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NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 CHASING THE COMMISSSION 9 Six lined up for two open seats on the Santa Fe County Commission, including one incumbent and a city councilor HARD COPY 11 With COVID restrictions easing, folks are once again signing New Mexico’s Roll of Attorneys at Law, which dates to the early 1870s FOGGY FRAMEWORK 13 State, tribal cannabis agreements leave pueblos in legal gray area COVER STORY 14 AGAIN AND AGAIN Black New Mexico parents say schools place too much of the burden on families to combat, prevent racism
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independent cancer centers than to be treated in a hospital. Christus plans to open a cancer center in two years. In the interval where do you think they will treat cancer patients who can no longer go to the independent cancer clinic? Follow the money. What would Jesus do if he had the resources at Christus’ disposal? He would probably build a treatment center to provide care for people with addiction and mental health problems, since such help is woefully lacking here. He would also probably help unhoused people get shelter. It’s a good bet he wouldn’t try to decrease our options for care so he could make more money.
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Chasing the Commission B Y G R A N T G R AW F O R D g r a n t @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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ampaigns are ramping up for the District 1 and District 3 Santa Fe County Commission primaries on June 7, and candidates are sharing their priorities for addressing the county’s most pressing issues. Each race has drawn three hopefuls, all Democrats. There is no Republican on the ticket for either contest, meaning whoever wins the primary will take a seat on the five-member commission. District 1 extends from the north central part of the City of Santa Fe to the southeastern section of Española. District 3, the largest of five, encompasses the southern part of the county and stretches upward to include La Cienaga and south of Airport Road. On a $39,106 salary, commissioners have a broad set of responsibilities, such as overseeing the county budget, maintaining roads, guiding economic development, creating policy and much more. District 1 candidates include: Justin Greene, an entrepreneur and urban planner; Jon Paul Romero, an engineer and former Pojoaque Valley School Board member; and Orlando Alfonso Romero, a former government and private business consultant. Whoever emerges will replace Henry Roybal, who is running for the state House of Representatives. Greene, 52, worked as an architect for private firms before helping develop the City of Santa Fe’s Railyard and Community Convention Center. The owner of Dashing Delivery, he has served on the Santa Fe Planning Commission, the Pueblo of Tesuque Development Committee and the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee. The No. 1 issue facing his district, Greene says, is the need for broadband services. “That is a critical issue and over the next few years there will be a lot of federal and state money that will help build out networks,” he tells SFR. “My expertise will come in handy and help the county plan for a fiveto 10-year buildout that will hopefully service 80 to 90% of the district.” Greene wants to tackle housing by developing small clusters of homes for law enforcement, firefighters, nurses and teachers. He says that would also increase public safety because off-duty deputies would live in the areas they serve.
Jon Paul Romero, 54, has worked as an engineer for the City of Santa Fe and owns Southwest Design, a construction management company. He was a school board member for 13 years, served as the secretary treasurer of the National Hispanic Council and was chairman of the County Development Review Committee. Economic development, affordable housing and water and land use are three of JP Romero’s top priorities. “Since we’ve had this pandemic, there’s so many small mom and pop shops that have struggled to make it through the pandemic,” he says. “I want to be able to build opportunities for small businesses so that they can grow.” Jon Paul Romero says he’s committed to quality of life issues, and he’ll work to provide health care options and good roads. “Being an engineer, I know the public works side,” he says. “I know what it takes to run a county from the inside out—the processes and procedures that we have to follow.” Orlando Alfonso Romero, 71, served as deputy secretary of the New Mexico General Services Department, deputy chief of staff for Gov. Bruce King, chief clerk for the New Mexico State Corporation, chief of staff for the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission and director of Pueblo of Pojoaque Realty. Water is the most critical issue facing the District 1 community, says Alfonso Romero. “We need potable water,” he says. “With climate change, it’s significant. I can remember when we had 10 to 14 feet of snow up at the ski basin and in those canyons. Today, we’re lucky if it’s 5 feet.” Alfonso Romero wants to see the county, city and tribal governments consolidate resources, and he plans on securing federal funds to improve county infrastructure. He says his experience in government would help him navigate the bureaucracy that comes with it. “If you’re going to dedicate yourself to this, it’s got to be full time and I can do that,” he says. “Everybody’s got good ideas. The question is: Who has the ability to take those from an idea to a project? It’s time consuming, but you’ve got to go through the process.” The candidates for District 3 are: Rudy Garcia, the incumbent; Camilla Bustamante, longtime educator in environmental safety workforce development; and Chris Rivera, city councilor for Santa Fe’s District 3. Garcia, 51, did not respond to multiple requests for an interview left with him, his
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assistant and the county spokeswoman until Friday afternoon. He agreed to an interview by SFR’s deadline, then stopped answering the phone. Bustamante, 58, was dean for the School of Trades, Advanced Technologies, and Sustainability at Santa Fe Community College for seven years. Before that, she was dean of Community, Workforce, Career Technical Education at Northern New Mexico College. She also has over 20 years of experience in environmental science and health safety work. The ability to grow food and have access to clean water are among Bustamante’s top concerns. “We have to take into consideration future generations and their ability to grow food where we are,” she tells SFR. “We can’t overrun what fragile ecosystem we have with new construction and buildings in those areas where food can be grown.” Bustamante says she would support activities to bring communities together. “A lot of the planning and infrastructure has really separated people,” she says. “What do we do so that people see each other outside of weddings, funerals and on Sundays? When people are familiar with each other, people feel safer where they are.” Rivera, 56, has been in public service his entire career, working as a paramedic firefighter and eventually serving as the Santa Fe Fire Department chief. He’s been a city councilor since 2012, and believes his experience can spur better cooperation between the city and county. “It’s not just the City of Santa Fe and the county, but it’s also Edgewood, Stanley and those areas,” he says. “One of the big issues in the county is water, and the city and county having broader discussions on those areas where we have mutual concern I think is really important.” Rivera wants to support the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department by addressing staffing, equipment needs and other resources to fight violent crime. With experience in setting up Santa Fe’s Alternative Response Unit, he wants to expand the county’s program. “There are some good studies that have been done on police officers responding to a tail light out and the violence that can happen because of that,” he says. “Being able to have those discussions with the sheriff and being in a position to create policy around that I think is a good thing.” SFREPORTER.COM SFREPORTER.COM • • APRIL APRIL20-26, 20-26,2022 2022
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With COVID restrictions easing, folks are once again signing New Mexico’s Roll of Attorneys at Law, which dates to the early 1870s BY J E F F P RO CTO R j e f f p r o c t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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he careful, chronological procession of ornate, dated signatures cuts off abruptly in March of 1918. Just seven names from that year appear in New Mexico’s Roll of Attorneys at Law, the first volume of which dates to the early 1870s and represents territorial, then state officials’ efforts to document all who entered the legal profession. With the Spanish Flu pandemic came a prohibition on large gatherings and an end to the ceremonies admitting new attorneys to the practice. The signing started anew in August of 1919. More than 80 years would pass—and three more volumes of the attractive, hardbound roll would fill up—before it stopped again. That’s when COVID-19 swept into New Mexico. Now, staff at the New Mexico Supreme Court, where volumes one through five are kept, work through a backlog of nearly 700 people who passed the state bar exam during this pandemic but couldn’t sign the roll on account of public health orders. (A signature is required, along with taking the oath of attorneys, to practice in New Mexico.) “That’s history repeating itself,” says Elizabeth A. Garcia, who is two weeks into her job as the court’s chief clerk. Kathy Bartlett, the chief clerk’s appellate paralegal, tells SFR she’s gathered 179 signatures from new attorneys in Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Las Cruces. The book’s trip down south earlier this month marked its first-ever journey that far from the capital. Presently, 7,500 people are licensed to practice law in New Mexico, with about 5,500 of them living in the state. The rolls contain more than 15,500 names, along with dates and home cities. New Mexico appears to be one of just five states that keep analog copies of attorney rolls.
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A page from volume one of the New Mexico Roll of Attorneys at Law shows the 1885 signature of Elfago Baca, the well-known Socorro lawman.
sion, dated Aug. 19, 1916. Malone’s home is listed, too: Blackdom, NM, the state’s most important Black freedom colony, which operated successfully in Chaves County for nearly 30 years until the Great Depression. Malone had come to New Mexico from Alabama and practiced law here for several years before moving on, Howard explains. “It’s quite profound to think about, and I wish we were more in tune with his journey to be admitted to practice law,” Howard says. STEPHANIE WOODS / NEW MEXICO SUPREME COURT
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There’s a digital database, too, but for any lover of old things, the action is in the hard copies. Court officials allowed SFR to have a look—but not a touch—on a recent afternoon inside the courthouse. Volume one, in particular, is a stunner, with nearly 40 years worth of names that predate statehood. It ends in 1952 with the signature of Wilson Hurley, the noted fighter pilot, engineer and painter. There’s Elfego Baca, the famous—or infamous, depending on who’s recounting— Socorro lawman. He signed the roll July 29, 1885. New Mexico’s Dennis Chávez, the second-ever Hispanic person to serve in the US Senate, signed Jan. 1, 1920. Penmanship still mattered. Grand, sweeping capital “g”s, “q”s that should be hanging in a museum and a handful of “s”s that would make a Baby Boomer’s middle school English teacher blush fill the roll. Many signatures appear in pencil; the strokes and flourishes have hardly faded a shade. It would be easy enough to see the tradition as an anachronism embedded in a profession that can sometimes take itself too seriously or, worse, has been used to oppress women and minorities. But most who spoke with SFR express pride, albeit guarded in some cases, in being part of the history. State Supreme Court Justice Shannon Bacon pops in for SFR’s visit to the courthouse. The next day, she is sworn in as chief justice. “We are sitting in a building steeped in history. We are sitting in a courthouse that was built as a WPA project,” Bacon says, noting it’s the only WPA structure in the state that still serves its original purpose. “We hang on to some of those historic traditions, and signing the roll of attorneys is one of those.” Bacon signed in 1997, the year before Garcia. Neither had gandered at their signature since. “It was an interesting moment,” Bacon says. “I’m going to be the chief justice tomorrow. And so to look at my signature today, it was really cool. It meant something to look at it.” Garcia says it reminded her of the “milestone” she’d achieved by graduating law school and passing the bar exam. The Roll of Attorneys at Law has been used for more than nostalgia. Around 2012, the New Mexico Black Lawyers Association wanted to trace some heritage for a project, says Leon Howard, a member of the association and the legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico. The association began with a search for New Mexico’s first Black lawyer, Howard says, and that led to the roll. The signature “jumped out at you,” he says of George W. Malone’s impres-
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Elizabeth A. Garcia, newly-minted chief clerk of the New Mexico Supreme Court, says signing the Roll of Attorneys at Law in 1998 marked a personal “milestone.”
“We know all the hurdles to these systems— the legal system, access to housing, land— were hard to achieve by Black people at that time.” Few if any Black attorneys were admitted between Malone and when the first Black graduates of the University of New Mexico School of Law started signing the roll in the 1960s, he says. That coincides with passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. That gap is notable as well, Howard says, and not in a positive sense. But he credits the association’s use of the Roll of Attorneys at Law with tracking down Malone’s signature. The association has since endowed a scholarship for Black high school kids who have an interest in the law. Howard signed the roll in 2009 and cites the “tactile nature and old-school look and feel of the book” as helping to connect him to history and tradition. Court staffers believe they’ve identified New Mexico’s first women attorneys through researching the roll, too, as part of an effort for the state Women’s Bar Association. The year was 1933, and either Kathryn McKinley or Marcia Hertzmark signed first. “From looking at the book, you can see we’ve become steadily more diverse over time,” says Garcia, the court clerk. Names are never stricken from the roll, court officials say, even in the event of disbarment or surrender of a law license. So the volumes include the altruistic, the incompetent and the corrupt who dot New Mexico’s legal history. Bartlett, the paralegal, tells SFR that signatures will likely fill volume five in another five or six years. So, she’s already thinking about the next. “We need a bookmaker,” she says.
