Santa Fe Reporter, April 10, 2024

In her new book, Santa Fe elite athlete Katie Arnold overcomes a devastating accident by starting over

By Julia Goldberg, P.12

OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

HOUSING HOLD 9

Midtown housing bids face delay

NOT WHOLLY UNION 10

St. John’s College workers’ organization efforts in limbo

COVER STORY 12

PRACTICE RUN

In her new book, elite author Katie Arnold tells the story of starting over after a devastating accident.

SFR PICKS 17

The next gen of artists and arts workers, author Steven Reigns, essential women artists and Beyoncé

THE CALENDAR 18

3 QUESTIONS 22

with STEM educator and NASA ambassador Asis Gonzalez

ARTS 26

BEAT POETRY

An interview with City of Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta

THE BOOKSHELF 27

DISPATCHES FROM THE DARK State Poet Laureate Lauren Camp on finding darkness

MOVIES 28

MONKEY MAN REVIEW Dev Patel + Hanuman = entertainment

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COVER STORY, MARCH 27: “TRIGGER WARNING”

DO THE MATH

Assuming 150 days of instruction per year—a March 2024 law requires students now get 180 days of instruction—from 1971-2023 had 7,800 school days; 25 incidents in 7,800 days is 0.000032% of school days with gun violence incidents.

Knowing how many students were schooled in those 52 years (or even from 2018-2023, when nine casualties were created across 16 NM schools) would definitively show that 23 casualties (12 deaths and 11 wounded) in 52 years is such a paltry, minute fraction of a percentage of the decades-long total of students. We might then find that the focus on “gun violence” is a total distraction from the actual problems plaguing youths in a society with a rising population, rising wealth gap and multiple technologically-induced existential crises (for Nature, society and individuals).

We might also consider if males’ natural, aggressive impulses need some traditional outlets returned, and we might even brave the question of whether regimented classroom instruction obstructs and conflicts with the nat-

ural impulses of adolescent humans, and whose interests are served by the schooling process.

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THE FORK, MARCH 28: “SCONES AKIMBO!”

SCONES FTW

I don’t know about the Scottish part of your scones recipe, but the akimbo part of it has me puzzled. Unless you intend to stand back, hands on hips, and let someone else do all the work. About the Scottish part of it, Scots are known to eat a lot of oats, or so I understand. I’ve even made oatcake which I must confess I didn’t love. There might have been a way to make it palatable, but once was enough. I have Scotland in my bloodline and I was hoping to find something familiar to resonate with, but no. Scones, on the other hand, are wonderful. When I ate wheat and other foods that had gluten, I made scones frequently and always drowned them in butter. What an informative newsletter! It had everything! Thanks especially for the tip on Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen. It’s right across the street from me and has been too expensive for decades.

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CYBER ATTACKS SHUT DOWN NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY CLASSES FOR SEVERAL DAYS

At least it’s a teachable moment about the end of civilization

COWS, CHICKENS AND AT LEAST ONE HUMAN TEST POSITIVE FOR BIRD FLU

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GOV. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER REQUIRING STATE AGENCIES TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE WITH CYBER SAFETY RULES

Just as soon as they learn how to convert PDFs to Word docs

SANTA FE POLICE ISSUE NEWS RELEASE ANNOUNCING “DWI CHECKPOINTS AND DWI SATURATION PATROLS ARE EVERYWHERE” IN APRIL

Writing news releases while drunk still OK

CITY OF SANTA FE ROLLS OUT SALARY INCREASES TO HELP RETAIN WORKERS

Or at least subsidize gas money for commuting from Albuquerque

NEW MEXICO HOUSE REPUBLICANS SAY ELECTION OF NEW LEADERS REPRESENTS “A SIGNIFICANT SHIFT TOWARD A REVITALIZED FUTURE FOR NEW MEXICO HOUSE REPUBLICANS.”

As the saying goes: If wishes were elephants

NATIONAL STUDY SAYS NEW MEXICANS’ #1 DREAM CAREER IS CHOCOLATIER

But only state workers were polled

YOU THINK IT’S AN EASY JOB? DO YOU F#CKING KNOW HOW MUCH A CHOCALATE RIVER COSTS?

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Housing Hold

BY EVAN CHANDLER evan@sfreporter.com

From the window of a dorm room converted into a storage area within Consuelo’s Place—a shelter that currently hosts 80 unhoused individuals and families in 61 rooms on the Midtown site—a truck clears out land directly across from the building to create a parking lot. Shelter Manager Michele Williams looks on, noting the work is for a movie shoot.

The tableau is appropriate, given the state of redevelopment for Midtown, where officials are pressing forward with plans for film but have pressed pause on affordable housing.

The City’s community development plan for the former Santa Fe University of Art and Design/College of Santa Fe campus, approved in February 2023, includes affordable housing, film, the arts and other types of mixed use. Last year, the city struck several deals: one for the expansion and redevelopment of film studios on the southern third of the campus, and another for a future Visual Arts Center that would use existing buildings and create new spaces for educational and creative purposes. The City also pledged $500,000 of “unanticipated” Lodger’s Tax revenue to renovate the Greer Garson Theater. Most recently, the City Council and the mayor authorized city staff to apply for Midtown to become a qualified production facility with the New Mexico Film Office which, if approved, will allow productions using any portion of the site to be eligible for an additional 5% tax credit.

Plans for affordable housing, on the other hand, have yet to surface. Community Development Department Director Rich Brown previously told SFR bid packets for the request for proposal phase of the first affordable housing parcel were expected in January, but Midtown MRA Director Karen Iverson’s most recent March 27 governing body presentation sets that timeline back approximately a year.

“I think we really need to get a little bit further along on the subdivision process and the timeline to put in infrastructure and utilities before we go on with those RFPs,” Iverson tells SFR of the delay. “Then we can go out to an RFP and the chosen partner can work to get the rest of their financing and then come in with a project about the same time that we would

Bids for affordable housing at Midtown site face one-year delay

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be bringing the utilities online.”

She says the city has an established concept for infrastructure, including sewer and utilities, but continues to work on a stormwater plan. Iverson notes redevelopment related to film was made first within the master plan because “the viability had already been proven at the site.”

“I think that the campus always had a strong film presence. It already had a film production studio—the Garson Studios. It was an economic-generating use on the site before the city took over the direction,” she says. “With the state tax credits and all of the momentum around film, it was kind of clear.”

Throughout the process, other partners have joined the work. Chainbreaker Collective—a membership-based economic and environmental justice organization—first got involved due to concerns regarding destabilization of surrounding neighborhoods. Then shortly after SFUAD’s closure, members came to the agreement to focus on affordable housing due to “pressures around the city [that] were bubbling as well,” Communications Organizer Cathy Garcia tells SFR.

In reference to the one-year pause on affordable housing RFPs, she says the organization doesn’t “really think of it as a delay” because the city “has put into

“We can’t just start building stuff if a truck can’t even get in to build it, so what I see is the city making that progress because they are putting those little pieces in place,” Garcia says. “We know that whatever happens there is going to have a major ripple effect for the entire city, so I don’t think it’s an understatement to say that the stakes are high. Being prudent I don’t think is a bad thing—I think it gives us more opportunity to find the right solution and more opportunity to find more revenue.”

One potential revenue source, she notes, could be the high-end excise tax that 73% of voters approved in the last local election.

“The transfer tax isn’t even supposed to take effect until May, which means that if they start looking at affordable housing solutions for January 2025, that means we’ll have accumulated June, July, August, September, October, November and December 2024 revenue going into the Affordable Housing Trust Fund that supports the building of affordable housing,” Garcia says. “So in some ways, it feels like if we tried to build affordable housing right now—assuming that’s even possible—we’d already be essentially working at a financial deficit.”

place policy mechanisms to actually make development on this campus truly sustainable,” and more work needs to be completed prior to seeking bids.

I think we really need to get a little bit further along on the subdivision process and the timeline to put in infrastructure and utilities before we go on with those RFPs .

—Karen Iverson, Midtown MRA director

However, that tax—which requires a buyer to pay 3% of the portion of a home sale that exceeds $1 million—remains in the First Judicial District Court after Judge Bryan Biedscheid denied the city’s motion to dismiss a challenge from the Santa Fe Association of Realtors and property owners. Biedscheid requested that the unscheduled hearing take place before the tax goes into effect on May 28.

Also included in the Midtown effort is the relocation of Consuelo’s Place. Williams tells SFR she’s been in “ongoing discussions” with city officials, but a new location remains unidentified.

“We have had excellent communication with the city about the need for the relocation,” Williams says. “We have been exploring as a provider community the services that are needed, and then we will find a suitable location for that.”

Despite some delays, Iverson notes the city has “multiple trains leaving the station” when it comes to private development, infrastructure site activation and more, which she says is “a very good spot” for the city to be in.

“Development takes many years to unfold,” she says, “and now we actually have a clearer picture of what our timeline is and what our steps are going forward. We’re in a better position to partner with the development community.”

Consuelo’s Place Shelter Manager Michele Williams says a relocation of the shelter is part of the Midtown redevelopment, but officials have not yet identified its future home.

EVAN

Not Wholly Union

St. John’s College workers’ organization efforts at an impasse

BY MO CHARNOT mo@sfreporter.com

Amove by St. John’s College workers to unionize remains in a suspended state following the school’s failure to meet deadlines required to challenge that petition.

Last December, 116 out of 170 students voted in favor of forming a union, but the school challenged that vote and filed its own petition—known as an RM petition— requesting the National Labor Relations Board hold an election on the issue.

The NLRB, however, dismissed that request on March 25 and says the college missed its 14-day deadline for such an election by 70 days. As such, the putative union remains in limbo until the NLRB makes a decision on charges of unfair labor practices that the St. John’s College student workers union filed against the college earlier this year.

Those unfair labor practice charges, filed on Jan. 31 and Feb. 23, allege the college refused to recognize the union; dominated and interfered with the union; and participated in concerted activities of retaliation, discharge and discipline against union members. If the NLRB substantiates the union’s claims, it would then issue the college a bargaining order and formally recognize the union. As of press time, the NLRB had not responded to SFR’s request for comment on a potential timeline for decision-making in the case.

The St. John’s College Student Workers Coalition first called for recognition on Dec. 14, 2023, which gave the college two weeks, by law, to either recognize the union and begin bargaining or challenge the union by calling for an election.

St. John’s College President Mark Roosevelt in turn asked for an extension until he was able to meet with the Board of Governors in February, who he said would have the authority to respond. The union agreed, under the condition that St. John’s College would not commit any union-busting activities in the interim.

Roosevelt previously confirmed to SFR he held a meeting with the Board

of Governors in December without informing the union, and that he and other administration members asked SWC members to waive their rights to file unfair labor practices against the college— actions that resulted in the union filing a complaint against the college.

The college subsequently submitted its petition for a union election on March 13—90 days after student workers requested their union be recognized. Nine days later, members of the college’s senior leadership sent an email to students explaining their decision, writing: “For our own part, we believe that a fair election can take place. And we hope it can take place in a civil environment, free from accusation and finger-pointing. We are confident in the capacity of our student workers to vote on the basis of their own reasoned opinions and the substance of the current matter. We also want to reconfirm our commitment to ensuring that our college campus is a safe environment for

everyone, where every voice is valued and encouraged to speak freely.”

