Santa Fe Reporter, April 26, 2023

STOP FUNDING ISRAELI APARTHEID

A Message to New Mexico Senators and Representatives,

Every year, the U.S. government writes a check for at least $3.8 billion to fund Israel’s violence against the Palestinian people. The Israeli military uses our tax dollars to kill Palestinians, destroy their homes, and steal their native land.

EVERY YEAR New Mexicans give an average of $13,335,929 to Israel, making us complicit in the following crimes:

Brutal Raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli forces are attacking Muslims attempting to worship inside the Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan.

THE CRIME OF APARTHEID

According to Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem and the Presbyterian Church Israeli practices, including land expropriation, unlawful killings, forced displacement, restrictions on movement, and denial of citizenship rights amount to the crime of apartheid.

Imprisonment of Children

Each year approximately 500-700 Palestinian children, some as young as 12 years old, are detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system.

Under International law, apartheid crimes create a DUTY to act to end the system and policies of Israel which make up apartheid.

Unrestricted US military aid empowers, facilitates and emboldens Israeli leaders to carry out the crimes of apartheid including the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and Arabs. Most recently Israeli leaders publicly endorsed this racist policy.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WE CAN NO LONGER BE COMPLICIT IN AIDING AND ABETTING ISRAEL IN ITS BRUTAL CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

Forced Eviction

At least 20,000 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem alone are currently slated for demolition.

Military Assaults on Gaza & the West Bank

Some 94 Palestinians have been killed since the start of this year.

Join our campaigns to recognize the human and equal rights of Palestinians and all peoples, to end the Occupation, and instead of supporting and funding Israeli apartheid, demand our representatives and government stop funding and oppose it.

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OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP 9

State regulators crack down on unlicensed taxis at the airport. But how are passengers supposed to get anywhere?

DEATH BY DEDUCTION 10

New pot shops learn about federal weed tax laws the hard way

COVER STORY 12

LIFE WITH LESS WATER

Amid a withering drought, New Mexico leaders struggle to plan for life with less water

CULTURE

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Reproductive resources, vegan pizza, punk rock royalty and a nice ‘n’ easy bike ride

THE CALENDAR 18

THE NAKED TRUTH 20

Live out those Divinyls lyrics...you know the ones

A&C 25

WITHIN THESE WALLS

Theater mainstay Talia Pura digs into the past with WWII show The Walls Have Ears

FOOD 27

Z IS FOR ZOUNDS!

Wherein we might have gone a little overboard at Zacatlán MOVIES 28

EVIL DEAD RISE REVIEW

Just be careful whenever anyone loves you

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COVER, APRIL 12: “POWERLIFT” A CHARTER TO CHEW ON

As your recent “Power Lift” cover story reported, the city has done little to encourage community input to its Charter Review Commission’s process of proposing changes to the city’s charter that, in essence, is its constitution.

At the governing body’s January hearings in the Old Pecos Trail rezoning case, the mayor said the city needed to do a better job explaining its quasi-judicial process. Enough with mayor-splaining. Walk the talk and give our charter some teeth by adding this: “Recognizing the importance to the Santa Fe community of procedural due process of law and fairness in proceedings addressing land use and other matters that require city decision-makers to act in a quasi-judicial manner, the city shall adopt procedural rules that ensure that all quasi-judicial proceedings conducted by the governing body and city commissions and boards adhere to estab-

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lished principles of procedural due process of law and fundamental fairness and apply these principles in an impartial manner to applicants and members of the community who participate in those proceedings.”

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ONLINE, APRIL 20: “CHARGES AGAINST BALDWIN TO BE DROPPED”

SICK OF THE SHOOT-EM-UPS

Here’s a novel idea: Have Hollywood producers cease making films that are filled with insane amounts of simulated gun violence. Perhaps this would help avoid all the tragedies on and off the set.

SCOTT SHUKER SANTA FE

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This whole ordeal has really set the bar for competence in NM.

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“This line is ridiculous. How is it tourist season already?”

“Um, it’s definitely not. We’re actually still in Aries season for another week.”

—Overheard at Java Joe’s

“So I took a handful of their pens. It’s all I could do.”

—Overheard at Cafe Fina

FE EAVESDROPPER

BIDEN OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES

HIS RE-ELECTION BID

Does this mean we’ll see an extra day in February and a Biden v. Trump debate every four years?

BUZZFEED SHUTS DOWN ITS NEWS DIVISION

Tell us what Disney movies you most identify with and we’ll tell you what level of bummed to be about that.

TUCKER CARLSON CANNED FROM FOX NEWS AFTER NETWORK SETTLES ELECTION LIES LAWSUIT

Fox News folding entirely would be an epic way for the world to mark SFR’s 50th anniversary next year.

A SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE GOVERNOR NOW MAKES $175,000 SALARY AFTER GETTING A 31% RAISE Weird because the governor seems to have gotten such bad advice on a bunch of stuff lately.

HALT! I ORDER YOU TO STOP BEING POOR!

CITY RESPONDS TO HOUSING, MENTAL HEALTH CRISES BY ADDING MORE POLICE DOWNTOWN Housing and more mental health care would be too much to ask.

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ENTHUSIASTS AMONG THE ANGRIEST

But you don’t hear about New Mexico gamers leaking national security secrets on Discord to impress their buddies.

SPACEX ROCKET EXPLODES SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF

State-affiliated business fails again.

WE ARE WAY MORE THAN WEDNESDAY HERE ARE A COUPLE OF ONLINE EXCLUSIVES:

CHARGES DROPPED

Special prosecutors cited new evidence in nixing Rust manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin.

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Nowhere to Go But Up

BY ANDREW OXFORD oxford@sfreporter.com

No one, it seems, is above getting stranded at the Santa Fe Regional Airport.

“I almost got stuck out there,” says city Public Works Director Regina Wheeler.

The official who oversees the airport as well as the city’s public transportation network tells SFR she booked an Uber before flying back into Santa Fe on a recent trip, but discovered the ride had been canceled when she landed.

So, she had to catch a ride with another traveler.

With few options for passengers flying into Santa Fe to make their way to destinations around town, city officials say a black market of sorts has even opened up, with unlicensed taxis operating from the airport.

James Harris, the city’s new airport director, says he began fielding concerns as soon as he arrived in November, not only about the lack of options, but also about exorbitant rates some drivers were offering passengers who didn’t want to be left behind about 14 miles from downtown.

“When I got here, we were getting complaints about no transportation from the airport to town. Then, one person complained she paid $80 to a guy who provided a ride to town,” Harris tells SFR.

City officials called the Public Regulation Commission, which controls commercial transportation services such as taxis and limousines. A spokesman for the commission says state regulators went to the airport and spoke with several drivers about the

laws on providing rides for hire. The commission didn’t take any enforcement action, but Harris says the presence from regulators helped. Unlicensed taxis can be easy to spot: Licensed vehicles for hire will have a PRC number emblazoned on the side.

City officials say efforts to contract with private operators or encourage services to set up a service have fallen flat.

But that still doesn’t answer the question: How is anyone supposed to get from the airport to their home or wherever they’re staying in town?

Some hotels run their own shuttle services.

Residents and travelers headed to other lodging or points beyond the city have fewer options.

“We get Uber and Lyft but the demand around the city is very high. We rarely see

Uber out here,” says Harris.

That can leave fliers waiting on a very small curbside amid the dust of a terminal expansion project that won’t be complete until the end of the year, following delays. While some airports are far from the cities they serve and many Santa Fe residents head to Albuquerque for flights, cities often bridge the gap with some form of transit.

The city set aside $180,000 earlier this year, in part to pay for transportation from the airport using tourism funds. Harris says the prices that potential contractors offered far exceeded that amount, however.

Meanwhile, the city’s own transit system is not necessarily on board with extending a route to the airport.

Thomas Martinez, director of operations for Santa Fe Trails, told council-

ors during a recent budget hearing that other routes are too far away to merit a stop at the airport. Martinez added that it wouldn’t necessarily be feasible for the transit agency to align the bus schedule with the arrival time of the nine flights that serve the airport each day.

Two flights—one from Dallas and one from Denver—arrive around 10 pm on weeknights, for example. But the nearest bus route—the #24—stops regular service a little after 8 pm. On-demand service along that route only continues until 9:30 pm, though for the last week the route has been on-demand all day due to construction near Country Club Road.

But bus service to the airport was one of the most popular requests of current city bus riders surveyed as part of a report commissioned by the city and provided to councilors more than a year ago.

Moreover, some transit officials are interested in regular bus service to the airport.

A new long-range plan from the North Central Regional Transit District calls for collaborating with the city to provide transportation options to the airport. That could complement the district’s broader plan to connect Santa Fe, Española and Taos with a bus rapid transit system that would run at least once an hour.

The new airport director says he’s also interested in getting more transportation options to the airport.

For starters, Harris says he is aiming to get the city to assign an employee to the airport who can run a shuttle service.

Cars jockey to pick up arriving passengers amid construction at the airport terminal.

State regulators crack down on unlicensed taxis at the airport. But how are passengers supposed to get anywhere?

Death by Deduction

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

Business may be booming for many New Mexico cannabis companies, but a sometimes overlooked federal tax code can create difficulty in making ends meet. Thanks to a decades-old legal battle between a Minnesota drug dealer and the Internal Revenue Service, the federal government prohibits state-sanctioned cannabis companies from deducting regular business expenses when it comes time to pay Uncle Sam.

Most businesses can generally deduct a portion of costs such as payroll, tools or supplies from their taxable incomes. Cannabis businesses, however, are prohibited by the IRS from deducting anything but the costs of goods sold, meaning they are taxed on most of their revenue, regardless of whether it was later spent on the business.