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wo Northern New Mexico pueblos are eager to jump into the state’s newly created adult-use cannabis industry, and though a promise from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration offers some hope for a way forward, tribal leaders are proceeding with varying levels of caution because of a conflict with federal law. Opening up cannabis commerce to Native tribes could mean major economic development for sovereign nations like the Pueblos of Picuris and Pojoaque. A confusing maze of contradictory legal frameworks, however, has left them in a legal gray area. While recreational cannabis is now legal in New Mexico, it’s still prohibited under federal law, which governs conduct on tribal land. Pueblo of Picuris Gov. Craig Quanchello says the tribe plans to pursue the potential boon immediately, despite a history of what he considers harassment by federal law enforcement. Pueblo of Pojoaque Gov. Jenelle Roybal says she needs to learn more before pushing ahead. Lujan Grisham inked agreements with the two pueblos in late March, showing support for the tribes entering the cannabis business and establishing guidelines for production and sales. The intergovernmental agreements also promise a landscape free of legal hurdles. “We are New Mexicans and we should have the right, like any other New Mexican, to engage in cannabis,” Quanchello tells SFR. But there are no guarantees, Quanchello says. Previous run-ins with federal law enforcement have left him guarded. He’s optimistic, though, that the agreement with the state will appease the feds and that a friendlier environment under President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice will keep them out from under the microscope. The Pueblo of Picuris decriminalized cannabis in 2015 and has been operating medical facilities for years, but not without interruptions. In 2017, federal agents raided the tribe’s small-grow operation and destroyed more than 30 nearly-mature plants. In addition,
Quanchello says officials with the Bureau of Indian Affairs have a history of harassing tribal members. He claims agents have “gone rogue” and threatened people in the community with prosecution. “Since we’ve acknowledged that we were in cannabis and medical cannabis, BIA has totally blackballed us,” he says, adding that the tribe is facing discrimination. “They’ll stop and frisk you; they’re searching my tribal members’ cars.” SFR sent multiple inquiries to the BIA regarding its law enforcement policies, but they were not returned. The US Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico declined to comment. Criminal jurisdiction on tribal land falls to both the pueblos and the federal government. So the BIA, which maintains a Division of Drug Enforcement, can operate legally on Native land. In some cases, tribes are reliant on BIA policing, according to University of New Mexico professor Barbara Creel, who says the agency could be abusing its power. “It’s very disturbing if they are actually being directed to do stop-and-frisks or target tribal members for cannabis possession,” Creel says. “We clearly have a conflict now between the tribe as a sovereign doing something that’s legal within
the state territory but inconsistent with federal law and policy.” Both tribes are federally recognized, meaning they’re eligible for BIA funding and services. Skirting around federal drug laws has created some apprehension for tribal leaders. However, a shift under Biden has eased some of Quanchello’s concerns, and the pueblo intends on quickly establishing cannabis businesses. According to Heather Brewer, spokeswoman for the New Mexico Cannabis Control
catch up with the quickly moving legal landscape,” Creel says. “So they’ve adopted, in my view, a sort of don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy.” So the pueblos have turned to the state for guidance. In Lujan Grisham’s announcement of state-tribal cooperation, the state says the intergovernmental agreements offer protection from federal law. It’s unclear, though, what cannabis directives a future administration might hand down. According to Roybal, the Pojoaque Pueblo intends to open a dispensary, but not without talking with federal agencies further. “That’s what our conversations are right now, that there’s no law enforcement action with them on their part,” she says. “Nothing is confirmed. We definitely want to meet with [the BIA] before we open everything up.” Legislation from Congress to decriminalize cannabis could ease concerns for the tribes. The most recent attempt by officials was the MORE Act, which passed the US House of Representatives on April 1, that would wipe out federal criminal penalties. The Senate is unlikely to sign off on it, though. Geography, lack of resources and capital have restricted New Mexico tribes’ efforts at economic development. While Pojoaque has gaming operations to benefit from, Picuris does not. Each could find much-welcomed revenue in the cannabis industry, which is estimated to bring $300 million in sales to the state. And while the tribes would be subject to the 12% excise tax on recreational sales if they were to start a business outside tribal lands, Brewer says any products produced, purchased or sold within their territories would be exempt—much like tobacco. Quanchello says the Picuris would consider litigation if any of its cannabis operations are thwarted by the BIA, but “it’s like suing your mother or father.” Until then, the tribe will press forward. After all, it owns the title to its lands and Quanchello wants to make use of it. “We’d like to exercise our sovereignty,” he says. “We’re farmers by nature and that’s something that we’re good at. We’re in a rural area. We don’t have the population. Now that hemp is legal and recreational is legal, there’s a money value to an acre and that’s something that we’d like to take advantage of.” ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN
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Division, the tribes should be covered under the intergovernmental agreement and by the US Department of Justice. The Cole Memorandum, an Obama-era policy delivered in 2014, issued guidance to US attorneys for practicing discretion against state-regulated marijuana programs. The Wilkinson Memo, drafted by the Department of Interior, extended that discretion to Native American tribes. Essentially, the policy directed federal prosecutors to leave tribal cannabis interests alone, so long as they adhere to certain priorities such as preventing possession by minors, keeping revenue out of the hands of criminal organizations and stopping the diversion of cannabis to other states where it remains illegal. However, President Donald Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, scrapped the Cole and Wilkinson memos in 2018. Legal cannabis advocates and members of Congress have pushed the DOJ to reinstate the protections, but so far to no avail. “I think that the feds are behind in their view of cannabis legislation, definitely behind on public policy and public sentiment regarding cannabis, but they’ve just not been able to
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tive, rather than proactive, ideas for how to move forward. Santa Fe Public Schools leaders tell SFR that Black parents need to do more to bring racist incidents to officials’ attention. But when parents do just that, schools ask them to take an active role in addressing the problem. District officials concede they can do more. The extent to which anti-Black racism has crept into schools in Santa Fe and beyond is tough to measure. While SFPS collects incident reports submitted by students and parents, the transitions between remote and in-person learning has made tracking the breadth of anti-Black racism in schools difficult—though district leaders don’t deny there is a problem. Dority and other Black mothers who spoke with SFR don’t need data to demonstrate the scope of the problem. “Every Black mom I’ve spoken with in New Mexico has experienced racism in public schools,” she says. However, through a review of statewide data, SFR has identified a way in which Black students are more visible than when they are on the receiving end of racism—the disciplinary process. Black kids are punished in schools at a rate that’s disproportionate to their total population as compared to their white peers. Last year, legislators passed a law to create equity for Black children in the education system. And just three months ago, officials set up a reporting hotline for racist incidents— calls have begun to trickle in. In Santa Fe, officials point to their anti-racism training and restorative justice programs that work toward addressing the historical injustices Black people have faced.
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hanel Dority was indignant, but not terribly surprised when a boy called her young son the N-word in a Santa Fe public school earlier this year. Her son phoned his dad, who reported it to Dority. The shock came later, when she learned that school officials had called the family of the boy who hurled the racist taunt, but not her. Why? The school assigned the two boys to a “healing circle,” part of its restorative justice approach to racism, but no discipline was meted out, Dority says. Then, it happened again. The day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, several of her son’s peers again called him the N-word during a heated exchange. Dority went back to the administration to get answers. The incidents matched a pattern a handful of Black Santa Fe mothers described for SFR over the course of several conversations: School leaders met with Dority and the parents of the other children, hoping to smooth things over, but officials did not connect the painful experiences as part of a larger problem in the schools. Ultimately, their responses read as reactionary, instead of preventative. “It’s a lot to expect Black parents who have full-time jobs, careers, children, family members, things going on in their lives to carry this issue and be the advocates and go above and beyond to get the school caught up on the proper way to handle racism,” says Dority. “Where is the care for Black students?” The mothers agreed to be interviewed and identified on the record, but asked that SFR not identify their children or provide specifics about the incidents to school officials. SFR agreed to those conditions to prevent fresh trauma for the kids. These mothers are left with the distinct impression that, when it comes to their children being targeted by individual acts of racism, they are largely invisible in officials’ eyes. SFR reviewed correspondence between the mothers and school officials that supports that intuition: Officials respond to the shocking incidents with reac-
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Clara Belle Williams was a lifelong New Mexico educator and the first Black graduate of what is now New Mexico State University.
Erasing Black New Mexicans from history has been intentional, says Rob Martinez, the state historian. He points to the tricultural myth that has long dominated popular New Mexico history, which, according to Martinez, is just that, a myth.
“They’re trying to erase us here” Tintawi Kaigziabiher was preparing for her day on a recent morning while helping her young child with a warm-up exercise for a remote lesson. The prompt asked her child to name the chores they do at home, and the accompanying image showed what she recognized as Black children in a subservient manner. Kaigziabiher, a former SFR contributor, sent a letter to the school, calling them out for using racist imagery. The school responded with a request: Help us fix the issue. They asked Kaigziabiher to join their equity council, a group that meets quarterly to discuss inclusivity in the school. She felt the offer was sincere, but saw it as another example of school leaders dropping potential solutions on her shoulders. As with Dority, it happened again when a group of students threatened her child— complete with racial slurs—on the bus one day. Kaigziabiher tells SFR she moved her child out of the school because of the ongoing racism. Nicole Morris knows what it feels like to be a Black mother with a kid in New Mexico schools, too. When her son left the state for
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“It’s just a way of categorizing people in a very simple way that’s easy to digest,” he tells SFR. The narrative refers to a false picture of New Mexico history that’s defined solely by the deeds of Anglo, Hispanic and Native people. “When you do that, you don’t have to see Chinese people,” Martinez says. “You don’t have to see Black people.” That erasure has led to a lack of awareness of prominent Black figures who have defined New Mexico history since long before statehood, Martinez says. For example, Black Santa Fean Sebastian Rodríguez accompanied Don Diego de Vargas, serving as a drummer and town crier. His descendants later founded the town of Las Trampas. Clara Belle Williams, the first Black graduate of what is now New Mexico State University, weathered racist efforts to deny her an education and became a lifelong teacher in Las Cruces. Williams’ struggles in the 1930s didn’t mark the end of anti-Black racism in New Mexico schools. The six mothers who spoke with SFR say it’s continued in numerous ways, creating an unsafe environment and ultimately standing in the way of a proper education.
seen—and they’re not. “They’re trying to erase us here,” says Kaigziabiher. Several of the mothers tell SFR they feel like Santa Fe school leaders are trying to create safer places for learning, but there’s a long way to go.
