Santa Fe Green Directory

Santa Fe Sugar Leaf

Santa Fe Sugar Leaf’s owner Sophia Lovato was born and raised in the City Different and opened her store in November 2022. As a vertically integrated company, Sugar Leaf can grow its own cannabis and make its own edibles. Lovato says she sees her fair share of locals in the store, but since it is positioned near the Plaza and counts the state museums and historic churches as its neighbors, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise Santa Fe Sugar Leaf gets about 80% of its business from tourists. santafesugarleaf.com

839 Paseo de Peralta, Ste. P (505) 532-0420

Southwest Cannabis

Southwest Cannabis has three locations in Santa Fe that have been met with dozens of overwhelmingly positive online reviews. Most clients highlight friendly and knowledgeable budtenders and plenty of strains to choose from—plus in-house manufactured products, including tinctures, topicals and cactus juice offered in a few flavors. The company also has locations in Albuquerque, Española and Taos.

southwestcannabis.com

1829 Cerrillos Road, (505) 372-7046

604 N. Guadalupe St., (505) 230-3808

507 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 230-3788

Ultra Health

New Mexico’s top-grossing cannabis company maintains dozens of dispensaries across the state, with two in Santa Fe. Owner Duke Rodriguez has been warning for years about a potential supply shortage with recreational sales, telling SFR last fall the longstanding problem in the medical program would only be exacerbated by adult-use. Regardless, the company has big plans. Rodriguez told Albuquerque Business First in 2022 that “it’s not an unreasonable expectation for us to set a goal of controlling somewhere around 40% of the [recreational cannabis] market.” ultrahealth.com

1907 St. Michael’s Drive, Ste. F (505) 216-0898

3875 Cerrillos Road, (505) 772-0928

Verdes Cannabis

Another of the state’s largest cannabis companies, Verdes Cannabis moved into Santa Fe in February 2022, a couple blocks from the Plaza, and opened its second location on Zafarano Road in November.

Rachael Speegle, who’s also a registered nurse, heads up the company as CEO. Verdes is unique in part for its emphasis on education and wellness. Nurses on staff train every budtender, which has allowed them to more deeply connect with clients and help them figure out what works best for their particular needs, Speegle says.

verdesfoundation.org

220 Shelby St. (505) 983-2738 3530 Zafarano Drive, Unit C

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Poví Cannabis

The name of this store means “medicine flower” in the Tewa language. Pojoaque Pueblo became the state’s first pueblo to open a dispensary under an intergovernmental agreement with the state. For now, flower comes from organic growing partners and is not produced in Pojoaque.

wopovicannabis.com

68 Cities of Gold Road (505) 479-0173

UNITED... We Run for Love!

United We Run 2023 1K, 3K or 5K Run or Walk Sunday, May 7 at 11:30am

United Church of Santa Fe 1804 Arroyo Chamiso Road

$25 per person

All proceeds go to:

▪ Immigrant & Refugee Fund

▪ BOOKKIDS

▪ Santa Fe Watershed Association

Sign up at UnitedChurchofSantaFe.org/run

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EVENT THU/20

Eat Your Donations

If you don’t know about Santa Fe nonprofit Kitchen Angels by now, consider this your opportunity to learn more—and help—while pretty much just living your life as you normally might. At the upcoming citywide Angels Dine Out event, more then 40 local restaurants have promised to donate 25% of each bill to the local org. In turn, Kitchen Angels takes those sweet, sweet bucks and transforms them into meals and delivery services for homebound Santa Feans. Easy, right? Now all you have to do is dine at places like Horno, Second Street Brewery’s Rufina Taproom, Marisco’s, Maria’s, Fire & Hops and sooooo many more, and you’re playing the philanthropy game. Eat hearty, friends. And make a reservation. (ADV)

Kitchen Angels’ Angels Dine Out: Various times and locations Thursday, April 20. kitchenangels.org/angels-dine-out