John Grisham, an Albuquerque-based certified public accountant and partner with the national firm Carr, Riggs & Ingram, tells SFR the tax code known as 280E has taken New Mexico cannabis business owners by surprise for years, but more so since the state started issuing adult-use business licenses in late 2021. A lot of the shops, he says, won’t be “able to cope.”

That was the case for Ben Snelgrove, who recently sold off his Eldorado dispensary after both federal taxes and state regulations

left him “dancing from one foot to the other” trying to keep his shop alive. He tells SFR 280E had a big impact on his ability to make money, especially since he could only deduct the price he paid for wholesale cannabis and not other costs such as rent and advertising.

“If you went on a month-bymonth basis, just the inability to be able to deduct that expense, and be able to claim that and get at least some of it back, that pretty much ate into anywhere from 25% to 30% of my overall profit margin, after overhead,” Snelgrove says.

Grisham says he and his firm represent a significant portion of what are known as the “legacy” cannabis companies that cropped up long before New Mexico shifted from medical cannabis to full legalization. The firm is selective about taking on industry newbies because many have never owned a business before, let alone one with the nuanced legality of cannabis.

“They are shocked by this idea that they’re going to owe a lot of tax. They just think it’s going to be raining money at some point,” Grisham says.

The old-school companies not only have the knowledge and experience to navigate obscure tax codes, but are also largely vertically integrated, meaning they grow, manufacture and sell their own products. The tax code, which essentially makes it illegal to deduct expenses related to federally illicit drugs, does allow some

wiggle room, especially for those that grow their own products. The cost of cultivation and wholesale purchases, for example, can be deducted from a company’s taxable income.

One industry leader who has long been a vocal critic of both the state’s medical and recreational cannabis market says companies that control their own production lines have an advantage out of the gate.

than $10 million a year,” Rodriguez tells SFR. The tax code causing headaches in states with legalized weed goes back several decades to Minnesota, where Jeffrey Edmondson tried to deduct expenses such as rent, business travel and long distance phone charges from the income he made selling amphetamines, cannabis and cocaine in 1974. After the IRS denied those deductions, a federal tax court ruled Edmondson was indeed allowed to write off the costs of selling illegal drugs.

“We hold that one-third of [Edmondson’s] rental expense of $2,360, or $787, constitutes an ordinary and necessary expense of petitioner’s trade or business and is to be allowed as a deduction,” the 1981 court decision reads, while also identifying a whole host of other expenses as deductible.

Congress enacted 280E a year later, which cleared up that “no deduction or credit shall be allowed for any amount paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business if such trade or business…consists of trafficking in controlled substances.”

Duke Rodriguez, president and CEO of Ultra Health, estimates it’s “mathematically impossible” for retail-only spots to stay afloat without writing off a sizable chunk of operational expenses. Rodriguez says the tax code significantly impacts even behemoths like Ultra Health, which is among the top highest earning cannabis businesses in the state.

“The liability [280E] has created for us on income taxes is probably, let’s just say, greater

US Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, and others are again trying amend legislation to exempt cannabis from 280E. But for now, Grisham says, companies that spend the lion’s share of their income on fancy build-outs and customer service staff to set their business apart from the rest are probably still feeling the sting of tax day.

“It all costs a lot of money,” he says. “So their bottom line might show that they’re not making a ton of money, but when you have to pay tax on all those expenses that aren’t deductible, that tax burden is more than what their net profit is.”

New pot shops learn about federal weed tax laws the hard way

Ultra Health employee Vinnie Encinitas completes a transaction at the company’s Midtown location.

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LIFE WITH LESS WATER

BY ELIZABETH MILLER @NMInDepth

Though the Rio Grande runs through the heart of New Mexico’s biggest city, you can easily miss it. Even from places where you’d expect to see water—designated parking areas near the river or paths along which you carry a boat to cast off from the nearest bank—it’s often invisible behind a screen of cottonwoods. Through much of the city, it hides behind businesses, warehouses and strip malls.

From the riverbank or on the river itself, these curtains create a rare reprieve, a place in an urban area that can be mistaken for a pocket of wild. City noise infrequently penetrates the cottonwoods that beat back the heat and hum with insects and birdsong on summer days. The river often runs a murky, reddish beige that matches its muddy banks.

But invisibility also means the river is more easily forgotten. That’s worrying for a river as water managers and stakeholders plan for the next five decades of water use in New Mexico—a period that will witness tough choices as a dire and historic drought continues and the river is unable to give everyone what they want or need.

Norm Gaume, a water resources engineer who once served as director of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission and as a water manager for the City of Albuquerque, has watched and participated in water planning in the state for decades. He agreed to take me down the river on the first warm spring day last year to talk about the future of the Rio Grande from the river itself. As soon as we launched downstream in his canoe, we began passing examples of ill-considered planning around the river: houses built in flood plains and scattered jetty jacks once planted on the riverbanks to channelize the historically sprawling riverbed and now primed to rip open a boat.

In the stretch where our trip finished, the river was so low that we had to wade, instead of float, back to our vehicles. It drove home Gaume’s core point: “All the desires for this poor little river exceed

That situation is getting worse, and the consequences have us, as he said, “borrowing from the future to pay the river back today.”

New Mexico’s future will almost certainly be hotter and drier, with profound implications for our water and people who use it for homes, industries, farms and recreation. Failing to plan holistically leaves the state running from one crisis to the next, whether that’s farmers weathering another dry season or biologists racing to save endangered fish in a vanishing waterway, and facing seemingly impossible choices and improbable solutions, while time runs out.

New Mexico doesn’t have a good track record on planning when it comes to water. And now, as it nears the finish of drafting a 50-

Amid a withering drought, New Mexico leaders struggle to plan for life with less water

year water plan, some say they’ve continued to fall short: dedicating few staff and too little funds, not involving the right people and communities, and not imagining a future that encompasses the full spectrum of river uses, including the very existence of some species.

“This is not one of those issues that you can say, ‘Well, if we take a step in the right direction, in 20 years, we’ll have made headway,’” said Gina Della Russo, an ecologist who has worked along the Rio Grande for more than three decades. “We don’t have 20 years. We didn’t have 20 years 20 years ago.”

Climate change forces new approach to water planning

The Rio Grande has never been an easy river to live alongside. Through its 1,900-mile course, which begins in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains and ends in the Gulf of Mexico, running through broad valleys and tight gorges along the way, it’s known as dynamic and variable.

Historically, spring snowmelt flooded its banks. The river frequently changed course through its floodplain. Species that grew up alongside it, from the Rio Grande silvery minnow to cottonwood trees, adapted to that variety. Now, they depend on it. Silvery minnows spawn in spring runoff, and cottonwood’s white drifts of seeds sprout only after that rush of water leaves muddy ground.

But settlers saw the river’s erratic flows, side channels, backwaters, sweeping floodplains and shifting banks as a hostile

neighbor. As the communities of Albuquerque, Las Cruces, El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, plus more than 200,000 acres of irrigated agriculture, arose alongside the river, humans harnessed it to produce more predictable flows. Levees and jetty jacks, asterisk-like stars of metal, set the river into a specific channel, while dams steadied its flow.

Now, a changing climate jeopardizes the river’s uses. Rising temperatures turn snow to rain. Spring runoff is starting earlier; already, it’s out of sync with when fish spawn and cottonwoods cast seeds. New Mexico’s history of swinging from wetter to drier periods about twice per century perpetuates faith that rain will return, but when, exactly, it is impossible to say. The state is 22 years into drought, and forecasts anticipate hotter and longer dry periods to come as climate change moves the Southwest into unprecedented ground where what we learned from the past may not apply well to the future.

“You can’t talk about water policy and investments without understanding the scale and scope of change that’s happening,” said US Rep. Melanie Stansbury, who studied and worked in water policy and management for years before heading to Congress to represent New Mexico. “Sure, we can make micro-investments in different solu-

tions that we tried in the 20th century and in the last few decades, but we really have to take a hard look at the science, figure out how we’re going to manage this system over the next century, given climate impacts, a completely different hydrologic regime and a completely different need for ways in which we’re going to meet the existing and growing demands.”

“It’s just crucial that people understand this is not a one-time drought,” Stansbury said. “This is the change that climate change has brought to these systems and we have to

act now, because literally the future of our communities depends on it.”

New Mexico has been barred from storing water upstream since June 2020, in large part because water held in a reservoir upstream that would have been sent to Texas was instead used to irrigate Middle Rio Grande farmers’ fields through a painfully dry summer, and it now owes significant water to Texas. That water obligation is set by the Rio Grande Compact, a multi-state agreement that determines how to divvy up the river and that has landed the two states in recent conflict.

Without that stored water to add to flows all summer, said Page Pegram, Rio Grande Basin water chief for New Mexico’s Interstate Stream Commission, the river will dry out, as it did in Albuquerque for the first time in 40 years last July. And that’s actually the natural state of the river, she said. “Flow has been relatively low, snowpack has been relatively low, but really what we saw this summer and early fall, before the rains really hit, was really the natural flow of the Rio Grande.”

The prohibition on water storage upstream won’t be rescinded until the water stored in Elephant Butte and Caballo reservoirs comes above 400,000 acre feet. It’s currently around 150,000 acre feet.

A view of the bosque and Rio Grande from Pat Baca Open Space in Albuquerque last November.

RIO GRANDE WATERSHED

Long-term water planning must include the Rio Grande’s impact in New Mexico.