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Mary Louise Romero speaks with a Manuel Trujillo, an Aspen Community School student, after a recent restorative justice session last Monday.
college, he told Morris that he’d “escaped” New Mexico. “He never felt safe from age 10 to 18, he never felt seen, he never felt respected, not by one teacher,” Morris tells SFR. “And he also went to multiple schools because we were constantly searching for the magical school that would respect him.” It wore on Morris’ son, who was labeled a “gangster,” which she attributes to the way others perceived his style of dress and mannerisms. She regularly visited his schools to monitor racist incidents and bring them to administrators’ attention. “They treat each incident as a one-off: ‘That teacher was just overwhelmed, that child is distressed, that person was upset,’ instead of connecting the dots and saying this is a cultural situation that is accepted,” says Morris, spotlighting what the mothers who spoke with SFR call stark evidence of Black invisibility. Sunshine Muse, another Santa Fe mother, tried moving her children into private school only to find it worse than the public schools in Santa Fe. “And it doesn’t seem to matter what part of New Mexico, what schools,” Muse says, adding that her child felt safest in schools where Black parents had paved a path for combating racism. “This isn’t about hurt feelings or racial insensitivity, it’s violence,” says Muse, the
This isn’t about hurt feelings or racial insensitivity, it’s violence. -Sunshine Muse, a Santa Fe mother and executive director of Black Health New Mexico
executive director of Black Health New Mexico, a nonprofit working to improve health outcomes in the state. Black maternal health, one of Muse’s focus areas, was recognized nationally last week for the second year after President Joe Biden proclaimed a week in April to address glaring inequities in pregnancy and childbirth outcomes in the United States. Muse, Kaigziabiher, Morris and Dority say their children aren’t safe unless they’re
On a recent Monday morning, Mary Louise Romero sits in a circle with a dozen or so 8th grade boys at Aspen Community School. They pass around Romero’s heart-shaped, silver talking stick, sharing the sorts of feelings young men typically avoid. The activity lasts about 90 minutes. It most closely resembled musical chairs, but with more vulnerability. Romero leads a range of restorative justice practices like this one for SFPS, based on referrals she and her team receive about past incidents or escalating situations. She’s seen anti-Black racism across the district and works to educate perpetrators by asking students and families to research the history of the N-word. “We are also students,” says Romero, who’s spent decades working with vulnerable youths in New Mexico. She notes her own limited personal experience. “We’re learning from our students and we have to be willing, as adults, to learn from our students.” Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez says administrators and district leaders are participating in anti-racism training, mandated by a recently-passed state law. Teachers are on deck to receive the training next. The training, Chavez explains, doesn’t specifically address anti-Black discrimination. “All racism is being covered and it’s not specific to one group, and I think we have to acknowledge that it’s not tolerated.” But Muse says it is tolerated. She says specific anti-racist training is needed, particularly for Black people given that no other population in the United States was uniformly designated as property. “We cannot escape the invisibility in our Blackness and the license that gives people to abuse us,” says Muse. Another mother, Erica Davis, agrees, saying historical oppression against Black people continues in the US, and she’s seen it in the racism her children have experienced in New Mexico schools. “Anti-blackness is a specific, special hell,” she tells SFR. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Again and Again Chavez points to two school board policies as evidence of the district’s commitment to keeping all students safe: one addressing discrimination and harassment based on race, passed in 2002, and another that addresses bullying and hazing, adopted 17 years later. School administrators are responsible for dealing with specific instances of racism, Chavez says. The schools’ responses to the incidents Black mothers shared with SFR ranged from detention to conversation with administrators. Given SFR’s agreement to protect the students’ anonymity, it’s difficult to know the exact consequences doled out to the perpetrators, but in one case the school filed a police report in response to the racist incident. Another common response, which Chavez notes, is the use of restorative justice. A district coordinator, like Romero, guides those efforts. “Our goal is to create a safe space for every student, and if you have conflict then you’re not feeling like you can be safe,” says Romero. “You can’t learn if you don’t feel safe.” Combating anti-Black racism, Chavez says, is an area in which the district could improve. “We always are evaluating and re-evaluating anything that we offer.” “It’s hard to understand what they’re going through because it’s not brought to the attention that’s needed to find the answers,” Chavez adds. “But we need that partnership—just meet us halfway.” Morris says she and her fellow Black mothers have been doing just that. “My experience in the Santa Fe public school system has been constant advocacy, constant disbelief and needing to point things out,” she says. Romero agrees that the remedy is a heavy lift. She says the issue demands resources
BY THE NUMBERS While Black children make up about 2% of New Mexico's student population, the percentage of recorded infractions—and responses from administrators—attributed to Black kids is almost double that percentage.
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beyond restorative justice facilitators. “It’s about every single adult creating that culture where that’s not going to be accepted.” The district has created curricula focused on societal awareness, students’ mental health and peer support to push back against myriad forms of racism and oppression, says Jenn Jevertson, SFPS’s prevention coordinator. “There’s no one solution to try to unpack and dissect the oppression that exists in our society,” Jevertson says. “But the more that we can chip away at it…then that is one of the ways that we can start making our schools and our entire society right—not just the school—less racist, less sexist, less homophobic, less transphobic.” Black parents say other adults in the district need to pull their own weight. “All of these things are useful but none of them are the cure,” Muse tells SFR. “The cure is…that at every level, where an adult is present throughout the school systems of New Mexico, those adults are prepared not to be bystanders and they are proven anti-racists.”
“How many issues are present in the schools” April marks one year since Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Black Education Act. It was meant as a legislative companion to the Indian Education Act and the Hispanic Education Act to address specific learning needs and educational barriers for students in those racial and ethnic groups. But the law for Black student equity came years after the other two statutes, which were passed in 2003 and 2010, respectively. Black parents who spoke with SFR say the need for the third law spotlights ongoing racism in the education system. Echoing that sentiment, Amy Whitfield, executive director of the state’s Office of African American Affairs, says the BEA’s existence demonstrates the problem.
With our hotline, we’re really trying to bridge the gaps between our families and our students and our communities with our schools...so many parents or students don’t know, when they do have an incident happen, they don’t know where to go to. -Nicole Bedford, Black Education Act liaison
“It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about economics, or if you’re talking about health, or if you’re talking about violence, any issue that we have in our world, education is a key to it,” says Amy Whitfield, executive director of the Office of African American Affairs.
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parents a clear method to communicate complaints, “because so many people and so many parents or students don’t know, when they do have an incident happen, they don’t know where to go to.”
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She points to racism’s insidious impact in New Mexico schools. “When we’re talking about our children not being cared for in ways they need to be cared for,” Whitfield says, “what we’re talking about is putting them into places of injustice. We’re putting them into places of…poverty.” With the BEA came funding for a hotline “to report racially charged incidents or racialized aggression.” The Anti-Racism Anti-Oppression Hotline went live on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In the first two months of the hotline’s operation, parents, teachers, students and others made 19 calls—of those, 13 were reported as “racial incidents.” The hotline’s manager, Devon Williams, says the calls serve as an indicator, “especially when it comes to students of color, [of ] how many issues are present in the schools.” Williams tells SFR that the hotline empowers families and students and gives them a place to be heard. Nicole Bedford, Black Education Act liaison, says about 90% of districts have completed the law’s other requirements, which include the creation of anti-racism policies and anti-racism training for all school staff. A major purpose of the hotline, Bedford explains, is to help collect information and provide resources to families. “With our hotline, we’re really trying to bridge the gaps between our families and our students and our communities with our schools,” Bedford tells SFR. She adds that the hotline is crucial because it provides
The Public Education Department’s Black Education Act Liaison, Nicole Bedford, stands for a portrait in the Jerry Apodaca Education Building.
Donyelle Miller, a parent who lives just outside Santa Fe, says the weight of racism on Black children impacts their health and safety. “The reason we care so much as parents is because we understand the depths and the damage that this can do if we don’t do something about it.” While families finally have a method of drawing attention to incidents that might have gone unnoticed, Black students have been the focus of scrutiny in another aspect of schooling: discipline. Studies have found that administrators and police officers placed in schools over-discipline Black students compared to their peers. Reports also demonstrate that Black youths face harsher responses to their infractions. New Mexico appears to follow the norm, according to discipline data SFR obtained from the state Public Education Department through a records request. Of the 103,659 infractions reported to PED by districts and charter schools over the last five school years, 3.7% are attributed to Black students. While student demographics shift, the percentage of Black students in the state has hovered around 2%. PED performs some analysis on discipline data by race, says Gregory Frostad, the department’s director of the Safe and Healthy Schools Bureau. And to date, officials have not identified overrepresentation for any racial or ethnic groups. But the analysis is only for 17% of the student population—special education students—a requirement of the Individuals with Disabilities Act, PED officials say. That leaves 83% of students for whom PED conducts no searches for discipline
disparities—a possible explanation for the overrepresentation SFR found in the department’s data. “If any minority group is overrepresented in the number of discipline infractions, relative to their population size, the PED would be concerned,” Frostad says in response to SFR’s analysis of the data. He notes that the department is hiring someone to look more deeply at discipline across the state and “how to reduce exclusionary practices such as suspension and expulsion.” Miller says school leaders and administrators need to take on more of the weight in the fight against racism, because Black children deserve more than survival. “It’s about their birthright to thrive on this planet,” she says. “Really overall the climate that my kids have to navigate is racist. I have yet to find a space where they feel like they can be themselves and be who they are, freely without a fear of violence, whether that is mental or physical. That space has not existed for them yet. I am still looking.”
TO REPORT AN INCIDENT OF RACISM IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Call: (833) 485-1335 Email: ARAO.Hotline@state.nm.us Fill out the online form at: bit.ly/BEAhotline
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RAISE YOUR VOICE If you’ve been in Santa Fe even just a minute, you likely heard tell of Indigenous Peoples Day 2020, aka the day activists tore down the Plaza obelisk. It’s a complicated matter to be sure, but in the city’s pursuit of healing the wound and making the former site’s future part of a community-based decision, you’ll find numerous opportunities to make your feelings on the matter known. This week, for example, finds Setha Low, educator and author of On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture, leading an event based in social justice and public spaces hosted by nonprofit Artful Life, which was hired to facilitate the city’s Culture, History, Art, Reconciliation and Truth, or CHART, initiative—the body gathering data from the community about what comes next when it comes to one of Santa Fe’s most public spaces. Participants are also invited to create a mini art project version of the Plaza. (ADV) Public Space and Social Justice: 6 pm Thursday, April 21. Free Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., (505) 955-6590
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Santa Fe artist Niomi “Moss” Fawn soothes themself, and we’re gaining all the benefits Having recently caught a preview of the new Niomi “Moss” Fawn show Flourish: Romancing the Mysteries at Guadalupe Street’s form & concept gallery, I can tell you this—you’re going to feel better if you visit. Fawn’s been working a tad more on the curation side in recent years, not counting a contribution to form & concept’s Family Room group show, and to see them back to the drawing board with their own personal projects feels both exciting and intriguing. For those not in the know, Fawn is a mainstay of the local scene, both as a creator and as the operator of the sadly-closed Show Pony space. For their new show, they delve deep into the concepts of nature, flora, ritual and renewal. It’s almost like springtime rolled up into one show composed of digital art, painting, wood work and graphic design. Think altars and retablos—though sans specific deities so, Fawn says, you can choose your own gods and goddesses and enbys. “I call it ‘The Divine Theminine,’” they tell SFR. “Just taking refuge in my own truth versus looking for other people to tell me my truth...I think during lockdown, I was finally able to organize my wood shop, and I felt like doing a more hands-on craft was the best possible therapy for me.” That journey culminates in bright pastels of pink and purple with nods to specific # 18
flowers and seeds like roses and magnolia pods; find also comfortable faux fur and a glorious golden horse repurposed from that weird and underwhelming citywide painted equine show circa who-knowshow-many-years ago. In a word, Flourish is calming, and this is as much for the viewer as it is for Fawn. Through the work, they’ve reconnected to ancestral roots, indulged a little bit of plant obsession and embraced astrological implications and symbology. Flourish is rather pagan as well, insofar as worshipping the Earth and the sun goes. “I think what I’m trying to do is invoke a place in your feelings, and you don’t need to totally understand it,” Fawn explains. “It’s a place where spirit can move, because a lot of times, our brain gets in the way of our heart. It’s like a thorough tasting menu—kind of like the difference between standing by the pool and being in the pool. With my work, you’re going to be in the pool with me. And I just want to emphasize this show is queer as fuck.” Find Fawn discussing the finer points of Flourish at a special artist talk this Saturday. (Alex De Vore)
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FLOURISH: ROMANCING THE MYSTERIES ARTIST TALK Noon Saturday, April 23. Free form & concept, 435 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 216-125
JAZZTERPIECE THEATER What do you even know about contemporary jazz? Unless you’re one of THOSE people, it’s likely very little, so you might not know there are players out there changing the game on the regular. In this instance, that player is Greg Ruggiero, a New York City-based guitarist who comes to Santa Fe’s Root 66 Café alongside locals Bob Fox on piano and Asher Barreras on bass. This one’s for the Charlie Christian fans, the Django Reinhardt dweebs and anyone who just kind of wants to see a shredder of the highest caliber get down among the vegan menu items. Look, it’s so easy for jazz guitarists to meander their way to exhausting noodle territory, but Ruggiero’s control and ear for upbeat jamz kind of reminds us that all those “guitar is dead” thinkpieces you’ve probably read are silly. (ADV) Greg Ruggierro: 6 pm Friday, April 22. $25-$30 Root 66 Café, 1704 Lena St., (505) 780-8249
EVENT MON/25 BACKSTREET’S BACK As millennials age out of relevance and Gen Z comes into its own, you’re likely to see a lot more ’90s romanticism popping up in your cultural events. It’s like...if you’re of a certain age, you likely remember that kid at your high school who was pretty sure they’d discovered some great unknown music when bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd came their way, but with ’90s stuff. Brilliance of Saved By the Bell: The College Years aside, that’s kind of a funny premise right up until we realize that Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, Britney, Spice Girls and countless others had legitimately sick-ass tunes those 30-ish years ago. Oh, God. 30?! Yikes. Now cling to your youth, older folks; and misunderstand pretty much everything we were about, youngsters. (ADV) ‘90s Night: 6 pm Monday, April 25. Free Social Kitchen+Bar, 725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952
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ONGOING ART ABANDONED MOMENTS Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave. (505) 992-0800 Yeah sure, the world is chaos, but that doesn’t mean the chaos doesn’t lead to art. See these photos from Ed Kashi, who has chronicled chaotic world events for 40 years. 10 am-5 pm, free BENEATH THE SURFACE Annex on the Midtown Campus 1600 St. Michael's Drive sciartsantafe.org SciArt Santa Fe peels back the layers of creative research beneath what’s on display. These creatives connect art and science, ranging from physics, mathematics and engineering to biology. 1-4 pm, Fri & Sat, free CLOSE TO HOME Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323 We may struggle to add fiber to our diet, but not to our art (yes, smart people, we know they are different things). Check out this fiber arts and landscape show. 11 am-5 pm, Tues-Fri FINDING AMELIA Range West Gallery 2861 NM-14, Madrid (505) 474-0925 Evocative abstract figurative paintings and sculptures by Carla Caletti, whose creations have a totemic quality and lead us to wonder about their origins. 11 am-5 pm, free
Work from artist Millian Pham, part of the showcase Uneasy Abstraction opening Friday, April 22 at Strata Gallery.