Upon dismissing the petition for an election, NLRB Regional Director Cornele A. Overstreet said he found further proceedings “unwarranted” due to the college failing to meet its 14-day deadline when responding to the union, citing an

I t seems very clear to me that the school has violated the rules the government has set down for labor practices.

-Zane Kelly, a member of the St. John’s College SWC

August 2023 NLRB ruling that created this deadline.

Roosevelt declined an interview with SFR on the election request, but St. John’s College Senior Director of Communications and Operations Sara Luell provided a statement confirming the college’s newfound support for an election. In a previous interview with SFR, Roosevelt said such an election would be “a scarring event for a campus, that it leaves so many wounds, so many injuries, so much pain.”

Zane Kelly, a member of the St. John’s College SWC, says the union opposes an election at this point because of the administration’s response to the union’s request for recognition, including the allegations in the unfair labor practices the union filed against the college.

“We asked for some sort of action to be taken back in December. We would’ve loved to have a vote before they started union busting; it would have been wonderful for us,” Kelly says. “It seems very clear to me that the school has violated the rules the government has set down for labor practices.”

In the statement to SFR, Luell says the college hopes the SWC will reconsider their opposition to a union election and allow for a vote to take place.

“We were never approached in any kind of organized way about student workplace grievances until we were served papers declaring the student union’s intention to organize,” she says. “Once that happened, we entered a new legal landscape in which we could no longer ask what workplace issues they hoped to address nor make any offers of redress.”

St. John’s, Luell notes, “has always been a place of open inquiry and conversation, a place committed to valuing every voice, and a place that encourages all to speak freely; unfortunately, on these issues and more, supervisors are no longer permitted to speak openly without fear of legal reprisal and students can no longer expect their supervisors to answer many questions that they hope to gain additional insights into.”

However, Kelly feels that asking to hold a vote in violation of the NLRB’s two-week response rule “seems arbitrary and more like a delay tactic than anything else.”

“At this point, I feel that we, as students on campus, really just want to come to the bargaining table with the administration,” Kelly says. “There are votes that are going to be held, it’s just that they’re going to be votes about what kind of changes we want to make, who we want to represent us at the bargaining table.”

The status of the emergent St. John’s College student workers union remains unchanged as the NLRB rejected the college’s call for a union election and continues to review the union’s charges of unfair labor practices.

ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

Practice Run

In her new book, Santa Fe elite athlete Katie Arnold overcomes a devastating accident by starting over

BY JULIA GOLDBERG editor@sfreporter.com

Katie Arnold has just returned from a family vacation in Europe with her husband and two teenage daughters, a trip that included six days of 18-mile walks on El Camino de Santiago in Spain. “It was amazing,” she tells SFR. “Walking is where it’s at. I loved it. All you do is follow these little arrows—you can never get lost.” She pauses. “I wish there were arrows in life.”

Most people would not be up for a long meandering interview while jet-lagged following a journey that included more than 100 miles of walking. Katie Arnold is not most people. In her acclaimed 2019 memoir Running Home, Arnold traces her path of becoming an ultrarunner while grieving the death of her father. Her new book Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World is not a sequel, she says, but it is “in conversation” with her first. Subtitled “Zen and the Art of Running Free,” Brief Flashings, like Running Home, includes vivid descriptions of Arnold’s athletic and adventurous feats, but also delves into the Zen practice that helped her survive a devastating river-rafting accident in 2016. A former Outside magazine editor, Arnold’s writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, Runner’s World and ESPN, to name a few. Brief Flashings publishes April 16 from Parallel Press; Arnold will read from the book that evening at a 6:30 pm Garcia Street Books event at Bishop’s Lodge. SFR this week presents an advanced excerpt, accompanied by an interview with the author.

Ultra runner Katie Arnold pictured here descending Santa Fe Baldy.

BRIEF FLASHINGS IN THE PHENOMENAL WORLD Introduction

By Katie Arnold

On a cold, snowy December evening just after Christmas in 2018, I drove half a mile from my house to a Zen Buddhist temple at the foot of a small mountain in Santa Fe. It was not long past sunset, but the dirt road was dark, and the only light was my headlights, two bright cones illuminating the flashing blizzard and the narrow, quickly-filling tracks of a car that had traveled the road just ahead of me.

I was going to give a talk about running and Zen. I was so nervous I felt like throwing up. Also, I was strangely calm. It was the darkest night in the darkest month of year and the snow fell softly and with great determination and steadiness. The effect was transfixing, as though I was riding a night train to adventure in the deepest, farthest Siberia. Something mysterious lay ahead. I was going to discover what it was.

At first, giving a talk had seemed like a wonderful idea. I’d learned about Zen through running and about running through Zen and about life through both, and I hoped I might have something to offer that could be of use to someone somewhere, fumbling through the dark mysteries of their own life.

As the date approached, however, I began to worry. I’m not exactly a walking advertisement for Zen. I wear bright colors, and I move fast. I can run thirty miles, but when I meditate, the longest I seem to manage is fifteen minutes, twenty-five if I’m feeling very strong. What did I know about sitting! Running was my practice. I realized that I would have to say something that made sense and contributed to the greater good, in front of a room full of people who had probably been studying Zen for far longer than I, and much more dutifully, and I fell into a mild panic. I’d been absorbing the ideas of Zen and Buddhism by osmosis for a decade, but suddenly everything I thought I understood was slipping like seaweed through my grasp. I needed to get a handle on the basics. I needed an explanation.

I went to see my friend Natalie. She’d been practicing Zen for more than thirty years. She would know. “What is Zen?” I asked her desperately.

When Natalie and I met almost a decade earlier, we hiked up the mountain above the Zen center every week. It was winter, and some mornings the thermometer barely edged above twenty degrees. The trail was snowy and slick with ice in the shady patches. My father had just died, and my grief tricked me into believing I was dying, too. I carried my five-month-old daughter, Maisy, in a pack on my chest. Walking up the mountain with Natalie was an act of survival: it meant I was still alive, that maybe I wouldn’t die that day, or the next. On the most frigid of mornings, the landline in our kitchen would ring during breakfast and I knew even before answering it that it was Natalie, calling to ask, “Should we go?” And I always said yes. Whatever the weather, we went.

Natalie was in her late sixties with clipped, grey-black hair and a blunt manner that belied her soft heart. A prolific and beloved author, she was most famous for Writing Down the Bones, which she’d penned in a three-month frenzy in Santa Fe in 1986, after more than a decade practicing meditation and writing. Wisdom seemed to ooze

out of her like a direct transmission from the sages, but she wasn’t the usual blissed-out Buddha-type. She practically rattled with energy and laughter and often joked that I was her only friend who could match her zeal for life. Natalie became my unofficial mentor in writing and Zen, and in exchange, I taught her how to go up mountains in the dead of winter when neither of us felt like it. This, we joked, was my version of Zen.

Still, I should have known better than to ask Natalie for a definition. There’s rarely a straight answer in Zen, and also every answer, in its own weird way, is a straight answer. Natalie tilted her head and was silent for a long moment, considering her response. “Wear black clothes to the Zendo,” she said finally. “And loose. Baggy.”

The night of the Dharma talk, I dressed carefully in wide-legged, dark-blue pants and a navy turtleneck sweater. I put on my warmest wool socks and winter boots. The snow had been falling all afternoon, piling up on the streets.

The Zen center was nearly as dark as the road had been, lit by low lights along the perimeter, beautiful and peaceful. Winter boots were lined up neatly under a bench outside the door. Rosy-cheeked people in dark clothes sat on cushions on the floor, heads bowed in somber preparation for the meditation that would precede my talk.

For the first time in my life, I found myself wishing that the meditation period would never end, that I would not have to get up and walk to the front of the room and try to remember what I’d come to say, what it was that I’d learned, and to attempt to express it in words.

Two years earlier, I’d been in a terrible accident on a river in Idaho. I fell from a raft and was so badly injured I was told I should never run again.

I didn’t listen.

I knew a little about brokenness. After my father died, I’d used my body to heal my mind, running long distances through the wilderness. Now I would have to use my mind to heal my body.

During my long recovery, Natalie gave me copy of the book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, by the late Japanese Zen master Shunryu Suzuki. I’d had surgery and was unable to walk for months. I felt as though I’d been dismantled, unmoored from my usual ways of moving through the world, like a stranger in my own skin.

“It’s a classic, but you might not understand it,” Natalie warned me. I didn’t take it personally. Zen, by definition, is beyond definition, sometimes even description. As soon as I started reading, though, I understood everything. Not with my brain but in my body. I understood Zen Mind because I understood running.

I’d always been a runner. I ran through the woods when I was a girl, making up stories in my head. In my twenties, I ran through the sadness of breakups; in my thirties, I ran to write, and to find my feet beneath me in the deranged Tilt-a-whirl of new motherhood. I ran through the grief-fog of my father’s death and the anxiety that nearly paralyzed me. I won ultramarathons (any race longer than 26.2 miles), and once I ran so hard I broke my own bone.

Running threaded through my whole life, but it was still only part of my life. In between the exhilarating highs were all the regular moments—gorgeous, ordinary moments, gorgeous often because they were so ordinary: wooden pins dangling on a clothesline, the morning sun slanting across a chipped picket fence, my eight-year-old meticulously buttering her toast, ravens circling above a bald summit.

Suzuki Roshi described these bursts of understanding, these momentary awakenings, as “flashings in the vast phenomenal world.” They’re happening all around us, all the time—while we’re eating an ice cream cone or riding our bike or sitting broken beside a river—but we’re usually too distracted to notice. We don’t have to be religious or spiritual or know how to meditate to experience these moments. We just have to pay attention and live wholeheartedly with what Suzuki Roshi called the “full quality of our being.”

The accident had upended everything and made me a beginner all over again. It was unclear if my body or my marriage would come through intact, or if I would ever run again. If I did, I would never run the same as I once had, just as I would never be the same. Even then, part of me understood that this was a good thing, maybe the very best thing.

When the temple bell chimed, I got up and walked slowly to a metal chair in the front of the room. My talk was called “the Zen of Running,” but to talk about running, I would have to talk about the river that broke me and the mountains that healed me.

I would have to talk about endings and beginnings, and how when you’re in the middle, it’s almost impossible to tell the two apart. Falling from the boat felt like a hard stop, a boulder rolled into the middle of a long tunnel, impassable. It was only after I healed that I saw my injury for what it was—a beginning wrapped around countless other beginnings. It was the start of something deeper, a spiritual practice, my own kind of wild Zen, an experiment in how to live and how to wake up to the brief flashings.

Excerpted from the book, Brief Flashings in a Phenomenal World by Katie Arnold, with the permission of Parallax Press. www.parallax.org

The following interview has been edited for style, concision and clarity.

SFR: Did you know after Running Home you would write another book at least partially about running?

