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SITTING HERE IN LIMBO 8 Local police are relying on the FBI to help solve two vandalism cases downtown in June BACK-TO-SCHOOL CHOICE 9 Parents consider various factors in choosing whether to send students back for part-time in-person learning or keep them home COVER STORY 11 CASTLES, RUINS AND MYSTERIES RETURN This collection represents our third installment of the series in which the SFR staff explore the stories behind the city’s landmarks—icons, eyesores and something in between facebook facebook.com/sfreporter

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India Palace is still working on renovations of the restaurant and does not yet have an opening date.

Sitting Here In Limbo India Palace working to reopen after vandalism; SFPD waits for FBI handwriting analysis 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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he investigation into the vandalism of downtown restaurant India Palace is “in limbo” while the FBI analyzes the crime, according to Santa Fe Police Department Capt. Anthony Tapia.

The joint investigation kicked off when SFPD classified the vandalism of the restaurant as a hate crime and tentatively tied it to vandalism of the Plaza obelisk the same night, Sunday, June 21.

Along with items found at the scene, Tapia says the FBI is analyzing handwriting from spray-painted words on the walls inside the restaurant. SFPD has not arrested anyone or identified any suspects.

He also says no scenario has been ruled out in the “complex investigation.”

Until the FBI reports back, Tapia says, investigators are “in limbo here.”

“We did receive some pretty large video files from a neighboring business and

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we’re working on reviewing those to see if there’s anything of evidentiary value.”

Police already released surveillance videos they say show three suspects at the Plaza caught in the act of vandalism.

The footage shows people riding bicycles on the streets near the Plaza just before 2 am. One video, apparently shot from under the portal along San Francisco Street, shows faraway figures spray painting the monument.

Tapia says a few tips came in regarding the India Palace vandalism when police first asked for help from the community, but none ended up “beneficial,” and no tips were received regarding the vandalism of the obelisk.

The attack made national news, including on CNN and NBC and India-West newspaper, featuring SFR’s photos. Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and US Rep. Ben Ray Luján are a few of the prominent politicians who condemned the attacks on social media.

“This hate crime is sickening and appalling,” Webber wrote on Twitter. “We

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need to stand up as a community and denounce this despicable act. We will find whoever did it and punish them to the full extent of the law.”

Despite not much movement on the India Palace investigation, repairs and renovations are ongoing, according to Cameron Brown, executive assistant to the Singh family, which owns the restaurant. Police also have not provided an update on the investigation to anyone there.

“The restaurant will hopefully be open soon. We don’t have a date. Repairs are coming a long way,” Brown writes to SFR. “Just seeing if we’re going to do a

Both India Palace (left) and the Plaza obelisk (right) were vandalized the same night in June.

full open or just take out.”

The renovations have been almost completely funded by more than $100,000 raised by Santa Feans immediately after the vandalism. By the Monday night after the crime, five different GoFundMe fundraisers had been started. Two alone raised over $80,000 within days.

The kitchen, floors and patio were the biggest repair jobs, according to Brown.

But the graffiti had to be removed from surfaces all around the restaurant, from counters to walls: “White power,” “Trump 2020,” “go home,” and far worse were spray-painted across the building. Some phrases contained threats of violence and racial slurs.

Tables were also overturned, glassware smashed, wine racks emptied, a statue of a goddess was beheaded and computers were stolen. Food warmers were turned over and destroyed. The front desk area was gutted. Among the items stolen or damaged were supplies that the owners and an employee would use to create weekly care packages for downtown’s homeless population.

It’s not clear why SFPD’s part in the investigation has slowed and why no tips have come in to the hotline. Santa Fe Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons involved in the vandalism at the obelisk. There’s also still a $1,000 reward in the case of the vandalism at India Palace. Tips for either crime can be submitted at santafecrimestoppers.org or by calling 505-955-5050.

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Both personal and demographic factors play out in parents’ decisions about whether or not to send their kids back to school

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arents of students in the Santa Fe Public Schools have a choice this fall. They can either send their kids back to school part-time in a hybrid model as soon as officials say it is safe to do so, or keep them at home to continue with the remote learning model for the rest of the year.

Responses to an SFPS parent survey show that while half of all parents want to send their kids back and half want to keep their kids home, those choices fall along demographic lines: The whiter and wealthier the demographic of a school, the more likely parents at that school are to choose the hybrid model.

But as individuals, parents don’t base their choices on the demographic boxes they fit into, and there’s a lot more at play than race and income.

SFR spoke to nearly 30 parents to get a sense of the many factors that influence their back-to-school decisions.

The district began the school year in mid-August with an all-remote learning plan that teachers’ union and administration officials agreed would last through the first nine weeks of school.

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What’s Behind Back-to-School Choices Carmen Miramontes knew immediately that she would keep the kids at home after that—her husband has cancer and is at high risk if he catches COVID-19—but it didn’t make the choice easy, or simple.

Miramontes is a kitchen staff-member at Cesar Chavez Elementary School who distributes lunches for parents who drive up. It’s a Thursday and her children, Trigo Baquetero and Sophia Cardenas, in fourth and second grade at Nina Otero Community School, sit diligently behind their computers in the school’s half-dark auditorium.

Sophia is in the midst of a science lesson, raising her hand to name liquids such as milk and mouthwash. Trigo should be in science class too, but he can’t connect to the online classroom. He shows SFR the blank screen and the error message, shrugging in disappointment.

“I think it was going to be a great day today,” he tells SFR, explaining that he was excited for an experiment the class had planned, “but now it just kinda sucks because I can’t do anything.”

Miramontes admits she is worried the remote learning curriculum will negatively impact the kids’ academic performance, telling SFR in Spanish, “I worry that they get bored or don’t concentrate well, that there are too many problems with the internet. But I am very afraid of sending them back. The risk for our family is too great.”