“We can’t assume that we’re going to find more water anywhere, we have to assume that we’ve got to shrink the pie,” Pegram said. “From the state’s perspective, we just need to figure out how all different sectors can share in the shortage that we’re seeing in the middle Rio Grande, and that includes environmental, agriculture, municipalities—everybody.”

New Mexico is not alone.”This whole region is grappling with water bankruptcy,” said Ali Mirchi, a professor at Oklahoma State University who co-authored a recent paper on the drying Middle Rio Grande.

Even cities that lean on groundwater aquifers to supply municipal taps aren’t safe from the drought-induced water crisis. Albuquerque relies on the Santa Fe Group Aquifer as well as the San Juan-Chama

Drinking Water Project, which diverts water from the San Juan River to the Rio Grande to bolster supplies. That $400 million pipeline was built in 2008 to reduce reliance on an aquifer the city’s water utility admits is overtaxed. Research in the early 1990s showed a reservoir once thought to be virtually limitless was being pumped twice as fast as nature could replenish it.

Viewing rivers on the landscape’s surface and the aquifers, or groundwater, below it as separate systems is a mistake, Mirchi said: “River water is our checking account. Groundwater is our savings account. So we’re depleting our savings.”

Worse still, when New Mexico drives up the amount of water it owes to Texas under the Rio Grande Compact, he added, that amounts to “maxing out the water credit cards.”

Striving to plan

In 2005, then-Gov. Bill Richardson recognized the most significant threat from climate change was to the state’s water sources. He tasked the Office of the State Engineer with drafting a report examining the changing snowpack, water availability and timing, increased water use by plants and people because of longer and hotter summers, and more frequent floods and droughts.

Anyone who has read “Climate Change in New Mexico Over the Next 50 Years: Impacts on Water Resources,” the scientific report published in March 2022 that will be foundational to the state’s forthcoming 50-year water plan, will hear an echo of that Richardson-era report. New Mexico faces the same challenges today. All that’s changed in 18 years is that more

research has better characterized the consequences.

After Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham tasked the Interstate Stream Commission with preparing a 50-year water plan, commission Director Rolf Schmidt-Petersen asked Nelia Dunbar, a volcanologit and director of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, to organize drafting a scientific report, called the “Leap Ahead Analysis Assessment,” to provide a foundation for creating the 50-year plan.

Dunbar assembled a team of authors, led by a climate scientist and a hydrologist, and the team spent hours in virtual meetings brainstorming the reports’ components and discussing the ripple effects of forecast changes.

“We need to recognize that we are going to be dealing with a scarcer resource, and we wanted to provide some parameters about just how much scarcer that resource is going to be,” Dunbar said.

The 50-year plan is expected to soon be publicly released. But Mike Hamman, who leads the Office of the State Engineer, the state division tasked with drafting the plan, has said the effort faces “inertial issues.” He called out his agency’s limited capacity. Others have voiced concerns that the office is understaffed and underfunded, and facing so much turnover that too little expertise and too few staff remain to implement any new programs a plan might call for.

The Leap Ahead analysis also excluded traditional ecological knowledge and expertise, said Julia Bernal, director of the Pueblo Action Alliance. The climate has changed over millennia, and Native communities have adapted to and survived those fluctuations.

“To not include them here is also doing a disservice to future climate mitigation plans,” she said. “This concept of ecosystems not including communities has also been very problematic because we tend to catego-

The Rio Grande dried through the Albuquerque reach in 2022, for the first time in 40 years.

rize human communities as separate from the natural environment and that’s just not the case.”

Alejandría Lyons, coordinator for New Mexico No False Solutions coalition, said the process for convening stakeholder groups to support drafting the water plan put everyone in different rooms, with the business community, nonprofits, indigenous communities and farmers meeting separately. Lyons, who has a background working to increase access to the river among communities of color, worries that the approach cost New Mexicans a chance for open dialogue: “I think that it’s great that we were revisiting the 50-year water plan, but the way in which we’re doing it, we are, again, siloing our communities, and so the same people are receiving the same information, and it becomes this kind of echo chamber.”

In the end, she said, that may produce a plan ill-equipped to proactively address the crises on the horizon: “We’ll see the kind of water management like we have in the last 10 years,” she said, “where agencies are just picking up the pieces where they can.”

Lack of funding hobbles water planning

As he dipped a paddle into the water on our trip downriver, Gaume called the previous iteration of a state water plan a “shelf report” a ream of paper printed with ideas and predictions about the state’s water future but with no actionable or enforceable elements. Lujan Grisham, who called for a

state water plan in 2018, and the Office of the State Engineer requested $750,000 for this 50-year plan, but state lawmakers declined that request in 2020. The OSE pursued planning anyway, with just $350,000.

“The agency decided it was important enough that they would take it out of their hide, so to speak,” Gaume said.

This year, the Legislature appropriated $250,000 in recurring money for the 50-year water plan, plus a one-time $500,000 allocation for the plan.

But the limited funding for this round convinces Gaume that New Mexico remains a state that “doesn’t believe in water planning.” Of the new 50-year water plan, he said: “Really all it will be is a plan to plan.”

Short funding and little capacity—New Mexico’s Interstate Stream Commission has two staff working on water planning; Colorado, for comparison, has 13—mean the state’s plan can at best offer broad strokes, and leave working out the details to water planners working on more localized levels. Senate Bill 337, which passed on the second to last day of the most recent legislative session, tries to map a path forward for that regional-level planning, as funding is available. The Office of the State Engineer estimated that it would need an additional full-time employee for the tasks the bill mapped out; the bill’s fiscal impact report points out that state agencies regulating and enforcing water policy in the state have faced staffing issues, and the additional responsibilities assigned in this bill do nothing to improve that problem.

A heron skims ahead, a red-tailed hawk barrels into the thickets, and a porcupine sits in a cottonwood, a dark knot where branches join. The khaki-colored water leaves indiscernible shapes and shadows below the surface, dark rocks and pale sandbars the canoe skids off or sinks into. Some paddle strokes

demands already exceed what the river provides, the river so prone to running invisibly in the background has been left out entirely.

The Leap Ahead report, when first released, did not include a chapter on rivers and managing ecological health. There are, however, chapters on agriculture and industry. Conservation groups brought this to the ISC staff’s attention in late 2021.

“If you don’t have a scientific foundation for those needs, then how do you expect to be able to form good policy?” said Tricia Snyder, with WildEarth Guardians, which has been watchdogging the Rio Grande for decades and has filed repeated lawsuits for more ecologically sensitive management of the river. “If you are investigating the impacts on certain water uses and not others, then the state is already making decisions about which of those water uses will be prioritized in the future.”

There wasn’t time to add a chapter on rivers to the original Leap Ahead report, Dunbar said, but in December, the existing Leap Ahead report was replaced with one that includes a chapter on how river flows will change and how that will affect the physical condition of rivers.

catch more mud than water. We pass a few people along the banks: a woman with two blonde kids in pants so wet they sag, an older man in a blue polo who asks how far we’re going, five firefighters on fuels-reduction work, three young men with fishing poles. As stakeholders vie for water where the

“What we did not do, which I know the NGOs wanted us to do, was address endangered species and recreation,” Dunbar said. “They wanted us to really look at rivers in a holistic way, and my point there was, that is not the point of this report.”

The point was to look at how the natural world was responding to climate change. But opening the scientific report to questions like those around endangered species or riparian vegetation restoration would require opening “the pandora’s box of water rights, and that was not something we wanted to do,” Dunbar said.

“I’ve poured countless hours of my life into this project and we had to have boundaries on this project,” Dunbar added. “I spent every weekend for many, many months. This was not part of my day job, it was something I did on top of my day job.”

The draft of the 50-year water plan has been with the governor’s office for months, awaiting review before public release.

Whatever the future brings, Della Russo said, it’s likely to come with tough decisions, and losses.

“But if those losses are balanced with longer-term resilience or stability in the system, then just help us understand how this is balanced,” she said. “We know pressures are just going to build on water in this system. So help us understand how the Rio Grande, as a living thing, has an opportunity to survive all these changes.”

This story was produced by New Mexico In Depth.

The-silt laden Rio Grande meanders through Albuquerque’s bosque.

MARJORIE CHILDRESS

R iver water is our checking account.

Groundwater is our savings account. So we’re depleting our savings.

