h e r i n e @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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n 8-acre parcel of land on the Southside has become a battleground for longtime residents, a local Buddhist center and a developer who wants to put in a dense grouping of manufactured homes.

The land’s current occupants are cacti, dry grass and prairie dogs—they’re caught between the KSK Buddhist Center’s hardto-miss spire, busy Airport Road and a slew of manufactured home neighborhoods.

This stretch of Geo Lane runs perpendicular to Airport Road near the Santa Fe Country Club and has long been zoned as institutional, which means building a church or school on the property would be OK. But the owner of the land, GEO Park, LLC, has different ideas.

So far, John Reeder, the company’s agent, has convinced the Planning Commission to recommend rezoning the area to residential, but has not been able to gather enough support to have it zoned “Residential 6,” which would allow for about 51 manufactured homes, six on each acre.

In June, the Planning Commission told the developer to go back to the drawing board with a plan and recommended something less than R-6. R-4 zoning would allow for 34 structures; R-5 would allow for 42 structures.

Debra Snyderman, who lives next to the property, is concerned the developer wants to choke the area with rows of lower-quality homes without considering how their eventual residents would impact the area, which already struggles for services.

A chorus of nearby residents, including Snyderman, have brought up concerns regarding the value and quality of life offered by manufactured homes, known as mobile homes or trailers before 1976, when the federal government set up regulations regarding how they have to be constructed.

“Geo Lane Park is a plan for another unhealthy, densely concentrated, impoverished neighborhood within a larger community that does not have the needed amenities to assist the growing numbers of poor people with the means for getting out of poverty,” Snyderman wrote in a letter to Mayor Alan Webber and councilors Roman “Tiger” Abeyta and Chris Rivera.

Reeder tells SFR that the developer is considering some of the neighbors’ and council members’ worries from previous Early Neighborhood Notification and planning meetings. They are currently working with the parks department to see if the city will potentially accept about a third of an acre to maintain.

“We don’t have a definitive yes but they’re considering it,” Reeder says. “It’s hard to get the city of Santa Fe to accept a park because they say they can’t properly maintain what they already have. But they haven’t said no.”

The developers are also working with Homewise to offer low-interest financing in order to “get a mix of housing,” including the less expensive manufactured homes and stick-built homes, while also hoping to set up covenants to ban recreational vehicles from being used as “accessory dwelling units,” commonly known as casitas. Homewise helps people buy, sell or refinance their homes.

According to Lee Logston, a senior planner in the city’s Land Use Department, the developer believes that manufactured homes are the preferred choice over stickbuilt in order to turn a profit because of high land costs and the demand for a particular price point on the Southside.

Synderman says she and other residents are also concerned about traffic safety.

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They let these developers come in and most of them are just looking to make money.

-Debra Snyderman

There are five public schools within walking distance of Geo Lane Park, all south of Airport Road.

Snyderman, who has lived in her house next to the Buddhist center for 31 years and eventually joined the center, tells SFR that she often sees children, sometimes alone, sometimes with parents, crossing the road in between spurts of traffic because there aren’t crosswalks. She thinks the city needs to consider residents’ safety before approving another large development in the area.

“They let these developers come in and most of them are just looking to make

money,” Snyderman says. “They have no concerns about what they create for the people that are going to end up being here.”

Geo Lane is a narrow dead-end road that only comfortably fits one car and the turning lane from Airport Road onto Geo Lane only fits three to four cars at a time.

This, residents say, will create safety and accessibility problems with so many additional cars.

The City Council was set to take up a proposal Aug. 28 to rezone the land from institutional to low-density residential.

But the developer did not post required informational posters in nearby neighborhoods with a summary and date of the hearing before the meeting, so the item was withdrawn from the agenda, Logston tells SFR. For now, the development has been delayed. Logston says a new proposal for low-density residential with zoning less than R-6 would not likely land before the full council again until January 2020 at the soonest.

If the developer gets rezoning permission, the next step is rezoning, then a development plan for the potential subdivision that will have to go through at least two more Planning Commission meetings, Logston says.

Reeder tells SFR that he plans to return to the Planning Commission with a new proposal in October and one to two more Early Neighborhood Notification meetings for residents to air their concerns.

“I would like John Reeder and all of you who get to decide whether or not this project gets approved to answer this question,” Snyderman wrote in an email to Webber, Abeyta and Rivera. “Does Geo Lane Park sound like a place where you would like to live? If your answer is no, please let your conscience be your guide.”

But Logston doesn’t believe the city code lays the city’s larger Southside struggles at the feet of the proposed project.

“We can’t lay it on this developer to solve problems on the Southside,” Logston tells SFR.

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WTF is IRB? Two multi-million dollar projects are looking to use this city issued financing tool, so here’s what you need to know

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he city of Santa Fe is considering the issue of industrial revenue bonds for two separate projects: one to El Castillo Retirement Residences for a new transitional housing development for seniors, and the other to New Mexico Fresh Foods for a high pressure processing facility in the heart of Midtown.

Public hearings on both projects are around the corner. The El Castillo project is on the City Council agenda Sept. 11, and the New Mexico Fresh Foods project is set to be heard on Sept. 25.

Yet, even after a series of City Council and County Commission board meetings and numerous articles by all the regional papers about these projects, the confusion among our governing bodies as to how industrial revenue bonds work and why they matter has left the rest of us wondering: WTF is an IRB? We sat down with the city of Santa Fe’s Office for Business Growth Manager Fabian Trujillo to clarify the basics.

What is an Industrial Revenue Bond?

Industrial revenue bonds (IRBs) are “conduit” bonds issued by the city on behalf of a company or organization in an amount equal to or less than the cost of a proposed project. Unlike most other kinds of bonds which are used to pay for things like roads, the city isn’t lending any of its own money or borrowing any money to loan to the company, Trujillo explains. And the city isn’t responsible for paying back the investors who purchase the bonds either.

Rather, the debt is taken against the company’s future revenue and repayments to investors come from the company.

When an IRB is issued, the company is freed from paying property taxes to the city or the county. The title of the property is transferred to the city, though the city can’t sell or make any improvements on the property itself, and also isn’t responsible for any of the liabilities. Because the city doesn’t pay taxes on its own property, this allows the project property to be taken off of the tax roll. The company is then technically leasing the project from the city.

During the repayment period, however, the company still has to make payments in lieu of taxes to Santa Fe Public Schools and the Santa Fe Community College. After the IRB is paid, the title is transferred back to the company and is once again subject to taxes.

How do IRBs benefit the city?

IRBs benefit the city by bringing in large development projects that otherwise would not get built at all or would get built somewhere else, but for an IRB to be issued, says Trujillo, “the overall public benefits they provide have to be greater than the costs.”

New Mexico Fresh Foods, for example, will be able to abate $785,450 in property taxes over the next 10 years, but the city will collect approximately $21 million in gross receipts taxes, revenues and other fees.

El Castillo, on the other hand, will provide 1,000 construction jobs, 22 permanent jobs in the healthcare industry and needed housing for seniors, says Trujillo.

If the company still has to make payments in lieu of taxes, how do IRB’s benefit the company?

It depends on whether the IRB is issued for a 501c3 nonprofit company, such as El Castillo, or a for-profit company, such as New Mexico Fresh Foods.

Trujillo tells SFR, “For El Castillo, their biggest benefit is they will be able to sell the bonds on the financial markets for very low interest rates and finance their project accordingly.”

IRBs for nonprofits may be issued for health centers, senior centers, hospitals, private educational institutions, but not for charter schools.

For New Mexico Fresh Foods, the biggest benefit is the abatement of property taxes and exemptions on compensating taxes and gross receipts taxes on the purchase of equipment. While the debt behind the IRB is usually assumed by an affiliate of the company, Trujillo explains that IRBs issued to for-profit companies are primarily designed as incentives for large manufacturing projects that would

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otherwise have to pay 5.2% of the cost of equipment and machinery in compensating taxes.

What is the maximum dollar amount of an IRB? The most that a company can ask for is the total cost of the project, including the price of purchasing property, equipment and architectural costs. The City Council may decide to issue an IRB for less than the amount requested, but not for more.

Is there a limit to how many IRBs can the city issue?

The city is prohibited from issuing so many IRBs that it significantly erodes the tax base, but Trujillo says in Santa Fe we “are barely scratching the surface” of how many IRBs could possibly be issued by the city.

Who is eligible for an IRB? Private-sector capital projects must be capital intensive and must clearly demonstrate long term positive economic and community impact to qualify for IRBs. Trujillo says New Mexico Fresh Foods is an example of the “ideal project” for an IRB because the facility project will pay an average wage of $43,000 and be located in economically disadvantaged area where the current average wage is $19,000 with an unemployment rate of 11%, and the facility will have minimal environmental impact. “They are a homegrown business that we would like to keep here as they grow and they are going to be simulating a whole new innovative food industry and creating opportunities for new entrepreneurs,” says Trujillo, mentioning that the project is estimated to generate $2.5 billion in food projects.

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While this area does not encompass the historical city center, it lies at the heart of a growing and changing Santa Fe. One anticipated area of change is the Midtown campus. The dormitories and classrooms of the former Santa Fe University of Art and Design lie mostly vacant, in the midst of 64 underdeveloped city-owned acres. Revitalizing the campus is one of the city’s top priorities and one of the most hotly contested issues for Santa Fe residents. The fate of the Midtown campus falls to the next City Council to decide.

Also in District 4 is the industrial Rufina area, where new bars, breweries and grungy art studios popping up between warehouses and auto shops signal an emerging youth scene. This area includes Meow Wolf and Second Street Brewery’s third and newest location; it’s also slated for the Siler Yard, a live/work rental project that will feature 65 affordable, sustainably built units for artists and entrepreneurs. The district also holds the city’s newest hospital by Presbyterian.

Yet residents of the district also face real fears of displacement, especially in the area that borders the historic village of Agua Fría, including the lowest income census tracts in the district, and neighborhoods along Siringo Road where residents say rents have been steadily rising.

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Meet the three candidates racing to represent the shifting city center

This is the first time the race for City Council—historically a spring election— takes place in the fall. A new state law intended to boost voter turnout consolidated all local elections to the same date. But until voters get used to the change, it may actually decrease participation in a district that already has a relatively low turnout.

Of a total population of 20,704, according to the 2010 census, 14,456 residents are registered to vote, and only 4,887 voted in the 2017 council election.

District 4 hugs the southern edge of the village of Agua Fria, its northern boundary running along portions of Cerrillos Road and Rufina Street before cutting up Lopez Lane to carve out a chunk of neighborhoods between the end of Agua Fria Street, Jemez and Airport roads. Then, it follows Cerrillos west to 1-25. To the east, the district includes neighborhoods like Bellemah, Pueblos del Sur and Nava Ade.

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rowth and shifting demographics are pushing the vibrancy of youth and cultural exchange ever further south towards an area at the geographic center of Santa Fe that has the potential to become a new hub of life and activity.

But, so much depends on the city’s decisions in the next few years.

And that depends in part on who gets elected to represent City Council in District 4.

It’s the only of the city’s four districts where more than two people are fighting for an open seat in the November municipal election. This alone makes it the most exciting contest in the upcoming election, but it also stands out because all three candidates grew up in Santa Fe.

district between the end of Agua Fría and Airport roads has a concentration of young immigrant families. Speaking to SFR mostly in Spanish, people here raised concerns about making streets safer for kids and the dearth of nearby grocery stores or childcare facilities.

On the other side of town past Rodeo Road, the district transitions into quiet residential neighborhoods and planned communities. Beyond that, out towards the highway, are large swaths of open space.

The race is on because Councilor Mike Harris is not seeking re-election to the seat he’s held since 2016. Xavier Anderson, Jamie Cassutt-Sanchez and Greg Scargall all qualified for the ballot and each is using public campaign dollars to reach voters rather than fundraising privately.

Whichever councilor voters choose will join JoAnne Vigil Coppler to represent the district on the governing body that includes two elected officials from each of four geographic districts, along with the mayor.

In a diverse and quickly changing district, each candidate has something different to offer.

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Scargall poses at an overgrown park in the district. It’s a symptom, he says, of inequality.