Outside, SFR talks to another parent, Christine Ornelas, who plans to keep her 17-year-old daughter home from Capital High School until there is a vaccine. The virus has already hit close to home and

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Sophia Cardenas, age 7, and Trigo Baquetero, age 9, take remote classes online.

she tears up as she talks about how she lost an uncle to COVID-19 this summer.

She says her daughter is adapting well to the online curriculum.

At Ortiz Middle School, Maria Flores tells SFR her three kids are struggling to keep up online—especially her 12-yearold who can’t sit still, so she’s sending them back as soon as possible.

Capital High School business teacher Juan Acevedo says he’s still not sure what to choose. His father-in-law is immune compromised, but his son, who is in pre-K at Piñon Elementary, has special needs and “demands a lot of attention.”

Keadra Friar has a son in first grade at Acequia Madre Elementary. She is the only parent SFR talks to who contracted COVID-19 herself, but this has not deterred her own family or others from sending their kids back to the school.

“I think it helps that this is such a small school and that there is a really close community of parents,” she says, adding that her child has a learning disability and does much better in the classroom.

Acequia Madre and Piñon Elementary are the two schools with the highest percentage of parents who want to send their

children back to school, according to the district’s survey. This makes Piñon—a school where nearly 85% of students are Hispanic and more than half qualify for free lunch—an outlier.

All the other schools where at least half of parents want their kids to return for the hybrid model are approximately 40% white, with less than 25% of students qualifying for free lunch.

Superintendent Veronica García and school board members say they were surprised to notice this pattern, and can only speculate as to the reasons behind it.

Kenya Bradshaw, the vice president at The New Teacher Project—an organization that works to address educational inequalities and inequities in school districts across the country—says she’s not surprised.

“We see this as a trend across the country,” she says. “If you look at [COVID-19] cases per 10,000 people, most cases fall into Black and Latino communities…What we are seeing is that parents of color across the country have been impacted at much higher rates and are taking more precautions sending their kids back to school.”

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ould they tell stories about the people who lived and worked in them, or would these walls keep it to themselves even if they could talk? Thankfully, the walls don’t have to. We did it for them.

This collection represents our third installment of “Castles, Ruins and Mysteries,” a series in which the SFR staff explores the stories behind the city’s landmarks—icons, eyesores and something in between.

Standing in for the “castle” of the bunch is the Scottish Rite Center, patterned partly after the Alhambra in Spain. World travelers might recognize the shape of the towers, but Santa Fe cruisers know it as “the pink church.” Alhambra means “red castle” in Arabic. We’re thinking that approximation fits just fine.

Two other buildings known for their color made their way into this iteration as the shades of fall are settling into the city.

The White Building on MacKenize Street has a wild history of murder and intrigue, and now, technology and a new future. Meanwhile, the Greek Orthodox Church in Eldorado is a common sight for structures along the Mediterranean Sea, but it stands out in this landscape.

When it comes to ruins and mysteries, Santa Fe has those aplenty. Is the old Eberline building safe for the community? What might get built there in the future? Read on.

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If walls could talk in these Santa Fe icons and eyesores ...

Onlookers visit the new Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, completed in 1912.

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The theater inside the Scottish Rite Masonic Center includes a pipe organ and painted ceiling.

Scottish Rite Masonic Center 463 Paseo de Peralta

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In true Santa Fe form, the building many call the “pink church,” isn’t a church at all and never was. People also refer to the landmark on the north side of downtown as the “masonic temple,” but the organization which owns it prefers the simpler moniker “center.”

Once a bastion of secretive rituals only open to men, in the modern era, the Scottish Rite Masonic Center has more recently been the site of parties, art shows, concerts and other public events.

For a few years, it looked like the structure that’s listed on the state and national registers of historic cultural properties

might change hands. In 2013, the Valley of Santa Fe chapter of the masons listed it on the real-estate market and posted a “for sale” sign out front. Leaders cited plummeting membership and high costs of maintenance as the reasons. But members who didn’t want to give it up and a council in Washington DC reversed course on that plan within a year and reportedly turned down an offer for its purchase.

Mark Oldknow, the official personal representative to the deputy of the Supreme Council for the Santa Fe chapter, tells SFR the valley members have subsequently been “successful in proving our point…We’re still kind of working out exactly

The 45,000-square-foot building was completed in 1912 and designed in the Moorish architectural style. It’s now available for rent as an event venue.

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how to operate as a business in a masonic context, but we have been able to make enough as a rental venue to keep the building in the hands of the fraternity and keep it afloat.”

The 45,000-square-foot building was completed in 1912 and designed in the Moorish architectural style by Sumner Hunt and S.R. Burns, who borrowed characteristics from the Alhambra castle in Granada, Spain. From the outside, it shows off horseshoe and keyhole arches, stained glass windows and hipped roof tiles, and the interior is equipped with dormitories, an enclosed courtyard, sunny banquet room and large commercial kitchen.

Its most interesting indoor feature has to be the theater—from the recessed ceiling lights shaped like celestial stars to the painted stage backdrops that accompany morality plays the masons perform in the conferring of their organization’s “degrees.” The acoustics are great, even if the wooden balcony seats are narrow and unforgiving.

Public-health orders from COVID-19 that put a clamp on gatherings everywhere have stalled weddings and other events at the center, including the twice-annual reunion of freemasons planned in the spring and fall this year. Oldknow says the valley plans to hold virtual meeting and perform the plays via Zoom.

See some of the iconic backgrounds from the plays and learn more in the book published two years ago by the Museum of New Mexico Press, The Santa Fe Scottish Rite Temple: Freemasonry, Architecture, and Theatre. (Julie Ann Grimm)

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5981 Airport Road Most of the mystery and unanswered questions surrounding the vacant brick building on Santa Fe’s Southside concern how much radioactive residue might be on the site. Neither the state or the corporation that manufactured radiation detection equipment there for decades seems terribly interested in giving area residents a straight answer.

Schools and homes surround the former Eberline building, and on one side, a Santa Fe County park. And COVID-19 has delayed the previous timeline for clean-up and demolition of the site into an unspecified time in the future—another unknown in a story with a lot of them.