-Ali Mirchi, Oklahoma State University professor, co-author of Rio Grande paper

CHEESE-LESS CHEESE

Way back in March of 2021, we became enamored with Santa Fe vegan baker Thomas Kamholz, a man on a mission to bring high-quality taste and ingredients to the world of vegan baking. Kamholz’s Plantita Vegan Bakery has done just that in the years that followed, and whether you’re getting into the vegan thing for politics, health or just ‘cause, there’s no denying the man knows what’s up. Kamholz operates in the savory sphere, too, perhaps most notably with his regular vegan pizza popups that find him taking dairy out of the pizza equation, but not taste. Kamholz is back on his pizza tip this week with a Friday evening menu featuring pizzas with maple faux-sausage, leek and kale; artichoke, olive and pesto; and green peppers, faux-sausage and onion. The pizzas range from $23-$24, and you’ll hardly notice a difference from regular pizza, outside of not feeling like complete garbage later. Order at plantitaveganbakery.com by 5 pm on Thursday, April 27. (ADV)

Plantita Bakery Vegan Pizza Pop-Up: 5-7 pm Friday, April 28. $23-$24

Plantita Vegan Bakery, 1704 Lena St., (505) 603-0897

MUSIC SAT/29

UP THE PUNX

“For people in my world, this band is a pretty big deal,” said SFR’s most punk-loving staffer to the rest of the nerds who work here. To be fair, the most punk among us might be the least punk on a more global scale, but still, anyone who has listened to punk rock knows Off! simply by virtue of its members. We’re talkin’ Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris, Burning Brides’ Dimitri Coats, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead’s Autry Fulbright II and Thundercat’s Justin Brown. That’s a lot of firepower in one band—like the Traveling Wilburys of dudes who took a look around the socio-political sphere and said, “Actually, we’re pretty pissed off now.” Expect it just how you’d want punk to be: fast, sloppy, angry and feel-good. Expect to feel it hard. (ADV)

Off!: 9 pm Saturday, April 29. $20-$22. Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

EVENT MON/1

A COUPLE OF WHEELS

Spring sprung, you aging bunch of nerds, and we know there’s a contingent of people out there looking for low-stakes things to do that don’t involve drinking and/or being up all night. You wanna feel the breeze, hear the birds, get outside—maybe even exercise a little. Enter the thrice-weekly Leisurely Bike Ride events at Fort Marcy Park. Instructors will lead bicyclists on a charming pedal-party throughout the area, and there are even loaner bikes on hand for those who want to cruise but maybe don’t have a velocipede. This thing’s free for members of any city recreation complex, too. The rest of you will pay a scant $5. (ADV)

Leisurely Bike Ride: 10-11 am Monday, May 1. Free-$5 Fort Marcy Park, 490 Washington Ave., (505) 955-2501

EVENT THU/27

Pillanthropic

As debate over abortion in America continues, the drug mifepristone—a part of the most effective non-surgical means for ending a pregnancy—now seems to be in conservatives’ crosshairs. In short, the drug is used in conjunction with another, misoprostol, to become what is colloquially known as “the abortion pill,” by blocking the progesterone in a pregnant person’s body, preventing the continuation of the pregnancy.

While the US Supreme Court recently offered reprieve from a restrictive ruling out of Texas governing access to mifepristone, any sense of relief could be temporary: The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals will take up the case again next month. As Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said last week: “Make no mistake: the legal battle around reproductive health access in this country is far from over.” To that point, organizers from Santa Fe-based nonprofit Noise for Now, which uses the power of music to raise funds for reproductive health causes, plan to address mifepristone at the upcoming Teach-In Happy Hour, the first in a planned series of community/educational gatherings.

“Most people, when they are looking for an abortion, turn to family or a loved one,” says Noise For Now founder and Director Amelia Bauer, “and a really easy way to get engaged and do more is to just start learning about all the options and to become a resource in your community.”

Bauer says would-be attendees to the upcoming event at Honeymoon Brewery

can expect a low-pressure conversational/Q&A sort of thing wherein she and Noise for Now Assistant Director Allegra Love will have plenty of knowledge to impart, not to mention hard kombuchas and New Mexico beers.

“We’ll be talking about where the case is now, the implications of the rulings and generally how the pills work and what an abortion pill is as opposed to emergency contraception or Plan B,” Bauer explains.

For Love, a lawyer who previously worked with immigrants facing crises and detention along the border, the series aims to inform as well as foster community.

“You think about the anti-abortion movement, and where people congregate is in the church,” she says. “We don’t have many places where we find ourselves meeting to share ideas and build power together, right? We have to create space.”

Bauer agrees: “Something Allegra and I talk about a lot is how sometimes just showing up and being with like-minded people will lead you down the path of how to engage in a way that makes the most sense for you.”

Please note that those who can produce sperm are also encouraged to attend and learn, too. (Alex De Vore)

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ONGOING

ART

ALYSE RONAYNE

smoke the moon

616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Wool work to steel sculpture.

Noon-4 pm, Weds-Sun, free

ALYSSUM PILATO

Artichokes and Pomegranates

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

Plein air paintings of Santa Fe.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri;

10 am-2 pm, Sat, free

ANNE RAY AND ROSABETH LINK

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

222 Delgado St., (928) 308-0319

Watercolors and ceramics.

11 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat, free

ARRIVALS 2023

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

A preview of upcoming shows.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

ART AS INQUIRY

Vital Spaces Midtown Annex

St. Michael’s Drive, vitalspaces.org

Experiments in scientific media.

1-5 pm, Fri-Sat, free

BRICOLAGE UNBRIDLED!

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Kevin Watson’s mixed media.

11-5 am, Mon-Fri;

Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Online, lvsf.org/art-auction-2023/

Donate 8x8” pieces to Literacy

Volunteers of Santa Fe by May 9.

All Day, free

CALL TO ARTISTS

Online, whollyrags.org

Submit recycled art by Aug. 1.

CEDRA WOOD AND NINA ELDER

Pie Projects

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

Photos and graphite drawings.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

DANIEL BLAGG

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Uncanny paintings of decay.

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

DANIEL RAMOS

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

Black-and-white photographs.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Fri;

12:30-5 pm, Tues, free

EBENDORF form & concept

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

Famed jeweler Robert Ebendorf.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

ENRIQUE FLORES

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

An oneiric trip through Oaxaca.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free

FOTO CUBA

Artes de Cuba

1700 A Lena St. (505) 303-3138

Documenting life on the island.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

GOING WITH THE FLOW

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Probing the role of water in the Southwest.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat-Mon;

10 am-7 pm, Fri, free

GRAND OPENING

Edition ONE Gallery

729 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385

Photography by David Kennedy and Jan Butchofsky.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

final ballot comING

INTO THE WILD

Keep Contemporary

142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574

Multimedia surreal explorations of wilderness.

11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat; Noon-5 pm, Sun, free

JAMES STERLING PITT

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

Small sculptures and drawings. Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free

JEFF KRUEGER Kouri + Corrao Gallery

3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888

Abstract biomorphic drawing and sculpture.

Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

KATE STRINGER

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

Emotive illustrations.

7:30 am-5 pm, free

KEVIN BELTRAN

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Original)

1600 Lena St. (505) 428-0996

Photographs inspired by sound.

7:30 am-5 pm, free

LINDSEY REDDICK form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Ceramic sculptures.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

LORI DORN

Calliope

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

Large scale abstract paintings from a former headshot photographer.

11 am-4 pm, Fri-Mon, free

MEMORIA: ART AS RECORD Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road (505) 424-2300

The 2023 graduating class presents their capstone projects. 10 am-4 pm, Mon-Fri, free

MOKHA LAGET CONTAINER

1226 Flagman Way (505) 995-0012

Geometric paintings.

11 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free MONOTHON EXHIBITION

Santa Fe Community Gallery

201 W. Marcy St., (505) 955-6707

Showcasing one work per participating artist from the Monothon Print Week.

10 am-3 pm, Weds-Fri; free

THE NEW YORK SCHOOL

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Albert Kotin’s expressionism, on view through Saturday.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri;

10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

NOURISHING BEAUTY

Cafe Pasqual’s Gallery

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

Pieces inspired by Japan. 10 am-5 pm, free

Glimpse photography’s infancy through the eyes of O’Keeffe’s boy toy Alfred Stieglitz in The Photogravure: Selections from 1897-2023, opening this week at Obscura Gallery.

PABLO PICASSO

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

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

PAINT OUT

Jemez Springs, (505) 379-1254

Live plein air painting.

All Day, April 21-26, free

PEDRO REYES

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

Political sculptures.

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

POST FIESTA WARES

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

Rick Phelps’ recycled paper art.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sun, free

THE REAL AND THE IDEAL

Sorrel Sky Gallery

125 W Palace Ave., (505) 501-6555

David Knowlton’s landscapes.

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

SCOOTER MORRIS

Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915

Mixed media flag-based art.

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

A SELECTION OF PRINTS

Black Rock Editions

1143 Siler Park Lane

(505) 982-6625

Archival prints, closing Friday.

9 am-5 pm, Tues-Fri, free

SHADOWS AND LIGHT

ViVO Contemporary

725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320

Chiaroscuro across media.

10 am-5 pm, free

SIGUE PASANDO POR AQUÍ

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St.

(505) 216-1256

Enrique Figueredo’s woodcuts.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

SPRING BREAK

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art

554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688

A group show probing growth.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

SPRING GROUP SHOW

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

558 Canyon Road, (505) 992-0711

Abstract works by eight artists.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

TWO PIONEERING WOMEN

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Monroe Gallery of Photography

112 Don Gaspar Ave. (505) 992-0800

Sonia Meyer and Ida Wyman.

10 am-5 pm, free

WED/26

BOOKS/LECTURES

THE 1960’S IN AMERICA

Renesan Institute

1200 Old Pecos Trail

(505) 982-9274

Allen Stone on the seminal era.

1-3 pm, $60

TRUTH: YOURS OR MINE?

Renesan Institute

1200 Old Pecos Trail

(505) 982-9274

George Duncan explores the sticky nature of truth.

10 am-noon, $40

TURGENEV'S FATHERS AND CHILDREN

Renesan Institute

1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-9274

Robert Glick on male familial roles in Russian literature.

3:15-5:15 pm, $40

EVENTS

A CIRCLE OF PRESENCE BODY

333 West Cordova Road (505) 986-0362

Group reading and meditation.

5 pm, by donation

DIVERSITY DAY

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

Two whole hours of diversity tabling.

11 am-1 pm, free

FREE KIDS SING-ALONG

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

Music games for little ones.

3:15-4 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Second Street Brewery (Railyard)

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278

Don't call it trivia.

8-10 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

60 E San Francisco St. (505) 629-3538

Geopolitics with Christian Saiia.

Noon-2 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

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

Come on, just play along.

6 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Explore the city on two wheels.

