Santa Fe Reporter, April 12, 2023

THE TIME IS NOW TO SAVE PLANET NEW MEXICO.

PNM is working to make Planet New Mexico a better place on Earth Day and every day. We’re focused on our goal of serving you with 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040 or sooner. See the steps we’re taking to improve the environment and how you can make a difference at PNM.com/earthday.

OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

CCA’S LATEST SOS 9

Call for pledges could help revive the Center for Contemporary Arts, but why didn’t Santa Fe hear about the shape of things until now?

MAGISTRATE MAKEOVER 10

A land transfer approved by the Legislature paves the way for a new Santa Fe County Magistrate courthouse

COVER STORY 12

POWERLIFT

The Charter Review Commission could rewrite Santa Fe’s governance—but no one knows

CULTURE

SFR PICKS 17

facebook: facebook.com/sfreporter

Oscar Becerra-Mora brings out the big dog, Bleak Mystique plays the hits, Daniel McCoy assembles the A-team and Bizzy Bone comes to Santa Fe

THE CALENDAR 18

[MORE THAN] 3 QUESTIONS 20

With Comedian Todd Barry

FOOD 25

LAND, SEA AND COFFEE

Wolf & Mermaid Enchanted Roasters expands its coffee empire

A&C 27

SIX-STRING SAMURAIS

Guitar geeks Scott Baxendale and Shawn Lee face the future together

MOVIES 28

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE REVIEW

Sorry, moviegoers, your good movie is in another castle

WE’RE HERE FOR YOU

The journalists at the Santa Fe Reporter strive to help our community stay connected. We publish this free print edition and daily web updates. Can you help support our journalism mission? Learn more at sfreporter.com/friends

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER

JULIE ANN GRIMM

ADVERTISING DIRECTOR

ROBYN DESJARDINS

ART DIRECTOR

ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

CULTURE EDITOR

ALEX DE VORE

SENIOR CORRESPONDENT

JULIA GOLDBERG

STAFF WRITER

ANDY LYMAN

ANDREW OXFORD

CALENDAR EDITOR

SIENA SOFIA BERGT

DIGITAL SERVICES MANAGER

BRIANNA KIRKLAND

ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE

SAVANNAH JANE WALTON

CIRCULATION MANAGER ANDY BRAMBLE

OWNERSHIP

CITY OF ROSES NEWSPAPER CO.

PRINTER

THE NEW MEXICAN

EDITORIAL DEPT: editor@sfreporter.com

Phone: (505) 988-5541

Mail: PO BOX 4910 SANTA FE, NM 87502

CULTURE EVENTS: calendar@sfreporter.com

DISPLAY ADVERTISING: advertising@sfreporter.com

Cover design by Anson Stevens-Bollen artdirector@sfreporter.com www.SFReporter.com

CLASSIFIEDS: classy@sfreporter.com

The music of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Wayne Shorter

Mail letters to PO Box 4910, Santa Fe, NM 87502; or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to specific articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

NEWS, MARCH 14: “OBELISK PLAN WILL BE WITHDRAWN, COUNCILORS SAY”

CAN’T WE JUST GET ALONG?

Narratives with hate, anger and fury charging “genocide and racism” may attract supporters shameful of being Americans, or those who refuse to acknowledge our “principled” efforts of past centuries. We continue to overcome mistakes and bias. Demonstrated principled actions are witnessed in past battles, and honored, such as in the Civil War and our Soldiers Monument, in helping build freedoms. America’s people, though not perfect, cooperatively experience a civil society benefiting all. Especially those wishing to participate in collaboration, reconciliation, forgiveness and love daily. So is division, destruction and limited knowledge a standard to follow today? I’d say truth, faith, and love prove stronger principles! Together we go farther!

PAULINE ANAYA

SANTA FE

MORNING WORD, MARCH 29: “COVID-19 BY THE NUMBERS”

KEEP CRUNCHING NUMBERS

Thank you so very much for posting the latest COVID numbers for your readers. This lousy killer of a virus is still around, even when people act as if it’s “all gone.” These numbers remind us to continue to be mindful about protecting ourselves in crowds, stores, etc. NM is still offering boosters, so we’re not out of the woods yet. Thanks again for being on top of this, especially since local (and national) news outlets don’t even mention COVID anymore.

RITA CEER SANTA FE

NEWS, APRIL 5: “MARK VS. THE CAMPAIGN

LITIGIOUS LOCKS

He should sue the person who gave him that haircut.

JACQUES PAISNER

SANTA FE

SFR will correct factual errors online and in print. Please let us know if we make a mistake: editor@sfreporter.com or 988-7530.

SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER

Send your Overheard in Santa Fe tidbits to: eavesdropper@sfreporter.com

CONSULTANTS”

“There are so many things I want!”

—Overheard from a little girl at Doodlet’s “My boyfriend asked me how long we were gonna be here for, so I told him he wasn’t invited.”

—Overheard at the Collected Works book launch for Natachee Momaday Gray’s Silver Box

MLG VETOES ALCOHOL TAX INCREASE WITH NO EXPLANATION

Don’t say she never did anything for you (and by “you,” we mean the lobbyists at Anheuser-Busch).

...AND ALSO VETOES PLAN TO OVERHAUL GAME AND FISH COMMISSION

The governor can still remove members whenever she wants for whatever reason she wants. What could go wrong?

...PLUS, ATTORNEY GENERAL RAUL TORREZ’S PROPOSED NEW CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION LANDS IN POCKET VETO

We could tell veto jokes for the rest of the week.

OUT-OF-STATE COMPANIES ARE GEARING UP TO BUILD AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS OFF NM 14

These companies should also gear up for lots of development-review meetings, because this will surely piss off someone.

MAYOR ALAN WEBBER PROPOSES MOSTLY FLAT $403 MIL CITY BUDGET

That’s more than $4,000 per resident, which we could definitely use about now if he just wants to give us the money.

SANTA FE RIVER FLOWS WITH SNOWMELT

Nothing says spring like ankle-deep water.

WEST ALAMEDA LIKELY TO STAY CLOSED FOR MONTHS DUE TO CULVERT COLLAPSE

Special road rage counseling is available for westside drivers in the meantime.

Santa Fe Magistrate Dev Atma Khalsa was suspended without pay pending the outcome of drunken-driving charges.

Get Back to What Matters Most TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT

Faster Recovery with Fewer Restrictions

At CHRISTUS St. Vincent Orthopaedic Specialty Clinic, Dr. Sean Sterrenberg is a fellowship trained Orthopaedic Surgeon who specializes in hip and knee replacement surgery, with a focus on anterior approach total hip arthroplasty.

The anterior approach total hip replacement is a minimally invasive surgery with a smaller incision performed through the front of the hip under image guidance that offers patients a faster recovery with fewer restrictions in the first 6 weeks, which allows you or your loved ones to return to the things that matter most.

To learn more about your orthopaedic hip replacement options, schedule a consultation today.

(505) 913-4550

Sean Sterrenberg, MD

CELEBRATE

Community colleges play a vital role in supporting the economy. SFCC is here for YOU: Come out to campus and discover for yourself the many wonderful things that SFCC offers.

April 21: Broken Parts Car Club Show

April 25: Career & Transfer Day

April 26: Diversity Day

April 29: Controlled Environment Agriculture Open House & Seedling Giveaway

ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE, SANTA FE Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series

SPRING 2023

Ahmed Siddiqi, Tutor, St. John’s College

FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2023 AT 7 P.M., GREAT HALL

“The Concept of Truth in the Book of Genesis” *

Phil LeCuyer, Tutor, St. John’s College

FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2023 AT 7 P.M., GREAT HALL

“Draupadī on the Walls of Troy: Reabduction Narratives in Two Indo-European Epics, the Iliad and the Mahābhārata ” **

Stephanie Jamison, University of California, Los Angeles

FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2023 AT 7 P.M., GREAT HALL

Celebrate Earth Day at St. John’s on April 22. Event details: www.sjc.edu/earthday

“‘Justice,’ or ‘Just’ Speech?: How Philosophy Conceives its Limit, from Plato through Kant, Hegel, and Arendt”*

Claudia Brodsky, Princeton University

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023 AT 7 P.M., GREAT HALL

Kentucky

Derby

“White Feminist Wife of Bath?: Feminism, Race, and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath Prologue”*

Carissa M. Harris, Temple University

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2023 AT 7 P.M., GREAT HALL

“On the Biblical, Geometrical, Political Mind” A Panel in Honor of Bob Sacks

Seth Appelbaum, Phil LeCuyer, April Olsen, & Ken Wolfe

Tutors, St. John’s College

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2023 AT 3:30 P.M., GREAT HALL

* This lecture is part of the Carol J. Worrell Annual Lecture Series on Literature **This lecture is an Annual Rohrbach Lecture (on Eastern Classics)

Date, time, location, and format are subject to change— Please visit SJC.EDU for updates.

1160 CAMINO DE CRUZ BLANCA, SANTA FE

CCA’s Latest SOS

cause that card has been played so many times...I don’t even like the position we’re in now where we’re saying, once again, ‘we’re going to close if we don’t get money.’”

Means did not return requests for comment.

Now, though, as the dust settles, the future of the CCA cinema offerings might not be over just yet, Muck says.

because if we reopen, our fundraising needs don’t go away. We’re trying to secure as much as we can up front and operate as frugally as possible.”

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Citing low revenue, a drop in donations and other factors, the Center for Contemporary Arts announced April 6 the board of directors had voted to immediately close.

As the news traveled through Santa Fe, longtime patrons of the 44-yearold nonprofit organization questioned why, if the situation had become so dire, had its leadership stayed so quiet? And further complicating the situation is a board member now conducting a last-ditch fundraising “pledge” effort.

Prior to the announcement released to local media the day of the closure, the last email sent to CCA members went out Dec. 28, and contained no indication of trouble—it didn’t even have a call for donations.

A mainstay of local cinema and visual arts since 1979, CCA has been oft-imperiled. In the mid-1990s, as SFR reported at the time, the original founders were fired and locked out of their offices; staff were laid off; the board of directors resigned. But the organization has always found a way to move forward, eventually adding a formal gallery space most recently known as the Tank Garage. High turnover among executive directors and fewer film screenings followed in recent years.

Board Chairman David Muck tells SFR the initial announcement came after more than a year of discussion. The reason behind the organization’s radio silence in regards to its coffers was a simple matter of history.

“CCA has been in this position so many times, we were hesitant to do the boy-whocried-wolf approach one more time,” Muck, who became board chair in January of last year, says in an interview five days after the announcement. “We didn’t think people would take us seriously. We did do an endof-year campaign, but all the [fundraising] work that was done in February and March was done privately, one-on-one. CCA has been in this jam so many times...and be-

Muck claims CCA was “completely free of debt” when the board voted to close. In January 2023, he says, the organization adopted a $1.28 million budget, but total incoming cash from grants and ticket revenue was forecast at less than half that. Even though the CCA received a $50,000 grant from the Ruth Foundation last year and a three-year grant of $100,000 from the Ford Foundation, funds were low, he says.