A previous review by SFR of 50 years worth of newspaper reporting as well as records from the state Environment Department suggest that Eberline’s role as a large employer in Santa Fe and the stature of its corporate leadership allowed it to cut corners with recording and storing radioactive material.

Former Los Alamos National Laboratory worker Howard Clayton Eberline founded the business in the 1950s and it thrived for decades, but the building is now largely abandoned.

Thermo Electron Corporation purchased the company in 1979, which would eventually combine with Fisher Scientific.

Thermo Fisher Scientific shut down manufacturing there in 2007, but Thermo did not keep accurate records of toxic materials leaving and entering the site. And

Once one of Santa Fe’s biggest employers, the old Eberline facility has been fenced off and vacant for years.

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plan for demolition of the building and cleanup of the site by March 1 with a completion target of Oct. 1. But Thermo Fisher has not submitted the plan for demolition and the company told the department “activities” have been delayed by a few months due to the pandemic.

Currently, CN Associates, a Massachusetts-based radiological consulting, remediation and decommissioning firm, is “performing scoping surveys and sample analysis of the areas where radioactive material was received, processed, used or stored. These surveys help identify areas that may need further evaluation, like radiochemical analysis,” according to Maddy Hayden, the spokeswoman for the New Mexico Environment Department and the Radiation Control Bureau, a division of the department.

The timeline for cleanup will be more clear once the firm’s work is complete.

The scoping survey is “essential” to the

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the company didn’t document how much radioactive material remained.

The company has never responded to SFR’s requests for an interview. And although state officials promised Santa Fe a cleanup was on the way this fall, that doesn’t appear to be the case now.

Why didn’t Thermo keep accurate records of toxic materials leaving and entering the site? Why didn’t the company document how much radioactive material remained? Why doesn’t the state environment department make it a priority to keep reports of samples of the air, soil and building on the lot? (The department previously told SFR the records are not retained because there’s no storage space available for the physical reports.)

When will the site finally be “decommissioned” (cleaned up) and turned into something productive for the Southside?

The department told SFR in January it expected Thermo Fisher to submit its

The state environment department says the timeline for formal cleanup of the facility that formerly manufactured nuclear detection equipment isn’t certain.

completion of the decommissioning plan and it can’t be submitted without this data. Thermo Fisher paid for the surveys.

Despite years of questions around what material has entered and exited the site, Hayden says at this time, no areas with “elevated” levels of radioactivity have been identified.

What could eventually be put on the site is also still a bit of a mystery.

“Once the facility is formally decommissioned and they have done it to unrestricted parameters, then anything could be built there,” Santiago Rodriguez, chief of the Radiation Control Bureau, previously told SFR. “[Thermo Fisher] would disclose that there was a facility there and what types of activities occurred there. But if the facility is clean to the appropriate standards, then there should be no issue with that.” (Katherine Lewin)

The White Building 207 McKenzie St.

A standout in a sea of brown, the white, two-story edifice at the corner of Griffin and McKenzie Streets—with its high walls and hidden inner courtyard—hints tantalizingly of mystery and intrigue. Its true story does not disappoint.

Obscure religious rituals and extravagant parties took place here. One of the building’s inhabitants was the victim of a murder. It has served as a home, a studio, and a sanctuary for a succession of bossass ladies who influenced Santa Fe business, politics, culture and religion. It’s a legacy that continues with the building’s current owners, Pamela Koster and Mindy Hale, co-founders of Santa Febased tech company Falling Colors.

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The trademark white exterior arrived in the 1940s, when the founder of the I AM movement was its owner.

and served in the state Legislature as the representative of Bernalillo County.

When Venceslao died of a mysterious illness at the age of 47, Cleofas moved to the building with her daughter Angelina.

Tragedy struck again a few years later when Angelina was murdered. A Black man was sentenced to death for

the crime, though evidence against him was thin. The true killer may have been Angelina’s uncle, who, rumor has it, confessed to the murder on his deathbed.

After her daughter’s murder, Cleofas turned back to her roots; she started La Sociedad Folklorica to help preserve Spanish New Mexican language and traditions, and wrote multiple books

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The building at the corner of Griffin and McKenzie Streets in downtown Santa Fe has been around for generations. But the interesting part of its story begins in 1922, when Cleofas Jaramillo came into possession of the building after the death of her husband, a prominent businessman who’d been the chairman for the state Republican Party and played an integral role in winning statehood for New Mexico.

The two met when Cleofas was a student at the Loretto Academy in Santa Fe. She was a small town girl from Northern New Mexico; Venceslao Jaramillo was her second cousin and the youngest colonel in the whole United States. At 22, he already had a career as a military advisor to Territorial Governor Miguel Otero

Falling Colors has been both tracking its renovations and unpacking the history of the building via @thewhitebuildingsf on Instagram.

documenting New Mexican recipes, fairy tales and folklore. She hosted La Sociedad Folklorica’s first gathering in the building with Hazel Hyde, a woman who owned a large art studio in the complex.

Hyde, an educator and socialite who spent her time in Los Angeles and New York, bought the studio during a brief marriage to a local sculptor. After they divorced, she turned the studio into one of Santa Fe’s bohemian hubs, hosting performances, readings by famous authors, parties and political gatherings.

In 1942, a third major player entered the scene: Edna Ballard, founder of the I AM religious movement.

The Church of I AM was born out of the writings of the Theosophists and occult Christian theorists of the late nineteenth century.

According to local newspapers, 500 I AM devotees followed Ballard to Santa Fe in the midst of a mail-fraud lawsuit alleging she used the postal service to solicit donations and sell pamphlets containing misleading information about her religion. She eventually won the lawsuit when the US Supreme Court ruled that the law cannot determine whether or not a person believes their religion.

After she bought the building, Ballard painted its interior pink and painted the outside the iconic white that it is today.

The church sold the building and moved to Old Taos Highway in the 1970s after Ballard’s death. Since then it’s been used as apartments and art studios.