Greg Scargall: What a mission, what a mustache

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t’s early on a Saturday morning and SFR has already spent 20 minutes frantically searching for the council candidate on the wrong side of Marc Brandt Arroyo Park. Finally we spy him perched on a step, hidden behind tall grass.

We walk down the path and he motions toward a bench that has become an island of black metal in a sea of prickly green weeds.

“I’d offer you a seat,” he says jovially, “but as you can see, getting there’s a bit of a challenge.”

SFR declines the invitation. He sits anyway. On either side of us, overgrown banks slope down towards the cracked concrete path in the center that disappears here and there below caked layers of mud.

Addressing neglected maintenance is one of the top priorities of Scargall’s campaign.

But the frustration and passion he expresses as he discusses governance are about much more than weeds. Scargall sees the condition of this park on Rancho Siringo Road as symptomatic of entrenched, systemic problems.

“There are residents who have been here for 50 years, that bleed Santa Fe. This is their home, and yet they look and say,

‘We’ve been forgotten, look at our park!’” he says, pointing to discarded hypodermic needles and empty liquor bottles on the ground beneath a bridge.

Scargall has big ideas about how to address a lot of complicated topics in Santa Fe, but his strategy is about rebuilding community trust by starting with the basics and providing clear reminders to people that they matter.

“My first priority is government accountability in terms of providing a reasonable and realistic expectation in terms of services, meaning maintaining parks and streets; the second is investment in infrastructure; and the third is housing.

Housing is of course the biggest issue that’s overarching as a crisis here in Santa Fe, but we’re never gonna solve the housing issue if we can’t even do the little things.”

Scargall may not have much experience in city government, but he is intimately familiar with what faces constituents of the district. He ran for the seat in the 2017 election and came in second of three.

His current day job is at the Santa Fe Community College Veterans Resource Center, where he has worked since the program started in 2013. But when he saw

how many schools started this year with teacher vacancies, he put in his two weeks notice and accepted a position teaching fourth grade at Cesar Chavez Elementary.

“I’m someone that sees a need and takes action,” he says, noting the new job doesn’t change his ambition to win the council seat.

Scargall was born and raised in Santa Fe, in a house on Buena Vista Street downtown that his mother later sold when she moved near Siringo Road. After high school, he joined the military and has since earned an associate degree in business administration from Santa Fe Community College, a bachelor’s in marketing and a master’s in business management, both from New Mexico Highlands University.

“You know, I’ve seen this from both sides,” he says as he carefully picks up a needle with a gloved hand from the park.

He ties his own past problems with alcohol to troubled teen years in Santa Fe. He’s spent years working in community outreach involving veterans who sometimes struggle with addiction, and supports further city investments in the Mobile Integrated Health Office (MIHO) and Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion programs,

which assist frequent users of emergency medical services and drug addicts who commit crimes, respectively.

Scargall also personally understands what it means to face housing insecurity.

After losing his home and business in the 2008 financial crash, he and his wife— Bernadette, also born and raised in Santa Fe—returned from California, broke and “virtually homeless,” to seek family support in raising their 2-year-old daughter and their infant son.

In the 10 years since—Maya is 12 and son Prescott is 10 now—Scargall says his family is “still struggling to find our place in this community in terms of purchasing a home.” His rent has increased above 35% twice in the last year alone, while his income has remained the same, he says.

Affordable housing and development of the Midtown campus are critical, says Scargall, but the city must hire developers who take the local community, its history, values and culture, into consideration.

He says, “I see it as the second Plaza for average people. I would love to see Midtown campus be a place where you or I, me and my family, would have the ability and desire to go at least once or twice a week or to live there.”

Scargall is serious about his commitment to community concerns and his enthusiasm is infectious, says Cheryl Odom, a District 4 constituent with his sign in her yard.

The former costume design teacher at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design met Scargall in 2017 at community meetings regarding the future of the campus theater building, which she hopes to preserve as a community performance space.

“Gregory and I are not at all alike—he’s a veteran and a hunter, and I’m a New Age hippy and a vegetarian—but he showed up to all the meetings, he totally supported public involvement, he advocated for affordable housing, and he supported a performing arts center for local theater,” she says.

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Jamie Cassutt-Sanchez: New mom likes to think about big connections

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ne thing I’ve learned in my work in public health is that when you start to pull one string, you begin to realize that they are all connected,” says Jamie Cassutt-Sanchez. “For me it really comes back to health and well-being. I see all policy as health policy, because everything we do impacts health. I think we need to understand these relationships so that we can figure out where we have overlaps and inefficiencies, and where we have gaps that still need to be filled. And then we need to write evidence-based policy solutions.”

District 4 City Council candidate Cassutt-Sanchez has a vision for Santa Fe that’s all about connecting the dots, whether that means creating a digitized health record system to better manage care, coordinating students with mentorship programs, or putting in more broadband to give young entrepreneurs the kind of high speed internet that is required for most 21st century business ventures.

People who know her say that’s just her personal style.

“Jamie is really great at identifying what people need and how to help them,” says Celia Bassett, a mother of another toddler in Cassutt-Sanchez’ neighborhood who is helping with the campaign.

“She really knows how to listen.”

Cassutt-Sanchez is part of what Mayor Alan Webber calls the “boomerang generation”—a cohort of young adults who grew up in Santa Fe, left to pursue education and careers elsewhere, and then return as professionals ready to put down roots in their hometown.

She and her husband, Bobby Sanchez, seem to be exactly the type of ambitious and entrepreneurial couple the current governing body is taking pains to attract.

They have only been back for nine months and she’s already begun dreaming of how to put her public health background to work to make Santa Fe an even better place to raise her 1-year-old, Oliver.

Her husband, a chiropractor, has started his own sports rehab business that opened in February.

The family currently lives in a home owned by Cassutt-Sanchez’ parents, where she invites SFR to meet her for coffee. Oliver crawls up to the table, curious about the new guest, before getting scooped up by Cassutt-Sanchez’ mother.

Cassutt-Sanchez says starting a family was really the impetus for coming home, because she wanted her son to grow up with the unique sense of culture and community that she had here. However, many things trouble her here as well, such as the lack of opportunities, high paying jobs and affordable housing.

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She and her husband “are very fortunate,” she says, because both have careers in a field where talent is in demand in Santa Fe, and they aren’t paying full cost for housing.

She graduated from Santa Fe High in 2003, has a bachelor’s degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and a master’s in public health from UCLA. She’s worked as a behavioral health therapist for children with autism, a wellness coordinator in a low-income school district and the coordinator of a program at a children’s hospital that sent pediatricians into homeless shelters in San Diego.

Some of Cassutt-Sanchez’ most practical ideas for city government aim to make the city function more smoothly, such as establishing a yearly routine of “code-hygiene” to clarify building codes and eliminate confusing gray areas. But with her advanced degree in public health and experience in the field, it makes sense that the overarching theme of her platform is about Santa Fe’s health and well-being. Her primary policy proposal involves creating a Health Alliance Com-

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Cassut-Sanchez came home to Santa Fe nine months ago. BELOW: She visits with staff at Pete’s Place.

mittee for city, county and school board members.

Confronting the steep costs of living and parenting challenges, such as the high price and staffing shortages of nursery schools, have made Cassutt-Sanchez keenly aware of how many of her peers have likely been pushed out of the city altogether.

She emphasizes the need to create affordable housing for working families, which includes both renters and those who want to buy their first home. The city needs to look at all of its land for development, she says.

Later, at the homeless shelter at Pete’s Place, she meets with staff about the challenges facing the homeless population and weighs in with a perspective from her time doing public health work at schools and homeless shelters in California.

Cassutt-Sanchez offers her support for more housing voucher programs and a preventative approach to homelessness.

But mostly, she listens.

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Xavier Anderson: Data drives public safety worker toward answers

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ooking around Xavier Anderson’s house, filled with artwork and souvenirs from travels that he and his wife Evonne Gantz have taken all over the world, it is clear that this is a man with a love for detail. Even the pen he offers SFR when ours runs out of ink has a story behind it, coming from a trip to Spain.

When describing his policy plans, Anderson is meticulously thorough. He speaks in a measured, even tone, tracing the logic of his ideas from A to Z at a pace that is easy to follow.

For him, it all comes back to data and using the power of information to eliminate inefficiency, manage the budget, and prioritize new projects. His platform is based on two areas where he believes Santa Fe is long overdue for a data-driven revolution: public safety and city infrastructure.

When it comes to police, he says, the city’s first priority must be staffing. “With so many vacancies, our officers are running

from call to call to call. They do not necessarily have the time to advocate, say, for a mental health patient and bring those additional services … We are burning police officers out, and when police officers and firefighters are exhausted they are more likely to make mistakes.”

Then, says Anderson, departments need to start collecting data. He rattles off a long list of categories: time spent pending dispatch, call response times, cross utilization of equipment, miles put on patrol cars, hours worked overtime, distances traveled and so on.

That six-part answer is typical of the way he fields questions. To some, this level of minutia may seem tiresome, but to Anderson, it’s the difference between an actually functional system and what we have now, in which no one seems to have a very clear idea of what’s going on or how much money is being spent where. At its heart Anderson’s focus on data is about equity

and ensuring the Southside gets the same standards of service as wealthier, whiter districts.

“My job as a councilor would not necessarily be to find solutions,” he says, “I see my role as asking those tough questions of department directors and city leadership so we can start getting some answers and meaningful data that will help constituents hone in on solutions.”

Anderson is used to data-based work, and has dealt with government for most of his career. His first job for the city was as a 911 operator at the emergency dispatch center in 1994, and since then he spent eight years teaching at the Law Enforcement Academy, became a criminal investigator for the state fire marshal’s office, did emergency management training for Homeland Security, and worked in forestry. In his current job he manages data, budgeting and finances for the Los Alamos Fire Department, and even spent a short period working on the city of Santa Fe’s new financial software, Munis.

His attention to detail is no less meticulous as he takes SFR on a district tour, stopping to point out things that catch his eye as needing attention. His encyclopedic

Anderson has worked in lots of local detail-oriented public safety jobs.

knowledge of these neighborhoods is one of the ways Anderson stood out to former District 4 city councilor Bill Dimas when the candidate came knocking on his door.

“This is a very diverse district, and I was impressed by [Anderson] because he really understands the issues of this district,” says Dimas. “I think he has the right attitude, the right qualifications, and I think he’d make a fantastic city councilor.”

In one neighborhood, he takes a turn through a residential area down a street that ends in a cul-de-sac, where he points out a slim fire hydrant that looks dwarfed in comparison to the standard yellow hydrants and that he says could pose a hazard.

At another stop, he points to a strip of road that had belonged to the county before being annexed by the city in 2008, where the bike path stops suddenly only to start up again a few yards later.

Eliminating such inconsistencies are at the heart of his campaign, and Anderson already knows exactly how he plans to get it done.

Anderson, who has two adult children from a previous marriage, has deep roots in Santa Fe. He has Mexican citizenship through his mother, who came to the US as an immigrant farm worker, and he recently applied for Spanish citizenship through his father, who was a member of the Romero family that traces its history back to the Spanish conquest.

His research into his own family history is another example of his dedication to getting to the bottom of an issue. The process of getting his Mexican passport took multiple back-and-forth trips to embassies, across borders, and involved an extensive hunt for correct documents that even led to a catch-22 type situation where he had to prove to the Mexican government that he did not exist in their records in order to have them record his existence.

“This process really helped me relate to a lot of people in our immigrant community in a new way,” he says with a chuckle.

“Dealing with documentation just isn’t that simple.”

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SEEDING THE FUTURE Part of being a responsible agricultural steward means taking care of your plants’ offspring, and the Santa Fe Public Library in collaboration with the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners wants to help you learn how. It’s all to support the growing seed library, from which you can check out seeds with the goal of replenishing them for the community—but only if you can figure out how to coax the seeds out of various plants, some of which are notoriously difficult to pollinate. SFR reported on the program back in May: check out “Seeds of Resilience” (May 21) online, then head to the workshop to contribute.