INTERSECTIONS ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 What the heck is form in art? If you know, how the heck do you find it?! These contemporary artists employ the differences in edges, which give us the intersections allowing us to see and name what we encounter. 10 am-5 pm, free METAPHYSICS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Photography from high above. Artist Kate Joyce took a bunch of airline-inspired photos that document the beauty (and not pains) of traveling the skies. 10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free
LA LUZ DE TAOS Couse-Sharp Historic Site 138 Kit Carson Road, Taos (575) 751-0369 Exciting contemporary artists ranging from painting to fashions. By appointment, free MEDIUM RARE: ART CREATED FROM THE UNEXPECTED Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 Art created from unexpected sources, resulting in unusual creations. Mariella Bisson, Gugger Petter, Kay Khan and B. Shawn Cox bring out the glow from recycled materials. On view until April 23. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
SPECTRUM SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Diné and Chicana artist Nani Chacon offers a new body of work exploring cultural repair and radical colonial resistance. 10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free NIGHT FEEDING Smoke the Moon 101 Marcy St., Ste. 23 smokethemoon.com The debut solo exhibition by artist Sarah Alice Moran, who makes magical paintings. See how she conjures a primal feminine force, in a universe where there’s darkness in rainbows and comfort with ghosts. Noon-4 pm, Thurs-Sun, free
OCHO CUBANOS AHORA Artes de Cuba 1700 A Lena St. (505) 303- 3138 Inaugural group exhibition of eight contemporary Cuban artists. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free PAULA & IRVING KLAW: VINTAGE PRINTS No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org See 20 vintage prints from the "bizarre fetish underground" we’ve all heard so much about. That’s not just us, right? Check out this photo archive with detailed essays by Courtney Fellion and Delaney Hoffman. By appointment or during No Name Cinema events, free
SALTILLO Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road (505) 916-1341 A woodcut series rooted in reverence for heritage, identity and the experience of the descendants of immigrants. 10 am-5 pm, Wed-Sun, free SHELTERS FROM THE STORM 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 Brick and wood sculptures. Noon-5 pm, free SKATE NIGHT Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 A photo series documenting Black roller-skating community, photographed by by Alejandro Sanchez. Noon-5 pm, Thurs & Fri, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 25
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Sure, former College of Santa Fe/Santa Fe University of Art & Design creative writing educator and poet Dana Levin left Santa Fe in 2017, but can one ever truly leave New Mexico behind? In Levin’s case, the answer is no, and she’ll take an evening off from her Distinguished Writer in Residence position at St. Louis, Missouri’s Maryville University for a Zoom reading from her fifth book of poetry, Now Do You Know Where You Are, presented by Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse. (6 pm Thursday, April 21. Free. collectedworksbookstore.com). Levin is slated to talk with Copper Canyon Press publicist (and writer) Ryo Yamaguchi at the reading, and we called her all the way in Missouri to lob some Qs. (Alex De Vore) Your newest collection is about how change speaks to the soul, and was written over a four-year period between 2016 and 2020. Was leaving Santa Fe a big part of that? So in 2017, I dropped like a roulette ball into a seven-layered roulette wheel. One layer was the 2016 election, and what that did and what it showed us. Just having to wake up to the reality that the worst aspects of the American character had come to power and that we had elected a killer clown, basically, it really, really jarred me. Another layer was leaving Santa Fe for St. Louis after living in that city for 19 years, and that was profound. I was sort of prepped for it because my school kept going out of business and people were sort of leaving or wondering if they were going to have to; my friend group was dissolving. Moving to St. Louis, especially in the wake of Ferguson, felt like moving to the navel of the nation, and I made the decision to permanently move there after the election. St. Louis is a blue city in a red state, a western city that looks east. It’s a fascinating place, but really different. I was having a midlife crisis—this is the third layer—of creative confidence. I really lost confidence in my writing, and my writing was all in response to the 2016 election and being freaked out, and I really had a hard time accepting that as subject matter—but I had to give in because it was consistent. A fourth layer was discovering it was real, and my main experience was twofold: Entering
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my 50s and really finding myself pivoting and looking at the past. Previous to this, was always looking toward the future, now I was looking at what happened to me in this deep way. Also having to confront what I always wanted that never happened; all of those things were happening at the same time. Once I got here, I met somebody. I fell in love. That’s not in the book, but I had been alone for most of my time in Santa Fe, and I think that being with my boyfriend John really provided anchor and ballast and safety, and I entered into subject matter I’d never really touched before, like race and politics. Writing the book I felt very vulnerable and afraid, because it was so all over the place. It just felt really different for me, so being with John was wonderful, even though he’s not in the book. The grounding he offered me helped me write this book. Is it scary to work with or otherwise record unadulterated or errant thoughts? Did unexpected ideas emerge? Totally scary, just because so much was new and unknown. I think the thing that most surprised and interested me is how peopled the poems are with strangers and people I actually know. I think my four previous books, there are people in them, but I’m calibrated to where I’m much more comfortable in the world of archetypes and dreams and the symbols of the unconscious. This book is very in the here and now, and I loved that I was able to bring friends in and use their real names and talk about places, like Del Charro is mentioned. I got to talk about my cat. There’s a poem called ‘Pledge,’ which is a love letter to Santa Fe. My sister gave me an assignment to write every day in a journal, and I ended up extracting a lot about Santa Fe. I loved being able to talk about what it was like and to speak about standing on a fulcrum of great change. I got to the point where I owned two keys—the key to my house and to my car. The second discovery was the incredible freedom I felt in...letting the book be as wide-ranging in form as it is. It has everything from pieces that look like long lyric essays to short poems. It was quite a challenge. Are Zoom sessions making poetry readings more accessible or does not being in the same room sap some of the urgency or energy? I’ve heard people say that they hope virtual readings are here to stay because of the accessibility. I’ve heard people say they find them alienating. And there is a kind of magic that can happen at a great poetry reading that’s in person, but I don’t think you can make a definitive statement. I’ve definitely done more [virtual readings] than ever, and my feeling about that is, the ones I like the best are the ones where everybody’s aware we’re in these weird little squares, it’s kind of like watching TV but not, and there’s a casual vibe. The ones that feel the weirdest are when the reader and the host are trying to maintain a formal reality like at a gala event. I think being a teacher has helped me negotiate that.