The restoration from Falling Colors includes interior and exterior work with plans to make it the new company headquarters, Tech and Data Services General Manager Tim Harville tells SFR. He says the owners also want to open some part of the space to the public but are waiting until the COVID-19 pandemic passess to decide what that might look like. (Leah Cantor)

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Hydroelectric power generation, however, has been more widely associated with massive walls of water like the one behind the Hoover Dam or at Niagara Falls.

That’s why it might be delightful to discover that Santa Fe not only used hydroelectric power in its early days, but the city still harnesses water and gravity to generate electricity in a small way. Today, the site of both is a city park open for a field trip or a picnic lunch.

The squarish brick building at the center of Power Plant Park, across the street from the Cristo Rey, housed a Pelton turbine from about 1895 to 1940.

Sluices carried water from the city’s TwoMile Reservoir to the power plant, then back into town for homes, businesses and farms.

Cash from a 2008 citywide parks bond shuffled about $800,000 toward building the park and restoring the building.

Officials had big plans to turn it into a museum that showcased the water-use history of the region. It’s a nice little park with shade and a flat place to take a short walk, but the building remains unused.

Meanwhile, hidden in a vault a few hundred feet away, a modern hydroelectric generator converts the energy of water moving into a storage tank into electricity. While the turbine has not been well-monitored until recently, Water Division Director Jesse Roach said he’d like to have better understanding of how to best track it.

“Just in the last year, we’ve started paying attention to it,” he tells SFR. “I don’t really have numbers on how much we have saved with it, we’re still kind of getting back up to speed on what the readings mean. But essentially every time we send water from the treatment plant way up high near the Audubon center down to that big tank at the beginning of Upper Canyon Road, it goes through that turbine and there is about 168 feet of elevation difference between them. We extract that energy out of it.” (JAG)

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Power Plant Park on Upper Canyon Road got its name from a hydroelectric generation station used from 1895 to 1940.

hard to miss. The white building standing out against the rocky, scrubby hillside looks as though it could have been transplanted straight from the Greek Islands and into the New Mexico landscape.

Reverend Father Demitrios Pappas says the church and its surroundings are so reminiscent of the Mediterranean that people who’ve visited or are from the islands are often hit by a pang of nostalgia and the comfort of feeling at home.

“It’s like they could think they are in Greece,” he says.

From the hill above the church one can hear the ancient harmonies of Byzantine

chanting rising from the church on Sundays as the small congregation of around 60 worshipers gather for a service of song and prayer.

Pappas says the congregation is tight knit, but welcomes visitors with open arms to the Sunday service. He conducts all services in English but also includes prayers in Romanian, Arabic, Spanish and Greek.

“We have a lot of people from the old country. We have a lot of Serbians and Romanians who are Orthodox too. Many of our members are from the eastern countries,” he says, adding that parishioners travel from as far as Albuquerque and Las Vegas.

“It means something for people to be able to pray in their own language, so when we do the prayer of our father, I include them and we say the Lord’s Prayer in many languages,” says Pappas.

He says there are other Eastern

St. Elias the Prophet Greek Orthodox Church 46 Camino Electra

Driving toward Eldorado, the Saint Elias the Prophet Greek Orthodox Church is

St. Elias the Prophet Greek Orthodox is built in the shape of a Byzantine cross.

Orthodox churches in Albuquerque, but this is the only one in Santa Fe and is one of the oldest and largest Orthodox communities in the area.

The church was established in 1988 by two Greek families. Dr. Alex and Niki Constantaras and Frank and Alice Carris moved to New Mexico from Chicago with the vision of establishing a Greek community in the hills south of Santa Fe modeled on simple Greek village life on the islands.

The Constantaras’ and the Carris’ started a neighborhood called Dos Griegos. They completed the church building in 1991, and built a bank and a shopping center called the Agora nearby.

Pappas says Greek churches and homes are traditionally painted white.

Architects design Orthodox churches in two shapes: the cross and a form of Noah’s ark.

St. Elias the Prophet Greek Orthodox is built in the shape of a byzantine cross.

Inside, the church is painted with iconography telling the story of the Bible. The work was created by two Greek artists and took eight years to complete, says Pappas.

The son of Greek immigrants, Pappas grew up in Denver. When he came to Santa Fe to take on the mantle of reverend 11 years ago, he found the church struggling to raise the funds to complete the murals.

He put his efforts into fundraising and the paintings were finally completed in 2016.

Later that year, the church was consecrated by the Metropolitan Bishop Isaiah of Denver, who came to bless the structure and placed holy relics on the altar.

The Eastern Orthodox calendar celebrated the new year on Sept. 1. Pappas says the first major holiday of the year— the Elevation of Holy Cross—will be on Sept.

14. He says the congregation will hold a procession and decorate the cross with basil sprigs which will be handed back out to parishioners at the end of the service so that they may take the blessing home.

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ONLINE EVENT TUE/15 IN YOUR FACE, COLORADO! You know how Colorado keeps trying to horn in on the New Mexico chile thing? Not only is it absurd and pointless (ours is better, the end), we’re also fairly sure their local bookstores aren’t throwing together online events dedicated to the noble chile. Author and certified chile genius Dave DeWitt joins former Coyote Café chef/owner Mark Miller by Zoom to discuss Chile Peppers: A Global History, DeWitt’s magnum opus book of the spiciest proportions.

You can thank Collected Works for putting the thing on, especially if you’ve always wanted to add historical know-how to the next time you look at an X-mas burrito with tears of joy streaming down your face. (ADV) Chile Peppers: A Global History Discussion: 6 pm Tuesday, Sept. 15. Free. collectedworksbookstore.com

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Say Yay to Neigh Team Everything takes over HIPICO Santa Fe If there’s one silver lining to be found within the pandemic world of weird-ass shows that require workaround solutions to people being unable to stand near one another, it’s that local DJ cohort Team Everything can bring the magic of its annual Mesa Por Vida event to the masses.