(Cole Rehbein)

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EVENT WED/4

Seed-Saving and the Seed Library: 5:30 pm Wednesday Sept. 4. Free.

Santa Fe Public Library Southside, 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820

COURTESY TEATRO PARAGUAS

THEATER THU/5-SUN/8 A WHIT O’ POESY

Sometimes good poetry makes you feel so much that you gotta get on stage and act out your insides. The folks at Teatro Paraguas know that feeling well, and when they asked Daniel Bohnhorst to direct the 11th production in their Poesía Viva series, he picked two of the greatest American poets, Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda, and put them side-by-side in a bilingual production. “Their language is so alive to me on the page, and it was an exciting proposition to try and lift their words into the space,” he tells SFR. Don’t worry if your Spanish is rusty—translations appear above the stage while the actors read below. (CR) Word Over All: 7:30 pm Thursday Sept. 5-Saturday Sept. 7; 2 pm Sunday Sept. 8. $10-$15.

Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601

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MUSIC SUN/8 ON PAPER

Holy smokes, where has Jerry Paper been all our lives? The creative alter-ego of Los Angeles songwriter Lucas Nathan, Jerry Paper’s jams skirt an interesting blend of Foxygen-esque throwback soulful pop and rock with super sexy basslines and a Carole King-like gift for folkysmooth jam melodies. Nathan recently signed with Stones Throw Records and has a new album scheduled for release this October, and even though his upcoming Santa Fe show predates that release, it’s all but certain new songs are in the mix. For now, look up the song “Grey Area” and start getting pumped up.

(ADV) Jerry Paper: 8 pm Sunday Sept. 8. $12-$15.

Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369.

EVENT FRI/6 + SUN/8

The Big Four-Oh Center for Contemporary Arts newest milestone Me personally? I love the Center for Contemporary Arts—or CCA, if you’re nasty—and that love affair goes back decades. On the one hand, it’s the place where I saw Fellini movies like Nights of Cabiria for the first time, indies like Six String Samurai and fascinating, life changing documentaries in the Cinematheque.

On the other, the galleries both inside the main building and in the Tank Garage were my ticket to local and international artists I both knew and didn’t, to Meow Wolf’s jaw-dropping Due Return. It’s been an eduction, but an accessible one gifted by people I wanted to know or meet and people I already did and had.

On the eve of the organization’s 40th birthday, it seems more important than ever to recognize its contributions to Santa Fe culture. I know the word “lucky” gets thrown around here a whole lot, but we truly are lucky to have the CCA. “The CCA constantly reinvents itself,” acting Executive Director G Sterling Zinsmeyer tells SFR. “I think we’re in a particularly interesting assessment period wherein we’re exploring collaborations and doing some bold things that will make us more relevant.”

Zinsmeyer says he can’t get into the specifics, but upcoming engagement with

the Santa Fe Children’s Museum and the New Mexico National Guard Museum are just the beginning.

“It’s a low-threshold place,” he says, “an easy entrance for the whole city of Santa Fe.” To keep it easy—and to celebrate—the CCA hosts a pair of events this weekend, both the official 40th birthday party on Friday Sept. 6 with a performance from DJ Raashan Ahmad, food trucks, special vendors and a free drink for those of age.

On Sunday Sept. 8, the good times keep a-coming with a special Community Day featuring group yoga, a free movie and family-friendly activities.

“It’s all thanks to the perseverance of our dedicated board members and the returning patrons who keep us alive and thriving,” Zinsmeyer adds.

(Alex De Vore)

PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: CCA TURNS 40: 6- 9 pm Friday Sept. 6. Free.

COMMUNITY DAY AT CCA: 10 am-1 pm Sunday Sept. 8. Free.

Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338

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BAND OF SKULLS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Blisteringly powerful rock'n'roll. 21+.

8 pm-12 am, $19-$23 BOB FINNEY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 A night for singer/songwriters, hosted by Jason Reed.

6:30 pm, free CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar.

7 pm, free DON CURRY & PETE SPRINGER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Acoustic rock.

8 pm, free HENRY SUTRO TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n' roll.

7:30 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rhythmic covers and originals of a folky bent on guitalele.

6 pm, free TINY'S ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Plug it in and rock out. Hosted

by Nick Wimett and Albert Diaz.

8:30 pm, free

Contact Cole 395-2906

WED/4 BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK BY KIGAKU NOAH ROSSETTER Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A 15-minute meditation is followed by a talk entitled: The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease: Exploring the Many Faces of Dukkha in Buddhist Theory and Practice.

5:20-6:30 pm, free CAREER TALKS FOR TEENS Santa Fe Public Library La Farge Branch, 1730 Llano St.,955-4860 Meet interesting professionals with in-demand careers, learn how they got their start and take the opportunity to network.

4:30-5:30 pm, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Explore the basics and finer points of Zen meditation, including good posture and finding a comfortable position.

5 pm, free

WORKSHOP SEED-SAVING AND THE SEED LIBRARY Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Learn the basics of seed saving and become a better seed steward. Check out seeds from the seed library or bring some of your own (see SFR Picks, page 17).

5:30-6:30 pm, free

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BOOKS/LECTURES SALVADOR DALI: IS IT OR AIN’T IT REAL? St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Presented by the Renesan Institute, senior fine art appraiser Bernard Ewell discusses the proliferation of Dali forgeries and the techniques he used in detecting them.

1-3 pm, $15

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the National Institute of Flamenco's world-famous dinner show at the longest-running tablao in North America.

Reservations required.

6:30-9 pm, $30

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Pub trivia with prizes.

7 pm, free

FILM A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE La Sala de Galisteo 5637 Hwy. 41, Galisteo, 466-3541 John Cassavetes, a pioneer of American independent cinema, directs an unrelenting picture of a woman’s emotional breakdown and its effects on her family.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC BOB FINNEY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free DJ RAGGEDY A'S CLASSIC MIXTAPE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 R&B, rock and more.

8 pm, free DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano and Broadway faves.

6:30 pm, free HENRY SUTRO TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n' roll.

7:30 pm, free

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FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Local produce and crafts from over 150 producers.

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JESUS BAS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

6 pm, free MATT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Singer/songwriter.

7-10 pm, free WHY? Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Alternative hip-hop and indie rock, with guest acts Barrie and Go Dark. 21+ 8-11:30 pm, $16-$19 BOBBY McFERRIN Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive, 986-5900 Yeah, he sang “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” but he’s so much more than that.

7:30 pm, $29-$79

THEATER HENRY IV, PART ONE The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 As a sequel to the play Richard II, the noblemen who helped Bolingbroke become Henry IV are now disgruntled and feeling unappreciated, so they plot to put Mortimer on the throne (Richard had appointed Mortimer as his heir). Parallel views of the noblemen going to war and the lower class going to war offer amazing commentary on war and equality, honor and dishonor, cowardice and valor, as well as father figures.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 WORD OVER ALL: WALT WHITMAN AND PABLO NERUDA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A celebration of the poetry and prose of two of the Americas' most beloved poets. The show features a number of new Neruda poems unearthed in 2014, discovered among his papers in Chile, and published only recently. This is a fully bilingual production: Whitman is translated into Spanish, and Neruda is translated into English. These translations are projected on a screen above the stage, while actors perform the work in its original language (see SFR Picks, page 17).

7:30 pm, $10-$15

WORKSHOP YOGA IN THE GARDEN Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Relieve stress and quiet your mind in a supportive atmosphere with this morning yoga class. The format is a vinyasa flow class that is open to all levels, from beginner to expert. Mats will be available at the garden.

8-9 am, $10-$15

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FRI/6 ART OPENINGS AMERICAN PORTRAIT Gerald Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 An exhibition of reflective imagery in graphite on paper

by El Paso artist Fernando Andrade.

5-7 pm, free CONTEMPORARY DANISH ART AND DESIGN Gerald Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 A Danish mother-and-daughter pairing of porcelain works

by Bodil Manz and contemporary designs by Cecilie Manz.

5-7 pm, free EXPLORATIONS IN FORM AND COLOR Fuller Lodge Art Center 2132 Central Ave. Los Alamos, 662-1635 Oil and pastel by local Santa Fe artist Monika ten Bruggencate.

5-7 pm, free FISH: A SOLO EXHIBITION El Gancho Fitness Club 104 Old Las Vegas Highway Jeff Griffith presents new works dedicated to the beauty which lives below the surface of the water.

5-7 pm, free FOUR PHOTOGRAPHERS, ONE NEW MEXICO Historic Santa Fe Foundation 545 Canyon Road Ste. 2, 983-2567 A collection of works by photographers Mark Berndt, Jim Gautier, Richard A. Nicholas and Bill Todino representing four distinct visions of New Mexico. The artists capture their initial images through color, black and white and infrared photography, and present their finished works as digital archival pigment prints on paper (Berndt and Todino), and photo encaustic (Gautier and Nicholoas), which allows for the layering of additional elements such as hand-coloring, pigments, resins and wax.

5-7 pm, free GARO ANTREASIAN: REFLECTIONS ON LIFE AND ART Gerald Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 An exhibition to commemorate the artist's enduring influence on the world of printmaking.

5-7 pm, free NO LIBRARY CARD NEEDED: CONTEMPORARY BOOK ART East Rotunda Gallery 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, 986-4614 Members of the Santa Fe Book Arts Group (BAG) use a wide range of materials, designs, and techniques to create original works of sculptural or multi-dimensional book art.

4-6 pm, free

REFLECTIONS OF THE UNTOLD Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road, 988-3888 New mixed-media paintings by Guillaume Seff, a French artist known for expressive abstract paintings with lush surfaces and detailed markings that create the impression of emotions, words or thoughts.

5-7 pm, free SERGIO MOYANO Inspire Gallery 618-A Canyon Road, 316-4445 Work from an Argentinianborn, internationally-studied abstract painter and printer who is now settled in Santa Fe, being shown at a new gallery on Canyon.

5-7 pm, free SIGN OF THE TIMES Zalma Lofton Gallery 407 S Guadalupe St., 670-5179 A group show of nine talented contemporary artists from across the country in a wide range of mediums.

5-9 pm, free STAN BERN: UNUSUAL SEASONS Art Box 54 E San Francisco St. 928-460-2611 Grand oil and watercolor paintings from 2019.

5-7 pm, free VISUAL POETRY ARTIST'S TALK AND RECEPTION Winterowd Fine Art 701 Canyon Road, 992-8878 Hear the stories behind a new exhibit featuring Sheryl Zacharia's 10 ceramic sculptures and Don Quade's 10 paintings.

4:30 pm, free ZOE NAUMAN: SOLO EXHIBITION Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, 470-2582 Nauman’s work challenges the conventional definitions of photography and storytelling. Her use of diptych and triptych format to convey a feeling or story shows a depth of understanding about how to maximize the impact of a story using multiple images.

5-7 pm, free

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We are currently only representing NEW MEXICO based artists and craftspeople.

BOOKS/LECTURES FOUR LIMITLESS MEDITATIONS Marcia Keegan Gallery Plaza Galeria, 66 E San Francisco St. The venerable Lama Jay Goldberg presents a teaching and meditation practice on loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity.

6-7:30 pm, $20-$25

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the National Institute of Flamenco's worldfamous dinner show at the longest-running tablao in North America. Reservations required.

6:30-9 pm, $30

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THE CALENDAR

THURSDAY 9/12

CLOUDTOP COMEDY

VARIETY SOCIAL DANCE Dance Station Solana Center, 947-B W Alameda St. Arrive at 7 pm for a quick dance lesson if you need, then get your groove on with everything from Latin and country to ballroom and swing. No partner required.

7:30-9:30 pm, $5

OPENING NIGHT @ RUFINA TAPROOM + MEOW WOLF

www.cloudtopcomedy.com for info + tickets

THURSDAY 9/12

CYCLE SQUAD

EVENTS

EVERY SECOND THURSDAY MEET @ THE RAILYARD WATER TOWER FREE / 7 PM

THURSDAY 9/19

BREWTAPBOOMBAP

MONTHLY HIP HOP SHOWCASE + POP UP MARKET FREE / 7:30 PM

WWW.SECONDSTREETBREWERY.COM RUFINA TAPROOM 2920 Rufina St, Santa Fe NM 87507

MAGIC: THE GATHERING TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store Core Set 2020 Draft-style play.