Katie Arnold: I knew when I was writing Running Home that the story didn’t just end where the book ends. When I had that crazy accident, I thought, ‘This is what’s happening next.’ But I never

planned to write running books. One of the reasons I started running long distances, in addition to dealing with my grief, was that I wanted to teach myself how to write a novel. And I thought by practicing something every day and running, I would teach myself how to sit in my chair and it would be the same kind of concept of sticking with something and showing up daily and having that practice. But life has a funny way of working

out. What came out of that was not a novel, but this book about grieving and my father and teaching myself how to run long distances and care for myself in that way. But it took me a few years to realize that’s what I was doing. It was the same with this book, which became a story unfolding from this river accident and reconceiving my relationship to not only running but writing and life, of having to come at it as a beginner.

Reading about your regular runs up Atalaya compelled me to hike it. How much of your writing is meant to be aspirational?

I love that it inspires people—100 percent. It’s certainly not why I wrote the book: to say that everyone needs to go outside and be on mountains. But I do believe that. I believe running and walking and being outside is a relationship more than a sport. It’s the relationship we have with our bodies and our imaginations. My life is infinitely richer and at times more challenging because I live in my body in the natural world. But everyone has their own expression.

Some of the things you do seem super human. You ran a 100-mile marathon. Where does the drive to do that come from?

Going back to some of the themes in Running Home, being outside in nature was where I always felt most at home because I had the tumultuous childhood that many of us had, so outside was where I felt most myself. I also think that’s just my natural curiosity is to see how far I can go and how far my legs can take me. What I learned in Brief Flashings is how far the mind can carry you—especially when your body is broken or compromised.

The title of your book comes from a section of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Suzuki. Why did that phrase, ‘flashings in the phenomenal world’ stick with you?

I think it encapsulates everything about how I try to live as both a writer, an athlete, a mother and a human. Those moments as brief flashings are coming all the time. It can be the way the light comes

Arnold, shown here on the San Juan River in 2023, faced the possibility of not running again following a devastating river-rafting accident in 2016 on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho.

COURTESY KATIE ARNOLD

in the window or something you notice or the way your dog does something. It’s that moment that wakes you up to: ‘Oh, my God, I’m here. I’m alive right now in this space and time.’ Certainly, as a writer, that’s what I’m always seeking—trying to capture what it feels like to be alive right now.

I’ll never forget the moment I read it. My family and I were camping in Colorado and I was in that phase where I was reading that book over and over. I was reading that and I just had this lightning bolt effect of, ‘That’s what life is—these moments.’ And you don’t have to climb the highest mountain or run 100 miles to see it. They can be really ordinary, lovely moments, like sitting beside a river. And so that just jumped out at me. And I kind of always knew that that’s what I was writing about.

Your accident plays a central role in the book, but is not the sole focus. How deliberate was that choice?

I knew the accident was the inciting incident. That’s what rearranged my relationship with running and threatened to upend my family life, too, for a little while. But I knew that it wasn’t just about getting hurt and then recovering. Everyone gets hurt and recovers. I think I wanted to convey some of the things I learned while hurt about writing your own story and not listening to what others are going to tell you about how it should be.

The book delves into the toll your accident took on your marriage, though I gather you made it through? We made it. The accident itself was a fracture in our relationship, but [there] was a discontent with how things were going just in general—not specific to us, but just how all of a sudden it seemed like we had taken on the kind of marriage that neither of us had wanted originally when we met each other. We knew we were unconventional and we sort of wanted to break open gender roles and expectations. But you have kids and time goes by, you’re in the trenches…and then there’s a pandemic, your earnings go to nothing, and all of a sudden you wake up one day and you’re like, ‘Oh my god, we’re living…an older version of marriage that neither of us had really wanted.’ So the accident kind of cracked it open so that it was more visible and there was more tension. Plus, there was a feeling of anger that the accident had happened and my husband had been rowing. All my friends were like, ‘Forgive him! It was an acci-

What I learned…is how far the mind can carry you—especially when your body is broken or compromised.

dent.’ And I knew I would because I love Steve more than anyone. But I also knew that it was just going to have to take the time it took and, as I write about in the book, it wasn’t just anger toward the accident. It was kind of a generational anger that as women we’re expected to be in a certain role and when we try to aspire to greatness beyond our gender roles, we get flack for it. All of this just came to a head and cast our marriage into a bit of

turmoil. And of course, I’m not at my best because the normal way I care for myself is movement and being in nature, which I couldn’t do, so I was definitely no joy to be around.

It’s surprising in the book how unsupportive some people in your life have been of your athletic goals. Were you able to make peace with that?

That’s one of the harder points of the book, I think, is wondering what could have been different if I’d had a champion on my side.

When did it occur to you there was something about Zen you wanted to convey?

I was really in this back-to-zero kind of place, just emptied out of identity. When you’re in a traumatic experience, or you have a loss of some kind—death can do this—you’re just taken down to the studs. When the surgeon told me, ‘We’re going to take you back to zero,’ it was terrifying. And it’s super unpleasant, I will say, but there’s actually something beautiful in

a way to be at zero because you’re like, ‘I can start over. I can shed myself because these labels or preconceived ideas have maybe been serving me, but are also hindering me. The tenets of Zen are: showing up; making a true effort for the good; not gripping onto an idea of results; letting go of ego and and being more in this mind of not knowing what the hell is going on. And that’s super liberating, right? It’s also not a way Americans are taught to be; we have to be the expert; we need to hack things; we need to know all the shortcuts. Zen is the opposite. In fact, it’s a sign of enlightenment if you don’t have a freaking clue what you’re doing.

KATIE ARNOLD BOOK EVENT

6:30 pm, Tuesday, April 16

The Ballroom at Bishop’s Lodge, 1297 Bishops Lodge Road garciastreetbooks.com

Arnold writing by the Rio Chama in 2023.

COURTESY KATIE ARNOLD

A LIFE MISUNDERSTOOD

Throughout the ‘80s and early-’90s, misinformation (or, perhaps, a straight up lack of information) surrounding HIV and AIDS led to further ostracization of an already-outcasted group: the LGBTQ community. One such example was Florida dentist David Acer, who became the subject of tabloid scrutiny and a victim of mob mentality after he accidentally spread HIV to some of his patients. And though Acer died from AIDS in 1990, author Steven Reigns’ new nonfiction book, A Quilt for David, brings his real story to light so many years later. Reigns comes to Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse alongside Equality New Mexico Executive Director Marshall Martinez to discuss the book this week. (Mo Charnot)

Stephen Reigns: A Quilt for David: 6 pm Thursday, April 11. Free. Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

OPEN HOUSE SAT/13

FULLY ESSENTIAL

If you’ve not taken the time to swing by the Center for Contemporary Art’s Muñoz Waxman Gallery recently, you wouldn’t know the little art center that could (and can and does) recently collaborated with curators from Santa Fe’s Tia Collection for I Say With My Full Essence, a sprawling show featuring eight women artists across a variety of mediums. The show comes down on April 20, but before that happens, you can still catch an open house event this week featuring celebrated Diné painter and muralist Nani Chacon, who herself is part of the exhibit. While you’re there, catch other works by Max Cole, Marianna Uutinen, Grace Rosario Perkins, Dorothy Cross, Karen Hampton, Mandy El-Sayegh and Sarah Rapson, plus the unveiling of a new mural by Heidi K. Brandow (Diné and Kanaka Maoli) that is slated to live on at the CCA. (ADV)

I Say With My Full Essence Open House: Noon-1 pm Saturday, April 13. Free. Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

EVENT MON/15

BEY THERE

Since last July, El Rey Court’s La Reina Bar has hosted a once-a-month music-video-themed dance party during the hotel’s long-standing Monday Queer Night tradition. Event organizer Bailey Steele says they started the dance parties to replicate the music-video gay bar culture of larger cities in “little Santa Fe.” This month’s edition will honor legendary singer Beyoncé, following the late March release of her newest country-inspired album Cowboy Carter, with three hours of her catalog ranging back to Destiny’s Child. “So much of starting this event in the first place was just creating a space for queer joy, and pop music is historically such a big avenue,” Steele tells SFR. “There’s just so much tough shit happening around us all the time, and I feel like pop music is a really sweet escape in a lot of ways…and Beyoncé is top of the game.” (Evan Chandler)

Beyoncé Dance Party: 7:30-10:30 pm Monday April 15 Free. La Reina Bar at El Rey Court, 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

EXHIBITION THU/11

Senior Citizens

Institute of American Indian Arts 2024 graduating class debuts Origins exhibit

Small though the five-person Spring 2024 graduating senior cohort of museum studies and studio art students at the Institute of American Indian Arts may be, each of the outgoing creatives contributes to something larger and altogether more powerful for the upcoming exhibit Origins at the school’s Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery.

“My part is Chumash baskets,” says museum studies senior and former Art Vault curator Jaime Herrell (Cherokee Nation and European). “I wanted to reach for a group of people who were outside the Southwest, and Chumash folks’ ancestral homelands would be Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, California…this is about the history of their baskets, understanding the materials—that they’re woven so tightly you could put water in them, cook with them.”

Herrell says only a handful of authentic Chumash baskets exist in museum collections worldwide (including at least one at Santa Fe’s School for Advanced Research), and finding pieces for Origins proved an intense challenge. As luck would have it, however, notable Indigenous arts collector and dealer Kim Martindale caught wind of the show and excitedly loaned Herrell a piece by weaver Petra Pico.

Lifelong Santa Fean, painter and studio arts graduate Jesus Miguel Avena (MexicanAmerican, Mexica, Mestizo and Chicano), meanwhile, tells SFR he’s excited to showcase the intersection between his painterly practice and a relatively newfound love of

ceramics he developed after transferring to IAIA from the Santa Fe Community College. In content, Avena says, he leans into magical realism and surrealist, dreamlike narratives; in practice, he creates ceramic frames to house his pieces.

“The drive, or the backbone, of the series was research in Latin American scholarship,” he explains. “I have portraits and figurative paintings, and I’m using the desertscape to animate my own psychological landscapes.”

Printmaker and mental health advocate Sara Chama (Pueblo of Laguna) and multimedia artist Jacob Tyndall (Umonhon Tribe of Nebraska) round out the show, along with museum studies major Isabella Cox (Diné), whose final project examines the relationship between Navajo people and horses— and who says she hopes to enact change in how museums work in the future.

“I noticed there weren’t too many [exhibits] with horses’ relationship to Navajos, even though the Apache and the Navajo were horse cultures,” Cox says. “And I think there’s a different approach needed in museums—[Indigenous people] have different viewpoints, and we’re able to take care of our projects in ways that are culturally significant to us.” (Alex De Vore)

ORIGINS: 2024 SPRING IAIA GRADUATING CLASS EXHIBIT OPENING

5:30-7:30 pm Thursday, April 11. Free

IAIA Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery

83 Avan Nu Po Road, (505) 424-2351

THE CALENDAR

STORIES TOLD, RETOLD, UNTOLD, NOT TOLD

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234

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Submission doesn’t guarantee inclusion.