According to Muck, Executive Director Danyelle Means (Oglala Lakota), who had joined the CCA in 2021 following positions with the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, resigned early last week to free up severance funds for nine other outgoing employees.

“She was very protective of the staff,” Muck adds. “It was a generous offer for her to do that.”

In the aftermath of the closure announcement, arts workers reeled, citizens voiced their displeasure online—and then came the rallying cry. CCA board member Ellen Premack penned a notice that circulated on social media that reads in part, “if we receive $300,000 in pledges by Monday, April 10th, the CCA Board will call a meeting and re-think the closing.”

As of press time, Muck says the lastditch call for pledges had roughly hit $165,000. He also says the board has lined up private matching funds if donors promise to deliver $300,000. Muck won’t disclose the names of the private donors, however, he now says the CCA board will extend the deadline for pledges through Friday, April 14. (To pledge, email epremack@gmail.com.) Muck says the board has planned a meeting for that day.

“We’re really being careful that we can create a plan that can be sustainable,” he explains. “A smaller staff and smaller budget that we can fund every year, a mission we can support every year. We’re being careful with the idea of moving forward,

Muck says the $300,000 figure is an estimate for bare bones operational costs of the moviehouse alone.

Such a budget would be a far cry from the halcyon days of the CCA, according to former cinema head Jason Silverman, who served in that role from 2003 to 2020.

“I don’t have old budgets in front of me or easily accessible, but I believe that our Cinematheque budgets ranged in our golden years from between $600,000 and $850,000,” he tells SFR. “That included a full schedule of films...festivals, visiting filmmakers, student programs, educational programs and marketing.”

By comparison, Silverman’s current position with Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, New York, finds him working with five screens and various educational programs, including visiting filmmakers, outdoor movies and pop-up events, at a budget of $1.4 million.

Even so, losing the Tank Garage will impact Santa Fe’s scene. For years it has been a showstopper space for local events and exhibits including but hardly limited to the CURRENTS New Media Festival (which will host its annual affair at the Rodeo Grounds this year); MacArthurwinning blacksmith Tom Joyce; the much-lauded Self-Determined group show of contemporary Indigenous artists; and, notably, Meow Wolf’s 2011 show, The Due Return, a massive interactive ship that became a precursor to the House of Eternal Return perma-installation in Santa Fe.

“Most people, I would say 95% of people reaching out to us, the cinema is what they related with CCA,” Muck says, however.

At least one organization will still host its event in the CCA Tank Garage, though: Print Santa Fe is scheduled for its inaugural night from 5 to 9 pm, Friday, April 28.

As for whether the building the CCA cinema has called home is even available, a spokesman for the Department of Cultural Affairs, which leases the building from the State Armory Board and, in turn, sublets to the CCA, says the department is waiting to see what happens next, but has not received any notice from the CCA.

“We found out just the other day, online—the same way as everyone else,” says Department of Cultural Affairs Marketing and Communications Manager Daniel Zillman. “Right now, we are open to all possibilities.”

For now, it seems, the future of CCA remains a waiting game.

The board of directors for the arthouse cinema and art gallery nonprofit say revenue dipped too far.

Call for pledges could help revive the abruptly-shuttered Center for Contemporary Arts, but why didn’t Santa Fe hear about the shape of things until now?

Magistrate Makeover

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

Atrip to Santa Fe County’s Magistrate Court can feel like showing up to an appointment at any non-descript bureaucratic agency. Just inside the door stands a single metal detector, on the other side of which a smattering of lobby chairs face a row of administrative windows. To the left and right, short hallways lead to the four courtrooms, all with their own collection of movable chairs.

For lawyers and judges who frequent the court, the small lobby, short hallways and a shortage of meeting rooms mean not only a crowded space at peak hours, but also a security risk.

The first step in building a new magistrate courthouse is done, thanks to legislation that quietly breezed through both the House and Senate during the last few days of the session. Senate Joint Resolution 12, sponsored by Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, D-Santa Fe, authorized a land transfer from the General Services Department to the Administrative Office of the Courts—an important part of updating the building that the court has outgrown.

The transfer, which did not require the governor’s signature, was the first step in relocating the court from its current spot near the intersection of St. Francis Drive and St. Michael’s Drive to state-owned land behind a Department of Public Safety complex on the Southside.

Magistrate courts handle civil cases with small claims (up to $10,000) as well as a variety of criminal misdemeanors, including drunken driving and domestic violence cases, along with landlord-tenant disputes and traf-

fic violations. Magistrate courts also sometimes serve as gateways to district courts for felony cases by holding preliminary hearings to determine probable cause.

Jason Clack, the court operations director for the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts, points to a 2019 study indicating caseloads at the time justified an additional magistrate judge and identified substandard conditions in the building.

“That staffing study showed that the Santa Fe Magistrate Court has a current need for 5.3 judges, but they currently only have four, and there’s no space to put an additional judge in the existing courthouse,” Clack says.

Clack also says the current building, an easy-to-miss Midtown structure on a deadend road, among county and state buildings, doesn’t allow the needed distance between defendants, witnesses and judges.

“They have to take the inmates through the same hallway where the judges and staff

A land transfer approved by the Legislature paves the way for a new Santa Fe County Magistrate courthouse

prosecutor and defense attorney prior to her current role, agrees the current building is outdated, though she notes even the Santa Fe District Courthouse that opened in 2013 downtown requires defendants, victims and witnesses to share hallways. But, she says, what the district court has and the magistrate court doesn’t is space for discreet conversations.

“The concern that I had when I was a defense attorney was there was really no place to privately talk to your clients [in the magistrate court building], to explain to them the charges against them, the case, to talk about their potential defenses,” she says.

Carmack-Altwies says the limited space gets even more problematic when things really get cooking.

also go to the courtroom,” Clack says. “So they’re walking by judges’ chambers, staff are walking by, going into courtrooms and going through the same hallway.”

Presiding Santa Fe County Magistrate Judge John Rysanek tells SFR the current building is “nowhere near” security best practices, partly because there’s no separation of defendants and judges, something he says a bigger lobby area could alleviate.

Moreover, Rysanek says, the need for an extra judge is becoming more evident with increasingly crowded hallways and court rooms.

“The dockets don’t ever get smaller, they only sort of grow,” he says.

A new judge position would need to be approved by the Legislature, but Rysanek says a fifth courtroom is needed before the judicial branch makes the official case for an additional judge.

First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, who worked as both a

“On most days, the dockets are 20, 30, 40, cases and especially if it’s a domestic violence docket, you have two attorneys, the victim and the defendants plus potentially other witnesses,” she says.

Although the New Mexico Supreme Court signaled in a news release last month that virtual hearings will remain in some instances, Rysanek anticipates online hearings will come to an end “at some point,” and that the current magistrate building won’t be able to accommodate dockets that are sometimes upwards of 100 cases.

“We don’t really have the space to do that, especially with the size of the courthouse and the size of the individual court rooms.”

Clack says the next step for the new courthouse is approval from the legislative Capitol Buildings Planning Commission. According to a legislative capital outlay report, about $22 million has been appropriated for construction.

The Santa Fe County Magistrate Court is cramped even without crowds of defendants and witnesses.

Powerlift

ANDREW OXFORD oxford@sfreporter.com

What would you change about Santa Fe’s governing document—the charter that serves as something like the city’s constitution?

Would you like more direct democracy— an easier way for voters to get their ideas on the ballot?

Maybe you just want to get rid of that weird rule banning bikes from the Plaza.

Whatever it is, you probably haven’t told the only people who can really do something about it.

Every two weeks for the last few months, a nine-member commission has gathered to discuss how to reshape the city’s charter. So far, they have gotten suggestions from approximately two people.

You are forgiven for overlooking the Charter Review Commission.

Santa Fe’s charter requires the mayor and council to appoint a commission at least every 10 years, and past commissions have made some big changes to city government. It’s how we got ranked choice voting, for example. But the group does not have a page on the city’s website and City Hall has done little to publicize its work. For all the community engagement sessions and outreach surrounding the city’s truth and reconciliation process and the redevelopment of the Midtown campus, city officials have done little to get local residents involved in rethinking the very foundation of Santa Fe’s government.

The Charter Review Commission could rewrite Santa Fe’s governance—but no one knows

But now might be the time to pay attention.

The commission plans to make recommendations next month to the mayor and city councilors, who will decide which—if any—of the group’s ideas to add to November’s municipal election ballot. And while commissioners have yet to finalize any particular proposals for tweaking the city charter, they are considering some remarkable changes.

The commission has mulled, for example, making it easier for voters to get initiatives and referendums on the ballot, giving local residents more power to make their own laws and repeal the laws they don’t like. Commissioners are also considering taking away the mayor’s vote on all matters that go before the City Council, potentially leaving him with only a tie-breaking vote.

Plus, commission members are floating an amendment that would declare access to food a human right and commit the city government to making land and water available to ensure the sustainable local production of food.

Commissioners are also considering making the charter review process itself more engaging.

“How do you have nine people voting for a whole city with no public input? That’s the saddest thing I’ve ever heard,” Commissioner John Paul Granillo tells SFR.

A draft proposal calls for city officials to provide more resources for future commissions, such as a website and a budget. It could also include a requirement that the commission convene outside City Hall and hold at least two meetings in each of Santa Fe’s four council districts.

The Charter Review Commission is not exactly free to do whatever it wants. State law, for one thing, is a check on the commission’s work.

Granillo says he was interested in a charter amendment that would cap rent increases in the city. But commissioners say state laws have tied their hands on that issue.

The City Council also sends a list of ideas to each commission. This year, councilors tasked the commission with studying whether Santa Fe could have an at-large council member or rejig the number of districts. But again, commissioners—and the city legal staff who reviewed the issues—say their hands are tied.

The council will get the final say, too, on which of the commission’s proposals end up on the ballot later this year.

But commissioners are discussing a change to the city charter that would make

it harder for the council to reject the proposals of future commissions. A draft proposal would require a supermajority of councilors to block any proposals from the ballot, giving more power to a group that— for this year, at least—has largely labored in obscurity.

The commission meets again at 5 pm on April 13 in the City Council Chambers. Here’s a look at a few issues the commission is tackling.

Democracy

For better or worse, New Mexico has no initiative process allowing voters to put issues on the ballot. When Colorado vot-

ers legalized weed and Arizonans raised the minimum wage (yes, Arizonans), all New Mexicans could do was wait for the Legislature to do something.

New Mexico has no recall process, either, leaving voters to wait for the next election to get rid of unpopular politicians if shame doesn’t drive the disgraced from office. Voters can put laws they don’t like up to a repeal vote. But it’s not easy and has only happened three times in state history.

Unlike the state Constitution, however, Santa Fe’s charter includes direct democracy.

Still, residents who want to put a proposed law up to a citywide vote need to circulate petitions and gather a lot of signatures. The number of signatures needed is equal to 33.3% of the number of people who voted in the last mayoral election. That would be about 6,000 signatures today (and any veteran of initiative campaigns will tell you to get far more in case some are found void). A share of those signatures would have to come from each of the city’s four council districts. The same rules apply for trying to repeal an unpopular law through referendum or recalling a deadbeat elected official.