7-11 pm, $30 PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: CCA TURNS 40 Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Internationally-acclaimed DJ Raashan Ahmad celebrates the 40th anniversary of the CCA with an array of food trucks, vendors and activities.

Plus, a free drink comes with the ticket (see SFR Picks, page 17).

6-9 pm, $15 SHIFT CLOSING RECEPTION Goldleaf Gallery 627 W Alameda St., 988-5005 Catherine Skinner's solo exhibit of dynamic mixed-media paintings is closing, so don't miss your last chance to see it.

6-8 pm, free THE ART OF CHANGE Santa Fe Art Institute 1600 St Michael’s Drive, 424-5050 A night of film, music and art celebrating catalytic artists that change the world. The evening features a prerelease film screening of the new Prince documentary, Mr. Nelson: On the North Side, and caps with a performance by Belling the Cat of Santa Fe, who recorded the film’s soundtrack, featuring prominent musicians Brian Hardgroove, Jono Manson, John Kurzweg and Stephen Peace. This annual fundraising event provides essential support for SFAI’s free international residency program.

5:30 pm, $18-$250

MUSIC BEDTIME STORIES: NOCHE ENCANTADA—A NEO-BURLESQUE VARIETY SHOW Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Get ready for comedy, mariachi, flamenco, puppetry, dance and even meowcheladas in this spicy celebration of all things New Mexico.

8 pm-12 am, $13-$28 BIRD THOMPSON & INSTANT KARMA The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Adult contemporary singer-songwriter—now featuring songs from his new album, Prayer Wheel.

10 am, free

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C S ROCKSHOW La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock and roll.

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

6:30 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Irish traditional music, folk and more.

6 pm, free GITANO Eldorado Hotel and Spa 309 W San Francisco St., 988-4455 Acoustic and electric guitar and vocals at Cava Lounge.

6-9 pm, free JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free MICHAEL MOXEY AND THE EASY SINNERS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Americana and all sorts of country.

8-11 pm, free MANZANARES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Spanish guitar, Latin percussion and soulful vocals form a high-energy sound that ranges from Spanish guitar melodies to flamenco to pop to Latin rock.

9 pm, $5 NOHE Y SUS SANTOS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Latin jazz.

8:30 pm, free NORTHERN REVOLUTION Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 New Mexico variety band performing country, rancheras, cumbias, oldies and rock'n'roll. 21+ 9 pm-1 am, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER WORD OVER ALL: WALT WHITMAN AND PABLO NERUDA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A celebration of the poetry and prose of two of the Americas' most beloved poets. (see SFR Picks, page 17).

7:30 pm, $10-$15

WORKSHOP FIRST FRIDAY ART ACTIVITY Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 View the new Ken Price exhibit and create your own masterpiece with supplies from the monthly Art Cart. First Friday art activities are included with museum admission, which is free to New Mexico residents all day.

Please bring your ID. 5-7 pm, $13

SAT/7 BOOKS/LECTURES GREEN TARA INITIATION AND MEDITATION PRACTICE Tsechen Namdrol Ling 1341 Upper Canyon Road, 469-3443 Empowerment through the female bodhisattva of compassion in action helps cut through obstacles and liberates us from physical, emotional and mental sufferings.

Presented by the Ven. Lama Jay Goldberg.

2-3:30 pm, $25-$30 PANEL DISCUSSION: GARO ANTREASIAN Gerald Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Diana Gaston, Bill Lagatutta and Joe Traugott discuss the gallery's new exhibit.

2 pm, free TAKING THE EIGHT PRECEPTS Tsechen Namdrol Ling 1341 Upper Canyon Road, 469-3443 Maintain self-discipline by refraining from negative actions. Includes a vegetarian lunch.

8:30-10:30 am, $25-$30 THE LEGACY OF EL DELIRIO: THE WHITE SISTERS' REMARKABLE LEGACY” Kit Carson Electric Cooperative Boardroom 118 Alta Cruz Road, Taos The Taos County Historical Society presents a public lecture by Nancy Owen, scholar in residence at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. The White sisters moved to Santa Fe in in the mid '20s, creating an expansive estate that later became the SAR. 2 pm, free

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the National Institute of Flamenco's world-famous dinner show at the longest-running tablao in North America.

Reservations required.

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The Candyman at 50 Santa Fe music institution hits middle age B Y M AT T H E W K G U T I E R R E Z a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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here’s no secret that bigger corporations have a hand in most aspects of our lives these days.

Whatever you need, there’s something to buy, and they’re the ones to sell it.

Thusly endangered is the local business template: the mom and pop store where locals can go, talk neighborly gossip and purchase their whatnot. It’s even rarer for said local shops to blossom in the 21st century, but amongst all of this, The Candyman Strings & Things stands out as a Santa Fe institution, and it’s celebrating its 50th year this month.

Co-owner Rand Cook carries himself with the exuberance of a man half his age, yet the wisdom of an old sage. A longtime employee before purchasing the business in 2009, Rand is hungry for the future, but it’s not just about the money.

“Things are great,” he tells SFR. “We’re growing. I mean, this is retail after all; we have to make money—but we wanna make the world better. We have an amazing gift here.”

That gift is music itself, an invaluable one, and one the Candyman provides in abundance to the old hands, the hobbyists and the youths just starting out with lessons, public jam sessions and the store’s Summer Rock Camp program, which recently completed its 10th year.

Originally, the store opened

by Matthew Schwartzman in 1969, was intended to be an easy access music shop, leading the way not only in instruments, but vinyl, tapes, Betamax and CDs. The business also maintained a sound system installation niche, including everything from home theaters to built-in audio for courts and other state services. But the other shoe dropped in 2009, and the pain that followed can still be felt in the walls of the space.

“Matthew getting sick and passing in ’09 was easily the biggest hit we’ve had.”

Rand says. “Then the recession came and those days were really, really dark.”

Rand had worked in the store since 1990. He purchased The Candyman that

May with his wife, Cindy, who immediately set about revitalizing the business with new ideas, starting with inclusion in the nonprofit National Association of Music Merchants. NAAM seeks to sit on the cutting edge of music creation and production, and its annual trade shows in Anaheim, California, are the nexus of all things music gear and the stuff of legend.

“When Matthew and I would visit NAAM, we would have our meetings, make our deals and leave,” Rand says.

“Cindy came and immediately was a presence.”

She helped the business change its approach to service, doubling down on the tenets of strong products and a friendly, helpful staff. The main idea, meanwhile, was to evolve the concept of the music store from niche-catering to community-minded instrument mecca.

“We really wanted to make the conscious move of an exclusive environment to an inclusive one,” Cindy says. “We had to break bad habits and make the space welcoming.”

“It came to the point where we needed

Cindy and Rand Cook of The Candyman.

Jacoby and Chris Riggins, among others.

“This job is a stepping stone for these guys to get to the next level,” Rand stresses.

After visiting the NAAM show in 2009, Cindy realized education was vital to the future of the business. Rand, however, was a little hesitant. Luckily, at roughly the same time, local musician Ross Hamlin had become interested in spearheading a youth-based education program within the community.

“I found a bunch of students who simply wanted to start a band, and Cindy was inspired by everything she had seen [at NAAM],” Hamlin explains. “She created the infrastructure for it and it works so well.”

Fast forward 10 years and Rock Camp maintains an obvious effect on budding musicians and The Candyman’s business strategy alike. And while participants can certainly buy gear from -Rand Cook the store where they get their lessons, The Candyman is also doling out lessons in work ethic and autonomy.

“With these other rock the staff to make the effort, and ‘buy in’ to schools, they suggest the songs the kids what we were doing,” Rand adds. learn,” Hamlin says. “Here, the kids pick Of course, the staff are there to them themselves.” learn as well, and it’s mostly comprised And therein lies an important dose of of young and working musicians and humor, according to Rand. engineers pulling shop hours in between “More often than not, they’re picking the music they’re either creating or songs their dads listen to,” he says with maintaining professionally. On any a laugh. given day, shoppers can find Free Range But it doesn’t end with learning the Buddhas front woman Francesca Jozette best radio hits of the last few decades. on the floor, or metal guitarists Damian According to Hamlin and the Cooks,

We’re growing.

I mean, this is retail after all; we have to make money—but we wanna make the world better. We have an amazing gift here.

the youths who attend have found personal growth with the help of the summer experience.

“The program teaches teamwork and self-confidence, which is huge,” Hamlin says.

“We get so many stories of kids finding a place they belonged,” Rand adds, “where they could call their own.”

After receiving numerous awards throughout the years, including the Santa Fe Small Business Development Center’s Star Client Award in 2013, a handful of SFR’s Best of Santa Fe nods and NAAM’s coveted Dealer of the Year in 2014—beating out industry giants such as Sam Ash and Guitar Center—Mayor Alan Webber proclaimed May 31 as The Candyman Strings & Things Day in Santa Fe. The Candyman has chosen the community and the community has rallied in kind. The business celebrates that feeling, plus the 50 years thing, at a day-long party at The Bridge on Sunday Sept. 22 including a salute to the first Woodstock crammed with notable locals. It’s free to the public, though it also serves as a fundraiser for the Summer Rock Camp scholarship program as well as Soldier Songs and Voices, a nonprofit that provides songwriting lessons to veterans.

“If anything, I want to feel like we effected a hundred times the amount of people we have,” Rand says. “Major organizations don’t reach out to the community. We do.”

THE CANDYMAN CELEBRATES 1969 Noon-9 pm Sunday Sept. 22. Free.

The Bridge @Santa Fe Brewing Co., 37 Fire Place, 557-6182

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SFAI PRESENTS

ART OF CHANGE A night of film, music, and art celebrating catalytic artists that change the world.

Join the Santa Fe Art Institute on September 6 for a provocative evening featuring a pre-release film screening of the new Prince documentary, Mr. Nelson: On the North Side, and a performance by Belling the Cat of Santa Fe. This fundraising event, in partnership with Producer and Musician Brian Hardgroove, provides essential support for SFAI’s free public programming and over 70 artists each year whose groundbreaking work focuses on issues that matter.

CHOOSE FROM 3 EXCEPTIONAL TICKET PACKAGES Purple Rain / $250 per person / SFAI & Tipton Hall Cocktail reception, dinner, SFAI artist exhibit, and a conversation with Director Kirk Fera, Brian Hardgroove, and Director Chris Eyre, followed by a pre-release film screening of Mr. Nelson: On the North Side.

End of evening premier performance by Belling the Cat, who recorded the film’s soundtrack, featuring prominent musicians Brian Hardgroove, Jono Manson, John Kurzweg, and Stephen Peace.

Raspberry Beret / $50 per person / SFAI & The Screen Screening of Mr. Nelson: On the North Side at The Screen, followed by an SFAI artist exhibit and premier performance by Belling the Cat.

Little Red Corvette / $18 per person / SFAI SFAI artist exhibit and premier performance by Belling the Cat. Please note the locations for each package may differ.

Santa Fe Art Institute / 1600 St. Michaels Drive / 505.424.5050

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EVENTS MAGIC: THE GATHERING TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store Standard play.

7-11 pm, $5 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.

8 am-2 pm, free WELLS PETROGLYPH PRESERVE PUBLIC TOURS Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project 1431 Hwy. 68, Velarde, 852-1351 Pre-register for a two-hour tour of part of the preserve, maintained by the Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project.

Docents lead visitors through an insightful two-hour tour of petroglyphs representing Archaic, Ancestral Puebloan and Historic Period time periods. Visit mesaprietapetroglyphs.org for info and to reserve a spot. The 181acre site is located midway between Santa Fe and Taos and contains over 10,000 petroglyphs.

9:30-11:30 am, $35

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 One of the oldest, largest and most successful growers’ markets in the country.

Serving more than 150 farmers and producers in 15 Northern New Mexico counties, the market brings fresh food, education and fun to our community and promotes small farms and sustainable agriculture in Northern New Mexico. Unlike most farmer's markets in the US, the Santa Fe market assures that all products sold by its vendors are always locally grown by the people selling them.