Before, you just kind of had to be in the know to get down with the yearly dance party (it’s more about logistics than TE not wanting everyone in the world there), but this year’s constraints forced its squadron of champs to work with AMP Concerts for the upcoming event, Team Everything’s Horse Power—a real-life, in-person, non-streaming event at Santa Fe’s premier horse event locale accomplished by providing safely distanced parking spots/ dance floors for music fans.

“The appeal of streaming events is starting to fade for me, personally, and I’m guessing that’s true for others,” says Paul Groetzinger, aka DJ Feathericci. “So this is really special—we get to dance, we get to hear loud music, we get to be in a grassy field together. A lot of the pieces are there.”

As always, Groetzinger and company lean into the wild and wooly world of obscure yet danceable house and techno jams. And while stalwart TE names like Bacon, erin e, and Spoolius Mélange will hit the stage alongside Feathericci for killer sets, the real feather in the cap, so to speak, is the appearance from Alex Simon, aka Tone Ranger, whose smooth Southwestern-inspired takes on electronic tunes are both musically soothing and mathematically fascinating.

“We’re also going to do a team everything tag-team set to close the night,” Groetzinger adds, noting that while everyone will share the stage for that set, masks and distancing will be observed.

“There’s just something so exciting about having five of us up there DJing together, taking turns—it feels more like a party, and I think that will translate to the audience.” (Alex De Vore) TEAM EVERYTHING’S HORSE POWER: 7 pm Friday, Sept. 11. $55-$88 (per carload). HIPICO Santa Fe, 100 S Polo Drive, ampconcerts.org

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The Re-Opening Santa Fe museums brace to reopen amid COVID-19 pandemic, and we couldn’t be happier

BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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n the early weeks of the pandemic, there was a small part of me that said, “Hey, man, this is actually kind of a good chance to rest up a little bit.” Don’t get me wrong—I was terrified, people I knew absolutely died from the virus and I still can’t believe I’m lucky enough to have retained my job. And yet, that little part of me remained, telling me things like “Your life isn’t going to change that much.”

After the novelty of working in pajama pants wore off, however, the first thing that struck me on a deeply emotional level (y’know, outside of the aforementioned deaths) was not being in museums and galleries all the time. Turns out I love art, and talking to the people who make it, curate it, hang it, philosophize about it, etc. is a major part of my mental well-being (and ask anyone—I need all the help I can get).

And so I waited. For weeks. And months. I kept thinking we’d be back in the museums soon. Nope. And it started to hurt. But then, places like the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art started creating virtual exhibits (huge shoutout to Winoka Yepa, Diné, over there, whose digital recreation of the museum’s Indigenous Futurisms show inside the ArtSteps app led the way for other institutions to jump into the virtual sphere) and other spots like the New Mexico Museum of Art started curating shows on Instagram (shoutout to curator Jana Gottshalk, among others, for making the @newmexicoartmuseum account extra worth following). The Museum of International Folk Art upped its downloadable resources and even offered youths free art kits and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian hosted virtual conversations with artists.

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finally reopen—albeit at 25% capacity based on fire marshal restrictions, and all seemed like it would be well again. Our state COVID-19 numbers are shrinking, (most) people are happily wearing masks to protect each other; it’s time.

For El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the reopening is a no-brainer. Much of the living history museum exists outdoors, and in the waning weeks of summer, those looking to get out of the house need look no further.

“We’re such a vast property,” says Director of Development Jackie Camborde. “You can come in, take a lovely walk, walk along the acequia, picnic on the grounds—just get out in nature. We’re putting it in all our ads: 200 acres of safe social distancing!”

Golondrinas reopens Wednesday, Sept. 9, and Camborde says ticketing will be broken up into sessions that run just under three hours. Maintenance staff is set to deep clean any surfaces between those sessions and no interior sections of the museum will open just yet.

The Santa Fe Children’s Museum is embracing a similar outdoor deal with its garden and outdoor play space open on weekends for 90-minute sessions.

“We all need time to play in nature, and the Children’s Museum garden provides just that,” Executive Director Susan Lynn tells SFR. “We have moved some of our favorite exhibits outdoors, and you can join us to make giant bubbles, engineer a new ball run, dig for bones in the sandpit, pick veggies in the community garden and much more.”

The Children’s Museum is also opening enrollment for Wee Adventures and Maker Monday workshops this week, and it continues to offer virtual field trips through its website.

Downtown, museum reopenings are chugging along as well. At the New Mexico Museum of Art, Head of Curatorial Affairs Merry Scully says an exact reopening date

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isn’t known just yet, but staff is training up in safety measures while exhibits that opened shortly before the pandemic, such as the local-centric Alcoves with Todd Ryan White, Debra Baxter and Amy Ellingson among others, will be extended. Additionally, she says, the museum’s newer online offerings will continue.

“What’s happened is it’s really sped up our need to extend what’s going into the digital sphere, whether that’s interviews with artists or virtual presentations on the collection, we really hit the ground running as soon as we were quarantined,” Scully adds. “And something positive might come out of this in terms of people rethinking what we do and how we spend time.”

Just up the street at MoCNA, Director Patsy Phillips also says the institution plans to continue with its virtual offerings, noting that a professional videographer will now document future shows so more people can get a closer look.

“If you have an exhibition and you don’t have a catalogue, when it closes, that’s basically it,” Phillips explains, noting that potential visitors only missed a couple things during the pandemic.

“Charlene Teters’ Way of Sorrows…we had to close that show because we had a contract with artists, but that show is online; the BFA exhibition, always a graduation show, is closed…that’s online.”

Phillips also says upcoming exhibits, such as a globe-encompassing piece focused on uranium mining’s impact on Indigenous people and communities, as well as a possible look into African American Indigenous peoples, are on the docket, and though MoCNA tends to book a couple years in advance (you know—like all museums everywhere), she expects COVID-19 will work its way into future shows in one form or another. The museum’s parent institution, for example (the Institute for American Indian Arts) hosts regular student shows

in the space—and when it comes to punk rock statements based in politics, nothing beats young folks’ work.

