Santa Fe Reporter, August 16, 2023

Early Learning Core

New Mexico targeted early childhood education as a solution to learning gaps. How far can it go?

By Mo Charnot, P.12

OPINION 5 NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

TRACK AND (CANDIDATE) FIELD 8

Santa Fe’s public campaign financing system’s confusing deadlines and low payoff keep prospective City Council candidates on a different course

FULL STEAM AHEAD 10

Santa Fe Public Schools’ Art Squad pilot heads into second year of coaxing out arts potential

COVER STORY 12

EARLY LEARNING CORE 10

New Mexico targeted early childhood education as a solution to learning gaps. How far can it go?

CULTURE

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CORRECTIONS

The story “Crisis Course” in last week’s paper should have reflected that the climate training program is available to all New Mexico teachers grades 3-6, that the Global Warming Express is a program of the Sierra Club’s Rio Grande Chapter and that Marina Stevens was 10 years old when she wrote The Global Warming Express

The Southside Feria takes place from 4-7 pm, Thursday, Aug. 17. Last week’s cover story “The Language of Business” gave the wrong date.

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NEW STATE REP. CRISTINA PARAJÓN FACES SCRUTINY OVER ALBUQUERQUE RESIDENCY

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Track and (Candidate) Field

Santa Fe’s public campaign financing system’s confusing deadlines and low payoff keep prospective City Council candidates on a different course

BY EVAN CHANDLER evan@sfreporter.com

When Santa Fe voters in 2008 approved a way for tax dollars to pay for city election campaigns, backers said public campaign financing would keep money out of politics. But the system has created confusion because two sets of deadlines now govern would-be candidates for the Nov. 7 election depending on how they plan to pay for their campaigns. A handful of contemporary candidates also say the system does not pay enough.

The New Mexico Local Election Act of 2018 kicked off a wave of change in Santa Fe. The law established a statewide local election date every November in odd-numbered years for nonpartisan candidates and local government ballot questions. Cities could also opt for the county clerk to conduct and pay for all elections.

When Santa Fe opted in for the 2019 election, the city voter rolls, balloting and voting would be handled by the county clerk and state election laws would apply, but the city clerk would continue to manage the public fi nancing program.

In the runup to this year’s election, the clerks created two sets of deadlines for City Council candidates: one for those seeking public campaign financing and another for those who planned to conduct fundraising. Candidates seeking public funding for their campaigns had until July 24 to turn in the paperwork. Council candi dates who qualify for public campaign funds receive $15,000 with the oppor tunity for up to $22,000, depending on how much opponents raise. Candidates using private funding, however, have no spending caps and a nomination petition

signature deadline over a month later— Aug. 29.

Santa Fe County Katharine Clark tells SFR the state statute has always required a filing deadline 70 days prior to the election for private candidates. City Clerk Kristine Bustos-Mihelcic tells SFR candidates have complained about the dual deadlines.

Clark says in order to consider revision to the deadlines, both city and state laws would have to change.

“It’s the first I’m hearing that there is confusion,” Clark says. “It’s always been done this way.”

Four candidates for Santa Fe City Council positions qualified for public campaign cash, but several others say they didn’t try to qualify for the program because it pays too little.

In some races, the amount of money for public candidates is far less than candidates have raised through donations, while in some recent elections it’s right on par. For example, District 1 Councilor Signe I. Lindell raised more than $80,000 during the 2021 campaign to fight off three candidates who challenged her re-election. The same year, incumbent District 3 Councilor Roman Abeyta spent $25,000 of private money and his challenger Lee Garcia won using public campaign financing.

chose to fundraise for his District 2 race and plans to rely on friends and family for donations.

“It’s possible” to run with the current public cash amount, he says, “how effective you are going to be is a whole other question.”

Albuquerque also opted in to the Local Election Act and moved its elections from October to November and under the Bernalillo County clerk’s jurisdiction. Like Santa Fe, its candidates have the option for either public or private money in campaigns. Albuquerque awards a minimum of $40,000 to candidates who qualify for public financing for its council districts, which have a population exceeding 62,000 each. (For comparison, Santa Fe’s districts have populations of approximately 22,000.)