“That threshold is extremely high. Most cities have it around 10% or so,” says Charter Review Commissioner Maria Perez.

The commission is considering a change to the city charter that would lower the threshold for getting initiatives and referendums on the ballot.

A draft proposal would cut the required number of signatures by more than half, to 15% of the number of residents who voted in the last mayoral election. That means if campaigners were trying to get a measure on the ballot this year, they would only need to collect about 2,700 signatures instead of 6,000.

Such a revision would bring the threshold for initiative campaigns in line with some other New Mexico cities, such as Las Cruces, where local voters put direct democracy to use in recent years to raise the minimum wage.

The commission is considering leaving the required number of signatures for a recall campaign untouched, however.

“That is adequate because voters do have recourse. There is a remedy if there is an elected official that is just not doing their job. If voters are very dissatisfied with somebody, we can wait until their term is over and elect somebody else,” Perez says.

The mayor and council

The last Charter Review Commission recommended Santa Fe create the sort of strong mayor system Santa Fe has today.

With the approval of voters in 2014, the mayor—starting after the 2018 election— became a full-time gig. The mayor also went from having a tie-breaking vote on the City Council to a vote on all matters that go before the governing body.

In a way, the change fit the mayor who came into power that year—Alan Webber, the founder of Fast Company magazine who sees the city’s top job as dealing as much with climate change as potholes and might have been as comfortable running to lead a municipality several times the size of Santa Fe.

But the change has blurred the roles of the city’s leaders, with the mayor taking on both a legislative and executive role. Meanwhile, the role of councilors has become fuzzier.

Once the key connection between their districts and City Hall, the creation of a constituent services bureau inside the clerk’s office has raised new questions about the role councilors play in handling concerns from local residents and working with senior officials in municipal government.

Should Santa Fe residents call their councilors to complain about a pothole or offer up ideas, or should they dial City Hall? Are councilors both legislators and advocates for their districts or do they just vote on bills?

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

H ow do you have nine people voting for a whole city with no public input?

That’s the saddest thing I’ve ever heard .

-Charter Review Commissioner John Paul Granillo

MEET THE COMMISSIONERS

The city’s Charter Review Commission is named every 10 years. It includes nine members—one appointed by each city councilor and one selected by the mayor.

Nancy Long, Chair

Attorney at Long Komer and Associates and member of the previous Charter Review Commission; she has served on several corporate and nonprofit boards

DISTRICT 1

Paul Dirdak

Retired from the nonprofit sector and now a member of the Santa Fe County Democratic Party’s central committee as well as president of a local HOA

Maria Perez

Co-director of Democracy Rising, which promotes ranked choice voting around the country

DISTRICT 2

Peter Ives Attorney, former city councilor and a candidate for mayor in 2018

A. Elicia Montoya Attorney at McGinn, Montoya, Love and Curry; former member of the city’s Ethics and Campaign Review Board

DISTRICT 3

Bridget Dixson

President and CEO of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce; appointed by Councilor Jamie Cassutt to fill a vacancy on the board in March

Alba Blondis

Chair of the Southwest Santa Fe Advocates and member of the board of the Santa Fe Community Housing Trust

DISTRICT 4

John Paul Granillo

Artist and co-founder of the Alas De Agua Art Collective; also a member of the board of the Santa Fe Community Housing Trust

Lilliemae Ortiz Chair of the city’s Independent Citizen Redistricting Commission; former Department of Finance and Administration division director

As the city navigates this shift in local government, the commission is now considering a slightly different role for the mayor in the future. Several draft amendments to address legislative power are under review.

Under one proposal commissioners are discussing, the mayor would no longer have a vote on every matter that comes in front of the City Council. Instead, the mayor would go back to only having a tie-breaking vote.

As Commissioner Paul Dirdak described it, some members of the commission propose the mayor serve in a sort of citywide leadership role.

The mayor’s position, Dirdak said, would be more about “helping the city as a whole envision its progress toward meeting its goals, and describing what’s most important and crucial issues of the moment. And so in that case, we don’t see the mayor as necessarily attending each meeting of the council.”

Dirdak tells SFR he wouldn’t exactly call it a step back from the strong mayor system. Commissioners are still working through the idea.

But one proposal recasts the mayor’s role as something of a “facilitator in chief,” working to solve the challenges facing the city and then enlisting the support of the council to create legislation as needed.

Asked about the possible changes, Webber told SFR he hadn’t been following the process.

The commission is also debating a change to the city charter that would require the council to adopt minimum qualifications for the city manager—a discussion that comes after the current city manager, John Blair, came into the role with no direct experience in municipal government.

With the city running more than a year behind on submitting financial audits— missing out on state funding and risking

the city’s bond rating as a result—the commission has also talked about attempting to add a whole section on financial management to Santa Fe’s charter.

That section could require the city manager to present councilors with a proposed budget at least two weeks before budget hearings begin, as well as calling for an independent financial audit every year.

Food and hunger

For all of Santa Fe’s green credentials and restaurants boasting of farm-to-table connections, the city isn’t exactly friendly to urban farming.

Powerlift

Consider Gaia Gardens, an organic urban farm in the Bellamah neighborhood that once operated a vegetable stand accessible by foot and bike on the Arroyo Chamiso trail. Cited by city code officials, the farm eventually folded amid a range of challenges.

Granillo, who helps run a farm just outside city limits, says a range of obstacles stifle agriculture inside Santa Fe, from zoning to access to water.

But the charter review commission is considering giving Santa Fe officials a mandate to support sustainable local agriculture inside city limits.

A charter amendment the commission is debating would declare access to nutritious food a human right and direct the city government to make available city land and water for the sustainable production of food.

“I know water can be gold and scarce but how can we give it back to our own community?” Granillo says.

The proposal isn’t as specific as some of the amendments commissioners are considering on the subjects of direct democracy or the role of the mayor. Instead, it would add something of a mission statement on ending hunger to Santa Fe’s guiding document. But the guidance it would give city officials to put resources to use for sustainable agriculture could be key in future debates over where and how to farm in the City Different.

In the short-term, Granillo says he would like to see a charter amendment like this kickstart more small-scale community gardening, building connections between city officials and local neighborhoods while also promoting education around sustainable agriculture.

“In the long run, I’d love to see farms all over Santa Fe,” he says.

Equity and inclusion

The proposal by several city councilors earlier this year to rebuild the obelisk on Santa Fe Plaza sputtered, but a nugget of that plan might live on through the charter. Commissioners are considering asking voters to create an Office of Equity and Inclusion as well as a Human Rights Commission at City Hall.

The office would be tasked with examining the city government’s actions from the perspective of equity, with backers pointing to the adoption in some cities of equity checklists as an example of the work the proposed office could take on in the future.

The Human Rights Commission would include five members—one for each council district and another appointed by the mayor.

While the mayor and council could set up an office on equity and inclusion on their own—and councilors have signaled they still want to—members of the Charter Review Commission argue that having voters approve the idea would give it staying power.

“A different administration may have different priorities and a standalone office is only as effective as the budget that is assigned to that office,” says Commissioner Alba Blondis. “So without a statement that a commission shall be, it can come and go depending on budget and administration.”

We don’t see the mayor as necessarily attending each meeting of the council.

-Charter Review Commissioner Paul Dirdak

MUSIC THU/13

GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME

Denver three-piece Bleak Mystique defies classification. Just when you think you’ve pegged them in the throwback ’80s sound category, they get grungy; just when you feel like you’ve got a hold on the ’60s elements at play, they drop into a Weezer-esque moment. Sam Shapiro, Aidan Hutchings and Hayden Bosch are so varied in their sonic explorations, in fact, that we should maybe just call them rock, stop getting hung up on genrefication and move on to actual enjoyment. Point is, there’s a lot to enjoy here for musical polyglots in search of a good time. Often unexpected and definitely weird, Bleak Mystique might not fit into any box neatly, but they’ve certainly done their homework. In other words, you can maybe ID some inspirations, but you can’t narrow this band down.

(Alex De Vore)

Bleak Mystique: 8 pm Thursday, April 13. Free Second Street Brewery (Rufina) 2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

ART OPENING FRI/14

QUICKLY NOW

It’s hard to afford original art. True enough, and the whole game can sometimes feel like a means for rich folks to move around their money. Hecho Gallery, though, operates differently. At this week’s Quick Draw, the second in a series, artist Daniel McCoy (Muskogee Creek/Potawatomi) hand-picked a number of local artists who will come together to create new pieces on the spot that collectors can then buy, also on the spot. McCoy himself will be there, art-ing it up, alongside notable locals like Ryan Parker, Yvette Serrano, Conor Flynn, Robyn Tsinnajinnie and so many more—13 in total! It’s fun to watch ‘em work and even more fun knowing you just collected a new piece without putting yourself in the poorhouse.

(ADV)

Quick Draw: 6 pm Friday, April 14. Free. Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave., (505) 455-6882

MUSIC SUN/16

BIZZIER THAN EVER

One of the cooler aspects of the rap and hip-hop worlds remains how members of downright legendary acts often have their own solo careers going.

Case in point: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Bizzy Bone heads to Santa Fe this week on his I’m Busy Tour through a promotions partnership between Sins Events and Reloaded Talent, and that’s a big-ass deal to fans of sick beats and lyrical excellence. Bizzy’s been known for a steady stream of releases, as well as a rather interesting background (Google it, buds, because it’s sometimes wild), but his dual-threat rapping/singing abilities keep him at well over 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. You’ll also find DJZ and Buck D on the show. (ADV)

I’m Busy Tour ft. Bizzy Bone: 8 pm Sunday, April 16

$30-$35. Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 303-3808

EXHIBITION SAT/15 & TUE/18

Amores Perros

The largest papier-mâché Aztec dog god you’ve ever seen

It took 10 years, multiple international organizations and decades of papier-mâché experience to bring Oscar Becerra-Mora’s enormous alebrije “Xólotl: Dios Perro,” to Santa Fe. But the timing of the work’s Southside Library exhibition couldn’t be better.

Originally the shared brainchild of Denver’s Mexican Cultural Center, the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City and several other Colorado and Mexicobased arts organizations, Becerra-Mora’s sculptural piece arrives in conjunction with the exhibit La Cartonería Mexicana/ The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste at the Museum of International Folk Art.

But unlike the modestly sized creatures by founder of the alebrije tradition Pedro Linares in MOIFA’s collection, BecerraMora’s titular piece—which clocks in at more than 13-by-14 feet—takes inspiration from the gigantic fantasy creatures carried aloft in Mexico City’s annual Monumental Alebrijes Parade and Competition. And rather than the dream imagery that led Linares to his original chimeric paper creations, Xólotl draws from the Aztec pantheon to convey a message of multiculturalism.

“I picked the Xólotl, which is a dog deity with symbolic importance in pre-Hispanic mythology, at first because I heard that people in Denver are dog lovers,” BecerraMora jokes in Spanish. “But on the other

hand, this deity had the particular ability to transform into other animals, which I associated with the alebrijes—which are pieces that are mixes or hybrids of different animals.”

Xólotl’s nomadic exhibition history has created a cultural and geographical interchange that echoes the mingling of diverse animal forms in alebrije.