Phillips says the museum will work around any in-person capacity issues by selling timed tickets and having touchfree hand sanitizer stations around its galleries. The timed ticketing thing is being investigated up on Museum Hill at the Museum of International Folk Art, and Executive Director Khritaan Villela tells SFR he’s excited to get back to hosting in-house guests.

“Of course, we’re nervous, and we’re doing our best to safeguard our staff,” Villela says, “but our public has really appreciated that we’re still here and continue to create content for them to enjoy.”

He can say that again. MoIFA churned out some excellent bilingual activities for kids during the pandemic—and its Yokai exhibit on Japanese demon lore that opened a few months before the world shut down is easily one of the coolest offerings Santa Fe has seen…ever.

And that’s just the tip of it all. The Wheelwright should be up and running soon, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum tells SFR it’ll open on Sept. 25, SITE Santa Fe has the new show DISPLACED and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture will surely reopen alongside its state-run contemporaries—and the Harrel House Bug Museum is even back at it with altered hours. (What? It’s definitely a museum.)

This is all to say that we might try to better appreciate our arts. No, museums aren’t perfect and no, I don’t expect everyone to get as pumped over devotional pieces on loan from the British Museum as I do (that show at the New Mexico Museum of Art has been extended to the end of the month according to Merry Scully). I do, however, think we’re lucky to have so many places staffed by so many dedicated people. Not bad at all.

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ull disclosure: Myself and my dining companion actually made the short jaunt to Eldorado in search of Thai food from the newly minted Thai Bistro. But we learned that some places close for Labor Day the hard way (understandable) and found ourselves scanning the La Tienda center in search of something else. We’d already made the drive—admittedly not long, but still not as common occurrence for us town dwellers as it should be—and we’d been dreaming up snack time for most of the day.

La Plancha stepped up in our time of need.

It’s a lovely building, large and pleasantly cool inside on a sweltering day and with signs about social distancing precautions on every other table. The patio looked comfortable as well, but the late afternoon heat drove us indoors where another table or two were seated far enough away for us to let our guard down a bit. Our server stood six feet away, masked, and calmly explained to us what on Earth the El Salvadorian loro-

co was (an edible flower common to the country that makes its way regularly into their food—who knew?) and politely gave us a few moments to don masks of our own each time they returned.

We began with chips and guacamole ($7.50), not the best I’ve had but still in one of those delightful tortilla chip ramekins beside a warm pile of chips.

Something was missing, however, and it was hard to put my finger on it. Perhaps it was under-seasoned and a little heavy on cilantro—picking stringy, leafy greens out of one’s teeth seems an odd guacamole side effect—but overall tasty and the right kind of palate tease.

Ordering proved a mite more challenging as La Plancha boasts a rather large menu. Too large, perhaps, but still with a number of items that skirt traditions between Southwestern America and Central America: Empanadas and pupsas play a major role, both on the starters list and in the entrees like the Plata Tipico Centro Americano, which my companion zeroed in on immediately. Choosing from a variety of carnivorous and vegetarian options, she wound up with the bean and cheese pupusa, chicken tamale (and we’re

talking El Salvadorian style in a banana leaf instead of a corn husk) and fried plantains with sides of pickled vegetables and a mild salsa ($13.95).

For my own order, and in following my advice from my doctor who suggests adding a piece of fish to my longtime vegetarian diet now and then “as an experiment to see if it gives you more energy,” I ordered grilled salmon with veggies and rice pilaf. Tropical mango salsa and potatoes loroco came on the side ($16.95).

While we waited, the inevitable “Would you drive for it?” conversation occurred. Looking back, Eldorado was once a barren wasteland with little more than a grocery store and no shortage of nosy neighbors harboring intense feelings about who could raise chickens or not. These days, both the La Tienda and Agora centers are home to joints like Upper Crust Pizza, Arable, a Santa Fe Brewing Co. taproom, the sadly-closedthat-day Thai Bistro and, among others, the very restaurant in which we sat, La

LEFT: Grilled salmon with veggies, rice pilaf and potatoes loroco. RIGHT: The Plato Tipico Central Americana.

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Plancha (that’s a type of iron cooking surface, btw). The question thus becomes for town-dwellers if a drive out to Eldorado becomes worth it. In most cases, such as the pizza or beer ones, it’s a resounding no. Sorry, Eldorado-ites—we’ve got those places here.

As for La Plancha? Well, it’s hard to say. As I’ve noted, our new socially distant world now plays a strong part in how we choose to dine out. La Plancha’s massive dining room and friendly, respectful staff is a huge checkmark in the pro column in that respect. Entree-wise, it’s kind of a tossup.

While not terrible, the salmon could have used another minute or two on the grill. Yes, one wants fish to be tender, but not neighboring on creamy and wet.

When mixed with the potatoes loroco, however, new flavor and texture profiles emerged, leading me to believe that showing up in the mid-afternoon lull might have caught an otherwise excellent chef off guard. The veggies were sad at best, though, wilted and buried beneath firm and aromatic and tastier rice pilaf. re Across the table, my companion remarked on a deeper flavor combination in her pupusa, noting more than one cheese and a satisfyingly crispy outer texture.

Fried plantains are basically ALWAYS good, and I was more than a little jealous of her chicken tamale.

But then, that doesn’t address the question—would we drive for it? Sadly, the answer is no. La environ Plancha has a wonderful environment and I can’t say enough nice things about our server; if I lived in Eldorado I’d probably be immense immensely excited about it, too. But I’ve found just about everything on its menu right here in town and done a little better. Still, when faced with the disappointment from a closed Thai place, we could’ve done a lot worse. Oh, and as for the salm salmon? I feel fine, thanks. Might even throw fish back in the rotation.