Essayist and critic John Edgar Wideman chronicles contemporary life and considers existential questions underneath, with author Mitchell S. Jackson.  7 pm, $5-$8

TEWA DECORATED TYPES

PRODUCED DURING THE HISTORIC PERIOD: TRENDS AND CONNECTIONS

The Center for New Mexico Archaeology

7 Old Cochiti Road, (505) 476-4448

A presentation on the distinct ceramic types produced by Tewa potters during and after the Spanish Colonial period. Noon-1 pm

DANCE

POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Pomegranate Studio

535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142

An after-school dance program for young women aged 13-18, founded by dancer Myra Krien. 5-7 pm

WED/10

BOOKS/LECTURES

HISTORY WITH CHRISTIAN

35 Degrees North 60 E San Francisco St., (505) 629-3538

History with Christian Saiia. Noon-2 pm

HOW TO TRAIN A HAPPY

MIND: A SKEPTIC’S PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT

Ark Books

133 Romero St., (505) 988-3709

Skeptic Scott Snibbe presents an eight-step program for building positive mental habits.  6-7 pm

SAR 2024 NATIVE ARTS

SPEAKER SERIES: WEAVING

HISTORIES

School for Advanced Research 660 Garcia St., (505) 954-7200

Co-founders of the Pueblo Fiber Arts Guild Louie Garcia (Tiwa/ Piro Pueblo) and Chris Lewis (Zuni) discuss the history and mission of the guild and how revitalization projects shape the future of Pueblo fiber arts. 11:30 am-1 pm

EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-3278

Challenging trivia with prizes. 8-10 pm

KIDS SING ALONG: RAILYARD PARK

Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St., (505) 982-3373

Music games and sing-alongs for toddlers and babies.  10:30-11:15 am

QUEER COFFEE GET TOGETHER

Ohori’s Coffee Roasters 505 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-9692

Coffee with the local queer community. 9:30-11 am

SINGLES, GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE: IMEET, IMINGLE, IMATCH

The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663

Make new friends the old-fashioned way, with food, beverages and planned activities. 5:30-8:30 pm

TOUR THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION

New Mexico Governor’s Mansion

One Mansion Drive, (301) 318-0940

Explore the historic New Mexico Governor’s Mansion. RSVP first. Noon-2 pm

FILM

INDIGO GIRLS: IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

A film centering iconic folk-rock duo and activists Indigo Girls— alongside decades of the band’s home movies and present-day verité. A Q&A with director Alexandria Bombach follows. 6 pm, $16

MUSIC

BILL HEARNE

La Fonda on the Plaza

100 E San Francisco St., (505) 982-5511

Legendary cross-picker Hearne plays Americana classics. 6:30-9 pm

CHESSA PEAK

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565

Acoustic folk, blues, rock and Americana.

4 pm

DEVIN CHAMPLIN

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

An artist who uses songwriting as a medium to create imagery. He produces animations, videos, paintings, drawings and prints in tandem with his musical output.  8-10 pm

KARAOKE NIGHT

Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

Crash Romeo hosts karaoke. 7 pm

SECOND CHANCES

COUNTRY BAND

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952

A two-piece country band.  6-9 pm

WARM UP WEDNESDAY

Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

Hip-hop night every Wednesday, featuring live performances, guest DJS, emcees and more.

Hosted by DJ DMonic.

9 pm

WORKSHOP

STAINED GLASS ART

TLC Stained Glass

1730 Camino Carlos Rey, Ste. 100, (505) 372-6259

Learn the basics of stained glass artistry and create a stained glass suncatcher ornament. 10 am or 1 pm, $175

THU/11

ART OPENINGS

2024 SPRING IAIA

GRADUATING SENIOR EXHIBITION: ORIGINS (OPENING)

Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, (505) 424-2351

An exhibition of the culminating achievements of students in the BFA in Studio Arts and BFA in Museum Studies programs. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 5:30-7:30 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES

SANTA FE MUD: A LIVINGADOBE EXPERIENCE El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road, (505) 982-0016

A lecture by architect and town planner Phil Hawes discussing his work in Santa Fe. 3 pm

STEVEN REIGNS: A QUILT FOR DAVID Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

Author Reigns discusses his nonfiction novel about a gay man during the AIDS crisis. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 6 pm

DANCE

POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Pomegranate Studio 535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142

An after-school program for young women aged 13-18. 5-7 pm

EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952

Challenging trivia with prizes. 7-9 pm

Patricia Griffin breathes life into paintings that intimately glimpse the wild in ZO • ET • IC, which opens at Gallery Wild on April 12 at 5 pm.

LADIES NIGHT

Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

Ladies get in free, $5 for everyone else. Guest DJs perform.

10 pm

PRIDE AFTER 5

San Francisco Street Bar and Grill

50 E San Francisco St., (505) 982-2044

Engage in dynamic discussions and become an active part of the local LGBTQ+ community.

5-7 pm

FOOD

CHEF BRENT SUSHI POP UP

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

Chef Brent Jung rolls the freshest and tastiest sushi to order.

5-9 pm

MUSIC

FELIX Y LOS GATOS

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Guitarist and vocalist Felix Peralta and Los Gatos rock their extensive blues repertoire.

2-5 pm

A FESTIVAL OF CONCERT BANDS

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234

Performances by local high school bands with a grand finale in a combined band of 130 student and adult musicians.

7 pm

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565

Country music legend Hearne.  4-6 pm

GARRY BLACKCHILD

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743

Stop by for a few sets of Blackchild’s signature outlaw music and stories.

7 pm

PAT MALONE

TerraCotta Wine Bistro

304 Johnson St., (505) 989-1166

Get captivated by the energy of Malone’s jazz guitar.

6-8 pm

SCHUMANN AND ROMANTICISM

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

An exploration of a piece by early Romantic composer Robert Schumann, with the sensibility of the Romantic era. 6-7:30 pm, $10-$25

SLOW HOLLOWS

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Slow Hollows relies on only an acoustic guitar, his voice and gentle atmospherics.  7 pm, $20-$22

THEATER

TALLEY’S FOLLY

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533

A staged reading of Lanford Wilson’s endearing love story, Talley’s Folly, starring Family Ties actors Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross. 7:30 pm, $50

WORKSHOP

ROSE PRUNING WORKSHOP

Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Learn to prune roses. Bring a hat and gloves.  1-3 pm, $28-$35

FRI/12

ART OPENINGS

MORGAN BARNARD: INTERSECTIONS (OPENING)

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

Barnard explores art and technology through meditative light boxes, audio-visual displays and real-time data art.  5-7 pm

ZO • ET • IC (OPENING)

Gallery Wild Santa Fe 203 Canyon Road, (505) 467-8297

Patricia A. Griffin’s use of color and texture energizes her landscape and wildlife paintings. 5-7:30 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES

BUDDHIST METAPHYSICS

St. John’s College, Santa Fe 1160 Camino De Cruz Blanca, (505) 984-6408

Pierre Julien Harter, assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, delivers a lecture on Buddhist metaphysics.   7 pm

INDIGENOUS PRESENCE, INDIGENOUS FUTURES: PANEL DISCUSSION

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, (505) 983-8900

Participants discuss their work and experiences as students from the Institute of American Indian Arts, led by student co-curator Zoe S. Childs.  3-4 pm

NATIONAL NEW DEAL PRESERVATION

ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

Santa Fe Woman’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail., (505) 983-9455

Open to anyone interested in learning about the New Deal’s impact on American society and culture, this conference features speakers related to the New Deal and the release of The New Deal: Looking Back, Moving Forward 8:30 am-5:30 pm, $25-$50

DANCE

EL FLAMENCO CABARET

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave., (505) 209-1302

Award-winning flamenco.  6:15 pm, $25-$48

EVENTS

MAKE AND BELIEVE TIME

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

An art- and reading-based hour for kids to explore a world of story and imagination. 10 am

THE HOMESCHOOL CLASSROOM FUNDRAISER

The Homeschool Classroom

1500 Fifth St., Ste. 3, (505) 919-9117

Students giving speeches, Bill Hearne performing and a silent auction work to keep The Homeschool Classroom alive.  4:30-7 pm

FILM

LOST ANGEL: THE GENIUS OF JUDEE SILL

Center For Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

This documentary charts singer-songwriter Sill from troubled adolescence to her rise in music and a tragic early death.   10:30 am, $13

WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY

Center For Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

This story depicts the effects of French policy upon the colonized and surveys the actions of the resigned, the revolutionary and the powers that be. 11:30 am, $13

MUSIC

CHARLES TICHENOR

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Well-crafted piano tunes.  6-9 pm

DJ LEA LUNA

Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

DJ Lea Luna brings dance floor blends all the way from Denver. 9 pm-2 am

DON CURRY

Ahmyo River Gallery

Wine Garden

652 Canyon Road, (505) 820 0969

A variety of classic rock jams. 2-5 pm

FINE ART FRIDAY

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359

Join Queen Bee Music Association to explore the art of music with an instrument petting zoo and ukuleles. 2-4 pm

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Show Dates

Opening Night!  Friday, April 19 |  7pm Saturday, April 20 |  2pm & 7pm Sunday, April 21  |  5PM

Beyond the Binary

Wise Fool is starting off our 2024 performance season with the original production Beyond the Binary,;' featuring 20 local professional performers in four shows on April 19th through the 21st.

Beyond the Binary explores our relationship to gender and liberation through an immersive, magical circus extravaganza.

The show presents a looking-glass journey of self-discovery that takes us through the natural world and concepts of gender throughout history, questioning the origins of our modern colonial gender roles and highlighting the incredible diversity of life and expression on this planet.

THE CALENDAR

GARRY BLACKCHILD

The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663

Stop by for Blackchild’s signature outlaw music. 8 pm

HILLARY SMITH AND CHILLHOUSE

Paradiso

903 Early St., (505) 577-5248

Smith and ChillHouse play powerhouse blues and soul. 7:30-10 pm, $10-$20

MARION CARRILLO

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565

Carrillo’s songs pull from his personal life to great comedic and heart-wrenching effect. 4 pm

PATIO KICKOFF PARTY

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

From new indie vinyl to cumbia, DJs Earway, Garronteed, Pygar Luz Skylarker have you covered. 6-10 pm

REPURPOSED VIBE

CHOMP Food Hall

505 Cerrillos Road, Ste. B-101, chompsantafe.com

An acoustic/electric duo play up-cycled versions of tunes from Johnny Cash to Billie Eilish. 7-9 pm

SUBDOCTA

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

SubDocta plays a dubstep hybrid he calls “West Coast Wobble,” supported by electronic musician Ghost Rook. 8 pm, $15-$25

TERRY DIERS

Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

Blues, rock and funk tunes. 6-8 pm

THE WAILERS

The Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234

This reggae band pays tribute to  Bob Marley’s Legend album. 7:30 pm, $32-$47

TOM PAXTON WITH C. DANIEL BOLING

St. Francis Auditorium at New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072

Singer-songwriter Paxton’s songs address issues of injustice and inhumanity, supported by Boling’s guitar, banjo and clear tenor voice.  7:30 pm, $30-$45

VINTAGE BREW

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743

Rock, country and the blues. 8 pm

WESTIN LEE MCDOWELL

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743

Singer-songwriter McDowell takes the stage. 5 pm

THEATER

TALLEY’S FOLLY

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533

A staged reading of Lanford Wilson’s endearing love story. 7:30 pm, $50

WORKSHOP

COMMUNITY & CRAFTS

Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Meet fellow artists and work on projects. RSVP required. 5:30 pm

WHEELER’S GIN BLENDING EXPERIENCE

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1, 467-8892

Head Distiller Stephen Julander guides you through gin blending. Take home a bottle of your own blend.  4-7 pm, $120