Because the piece has been exhibited in spaces such as the History Colorado Center, Denver International Airport, Seattle Airport and University of New Mexico, in some sense, Becerra-Mora says, it has “become a kind of ambassador for Mexican culture through folk art.”

The work is arresting enough on its own to merit a trip to our town’s comfiest library. But for the full context of both the exhibition and its namesake underworld god, head to Museum Hill to hear BecerraMora speak with translation assistance from Ericka Hernández of the Mexican Cultural Center. (Siena Sofia Bergt)

XÓLOTL: DIOS PERRO TALK

2:30 pm Saturday, April 15. Free Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

ÓSCAR BECERRA-MORA: XÓLOTL (OPENING)

6 pm Tuesday, April 18. Free Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

THE CALENDAR

Want to see your event listed here?

We’d love to hear from you Send notices via email to calendar@sfreporter.com. Make sure you include all the pertinent details such as location, time, price and so forth. It helps us out greatly.

Submission doesn’t guarantee inclusion.

ONGOING

ART

ALBERTO VALDES

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Works from the late modernist.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

9 am-5 pm, Sat, free

ALYSSUM PILATO

Artichokes and Pomegranates

Floral Design

418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 8 (505) 820-0044

Plein air oil paintings of Santa Fe.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri;

10 am-2 pm, Sat, free

ANNE RAY AND ROSABETH LINK

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

222 Delgado St., (928) 308-0319

Watercolors and ceramics.

11 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat, free

ARRIVALS 2023

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

A preview of upcoming shows.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

ART AS INQUIRY

Vital Spaces Midtown Annex St. Michael’s Drive, vitalspaces.org

Experiments in scientific media.

1-5 pm, Fri-Sat, free

BRICOLAGE UNBRIDLED!

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Kevin Watson’s mixed media.

11-5 am, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

CALL TO ARTISTS

Online

whollyrags.org

Submit recycled art by Aug. 1.

CEDRA WOOD AND NINA ELDER

Pie Projects

924B Shoofly St., (505) 372-7681

Photos and graphite drawings.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

DANIEL BLAGG

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Uncanny paintings of decay.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

DANIEL RAMOS

Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta

(505) 470-2582

Black-and-white photographs. Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Fri; 12:30-5 pm, Tues, free

EBENDORF

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St (505) 216-1256

Famed jeweler Robert Ebendorf.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

ENRIQUE FLORES

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

An oneiric multi-media journey through San Pablo Huitzo.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free

EPHEMERALITY Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

Capturing fleeting moments.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

final ballot comING

FOTO CUBA

Artes de Cuba

1700 A Lena St., (505) 303-3138

Contemporary Cuban photographers documenting life on the island.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free GRAND OPENING

Edition ONE Gallery

729 Canyon Road, (505) 570-5385

Photography by David Kennedy and Jan Butchofsky.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

HARRIET YALE RUSSELL

Evoke Contemporary

550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902

Gouache abstracts on paper.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free

JAMES STERLING PITT

5. Gallery

2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417

Small sculptures and drawings.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free

JEFF KRUEGER

Kouri + Corrao Gallery

3213 Calle Marie, (505) 820-1888

Abstract drawing and sculpture.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

KALINE CARTER AND NATHAN AUFRICHTIG

Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road (505) 983-0433

Juxtaposing abstract paintings. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat; 11 am-4 pm, Sun, free

KATE STRINGER: WHO COULD WIN A RABBIT

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Lupe) 314 S Guadalupe St. (505) 428-0996

Emotive illustrations.

7:30 am-5 pm, free

KEVIN BELTRAN Iconik Coffee Roasters (Original) 1600 Lena St., (505) 428-0996

Photographs inspired by sound.

7:30 am-5 pm, free

LAND, SPACE AND COLOR: FELIX VOLTSINGER

Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000

Plein air western landscapes. 8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

Enrique Figueredo envisions hybridized forms of animal life in Sigue Pasando Por Aquí, on display this week at Form & Concept.

LINDSEY REDDICK

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Ceramic sculptures.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

LISBETH CORT

El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road

(505) 982-0016

Collages. Show ends Friday.

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

LONG LIVE: ALYSE RONAYNE smoke the moon

616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Wool work to steel sculpture. Noon-4 pm, Weds-Sun, free

LORI DORN

Calliope

2876 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 474-7564

Large scale abstract paintings.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Mon, free

MOKHA LAGET CONTAINER

1226 Flagman Way (505) 995-0012

Geometric paintings.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free

MOVING IMAGE FILM CO-OP

No Name Cinema

2013 Piñon st., nonamecinema.org

Ephemera from Santa Fe’s DIY film scene, closing Sunday.

During events or by appt., free

THE NEW YORK SCHOOL

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Albert Kotin’s expressionism.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

NOURISHING BEAUTY

Cafe Pasqual’s Gallery

103 E Water St., Second Floor (505) 983-9340

Pieces inspired by Japan.

10 am-5 pm, free

PABLO PICASSO

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Rare figurative works on paper. 10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri, 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

PEDRO REYES

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Multimedia political sculptures. 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Mon, Thurs; 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

POST FIESTA WARES

Axle Contemporary Visit axleart.com for daily location (505) 670-5854

Rick Phelps’ recycled paper art. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sun, free

THE REAL AND THE IDEAL:

DAVID KNOWLTON

Sorrel Sky Gallery

125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555

Western landscapes.

9:30 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat; 10 am-5 pm, Sun, free

SCOOTER MORRIS

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Mixed media flag-based art.

11-5 am, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

A SELECTION OF PRINTS

Black Rock Editions

1143 Siler Park Lane (505) 982-6625

Archival prints.

9 am-5 pm, Tues-Fri, free

SHADOWS AND LIGHT

ViVO Contemporary

725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320

Chiaroscuro across media.

10 am-5 pm, free

SIGUE PASANDO POR AQUÍ

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Enrique Figueredo’s woodcuts.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

WILLY BO RICHARDSON + LLOYD MARTIN

Nüart Gallery

670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888

Geometric abstract paintings.

10 am-5 pm, free

WED/12

BOOKS/LECTURES

CHAOS, TRAGEDY, TRANSITION

Renesan Institute

1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-9274

Allen Stone on the 1960s.

1-3 pm, $60

FIERCE CONSCIOUSNESS

Unitarian Universalist

107 W Barcelona Road (505) 982-9674

Author Trebbe Johnson reads.

7 pm, free

LAS GOLONDRINAS

Renesan Institute

1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-9274

With Director Daniel Goodman.

10 am-noon, $20

SCOTT G. HIBBARD:

BEYOND THE RIO GILA

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Sharing his historical novel.

5-6 pm, free

EVENTS

A CIRCLE OF PRESENCE BODY

333 West Cordova Road (505) 986-0362

Group meditation and reading.

5 pm, tickets by donation

FREE KIDS SING-ALONG

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

Music games for little ‘uns.

3:15-4 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Second Street Brewery (Railyard)

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278

Don't call it trivia.

8-10 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

60 E San Francisco St.

(505) 629-3538

Discuss Western geopolitics. Noon-2 pm, free

THE CALENDAR

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501

Thrice weekly rides.

10-11 am, $5

LET’S TAKE A LOOK

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

Bring heirlooms for pro analysis from the museum curators.

Noon-2 pm, free

MEDICARE INFO SESSION

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Learn how to navigate appeals, incorrect billing and more.

10-11:30 am, free

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Make Wayward Comedy laugh.

8 pm, free

ORIENTATION

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Register in advance for the garden’s volunteer prep session.

9-10 am, free

TOUR THE MANSION

New Mexico Governor's Mansion

One Mansion Drive

(505) 476-2800

A guided tour of the gov's digs. Noon, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Wind-themed stories this week.

10:30-11:30 am, free

WRITER'S DEN

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Write around fellow scribes.

5-6:30 pm, free

FILM

BLOWING IN THE WIND

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Beyond Plastics screens Greg Polk's short, New Mexicans

Taking Action on Plastic Waste

6:30 pm, free

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

For your Agua Fría chile needs.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC

DR. HALL

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana, blues and rock.

4-6 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave

(505) 988-9232

Your instruments. Their jazz pros. Sweet, sweet music.

6 pm, free

CONTINUED ON PAGE 21

Memoria: Art as Record—2023 Spring IAIA Graduating Senior Exhibition

Thursday, April 13, 6–8 pm (MDT) • Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery, IAIA Campus, 83 Avan Nu Po Road

Santa Fe seems to have more standups prowling our streets than ever lately, and this has manifested into more shows, more performances— more touring jokemakers wending their way through our weird little town. This week finds legendary yukster Todd Barry coming through to make us all laugh and stuff as part of the Todd Barry Stadium Tour 2023 (6:30 and 9 pm Friday, April 14. $25-$100. Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528) with local comedian Evan Galpert opening. Barry’s one of those comics who all the comedy nerds know and love, and who even impresses the normies with roles in Bob’s Burgers, Flight of the Conchords and Master of None. Did you catch his Spicy Honey special on Netflix? You should. With his signature delivery and ongoing dedication to hilarity, Barry somehow wormed his way into the hearts of anyone who likes laughing, so obviously we had to ask the guy some Qs via email. The A’s are short and sweet, but we’ll tell you what we told him—Barry’s a real pip.

(Alex De Vore)

I’m told you have a propensity for playing smaller markets. Is it that we’re so thrilled by the prospect of entertainment, or do you just prefer a more intimate space? Well, most of venues I play are intimate, even in big cities. I do like playing the smaller markets, especially if they are cool cities like Santa Fe!

Seems people want to call your work “deadpan” every chance they get. Do you think of yourself that way? Or, to put it another way, is your material the product of your comic evolution; or are you more working toward a mission? I don’t think of myself as deadpan, but maybe I am. But I’ve never consciously worked on my delivery or stage persona, it just evolved organically.

Without getting into the semantics of cancel culture, do you feel or notice your work changing lately?

My act has always been fairly innocuous, but I’m sure there are a couple of things that would be questionable today.

The dreaded pandemic question— did you get into any of that Zoom stuff, or did the last few years have any affect on your practice, how you write, etc.?

I mainly did Zoom and outdoor shows during the first part of the pandemic. Most of the Zoom shows were crowd work shows, which were interesting once I got into the rhythm, but they were also surprisingly draining. And it’s a bit surreal to do a show in your kitchen. As far as writing, I generally write on stage, so I didn’t have as much opportunity to generate new material the way I usually do.

Comics seem more elevated now— like we’ve all finally agreed it’s an art form. You’ve been in the biz for some time now, would you have any advice for your younger self, or even someone newly trying to make a go in comedy?

My advice for young comics is write and get on stage as much as possible, don’t bug people, don’t post a clip that doesn’t make you look great, don’t obsess with getting a manager or agent. Just get good at what you do and have fun.

Have you been through New Mexico before? Do you like spicy food? We have a lot of that here... I did a show in Albuquerque a few years ago and took a solo vacation to Santa Fe a few years before that. Unfortunately, I had a little stomach ailment going on during that trip. I still ate your green chiles, but it wasn’t easy. Hopefully I’ll be in good shape for this trip!