100% of the vegetables, fruits and nursery plants available are grown right here in northern New Mexico. The same goes for at least 70% of the ingredients and materials used to make all processed and craft items.

7 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC BEBE LA LA Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Indie Folk Americana-Francais duo from ABQ. 1 pm, free CANDACE VARGAS AND NORTHERN 505 Turquoise Trail Bar at Buffalo Thunder 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 877-848-6337 Country and Northern New Mexican music.

9:30 pm-1:30 am, free

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CANYON ROAD BLUES BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Blues and classic rock.

9-11 pm, $5 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free JJ AND THE MYSTICS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Blues rock, reggae and roots.

8-11 pm, free ELEMENTAL CONCERT SERIES: EINSTEINIUM San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Part of a concert series which explores the various elements on the periodic table.

8 pm, $20 JAY HENEGHAN TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Eclectic classic jazz.

7:30 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic songs from the '60s, '70s and beyond.

5:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar. A descendent of Pueblo (Tewa) and Spanish Colonial peoples and a completely self-taught musician, he considers his ability to express both sides of his heritage to be a great gift and responsibility.

7 pm, free WENDY RULE Paradiso 903 Early St. Renowned for her extraordinary voice and trademark dark, gothic soundscapes, Rule’s live shows blur the line between music, ritual and theatre.

7:30 pm, $22 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

8 pm, free THE BUS TAPES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Alternative folk-rock with funk 'n' blues for good measure.

8:30 pm, free WILLIAM STEWART Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Country and western classics with original honky-tonk.

8:30-10:30 pm, free Y. QUE FIESTAS CELEBRATION Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 New Mexican music, with proceeds going to Wings For Hope which helps provide services for underprivileged kids.

10 pm-2 am, $10

THEATER HENRY IV, PART ONE The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 As a sequel to the play Richard II, the noblemen who helped Bolingbroke become Henry IV are now disgruntled and feeling unappreciated, so they plot to put Mortimer on the throne (Richard had appointed Mortimer as his heir). Parallel views of the noblemen going to war and the lower class going to war offer amazing commentary on war and equality, honor and dishonor, cowardice and valor, as well as father figures.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 NEW MOON CABARET Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 A monthly curated 21+ variety show which celebrates diversity with performance artists in belly dance, drag, comedy, burlesque, spoken word, flow arts and more. A dance party follows the performance.

8 pm, $5 SOVEREIGNTY: A STAGED READING Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Presented by Silver Bullet Productions, this play tells the story behind the landmark 1832 case won by Cherokee Nation in the US Supreme Court, Worcester v. Georgia, when the court declared the Cherokee Nation’s criminal jurisdiction over non-Indian American citizens on Cherokee Lands. The contemporary scenes of the play involve a Cherokee woman lawyer and her non-Indian boyfriend, who challenges the constitutionality of Native jurisdiction under the Violence Against Women Act. 7 pm, $45-$85 WORD OVER ALL: WALT WHITMAN AND PABLO NERUDA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A celebration of the poetry and prose of two of the Americas' most beloved poets. This is a fully bilingual production: Whitman is translated into Spanish, and Neruda is translated into English. These translations are projected on a screen above the stage, while actors perform the work in its original language (see SFR Picks, page 17).

7:30 pm, $10-$15 ZIRCUS EROTIQUE BURLESQUE & VARIETY SHOW The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Indulge and enjoy sultry performances of burlesque and variety in a night of glamour, circus and sideshow. 21+ (see A&C, page 25).

8:30 pm, $20

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Santa Fe Renaissance Faire

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September 14 & 15, 2019 10am-5pm PRESENTED BY

THE CALENDAR WORKSHOP ALL ABOUT THE NEW MEXICO APPLE Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Delve into what makes “our” apple so different. Try the New Mexico apple and learn about the history of this wonderful tree. Leave with expertise on how to grow these trees and incorporate them into your landscape.

1-4 pm, $25-$35 MAGIC CONDIMENT SHIO KOJI WORKSHOP Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Koji is steamed grain inoculated with the special mold, Aspergillus oryzae. It is an essential ingredient for most Japanese seasonings. In this workshop, learn about this magic ingredient that makes foods flavorful and digestible.

Leave with a sampling of Shio Koji.

10-11:30 am, $30-$35

SUN/8 ART OPENINGS

START YOUR QUEST AT GOLONDRINAS.ORG PARTIALLY FUNDED BY: THE COUNTY OF SANTA FE LODGERS TAX, THE CITY OF SANTA FE ARTS COMMISSION, AND NEW MEXICO ARTS

SEPTEMBER FREE LIVE MUSIC

NEW MEXICO INVITATIONAL PAINTERS EXHIBITION New Mexico Highlands University 905 University Ave., Las Vegas, 425-7511 Over 350 established and rising artists from Las Vegas and Northern New Mexico are invited to exhibit their paintings.

4-7 pm, free

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THE BUS TAPES Folk Rock, 7 -10 PM / FREE

6TH ANNUAL RESCUEFEST Live music all day / FREE Support Atalaya Search & Rescue!

Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda

Revival

Teatro Paraguas Studio * 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe

Friday, August 30: 7:30pm Saturday, August 31: 7:30 Sunday September 1: 2:00pm Thursday, September 5: 7:30pm Friday, September 6: 7:30pm Saturday, September 7: 7:30 Sunday, September 8: 2:00pm

“...not to be missed” ~ The Santa Fe Reporter

Tickets: $15 General Admission $10 Limited Income Reservations: 505-424-1601 wordoverall.brownpapertickets.com

BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE Temple Beth Shalom 205 E Barcelona Road, 982-1376 Ambassador Dennis Ross and David Makovsky will talk about their new book on Israel and how its leaders have shaped its destiny.

4 pm, free HIGHER EDUCATION AND UNIONS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 JourneySantaFe presents three University of New Mexico faculty members organizing the union, United Academics of UNM, and the challenges facing public higher education.

11 am, free MEDITATION OF GREAT COMPASSION Tsechen Namdrol Ling 1341 Upper Canyon Road, 469-3443 This group practice of Avalokiteshvara enters into meditation to attain liberation using the six-syllable mantra “om mani padme hum.”

Followed by Q&A session with Ven. Lama Jay Goldberg.

Donations to the teacher welcomed.

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MEDITATIONS IN MODERN BUDDHISM: TRAINING IN UNIVERSAL COMPASSION Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Wishing to free all living beings from suffering is Great Compassion, the mark of an enlightened mind. This talk and meditation teaches how to develop this mind.

10:30 am-12 pm, $10 MELANIE GILLMAN: STAGE DREAMS Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 The author discusses their graphic novel about researching LGBTQ history in the American west and Civil War history in Santa Fe, followed by a live performance of part of the novel.

3:30-4:30 pm, free

EVENTS COMMUNITY DAY Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 A day of free, family-friendly events including chalk drawing, stamp-making, a movie screening and group yoga (see SFR Picks, page 17).

10 am-1 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 Pub trivia with prizes.

7 pm, free MAGIC: THE GATHERING TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store Commander play.

2-7 pm, $5 MEDITATION CIRCLE El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 982-1931 All abilities welcome! Bring a blanket or cushion and start your Sunday with some breathing. On the event lawn across from the pool.

9-10 am, free RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Meet a wide variety of New Mexico’s artists and craftspeople and get pottery, painting, jewelry, sculpture, fiber arts, photography, handblown glass, artisanal teas and body products.

10 am-4 pm, free

MUSIC CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Sign up to sing or play if you desire, but be forewarned— this ain't amateur hour.

8 pm, $5 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals.

6:30 pm, free

JERRY PAPER Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-

6369 Jerry Paper is the creative persona of Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Lucas Nathan.

8-11 pm, $12-$15 LUCY BARNA The Hollar 2849 NM Hwy 14, Madrid, 471-2841 Original Americana music on guitar and banjo with sweet vocals.

12-3 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rhythmic covers and originals of a folky bent on guitalele.

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

7 pm, free THE NATIONAL AND ALVVAYS Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive, 986-5900 Rock band from Cincinatti, plus indie pop-punk from Toronto.

7:30 pm, $39-$99 PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazz duet.

6 pm, free THE SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana 'n' rock 'n' roll 'n' a hair of the dog.

12 pm, free

THEATER MEASURE FOR MEASURE The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 The Duke leaves town, leaving Angelo in charge, a man seemingly upright and moral, until he confronts a young nun, Isabel. Her brother is going to be executed for fornication with his beloved (and very pregnant) fiancée. There is one way that Isabel can save her brother, but at the cost of her soul.

2 pm, $15-$25 WORD OVER ALL: WALT WHITMAN AND PABLO NERUDA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A celebration of the poetry and prose of two of the Americas' most beloved poets. The show features a number of Neruda poems unearthed in 2014, discovered among his papers in Chile, and published only recently.

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Now into double-digits, local burlesque troupe Zircus Erotique plays the hits while pushing boundaries

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like performing, but I’ve never been huge on having to recite lines while onstage,” Mena Domina says. The director, producer and performer from burlesque company Zircus Erotique is flawlessly appointed; impossibly clean glasses glinting in the sun, a number of tattoos on display.

“I was definitely more of a movement performer than a speaking performer,” she continues, recalling high school theater classes, their continuation in college, time learning bellydance, costuming, mime, hair and makeup.

Domina’s been with the troupe since 2007. A native of Dallas, she had moved to Santa Fe a few years earlier to pursue a BFA in theater from long-since closed College of Santa Fe. Upon completing her studies, Domina danced with Zircus Erotique, originally led by co-founder Tallulah St. James, but in those early days of burlesque’s widespread international resurgence, social media was in its infancy and gathering dancers was a much more daunting affair.

“It was word of mouth,” Domina remembers, adding how audiences worked similarly. “Now, when people want to see burlesque, they can see videos online, they can research it a bunch—back then, it was ‘I think this is what this is supposed to be, I’m gonna try it’—but I remember when I was starting out, there was an event at Wise Fool; a performer named September Smith

who used to produce this event called the Femolition Derby. That was probably the first time I’d ever actually seen burlesque in person.”

These days, Domina says, the majority of burlesque troupes reside in the larger cities, thus making Zircus Erotique a bit of an anomaly. Though, Domina adds, in her early days of performance, Albuquerque was a bit of a haven, as was the Southwest Burlesque Showcase, the longest-running festival of burlesque in the area.

“In Albuquerque, there are still a handful of producers who do burlesque and variety shows,” she explains, “but in some larger cities, there are thousands of performers—weekly shows, nightly shows.”

By 2012, St. James headed home to New Orleans and leave Zircus Erotique in Domina’s hands.

“She’s an all around hustler and bomb-ass friend,” St. James tells SFR. “Throughout the years she was my righthand woman and kept me in line as a firm businesswoman. It was about the love and trust we had and still have for one another.”

Now that we’ve got the timeline, it’s time to ask: What is burlesque? How has it managed to stay alive and evolve since the earlier part of the 1900s? The uninitiated certainly have a picture in their minds— believe me, I asked around—but it’s often more performance-based than it is about the stripping. First off, yes, it’s titillating, but no, burlesque isn’t like club stripping— not that there’s a damn thing wrong with club stripping. It’s a bit more subtle and refined, a bit more about the build up and performance … the elegance, the dance, the eye contact, the fulfilled promise of slowly ramping sexuality and sensuality.

But it’s also intersectional and inclusive, attracting and welcoming any sort of performer one might imagine. Burlesque is packed with queer performers, varying

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Mena Domina has run Zircus Erotique since 2012.

body types, weirdos, bizarre costumes, drag (both kings and queens), elements of vaudeville and circus. Troupes like Zircus Erotique are often limited solely by their imaginations.

According to Domina, “the type of art we do is really varied, and it ranges from stuff that’s very classic—feather fans, super glamorous costumes, pinup hair; very pretty—but then there’s the fringe stuff, the neo-burlesque that can be BDSMtype stuff, fetish-type things, almost like avant-garde performance art.”

Zircus Erotique embraces pretty much any type of burlesque, though Domina says that what audiences respond to can be

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completely different from town to town. A rollicking college town atmosphere, she says, may be excited by a more aggressive style, whereas in li’l old Santa Fe, where she’s realized the crowds tend to be more scrutinizing, the classier forms work most often.