(See SFR PIcks, page 17)

10-11 am, $5

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Make Wayward Comedy laugh.

8 pm, free

PARENTING CIRCLES

Online, tewawomenunited.org

Kim Talachy invites parents to gather virtually for support.

4-6 pm, free

TOUR THE MANSION

New Mexico Governor's Mansion

One Mansion Drive (505) 476-2800

Check out the governor’s digs.

Noon, free

TRIBUTE TO THE ANCESTORS

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

Jerry Dunbar (Ysleta Del Sur) demonstrates pottery techniques.

1-3 pm, free

THE CALENDAR

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Stories about how wind moves.

10:30-11:30 am, free

FILM

MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Dziga Vertov was totally the Godfrey Reggio of the ‘20s. Plus, a live score by Montopolis!

7 pm, $15

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

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

For late night heat.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC

EMILY BRANDEN

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Classic torch songs.

7-9:30 pm, free

JOHN CAREY

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Original blues and country.

4-6 pm, free

SUNNY WAR

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

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

Folk punk with complex guitar.

7:30 pm, $15

WORKSHOP

EASY EATS

Presbyterian Santa Fe

4801 Beckner Road (505) 982-8544

Megan McNeil teaches wallet-friendly recipes.

2-3 pm, free

INTRODUCTION TO WICCA

Unitarian Church of Los Alamos

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

Learn the sect's history from Our Lady of the Woods Coven.

7-9 pm, free

MASK-MAKING WORKSHOP

CONTAINER

1226 Flagman Way (505) 995-0012

Craft masks with Dennis McNett.

11 am-5 pm, April 25-29, $100

WRITER’S DEN

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Shawn Boyd talks comic creation.

5-6:30 pm, free

THU/27

BOOKS/LECTURES

BRAD WETZLER

Garcia Street Books

376 Garcia St., (505) 986-0151

The journalist shares his memoir of travel and addiction recovery.

5-7 pm, free

CONTINUED ON PAGE 21

BY LAYLA ASHER

MASTERING THE ART OF MASTURBATION

One thing nearly everyone has in common is that we engage in some form of self-pleasure on occasion. Personally, I make time every Saturday (not only Saturday but always Saturday) for a good self-love session. While some people are as uncomfortable with the act of masturbation as the word itself, others discuss it over cocktails at the gin bar on a Sunday evening, just like my girlfriends and I did recently. Wherever you find yourself, chances are your game can be improved upon.

I am a woman in my 30s writing to see if you have any ideas to prolong masturbation (I orgasm too quickly) and how to avoid the comedown. After sex, even though I don’t come from it, I enjoy cuddling and feel soothed. After masturbating, I feel a lingering emptiness that I don’t enjoy.

-HELP ME LOVE MYSELF

First, I want you to know that you are so not alone in this and in case you don’t already know, there are actually multiple clinical names for this kind of comedown: post-coital tristesse, post-coital dysphoria and post-sex blues are just a few, and all refer to those lingering negative feelings like sadness, melancholy and depression that can arise after orgasm. Although research is ultimately limited, a 2022 scientific study found that, though rare, post-orgasm melancholy occurs more in women than men. Women’s health—especially sexual health—is never high on the list of things to be researched, so who knows if we’ll ever have answers. Having said that, I do have some thoughts I think might help.

Something that stands out to me is how you say you don’t experience these feelings with a partner. While things like cuddling do indeed release all of those yummy feel-good hormones (oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin!), if you aren’t actually orgasming during sex, you’re likely not experiencing the same dysphoria you do when you masturbate and orgasm.

You must go way up to come way back down—or whatever Michelle Obama said (just making sure you’re paying attention), and I think it is more likely there is a connection between how you’re getting yourself off and the emptiness you feel when it’s over. You may very well be coming too quickly and feeling let down because the act itself is the only thing you’re deriving pleasure from while it’s happening.

So, I have what could feel like new-agey bullshit homework for you: I want you

to carve out some uninterrupted time a day or two a week to really connect with and celebrate your sexual energy. Maybe you’re in a bubble bath with your favorite candles lit, listening to some Frank Ocean. Maybe you’re naked between a set of satin sheets with the soft glow of a salt lamp and relaxing scent of essential oils in the air. Wherever you are, I want you to surround yourself with beautiful things that not only entice your senses but remind you pleasure is expansive and doesn’t just happen from coming. Take time to explore your body with your hands—or better yet, with something that gives you a new sensation, like feathers. Not only do I think this weekly practice might amplify and extend your orgasms when you’re ready to have them, but your comedown will be a gentle ride back down, immersed in sensation and beauty rather than a crash landing from a rush job in a dark room.

I’ve used the Rabbit [vibrator] for the last two decades, but I’m ready to branch out and try new toys. How do I know what I will like and where do I start?

-SPOILED FOR CHOICE

OK, first of all, it’s blowing my mind that the Rabbit made that oh-so famous Sex and the City debut in 1998! That feels like yesterday, so on one hand, I totally get why you’re still using it, but on the other, you’re about to have your world rocked.

If you want to shop strictly online, I suggest buying a variety of inexpensive toys from retailers like Adam & Eve or even Amazon so you can experiment and identify your evolving likes and dislikes while not spending too much. If you’re working with a decent budget, you can go straight to luxury sex toys from a brand like Bellesa or Bedroom Kandi. That way, you’ll get a toy that is not only high quality, but has multiple functions. I like Bellesa’s Airvibe, which has vibration, suction and G-spot stimulation. It can also be used as a dildo in a pinch.

If you are comfortable seeking out toys in-person, I recommend Modern Aphrodite in Santa Fe at 1701 Lena St., Ste. C, (owned by literal sexologist Anne Ridley) or Self Serve in Albuquerque. Both have amazing staff ready to help you on your journey into the 21st century sex toy universe. Really, being able to experience pleasure fully is a gift we can and should give ourselves but, it is so often overlooked. In a world where there is no shortage of bad sex, remember why we’re doing this in the first place. Having modern equipment can only help.

Layla Asher is a local sex worker on a mission to spread radical self love to her community and the world. Want to ask your local sex worker their expert opinion on something? Let’s have a sex-positive conversation that keeps respect and confidentiality at the forefront and judgment a thing of the past. Please submit your questions to thenakedlayla@gmail. com and include an alias that protects your anonymity.

HISTORY OF CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS

Renesan Institute

1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-9274

Jake Greene leads a conversation about what we should do with those pesky monuments. Hmm.

1-3 pm, $20

JAIRO GUITERREZ

Santa Fe Business Incubator

3900 Paseo del Sol, (505) 424-1140

Learn the ins and outs of LLCs from a local State Farm Insurance owner.

5:30 pm, free

SANTA FE OPERA 2023 SEASON

Renesan Institute

1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-9274

Mark Tiarks contextualizes the upcoming Santa Fe Opera season, one production at a time.

10 am-noon, $100

TOM HÜCK ARTIST TALK

Black Rock Editions

1143 Siler Park Lane (505) 982-6625

The printmaker reflects on his oeuvre as glimpsed in the book

The Devil is in The Details

5-8 pm, free

TOMMY ARCHULETA: SUSTO

Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

The poet reads from his first full-length collection.

6 pm, free

WELCOME TO PIÑON COUNTRY

Santa Fe Women's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455

Photog Christina M. Selby and curator Katherine Ware discuss the new botanical garden exhibit.

2-3 pm, $28-$35

DANCE

ECSTATIC DANCE

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo De Peralta

Flailing welcome. Hosted by EmbodyDance.

6:30 pm, free

EVENTS

CORPS COFFEE

Saveur Bistro

204 Montezuma Ave. (505) 216-6044

Design Corps of Santa Fe hosts a freewheeling chat about favorite software and workflows. Thrilling!

8:30-10 am, free

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

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

Witness the life cycle of whiskey.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

THURSDAY IS YOURS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Staff members from Del Norte Credit Union answer your burning questions about youth accounts.

4-6 pm, free

FREE AURA HEALING CLINIC

Nancy Rodriguez Community Center

1 Prairie Dog Loop, (505) 992-9876

First come, first served energy tune-ups.

5:30-6:30 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952

Break out your obscure facts.

7 pm, free

OPEN MIC WITH STEPHEN

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Come on guys, it's with Stephen!

7 pm, free

SANTA FE SPRING CARNIVAL

Santa Fe Place Mall 4250 Cerrillos Road (505) 473-4253

So many memories of staring wistfully at that one ride your mom always said was too dangerous to try.

6-10 pm, free

SEEDS & SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Tots try their hands at basket weaving in honor of May Day.

10:30-11:30 am, free

TEACH-IN HAPPY HOUR

Honeymoon Brewery

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

Noise for Now hosts an education session on abortion pills.

(See SFR Picks, page 17)

5:30-7 pm, free

FILM

'90S MOVIE NIGHTS

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

Watch Free Willy with appropriately gratis snacks.

5:30 pm, free

AMERICAN HOSPITALS:

HEALING A BROKEN SYSTEM

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

A dive into the mind-boggling costs of American medical care.

7:30 pm, $13-$15

SPIRITED AWAY: LIVE ON STAGE

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

Screening the stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki's beloved anime about a yokai bathhouse.

7 pm, $13-$15

FOOD

FOUR COURSE WINE DINNER

315 Restaurant and Wine Bar

315 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 986-9190

Prix fixe plates and pairings from Coquerel Family Wine Estates.

4-8 pm, $125

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

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

Brent Jung’s blessedly fresh fish.

5-8 pm, free

MUSIC

ANNALISA EWALD

Agave Restaurant & Lounge

309 W San Francisco St.

(505) 995-4530

Classical and baroque guitar.