WWW.SFINTERNATIONALLITFEST.ORG

Bringing together world renowned authors, thinkers, and passionate readers.

Featured authors include Colum McCann, Jennifer Egan, Ed Yong, Gillian Flynn, John Irving, David Quammen, and Luis Alberto Urrea.

Photo © Jack Parsons

Join the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) for the opening reception for the 2023 Spring IAIA Graduating Senior Exhibition, Memoria: Art as Record, representing the culminating achievements of the graduating BFA in Studio Arts and BFA in Museum Studies students. This event is free and open to the public—a light dinner and refreshments will be served. Learn more at www.iaia.edu/memoriaartasrecord

with Comedian Todd Barry

COURTESY TODD BARRY

LAURIE LEWIS AND THE RIGHT HANDS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

Americana and bluegrass.

7:30 pm, $25-$30

SWING SOLIEL

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road

(505) 982-1931

Acoustic swing jazz.

7-9 pm, free

WORKSHOP

AERIAL FABRIC WITH LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Foot lock, drop and pose.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

GRANT WRITING FOR BIPOC ARTISTS

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Alas de Agua Art Collective discusses seeking financial support.

5-7 pm, free

INTRODUCTION TO WICCA

Unitarian Church of Los Alamos

1738 N. Sage St., Los Alamos (505) 695-0278

An ongoing series from Our Lady of the Woods Coven.

7-9 pm, free

POI WITH ELI

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Get those fiery poles a-spinnin'.

7-8:30 pm, $20-$25

ROPES WITH CLARA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Practice wraps, drops and movement quality.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

THU/13

ART OPENINGS

MEMORIA: ART AS RECORD (OPENING)

Institute of American Indian Arts

83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2300

The IAIA class of 2023 shares their capstone projects.

6-8 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

DO THE DEAD HAVE RIGHTS?

El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road, (505) 982-0016

Alysia Abbott addresses preservation of gravesites in Santa Fe.

3 pm, $10

FIFTEEN QUESTIONS BEFORE STARTING A BUSINESS

Santa Fe Business Incubator

3900 Paseo del Sol

(505) 424-1140

Ralph Atencio of El Parasol

Restaurant, walks through questions for potential small business owners.

5:30-7 pm, free

IMPACT INVESTING IN NEW MEXICO

Santa Fe Higher Education Center

1950 Siringo Road

(505) 428-1725

Register in advance for info on the investment landscape.

5 pm, free

PETER KALDHEIM: IDIOT WIND

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Sharing his memoir.

6-7 pm, free

THE SANTA FE OPERA

2023 SEASON

Renesan Institute

1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-9274

Mark Tiarks on the upcoming season.

10 am-noon, $100

EVENTS

ALL FIERCE COMEDY

SHOW

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

Watch Carlos Medina or catch these chanclas

7 pm, $10-$30

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Edition One Gallery

729 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385

Jan Butchofsky hangs to discuss her photos.

1-4 pm, free

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

7505 Mallard Way Ste. 1 (505) 467-8892

Whiskey witnessing. 3 pm, 5 pm, $20

INSIDER INSIGHTS

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

Christian Waguespack leads a tour of Baumann pieces.

1:30-3:30 pm, $20

OPEN MIC NIGHT

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Share literary work aloud.

5-6:30 pm, free

SEEDS & SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Tots explore the backyard.

10:30-11:30 am, free

FOOD

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St (505) 393-5135

Brent Jung’s ultra fresh seafood.

5-8 pm, free

MUSIC

ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS WIND

ENSEMBLE

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

A Performance Santa Fe show.

7:30 pm, $45-$95

ANNALISA EWALD

Agave Restaurant & Lounge

309 W San Francisco St. (505) 995-4530

Classical and baroque guitar.

6-9 pm, free

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Jazz aficionados.

6 pm, free

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana and honky-tonk.

4-6 pm, free

BLEAK MYSTIQUE

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Denver grunge rock. (See SFR

Picks, page 17)

8-10 pm, free

COUNTRY NIGHT

Santa Fe Brewing Company

37 Fire Place, (505) 557-6182

Hosted by Sim Balkey and his Honky Tonk Crew.

6:30 pm, free

DAVID GEIST

Osteria D'Assisi

58 S Federal Place

(505) 986-5858

Piano and vocals renditions of familiar melodies.

7-10 pm, $5

JASON DEA WEST

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Alternative western tunes.

7 pm, free

THEATER

HUBBA HUBBA

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

An all-ages story of puppet love, featuring Alex and Olmsted.

7:30-8:45 pm, $15-$75

WORKSHOP

BEGINNER FABRIC

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

A softer aerial texture than rope.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

CLARIFYING MEDITATIVE WORK

bit.ly/3K8d586, (505) 281-0684

Meditation and discussion.

7-8:30 pm, free

HATHA YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Gentle yoga.

10:30-11:30 am, $18-$90

SLACKLINING

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Learn to highline.

7-8:30 pm, $23-$28

TRAPEZE AND LYRA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Float through the air.

5:30-7 pm, $23-$28

ART OPENINGS

GOING WITH THE FLOW (OPENING)

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Southwestern artists explore the centrality of water.

5-9 pm, free

KEVIN BELTRAN: UNOBSERVABLE NOISE (RECEPTION)

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Original)

1600 Lena St. (505) 428-0996

Photographs inspired by sound.

4-6 pm, free

SCOOTER MORRIS: THE TIPPING POINT (RECEPTION)

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Mixed media pieces.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

BRUCE MOSS: A DEATH IN FLORENCE Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

On his 1700s-set novel.

6 pm, free

COMPOSTING WITH WORMS

Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1125

Sam McCarthy discusses horticultural wonders of red worms.

11 am, $28-$35

THE CONCEPT OF TRUTH IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS St. John’s College

1160 Camino Cruz Blanca (505) 984-6000

Phil LeCuyer gets Old Testament.  7 pm, free

CONVERSATION AND POTTERY MAKING

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

On Pueblo pottery and language. 1 pm, free

MOJI AGHA

Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe 107 N. Barcelona Road (505) 982-9674

Addressing Iranian nonviolence.  6:30 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SPRING SEASON

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

Castanets and cena

7:30 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Own that mic. 9 pm-1 am, free

Scooter Morris explores the underbelly of Americana in The Tipping Point, on display this week at Aurelia Gallery.

COURTESY AURELIA GALLERY

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1

(505) 467-8892

Watch whiskey in process.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

ELDORADO POETRY READING

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado

(505) 466-7323

Local poets read aloud.

5-7 pm, free

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail

(505) 989-8359

Featuring...the Military

Museum?

1-4 pm, free

MINIATURES PAINTING

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 395-2628

Paint table top game figurines.

4-6:30 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Witness a botanical bounty.

11 am-noon, free

QUICKDRAW

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave.

(505) 455-6882

Live drawing and on-the-spot

sales. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

6-8 pm, free

THOMAS TENORIO POTTERY DEMONSTRATION

Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery

100 W San Francisco St.

(505) 986-1234

The Kewa Pueblo artist shares his process.

Noon-4 pm, free

TODD BARRY STADIUM TOUR

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 466-5528

Deadpan comedy. (See 3Qs, page 20)

6:30 pm, 9 pm, $35-$100

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

Get chile’d up.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC

ANNALISA EWALD

Agave Restaurant & Lounge

309 W San Francisco St. (505) 995-4530

Classical and baroque guitar.

6-9 pm, free

BLACK MESA BRASS QUINTET

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

All-brass Star Wars themes, etc.

5:30 pm, free

HALF-A-SHIPWRECK

Honeymoon Brewery

907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Indie rock and Americana.

8 pm, free

KENDALL LUJAN

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Melodic and folky indie rock.

8-10 pm, free

LUCY BARNA

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Original folk and Americana.

5 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

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

Jazz jamming.

6 pm, free

ROBIN OXLEY

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Acoustic Americana.

5-7 pm, free

SALSA NIGHT

Santa Fe Brewing Company

37 Fire Place, (505) 557-6182

Norteño music from Nosotros.

6 pm, free

THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

An NM Jazz Festival event.

7:30 pm, $45-$69

TUMBLEROOT MUSIC LAB

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

Michael Garfield gathers artists for multidisciplinary group improvs.

7-10 pm, $10-$15 suggested

ZOLTAN AND THE FORTUNE TELLERS

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Intriguingly labeled "punk swing."

8 pm, free

THEATER

DEATHCOOKIE: A MURDER MYSTERY

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Exodus Ensemble presents an interactive onboard mystery.

7:30 pm, $149-$170

HUBBA HUBBA

Santa Fe Playhouse

142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

Puppeteers on romantic love.

11 am, 7:30 pm, $15-$75

SAT/15

ART OPENINGS

EXHIBITION TOURS: EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Drop in for guided tours.

10 am-4 pm, free THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

In the West Casitas, north of the water tower

1612 Alcaldesa St. Pottery, textiles and more.

9 am-2 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE QC

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Chat about creating queer safety.

10 am, free

XÓLOTL: DIOS PERRO TALK

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

Óscar Becerra-Mora on his alebrije. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

2:30-3:30 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave (505) 209-1302

Get clacking.

7:30 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

SECRETS OF THE HEART

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

This week's social education theme is listening.

10:30-11:15 am, free

BAILE DE CASCARONES

Santa Fe Community Convention Center

201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590

The traditional Easter dance involving confetti-filled eggs.

7-11 pm, $2-$20

DOCENT TRAINING

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

A botanical training series.

9 am-noon, free

EL MUSEO MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591

Art and antiques.

9 am-4 pm, free

FERIA SOUTHSIDE MERCADO

Fraternal Order of Police

3300 Calle Maria Luisa #3 (505) 471-9060

More than 30 vendors, live music y mas.

10 am-2 pm, free

FOLK ART DONATION DAYS

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

Drop off gently loved art for the folk art flea.

11 am-2 pm, free

GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP

Keep Santa Fe Beautiful

1142 Siler Road, (505) 955-2215 Spruce up the city.

9 am-noon, free

MEET CORNELIUS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Pay tribute to the reigning cornsnake king.

1-2 pm, free

MY VOICE MATTERS

Ojo Santa Fe Spa Resort

242 Los Pinos, (877) 977-8212

A healing day for Indigenous survivors of sexual violence.

9 am-5 pm, free

RAMADAN REFLECTIONS

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Women discuss Ramadan.

4:30-6 pm, free

SLOW ART

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

A guided tour of selected works.

10 am-noon, free

THE MET LIVE IN HD: DER

ROSENKAVALIER

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Strauss’ Vienna-set comedy.

10 am, 6 pm, $22-$28

THE STARGAZER

Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Onboard guided stargazing.

8:30 pm, $139

FILM

LIQUID FORM: WATER IN EXPERIMENTAL FILM

No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St., nonamecinema.org

The first of two days exploring water as material and subject.

7 pm, $5-$15 suggested

SATURDAY MORNING

CARTOONS

Beastly Books 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Nostalgic cartoons and cereal.

11 am-7 pm, free

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 393-5135

For dire chile emergencies.