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THE LAS VEGAS PROJECT: CONTEMPORARY LIFE ON THE HISTORIC SANTA FE TRAIL IN NEW MEXICO New Mexico Highlands University 905 University Ave., Las Vegas (505) 425-7511 A photography exhibition featuring black and white contemporary photos of Las Vegas, New Mexico, examining a sense of isolation. On display at the Highlands University Kennedy Hall Gallery. 8:30 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free THE TEST COMMANDMENTS Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St. (928) 308-0319 Religious-inspired art that may not be all that it seems. This work asks where we’re finding our “idols“ in modern society and if they’ve replaced our traditional understanding of faith. By appointment, free VIBRANT POOL Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 See some art that really defines “modern,“ including sound installations, prints, experimental photography and even light sculptures. Thurs, 9 am-5 pm Fri and Sat, noon-6 pm Sun, 11 am-5 pm, free
DANCE EL FLAMENCO: SPANISH CABARET El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Old fashioned, good time flamenco dancing. Yes there’s wine, yes there’s tapas and yes there’s a lot of joy. Various times, $25-$43
WED/20 ART MUTANT LINES Fascination Space 612 Agua Fria Road tinyurl.com/ycks67pw An art show/pop-up featuring comic art and illustration. See original art and handmade zines for sale from local and out-ofstate creators. 2-8 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES A TRIPLE FEATURE POETRY EVENING Online tinyurl.com/4fpudty6 In celebration of National Poetry Month, Zach Hively hosts poets from the Casa Urraca publishing house, Anna C. Martinez, author of Pura Puta - A Poetic Memoir, Margaret Randall and Barbara Byers of Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises, and Hively will read from his own work, Desert Apocrypha. 6 pm, free
LAWRENCE WESCHLER ON KATE JOYCE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 On the last day of Kate Joyce’s Metaphysics, renowned author Lawrence Weschler shares a response compilation to the show, as well as introducing the forthcoming book version of the series. 6 pm, $5 ENGAGING COMMUNITY THROUGH MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Online tinyurl.com/4xahxpx5 From the school for advanced research, learn an about the role of museum collections, either from way back when and in collections now, and the accountability for institutions towards communities. 2-3 pm, free WEDNESDAY #LUNCHTALKS: METAMORPHOSES Online tinyurl.com/4ea79pz6 Via SITE Santa Fe, artist Kate Joyce presents select stories from her book Metamorphoses with a live soundscape by RMX#13. Noon, free
EVENTS CANNABLISS 420 PARTY CannaBliss Cannabis Dispensary 2883 NM-14, Madrid (505) 216-0616 Oh yeah, it's happening. Hear music by Boomroots Collective, see glass blowing demos, check out some local vendors and, of course, do the weed-deed. 3-7 pm, free CORPS COCKTAILS/ UNDEREXPOSED STUDIOS Underexposed Studios 436 Cerrillos Road, Ste. B (505) 216-6044 Convene and converse with creative professionals over drinks and lite fare. It’s about building relationships, learning more about Design Corps Members and their services and meeting those you can collaborate with. 5:30-8 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278 Trivia night. If you put on an English accent and go “oh, goody!“ every time you know an answer, you’ve alredy won. 8 pm, free HOTLINE B(L)INGO: BIRTHDAY BASH Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 It's bingo time. Bingo to the death, bingo till the cows come home, bingo until the world’s end. It’s also b(l)ingo’s birthday, so expect double the joy and special celebrations. You still need to behave yourself. Bingo still means class. 7 pm, $2 per round
VOLUNTEER OPEN HOUSE International Folk Art Market 620 Cerrillos Road tinyurl.com/yckt34we Stop by and learn more about this year’s market, ask questions, register to volunteer if you haven’t already and enjoy complimentary appetizers and refreshments. Oh yeah, the food got you paying attention, didn’t it? RSVP at the link above. 4-6 pm, $2 per round GRAZE DAYS Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road (505) 216-0616 Goats and sheep in the park. Yeah, forreal forreal. Stop by and learn about healthy soil principles and the park’s use of prescribed grazing. 10 an-4 pm, free
Night Feeding a painting show by
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MUSIC JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Folksy sounds. 8 pm, free KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Classic karaoke. 10 pm, free SECOND CHANCES Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 This country duo continues Fridays at Social, and they know how to put on a country show. 6-9 pm, free DR. HALL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 An evening of friendship, music, food and libations. What kind? Blues, country and Americana. 4-6 pm, free
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OPERA THE MEDIEVAL ORIGINS OF TRISTAN AND ISOLDE Online tinyurl.com/549yfx5b Mary Springfels talks about the literary source for Tristan and Isolde, a novel in verse by Gottfried von Strassburg, See beautiful images from the Codex Manesse and hear early music examples on the harp, vielle and medieval bagpipe. 3 pm, $10
WORKSHOP 3D PRINTING BADGE CLASS Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Rdoad (505) 819-3502 If you can imagine a shape, there’s a good chance you can create it with the push of a button using a 3D printer. Head over (well, sign up first) to learn how to 3D print. 4-8 pm, $85
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THE CALENDAR ART THERAPY WORKSHOP Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 alasdeagua.com Explore expressive arts’ healing powers and learn what happens when you connect to your authentic creativity. Develop your creative practice towards self-expression, insight and transformation. 5:30 pm, $85
THU/21 BOOKS/LECTURES DANA LEVIN: NOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE Online tinyurl.com/56d2kxc9 This much beloved poet wrote her fifth poetry collection between 2016 and 2020, investigating how great change calls the soul out “to be a messenger: To record whatever wanted to stream through.” Hear these works live on Zoom, via Collected Works. 6 pm, free
DANCE EMBODIED MAGIC: BALANCE, MOVEMENT, EXPLORATION Online tinyurl.com/yzvf6esx A class centering the wisdom, curiosities and desires of our moving bodies. Begin with a guided meditation, move through an imagery based warm up and then explore prompts that connect us to our lineage. 5-7 pm, free
EVENTS 2022 BUSINESS EXPO & CAREER RESOURCE FAIR Santa Fe Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. santafechamber.com An event for all local businesses and organizations to showcase themselves to the public, and for individuals to explore job opportunities. 9 am-3 pm, free
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SPRING FLOWER STORYTIME AND CRAFTS Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6781 Spring-related activities for the children. Get ‘em some books and hope they don’t eat the glue. 10:30 am, free CHESS & JAZZ CLUB No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Jazz. Chess. Joy. 6-8 pm, free PUBLIC SPACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Santa Fe Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590 Join Artful Life in exploring Public Spaces and Social Justice with Setha Low, distinguished professor of Environmental Psychology and On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture author. The presentation is be followed by an art activity in small groups: create your own Santa Fe (or wherever) Plaza. (see SFR picks, page 18) 6 pm, free YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 Plant stuff in the park. Bring gloves. 10 am-noon, free GAME TIME La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 955-4860 Bring board games to the library and play. It’s that simple. 4-5:30 pm, free
MUSIC BOB MAUS Agave Restaurant & Lounge 309 W San Francisco St., (505) 995-4530 We got blues. We got soul. We got joy. 6-9 pm, free DJ DMONIC Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Sweet beats and sweet drinks. 6-9 pm, free
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SOL FIRE El Nido 1577 Bishops Lodge Road (505) 954-1272 Local rock duo. 6-8 pm, free WAXAHATCHEE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 A popular indie-folk band on the books. It’s sold out officially, but look around the internet. There’s some tickets floating around. 8 pm, varying prices HALF-BROKE HORSES Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St Francis Dr., Ste. 117 (505) 983-9817 We know the struggle. Sometimes we’re all desperate to get a little boot-scootin’ going. It’s okay, it’s totally natural. Let the Half-Broke Horses help you out with that honky tonk world you miss. 7 pm, free (no cover)
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WAKE-UP STORYTIME: SHARING THEME Online tinyurl.com/2p9xpczb Sharing is caring. Get the children to share their favorite sharing-theme books. But will they share the wealth? Who knows, only time will tell. That’s a joke, calm down. jeez. 9;30 am, free
BOB MAUS Agave Restaurant & Lounge 309 W San Francisco St., (505) 995-4530 Ray Charles? Maus knows it. Van Morrison? Maus sings it. Carol King? Maus crowns it. It feels good to listen. 6-9 pm, free GREG RUGGIERO Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232 Guitarist Ruggiero is one of several born and bred New Mexico Jazz musicians. Performing with him will be Bob Fox on piano and Asher Barreras on bass. (see SFR picks, page 18) 6 pm, $25-$30 LE YOUTH Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Electronic dance music with synthesizers that'll blow your mind. 10 pm, $20 LUCINDA WILLIAMS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 This Louisiana-born artist returns to the gritty blues foundation that first inspired her in the late '70s. 7:30 pm, $54-$74 STRANGERS FROM AFAR Mineshaft Tavern and Cantina 2846 NM-14 (505) 473-0743 A local psych-folk fave group. 5-7 pm, free TGIF CONCERT First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 Amy Rohr, soprano, is giving us her all with Fairest Isle from King Arthur. 5:30 pm, free THE WIDOW OXLEY Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Classic rock and country covers. 6-9 pm, free
'TIS BUT A SCRATCH Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta upstartcrowsofsantafe.org A mashup of scenes from Monty Python's Holy Grail and iconic Shakespearean stage fights. 6:30-8:30 pm, $15 COYOTE THE TRICKSTER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Coyote the Trickster is a collection of stories from the Hopi, Navajo and Pima Native American tribes of the Southwest. 7 pm, $5-$20 SKY RAILWAY: THEATER IN MOTION Railyard Station 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759 Adventure train time. Enjoy cocktails and high octane entertainment featuring The Exodus Ensemble. Double over in laughter and astonishment as your train car comes alive with surprising happenings. 7:45 pm, $99
EVENTS A CELEBRATION OF GIRLS INC. Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta (505) 982-2042 Enjoy delicious food, an exciting silent auction filled with amazing experiences and powerful stories from girls in the organization, families and alumni. 5-9 pm, $250
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FINDING THE HEART OF MEDITATIVE WORK Online meditationnm.wordpress.com We might say that we mostly live in the tip of the iceberg of our lives. In quieting down, we begin to come in touch again with the deeper part of ourselves. Fear, violence, rigidity, anxiety, trauma—it comes into the sunlight of awareness and to begins to heal. 7-8:30 pm, free
KEN JACOBS: LOOKING FORWARD TO A WORLD WTHOUT MONEY No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org A retrospective screening on the moving image work of a seminal American experimental filmmaker. 7:30 pm, free TAOS ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL Taos Community Auditorium 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos tinyurl.com/2p99r9b5 Award-winning films shedding a light on our shared environmental concerns. 10 am-9 pm, $5 donation
FRI/22 ART UNEASY ABSTRACTION (OPENING) Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403 A solo exhibition by Alabamabased artist and educator Millian Giang Pham, whose art practices focus on structures and barriers oppressing the body through visual abstraction. 5-7 pm, free
FOOD JACK'S MAGIC BAKERY Root 66 Café 1704 Lena St. (505) 780-8249 We’re just challah’in in Cedar Rapids. Get awesome vegan baked goods here. 9 am-3 pm, free
WORKSHOP SIGN MAKING WORKSHOP Alas de Agua Art Collective 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 alasdeagua.com In partnership and preparation for the May 5 gathering on the Plaza to honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples, Alas de Agua hosts this open workshop to work together to make signs. Art materials provided, but please also bring whatever you have. 5-8 pm, free QIGONG Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6781 Learn some mindful movement for health, wellness and vitality. Guided by Lauri Genesio. If you’ve ever seen those groups of people doing unusual poses around town, this is it. They know what they’re doing. 5 pm, free
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SAT/23 ART ARTWALK SANTA FE Cafécito 922 Shoofly St, (505) 310-0089 Join ArtWalk 2022, featuring 20+ artists, a special artwalk menu from Cafécito and music from REMIX Audio Bar. 4-7 pm, free DEEPENING THE LIGHT (OPENING) Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 A solo exhibition by artist August Muth, one of the great pioneers in the exploration of light through holography. 4-6 pm, free FINDING AEMILIA (OPENING) Range West Gallery 2861 NM-14, Madrid (505) 474-0925 A solo exhibition of evocative abstract figurative paintings and sculptures by New Mexico artist Carla Caletti, who paints in liminal spaces and constructs sculptural forms from recycled materials. 4-7 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Y’all probably know how this works. See some cool art, ranging from crafts to paintings to furniture. Buy stuff if you want. Go home. The market is north of the water tower, where all your dreams will come true. 9 am-2 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES ARTIST TALK WITH MOSS form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256 Moss’ work are traditional crafts ranging from woodwork to digital art and photography, informing viewers in hyperrealities, ritual performance and boundary blurs between performer and audience. (see SFR picks, page 18) Noon, free BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES: STORYTIME AND SONG Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Books, activities and art-related things for Spanish-first language kiddos or youth speaking both languages. 10 am, free REBEL READERS: RETELLINGS Online tinyurl.com/RebelReaders Read a book that fits the “retelling“ theme and share your thoughts to the group. 10:30 am, free
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DANCE BAILE DE CASCARONES Santa Fe Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590 The baile (dance) is a joyful affair. Dancing to the music of The Reflections, hear old fashion dances such as “El Chotis,” “La Cadena,” “Valses” and more. A brief explanation of the dance is demonstrated so that people can learn the steps. Dance to the Northern New Mexico traditional grooves and crack some cascarones (but don’t bring your own, buy some there to support). 7-11 pm, $12-$20 DIRT DANCE IN THE PARK Patrick Smith Park 1001 Canyon Road Santa Fe allaboardearth.com Dance/silent disco in the a park. Proceeds benefit The Ocean Cleanup, ridding plastics from the ocean. Doing that will probably help you feel pretty okay, no? 2-4 pm, $5-$12 NATIONAL WATER DANCE Online tinyurl.com/ewc4na4w An artist-driven collective of dancers, students, educators and community members who are showcasing these simultaneous performances across the country. 2-2:30 pm, free
EVENTS BICYCLE FIX-IT FIESTA Cesar Chavez Elementary School 6251 Jaguar Drive sfct.org/safe-routes-to-school Santa Fe Conservation Trust and other orgs are setting up this workshop as a part of their Safe Routes to School program to promote biking and walking to schools. 10 am-1 pm, free EARTH DAY CELEBRATION Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa Streets allaboardearth.com Our little town goes all-out for Earth Day weekend, huh? Check out this all-afternoon and evening show, featuring performers like Steph Waters and Mirror Magnet. A silent disco bike ride awaits, plus loads of other insanely fun activities. 1-8 pm, free GIFTS FROM NATURE: HERBAL MEDICINE TEACHINGS Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000 Check out this herbal medicine lecture by naturopathic doctor and associate professor at the Natural College of Natural Medicine in Portland Oregon. The lecture is followed by a silent auction, which of course you’ll win at. Contact nmanp.org@gmail.com for remote attendance tickets. 9:30 am-12:30 pm, $25
ONLINE PLANT SALE: SANTA FE EXTENSION MASTER GARDENERS Online sfemg.org UH OH, PLANTS. We love plants. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners opens their annual online plant sale to help educate the public on awesome plants that won't keel over and die here. Order ahead for a May 14 pick-up. All day, free ANNUAL CLEANING OF THE ACEQUIA MADRE Acequia Madre Elementary School 700 Acequia Madre We love our waterways so much. Remember, all residents (or beauty lovers) are reminded we’ve gotta clean her out from silt, debris and rocks. Come help out so the water may flow. 8:30 am, free STORIES, MEMORIES, AND LEGACIES: THE SANTA FE INTERNMENT CAMP New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave. tinyurl.com/2p8beaz6 In-person/virtual summit commemorating the 20th anniversary of the internment camp’s historical marker. (see A&C, page 35) 10 am-4 pm, $7 STORIES, MEMORIES, AND LEGACIES: INTERNMENT CAMP PILGRIMAGE Frank Ortiz Dog Park 160 Camino de Las Crucitas tinyurl.com/2p8beaz6 Part of the above event, join those heading to the marker itself for an evening of rememberance. (see A&C, page 35) 5:30 pm-6:30 pm, free
FOOD PLANTITA VEGAN BAKERY POP UP Plantita Vegan Bakery 1704 Lena St., Ste. B4 (505) 603-0897 Blueberry muffins, green chile apple hand pies, hot chocolate cookies and more. Have you ever heard something so pure? Of course you haven’t. 10 am-noon, free
MUSIC DAVE GRUSIN AND LEE RITENOUR Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Presented by the New Mexico Jazz Festival, here's a special tribute to New Mexico’s own music treasure, 12-time Grammy award winning pianist and composer Dave Grusin, along with his longtime collaborator, legendary guitarist Lee Ritenour. This is real New Mexico jazz history on stage, folks. 7:30 pm, $39-$65 CONTINUED ON PAGE 29
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THE FIRST OF FOUR AWARDWINNING PLAYS AT THE LAB THEATER 1213 PARKWAY, SANTA FE Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 pm Sundays 2 pm - May 22 also 6 pm Previews May 4 and 5 at 7:30 Pm Talkbacks Sunday May 8 and 15
MAY 4 - 22 THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE
by William Saroyan Directed by Robert Benedetti
The first play to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award, this 1939 classic harkens back to a warmer, more loving America.