SAT/13

ART OPENINGS

SANTA FE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS ART FAIR

Santa Fe Society of Artists 107 W San Francisco St., (505) 926-1497

An outdoor art fair. All Day

SECOND SATURDAYS

Siler Yard: Arts and Creativity Center 1218 Siler Road, (505) 557-8449

An open studio art day. 4-7 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES

HERE, NOW AND ALWAYS: NATIVE NARRATIVE SPEAKER SERIES

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

A discussion on tribal governance, sovereignty and Pueblo culture with Brian Vallo (Acoma Pueblo), Alvin Warren (Santa Clara Pueblo) and Regis Pecos (Cochiti Pueblo). 1-3 pm, $0-$12

JON DAVIS & CHUCK

CALABREZE POETRY

READING

Geronimo’s Books

3018 Cielo Court Ste. D, (505) 467-8315

Davis, head of the Institute of American Indian Arts creative writing program, teams up with Calabreze for Geronimo’s National Poetry Month celebration. 4-5 pm

SANTA FE YOUTH POET

LAUREATE CROWNING

CEREMONY

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528

Readings by finalists in the Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate program and the crowning of the new laureate. 3-4 pm

THE WITCHES OF ABIQUIU

Placitas Community Library

453 Hwy. 165, Placitas, 87043, (505) 867-3355

Rick Hendricks discusses his book, The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genizaro Indians, and the Devil, based on a little-known historical outbreak of witchcraft in Abiquiu from 1756-1766.  2 pm

DANCE

CONTRA DANCE

Odd Fellows Hall

1125 Cerrillos Road, (505) 690-4165

A living tradition of community folk dance for all ages. All dances taught at 7 pm.  7:30-10:30 pm, $0-$10

EL FLAMENCO CABARET

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave., (505) 209-1302

Award-winning flamenco.  6:15 pm, $25-$48

TANGO NIGHT

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red) 1366 Cerrillos Road, (505) 428-0996

Learn to tango and then put your skills to the test.

6-8:30 pm

ZODIAC PARTY: ARIES

El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

A Zodiac-themed dance party with DJ Bacon, Feathericci and Walker Barnard, a pioneer in electronic dance music. 7:30-10:30 pm

EVENTS

CHAPARRAL ELEMENTARY

BASKET BINGO

Chaparral Elementary 2451 Avenida Chaparral, (505) 467-1400

Bingo with prizes. Get a free bingo card if you help with school cleanup from 9-11 am. 11 am-1 pm

EL MERCADO DE EL MUSEO

CULTURAL

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, (505) 992-0591

A weekend market.  10 am-4 pm

GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP

City of Santa Fe 1142 Siler Road, (505) 955-2215

Clean up litter. Register at keepsantafebeautiful.org. 9 am-noon

MEDICARE INFORMATION

SESSION

Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, (505) 466-7323

Learn about Medicare. 10 am

OPEN HOUSE WITH NANIBAH CHACON

Muñoz Waxman Gallery 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

Celebrate I Say With My Full Essence, featuring work by Chacon alongside other artists. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) Noon-1 pm

SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

West Casitas in the Santa Fe Railyard Market Street, (505) 414-8544

Artists sell fine art and crafts.

9 am-2 pm

SANTA FE FARMERS’ MARKET

Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta

Local farmers and producers offer fresh produce, educational initiatives and community.

8 am-1 pm

SCIENCE SATURDAY

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359

Learn about the moon with educator Amida McNulty.

2-4 pm

FILM

A DECENT HOME

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

A Decent Home addresses urgent issues of class and economic (im)mobility through mobile home park residents.

4 pm

MUSIC

BABES

As Above So Below Distillery

545 Camino de la Familia, (505) 916-8596

Join DJ collective BABES, with Dirty Diamond, Luc Savage, Nocturnal Planet and Autumn Attic to celebrate springtime.

7:30 pm

BEYOND CARMEN

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

Mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock

weaves Bizet’s  Carmen into a musical spanning generations.

6 pm, $39

BOB MAUS BLUES & SOUL

Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 988-5531

Maus plays classic tunes.

6-9 pm

CHARLES TICHENOR

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Well-crafted piano tunes.

6-9 pm

CHRIS BUCKHOLTZ

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave., (505) 988-9232

A virtuoso crossover trombonist in both classical and jazz.

6 pm, $30-$35

EL SHOW FEAT. NOSOTROS AND PROYECTO CUMBION

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 303-3808

A Latin music showcase hosted by Santa Fe band Nosotros.

8-11 pm, $15

FREDDIE SCHWARTZ

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Schwartz plays classic rock, Americana and country music.

2-5 pm

JASMIN SINGS CARMEN

Dave’s Jazz Bistro at the Santa Fe School of Cooking

125 North Guadalupe St., 505983-4511

Celebrate jazz vocalist Carmen McRae when vocalist Jasmin Williams brings her hits to life.

6:30-9:30 pm, $160

JOHNNY LLOYD

Nuckolls Brewing Co. 1611 Alcaldesa St., nuckollsbrewing.com

Lloyd brings the spirit of Americana with impressive guitar skills and a wide vocal range.

6 pm

JULIE STEWART AND ANIMAL PARADE

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743

Traditional blues tunes.

3 pm

LOOSE CABOOSE: SECOND SATURDAYS Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

House music all night long.

7 pm, $10

MINERAL HILL

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743

Americana funk music. 8 pm

MONSOON

Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565

A contemporary trio plays across rock, alternative, jazz, blues, country, R&B and soul. 1-3 pm

PAT MALONE

Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado 198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Get captivated by the energy of Malone’s jazz guitar. 6-8 pm

RANDY HOUSER

Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, (505) 455-5555

A country power-Houser brings an electrifying performance with a distinctive voice echoing across the genre. 8-9:30 pm, $39-$65

SLOTHRUST

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Leah Wellbaum and Will Gorin’s covers of songs feel like complete rewrites. 8 pm, $15-$20

SONGWRITING INTENSIVE

Queen Bee Music Association 1596 Pacheco St., (505) 278-0012

Work with award-winning instructors on your song craft. All Day, $75-$80

TIM STYLES

The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663

Cowboy crooner Styles plays memorable originals and legendary covers. 7 pm

THEATER

TALLEY’S FOLLY

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533

A staged reading of Lanford Wilson’s endearing love story. 7:30 pm, $50

THE BOY WHO WOULD BE KING

Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

A play based on Arthurian legend with actors ages 6-12. 2 pm and 4 pm, $5-$15

ZIRCUS EROTIQUE

BURLESQUE & VARIETY

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528

A sexy show with burlesque, drag, bellydance and more. 7:30-9:15 pm, $30-$40

WORKSHOP

BURLESQUE WORKSHOPS WITH DULCE

EmiArte Flamenco 3022 Cielo Ct.

Take your dancing to the next level in a burlesque workshop.  1-3 pm, $30

KID NATURE PARTY: HERBAL BLENDING AND TEA PARTY

La Farge Library 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

Learn to craft herbal tea blends. 3:30-5 pm

REIKI HEALING & INTENTION CIRCLE

Prana Blessings 1925 Rosina St. C, (505) 772-0171

Harness the transformative power of Reiki energy. Limited to four people. 2:30-3:30 pm, $75

SOHYP EXPERIENCE:

CREATIVE MOVEMENT WORKSHOP

Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Join Danielle Louise Reddick for a dance workshop. 4-5:30 pm, $25

SUN/14

ART OPENINGS

JOURNEY: MEET THE ARTIST

Art on Barcelona (Unitarian Universalist Church) 107 W Barcelona, 917-566-0708

Sudha Hajela’s abstract paintings invite the viewer to explore her journey as architect, artist and traveler. 2-4 pm

DANCE

BASIC SWING DANCE CLASS

Dance Station: Solana Center, 947-B W Alameda St., (505) 989-9788

Learn swing dance! RSVP first. 5:30-6:15 pm, $15-$20

HEY KIDDO WITH DJ

CHRISTINA SWILLEY

El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

Dance as DJ Swilley spins her collection of vintage vinyl. 7-10 pm

LINE DANCING WITH ANGELA ELLSWORTH

New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072

Experience artist-in-residence Ellsworth’s studio practice through a line-dancing class. Noon-1 pm

View artist Morgan Barnard’s unique blend of light, music and data that present a cross-section of Barnard’s practice over the past two decades at the Intersections exhibit on display at the Center for Contemporary Arts beginning at 5 pm on April 12.

Performance Santa Fe presents

OK, so maybe we’re not in the part of the country that witnessed a total solar eclipse earlier this week, but the sun isn’t the only star that deserves attention. T Coronae Borealis, often referred to as T CrB, is a nova that last erupted in 1946, and astronomers predict it will get all hot and bothered again between April and September of this year. While the star system is typically too dim to see with the naked eye, following the eruption it will appear with a brightness similar to that of the North Star for several days before it hides away again for roughly 80 years. We spoke with Santa Fe Children’s Museum STEM educator and NASA ambassador Asis Juan Carlos Gonzalez to learn more about our good friend T CrB’s longawaited eruption, and why it matters. (Evan Chandler)

What causes an eruption like this to happen in the first place? That happens when you have a binary star system. You generally have a dead star called a white dwarf—smaller stars that don’t go supernova. They kind of fall apart. The core gets hotter as it gets older and, after billions of years, the core gets so hot that its outer layers expand. At one point, it is so hot that those outer layers just kind of get ripped up into space because, as a star expands, the gravity can’t hold onto those outer layers as much as it can the center, so it just kind of falls apart. It’s almost like a snowball: If you crush it, it gets harder, heavier

and technically increases its gravity. You can also stretch the snowball and it becomes fluffier. The gravity actually kind of lessens a little bit. So a red giant tends to be kind of loving, and so the gravity of the white dwarf can start pulling in material from that red giant around it. As it pulls material around it, once you get to about 10 million to 15 million degrees, you start fusion. But a white dwarf doesn’t have enough gravity to hold on to the energy generated by fusion, so it explodes.

Stars and space have fascinated humankind since the beginning of time. Why do you think that is?

If you think about it, they’re really weird. They’re just like these dots in the sky. And I’ve always wondered, ‘What would I be like thousands of years ago, or 100,000 years ago, if I was just sitting there looking at these dots? What would I think?’ I don’t know. They’re really mysterious, and then when you learn about them, how massive and how hot they get, it just seems like these impossible things in the sky that you can never touch because they’re just so far away. I do like stars. My primary interest is actually in planets. That’s what I studied— planetary science, but I love that stars are just these things that we can see react to the space around them in certain ways, and then they kind of have lives a little bit, even if they’re somewhat different lives than ours.

Why is it so important that we understand stars, the galaxy and the universe around us?

I just think it teaches you how special everything is. A lot of people get into conspiracy theories and stuff like that. If you don’t educate yourself, then everything is mundane, but if you learn about the stars and if you learn about the Earth…I think it makes everything less mundane to know, or even to know what we don’t know, actually; how special everything is around us—things that we take for granted. In a way, anything that happens in space is just something that you’ll never see again in your lifetime. Anything that happens in the sky is very unique, so that’s why they’re all important. Everything is just so massive that everything that happens in space is one opportune moment to see something that won’t happen again.

photo: david ignaszewski

with STEM Educator and NASA Ambassador Asis Gonzalez COURTESY ASIS GONZALEZ

EVENTS

EL MERCADO DE

EL MUSEO CULTURAL

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, (505) 992-0591

A weekend market.