4-10 pm, free

PLANTITA POP UP

Plantita Vegan Bakery

1704 Lena St., Unit B4 (505) 603-0897

Blueberry muffins and more.

10 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

ARS NOVA SINGERS

PRESENTS: REFLECTIONS

St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Works by Mahler and others.

7:30 pm, $10-$30

B.A.B.E.S.

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135

Bad Ass Bitches Electro Sounds.

9 pm-1:30 am, $13

BILL HEARNE

La Fonda on the Plaza

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

Americana and honky-tonk.

6:30-9 pm, free

BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto

211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Blues and soul classics.

6-9 pm, free

DJ KALEIDO

Honeymoon Brewery

907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Chillhop and house.

8-11 pm, free

DELBERT ANDERSON AND FRIENDS

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

Navajo jazz.

6 pm, $20-$60

DIRTY BROWN JUG BAND

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Country rock.

8 pm, free

JAKE SHULMAN-MENT

GiG Performance Space

1808 Second St., gigsantafe.com New York klezmer fiddling.

7:30 pm, $25

MOROCCO: A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE

Travel Bug Coffee Shop

839 Paseo de Peralta (505) 992-0418

Susan Boe and Bonnie Binkert share takes on traveling in Morocco.

5 pm, free

Land, Sea and Coffee

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

While it’s not inherently difficult to find a decent cup of coffee and a place to hole up and drink it in Santa Fe, the folks who live out toward Sunlit Hills/9 Mile Road have certainly toiled without a dedicated coffee shop as far back as any of us can remember. Take it from me—I lived out that way for a million years, and if you’d forgotten to get yourself a nice bag of something before you went all the way home? Well, the ramifications are too grim to truly comprehend.

All that’s changing now, however, with Wolf & Mermaid Enchanted Roasters, a new coffee roasting outfit and café from couple Scott Baird and Kate Kudynska, as well as Scott’s brother Jonny. The trio roasts small batch, single-origin blends from Central America, South America and Africa in a small-capacity Aillio Bullet roaster with a massive new one from industry leader Joper on the way.

They’re serving upscale coffee drinks from a section of the bar within the Bourbon Grill at El Gancho (104 Old Las Vegas Hwy., (505) 870-7479) and have plans to open another location this summer. Kudynska is also baking the best damn gluten-free treats she can. All this is to say the company is expanding its operations following a whirlwind year that included big moves, deep love, business madness and so much more. Do you know Wolf & Mermaid yet?

Wolf & Mermaid Enchanted Roasters expands its coffee empire

Maybe not. You will soon, though.

But first, take it back a couple years, to New York City, where Baird and Kudynska first met. He was in construction; she was a molecular biologist. Baird and his brother grew up in Albuquerque. Kudynska, on the other hand, immigrated to Canada from Poland when she was young (and yes, we did talk about Degrassi), where she lived for decades. She wound up in New York later, and when she and Baird met, it was one of those love-at-first-sight kind of things you read about. They’ve been inseparable since.

“But we kind of woke up in New York one day and wondered why we were still there,” Baird explains. “We didn’t have any real connections, so we said, ‘OK, let’s figure out a new place to be.’”

Santa Fe called to them. With his ‘Burque youth ringing in his ears, Baird knew he longed for the high desert, and Kudynska agreed.

“It’s the next chapter where you know who you are, yeah?” she tells SFR. “You know what you want.”

Once they arrived here, though, the next step was figuring out how to make a living.

“It was either going to be coffee, wine or cannabis,” Baird says with a laugh, “and coffee was the easiest to jump into.”

In short order, they’d found a rep who could provide them all the beans they could ever want from various countries—single origin and fair trade, of course. From there it was a matter of learning to roast.

“We said, ‘OK, we’re going to roast the

best coffee if possible,’ and we started at selling it at farmers markets, and when we got to selling at the Los Alamos market, all of a sudden we were talking to people at Fiestas and Spanish Market,” Baird says. “And this was all in a tent, under an umbrella. We did 55 events last year.”

As popular as the beans were, people wanted ready-made coffee, too, and this altered the business plan slightly. Baird and Kudynska enrolled in the business accelerator program through the New Mexico MainStreet program from the state’s Economic Development Department, which helped secure a temporary space in Los Alamos last February as part of a pop-up program. Next, the couple secured a lease in the same building and began renovations with plans to offer coffee from a section of

the bar at Bathtub Row Brewing daily.

The space at 239 Johnson St. in downtown Santa Fe should also be ready this summer. For now, though, evolution is the name of the game. As Jonny says, learning to get into the coffee game has upped his appreciation for every aspect of the coffee game—it’s about respect.

“It’s brought everything to a new level,” he says. “And I love making crazy drinks.”

As for the crazy drink he made during my visit, the Zozo-chino homage to Mexican hot chocolate tasted just right, subtly sweet and brimming with flavor from Wolf & Mermaid’s Soaring Condor roast, a Costa Rican number. At $16 per 12 ounces, it’s pricey, but with new shops in the works and a current foothold just outside the city, it’s kind of worth it to get in on the goodness.

From left: Jonny Baird, Scott Baird and Kate Kudynska of Wolf & Mermaid Enchanted Roasters.

ALEX DE VORE

BEER MUSIC

& FREE LIVE SHOWS & EVENTS

at

Second Street Brewery

THU 4/13 -

BLEAK MYSTIQUE (Denver) / SUNDARTA

8 PM @ Rufina Taproom

WED 4/19 -

Wednesday Night Folks - HELLO DARLIN’

6-9 PM @ Rufina Taproom

SAT 4/22 -

KAMAGRAPH SKATEBOARDS SPRING SHOW

5 @ Rufina Taproom

SUN 4/23 -

Sunday Swing - STANLIE KEE & STEP IN 1-4 PM @ Rufina Taproom

www.secondstreetbrewery.com

Welcoming Santa Fe since 2010

Facial Bar•Cosmetic Tattoo

•Cosmetic Tattoo Education• Brazilian Waxing •Spray Tanning

Book today!

Skin•Cosmetic Tattoo•Beauty Education Studio

505.471.1008 glowhouseofbeautyandpain.com

THE OPENING OF OUR 2023 SEASON

THE FIRST OF FIVE POWERFUL AND PROVOCATIVE PLAYS AT THE LAB THEATER

1213 PARKWAY, SANTA FE

Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 pm

Sundays 2 pm

Previews May 3 and 4 - $15

MAY 3 - 21 SIMPATICO

by Sam

Shepard

Directed by Nicholas Ballas

A thrilling mystery set in the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, it explores themes of memory, loyalty and restitution. Just in time for the Derby!

With Nicholas Ballas, Melissa Christopher, Jody Hegarty Durham, Joey Beth Gilbert, Geoffrey Pomeroy, and Hania Stocker

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS $35

PREVIEWS & STUDENTS $15

FIVE SHOW SEASON TICKET $150

www.nmactorslab.com

Six-String Samurais

Guitar geeks Scott Baxendale and Shawn Lee face the future together

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Santa Fe newcomer and master luthier Scott Baxendale can pinpoint the moment he fell in love with music and guitars.

“I was 5 years old in Kansas City, in 1960... and my parents left me with a babysitter to go to the Playboy Club, because they had a friend who was the head bandleader at the club,” he tells SFR. “At 3 o’clock in the morning, I woke up to these loud noises, and I was laying in bed thinking they’d come home and put on the record player, but it was too present to be the record player. Even at 5, I knew that, so I went to the top of the base ment stairs—my parents had invited the rhythm section from the club’s band for an after-hours jam. I sat there mes merized, and I think that’s what sealed my fate.”

The next chapter of Baxendale’s story is taking off locally as a merger with Shawn Lee’s Stay Gold Guitars. But between that moment on the stairs and today, Baxendale would go on to develop a Beatles obses sion, which ultimately evolved into a guitar obsession. This would lead him to manufacturing positions through the 1970s with Mossman Guitars in Kansas and Gruhn Guitars in Tennessee.

While at Gruhn, he says, a challenge from luthier legend George Gruhn him self found Baxendale and other workers attempting to suss out the reason cer tain Martin guitars from certain years sounded so particularly good. This sparked in Baxendale a newfound passion for the mechanics of acoustic guitars. He went on to buy the Mossman company be fore spawning his own outfit, Baxendale Guitar, an Athens, Georgia-based shop through which he either created or re stored instruments for huge names like Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, Donovan, Willie Nelson and many others.

That is, of course, the abbreviated ver sion of the story, but after years of making guitars sing, Baxendale settled on one spe ciality: conversions. It’s a process through

which he takes older guitars—say ones from the department store catalogues of ’20s, ’30s or earlier, or the forgotten Kay that has been sitting under someone’s bed for years, un-played—and breaks them down to their bones. He then restores what needs restoring and builds them back up stronger, including a proprietary methodology of X bracing, a guitar-building technique that describes the shape of the wooden bracing materials found inside an acoustic instrument. Through a decades-long process of trial and experimentation, Baxendale’s specific bracing layout and wood shaping gives even the oldest, most beat-up guitar a new lease on life, and the instruments often sound better than when they originally hit the streets; they also come with cases and warranties, a

world of guitar shredders: blues, rock and metal. His life changed forever.

“I was fortunate to have parents that, y’know, were there in the ’60s and had a lot of records,” Lee says. “They got it. They were supportive.”

Lee picked up a music degree from the College of Santa Fe, then, later, an MBA from University of New Mexico. And though he accepted a position with Santa Fe’s Thornburg Investment Management, where he worked for years, the guitars always called to him. He resigned that job in 2018 and, by December of 2019, he had opened Stay Gold Guitars (1221 Flagman Way Unit B5, (505) 699-2128), a specialty shop dedicated to vintage and higher-end acoustic guitars like Iris, Collings and others. Lee had already been working with El Paseo, Texasbased restorer Dan Lambert, but his newfound dedication to guitars enjoying newfound life is also how he met Baxendale.

“I’d found Scott on [online instrument marketplace] Reverb and bought some of his guitars before I even opened,” Lee says. “So then on a whim I kind of asked him if he’d thought about having a dealer, and it turned out been thinking of that.

‘You read my mind,’ he said.’” Lee would have no trouble selling the Baxendale conversion guitars through his store, and he jumped at the chance to work more closely with Baxendale when the latter mentioned he was thinking of moving to Santa Fe, where his wife had once lived. Now, just about a year after Baxendale’s relocation, he and Lee are in the midst of finalizing a merger between the two businesses. Not only will this allow Stay Gold to be the home base for Baxendale projects, it’ll mean Baxendale’s legacy is secure if and when he decides to retire. For Lee, who will take over when the time is right, it also means another dimension to working with guitars—lessons from a bona-

fide master in the field.

“I dreamed of this for probably 25 years,” Lee says. “I was the kind of guy who was buying tools before I even knew what I was doing. I wanted to build guitars in my garage, and never got to it. It happened with Scott by coincidence or by magic.”

Today, Lee splits his time between appointments at Stay Gold and the Baxendale workshop down Agua Fría Street in an unassuming warehouse. Already he’s rebuilt about a dozen guitars under Baxendale’s tutelage. Of course, Baxendale will probably stick around even after he retires—for some, working on guitars isn’t something that ever fully leaves their system.