DRAG SHOW FRI/21

High Drag

There are few things we love more than 420 overindulgence (ensuing panic attacks and all), but absurdist drag tops that short list. Combine the themes with Indigenous activism and we’ll be one happy audience member at Roadrunner Runway’s upcoming “Yes We Cannabis!” show—which plans to apply event proceeds to benefit legal aid for Native people. Without harshing the vibe too much, the number of Indigenous people incarcerated over the plant we’re celebrating is pretty staggering, and it kind of seems like the least we can do to stuff singles in some queer cuties’ costumes about it. (Siena Sofia Bergt)

Roadrunner Runway: Yes We Cannabis! Drag

Show: 7:30 pm

Friday, April 21. $15-$20 suggested.

Roots & Leaves Santa Fe Casa de Kava, 301 N Guadalupe St., (720) 804-9379

MUSIC TUE/25

Grande Dame

Just catching the opening horns of La Dame Blanche’s “La Maltratada” drifting from Tumbleroot, you might assume it’s Norteño night. But as soon as Yaite Ramos Rodriguez’ voice pours out over the cumbia beat, all bets are off. Rodriguez developed her unique hip-hop flow while busking in Paris, yet the melodies winding through the Cuban singer/ percussionist/flautist’s tracks also evoke Santería cantos and traditional jazz. For those who speak Spanish, her blend of biblical imagery and old-school swagger will hold your ear. And for those who don’t? Those reliable rhythms (she is, after all, the daughter of Buena Vista Social Club bandleader Jesús Ramos) will keep you dancing. (SSB)

La Dame Blanche: 7:30 pm Tuesday, April 25. $20 in advance or $25 day of show. Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 303-3808

Distilling the Spirit

Violet Crown Cinema hosts limited screenings of Spirited Away: Live on Stage

It may be there is no more iconic early-aught anime film than Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. The tale of a young woman named Sen/Chihiro who, upon moving away from all she knows with her family for a new town, unwittingly becomes an employee of a multi-dimensional bathhouse for spirits and demons. Chihiro must save her parents after they’re transformed into pigs, but contending with a strange new world full of strange new rules, not to mention an increasingly strange cast of characters, that might not be so easy. Like most Miyazaki films, this thing won all the awards, captivated all the ages and made us question how we define ourselves.

Lesser-known, however, might be Spirited Away: Live on Stage, the theatrical adaptation—a first for a Miyazaki film—from Tony-winning director John Caird (known for Les Mis, btw, so he must be good) and a reportedly sprawling and adoring musical recreation of the 2002 film.

The live version is what we might call painstaking in its details; everyone is there, from the evolving Chihiro (Kanna Hashimoto) to the adorable radish spirit; the enigmatic No-Face and unscrupulous bathhouse owner Yubaba; the confounding Haku and that one river spirit who looks like he’s all sludge and mud, but really he’s been polluted by stupid humans. As for the sets and the choreography? Well, the trailers are resplendent, frankly, and the feels are over-the-top. And do you really think Miyazaki would let something less than magical out into the world?

A filmed version of Spirited Away: Live on Stage comes to Santa Fe’s Violet Crown Cinema twice in the coming days, and the timing is fortuitous. With The Super Mario Bros. Movie once again underestimating kids’ capacity to understand and grow from more mature themes, a little something headier is just what the doctor ordered. Oh, don’t get us wrong, there will be fun music and gorgeous costumes and, most likely, very clever sets and style, but the real magic of Spirited Away is in how it doesn’t talk down to anyone, how it puts Chihiro into an impossible world in which she learns and flourishes. For those who’ve been chasing those ’02 feels from the original film, too, this could soothe the burn—just like it did back then, just like it has been, just like it probably always will. (Alex De Vore)

SPIRITED AWAY: LIVE ON STAGE 4 pm Sunday, April 23 and 7 pm Thursday, April 27. $13-$15. Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678 SFREPORTER.COM • APRIL 19-25, 2023 29