“We have to keep things constantly improving,” she says, “but because we’re not exposed to all the variants—it’s not like there are five troupes here doing burlesque—we get to have a little bit of everything.”

“Everything,” as it turns out, includes certain fringe and esoteric elements plus no small amount of creative costuming (one photo of Domina I came across included gloves with mini octopus tentacles for fingers, which I’m super into, by the way).

There’s also the aforementioned elements of circus and drag. For Zircus Erotique’s upcoming show, for example, the emcee is none other than homegrown drag queen Coco Caliente, a performer who sings live, which is oddly rare in the drag world. The theme, Domina says, is “Beasts and Babes,” and no, that “doesn’t mean there’s gonna be a bunch of monsters onstage,” she tells SFR. “It’s the idea.”

Which might be the best way to distill the essence of burlesque. It’s an idea set loose and fostered by performers looking to break the fourth wall and engage with audiences. It is raucous and rough around the edges. It is ethereal and sexy and strange.

“If [audiences] are going on what they’ve seen in magazines or movies, if they’re just thinking of that and come to one of our shows,” Domina says, “they may see that it isn’t what they expected.”

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Word Over All: Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda September 5-8 and

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BY JACKS McNAMARA

WHY MODERN WITCHCRAFT IS NOTHING LIKE HARRY POTTER Allusions to magic and witches are everywhere these days. The number of rainbow unicorns and clothing with slogans about being magical I saw at Target last weekend was astounding (or nauseating, depending on your point of view). Netflix, meanwhile, has reissued Sabrina the Teenage Witch and a prequel to The Dark Crystal.

Our politicians endlessly frame people they don’t like as witches and various campaigns they don’t like as witchhunts.

But this is not the magic that interests me. I’m a white person, of European descent, but my people have been settlers on Turtle Island/ in America for centuries. I’m so hungry to know what the original spiritual and magical practices of my ancestors were before Christianity and patriarchy colonized their homelands. I want to know how my people lived when they were indigenous to their own lands, before they left to become colonizers themselves, before Turtle Island became the US and before Aztlán became the American Southwest; before white settlers in these lands became so hungry to fill their spiritual holes that they began appropriating practices and sacred objects from Native and Asian cultures, selling bundles of sage at Urban Outfitters, and creating vague concepts like “the New Age.” Who were we as a people when we celebrated the solstices and the equinoxes, when we knew the phases of the moon and the life cycles of non-human relatives? When we weren’t afraid of sexuality, ashamed of our bodies and actively exploiting women and gender minorities in the service of profit and power? Who could we be now if we celebrated and lived in these ways?

Magic happens in places other than Hogwarts.

Who are today’s witches, and who were the witches, historically? One of my favorite books on the topic, Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture

by Arthur Evans, calls itself “a radical view of Western Civilization and some of the people it tried to destroy.”

These people were mostly women and gender-deviant folks; heretics, midwives, herbalists, priestesses, artists, queers. In the Americas, some of these folks might also be called brujas, curanderas, medicine people.

These are my people, and we haven’t been destroyed.

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Weirdly, we’re making it into mainstream media. Last month, The Guardian ran an article titled “Monsters, men and magic: why feminists turned to witchcraft to oppose Trump.” For real. It features a rundown of witchy forces in pop culture, and a history of feminist witch-inspired political actions going back to the ‘60s. I recommend it.

But I’m not so interested in the part of magic that has to do with hexing people (although someone recently invited me to a Facebook group called Hexing the Patriarchy, and I’m not going to lie, I joined). I’m not into dark magic, and unlike in the Harry Potter universe, most modern magic I see isn’t about fighting evil. It’s not learned in boarding schools and it’s not dominated by heroic boys and men. There is no Ministry of Magic, no golden plates of food magically refilled by invisible labor. There is no Dumbledore to save the day, and there are no orphan messiah figures.

The witches I know cook and garden and make and are deeply connected to the Earth. They have parents, they are parents, and the ancestral knowledge of female and gender-variant folks is crucial and rich. Sex and sensuality are part of the traditions, as are activism and organizing. One of the publications that most stirred me in these directions is a self-published zine called Learning to live with heart in this most brutal of worlds; the politics of spirituality. For me, that’s what this is all about: learning to live with heart, in a way that is connected to earth, seasons, mystery and the precolonization traditions of my people— despite the brutality of racist-capitalist empire, despite the erasure of original knowledge.

We have to get so creative to find our way, and there is no Hogwarts.

I have a friend who’s attending an online pagan seminary because there’s nothing local to engage with, and I’ve found myself Googling everything from herbs to sigils, a form of spellwork based in the creation of written symbols I embed into my art.

Sometimes this path is lonely.

I spent the summer solstice alone this year in a spectacular field of wild penstemon wondering where my people were and why we weren’t celebrating it together. The knowledge is scattered and ambiguous—are we making it up as we go, or connecting to something ancient, meaningful and grounded? Where do we find each other when there is no Leaky Cauldron Pub or Quidditch World Cup, no Daily Prophet newspaper? What does it mean to practice magic here and now?

Necessary Magic is a semi-regular column wherein writer and artist Jacks McNamara explores queer issues, liberatory politics, magical creatures and other relevant topics.

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BIO REVERIE AT LEONORA CURTIN WETLAND PRESERVE Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road, La Cienega, 471-9103 Help docents and volunteer scientists identify as many species as possible within 24 hours. Techniques range from live insect trapping to eye-shine surveys to pond dipping. Full schedule at www.santafebotanicalgarden.org/bio-reverie-september-2019/.

7-8:30 am, free

ART WALKING TOUR New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5063 Guided by museum volunteers, an hour-long tour highlights the art and architecture of downtown Santa Fe. Children 18 and under are free. Call to confirm availability.

10 am, $10 GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Pub trivia with prizes.

7 pm, free RETHINKING DEMENTIA Southwestern College 3960 San Felipe Road, 471-5756 Experienced professionals in Northern New Mexico explore how to support everyone touched by Alzheimer’s and related dementias, including professional and private caregivers, families, care facility staff, and people living with dementia.

8:30 am-4:30 pm, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group for occasional guest speakers, discussing your concerns, and group activism.

7 pm, free THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 471-0997 The barbershop chorus is looking for men and women who can carry a tune; join in on any of the four-part harmony parts.

6:30 pm, free

LA TIERRA TOASTMASTERS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road Discover where one can advance their public speaking skills in a lively and rewarding group. Guests are always welcome.

12-1 pm, free

MON/9 BOOKS/LECTURES ICE TIME: WORKING IN ANTARCTICA Pecos Trail Cafe 2239 Old Pecos Trail, 982-9444 Presented by Linnah Niedel, Antarctic Support Contact for the United States Antarctic Program.

5 pm, free MONDAY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 Story time for all ages.

10:30 am, free SANTA FE OPERA BOOK CLUB: RENEE FLEMMING'S INNER VOICE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The star of the Metropolitan Opera's recent revival of Dvorak's Rusalka tells the story of her own artistic development and the “autobiography” of her voice.

6 pm, free THE FIGHT FOR BEARS EARS: THINKING OF GENERATIONS DOWN THE ROAD Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk (Ute Mountain), former co-chairwoman of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition and former tribal councilwoman of the Ute Mountain Ute discusses the future of the national monument. Part of Southwest Seminars' Native Culture Matters lecture series.

6 pm, $15 TRADING AMONG NATIVE AMERICANS SINCE 1872 Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 Join Tanner's Indian Arts (Joe E. Tanner Sr. and Emerald Tanner) to talk about trade with Indigenous people in the Southwest.

2:30 am, $10

DANCE MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Get dancin' to DJ'ed music.

Singles and partners, all ages.

7 pm, $3-$8

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

7:30 pm, free CALVIN HAZEN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar.

7 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery provides the standards, originals and pop on piano, and Young joins in on violin.

6:30 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Irish traditional music, folk and more.

6 pm, free

TUE/10 BOOKS/LECTURES POETS NOAH BLAUSTEIN AND CYRUS CASSELLS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Two poets discuss their recent work.

6 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

EVENTS HOUSING THE FUTURE 2.0: A DISRUPTIVE FUTURES DIALOGUE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 This event addresses Santa Fe’s housing needs by leveraging the art of storytelling and highlighting innovative solutions to address, and begin to solve, Santa Fe’s affordable housing crisis.

RSVP required.

5-7:30 pm, free 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.

8 am-2 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET MERCADO DEL SUR Presbyterian Health Park 4801 Beckner Road Don't schlep downtown for the market—the market comes to you for the summer, Southsiders. Get all your favorite produce, local goods, live music, health screenings, family activities and friendship.

3-6 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. Newcomers are always welcome.

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¡VÁMONOS! SANTA FE: LA FAMILIA’S TAKE A WALK ON THE SOUTHSIDE Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 The Santa Fe Walking Collaborative wants to help Santa Feans walk more while improving their conversational Spanish. Take a walk in the Arroyo Chamiso with a bilingual representative from La Familia Medical Center. For more info, check out sfct.org/vamonos.

6-7 pm, free

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FILM NEW MEXICO FILM FOUNDATION INDIE SCREENINGS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 New Mexico filmmakers present their recent shorts and trailers.

7-9 pm, $5 WORDS FROM A BEAR Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 This film examines the enigmatic life and mind of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Navarro Scott Momaday, one of Native America’s most celebrated authors. Momaday will be in attendance for a Q&A. 6 pm, $40

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Local produce and crafts from over 150 producers bringing fresh food, education and fun to our community while promoting small farms 7 am-1 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, free THE FERENC NEMETH TRIO GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. Jazz.

7:30 pm, $20 CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Sign up to sing or play if you desire, but be forewarned— this ain't amateur hour.

8 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar from a dude who descended from the inventors of the form.

7 pm, free DAVID WOOD Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, Broadway tunes and classical faves.

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Meryl Lieberman worked for many years running a program called Mentally Ill Homeless Services. She traveled all around New Mexico and became all too familiar with the lack of help for mentally ill homeless people. In 1995, Lieberman co-founded Casa Milagro, a 6000-squarefoot, 12-bedroom home on the Southside of Santa Fe where people struggling with homelessness and mental illness can have a safe, permanent home, including their own bedroom and an animal companion. Last week we wrote about Casa Milagro’s place in Santa Fe and the upcoming Department of Health regulations that would move to license and oversee board-and-care homes for the mentally ill and homeless for the very first time after reports of dire living conditions surfaced last year. There are about 100 unregulated care homes in New Mexico, mostly in and near Las Vegas. Once the rules are complete, the homes will be licensed and regularly inspected for compliance with regulations governing fire safety, staffing levels, overcrowding and bathroom quality. The rules will likely be released in the fall. (Katherine Lewin)

What is it that Casa Milagro does that other future regulated board-and-care places should take into account?

What is here is not only a sense of each person being valued individually as well as community contributions, but we create a sense of community. People work on their interpersonal communications here.

We have a culture of kindness. We do not curse at each other, we do not put each other down. Nonviolent in every way, including how we relate to one another. For me one of the important things was animal companionship. We even had a resident here, Wiley, who had an emotional support hedgehog.

What are some of the things that the city of Santa Fe and the New Mexico state government should do to help mentally ill and homeless people?

I think there need to be communities like this all over the state. I’m hoping once the governor doesn’t have to focus so much on terrorism right now I actually want to get her out here so that she can see what the alternative to those places are and hopefully allocate some state money to start places like this all over because there should be one in every community.

What do you wish more people understood about the mental health stigma and homelessness?

As long as we live in a culture that is divisive and combative that it’s impossible not to be dealing with mental challenges. I think we’re all on the continuum somewhere, absolutely. And I think that as stigma reduction happens and more people can come out about what it is they struggle with I think our whole system, our whole society, will be benefited.

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DON CURRY & PETE SPRINGER Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Acoustic rock.

6 pm, free VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 DJ Prairiedog and DJ Mama Goose spin the best in garage, surf, country and rockabilly ‘til the wee hours.