10 am-4 pm

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Farmers’ Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta

santafefarmersmarket.com

Local artists sell their goods.

10 am-3 pm

SANTA FE FREE THINKERS’

FORUM: A UNITARIAN

UNIVERSALIST HUMANIST

DISCUSSION GROUP

Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe

107 W Barcelona Road, (505) 982-9674

President of American Atheists

Nick Fish discusses “our role in stopping religious nationalism.”

Noon

SCENT, SOUND AND SILENCE WITH MONIQUE DERFUSS

Edition ONE Gallery

728 Canyon Road, (505) 570-5385

Deep relaxation with essential oils, meditation and more.

5-7 pm, $40

FILM

ALTARS OF MOVING IMAGE: BLACK BODIES, SPIRIT AND CONJURING THROUGH FILM

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

A screening and discussion of Stages of Tectonic Blackness: Blackdom and The Lifecycle of Rainbows with filmmakers

Nikesha Breeze and India Sky. 2-4 pm

MUSIC

BILL HEARNE

La Fonda on the Plaza

100 E San Francisco St., (505) 982-5511

Americana classics. 6:30-9 pm

ERYN BENT

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Bent brings powerhouse vocals and honest, gritty songwriting.  2-5 pm

GIVING VOICE TO OUR SONG: MUSIC OF JOY AND RESILIENCE

First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

Uplifting pieces sung by the Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble. 3 pm, $12-$35

KARAOKE NIGHT

Boxcar

133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222

Crash Romeo hosts karaoke. 7 pm

NIXIL: ABYSSAL FIRE TOUR

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

This metal band manifests chaos, rage, strength and despair. Tickets at the door. 7:30 pm, $15

PAT MALONE

Bishop’s Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road, (888) 741-0480

Jazz guitar. 11:30 am-2:30 pm

QUATUOR ÉBÈNE

St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072

A French ensemble performs music by Mozart, Alfred Schnittke and Grieg.  3 pm, $22-$92

SEVERALL FRIENDS: EARLY MUSIC IN THE HIGH DESERT

New Mexico School for the Arts 500 Montezuma Ave., Ste. 200, (505) 310-4194

Works by Dario Castello, Biagio Marini and Claudio Monteverdi. 4-5:30 pm, $10-$30

SUGAR MOUNTAIN BAND

Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565

A Neil Young cover band.

Noon

SUNDAY JAZZ JAM

Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St., (505) 982-8474

A set from the High City Jazz Quartet and local guest artists. 6-8 pm

THE DISCLAIMERS

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743

Danceable rock covers.  3-7 pm

THEATER

SANTA FE SCENIC FEAT.

NATIVE AMERICAN DANCE

Santa Fe Depot 430 W Manhattan Ave., (844) 743-3759

Ride Sky Railway with the Avanyu Mountain Dance Group. 1:30 pm, $125-$164

TALLEY’S FOLLY New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533

A staged love story reading with a reception to meet the stars. 2 pm, $150

THE BOY WHO WOULD BE KING

Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

A play based on Arthurian legend with actors ages 6-12. 2 pm and 4 pm, $5-$15

MON/15

BOOKS/LECTURES

JOHN NINNEMAN: DOWN

THE GREAT UNKNOWN:

JOHN WESLEY POWELL AND THE COLORADO RIVER Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 982-1200

Scholar and photographer

Ninneman lectures on geologist

John Wesley Powell’s journey of discovery and tragedy through the Grand Canyon. 6 pm, $20

THE CALENDAR

MUSIC

ANGEL OLSEN

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234

Singer-songwriter Olsen plays a rare solo set from her latest album, Big Time 7:30 pm, $29-$49

CLUB BEY

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

A dance party for Beyoncé’s Act II: Cowboy Carter release. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 7:30-10:30 pm

COCOROSIE

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

A luminously indie-folktronic duo, with DJ Miss Ginger. 7:30 pm, $35-$40

KARAOKE WITH CRASH!

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565

Start the week with karaoke! 7-10 pm

TERRY DIERS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565

Blues, rock and funk.

4 pm

THEATER

YOUNG CREATORS PROJECT

Santa Fe Public Library (Southside) 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

Theater classes for ages 9-16. 3:45-5:30 pm

WORKSHOP

QIGONG CLASS

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red) 1366 Cerrillos Road, (505) 428-0996

Try the ancient practice of Qigong, a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing and meditation.  6-8 pm

TUE/16

BOOKS/LECTURES

KATIE ARNOLD: BRIEF FLASHING IN THE PHENOMENAL WORLD

Garcia Street Books

376 Garcia St., Ste. B, (505) 986-0151

Celebrate Arnold’s newly released book, Brief Flashing in the Phenomenal World, at a reading and author conversation. (See Cover, page 12.) 6:30 pm

EVENTS

USING UPCYCLED

MATERIALS IN ART Online

An Zoom discussion on the use of upcycled materials in art with artist Suzie Fowler-Tutt. Register at bit.ly/49suly2. 10-11:30 am, $10

MUSIC

BLUE MONDAY

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565

Glorious R&B.

4 pm

PERFORMANCE SANTA FE

PRESENTS JORDI SAVALL AND HESPÈRION XXI

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234

Baroque melodies on period instruments, including Savall on viola da gamba. 7:30 pm, $35-$115

WORKSHOP

HEAL YOUR MIND, HEAL

YOUR LIFE

Santa Fe Women’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 983-9455

Discover the mind’s clarity. This session is “Overcoming the Influence of Delusions.”

6 pm, $10

ONGOING ART

5TH ANNUAL FOTO FORUM

MEMBERS SHOW

Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 470-2582

More than 60 photos from Foto Forum members.

A FEAST TO REMEMBER form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256

Monumental paintings and fanciful ceramic creatures.

A TENUOUS THREAD form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256

Monumental, suspended weaving by Bhakti Ziek.

AN INNOCENT LOVE: ANIMAL

SCULPTURE ARTISTS OF NEW MEXICO

Canyon Road Contemporary Art

622 Canyon Road, (505) 983-0433

The cutest little animal sculptures you ever did see by artists Kari Rives and Fran Nicholson.

AN IRIS BETWEEN US smoke the moon

616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Two artists express their Korean heritage through clay pigment oil paintings and sculpture.

CALLA KLESSIG SENTIĆ

New Concept Gallery

610 Canyon Road, (505) 795-7570

Sentić’s work reveres the land, sky and their inhabitants.

COLCHA OF NEW MEXICO: THE LEGACY OF BEATRICE

MAESTAS SANDOVAL

Abiquiu Inn 21120 Hwy. 84, Abiquiu, (505) 685-4378

Colcha embroidery, rugs and tinwork.

DANIEL JOHNSTON: NOW IS NOWHERE ELSE

Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700

Contemporary potter Johnston presents clay brick works.

ELIZABETH HOHIMER: MAPS OF AFFECTION

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700

Intuitively and deeply personal woven paintings.

GARY GOLDBERG: MAGICAL REALISM

Hecho a Mano

129 W Palace Ave., (505) 916-1341

Mythological creatures and magical, surreal landscapes appear in Goldberg’s textiles.

JOE DUNLOP

Java Joe's (Siler) 1248 Siler Road, 780-5477

Dunlop crafts abstract landscape art with acrylic, gouache and watercolor.

JOON HEE KIM: YOU, ME, US

Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie, (505) 820-1888

Kim's ceramic works examine her heritage.

MARK GORDON: IRISES AND ROSES Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

Spiritual floral works.

MOUNTAINS, RIVERS + FIELDS

El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road, (505) 982-0016

Local mountain, river and fields works combine woodblocks, drawing, collage and sewing.

NIGHT DRIVE

Best Western

4328 Airport Road, (713) 530-7066

Sleepy gulf coasts and freeways.  RISO!

Hecho a Mano

129 W Palace Ave., (505) 916-1341

A show centering the risograph, a printing technique known for vivid colors and crisp textures.

RANDALL WILSON: EARTH AND SKY

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700

Sculptor Wilson's wood carvings are anchored in the folk-art tradition of the Southwest.

ROGER DEAKINS: BYWAYS

Obscura Gallery

225 Delgado St

A photo exhibition by cinematographer Deakins.

ROGER WINTER: JAZZ SET

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700

Paintings of Winter’s favorite jazz musicians.

SPRING FLOWERS IN WATERCOLOR & MUD

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

222 Delgado St., (928) 308-0319

Ceramicist Anne Ray and botanical drawer Rosabeth Link present new works together.

TIM REED: SILLY LOVE SONGS

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Original)

1600 Lena St., (505) 428-0996

Psychedelic multimedia works, with more on display at Iconik's Red and Lupe locations.

WILLIAM NELSON: CURIOUS COLLISIONS

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250

Parodic combinations of Hollywood figures and cartoon characters in oil paintings.

MUSEUMS

Van and Lela Gutierrez of Santa Clara Pueblo’s stone-polished jar made with clay, temper, slip, mineral paint and carbon paint sits in the Here, Now and Always collection at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM

217 Johnson St., (505) 946-1000

Making a Life. Rooted in Place.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20 (under 18 free)

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS

108 Cathedral Place, (505) 983-8900

Womb of the Earth: Cosmovision of the Rainforest. Inuk Silis

Høegh: Arctic Vertigo. Indigenous Presence, Indigenous Futures. The Stories We Carry. Our Stories. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 Free Admission every Friday

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART

18 County Road 55A, (505) 424-6487

Permanent collection.

11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun, $10

(18 and under free)

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

Down Home. Here, Now and Always. Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles.

10 am-5 pm, $7-$12, NM residents free first Sunday of the month

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART

706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka. La Cartonería Mexicana / The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste. Protection: Adaptation and Resistance. Multiple Visions: A Common Bond. 10 am-5 pm, $3-$12, NM residents free first Sunday of the month

NEW MEXICO HISTORY

MUSEUM

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200

The Santos of New Mexico. Silver and Stones: Collaborations in Southwest Jewelry.

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri. of the month

MUSEUM OF SPANISH

COLONIAL ART

750 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-2226

What Lies Behind the Vision of Chimayo Weavers.

1 -4 pm, Wed-Fri, $10, children free

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5063

Selections from the 20th Century Collection. Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900-1969. Art of the Bullfight. 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm every Fri. May-Oct.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER

78 Cities of Gold Road, (505) 455-5041

Di Wae Powa. Nah Poeh Meng.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, $7-$10

SITE SANTA FE

1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199

You Are Here. Folded Stone. I’m

Nobody! Who Are You?

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Mon., 10 am-5 pm, Thurs, 10 am-7 pm, Fri; Free.

VLADEM CONTEMPORARY

404 Montezuma Ave., (505) 476-5602

Shadow and Light.

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm every Fri. May-Oct.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

704 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-4636

Masterglass: The Collaborative Spirit of Tony Jojola. Pathfinder: 40 Years of Marcus Amerman. Journeying Through the Archives of the Wheelwright Museum. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $10

Beat Poetry

BY JAMES REICHT author@sfreporter.com

“Y

’know, it’s possible you’ve always been writing poems, you just never took the time to put them on paper,” Santa Fe’s seventh Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta reflects on his early writing—and those words from his mentor, the poet Dana Levin.