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Even 4chan creator Christopher Poole eventually became fed up with his site’s propensity for the shockingly hateful, misogynist, racist and homophobic, ultimately stepping down in 2015 following the particularly nasty two-pronged controversy of celeb nude leaks and Gamergate (Google them if you must—they’re horrible). But what became the stomping grounds for self-identified freaks and outcasts, incels and the alt.right was once an anonymous playground for the stranger denizens of the internet, the birthplace of hacktivist group Anonymous—and it’s where the character Pepe the Frog fell from grace.

In director Arthur Jones’ first big foray, Feels Good Man, we learn the genesis of artist Matt Furie’s slacker frog creation and the resultant Boys Club series of comics which inspired everyone from Tuca & Bertie creator Lisa Hanawalt to any number of clothiers, curators and beyond.

Pepe was never meant to be evil, but when 4chan users got their mitts on the laid-back amphibian, he eventually became a symbol of straight-up vitriolic hate—perhaps even playing a key role in the election of Donald Trump—and Jones’ film

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Let it first be known that Keanu Reeves—celebrated nice guy, not very good actor and gigantic movie star—certainly didn’t have to make a movie like Bill & Ted Face the Music, but he should be commended for doing so out of what I can only assume is love for his co-star Alex Winter.

And maybe the desire to have some fun.

Either way, it’s been more than 30 years since the duo originally traveled through time to complete a history report—thereby solidifying a most excellent future for all humankind— and nearly 30 since they journeyed most bogusly through heaven and hell to defeat the nefarious gym teacher/sit-up champ Chuck De Nomolos in the sequel.

It was triumphant, but conditions have deteriorated by the time we catch up with B&T in 2020. Sure, the eponymous duo sired a couple kids with their medieval-era princess brides and put out a string of records meant to unite the globe, but they’ve still not managed to write that one all-important song predicted by the since-dead time traveling Rufus (RIP George Carlin), and this can only spell trouble. Looks like it’s back in the phone booth in search of an era during which the future versions of them-

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follows Furie’s quest to reclaim his character and sanity.

Jones cuts a wide swath, chatting with data experts, psychologists, occultists, NEETs (Google that, too, if you must), artists, crypto-traders and Furie himself. Through these interviews, we gain a deeper appreciation for how quickly things can spiral, how fraught copyright laws can be and why Furie’s tendency to embody “Que sera, sera,” nearly ruined his life.

Pepe wound up on the Anti-Defamation League’s list of hate symbols, and a rallying cry for basement dwellers, conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and horrifying Nazis like Richard Spencer. But did you know he also became a beacon of hope for Hong Kong protestors? Or that a concerted effort to bring #PeaceForPepe spawned some of the coolest and most thoughtful memes of our time?

selves have written the song, or time and space will cease to exist.

While there’s certainly a wonderful nostalgia pang seeing Winter and Reeves reunite alongside original Bill & Ted creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Face the Music falls victim to a strange combo of overextended expectations, unfortunate additions and a confusing lack of spark. Tossing in Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine as Zoomer carbon copies of the heroes feels like an out-of-touch stab at harnessing the youth market, and William Sadler’s return as the literal Grim Reaper feels all too short. The same goes for appearances from newer stars like Jillian Bell, Kristen Schall and Anthony Carrigan—and there’s one cameo that could have been glorious but falls so flat it almost hurts. SNL’s Beck Bennett should have been in it less, and recasting the princesses with younger actresses Jayma Mays and Erinn Hayes just plain sucks.

It all leads to an ending that feels telegraphed and a song that is NOT EVEN CLOSE TO AS GOOD as the KISS cover of Argent’s “God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll to You” from Bogus Journey.

In other words, we lose the thread of nostalgia to a meandering plot full of shoehorned characters that have little to do when we could have focused on Bill and Ted and had a more excellent time. (ADV)

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There was a time in the ’90s, at the advent of widespread CDs taking over our homes and cars, when the vinyl record suddenly became the least important physical media on Earth. Or so it seemed, anyway.

In Vinyl Nation from filmakers Christopher Boone and Kevin Smokler, however, we learn that while the rise of digital formats placed vinyl firmly in the ICU for a decade and change, the audiophiles, record store geeks, artists, businesspeople and young folks looking for a more meaningful experience somehow managed to keep it on life support long enough for a resurgence, and we’re now smack-dab in the middle of a real-life renaissance.

With the help of collectors, musicians, producers and craftspeople, Boone and Smokler argue that vinyl holds a magical and superior place amongst the true believers in the pantheon of recorded sound. As one subject succinctly puts it, some folks are just drawn to its inconvenience. We learn that the size and shape were marketing ploys that unwittingly cast a spell on those who wished to hold some-

By the time we catch up with Furie, he’s at the tail-end of some grueling legal battles and personal strife, trying to write children’s books and speaking to crowds fascinated by the speed with which he lost control. But there is light at the end of the tunnel and still a chance for Pepe.

Feels Good Man thus becomes a gripping tale of the internet’s scary reach, real-world politics and the power of art to sway the people. Is its democratization a good thing in the end? Yes, of course, and much like the bizarre world of music copyright infringement suits still in their infancy, it raises interesting questions that might not be answerable just yet, but will surely impact shared global culture forever.

FEELS GOOD MAN Directed by Jones Jean Cocteau Virtual Cinema, NR, 92 min.

thing tangible, how liner notes were and still are important and who’s making the beefy 180-gram records and creatively fascinating packaging of today.

This means interviews with everyone from Gen Z noobs and Record Store Day founders to Urban Outfitters buyers and Instagram recreationists. We learn how the stuff is made, how it’s a shareable media across generations; we meet precocious preteens and certified snobs—all of whom tell the same story: Vinyl can and does change lives.

Thankfully, Boone and Smokler also tackle the concepts of misogyny and racism, though a slightly deeper look would have been a welcome extra few minutes in an already fairly short running time. Still, the notion of ponytailed weirdo spinning records like some Hornby-esque unappreciated scholar is thankfully diminished in place of music lovers at every end of the spectrum.