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WORKSHOP BOTANICAL BOOK CLUB: AMERICAN CANOPY BY ERIC RUTKOW Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Join other botanical book enthusiasts over tea, cookies, and great conversation about the book of the month, American Canopy by Eric Rutkow.

1-2:30 pm, free

R.A.P COMMUNITY POETRY CLASS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St., 316-3596 A free eight-week workshop series. The first half of class is dedicated to reading and discussing contemporary poems and the second half of class is a workshop, where individuals can bring copies of their own poems for peer review. Bring a journal!

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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Judy Tuwaletstiwa: The Dream Life of Objects.

Through Sept. 15 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Contemporary Voices: Ken Price. Through Oct. 23.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Judy Chicago: the Birth Project from New Mexico Collections. Through Nov. 10.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Robyn Tsinnajinnie and Austin Big Crow: The Holy Trinity. Through Oct. 31.

Wayne Nez Gaussoin: Adobobot. Through Nov. 30. Reconciliation. Through Jan. 19. Heidi K Brandow: Unit of Measure. Through Jan. 31. Sámi Intervention/ Dáidda Gázada. Through Feb. 16.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 50 States, 200 Artists.

Through Sept. 8.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Beyond Standing Rock: The Past, Present, and Future of the Water Protectors.

Through Oct. 27.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 A Gathering of Voices: Folk Art from the Judith Espinar and Tom Dillenberg Collection. Through Sept. 8.

Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe.

Through Oct. 27. Gallery of Conscience: Community Through Making from Peru to New Mexico. Through Jan. 5, 2020.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Paul Pletka: Converging Faiths in the New World.

Through Oct. 20 NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 The Land that Enchants Me So: Picturing Popular Songs of New Mexico. Through Sept. 29. A Walk on the Moon. Through Oct. 20.

The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur. Through Feb. 21.

Atomic Histories. Through Feb. 28. We the Rosies: Women at Work. Through March 1.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Social & Sublime: Land, Place, and Art. Through Aug. 25. The Great Unknown: Artists at Glen Canyon and Lake Powell.

Through Sept. 15.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Closed for renovations.

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

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Human Nature: Explorations in Bronze. Through May 10, 2020.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Nina Elder: What Endures.

Through Sept. 15.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 LIT: The Work of Rose B Simpson. Bob Haozous: Old Man Looking Backward.

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were furthered recently in a group think tank organized by a non-profit called Ruminate, which brought together a group of about 40 farmers, chefs, produce buyers and food policy professionals to discuss— and hopefully find creative solutions to— food distribution issues in Santa Fe. “The solutions we are going for are social innovations—programs and projects and even digital solutions such as apps that help connect farmers and consumers,” says Sascha Anderson, Ruminate’s education director. “We try to be agile in figuring out solutions, and

with these workshops we hope the working groups can identify an idea to move forward with that we can help support.”

It’s good to know so many people are talking about and working for change in this arena, as agriculture in New Mexico is nothing to sneeze at. According to a recent study by New Mexico State University, farming (along with food processing) provides more than 50,000 jobs statewide and accounts for more than $10.5 billion (12.3%, to be exact) of our state’s $86.5 billion gross state product. The Santa Fe area obviously has an incredible diversity when it comes to farming, a bustling farmers market, and restaurants that support and champion local farmers, but is there something more that you or I can do as individuals to support local agriculture as well?

“At the end of the day, it’s all about getting food into people’s hands,” says Alex Pino, owner of Arroyo Hondo’s Revolution Farm. Pino is a vendor at both the Santa Fe and Eldorado Farmers Markets, and also supplies produce to local restaurants like Sage Bakehouse, Dr. Field Goods, Harry’s Roadhouse and Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen. From his viewpoint, procuring locally-grown produce from the Farmers Market or La Montañita Co-op really is the best thing a consumer can do but so, also, is talking about it.

“An educated consumer is the biggest help,” Pino points out. “When people understand the value of the product they can help to educate others.”

Education breeds encouragement which can take many forms, from inspiring chefs to buy direct from local farmers to pushing lawmakers for subsidies to keep produce in our community.

“We are a food insecure state,” Pino tells SFR. “If we could get more local food into food insecure hands, then local people say, on the WIC program, have access to the high-quality fresh food they need and there’s more money for the farmer.”

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Unlike traditional CSAs, which deliver whatever a particular farm has ready, Squash Blossom sources from over 25 local farms for a greater variety of product.

A weekly “Blossom Bag” subscription is only $28 and contains all kinds of goodies—a recent delivery included blackberries, okra, string beans, eggplant and tomatoes. Additionally, Squash Blossom provides produce to around two dozen local restaurants including Dolina, The Compound, Izanami, Inn of the Anasazi, La Choza, Dr. Field Goods and Il Piatto.

“It’s important to start thinking about the way we cook with the seasons and invite that into our lives to support farmers on a regular basis—make buying from local farmers part of our culture, not just a treat,” says Yozell-Epstein. “We have to vote with our dollars if we want to keep farms alive.”

Though both Pino and Yozell-Epstein took part in Ruminate’s discussion, both admit there’s no easy solution to be had.

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It’s hard to believe Give Me Liberty star Chris Galust is a newcomer. As van driver Vic, Galust’s nuanced performance is so natural and layered, he projects the confidence of a much more seasoned vet. And while we assume (and hope) he’ll go on to do great things, his work in the newest film from writer/director Kirill Mikhanovsky (credited here as Mikhanovsky) is damn near perfect.

Vic is one of those medical transport drivers in Milwaukee. It’s the kind of job that finds him helping the elderly make it to appointments or the disabled get around the city to compete in talent shows, visit doctors and so forth. But whereas Vic seems a good enough sort, he’s constantly running behind and finding his riders running roughshod over his good naturedness. Enter a wide array of kooky characters—the loudmouthed diabetic and the wheelchair-bound social worker, the gaggle of Russian immigrants trying to get to their friend’s funeral who transform Vic’s van into a

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Mikhanovsky based the film on his own experiences in a similar job circa the early ’90s, when his family first came to America from Russia. Vic’s various fares are based on his real-life passengers, and while the high points are almost invariably in Vic’s responses to late riders, car wrecks, needy hangers-on and his own grandfather nearly burning down his apartment building with a cooking mishap, it’s Vic himself who makes Give Me Liberty special.

It’s anyone’s guess how much of himself Mikhanovsky put into the character, but Galust’s seamless transition between overwhelmed hard-ass, heart-of-gold caretaker and wideeyed young person make his performance one

of the best this year.

Give Me Liberty does falter in its protracted yet shallow jabs at social commentary, attempting to show multiple sides of racial issues but not meaningfully touching on them. And there’s an ill-advised switch to black and white footage toward the end that feels more jarring than artistic. They’re small flaws (and they honestly might work for some) in an otherwise simple but powerful indie cast by very funny side characters and led by an actor we’ll undoubtedly see more of soon.

GIVE ME LIBERTY Directed by Mikhanovsky With Galust Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 110 min.

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As banks, schools and government offices closed in observance of Labor Day, lots of people here used the holiday to stock the freezer with bags of green chile—many of them, we bet, didn’t think much about the labor movement that led to not just the weekend, but all kinds of safety and fairness rules that we take for granted. Not so with those who used the time off to catch up on the Netflix streaming release of American Factory, the first film from Higher Ground, the production company founded by Barack and Michelle Obama.

The opening narrative of the documentary had us thinking this was going to be the story of the triumphant return of manufacturing to middle America, but by the time the lights come back on at the auto glass plant that Chinese giant Fuyao reopens in a shuttered Dayton, Ohio, GM factory, we’re hooked on the powerful conflict at hand.

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The complexities of what it means, and how it works, for Chinese managers and line workers to train US counterparts and for a business here to strive to get the same “efficiency” as its cohorts overseas make for a provocative exploration. Amazing backroom and under-the-breath access leaves little room to guess about motivations, and as tensions rise, our sympathies pivot between characters. The Ohio forklift operator was happy to get out of her sister’s basement, but six of her Chinese coworkers live together in the same kind of new apartment she scores.

A woman worked for GM for decades; at Fuyao, she earns less than half her former wage. An older worker who wears a pro-union headband is tasked to complete a two-person job and later fired. On a trip to a sister factory, Americans see first-hand why Chinese colleagues say things like “lazy,” “slow,” and “fat fingers.”

The cultural clash left us pondering big questions, peeling back the layers and feeling grateful for our pampered lives.

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Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen make sweet music together in The Peanut Butter Falcon.

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Filmmakers Tyler Nilson and Mike Schwartz attempt to update the Mark Twain/Huck Finn formula with The Peanut Butter Falcon, a terribly sweet but ultimately middling folktale journey with some notable performances and an overall lack of impact.

Young Zak (newcomer Zack Gottsagen) is in his 20s and yearning to breathe free, but stuck in a North Carolina nursing home due to his Down syndrome and a lack of appropriate facilities. He rightfully hates the place and repeatedly tries to escape from his caregiver Eleanor (Fifty Shades of Grey alum Dakota Johnson), but when his roommate Carl (whose three lines are delivered by the legendary Bruce Dern) helps him flee by night, Zak finally puts some distance between himself and the glorified prison. Shortly after, he meets Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), a ne’er-do-well fisherman sort reeling from the recent death of his beloved brother through self-destructive theft and petty vandalism. Together, they decide to head south: to a North Carolina wrestling school for Zak, and to Jupiter, Florida, for Tyler.

Cue montages to southern folk and Americana tunes: the hasty building of a junker raft as Zak and Tyler form a brotherly bond each was sorely missing; a blind and black wise man practicing that old time relijun; and conflict in the form of violent fishermen wronged by Tyler and out for blood (John Hawkes and Yelawolf, both barely in the thing).

The Peanut Butter Falcon does well in quiet moments when LaBeouf and Gottsagen play off one another and have room to stretch out. But the needless addition of a love story angle feels trite and tired, particularly since LaBeouf’s performance is top-notch and his character is so much more interesting on his own or with Gottsagen than with Johnson. As Zak, Gottsagen is wonderful as well, his onscreen instincts sharp and a mix of shy vulnerability and lack of shame coming together for a naturally endearing combo.

Elsewhere, surprising turns from former pro wrestlers Jake “The Snake” Roberts and Mick “Mankind” Foley feel heartfelt if a tad brief, and though Thomas Haden Church as Zak’s hero, the Saltwater Redneck, is shockingly short—which is seemingly Church’s role in Hollywood at large— it’s almost moving enough to steal the show.

But it’s honestly the sweeping panoramas of deltas, sounds and seaside grasslands that make the most impact, and any marquee could read “The Peanut Butter Falcon starring the

Coastal American South.” Sadly, though, Nilson and Schwartz seem to feel audiences wouldn’t connect without shoehorned hormones, and the credits roll before we’re ready, leaving precious little time to digest what happened and leaving more questions than answers. (ADV)

Violet Crown, PG-13, 93 min.

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There’s a moment in the first act of Rojo from Argentinian filmmaker Benjamín Naishtat that would almost let us believe things are about to get crazy. During a familial board game night at the home of Claudio (Darío Grandinetti), a friend posits that the only way to deal with a fly is to repeatedly shoo it away the very moment it lands. “They run out of breath like we do,” he says, insisting that the fly will eventually tire and be ripe for the kill. And given the film’s premise— that a lawyer with a dark secret must come to terms with his actions in a country rife with corruption—we almost think it’ll be applicable and that a bunch of exciting things are about to happen.

Instead, while Grandinetti’s Claudio doesn’t get much respite throughout the film, it’s a psychological torture doled out slowly in 1975 Argentina. It’s a time and place when corruption runs deep, where a member of higher society might have done something awful but can continue on in life unabated; where someone’s disappearance means shady business dealings and brazen, public looting; where the government readily showcases progress to the world while maintaining its stranglehold on the people.

Rojo is a tough sell, the slowest of burns playing out in offices and conference rooms and among teens searching desperately for a moral compass and finding none. Naishtat takes thing so slowly in Rojo’s intro act, where lulls are common, but in reading between the lines and charging ever forward, one might find both a severe history lesson and stark morality play unfolding and landing with satisfying oomph. Grandinetti positively owns the screen after a point, a terrifying yet normal-seeming family man capable of chilling heartlessness. Elsewhere, Alfredo Castro as a detective carrying the dangling sword of justice wows in his interactions with Grandinetti.