Albuquerque City Clerk Ethan Watson says the city and county clerk have agreed on matching deadlines, and notes the system requires a “challenging balance,” but the city has made changes when it gets feedback. For example, voters passed an amendment to the Albuquerque charter in 2019 that included several increases in funding amounts for public candidates. Santa Fe hasn’t upped its base payouts since 2009, a topic Bustos-Mihelcic says

THE BALLOT FOR THE RACES WON’T BE SET UNTIL AFTER THE AUG. 29 DEADLINE FOR CANDIDATES TO PRESENT NOMINATING PETITIONS. SO FAR, HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW:

DISTRICT 1

The city’s oldest district, covering the north side and downtown above the Santa Fe River and east of Cerrillos Road, has a highly-contested race this election season. Current District 1 Councilor Renee Villarreal announced in May she would not seek reelection. Four hopefuls want to take her place, with an even split in private and public campaign financing.

On the public side, Café Castro owner Alma Castro and former Planning Commissioner Brian Gutierrez qualified for funding. Katherine Rivera, a retired project manager, also initially planned to run a campaign on city tax dollars, but fell short of requirements and transitioned to private funding. Geno Zamora, a former Santa Fe city attorney, is also fundraising, he tells SFR, because $15,000 is not enough money for a “modern campaign.”

DISTRICT 2

The east side includes the South Capitol neighborhood, the majority of St. Michael’s Drive and neighborhoods along the eastern half of Rodeo Road to the southern edge of the city limits. Current District 2 Councilor Michael Garcia is using public funding for a second time, while Planning Commissioner Phil Lucero took the private route. The race has exemplified tension with regard to public campaign finance: Garcia complained that the difference in deadlines was unfair, and Lucero says he turned in nomination petitions on the same day as Garcia’s deadline in response to that concern.

DISTRICT 3

Down on the Southside, including neighborhoods west of Cerrillos Road and Lopez Lane and south of Agua Fría Street and Tierra Contenta, another full lineup is brewing. While three of four candidates in the district tried for public money, only former city Louis Carlos qualified. Of the remaining two, Eric collected signatures and cash, but fell short of requirements and transitioned into private funding. Community organizer Miguel Acosta did not file documents in time for public funding, but has since transitioned to private fundraising. Planning Commissioner Pilar Faulkner joined the race in mid-July and plans to seek donations.

DISTRICT 4

In the city’s central district, which includes the Bellemah neighborhood and Midtown Campus, as well as some areas west of Cerrillos Road and along Richards Avenue south of Rodeo and north of I-25, incumbent Councilor Jamie Cassutt won her seat using public campaign financing in the 2019 election. This time around, she’s raising money and has said she made the choice out of concern public money wouldn’t cover her anticipated expenses for mailings and other campaign costs. Bustos-Mihelcic reports Joel Nava anticipated applying for public campaign financing, but did not return paperwork or qualifying contributions by the deadline.

Full STEAM ahead

Santa Fe Public Schools’ Art Squad pilot heads into second year of coaxing out arts potential

BY MO CHARNOT mo@sfreporter.com

Over the span of a year, a dozen fifth-grade students from Salazar Elementary explored new mediums in art, creating a STEAM-themed acrylic panel piece displayed this summer at the New Mexico Public Education Department’s Jerry Apodaca Education Building.

The students were members of the school’s Art Squad, part of a district-wide pilot program sparked by former art teacher Steve Heil asking: What does it look like to foster kids with art potential?

To Anna Gibson, the teacher facilitating Salazar’s art squad, the answer was “spectacular.”

“I’ll say that I probably have one of the best jobs in the world,” Gibson tells SFR. “I get to work with people being creative, being excited, being inventors, breaking rules, experimenting, exploring–they’re amazing.”

Heil’s doctoral dissertation research focusing on art talent development for underrepresented groups motivated Salazar’s pilot program. He had met with Santa Fe Public Schools Art Education Coordinator Cristina González in 2020 to highlight what he learned.