“A lot of people like these guitars because they’re really stable,” Baxendale adds. “Ours have gone through so many years of shrinking and contracting and expanding and drying and getting humid that they get to a point where they’re sort of impervious. There’s something different about the sound when they reach that point.”

There is indeed something different about a Baxendale, which makes the merger all the more exciting. Lee’s not even close to slowing down, and Baxendale’s expertise is enduring. Not too shabby for a pile of wood with six strings slapped across it.

Scott Baxendale shows off his proprietary bracing method for restoring guitars. LEFT: Shawn Lee of Stay Gold Guitars.

ALEX DE VORE

The Super Mario Bros. Movie Review

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

OK, yeah, sure—The Super Mario Bros. Movie is made for and aimed at children. But just like most animated properties since the dawn of animation, a contingent of adult moviegoers will certainly see the thing. Don’t forget, either, the parents who will have to take their kids; there should be things in there for them, too. And yet...ugh.

Animation studio Illumination (makers of the Minions movies) would surely know the very concept of a Mario Bros. film would speak to various generations. For so many of us, Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser and all the rest have been ubiquitous characters as far back as we can remember. Why, then, does this movie work so hard to be devoid of originality? Dimensional characters? Why does it eschew much of anything outside of repeated jokes from other films, Easter egg nods that feel less like sly winks than they do hammers emblazoned with “remember when...?” on them and celebrity voices less interested in crafting characters than sounding as much like themselves as possible?

In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, we follow brothers Mario and Luigi as they embark upon a new plumbing venture in New York City. No one believes in them, though, which proves an especially damning

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

9

+ INCREDIBLE ACTION; GORGEOUS, ACTUALLY; BADASS

- A LITTLE TOO LONG

Keanu Reeves is back as John Wick in the aptly titled John Wick: Chapter 4, and it is everything we’ve come to expect from director Chad Stahelski’s franchise over the past near-decade. We rejoin Mr. Wick hot on the heels of his last foray, which found him traipsing the globe in search of forgiveness from the shadowy High Table order of assassins after he’d killed someone at the Continental, a neutral ground hotel for assassins wherein so-called “business” is strictly prohibited. Turns out Mr. Wick didn’t quite earn his freedom despite lopping off a finger in deference in the last movie, so the leaders of the High Table dispatch the Marquis (It star Bill Skarsgård) to kill the guy with all of their nefarious resources at his disposal. A hail of bullets and tempest of blades follows.

We must first assign credit to Stahelski, where it is most assuredly due thanks to his fresh take on action films. Throughout the John Wick series, there has rarely been a lull. Bodies pile up in these films through no shortage of creative martial arts, swordplay and gun-fu, but it’s the broader world of assassins that keeps things interesting. We don’t know much about the High Table, nor can we—but therein lies much of the fun. Through storytelling devices, we know Mr. Wick is likely Belarusian, he’s about the best killer ever and he belongs to a clandestine

reality to endure when they’re swept into the alternate dimension Mushroom Kingdom through a pipe located deep within the sewers of Brooklyn. Seems a big ol’ fire-breathing turtle guy called Boswer (Jack Black; the only truly fun element of the movie) is hell-bent on domination and has taken over parts of the realm. Separated and forced to rely on the expositional facets crammed down our throats in the film’s early minutes, Mario (Chris Pratt) sets off to do brave stuff and make quips about heart or whatever, while Luigi (Charlie Day) drops Scooby-Doo-esque lines about g-g-g-g-ghosts or, in this case, k-k-k-k-koopas! Mario teams up with the Mushroom Kingdom’s Princess Peach (Anya Taylor Joy in what is just plain a mind-numbingly boring performance), Toad (Keegan-Michael Key, who, like Black, actually tries acting) and Donkey Kong (Seth Rogen doing his best impression of Seth Rogen) to find his brother and stop Bowser. Spoiler alert? They win.

Illumination is a top-tier animation studio, and no one should have any notes about their design and aes-

universe of ritual-obsessed sects of killers lurking in plain site. Neat!

Beyond that, all that matters is the onslaught of fight scenes meticulously choreographed like a bloody ballet. The addition of martial arts cinema legend Donnie Yen as former Wick associate Caine only ups the ante. Yen takes part in the long-running canon of blind swordsmen that includes such iconic entries as Zatoichi and Ninja Scroll. In tandem with Wick’s blend of over-the-top insanity...well, let’s just say there’s something satisfying about a blind guy beating everyone’s ass.

Back in the fray are other longtime franchise favorites like Continental manager Winston (Ian McShane) and his concierge Charon (Lance Reddick, rest in power!), plus Reeves’ Matrix co-alum Laurence Fishburne and, thrillingly, veteran character actor Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption). Together, they represent the various bits and pieces of the otherwise enigmatic Mr. Wick; they, too, are badass. Even so, there’s such a thing as diminishing returns, and the 50th fight starts to overstay its welcome. As for the overhead tracking shot that reads like 2012 video game Hotline Miami? Brilliant. Beautiful.

As Stahelski leaves Wick behind (at least for now) and moves on to his next project, an adaptation of the Ghost of Tsushima video game, fans of the series will find an organic and satisfying conclusion. Turns out homeboy did it all for love, and that’s an OK reason enough to blast fools, right?(ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, R, 169 min.

BOSTON STRANGLER

+ FASCINATING PREMISE; CINEMATOGRAPHY - RUN-OF-THE-MILL JOURNO THRILLER

+ STUNNING ANIMATION AND SOUND - BARELY-THERE STORY; SUBPAR VOICE ACTING; TOO CUTE AT TIMES, EVEN FOR KIDS

thetics. As for its recycled humor from its other movies and a whole heck of a lot of assuming most people will just know who the Mario characters are, well, let’s just say that if a kid who never had video games wandered into a theater, they’d be baffled. Oh, but look—there’s Rainbow Road from Mario Kart! There’s Kranky Kong from Donkey Kong Country! Flashing lights! Yoshi the dinosaur in the background! Love conquers all while the 50th slo-mo moment stands in for anything the least bit clever! Even worse, literally dozens of high-profile voice actors who could’ve done better left out of the process. Yes, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is for kids, and yes, adults will see it. The real question is, regardless of who it’s for, should it piss you off so badly?

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE

Directed by Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic and Pierre Leduc

With Pratt, Black, Taylor-Joy, Key and Rogen Violet Crown, Regal, PG, 92 min.

When last we checked in with Keira Knightley (which wasn’t recent; it’s not like we just follow her career all the time), she was starring in 2019’s Official Secrets, a sort of bland based-on-a-true-story journalism movie about the US’s nefarious intro to war in the Middle East circa 2003. Therein, she played a British government worker who leaked information to the press, and this time, Knightley’s on the other side of the fence in Boston Strangler, a movie about—get this—the Boston Strangler, a purported serial killer who terrorized women in Boston in the 1960s and possibly later in Michigan.

In Strangler, Knightley plays real-life journo Loretta McLaughlin, who, along with also-real-life journalist Jean Cole (portrayed here by Gone Girl’s Carrie Coon), dug into the enigmatic and seemingly patterned killings that gripped the Massachusetts metropolis. Contending with everything from institutional misogyny, impatient husbands, ineffective cops and so forth, McLaughlin and Cole became part of the story themselves (sadly, in a “look at this dog that can stand on its hind legs!” sort of way at first) and made enemies of the police force, but ultimately did that kind of kick-ass journalism to which we all aspire.

Writer/director Matt Ruskin (Crown Heights) helms the historical drama, and though he does delve into the ways in which women were forced to fight for a

place at the table, be it at work or in society, his main focus remains on the tenacity of his subjects. Without McLaughlin and Cole, we learn, the public might have been kept in the dark much longer, and though a known Boston scumbag confessed to the crimes, launching later-disgraced attorney F. Lee Bailey into the public sphere, Strangler contends that humanity’s need for comfort often supersedes our pursuit of truth. The bulk of the Boston Strangler murders remain unsolved to this day—and many question whether the confessor, Albert DeSalvo, truly was the guy. Ruskin posits that we much prefer tying a neat bow on things to accepting there is real and ongoing evil in the world.

Knightley cuts a sympathetic enough character in her performance as McLaughlin, and her obsession becomes our own. Coon wows, though, all tough shouting and dogged reporting. Boston Strangler even manages a few truly scary moments akin to David Fincher’s Zodiac, from which this one obviously takes more than a few cues. But rather than straying from the newspaper thriller formula set down by movies like All the President’s Men, Ruskin opts to paint by numbers. This is disappointing, even if the film’s final moments are cause for conversation. Regardless, one wonders why Ruskin’s film went straight to Hulu rather than a theater near you, particularly in its brilliant cinematography from Ozark alum Ben Kutchins. Some moments look almost like Renaissance paintings, but they can’t save a middling movie. Still, it’s fun to see McLaughlin and Cole take on the cops and to see Knightley run around doing journalism. (ADV) Hulu, R, 112 min.

Sorry, moviegoers, your good movie is in another castle

JONESIN’

“Running Free”—more words, words, words.

by Matt Jones

11 Gym instructor’s deg.

12 Musical character who sings “I swear on all my spores”

13 One of Chaucer’s Canterbury pilgrims

16 Involve

20 Some strength-training enthusiasts

25 “Whenever”

27 Throws a sleeper then touches the ground, essentially

29 Went for the silver, perhaps

30 Ganon, to Link

33 Family surname in current TV

34 “... the giftie ___ us”: Burns

35 Field items that follow an arc

36 Barely

37 Underground experts

41 Add new padding to

42 “Mr. Belvedere” costar Bob 43 They’re real knockouts 45 Zulu warrior king 47 Toyota model rebooted in 2019