with Nicholas Ballas, Robert Benedetti, Mickey Dolan, Jeff Dolocek, Joey Beth Gilbert, Rod Harrison, Jack O’Donnell, Hania Stocker, Kat Sawyer, and Hamilton Turner
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS $30 PREVIEWS & STUDENTS $15 FOUR SHOW SEASON TICKET $100
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THURSDAY • 4. 21. 2022 Join us for our 23rd annual Angels Dine Out benefit. Enjoy a great meal with your friends and family. The restaurant will donate 25% of your bill to Kitchen Angels. Call early for reservations! For details visit kitchenangels.org
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THEATER A DELICATE BALANCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 In Edward Albee’s 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Agnes and Tobias exist in a passion-free marriage. When their home is invaded by their daughter, Julia, on the run from her fourth marriage, a long night of drinking leads to big truths. 7:30 pm, $30-$75 COYOTE THE TRICKSTER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Kid-based theater, collecting stories from varies pueblos and tribes about rights and wrongs. 2 pm & 7 pm, $5-$20 SELECTED SHORTS: GREATEST HITS Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4414 The hit radio show/ podcast comes to Santa Fe with show-stopping short stories from a treasure trove of listener favorites. Prepare to be transported as actors from stage and screen perform some of the very best Selected Shorts has to offer. Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds) leads a cast including filmmaker and actor Mike Doyle (New Amsterdam) and performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones. 7:30 pm, $45-$105
WORKSHOP ART AND WINE Cake's Corner Cafe 228 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 989-1904 A ticket includes art supplies, instruction and a glass of wine, beer, a cocktail or any nonalcoholic beverage. Teachers use heavy body acrylics; every experience level and all ages are welcome. Call above for more info. Remember: Cash only. 7 pm, $35
RIBBON SKIRT CLASS Santa Fe Indigenous Center 1420 Cerrillos Road (505) 908-8628 This event is organized by My Native Sisters Fire. Call the above number to register, but spaces are limited. Brunch and snacks provided. It goes on until the skirts are done. 9 am, free
SUN/24 BOOKS/LECTURES THE WISDOM ARCHIVE: PRESERVING AND CELEBRATING THE TRADITIONS OF NEW MEXICO El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Short film exhibition from the Wisdom Archive. Ranging from the traditional music of Antonia Apodaca and Cipriano Vigil, to “year in the life” depictions of long time sheepherders and farmers, portraits of traditional artists at work, and ancient recipes brought to life, the archive’s intent is to celebrate and preserve disappearing traditional culture. 4 pm, $10
EVENTS EARTH ECONOMY ART MARKET Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B alasdeagua.com Buy, trade and barter with BIPOC and queer artists. Purchase hand-crafted gifts. Artists will let you know if it’s purchase only or if you can barter or trade. Noon-3 pm, free VIBIN’ WITH THE TRIBE Honeymoon Brewery 907 W Alameda (505) 303-3139 There’s a lot of honey in the hive, so they say. Check out Honeymoon Brewery’s big time block party. Musics, dancing, vendors and fire performances to light up the night. 2-10 pm, $5-$10 UNITED WE WALK/RUN United Church of Santa Fe 1804 Arroyo Chamiso Road unitedchurchsf@gmail.com Help raise money for local orgs, Afghan Refugee Resettlement, NM Environmental Law Center and Communities in School. This is a 5k around the area. Email the above to register (by April 23rd). 11:30 am, $20 FOXLILIE STUDIO SLOW FASHION TRUNK SHOW BODY Santa Fe 333 West Cordova Road (505) 986-0362 A pop-up trunk show for the fashion nerds. This is slow fashion built to last, smallbatch sewn just up the road in Colorado. 11 am-2 pm, free
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CRASH KARAOKE Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Ya dang right this party will be crashed by cool kids. 6-9 pm, free AJ LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. tinyurl.com/bde7hwh5 It’s just pretty bluesgrass music, you know. 7:30 pm, $20-$22 JACK LORANG AND NATE PORTER La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Acoustic and folk, for those who love a bit of hermonica in their guitar tunes. 7-9 pm, free (but dang you better tip your bartenders/musicians)
THE TRANSITION NETWORK 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Montezuma Lodge 431 Paseo de Peralta ttnwomen.org Santa Fe's chapter of The Transition Network for women over 50 celebrates their 10th anniversary. Listen to guest speaker Pat Hodapp, author of The Complete Santa Fe Bucket List: 100 Things to Do in Santa Fe Before You Die, to discover what you’ve been missing out on around town. 5:30-7:30 pm, free
JULESWORKS FOLLIES END OF MONTHLY SHOWCASE Online tinyurl.com/mw22d9xb Like at the end of every month, see here local and regional talent in this online variety show. 5 pm, free
THEATER 'TIS BUT A SCRATCH Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4414 A mashup of scenes from Monty Python's Holy Grail and iconic Shakespearean stage fights. 2-4 pm, $15 COYOTE THE TRICKSTER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Kiddos on stage, performing Indigenous stories for children. 2 pm, $5-$20
WORKSHOP BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE CLASS Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 Same as ever. Join in and do a little belly shaking. 1-2 pm, $15 WOODSHOP BADGE Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Rdoad tinyurl.com/32ewhc27 Only freaks don’t love the smell of fresh cut wood. Get a broad understanding of navigating a well-equipped wood shop while learning safety skills. 3-7 pm, $90
MON/25 DANCE '90S NIGHT Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 Get all nostalgic for the Clinton years. Drink specials and boy band bangers. 6-9 pm, free SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Class starts at 7pm and the open dance at 8pm. $8 for the class and the dance, $3 for just the dance. 7 pm, $3-$8
FOOD MOBILE MEAL DISTRIBUTION State Library Archives 1205 Camino Carlos Rey whoiamfoundation.org Join in on helping bring food to the needy, as it’ll help you feel like you’re making the world a better place. Meet in the parking lot and show up a little early (like 4:50ish) if you’d like to help set up. Remember: The more volunteers, the bigger impact. 5-6:30 pm, free
TUE/26 BOOKS/LECTURES FOLK ART FOCUS ON FIVE Online tinyurl.com/yckwbump We’re talking 10,000+ vibrantly colored and fantastically arranged folk art. See it virtually and click out feeling artsy-smartsy. 11 am-noon, free PROMOTING RESILIENCE IN BRAIN HEALTH: HONORING OUR NATIVE ELDERS Online tinyurl.com/252x3nm3 Learn about Alzheimer's in the Indigenous community and how to support Elder health. 10 am-3 pm, free
MEET THE GUIDES Santa Fe Shungite 439C W San Francisco St. (575) 770-1228 Join Raphael and the Guides as they share a message and answer your questions about spiritual living. 6:30-8:30 pm, $20
EVENTS YARDMASTERS Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St. (505) 316-3596 If you’ve been reading this calendar the past few weeks, as you, being a good informed citizen, certainly know, you’ll know this community gardening event is BYOG. Bring your own gloves. Join in on making our public spaces beautiful. 10 am-noon, free QUEER NIGHT La Reina at El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931 Solidarity, ever heard of it? Gather in safety, help support local a trans advocate group and have pretty dang good drinks. 5 pm, free
MUSEUMS IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology. IAIA 2021–2022 BFA Exhibition: Awakened Dreamscapes. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass. Birds: Spiritual Messengers of the Skies. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Música Buena. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12 NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 The Palace Seen and Unseen. Curative Powers: New Mexico’s Hot Springs. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 18 General Goodwin Road (505) 424-6487 10th Anniversary Exhibition. 11 am-4 pm, Fri-Sun $10
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DYNAMITE SOL Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952 DJ Dynamite Sol is known for his soulful sets and always brings a good time. 6-9 pm, free JUSTIN JAY Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Classic electronic dance music. Consider it "club culture" music. 10 pm, $19 IGOR AND THE RED ELVISES Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 Classic-style rock you can bust those long-awaits moves to. 10 pm, $10 CHRIS JONAS’S DESERT TRIO Second Street (Rufina) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068 Experimental jazz on tap. 8 pm, free
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“Mexican Hat Disposal Cell, Navajo Nation” by Will Wilson (Diné). Part of Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology at IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence and the Architecture of John Gaw Meem. Trails, Rails, and Highways: How Trade Transformed New Mexico. 1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12, free for members NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063 Western Eyes. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-12
POEH CULTURAL CENTER 78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041 Di Wae Powa: A Partnership With the Smithsonian. Nah Poeh Meng: The Continuous Path. 9 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$10 WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636 Indigenous Women: Border Matters (Traveling). Portraits: Peoples, Places, and Perspectives. Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8
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folly of our impatience became clear: This isn’t about fast food cooked as quickly as possible and scarfed like you’ve just crawled across a desert—this is expertly prepared dining and a testament to the craft. It’s worth the wait. Any wait. And it’s operated by real people who take their time to make things well. As I’ve said before, we tend to shy away from describing food as “perfect,” as it implies that which cannot be. At La Tour Experience, the food is perfect. Not only has Amrani cracked the code to cooking the most satisfying eggy omelettes, her commitment to fresh ingredients is clear. The spinach and mushrooms in my omelette, for example, were firm and flavorful and, when eaten in tandem, delightfully tender and in brilliant counterpoint to one another. Spinach, I think, tastes best when it’s just the right amount of earthy, and mushrooms generally have their own thing going on. At La Tour, both such items tasted bright and pleasant, especially when contained within the fluffy but structurally sound eggs and mingling between gooey Swiss cheese and one of the most delicious beurre blanc sauces I’ve had anyplace. I tore my classic croissant apart to scoop anything
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on the plate, and small but well-considered sides of fresh greens and roasted potatoes only enhanced the dish and the experience, leaving me full but not overfed. We took macarons to-go, as well—vanilla, raspberry and chocolate ($3 each). Each adhered well to the macaron rule of light and fluffy, but the texture paled in comparison to the flavors, which seemed to kick in several moments after each bite. Can one develop a time-delayed flavor profile? Likely no, that sounds like madness, but when it came to Amrani’s macarons, the flavors lingered in the best possible way. We also left with a relatively pricy container of green tea from a company called Louvre