6-9 pm, free

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET

Club Legato

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

Sax-centric jazz.

6 pm, free

BASILARIS

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Jazz for keys, bass and drums.

8 pm, free

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana and honky-tonk.

4-6 pm, free

FOLK JAM

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

Queen Bee Music Association will have songbooks on hand.

7-8:30 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

6:15 pm, $109-$129

WATCHHOUSE

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Folk and Americana.

7:30 pm, $37-$49

WORKSHOP

HATHA YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Breathe into that stretch.

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

LET'S ROCK! ROCK PAINTING

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

BYOB (Bring Your Own Boulder).

Ok, we’re taking poetic license, but seriously, bring some rocks.

5:30-7 pm, free

FRI/28

ART OPENINGS

THE CONTEMPORARY PRINT (OPENING)

Zane Bennett Contemporary 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8111

Highlighting various printing techniques. Presented as part of Print Santa Fe.

5-7 pm, free

FLORA & FAUNA

Evoke Contemporary

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

A group show exploring spring, regrowth and regeneration.  10 am-5 pm, free

GARDEN CONVERSATIONS

Museum Hill Café

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 984-8900

Christina M. Selby and Katherine Ware chat about Selby’s avian photography, then sign books and lead an exhibit tour.

8:30-11:30 am, $32-$40

AN HOMAGE TO W. HERBERT DUNTON (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Gallery artists “paint tribute” to the Taos artist.

5-7 pm, free

LUIS DIEGO RIGALES

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

Sculpture and furniture meet.  5-7 pm, free

SANTA FE 5X5 (OPENING)

Zane Bennett Contemporary 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8111

Five up-and-coming printmakers. Part of Print Santa Fe.  5-7 pm, free

THE PHOTOGRAVURE (OPENING)

Obscura Gallery

1405 Paseo de Peralta (505) 577-6708

Over a century of prints, from Alfred Stieglitz to Eddie Soloway.  5-7 pm, free

TOM AND RAVENNA OSGOOD (OPENING)

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

A daughter and her late father connect through assemblage, design objects and more. 5-7 pm, free

TULU BAYAR (RECEPTION)

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road, (505) 780-5403

Multimedia immigrant experience. 5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

ANDERSON PEYNETSA

Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery 100 W San Francisco St. (505) 986-1234

A live pottery demonstration.  12-4 pm, free

CLAUDIA BRODSKY

St. John's College

1160 Camino Cruz Blanca (505) 984-6000

On Plato, Kant, Hegel and Arendt.  7 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SPRING SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave., (505) 209-1302 Flamenco and flan.  7:30 pm, $25-$45

EVENTS

ALL AGES CHESS

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

Go checkmate that king.  3-5 pm, free

An artist and her late father commune across boundaries of time, space and mortalitiy in Our Place: Tom and Ravenna Osgood, opening this week at form & concept.

ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION

Genoveva Chavez

Community Center

3221 W Rodeo Road

(505) 955-4000

Check out a tree-planting ceremony with the mayor, or just stop by to snag your own seedling.

11 am-1 pm, free

COMEDY NIGHT

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

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

Pretend you’re a monarch and let Tripp Stelnicki, Bryan Valencia, Carla Vasquez and others be your court jesters.

8:30 pm, $10

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

The singing game itself (does it count as a game?), not the comedy from last summer.

9 pm-1 am, free

DISTILLERY TOUR

Santa Fe Spirits Distillery

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

Find out what goes on in those whiskey barrels.

3 pm, 5 pm, $20

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Learn the ins and outs of printmaking with PrintShop a Go-Go.

2-4 pm, free

FISTFUL OF PRINTS ART FAIR

(VIP GRAND OPENING)

Center For Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

The inaugural print fair's official kick-off.

5-9 pm, $20

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Thrice weekly instructor-led bike rides.  (See SFR PIcks, page 17)

10-11 am, $5

MINIATURES PAINTING

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Gather weekly to paint table-top game figurines.

4-6:30 pm, free

PROJECT INTERCHANGE

Santa Fe Railyard

Market St. at Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766

Friends of the Orphan Signs and Axle Contemporary share a live inter-city poetry dialogue.

8:30-10:30 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Check out tour guides’ floral faves.

11 am-noon, free

SANTA FE SPRING CARNIVAL

Santa Fe Place Mall

4250 Cerrillos Road (505) 473-4253

Oh, that purple ferris wheel...

6 pm-midnight, free

FILM

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

You know we loved it.

7 pm, free

TREMORS FEST

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

Screening the whole sci-fi series with actors, directors and crew members on site—and the final entry presented by George RR

Martin. Saturday and Sunday free.

All Day, $25, April 28-30

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

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

Smother of God.

4-10 pm, free

PLANTITA PIZZA NIGHT

Plantita Vegan Bakery

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

You might wanna order your vegan pie in advance. (See SFR PIcks, page 17)

5-7 pm, free

MUSIC

ANNALISA EWALD

Agave Restaurant & Lounge

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

Classical and baroque guitar.

6-9 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

King Charles serenades diners with vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

DEAR DOCTOR

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Folk and Americana.

5 pm, free

DR. HALL'S SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Acoustic tunes from Dr. Hall, Lucy Barna and Rich Rajacich.

6-8:30 pm, $20

FIRST FRIDAY MUSICAL PERFORMANCE & TOUR

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Leticia Gonzales plays Pedro Reyes' violin made of decommissioned guns.

5:30 pm, free

FROM LOVE INTO MADNESS

First Presbyterian Church

208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

Lovelorn pieces by Schubert, Schumann and more.

5:30 pm, free

JUSTIN NUÑEZ/JUBAL

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Multilingual singer-songwriter.

8-10 pm, free

MICHAEL GARFIELD/ DESERT MIND/TONI DEAR

Honeymoon Brewery

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

Singer-songwriter with an avant-garde bent.

6 pm, free

MINERAL HILL

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Funk and psychedelia.

8 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

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

Jazz hands.

6 pm, free

SERENATA FLAMENCA

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Flamenco on a moving train must take next-level coordination.

7:30 pm, $109

TROY BROWNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Dextrous Americana.

4-6 pm, free

THEATER

PANDEMONIUM PRESENTS: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL!

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 920-0704

Everyone loves a good jazz square.

7 pm, $8-$12

THE WALLS HAVE EARS

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

Talia Pura and Jerry Labinger's World War II drama. (See AC, page 25)

7:30 pm, $15-$20

SAT/29

ART OPENINGS

ANNE RAY AND ROSABETH

LINK (CLOSING RECEPTION)

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery

222 Delgado St., (928) 308-0319

Works inspired by plant evolution.

5-8 pm, free MINIPRINT! (OPENING)

Hecho a Mano

830 Canyon Road, (505) 916-1341

More than 50 small prints.

5-7 pm, free

PAINT OUT EXHIBITION (OPENING)

Jemez Fine Art Gallery

17346 NM-4, Jemez Springs (575) 829-3340

Showcasing pieces from the past week of plein air painting.

1-3 pm, free

PIÑON COUNTRY (OPENING)

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

The garden celebrates its new photographic installation.

4:30-6:30 pm, $40-$50

SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

In the West Casitas, north of the water tower

1612 Alcaldesa St.

An outdoor juried art market.

9 am-2 pm, free

TOP OF CANYON PRINT FIESTA

Cielo Handcrafted 836 Canyon Road, (575) 551-8390

A print demo with Rebecca Kunz.

1-6 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

CASA SANTA FE

Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse

202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226

Melba Levick and Rubén G.

Mendoza discuss their compendium of Santa Fe home style.

5:30 pm, free

CHRISTINA VO: THE VEIL

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

The author shares her memoir.

2-3:30 pm, free

DIAGNOSIS: DEMENTIA

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Jytte Fogh Lokvig on the illness.

1-3 pm, free

FIRST AMERICAN ART MAGAZINE DISCUSSION

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-4636

A roundtable discussion of the magazine's past decade.

1-3 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SPRING SEASON

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

Spanish dance and din.

7:30 pm, $25-$45

MARWIN BEGAYE CONTAINER

1226 Flagman Way (505) 995-0012

The printmaker collaborates with dancers to create images with ink from the performers' feet.

5:30-6:30 pm, free

EVENTS

ARTWALK SANTA FE

Cafecito

922 Shoofly St., (505) 310-0089

Local artists, live music from Repurposed Vibe and Melange and empanadas aplenty.

2-6 pm, free

ARTIST RECEPTION WITH WAYNE NEZ GAUSSOIN

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

The jewelry artist shares his artistic approach. Also, cocktails and snacks and stuff.

5-6 pm, $55

CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT

AGRICULTURE OPEN HOUSE

Trades & Advanced Tech Center Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (301) 908-6726

Check out the campus greenhouse and grab some free seedlings. Tours run every half hour.

12-4 pm, free

EL DIA DE LOS NIÑOS I

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Expect face painting, crafts and therapy ponies. Therapy ponies! 10 am-noon, free

EL DIA DE LOS NIÑOS II

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

Try calligraphy and make books with Santa Fe Book Arts.  Noon-2 pm, free

EL DIA DE LOS NIÑOS III

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

Craft with guests from the O’Keeffe Museum and listen to Mariachi Azteca.

2:30-4:30 pm, free

EL MUSEO MERCADO

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

Art and antiques.

9 am-4 pm, free

FISTFUL OF PRINTS ART FAIR Center For Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

Print work from 36 artists and galleries.  Noon-6 pm, free

FREE KIDS SING-ALONG

Audubon Center & Sanctuary

1800 Canyon Road (505) 983-4609

Tots practice groovin’.