If nothing else, you’ll wanna flesh out (or start) that collection after watching this film, and its very existence proves that the medium—and its proponents—continue to evolve. In other words, this isn’t some inaccessible hipster trend anymore, it’s a movement. And within that movement, togetherness. (ADV)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t,” observes author James S. Gordon. “Rather, it’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” Lucky for you, Aries! Your willpower is even more potent than usual right now, and your willingness to change is growing stronger. And so very soon now, I expect you will reach the threshold that enables you to act crisply and forcefully. You will become so convinced that it’s wise to instigate transformation that you will just naturally instigate transformation. Adjust, adapt, improvise, improve!

with that idea, as well as the converse: The more intelligent people are, the more mysterious existence seems to them. Since I expect you to be at the peak of your soulful intelligence in the coming weeks, I am quite sure that life will be exquisitely mysterious to you. It’s true that some of its enigmatic qualities may be murky and frustrating, but I suspect that many of them will be magical and delightful. If you ever wanted your life to resemble a poetic art film, you’re going to get your wish.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Comedian and actor Aubrey Plaza bragged about the deal she made. “I TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Psychologist Mihály sold my soul to the devil,” she said. “I’d like to thank Csíkszentmihályi is an expert on the mental state the devil.” Plaza is quite popular and successful, so known as being in the flow. He defines it as what hap- who knows? Maybe the Prince of Darkness did pens when you’re completely absorbed in what you indeed give her a boost. But I really hope you don’t are doing: “immersed in a feeling of energized focus,” regard her as a role model in the coming weeks—not with “full involvement and enjoyment in the process even in jest. What worked for Plaza won’t work for of the activity.” According to my reading of the astro- you. Diabolical influences that may seem tempting logical omens, you are extra likely to enjoy such will not, in the long run, serve your interests—and graceful interludes in the coming weeks. But I hope may even sabotage them. Besides, more benevolent you will be discerning about how you use them. I forces will be available to you, and at a better price. mean, you could get into a flow playing video games SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Many of you or doing sudoku puzzles. But God and Life and I would prefer it if you’ll devote those times to working Sagittarians specialize in generous breakthroughs and invigorating leaps of truth. Often, you make them look on a sublime labor of love or a highly worthy quest. easy and natural—so much so that people may not GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to researcher realize how talented you are in generating them. I hope Rosalind Cartwright, “Memory is never a precise dupli- you adjust for that by giving yourself the proper cate of the original. It is a continuing act of creation.” acknowledgment and credit. If this phenomenon Neurologist Oliver Sacks agrees, telling us, “Memories shows up in the coming weeks—and I suspect it are not fixed or frozen, but are transformed, disassem- might—please take strenuous measures to ensure that bled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of you register the fullness of your own accomplishrecollection.” Reams of additional evidence also sugments. To do so will be crucial in enabling those gest that our experience of the past is always being accomplishments to ripen to their highest potential. transformed. In accordance with astrological potenCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Holocaust survivor tials, I invite you to take advantage of this truth.

Re-imagine your life story so it has more positive spins. and author Elie Wiesel wrote, “When you die and go to heaven, our maker is not going to ask, ‘why didn’t you Re-envision the plot threads so that redemption and discover the cure for such and such? why didn’t you rebirth are major features. Engage in a playful reworking of your memories so that the epic myth of your des- become the Messiah?’ The only question we will be tiny serves your future happiness and success. asked in that precious moment is ‘why didn’t you become you?’” I hope that serves as a stimulating CANCER (June 21-July 22): All of us are susceptible to challenge for you, Capricorn. The fact is that you are in fooling ourselves and lying to ourselves. And all of us are an extended phase when it’s easier than usual to sumsusceptible to the cowardice that such self-sabotage genmon the audacity and ingenuity necessary to become erates. But the good news is that you Cancerians will more fully yourself than you have ever been before. have an expansive capacity to dissolve and rise above self-deception in the coming weeks—and will therefore be able to call on a great deal of courage. As Cancerian author and Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön says, “The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Years ago, comedian Lenny Bruce observed, “Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.” His statement is even truer today than it was then. Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank, has gathered LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you like, I will give you the the concrete evidence. Church attendance was way waning crescent moon and the dawn breeze. Do you down even before the pandemic struck. Now it’s even want them? How about sudden bursts of joy for no lower. What does this have to do with you? In my astroapparent reasons and a warm greeting from a person logical opinion, the coming months will be prime time you thought had a problem with you? Would you be interested in having those experiences? And what about for you to build your intimate and unique relationship an unexpected insight into how to improve your financial with God rather than with institutions that have formulaic notions about who and what God is. A similar prinsituation and a message from the future about how to acquire more stability and security? Are those blessings ciple will be active in other ways, as well. You’ll thrive by drawing energy from actual sources and firsthand expeyou might enjoy? Everything I just named will be possiriences rather than from systems and ideologies that ble in the coming weeks—especially if you formulate a supposedly represent those sources and experiences. desire to receive them and ask life to provide them.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo poet Mary Oliver was renowned for giving herself permission.

Permission to do what? To become a different person from the self she had been. To shed her familiar beliefs and adopt new ones. To treat every experience as an opportunity to experiment. To be at peace with uncertainty. I think you’ll be wise to give yourself all those permissions in the coming weeks—as well as others that would enhance your freedom to be and do whatever you want to be and do. Here’s another favorite Mary Oliver permission that I hope you’ll offer yourself: “And I say to my heart: rave on.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Psychologist Carl Jung wrote, “The function of dreams is to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes the total psychic equilibrium.”

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you especially need this kind of action right now. To expedite your healing process, meditate on what aspects of your life might have become too extreme or one-sided. Where could you apply compensatory energy to establish better equipoise? What topheavy or lopsided or wobbly situations could benefit from bold, imaginative strokes of counterbalance?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The more unintelligent Homework: What’s the best possible commotion you people are, the less mysterious existence seems to could stir up—a healing commotion that would help them,” wrote philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. I agree heal and liberate you? FreeWillAstrology.com.

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