52 Laugh line 54 “Proud Mary” band, briefly 55 Dir. from Iceland to Ireland

PSYCHICS

MIND BODY SPIRIT

Rob Brezsny Week of April 12th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope that in the coming weeks, you will keep your mind bubbling with zesty mysteries. I hope you’ll exult in the thrill of riddles that are beyond your current power to solve. If you cultivate an appreciation of uncanny uncertainties, life will soon begin bringing you uncanny certainties. Do you understand the connection between open-hearted curiosity and fertile rewards? Don’t merely tolerate the enigmas you are immersed in—love them!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An old sadness is ripening into practical wisdom. A confusing loss is about to yield a clear revelation you can use to improve your life. In mysterious ways, a broken heart you suffered in the past may become a wild card that inspires you to deepen and expand your love. Wow and hallelujah, Taurus! I’m amazed at the turnarounds that are in the works for you. Sometime in the coming weeks, what wounded you once upon a time will lead to a vibrant healing. Wonderful surprise!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What is the true and proper symbol for your sign, Gemini? Twins standing shoulder to shoulder as they gaze out on the world with curiosity? Or two lovers embracing each other with mischievous adoration in their eyes? Both scenarios can accurately represent your energy, depending on your mood and the phase you’re in. In the coming weeks, I advise you to draw on the potency of both. You will be wise to coordinate the different sides of your personality in pursuit of a goal that interests them all. And you will also place yourself in harmonious alignment with cosmic rhythms as you harness your passionate urge to merge in a good cause.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some scientists speculate that more people suffer from allergies than ever before because civilization has over-sanitized the world. The fetish for scouring away germs and dirt means that our immune systems don’t get enough practice in fending off interlopers. In a sense, they are “bored” because they have too little to do. That’s why they fight stuff that’s not a threat, like tree pollens and animal dander. Hence, we develop allergies to harmless substances. I hope you will apply this lesson as a metaphor in the coming weeks, fellow Cancerian. Be sure the psychological component of your immune system isn’t warding off the wrong people and things. It’s healthy for you to be protective, but not hyper-over-protective in ways that shut out useful influences.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One night in 1989, Leo evolutionary biologist Margie Profet went to sleep and had a dream that revealed to her new information about the nature of menstruation. The dream scene was a cartoon of a woman’s reproductive system. It showed little triangles being carried away by the shed menstrual blood. Eureka! As Profet lay in bed in the dark, she intuited a theory that no scientist had ever guessed: that the sloughed-off uterine lining had the key function of eliminating pathogens, represented by the triangles. In subsequent years, she did research to test her idea, supported by studies with electron microscopes. Now her theory is regarded as fact. I predict that many of you Leos will soon receive comparable benefits. Practical guidance will be available in your dreams and twilight awareness and altered states. Pay close attention!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You don’t know what is invisible to you. The truths that are out of your reach may as well be hiding. The secret agendas you are not aware of are indeed secret. That’s the not-so-good news, Virgo. The excellent news is that you now have the power to uncover the rest of the story, at least some of it. You will be able to penetrate below the surface and find buried riches. You will dig up missing information whose absence has prevented you from understanding what has been transpiring. There may be a surprise or two ahead, but they will ultimately be agents of healing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Visionary philosopher Buckminster Fuller referred to pollution as a potential resource we have not yet figured out how to harvest. A

company called Algae Systems does exactly that. It uses wastewater to grow algae that scrub carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and yield carbon-negative biofuels. Can we invoke this approach as a metaphor that’s useful to you? Let’s dream up examples. Suppose you’re a creative artist. You could be inspired by your difficult emotions to compose a great song, story, painting, or dance. Or if you’re a lover who is in pain, you could harness your suffering to free yourself of a bad old habit or ensure that an unpleasant history doesn’t repeat itself. Your homework, Libra, is to figure out how to take advantage of a “pollutant” or two in your world.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Soon you will graduate from your bumpy lessons and enter a smoother, silkier phase. You will find refuge from the naysayers as you create a liberated new power spot for yourself. In anticipation of this welcome transition, I offer this motivational exhortation from poet Gwendolyn Brooks: “Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the selfsoilers, the harmony-hushers, ‘Even if you are not ready for day, it cannot always be night.’” I believe you are finished with your worthwhile but ponderous struggles, Scorpio. Get ready for an excursion toward luminous grace.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I periodically seek the counsel of a Sagittarian psychic. She’s half-feral and sometimes speaks in riddles. She tells me she occasionally converses by phone with a person she calls “the ex-Prime Minister of Narnia.” I confided in her that lately it has been a challenge for me to keep up with you Sagittarians because you have been expanding beyond the reach of my concepts. She gave me a pronouncement that felt vaguely helpful, though it was also a bit over my head: “The Archer may be quite luxuriously curious and furiously hilarious; studiously lascivious and victoriously delirious; salubriously industrious but never lugubriously laborious.” Here’s how I interpret that: Right now, pretty much anything is possible if you embrace unpredictability.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I’m not insane,” says Capricorn actor Jared Leto. “I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.” That attitude might serve you well in the coming weeks. You could wield it to break open opportunities that were previously closed due to excess caution. I suspect you’re beginning a fun phase of self-discovery when you will learn a lot about yourself. As you do, I hope you will experiment with being at least somewhat indifferent to conventional rationality. Be willing to be surprised. Be receptive to changing your mind about yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): People of all genders feel urges to embellish their native beauty with cosmetic enhancements. I myself haven’t done so, but I cheer on those who use their flesh for artistic experiments. At the same time, I am also a big fan of us loving ourselves exactly as we are. And I’m hoping that in the coming weeks, you will emphasize the latter over the former. I urge you to indulge in an intense period of maximum selfappreciation. Tell yourself daily how gorgeous and brilliant you are. Tell others, too! Cultivate a glowing pride in the gifts you offer the world. If anyone complains, tell them you’re doing the homework your astrologer gave you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I encourage you to amplify the message you have been trying to deliver. If there has been any shyness or timidity in your demeanor, purge it. If you have been less than forthright in speaking the whole truth and nothing but the truth, boost your clarity and frankness. Is there anything you could do to help your audience be more receptive? Any tenderness you could express to stimulate their willingness and ability to see you truly?

Homework: What’s your favorite lie or deception? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes . The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

© COPYRIGHT 2023 ROB BREZSNY

PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS & SPIRITUAL COUNSELING

“We saw you around this time last year and you were so accurate. We were hoping to schedule another session” S. W. , Santa Fe. For more information call 505-982-8327 or visit www.alexofavalon.com.

What we feel, know, and see is true. Sometimes we need a spiritual guide to assist in seeing our truth. Osara, an African water deity is your natural mirror, come see yourself/come see Osara. 505-810-3018

I’m a certified herbalist, shamanic healer, psychic medium and ordained minister, offering workshops, herbal classes, spiritual counseling, energy healing and psychic readings. Over 30 years’ experience helping others on their path towards healing and wholeness. Please visit lunahealer.com for more information or to make an appointment.

MIND BODY SPIRIT

PSYCHICS

SERVICE DIRECTORY

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT

FOUNDATIONS OF QI GONGLECTURE AND WORKSHOP

April 14th, 15, and 16th at MONGATA HEALING CENTER in Santa Fe NM.

LEGALS

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

CHANGES?

Wouldn’t it be great if the answers were more clear? They can be with intuitive training. I’m Ryan Glassmoyer, Intuitive Life Coach teaching you a unique method to access deep truth and direction within yourself.

abstracttherapie.com Text to learn more.

505-231-8036

HAIRSTYLIST

CASEY’S TOP HAT CHIMNEY SWEEP

Thank you Santa Fe for voting us BEST of Santa Fe 2022 and trusting us for 44 years and counting. We are like a fire department that puts out fires before they happen! Thank you for trusting us to protect what’s most important to you.

Be safe and warm!

Call today: 989-5775

Present this for $20.00 off your fireplace or wood stove cleaning in the month of March.

Instructor - Dr. John D. Ross, DOM, and Sensei in Ka-Ju-Kenpo More information and registration information @ Mongata.org.

click on the workshop dates on the event calendar for more details.

Do you have a passion for literacy and helping others? BECOME A BL or an ESL TUTOR TODAY!

Clean, Efficient & Knowledgeable Full Service Chimney Sweep/Dryer Vents. Appointments available. We will beat any price!

505.982.9308

Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe’s new tutor training prepares volunteers to tutor adults in Basic Literacy (BL) or English as a Second Language (ESL). Our BL orientation and training will be held on May 4th from 4–6PM and May 6th from 8AM–5PM with a lunch break. Our ESL tutor orientation and training will be held on June 1st from 4–6 PM and June 2nd and 3rd from 9 AM–1 PM. Learn more & fill out an application at https://lvsf.org/tutor-application-f orm/.

For more information, please call 428-1353.

Police Officer - The City of Tucumcari is looking for top quality applicants to serve its citizens in the role of a Tucumcari Police Officer. We look for Officers who are community oriented and strive to collaborate with the community to solve issues for the citizens of Tucumcari. Applicants must be a minimum of 18 years of age. Law enforcement experience and certification is preferred, but not required. Written, oral, and physical agility testing will be administered, must be a US citizen, no felony convictions, and must possess good verbal and writing skills. Upon hire, there will be a contractual sign-on bonus worth up to $3,000 and $2,000 after a year of employment with the City of Tucumcari. Monetary moving assistance could be available to new hires who must relocate.

CASE NO:

D-101-CV-2023-00645

IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF RAMON D. MARTINEZ. NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME (Telephonic Hearing)

TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the Provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40 8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner, Ramon Daniel Martinez, will apply to the Honorable Kathleen Mcgarry Ellenwood, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 11:15am, on the 24th day of April, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from RAMON DANIEL MARTINEZ to RAMON DANIEL LOUIE NARVAIZ

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk

Hi! My name is Lauren . I am Hair Stylist from La Jolla California. I’ve been doing hair for 20 years and in 2020 I was voted best hairstylist of San Diego. I would love to do your hair! You can follow me @letmedoyourhairsantafe

@mslaurenmroberts

Book your appointment today

Santa Fe Lash & Beauty Bar

(505) 988-8923

ARE YOU A THERAPIST OR HEALER?

YOU BELONG IN MIND BODY SPIRIT!

CALL: 988.5541 OR EMAIL: SJ@SFREPORTER.COM

TODAY!

Artschimneysweep.com

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

best future for all

• Divorce, Parenting plan, Family

• Business, Partnership, Construction FREE CONSULTATION philip@pcmediate.com

505-989-8558

You are invited to the Grand Opening of The Santa Fe Wellness Center, “The Well”. Where we offer Clinical Counseling, Art Therapy, and Wellness Practices. We will serve refreshments, offer opportunities to do art, and invite you to meet our group of uplifting therapists and wellness practitioners. We look forward to seeing you Saturday, April 15, 2023, from 11 am-3 pm at 665 Harkle Rd, Santa Fe. Come and experience what a beautiful, comforting, and cozy space we have created for you to enjoy and feel supported within. www.santafewellnesscenter.com

(505) 577- 2469

All applicants must have a high school diploma or GED and a valid New Mexico Driver’s License, with no major driving infractions, and be willing to submit to a post-offer, pre-employment drug/alcohol screening. Applications may be downloaded from www.cityoftucumcari.com. Please specify the exact position you are applying for. Only complete applications will be considered. Position will remain open until filled.

By: Diego Olivas Deputy Court Clerk

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

CASE NO: D-101-CV-2023-00690

IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF ZAHARA GUILLEN, A CHILD. NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME.

TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the Provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA

1978, et seq. The Petitioner, Natalie Guillen, will apply to the Honorable Maria Sanchez Gagne, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Rio Arriba County Courthouse, 7 Mainstreet, in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, at 9:30am, on the 8th day of May, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME of the child from Zahara Isabela Genevieve Guillen to Zahara Genevieve Guillen

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk

By: Bernadette Hernandez Deputy Court Clerk

Green Party Annual Convention and Meeting Saturday, April 29, 2:00pm Pick Room, Main Library, 145 Washington Ave, Santa Fe. Remote option available. Contact 505.226.7533 or info@greenpartyofnm.org.

Mountain Valley Views

2 Bed 1 Bath. Private porch. Has D/W, W/D. Paid utilities, with Dish,WiFi, trash collection, gated fenced lot with security cameras.midway SF/ABQ convenient commute for LANL .$2800. U/F 505 296 4201

SFR BACK PAGE

Dining