Before the publication of his first fulllength poetry collection, Susto (University Press of Colorado Press, 2023) Archuleta was more widely known as a punk rock drummer of deserved repute. Of his emergence as a poet, Archuleta explains, “Drumming is one of the ways I hear the beats of a line of poetry before I get the words. So, I’ll get the accented and unaccented syllables, much like a snare drum roll might sound like that.”

During childhood, Archuleta would accompany his maternal grandfather to the old Bank of Santa Fe on the Plaza, where he would collect free memo books that included a printed poem.

“I would fill those out by freewriting, not caring about grammar or cohesion. I knew about the magic of words,” Archuleta tells SFR. “My father had bought me a Collier’s Encyclopedia set, and you know, if I wasn’t throwing rocks at cars, I was going through those books. I was just enamored by those books and language.”

That juxtaposition of throwing rocks and the restorative magic of language, plus his “cathartic” experience as a student at the former College of Santa Fe in its last year circa 2009, led him—somewhat poetically—

An Interview with Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta

to his current role as a counselor for the New Mexico Corrections Department, where his focus is on substance abuse. It was natural that Archuleta’s proposed projects that were part of his application for the city’s laureateship would involve bringing poetry both into and out of prisons.

“I wanted to pay attention to the underserved. I’ve already started doing a poetry workshop with my guys,” he explains. “There are three levels of security at the prison here in Santa Fe, and I work with the lowest level; these are men that are getting ready to come out into society—the end goal is to create a collection of poems written by them, and we’re looking to work with the Witter Bynner Foundation and the city to produce a nice volume.”

The profits would go to a nonprofit of the authors’ choice, Archuleta notes, adding that for next year’s collection, he and the inmates are looking at working with the women of the Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families.

“I’m looking at this from my lens of mental health,” he continues, “the role of poetry and its healing properties when assigned to healing from trauma.”

In his own practice, Archuleta is interested in the history and development of what he calls a “trauma literature,” and his own work in Susto and elsewhere is informed by personal experience of loss and the processes of grief.

“Susto was essentially born from the grief of my mother’s passing. That book illustrates the dislocation and how harsh are the complexities of what we call ‘complex trauma’ and ‘complex grief,’” he says. “Susto is a culture-based disorder affecting a lot of Latinx communities and countries, where it’s believed that the soul separates from the body as the result of trauma or a series of traumas.”

He was deep into the drafting of his manuscript and in search of a title when he landed on the term.

“When I ran across that description and that malady, I knew that not only had I found the title for the book, but I found an explana-

tion for what was going on with me,” Archuleta says.

Since the publication of Susto last year, Archuleta has heard from readers for whom the poems have “affirmed their own grieving process and helped them understand what’s going on with them.” His work at the prison has also shown him that loss takes many forms. There are complex losses beneath the surface loss of freedom.

“Poetry is giving [the inmates] purpose,” Archuleta notes.

But what convinced him to apply for the laureateship?

“I know five of the six former laureates, and of the five, Valerie Martinez— one of my professors at the College of Santa Fe—was the second poet laureate, and other than Val, there was no actual Santa Fe-born laureate,” he recalls. “So, I thought, y’know, I think it might be about time.”

And what of the ceremonial responsibilities that pertain to the laureateship?

“It’s in the job description that you show up at events, christenings of buildings, ribbon cuttings and do a poem. The biggest thing that’s coming up is the Santa Fe International Book Festival, and my role will be revealed!” Archuleta says with a smile.

As for official civic events, Archilueta says, “I still have to meet [Mayor Alan] Webber,” Archuleta says, adding that he anticipates they’ll meet to plan a writing workshop for the community.

Mr. Mayor, if you are reading, there is much to do. Be sure to take time to discover our new poet laureate.

4 pm Saturday, April 20. Geronimo’s

3018 Cielo Court, Ste. D, (505) 467-8315

TOMMY ARCHULETA READING WITH CATHERINE LIM:

Books

Santa Fe Poet Laurate Tommy Archuleta tells SFR he has numerous projects underway or in the works. ALEX

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New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp’s new poetry collection In Old Sky centers darkness

BY ANNABELLA FARMER author@sfreporter.com

For many people, darkness is a space of fear, sadness or uncertainty. For New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, a month spent in residence at the Grand Canyon National Park changed all that. Instead of trepidation at nightfall, she says, she felt safe.

Camp has authored eight poetry collections to date, and has been the state’s Poet Laureate since 2022, with one more year left to go in her tenure. Her latest book In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024) grew from her time as astronomer in residence at the Grand Canyon, and explores the national park—and the cosmos beyond.

When she happened upon the residency program, Camp didn’t have a background in astronomy, but had long been mesmerized by night skies. Having grown up in the suburbs of Manhattan with its innumerable lights dulling the darkness, such skies were unfamiliar for Camp. But she has now lived in New Mexico for 30 years, where the open spaces and lack of light pollution are superb for stargazing—yet still nothing like the Grand Canyon’s.

In fact, the national park gained certification as an International Dark Sky Park from the International Dark Sky Association in 2019, and launched the Astronomer in Residence program in 2021, inviting astronomers—professional and amateur alike—

to engage with the canyon’s night skies. The program is open to scientists, darksky advocates, educators and writers, among others; Camp’s selection made her the Grand Canyon’s fourth astronomer in residence, as well as its only poet so far. She spent the month of August in 2022 creating programming and soaking in the park’s spirit, often walking in the evenings after the tourists were gone and the dark had descended.

“It was an adventure in so many ways to be living at the Grand Canyon for a month,” Camp tells SFR, add ing that the sheer enormity of the place was overwhelming, and at first she struggled to find focus for her time there. “I had so much to think about—the whole canyon, the whole interplanetary cosmos.”

When the dark sky ranger who

initiated the Astronomer in Residence program asked Camp to create “dispatches” for social media, Camp decided to approach it through poetry. Each would be a short poem, several of which were later published in the new book. Writing the dispatches, Camp found, anchored her time at the park.

“It focused my attention on what I could see in the darkness, the feeling of darkness and how to express that to people who don’t get to see pristine darkness

care enough to work toward minimizing these effects.

“Because being under a phenomenal night sky is such an important experience,” Camp says, “I think that’s a reason for the poems to be out there—to give darkness a fair chance.”

Interestingly, Camp didn’t go into the Grand Canyon residency intending to write a collection, but after meeting with a residency manager who wanted to carry her poetry books in the Grand Canyon gift shops, she realized her work regarding darkness at the park would be ideal, and the rest fell into place: In Old Sky is the first-ever poetry book published by the Grand Canyon Conservancy.

“It feels like a tiny, comprehensive book of my experience in the astronomical sciences,” Camp says.

In Old Sky is a rather gorgeous piece of physical media, too. Vivid color photographs of canyon landscapes and the starry canopy beyond draw readers into the world of darkness Camp’s poetry inhabits. Some of the photographs come from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona where Camp spent two weeks—almost a year after her Grand Canyon residency—meeting with astronomers, looking through massive telescopes and learning more about science.

and naturally dark skies,” Camp says.

Darkness became her focal point.

“What I found is that darkness is not a single thing,” she explains, which is partly how she returned from the residency with 810 photos of the areas surrounding the Grand Canyon at night, each one phenomenally rife with poetic possibility. Camp also learned more about light pollution, which can affect animals’ mating patterns; the blooming times of plants; and how insects feed, in addition to negative health and psychological impacts on humans.

New knowledge in hand, Camp returned to Santa Fe wanting more people to

The book also features an epic poem woven from visitor responses to prompts Camp placed during her Grand Canyon residency, creating a vivid narrative of shared experience. She received hundreds of responses in a variety of languages, which she used to construct a poem according to the phases of the moon. Camp describes the project as similar to programming as New Mexico’s poet laureate.

“It’s a collaboration where I’m building the poem,” she says, “but there are all these other voices offering me their perspectives.”

For Camp, the experience always came back to darkness. Living in La Cienega, she had written about sun, light, wind and drought—and if darkness appeared in her work at all, it was an emotional darkness linked to grief, sadness and loss. At the Grand Canyon, she says, darkness felt like a gain rather than a loss.

“It was a kind of luck, not just for me but for all of us, that this darkness exists,” she says, “that this history of the world exists.”

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New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp’s new book considers the cosmos.

BOB GODWIN

Monkey Man Review

Dev Patel gets to punching in directorial debut

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Though Dev Patel (The Green Knight) recently told a red carpet interviewer that moviegoers should watch more Korean action films before comparing his new film Monkey Man to John Wick, the explosively popular Keanu Reeves franchise’s fingerprints show clearly on Patel’s directorial debut.

That’s not to say Patel doesn’t make his own mark with Monkey Man—for which he also co-wrote the script and collaborated with filmmaker Jordan Peele, who here takes a producer role—but rather that surely even he can see the parallels within his gritty, camera-shakin’, close-quarters revenge brawler. Even so, Monkey Man is quite badass and a triumph of cultural and environmental storytelling.

Here, Patel plays the enigmatic Kid (or Bobby, depending on who’s asking), a poverty-stricken underground fighter in some massive Indian city with a penchant for the Hindu monkey god Hanuman and a real stick in his craw about the murder of his mother. He seeks only revenge and, if it takes losing a few unsanctioned bare-knuckle MMA fights with high payouts to get it, then that’s what he’s gonna do. Said revenge plan doesn’t go so well, however, when

GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE

The last time enduring movie monsters King Kong and Godzilla got together was in 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong and, even as mindless popcorn flicks go, it was wildly stupid. To be fair, practically everyone knows who those dudes are and there’s a reason they’ve been in movies for, like, 300 years, but without the social commentary of either’s original outings, GvK was mostly about big ol’ monsters throwing hands.

Similarly, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire makes use of the biggest ape ever and production company Toho’s lizardly champ in the most uninteresting ways possible.

In GxK, Kong has been relegated to Hollow Earth, a topsy-turvy parallel dimension-y land of yore accessible only by portals that popped up at some point near the core of regular Earth. This is how other so-called titans (like Tiamat and Godzilla and Mothra and King Ghidorah) came to town. Meanwhile, Godzilla roams free on regular Earth fighting bad guy titans, which amounts to what might technically be considered homage—aka, crushing buildings while people flee—and everyone just kind of accepts the new world order while going about their lives.

Kong is all alone through the portal(s), however, until he finds another fucking portal to another fucking dimension-y land of even older yore, where other Kongs come a dime a dozen, including this one itty-bitty Kong we’ll just call Kiddie Kong. Ugh.

In this third realm, Pretender-to-the-Ape-Throne Kong (™) has enslaved all of Kong’s kousins (including Kount Kong, Duke Kong and Grand Marquis

he tries to light up his enemies prematurely, but a quick spiritual pit stop at a temple inhabited by trans warriors sets him on the right path.