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aybe it’s because I’ve been watching the HBO Max Show Julia (shoutout to David Hyde Pierce!), or maybe it’s because my foodservice buds and self-described foodie friends have been so adamant about it, but I’ve had French cooking on the mind lately and, by extension, have dined at new local eatery La Tour Experience two weekends in a row. I’ll probably go a third, too. It started out at an interview with a local chef who became suddenly quite serious, looked me square in the eye and announced with the conviction of Olivier that “you have to try those quiches.” From there, I took a mental detour to the place where doubt dwells: La Tour Experience sits at that dreadful intersection where Sandoval Street becomes Cerrillos Road—the one where no driver knows what to do more than half the time, and where a slew of failed restaurants once called home. Café Café, State Capital Kitchen, Lucky Goat and likely other things from time immemorial have all flared into and out of existence in this location, and while it’s silly to think a location is cursed, if ever there were an argument for it, this is the building. No matter, though, because La Tour’s chef Lynda Amrani and her family are doing something entirely more spartan but expert in there, and it is, as the French would say, magnifique. Amrani tells SFR she has no particular training. The recipes, she says, come from her family. Amrani grew up in France and her husband Salim hails from Algeria. Together, they wound up in Los Alamos. Daughter Allison works the counter and, as Amrani says, between them, they are the workers, chefs, dishwashers, everything. The first meal came on a lazy Sunday at brunch time, and was settled upon with my dining companion when nothing else seemed agreeable. Not that one can grow tired of breakfast burritos, but it’s important to pace oneself. With Édith Piaf playing and an array of fantastic smells wafting from the kitchen, we felt our choice was wise. I’ll admit straight away that we didn’t love the counter service or what felt like a long wait for the food, but once we received our omelettes (mine with spinach and mushroom, theirs just spinach, $13.99 and $12.99, respectively) and pastries (one classic croissant, $2.75; one almond, $4.50), the
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($21.95). It was worth the price with its undertones of apple mingling with the more familiar green tea tastes and aromas. The only downside is that one must ration the tea so as not to use it up too quickly. We decided not to splurge on the gourmet olive oil. Fast forward to the following week, and we simply had to return. Once again, Edith Piaf played from invisble speakers and, being a bit of a creature of habit, I ordered the spinach and mushroom omelette. It was just as good as the previous week, maybe even better, though my companion chose the spinach and artichoke chausson this time. Think of the latter dish as a French cousin of the empanada—a crisp and flaky pastry pocket absolutely stuffed with enticing goodies inside. No one needs to tell you how spinach and artichoke mesh well, but when served within a buttery conveyance, they were a triumph. This could be a good item for a dine-in experience, but I’m also picturing its placement in a picnic, perhaps wrapped in parchment or a thick cloth, then removed and served with fruit or salad or even on its own; it would probably even be good served cold. The point is, it would likely travel well. And it is beautiful. The almond croissant made another appearance as well, as did a pain au chocolat ($3.25) that practically redefined what something as simple as chocolate in pastry can be. It’s enough to make me think I should just go back to eating ham for a weekend, just to try out some of La Tour’s other foods. As I said before, there are rotating quiche varieties (which I somehow forgot to sample despite advice from that other chef ) that come in a combo with salad ($13.99), and onion soup, you’ll find a ham and cheese croissant and a camembert crudités sandwich. Expect specials, too, plus an entire case of cookies and pastries as well as a wide selection of teas and assorted other French items. Just visit, and let us pray La Tour Experience is the restaurant that finally keeps its footing in that strange liminal space downtown. LA TOUR EXPERIENCE
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“It Started On December 7” Two decades after the dedication of the Santa Fe Internment Camp marker, a project stemming from a family mystery captures local recollections BY RILEY GARDNER r i l e y @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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n early-spring walk at Frank Ortiz Dog Park keeps your eyes trailing the blooming wildflowers as dogs of all sizes dash about off-leash sending petals twirling. If you scan the field from the parking lot, eventually you’ll see an out-of-place boulder overlooking the park from a hillside. As a historical marker, its bold, bronze headline is unmistakable: Department of Justice Santa Fe Internment Camp. Yet this marker, meant to remind future generations of a dark chapter in Santa Fe history (a chapter SFR has looked into before), met a flurry of resistance before it was dedicated in 2002. “It taught me there needed to be healing and understanding,” Gail Okawa tells SFR. “My grandfather was a congressional minister on the Big Island. He built his own parsonage and preached to the plantation workers. Then he was picked up on December 7, 1941, and the rest of it became a mystery to us.” Okawa was a major force behind the historical marker, which denotes the land which once hosted an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. Okawa is Sansei, that is, a third-generation Japanese-American, and she had a vague idea her late grandfather, the Rev. Tamasaku Watanabe, was relocated from his home, but not much more. He was Issei, first-generation, and he reportedly rarely spoke about his experiences during the war. Okawa was already familiar with New Mexico from various trips when she came across a photo of her grandfather in an internment camp. Therein, a curious yet decidedly Southwestern element caught her eye: Her grandfather and his fellow internees stood before a building
with prominent vigas. She knew she needed to do more. Even as men were still trapped inside burning hulls at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, the long path leading Okawa’s grandfather to the Santa Fe Internment Camp had already begun. Decades later, Okawa uncovered through both state and federal archives, a long period of pre-war planning by the US Government, including military intelligence reports as early as the 1920s targeting Japanese residents. While FDR’s infamous Executive Order 9066 is largely believed to be the genesis of the internment camp program, it was, in actuality, a stamp of approval for a plan the military had already put into motion. “This is one of the big things I learned in my research, which really was me trying to uncover the story behind this photo,” Okawa continues. “[Relocation] didn’t start with EO 9066. It started on December 7. The military had been planning for this for a long time. The size and location of [the interment camp] make Santa Fe unique. Whereas most camps were kept in rural isolated locations, the camp bordered the town.” Okawa captured the history of the camp in her 2020 book, Remembering Our Grandfather’s Exile, and it remains one of the few detailed examinations of Santa Fe’s involvement in the program. The idea came to Okawa for a 2002-granted sabbatical project from Ohio’s Youngstown State University, where she taught English lit. It took 18 years of research to get her passion project to print. She travels to Santa Fe occasionally to help steward the camp’s memorial marker and with events related to the SFIC. In her book, Okawa addresses Santa Feans’ fading memories within a suspicion-filled town. Then-children or their descendants describe listening for approaching trains filled with internees. Some subjects describe how the internees would sometimes toss candy to children from the trains. One interviewee recalls that that he knew the internees only as “the enemy,” and in Okawa’s book describes hurling cacti over the camp fence in hopes of hitting someone inside. Fast forward to 2002, when the camp’s
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marker was officially dedicated at Frank Ortiz Park. It did not go up without pushback. Okawa notes that those who voiced opposition those 20 years ago likely felt pain and confusion over the concept of marker-versus-monument (kind of similar to the Plaza obelisk, no?) and New Mexican lives lost during WWII. Most painful for locals, perhaps, were memories of the young men from Northern New Mexico who became victims of the 1942 Bataan Death March at the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army. “So much of the secrecy led to confusion,” Okawa explains. “This was one of the few camps administered by the Department of Justice, not the military. Residents didn’t know who were being held there, and there was an assumption they were war prisoners, not the men they actually were—young men and fathers, some of whom had sons fighting in the 100th Infantry Battalion [a JapaneseAmerican military unit which became one of the most decorated army units in American history]. I realized this was needed because it was about healing. That boy who threw the cactus attended an event for healing in California, where he got a chance to apologize.” Along with the New Mexico History Museum, members of the New Mexican Japanese-American Citizen League hope to keep such memories alive as they commemorate the marker’s 20-year anniversary on April 23. The museum is scheduled to host a symposium with Okawa and oth-
er speakers, including David Inoue, executive director of the Japanese-American Citizens League and Victor Yamada, project lead for Confinement in the Land of Enchantment at Fort Stanton Historic Site. The program also includes short films and dancers, and concludes with a pilgrimage to the site itself. There’s an oft-told rumor when it comes to the marker, Okawa says, and it pertains to the flowers and trees that grow nearby. Area residents wonder, she says, whether the camp gardens cultivated in the 1940s still impact what grows in abundance to this day. “A girl who used to wait for trains sits on her sister’s porch in Casa Solana, thinking about [the camp] with all the flowers and trees in bloom,” she recalls. “It’s kind of rare beautiful thing left behind a place with a lot of suffering.”
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hat do marriage and boxing have in common? A ring, maybe—and the ring is the boundary within which the tension and pull of Eloisa Amezcua’s new book of poetry, Fighting is Like a Wife (April 2022, Coffee House Press) takes place. Amezcua’s newest borrows its title from a 1983 Sports Illustrated article by Ralph Wiley, and it paints the history of two-time world boxing champion Bobby Chacon and his first wife, Valorie Ginn. It’s an aching book, one that parses the tangle of love and dependence that bound the two together until Ginn’s death by suicide in 1982. Amezcua, who hails from Arizona, is a Macdowell fellow whose poems and translations have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review and Gulf Coast, among others. Fighting is Like A Wife is her second poetry collection, after 2018’s From the Inside Quietly. Her work is introspective and muted, even when its subject is violence, and her passages are a visual
experience as much as an auditory or intellectual one; she experiments with the presentation of text on the page, playing with space and typography. The poems in Fighting Is Like a Wife are full of this kind of play: redactions, strikethrough, text that fades in and out of sight, text that blurs in double vision. Such devices lend her poetry a sense of dynamism, as if the pieces are in a perpetual state of flux and eternally revising themselves as the reader explores them. Amezcua draws on found text, too, using lines from sports commentary and interviews Chacon gave over the course of his career. All of the poems written in Chacon’s voice are composed from direct quotes Amezcua collected from articles and interviews. Fighting Is Like a Wife also owes much to other contemporary artists, borrowing from and building upon work by sociologist, poet and visual artist Eve L. Ewing; singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata; Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tyehimba Jess and playwright Mona Mansour. Found text morphs through phases of meaning, giving the reader the dizzying sensation of being inside the narrator’s head as their thoughts loop and weave, talking themselves into and out of action.