In other words, this one’s for the dialogue fans and the patient, for those in search of deeper and darker meaning than a more visceral

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In the midst of Thatcher’s jobless 1980s Britain, a teeanged Pakistani boy struggles to find his place and voice in Blinded by the Light from director Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham), a heavy-handed love letter to Bruce Springsteen based on a true story.

It’s 1987, and Javed (Viveik Kalra) hates his small industrial town of Luton, England, a tale he tells through secret poetry and not-so-secret lyrics written for his dick-ish neighbor and only friend, Matt (Dean-Charles Chapman), whose hair tells us he’s apparently in some kind of Flock of Seagulls-esque band. When the synth pop of the day doesn’t cut it for Javed, however, a new chum turns him on to The Boss, and every dang thing he’s been feeling comes pouring out in all of its rock glory, seemingly just for him.

Cue obsession.

Javed spends the rest of the movie dressing, talking and acting like Springsteen, even going so far as to recite lyrics at people alongside egregious, endless eye contact—an act everyone everywhere hates, by the way—and using the jams to gain confidence and get dates and stuff. Meanwhile, an only sort of there English teacher (Hayley Atwell, aka Peggy Carter from the Marvel Cinematic Universe) inspires young Javed to keep writing by ignoring most other students and forcefully submitting him for writing contests; his father’s oldschool approach to literally everything (from a charming Kulvinder Ghir) stifles his sense of creativity, freedom and maturity. In other words, shit’s rough, and only Bruce knows how Javed feels.

Blinded by the Light might have been cute enough if it weren’t for wooden performances from Kalra and … well, everyone who isn’t the dad, really. Chadha’s take on the era feels eerily real, but themes like racism, personal evolution and family politics consistently take a backseat to confusing not-quite musical numbers accompanied by odd floating subtitles of Springsteen lyrics. These scenes usually

find Javed doing something emotionally overthe-top, like throwing himself against a wall in the rain and making big, sad eyes, and while he keeps saying he feels all these deep things, mostly he appears to feel awkward. And then, every time we get a closer glimpse at the challenges of a culture living so far away from home, we’re ripped back to a moment wherein Javed hits play on his cassette Walkman for an impossibly precise moment a Springsteen lyric is applicable to what’s happening in his real life.

Weird.

Yes, the story’s based on a real one, namely writer Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings From Bury Park, wherein the real-life friend of Chadha’s recounts his Springsteen awakening. That’s neat and all, and we do catch a couple real-world photos of Manzoor with The Boss over the end credits, but it’s hard to not wish Blinded by the Light had taken a more grounded approach rather than its cutesy one, especially since it feels so much longer than it needs to be. Then again, baby, we were born to run. Or something.(ADV)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): John Muir (1838–1914) was skilled at creating and using machinery. In his twenties, he diligently expressed those aptitudes. But at age 27, while working in a carriage parts factory, he suffered an accident that blinded him. For several months, he lay in bed, hoping to recuperate. During that time, Muir decided that if his sight returned, he would thereafter devote it to exploring the beauty of the natural world.

The miracle came to pass, and for the rest of his life he traveled and explored the wilds of North America, becoming an influential naturalist, author, and early environmentalist. I’d love to see you respond to one of your smaller setbacks—much less dramatic than Muir’s!—with comparable panache, Aries.

marvelous, I let go. 4. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. 5. It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Of all the children on the planet, three percent live in the U.S. And yet American children are in possession of forty percent of the world’s toys. In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby invite you to be like an extravagant American child in the coming weeks. You have cosmic permission to seek maximum fun and treat yourself to zesty entertainment and lose yourself in uninhibited laughter and wow yourself with beguiling games and delightful gizmos. It’s playtime!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “When you’re nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn’t do any good to hammer in more nails.” So advised novelist Wallace Stegner. I hope I’m delivering his counsel in time to dissuade you from even trying to nail a custard pie to the wall—or an omelet or potato chip or taco, for that matter. What might be a better use of your energy? You could use the nails to build something that will actually be useful to you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them,” wrote author Amy Tan. My Scorpio friend Audrey once made a similar confession: “I buried my secrets so completely from the prying curiosity of other people that I lost track of them myself.” If either of those descriptions apply to you, Scorpio, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to secure a remedy. You’ll have extra power and luck if you commune with and celebrate your hidden feelings and buried secrets.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “No Eden valid without serpent.” Novelist Wallace Stegner wrote that pithy riff. I think it’s a good motto for you to use in the immediate future. How do you interpret it? Here’s what I think. As you nourish your robust vision of paradise-on-earth, and as you carry out the practical actions that enable you to manifest that vision, it’s wise to have some creative irritant in the midst of it.

That bug, that question, that tantalizing mystery is the key to keeping you honest and discerning. It gives CANCER (June 21-July 22): Renowned Cancerian neu- credibility and gravitas to your idealistic striving. rologist Oliver Sacks believed that music and gardens CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coco de mer is a could be vital curative agents, as therapeutic as pharpalm tree that grows in the Seychelles. Its seed is maceuticals. My personal view is that walking in huge, weighing as much as forty pounds and having nature can be as medicinal as working and lolling in a a diameter of nineteen inches. The seed takes seven garden. As for music, I would extend his prescription years to grow into its mature form, then takes an to include singing and dancing as well as listening. I’m additional two years to germinate. Everything I just also surprised that Sacks didn’t give equal recognition said about the coco de mer seed reminds me of you, to the healing power of touch, which can be wondrousCapricorn. According to my analysis of the astrologily rejuvenating, either in its erotic or non-erotic forms. cal omens, you’ve been working on ripening an aweI bring these thoughts to your attention because I sussome seed for a long time, and are now in the final pect the coming weeks will be a Golden Age of nonphase before it sprouts. The Majestic Budding may pharmaceutical healing for you. I’m not suggesting not fully kick in until 2020, but I bet you’re already that you stop taking the drugs you need to stay feeling the enjoyable, mysterious pressure. healthy; I simply mean that music, nature, and touch will have an extra-sublime impact on your well-being. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you throw a pool ball or a bronze Buddha statue at a window, the glass will LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you visualize what ancient break. In fact, the speed at which it fractures could Rome looked like, it’s possible you draw on memories reach 3,000 miles per hour. Metaphorically speaking, of scenes you’ve seen portrayed in movies. The blockyour mental blocks and emotional obstacles are typibuster film Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe and cally not as crackable. You may smack them with directed by Ridley Scott, may be one of those temyour angry probes and bash them with your desperplates. The weird thing is that Gladiator, as well as ate pleas, yet have little or no effect. But I suspect many other such movies, were inspired by the grandithat in the coming weeks, you’ll have much more ose paintings of the ancient world done by Dutch artist power than usual to shatter those vexations. So I Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912). And in many hereby invite you to hurl your strongest blasts at your ways, his depictions were not at all factual. I bring this mental blocks and emotional obstacles. Don’t be surto your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will prod you prised if they collapse at unexpectedly rapid speeds. to question the accuracy and authenticity of your mental pictures. The coming weeks will be a favorable time PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the thirteenth centuto get fuzzy and incorrect memories into closer align- ry, the Italian city of Bologna was serious about guarding the integrity of its cuisine. In 1250, the ment with the truth, and to shed any illusions that cheese guild issued a decree proclaiming, “If you might be distorting your understanding of reality. make fake mortadella . . . your body will be stretched VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I don’t know if the comon the rack three times, you will be fined 200 gold ing weeks will be an Anais Nin phase for you. But coins, and all the food you make will be destroyed.” I they could be if you want them to. It’s up to you appreciate such devotion to purity and authenticity whether you’ll dare to be as lyrical, sensual, deep, and factualness. And I recommend that in the comexpressive, and emotionally rich as she was. In case ing weeks, you commit to comparable standards in you decide that YES, you will, here are quotes from your own sphere. Don’t let your own offerings be Nin that might serve you well. 1. It is easy to love compromised or corrupted. The same with the offerand there are so many ways to do it. 2. My mission, ings you receive from other people. Be impeccable. should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. 3. I am so thirsty for the Homework: Saul Bellow wrote, “Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of marvelous that only the marvelous has power over ecstasy?” Do you agree? FreeWillAstrology.com me. Anything I can not transform into something GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The ama are Japanese women whose job it is to dive to the sea bottom and fetch oysters bearing pearls. The water is usually cold, and the workers use no breathing apparatus, depending instead on specialized techniques to hold their breath. I propose we make them your inspirational role models. The next few weeks will be a favorable time, metaphorically speaking, for you to descend into the depths in quest of valuables and inspirations.

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the Petitioner Maria Floraida Encinias will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa STATE OF NEW MEXICO Fe Judicial Complex, 225 COUNTY OF SANTA FE Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT New Mexico, at 10:20 a.m. on IN THE MATTER OF A the 18th day of September, PETITION FOR CHNAGE 2019 for an ORDER FOR OF NAME OF CHRISTELLA CHANGE OF NAME from MAXINE TRUJILLO Maria Floraida Encinias to Case No.: D-101-CV-02162 Floraida Maria Encinias.

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Submitted by: the Petitioner Christella Maria Floraida Encinias Maxine Trujillo will apply to Petitioner, Pro Se the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the STATE OF NEW MEXICO First Judicial District at the COUNTY OF SANTA FE Santa Fe Judicial Complex, FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT 225 Montezuma Ave., in COURT Santa Fe, New Mexico, at IN THE MATTER OF A 9:00 a.m. on the 30th day of PETITION October, 2019 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF FOR CHANGE OF NAME from FEMALE GALLEGOS Christella Maxine Trujillo to Case No.: D-101-CV-2019-01978 Chrystal Maxine Trujillo.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME STEPHEN T. PACHECO, TAKE NOTICE in accorDistrict Court Clerk dance with the provisions By: Jorge Montes of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. Deputy Court Clerk 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et Submitted by: seq. the Petitioner Female Christella Maxine Trujillo Gallegos will apply to the Petitioner, Pro Se Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First STATE OF NEW MEXICO Judicial District at the Santa COUNTY OF SANTA FE Fe Judicial Complex, 225 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION New Mexico, at 9:40 a.m. on FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF the 18th day of September, MARY TERESA TRUJILLO 2019 for an ORDER FOR Case No.: D-101-CV-2019-02163 CHANGE OF NAME from NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME Female Gallegos to TAKE NOTICE that in accorNazario Jacobo Suazo. dance with the provisions STEPHEN T. PACHECO, of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. District Court Clerk 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq.

By: Desiree Brooks the Petitioner Mary Teresa Deputy Court Clerk Trujilllo will apply to the Submitted by: Honorable Francis J. Mathew, Nazario J. Suazo District Judge of the First (Female Gallegos) Judicial District at the Santa Petitioner, Pro Se Fe Judicial Complex, 225 STATE OF NEW MEXICO Montezuma Ave., Santa Fe, COUNTY OF SANTA FE New Mexico, at 1:15 p.m. on the 23rd day of September, FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT 2019 for an ORDER FOR IN THE MATTER OF THE CHANGE OF NAME from ESTATE OF ALEXANDRA Mary Teresa Trujillo to WARD, DECEASED. Elaine Mary Theresa Trujillo.

NO. D-101-PB-2019-0145 STEPHEN T. PACHECO, NOTICE TO CREDITORS District Court Clerk NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN By: Jorge Montes that the undersigned has Deputy Court Clerk been appointed Personal Submitted By: Representative of the estate of Mary Teresa Trujillo the decedent. All persons havPetitioner, Pro Se ing claims against the estate of the decedent are required STATE OF NEW MEXICO to present their claims within COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT four (4) months after the date IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF sixty (60) days after the date of MARIA FLORAIDA ENCINIAS Case No.: D-101-CV-2019-02112 mailing or other delivery of this NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME notice, whichever is later, or the TAKE NOTICE that in accorclaims will be forever barred. dance with the provisions Claims must be presented either of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. to the undersigned Personal 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq.

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