10:30-11:15 am, free

NOW WHAT!!? PERFORMANCE AND FUNDRAISER

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo De Peralta

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The Center for Sustainable Love presents two days of music, dance, poetry and more, plus a silent auction and dance party.

6 pm, $20-$35

PAPER MACHE CRAFTS AND TRAVELING EXHIBIT

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

A show on wheels from the Museum of International Folk Art.

1-3 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Behold the botanical bounty.

11 am-noon, free

SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL

CHOIR YARD SALE

Santa Fe High School

610 Alta Vista St. (505) 467-2400

Shop to support the local high school choir.

9 am-2 pm, free

SANTA FE SPRING CARNIVAL

Santa Fe Place Mall

4250 Cerrillos Road (505) 473-4253

Recreate the East of Eden scene.

3 pm-midnight free

SCIENCE SATURDAY

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Meet several scaly and/or many-legged guests from the Santa Fe Reptile & Bug Museum.

2-4 pm, free

SECRETS OF THE HEART

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

This week’s social education theme is “family.”

10:30-11:15 am, free

TABLE-TOP GAMES NIGHT

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

They'll provide the games, which means no searching for missing pieces on your part.

3-6 pm, free

THE MET LIVE IN HD:

CHAMPION

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Terence Blanchard's operatic retelling of the life of boxer Emile Griffith.

11 am, $22-$28

WOLFBAT MASKS PROCESSION

Turner Carroll Gallery

725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800

Dennis McNett—and the locals who participated in his mask workshop—parade down Canyon.

7:30 pm, free

FILM

SATURDAY CARTOONS

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Nostalgic ‘toons and cereal.

11 am-7 pm, free

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

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

You’ll feel better with a little

New Mexican in you.

4-10 pm, free

MUSIC

BOB MAUS

Inn & Spa at Loretto

211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Blues and soul classics.

6-9 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

CIRCLE ON BLACK/PSIRENS

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

A supergroup of members from Cloacas, Future Scars and more.

8-10 pm, free

THE DISCLAIMERS

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Classic rock.

2 pm, free

FREE RANGE BUDDHAS

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Psychedelic rock.

8 pm, free

JIM ALMAND

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

Bluesy Americana.

1-3 pm, free

LOS BLUE VENTURES

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

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

Nostalgic Norteño.

8 pm, $25

OFF! Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

A hardcore punk supergroup. (See SFR Picks page 17)

9 pm, $20-$22

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

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

Jazz with occasional guests.

6 pm, free

RON ROUGEAU

Pink Adobe

406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712

'60s and '70s acoustic tunes.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

SPRING CONCERT SERIES

Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4414

Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association students perform.

11:30 am, 4 pm, $10

THE CALENDAR

THE WILD WEST DRAG SHOW (SAINTSBALL INVASION)

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

New Mexico Drag Kings is riding back into town, and all we can say is howdy, cowbois.

9-11 pm, $20-$50

THEATER

DEATHCOOKIE: A MURDER MYSTERY

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Exodus Ensemble teams up with the Sky Railway folks for an interactive mystery.

8:30 pm, $149-$170

PANDEMONIUM PRESENTS: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL!

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

555 Camino de la Familia (505) 920-0704

The iconic teenage musical.

7 pm, $8-$12

THE WALLS HAVE EARS

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

A story of World War II confinement. (See A&C, page 25)

7:30 pm, $15-$20

WORKSHOP

COOKING HEALTHY UNDER PRESSURE

Las Cosas Kitchen Shoppe and Cooking School

181 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3394

Don't think the topic is stress eating: Lars Liebisch is breaking out the pressure cooker recipes.

10 am, 3 pm, $60

CULTIVATE FINANCIAL

WELLBEING

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health

909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

Joanna Leffeld interrogates participants’ beliefs about money.

11 am-12:30 pm, free

MANTRA MEDITATION

Santa Fe Community Yoga Center

826 Camino de Monte Rey (505) 820-9363

Explore the use of key phrases in meditation practice.

2-4 pm, free

IT'S NOT JUST A GIG, IT'S A SHOW

The Candyman Strings & Things

851 St Michael's Drive (505) 983-5906

On the ins and outs of live sound.

2-3 pm, free

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Get chakras of steel.

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

SUN/30

ART OPENINGS

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Buy crafts from local creators.  10 am-3 pm, free

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THE OPENING OF OUR 2023 SEASON

THE FIRST OF FIVE POWERFUL AND PROVOCATIVE PLAYS AT THE LAB THEATER 1213 PARKWAY, SANTA FE Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 pm Sundays 2 pm

Previews May 3 and 4 - $15

MAY 3 -

SIMPATICO

by Sam Shepard

Directed by Nicholas Ballas

A thrilling mystery set in the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, it explores themes of memory, loyalty and restitution. Just in time for the Derby! With Nicholas Ballas, Melissa Christopher, Jody Hegarty Durham, Joey Beth Gilbert,

Talia Pura has a reputation as a onestop theatrical and cinematic shop. A frequent performer of one-woman shows, Pura’s decades-long resume contains the kind of multiple-hyphenated creative roles that add up to more or less ultimate artistic control. Her production of The Walls Have Ears, opening this week at Teatro Paraguas, stands to change that.

Don’t get us wrong: Pura still serves as the drawing room drama’s director, producer and co-star. But the script, a joint creation originated by her fellow local dramatist Jerry Labinger presents a timely literary partnership.

“I’ve worked with [Labinger] for about four years, and what we normally do is, he gives me some scripts, I have one or two rehearsals and we put it on stage for a live audience,” Pura tells SFR. “But this is our very first full length, actual production. He brought me something that was not quite a full length play, wasn’t quite long enough. And really, what I did is expand it so that the grain of the scene was there, but we opened it up. But [it’s] completely Jerry’s story.”

Labinger’s narrative stems from real incidents in his paternal family history. Pura plays Tsurah, a woman living far from the front in the relative safety of World War II Tashkent, Uzbekistan, when the siege of Leningrad forces relatives in the blockaded city to escape or risk starvation. She offers to house her family while the siege continues. But as days turn to months, the stress of confinement begins to eat away at the increasingly crowded household. The audience experiences that claustrophobia along with the characters, as the action takes place (with the exception of a single brief marketplace scene) in the living room Tsurah shares with her husband and daughter.

“In the beginning, it’s Tsurah’s sanctuary,” Pura explains. “She’s filled her entire house with all these relatives, and they’re forbidden to be in the living room. It becomes sort of a

Within These Walls

Theater mainstay Talia Pura takes on the cyclicality of history with new World War II stage drama, The Walls Have Ears

BY SIENA SOFIA BERGT | siena@sfreporter.com

character that runs afoul of the rules about how Stalin has set up society.”

Pura describes the play’s historical context with familiarity. She’s had plenty of time to research: Walls was originally scheduled to debut at defunct teen arts center Warehouse 21 back in 2019, before both the pandemic and the performance space’s shutdown.

“The first day of full time rehearsals for us, [costar] Brent [Black] sent me an email with an image and said, ‘this is what came up as my memory from exactly four years ago today,’” Pura recalls. “It was us on stage, doing this play as a reading.”

In the intervening years, some of the project’s original cast moved away or left the production. Others remained from the beginning—and Pura and Labinger continued to tailor the script to their performers as they waited for live theater to feel safe again.

“You start hearing that person’s voice on the page,” Pura confesses. “It’s unlike any project I’ve ever done before. I related to the story so much, and acknowledging the voice that it was already written in, it was easy to get into the mindset of the characters that [Labinger] created.”

The additional time spent with those characters has no doubt deepened Pura’s understanding of them, and the production’s delay clearly brought her artistic relationship with Labinger into new and fruitful collaborative territory. But this timing has had one other effect on the project. Now Walls’ world premiere coincides with another war being fought along Russian borders.

symbol for everything that’s going on in the house.”

Given that limited setting and The Walls Have Ears’ focus on female experiences of World War II, the audience will find it easy to connect the work to the many stage adaptations of The Diary of Anne Frank (or the new miniseries A Small Light about Miep Gies, who hid the Franks). But while there’s a young

Jewish girl among the many relatives sheltering in Tsurah’s house, unlike Anne Frank, the characters in Pura and Labinger’s story are not hiding from Nazis. Instead, they are threatened by security forces from the Soviet Union—then allies of the United States.

“The irony there is that Stalin’s armies are fighting the Nazis,” Pura points out. “And so part of this story is also what happens to a

“We’re leaving it completely in a historical context,” Pura notes. “We’re not drawing any parallels to the modern world. We’re not adding any little touches. You really don’t need to.”

THE WALLS HAVE EARS

7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday; 2 pm Sunday, April 28-May 7. $15-$20 Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie Ste. B, (505) 424-1601

In the seven years since Talia Pura moved to New Mexico from her native Canada, she has produced and directed staged readings of more than 25 of Jerry Labinger’s plays. This is their first time collaborating in the writing process.

SIENA SOFIA BERGT

Z is for Zounds!

Aztec Street eatery Zacatlán is more than worth the splurge

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Full disclosure? We went kind of nutty at Zacatlán. Every dish sounded better than the last, dessert included, and so rarely do I get the chance to just go full-tilt that when a dining companion and I made up our minds to sample as many items as we could, I felt a form of culinary freedom more generally reserved for the rich. For a brief and shining evening I eschewed my normal propensity for mid-priced burritos or drive-thru tacos and entered an era of indulgence. And while I most certainly understand such occasions are rare, I regret nothing. Somebody give Zacatlán chef and owner Eduardo Rodriguez a James Beard Award or something; somebody tell him I love him.