In one poem entitled “The Money,” written in Chacon’s voice, Amezcua begins with the lines “I don’t care about the title / I’m in this for the money,” then revises that thought, ordering and reordering words and crossing them out until arriving at the conclusion: “I’m the money I care about in this.” Fighting Is Like a Wife is experimental without feeling gimmicky and its narrative depth unfolds over the course of the
book in a way that goes beyond a love story. Amezcua inserts eerie, textured language against the backdrop of Chacon and Ginn’s situation. Chacon got into boxing because he needed the money, and the money kept him bound to the fight even as
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For those who’ve yet to fall under Michelle Yeoh’s spell (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, anyone?! Crazy Rich Asians?!), make it your business to head into theaters for Everything Everywhere All at Once, a brilliant sendup of the evermore commonplace concept of infinite realities—you know; the multiverse. Brought to us by the inimitably strange directing team of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka Daniels (the auteurs behind the bold and beautifully bizarre Swiss Army Man), it’s the type of film that should sate the heady science nerds, the self-assigned cultural elite and those who just plain want to see a weird movie rolled up into a sci-fi/rom-com/kung fu/family story. Here we follow Evelyn (Yeoh) and Waymond Wang (Ke Huy Quan of Goonies and Temple of Doom fame), a long-married couple who live above the middling laundromat they run together. As the Wangs face an IRS audit from a seemingly heartless agent (Jamie Lee Curtis, who gets gloriously weird), Waymond wants a divorce, and their daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) isn’t helping so much as she seems hellbent on using her girlfriend to freak out her folks. It’s a bit of a humdrum life until an alternate-universe Waymond appears, kung fu fanny pack in hand, to inform Evelyn she’s the last hope in facing a threat to the infinitely layered
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universes that make up reality. A dark presence called Jobu Tupaki is killing Wangs and anyone else they encounter across timelines. Using tech to take over the consciousnesses of their multiverse counterparts, Waymond and Evelyn can instantly learn the skills of their other life versions, and that’s precisely how a middle-aged laundromat owner becomes a master of martial arts, a flawless singer, a talented movie star and, ultimately, learns acceptance. Yeoh is absolutely riveting as the dissatisfied mother, and whereas her kung fu skills have always been apparent, here she shows off her acting chops. It’s a pleasant surprise to learn she’s a secret goofball, and her journey feels reminiscent of Jennifer Lawrence’s in Aranofsky’s Mother!, only more focused and relatable. In the quieter moments, even the very funny ones, Yeoh’s range feels unmatched. Quan, meanwhile, steals the show often, and his presence as the all-important jester archetype softens Yeoh’s character, which is not to say he isn’t a badass in his own right. Hsu might be the true breakout, though,
an older man named JLB (Michael J. Rogers) takes a special interest in her well-being, and her dark thoughts begin revealing themselves. World’s Fair’s atmosphere is tense and creepy, its silence completely mesmerizing. It’s so uncomfortably isolating you can’t help but feel sad for Casey’s life at its outset as it’s like an isolation that reflects a quiet inner terror inspired by the conditions of the world around her. Cobb’s superb performance adds to the film’s intriguing set-up, yet its commentary isn’t as clear as it ought to be. After so long in this relatively short film, one wishes we could just get on with it. Despite a tense start, we aren’t granted any kind of satisfying payoff. Listen, we know young people are more reliant on the internet in a way that seems to baffle older generations, and they use it to build connections lacking from their personal lives. Actually, that might be a more universal thing. Even so, a more steadily building energy, even a slight one, would have worked wonders. Schoenbrun certainly knows how to kick off a story, but there are near-constant “this is my first feature,” vibes. The more studied horror geeks might find World’s Fair riveting, and if you’re one of them it’s worth a shot. As a whole, however, it flounders, even if there’s no denying how absolutely creepy the whole thing gets. (Riley Gardner) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 86 min.
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pulling double duty as the chaotic daughter and the even more chaotic villain. Of course, nothing is simple in Daniels’ vision—and three cheers to Jamie Lee for nailing emotional scenes with literal hot dog fingers. The humor cuts the tension while helping to make sense of the converging timelines, though it might help to have read comic books one’s whole life. Even still, one needn’t have a physics degree to get into why Everything Everywhere All at Once is so fun. It begs for repeated viewings, not least of which for Yeoh’s career-defining performance. People will talk about this one for years to come, and it’s likely to inspire a whole new generation of filmmakers. Rarely does something so weird make its way into the mainstream, but thank goodness it did.
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Despite being the third largest movie market in the world, India’s on-again/off-again relationship with queer representation hasn’t shown off much. And while the new Netflix movie Cobalt Blue doesn’t hit the nail on the head, it is a gentle reminder that a little bit of decent cinematography can go a long way. University student Tanay (newcomer Neelay Mehendale) is a literature nut in mid-1990s India. As the country begins to position itself as a cultural powerhouse, his desires to be a part of a growing poetry movement gets a boost when a vacant room in his house is occupied by a mysterious, unnamed hunk (Prateik Babbar). Sexy unnamed hunk is sexy because he’s always got his chest bulging out of his tight button-ups. You know how it goes. Tanay’s new experiences with love offer a sudden jolt to his poetic skills, too, all while his sister (Anjali Sivaraman) struggles to find that same sense of freedom as she stares down the barrel of an arranged marriage she doesn’t particularly want. Despite numerous sensual and literary pleasures, Cobalt Blue takes forever to get going. The first rule of queer cinema is to never wait too long for the sexy new arrival—this is what brings our sensitive and artistic protagonist into adulthood.
Director Sachin Kundalkar (who also penned the novel on which the film is based) has a strong visual eye, but his direction can’t reach its aspired heights. He’s especially hobbled by the decision to cast many first-time actors who could better learn how to frame themselves in a shot. And even if they did possess such knowledge, Cobalt Blue can’t seem to get beyond its own sense of self-importance even as its egotistical nature offers an entertaining enough ride. Here Kundalkar aims at a more experimental take on the love story contrasted against expected narrative tropes; the strongest moments, however, wind up showcased in montage sequences. Behold a stretched-out narrative begging to be squeezed back into the tiny home in which it belongs. Conflict within romance feels forced, while most character choices are baffling. Even worse, generally decent dialogue flips toward the end when some shoved-in words about gay rights zap away much of the established subtlety. Even so, for all of its narrative problems, Cobalt Blue’s arthouse aesthetic vibe promises a reward beyond its surface issues. Its editing is superb, however, and highlights an energetic world without dwelling too long in its artistic sensibilities. Far better than half the stuff Netflix crams onto the platform, the rarity of seeing queer Indian cinema at least feels like a worthy use of time. (RG) Netflix, NR, 113 min.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Marge Piercy writes, “I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again.” According to my analysis of the astrological factors, you’ll be wise to be like a person Piercy describes. You’re entering a phase of your cycle when diligent work and impeccable self-discipline are most necessary and most likely to yield stellar rewards.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): British Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) was born under the sign of Libra. He was a brilliant and unconventional strategist whose leadership brought many naval victories for his country. Yet he was blind in one eye, was missing most of his right arm from a battle wound, and was in constant discomfort from chronic seasickness. I propose we make him one of your patron saints for the coming weeks. May he inspire you to do your best and surpass your previous accomplishments even if you’re not feeling perfect. (But also keep in mind: The problems you have to deal with will be far milder than Nelson’s.).
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1879, Taurus-born Williamina Fleming was working as a maid for astronomer Edward Charles Pickering, director of the Harvard Observatory. Impressed with her intelligence, Pickering hired Fleming to do scientific work. By 1893, she had become a prominent, award-winning astronomer. Ultimately, she discovered the Horsehead Nebula, helped develop a system for identifying stars, and cataloged thousands of astronomical phenomena. I propose that we make her your role model for the duration of 2022. If there has ever been a year when you might achieve progress like Fleming’s, it’s this one.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Anti-apartheid activist Bantu Stephen Biko (1946–1977) was profoundly committed to authenticity. The repressive South African government hated that about him. Biko said, “I’m going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I’m not going to be what you want me to be.” Fortunately for you, Scorpio, you’re in far less danger as you become more and more of your genuine self. That’s not to say the task of learning how to be true to your deep soul is entirely risk-free. There are people out GEMINI (May 21-June 20): For 2500 years, Egypt was a there, even allies, who may be afraid of or resistant to conquered territory ruled by non-Egyptians. Persians your efforts. Don’t let their pressure influence you to took control in 525 BCE. Greeks replaced them. In sucdilute your holy quest. ceeding centuries, Egypt had to submit to the authority of the Roman Empire, the Persians again, the Byzantine SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The artist must train Empire, the Arab Islamic Caliphate, the Mamluk not only his eye but also his soul,” said Sagittarian paintSultanate, the Ottomans, and the British. When British er Wassily Kandinsky. Inspired by his observation, I’m troops withdrew from their occupation in 1956, Egypt telling you, “The practical dreamer should train not only her reasoning abilities but also her primal intuition, crewas finally an independent nation self-ruled by ative imagination, non-rational perceptivity, animal Egyptians. If there are any elements of your own life story that even partially resemble Egypt’s history, I have instincts, and rowdy wisdom.” I especially urge you to embody my advice in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. good news: 2022 is the year you can achieve a more Now is a favorable time to make abundant use of the complete version of sovereignty than you have ever other modes of intelligence that help you understand life enjoyed. And the next phase of your freedom work as it really is—and not merely as the logical, analytical begins now. mind conceives it to be. CANCER (June 21-July 22): During the next four weeks, CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The language spoken by some of the best lessons you can study and learn will come to you while you’re socializing and communicating. the indigenous Cherokee people is at least 3,000 years old. But it never had a written component until the Even more than is usually the case, your friends and 1820s. Then a Cherokee polymath named Sequoyah forallies will offer you crucial information that has the mulated a syllabary, making it possible for the first time power to catalyze dynamic decisions. Lucky encounters to read and write the language. It was a herculean with Very Interesting People may open up possibilities worth investigating. And here’s a fun X-factor: The some- accomplishment with few precedents in history. I protimes surprising words that fly out of your mouth during pose we name him your inspirational role model for the rest of 2022. In my astrological understanding, you are lively conversations will provide clues about what your poised to make dramatic breakthroughs in self-expresdeep self has been half-consciously dreaming of. sion and communication that will serve you and others LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): ”Hold on tight, I would tell for a long time. myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.” A AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A study by psychologists character in one of Haruki Murakami’s novels says that. concludes there is a good way to enhance your willpowIn contrast to that poor soul, Leo, I’m happy to tell you er: For a given time, say one week, use your non-domithat there will indeed be a reliable and sturdy source for nant hand to brush your teeth, wield your computer you to hold onto in the coming weeks—maybe more mouse, open your front door with your key, or perform than one. I’m glad! In my astrological opinion, now is a other habitual activities. Doing so boosts your ability to overcome regular patterns that tend to keep you mired time when you’ll be smart to get thoroughly anchored. It’s not that I think you will be in jeopardy. Rather, you’re in inertia. You’re more likely to summon the resolution in a phase when it’s more important than usual to iden- and drive necessary to initiate new approaches in all areas of your life—and stick with them. The coming tify what makes you feel stable and secure. It’s time to weeks will be an especially favorable time to try this bolster your foundations and strengthen your roots. experiment. (For more info, read this: https://tinyurl. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the latter half of the 19th century, the US government collaborated with professional hunters to kill millions of bison living in America’s Great Plains. Why? It was an effort to subjugate the indigenous people who lived there by eliminating the animals that were their source of food, clothing, shelter, bedding, ropes, shields, and ornaments. The beloved and useful creatures might have gone extinct altogether if it had not been for the intervention of a Virgo rancher named Mary Ann “Molly” Goodnight. She single-handedly rebuilt the bison herds from a few remaining survivors. I propose that we make Goodnight your inspirational role model for the rest of 2022. What dwindling resources or at-risk assets could you restore to health?
com/BoostWillpower) PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be justified to say something like that in the near future. Now is a favorable time to honestly acknowledge differences between you and others—and accept those differences just as they are. The important point is to do what you need to do without decreeing that other people are wrong or misguided. Homework: What’s your favorite ethical trick? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com
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