Patel often chooses unexpected and challenging roles (good luck making it through The Green Knight without the challenge of boredom), but tackles something relatively new here. Yes, he takes his cues from the John Wick-i-verse and films like 2011’s The Raid: Redemption, but Monkey Man is a little more about the heavy crunch of kicks and punches than it is a gun ballet. Moreover, India’s inequitable social system makes for gripping underlying themes—colonialism, poverty, queerphobia, corrupt officials, violence against women and the caste system—that may be subtle to those who won’t look beyond the fists and

Kong; these are not real names, it’s just…there are a lot of Kongs). What’s a gargantuan beast to do?

GxK certainly has human actors, like Rebecca Hall (who played Ariel in a production of The Tempest just four years ago); Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey); and Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, and he’s way too good for this crap), though each only represents a piece of the expositional puzzle. They have backstories (they’re scientists and podcasters and Kong vets), but the only time anyone speaks, it’s to explain where everyone is going, what that thing over there might be and why they’re doing stuff.

Honestly, it almost feels like director Adam Wingard (who directed the last Kong/G-zilla movie) somehow found himself with a grip of studio bucks and was like, “Let’s just pull anything from Toho we can think of and throw it up there on the screen,” then writers Terry Rossio, Simon Barrett and Jeremy Slater said, in unison, “OK, but what if it sucked so bad?”

Still, The New Empire does have some damn fine special effects going, and it’s at least mildly fun to watch the iconic structures of Europe and Egypt get got. That doesn’t quite save the sense that Wingard and crew clearly underestimate an audience’s need to have at least a little bit of interesting narrative. No such luck here, though. (ADV)

Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 115 min.

GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE

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the stabbing, but worth unpacking. The film even empowers its trans and nonbinary characters rather than relegating them to trauma porn, which makes a couple of loose thread non-endings for semi-pivotal characters feel less glaring.

Patel himself is believable as a badass, too, even with his lanky, wiry frame. Turns out he’s kind of ripped, even, and by the time he gets to that last showdown…well, no spoilers, but it’s visceral and brutal and good fun, without taking forever to conclude.

MONKEY MAN

Directed by Patel With Patel

Violet Crown, Regal, R, 121 min.

+ GOOD ACTORS…NOT A GREAT MOVIE

- ALMOST ALL CALLBACKS; NANJIANI IS TEDIOUS

Godspeed when it comes to fully enjoying Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire if you haven’t kept up

since 1984—including with 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife. See, the thing is these movies ask (or demand, really) that you’re well-versed in the lore. If you’re not familiar, Frozen Empire might very well come across as baffling, what with its sea of characters, very specific references and reliance on “remember in the old movies when…?” jokes.

Frozen Empire picks up some time after the events of Afterlife. Paul Rudd’s Gary, formerly a science teacher, has joined the descendants of Ghostbusters co-founder Egon Spengler (the late Harold Ramis) and moved into the old fire station the G-busters have called home since always. There, said family (Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace) have really leaned into the family biz by driving the old hearse (you know the one, right? It goes, “hweehhhhhr, hweehhhhhr!”), firing off the famous proton packs (essentially portable nuclear lasers) and insisting they are, collectively, afraid of no ghost. The mayor (William Atherton) doesn’t like this one bit, though, and, following a particularly destructive ghostbusting outing, tells the neo-busters that the youngest kid Phoebe (Grace) can’t bust any ghosts ‘til she’s at least 18.

Needless to say, she’s bummed, so she takes solace in the company of a chess-whiz ghost named Melody (Emily Alyn Lind) who, in what appears to be a stab at irony, seems to be the only person who can see Phoebe despite being mostly invisible herself.

Meanwhile, a shiftless loser archetype named Nadeem (Kumail Ali Nanjiani, The Big Sick) comes into possession of an ancient orb/ghost prison that contains the spirit of an even more ancient frost demon. Turns out Nadeem’s recently deceased grandma was the orb’s caretaker. But wouldn’t you know it, the demon gets loose, threatening all life on

Earth with ice spikes and frost clouds and, like, cold wind and stuff.

As if that weren’t enough, the original Ghostbusters (Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray and Annie Potts; sadly, no Rick Moranis)— who are still doing ghost stuff, of course—pop in and out to deliver lines about how busting ghosts is always crazy. This leaves performers like Rudd, Wolfhard and Coon with very little screen time while Grace’s Phoebe hangs out with Aykroyd’s Ray for minute after minute after minute.

Oh, the other actors all try their damn best to make their brief time in Frozen Empire feel like a hoot, but when a movie has a supporting character named Podcast (Logan Kim; ugh) and drags Patton Oswalt all the way to set solely for a massive second act exposition dump, it’s hard to stay focused instead of partaking in over-the-top eye rolls.

Ultimately, director/writer Gil Kenan tries to cram too much into his movie’s roughly two-hour running time. This makes much of Frozen Empire feel like a wasted opportunity to break new ground. Perhaps if Kenan and company—he co-wrote the movie with the late Ivan Reitman, director of the original Ghostbusters, and his son Jason, director of Ghostbusters: Afterlife—had not overloaded the film with so many callbacks (Slimer, ghost librarian, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man—now in miniature asexual reproduction form), they could have at least made something that doesn’t feel like a series of boxes waiting to be checked. There’s a difference between franchise fans and people who just kind of liked the first movie in the ‘80s—Frozen Empire doesn’t seem suited to either group. (ADV)

Violet Crown, Regal PG-13, 115 min.

Rob Brezsny Week of April 10th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now is a favorable time to make initial inquiries, ask for free samples, and enjoy window shopping. But it’s not an opportune time to seal final decisions or sign binding contracts. Have fun haggling and exploring, even as you avoid making permanent promises. Follow the inklings of your heart more than the speculations of your head, but refrain from pledging your heart until lots of evidence is available. You are in a prime position to attract and consider an array of possibilities, and for best results you should remain noncommittal for the foreseeable future.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming weeks, you can ask for and receive more blessings than usual. So please be aggressive and imaginative about asking! Here are suggestions about what gifts to seek out: 1. vigorous support as you transform two oppositional forces into complementary influences; 2. extra money, time, and spaciousness as you convert a drawback into an asset; 3. kindness and understanding as you ripen an unripe aspect of yourself; 4. inspiration and advice as you make new connections that will serve your future goals.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Betty Bender said, “Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death.” Painter Georgia O’Keeffe confessed she always harbored chronic anxiety—yet that never stopped her from doing what she loved. Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Anyone who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” I hope these testimonials inspire you to bolster your grit, Taurus. In the coming days, you may not have any more or less fear than usual. But you will be able to summon extra courage and willpower as you render the fear at least semi-irrelevant.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Richard the Lionheart (1157–1199) was a medieval king of England. How did he get his nickname? Scholars say it was because of his skill as a military leader. But legend tells an additional story. As a young man, Richard was imprisoned by an enemy who arranged for a hungry lion to be brought into his cell. As the beast opened its maw to maul the future king, Richard thrust his arm down its throat and tore out its heart, killing it. What does this tale have to do with you, Gemini? I predict you will soon encounter a test that’s less extreme than Richard’s but equally solvable by bursts of creative ingenuity. Though there will be no physical danger, you will be wise to call on similar boldness. Drawing on the element of surprise may also serve you well.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Will the adventures heading your way be unusual, amusing, and even unprecedented? I bet they will have at least some of those elements. You could encounter plot twists you’ve never witnessed or imagined. You may be inspired to dream up creative adjustments unlike any you’ve tried. These would be very positive developments. They suggest you’re becoming more comfortable with expressing your authentic self and less susceptible to the influence of people’s expectations. Every one of us is a unique genius in some ways, and you’re getting closer to inhabiting the fullness of yours.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): At least for now, help may not be available from the usual sources. Is the doctor sick? Does mommy need mothering? Is the therapist feeling depressed? My advice is to not worry anout the deficiencies, but rather shift your attention to skillful surrogates and substitutes. They may give you what you need—and even more. I’m reminded of The Crystal Cave, a novel about the Arthurian legend. The king, Ambrosius Aurelianus, advises the magician Merlin, “Take power where it is offered.” In other words: not where you think or wish power would be, but from sources that are unexpected or outside your customary parameters.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The rest of the story is not yet ready to emerge, but it will be soon. Be patient just a while longer. When full disclosure arrives, you will no longer have to guess about hidden agendas and simmering subtexts. Adventures in the underworld will move above ground. Missing links will finally appear, and perplexing ambiguities will be clarified. Here’s how you can expedite these developments: Make sure you are thoroughly receptive to knowing the rest of the story. Assert your strong desire to dissolve ignorance.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Read the two help-wanted ads below. Meditate on which appeals to you more, and treat this choice as a metaphor for a personal decision you face. 1. “Pedestrian, predictable organization seeks humdrum people with low-grade ambitions for tasks that perform marginally useful services. Interested in exploring mild passions and learning more about the art of spiritual bypassing?” 2. “Our high-octane conclave values the arts of playing while you work and working while you play. Are you ready and able to provide your creative input? Are you interested in exploring the privilege and responsibility of forever reinventing yourself? We love restless seekers who are never bored.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What is a gourmet bargain? What is a discount marvel? How about an inspiring breakthrough that incurs no debt? Themes like those are weaving their way into your destiny. So be alert for the likelihood that cheap thrills will be superior to the expensive kind. Search for elegance and beauty in earthy locations that aren’t sleek and polished. Be receptive to the possibility that splendor and awe may be available to you at a low cost. Now may be one of those rare times when imperfect things are more sublime than the so-called perfect stuff.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in,” wrote novelist Graham Greene. For me, it was three days near the end of third grade when I wrote a fairy tale about the unruly adventures of a fictional kid named Polly. Her wildness was infused with kindness. Her rebellions were assertive but friendly. For the first time, as I told Polly’s story, I realized I wanted to be an unconventional writer when I grew up. What about you, Capricorn? When you were young, was there a comparable opening to your future? If so, now is a good phase to revisit it, commune with your memories of it, and invite it to inspire the next stage of its evolution in you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Even when you are your regular, ordinary self, you have a knack and fondness for irregularity and originality. And these days, your affinity for what’s unprecedented and uncommon is even higher than usual. I am happy about that. I am cheering you on. So please enjoy yourself profoundly as you experiment with nonstandard approaches. Be as idiosyncratic as you dare! Even downright weird! But also try to avoid direct conflicts with the Guardians of How Things Have Always Been Done. Don’t allow Change Haters to interfere with your fun or obstruct the enhancements you want to instigate. Be a slippery innovator. Be an irrepressible instigator.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Below are truths I hope you will ripen and deepen in the coming months. 1. Negative feelings are not necessarily truer and more profound than positive ones. 2. Cynical opinions are not automatically more intelligent or well-founded than optimistic opinions. 3. Criticizing and berating yourself is not a more robust sign of self-awareness than praising and appreciating yourself. 4. Any paranoia you feel may be a stunted emotion resulting from psychic skills you have neglected to develop. 5. Agitation and anxiety can almost always be converted into creative energy.

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FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

COUNTY OF SANTA FE

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

No. D-101-PB-2024-00052

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT C. MOREAN, DECEASED. NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, located at the following address: 225 Montezuma, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Dated: March 21, 2024. Donna Morean Huycke and Mitch Friedman c/o Friedman, Walcott, Henry & Winston, LLC

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IN THE PROBATE COURT

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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PEGGY STROMBERG CONNER, Deceased.

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