Rodriguez, who hails from the restaurant’s namesake region in Mexico, opened the downtown Santa Fe institution first as a brunch restaurant in 2020, and it has become a rather hot commodity. Part of the reason the restaurant resounds as a success story lies in how it emerged from COVID restrictions relatively unscathed. I even dubbed its daytime menu the Brunch. Ever. in 2021 after sampling Rodriguez’s huevos rancheros and Southwestern surf and turf eggs Benedict (kudos to the housemade chips and guac, served warm, too).

The temptation to return gnawed on me in the way only a truly fine dining establish ment can. I’d pop in for brunch from time to time to enjoy the world-class service and ambiance (which is a little weird as the Aztec Street location once housed a cof fee shop in which I whiled away many high and/or drunk hours as a young wastrel). And now, I can finally say I’ve had dinner at Zacatlán. Though its menu wound up a little more pricy than I can usually swing, it was worth every penny and then some. Rodriguez might be a magician—or, at the very least, one of the more creative and innovative chefs working in Santa Fe right now. Do not sleep on this man’s food, whatever you do.

We began the evening with a special dish of chilled, raw oysters topped with sliced scallops and served with a spicy accoutrement similar to a minimal pico de gallo ($26 for six). Perhaps I’m a pleb, and I overheard numerous fellow diners espousing the dish’s excellence, but as a texture fanatic, I struggled with the squishier aspects of this one. This came much to the delight of my companion, who buckled down and gnoshed as many as possible on their own. I was a little more focused on our other starters, anyway: a burrata salad with cherry heirloom tomatoes, pesto and chicarron prosciutto ($22), plus the dreamy pork belly carnitas with a strawberry rhubarb tamal and frise and apple salad served over a date-based mole ($22). If one still has many years to live, is it too early to call something the dish of a lifetime? Rodriguez’s knack for the creative was on full display here. The exterior crisp/internal tenderness of the pork belly

For mains, we kept the pork train rolling with cochinita pibil, another mole dish with a tamal de olla (a traditionally pan-

a simpler dish of churros with cajeta and strawberries. Those in search of a less obvious or even less sweet dessert would do well to think of the bread pudding. Its flavorful ice cream topper seems odd at first but grows on you. The churros, suggested by a friend/co-worker, were downright excellent, particularly with the included gooey cajeta. You want a churro to be warm and almost squishy inside, but crispy and almost grainy on the outside. And Zacatlán delivered.

In fact, the whole meal delivered in a way that somehow lived up to our outrageous expectations. Everything at Zacatlán shone brighter than seems possible in retrospect, from the post-dinner coffee and pitch-perfect service from our waiter, Karla (whom I’m naming because she was just so damn on top of things). It’s hard for me to suggest more expensive meals as a man with very few chances to try them myself. When it comes to chef Rodriguez and Zacatlán (which was, by the way, a Beard semi-finalist in 2022 for best new restaurant), however...well, just do whatever you can to get there.

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Santa Fe menu; it could easily have served as a main course. The burrata salad, meanwhile, was as fresh as they come and a veritable cacophony of flavors and textures. You want a firm cherry tomato; you want a burrata that practically spills across the plate; the salty bite of the prosciutto added just the right savory notes, too.

you wouldn’t think refried black beans could stand out in any particular way, at Zacatlán, they did.

Despite having consumed more than enough for the evening, we continued bravely on toward dessert, splitting a brioche bread pudding tamal with saffron and sweet corn ice cream ($10), as well as

Can you believe the pork belly carnitas with strawberry rhubarb tamal was a starter dish?! BELOW: House made churros with the most flavorful cajeta we’ve found in this one-horse town.

ALEX DE VORE

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to a study by Newsweek magazine, 58 percent of us yearn to experience spiritual growth; 33 percent report having had a mystical or spiritual experience; 20 percent of us say we have had a revelation from God in the last year; and 13 percent have been in the presence of an angel. Given the astrological omens currently in play for you Aries, I suspect you will exceed all those percentages in the coming weeks. I hope you will make excellent use of your sacred encounters. What two areas of your life could most benefit from a dose of divine assistance or intervention? There’s never been a better time than now to seek a Deus ex machina. (More info: https://tinyurl. com/GodIntercession)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): After the fall of the Roman Empire, political cohesion in its old territories was scarce for hundreds of years. Then a leader named Charlemagne (747–814) came along and united much of what we now call Western Europe. He was unusual in many respects. For example, he sought to master the arts of reading and writing. Most other rulers of his time regarded those as paltry skills that were beneath their dignity. I mention this fact, Taurus, because I suspect it’s a propitious time to consider learning things you have previously regarded as unnecessary or irrelevant or outside your purview. What might these abilities be?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m turning this horoscope over to Nigerian poet Ijeoma Umebinyuo. She has three messages that are just what you need to hear right now.

1. “Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have.” 2. “You must let the pain visit. You must allow it to teach you. But you must not allow it to overstay.”

3. “Write a poem for your 14-year-old self. Forgive her. Heal her. Free her.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Historical records tell us that Chinese Emperor Hungwu (1328–1398) periodically dealt with overwhelming amounts of decision-making. During one ten-day phase of his reign, for example, he was called on to approve 1,660 documents concerning 3,391 separate issues. Based on my interpretation of the planetary omens, I suspect you may soon be called on to deal with a similar outpouring. This might tempt you toward over-stressed reactions like irritation and selfmedication. But I hope you’ll strive to handle it all with dignity and grace. In fact, that’s what I predict you will do. In my estimation, you will be able to summon the extra poise and patience to manage the intensity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is it even possible for us humans to live without fear—if even for short grace periods? Could you or I or anyone else somehow manage to celebrate, say, 72 hours of freedom from all worries and anxieties and trepidations? I suspect the answer is no. We may aspire to declare our independence from dread, but 200,000 years of evolution ensures that our brains are hard-wired to be ever-alert for danger. Having provided that perspective, however, I will speculate that if anyone could approach a state of utter dauntlessness, it will be you Leos in the next three weeks. This may be as close as you will ever come to an extended phase of bold, plucky audacity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Dear Sunny Bright Cheery Upbeat Astrologer: You give us too many sunny, bright, cheery, upbeat predictions. They lift my mood when I first read them, but later I’m like, “What the hell?” Because yeah, they come true, but they usually cause some complications I didn’t foresee. Maybe you should try offering predictions that bum me out, since then I won’t have to deal with making such big adjustments. —Virgo Who is Weary of Rosy Hopeful Chirpy Horoscopes.” Dear Virgo: You have alluded to a key truth about reality: Good changes often require as much modification and adaptation as challenging changes. Another truth: One of my specialties is helping my readers manage those good changes. And by the way: I predict the next two weeks will deliver a wealth of interesting and buoyant changes.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Poet Pablo Neruda wrote, “Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shores of silence.” That might serve as a good motto for you in the coming weeks. By my astrological reckoning, you’ll be wise to go in quest for what’s secret, concealed, and buried. You will generate fortuitous karma by smoking out hidden agendas and investigating the rest of the story beneath the apparent story. Be politely pushy, Libra. Charmingly but aggressively find the missing information and the shrouded rationales. Dig as deep as you need to go to explore the truth’s roots.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): We’ve all done things that make perfect sense to us, though they might look nonsensical or inexplicable to an outside observer. Keep this fact in your awareness during the next two weeks, Scorpio. Just as you wouldn’t want to be judged by uninformed people who don’t know the context of your actions, you should extend this same courtesy to others, especially now. At least some of what may appear nonsensical or inexplicable will be serving a valuable purpose. Be slow to judge. Be inclined to offer the benefit of the doubt.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I completely understand if you feel some outrage about the lack of passion and excellence you see in the world around you. You have a right to be impatient with the laziness and carelessness of others. But I hope you will find ways to express your disapproval constructively. The best approach will be to keep criticism to a minimum and instead focus on generating improvements. For the sake of your mental health, I suggest you transmute your anger into creativity. You now have an enhanced power to reshape the environments and situations you are part of so they work better for everyone.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the 17th century, renowned Capricorn church leader James Ussher announced he had discovered when the world had been created. It was at 6 pm on October 22 in the year 4004 BCE. From this spectacularly wrong extrapolation, we might conclude that not all Capricorns are paragons of logic and sound analysis 100 percent of the time. I say we regard this as a liberating thought for you in the coming weeks. According to my analysis, it will be a favorable time to indulge in wild dreams, outlandish fantasies, and imaginative speculations. Have fun, dear Capricorn, as you wander out in the places that singer Tom Petty referred to as “The Great Wide Open.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): We often evaluate prospects quantitatively: how big a portion do we get, how much does something cost, how many social media friends can we add? Quantity does matter in some cases, but on other occasions may be trumped by quality. A few close, trustworthy friends may matter more than hundreds of Instagram friends we barely know. A potential house may be spacious and affordable, but be in a location we wouldn’t enjoy living in. Your project in the coming weeks, Aquarius, is to examine areas of your life that you evaluate quantitatively and determine whether there are qualitative aspects neglected in your calculations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Dear Dr. Astrology: Help! I want to know which way to go. Should I do the good thing or the right thing? Should I be kind and sympathetic at the risk of ignoring my selfish needs? Or should I be a pushy stickler for what’s fair and true, even if I look like a preachy grouch? Why is it so arduous to have integrity?

—Pinched Pisces.” Dear Pisces: Can you figure out how to be half-good and half-right? Half-self-interested and halfgenerous? I suspect that will generate the most gracious, constructive results.

Homework: If you could change into an animal for a day, what would you be?

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