“Folks of various groups don’t get the opportunities they need to contribute as artists in our society, whereas other groups do

get those opportunities,” Heil says, noting González and Salazar Elementary Principal Alyssa Maestas were “instrumental” to the creation of Salazar’s program.

“I started helping them devise ways to provide opportunities that weren’t available, especially to Latine students and economically disadvantaged schools,” Heil says.

The district rolled out the program last year with seven teachers to provide advanced artistic instruction. Gibson, who this year marks her 10th year at Salazar, follows the Teaching for Artistic Behavior model. The model, she says, “is really about self-choice; the child is the artist, and the teacher is the facilitator.”

Gibson taught a two-hour art squad class every Friday during the last school year. Students, she says, took inspiration to create a sculpture made of interlocking panels from a vintage set of Charles Eames’ House of Cards Gibson had in the studio.

“She [Gibson] is an amazing teacher who just really devotes herself to her students’ growth. She’s inspiring,” Heil says.

To create the sculpture, the students collaborated with Aoife Runyan, the school’s digital learning coach, to learn how to laser engrave and use a laser cutter in the school’s STEAM lab (for science, technology, engineering, arts and math), and they decided to make the piece itself STEAM-themed. Once a month, the art squad met in the lab to work on the sculpture.

Some of Gibson’s students immersed themselves further into their passion, attending the school’s standard art class and joining the after-school art club. Gibson says these students spent more than six hours per week getting art instruction and

working in the studio.

“They’re just hard-working, really dedicated, creative young people,” Gibson says. “If you give them a little opportunity, it will really take it to the next level.”

Schools use three methods to identify artistic potential in students: Robert Clark’s Drawing Abilities Test (also known as the CDAT), a standardized test in drawing; “teacher observation,” geared toward students with interest in other mediums like sculpting; and self-advocacy, a method that lines up with Gibson’s teaching method. Students interested in joining can assert themselves as artists who deserve to be a part of the program.

“A kid who is not picked up in the other two, but advocates for themself, that’s a kid who really loves art and wants to work hard in their amazing assets in that community,” Gibson explains.

Self-advocacy also serves as a key to mak-

ing the art squad program do what it is meant to do: fix the leaks that educators like Heil and Gibson have observed in Santa Fe’s artist pipeline.

“Self-identifying helps lead to their self-concept. They’re self-identifying as artists and creative people,” Gibson elaborates. “And then we really start fostering, building those skills and they work to the next level with a pretty big toolbox.”

When Gibson showed the result of her students’ work to Heil in the spring, Heil suggested putting the project on display at PED’s lobby. On June 21, the art squad’s sculpture debuted at the Jerry Apodaca Education Building.

This school year, a new batch of fifthgrade students have joined the art squad, along with the now-sixth-grade students from last year. Gibson says their first task is to make a list of what artistic endeavors they want to explore next.

Two of Salazar Elementary’s Art Squad students presented their completed sculpture at the Jerry Apodaca Building’s lobby July 21, where PED Secretary Arsenio Romero praised the students’ artistic skills.

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BY MO CHARNOT mo@sfreporter.com

Last year, Isabella Jefferson enrolled at Santa Fe Community College to pursue a career as a physical therapy assistant. After registering, she got a job as an administrative assistant at the school’s Wellness Center as an additional way to support herself and her 3-year-old son.

“I wanted to set an example for my child,” Jefferson tells SFR. “I had never really thought about going to college until after I had my child.”

Yet an obstacle stood in the way of her aspirations: Who would care for her son while she worked and went to classes?

After a four-month wait during which her son tagged along to work and school, he landed in an empty slot in the school’s Kids Campus—a bilingual early learning center that prioritizes enrolling the children of students and staff.

Now, Jefferson can focus on her learning and her son can get started on his formal education.

Early learning is a time developmental experts identify as critical for kids. New Mexico has been putting extra energy into this end of the school spectrum, and officials hope the attention can make a dent in the state’s large education gaps.

The state’s newest cabinet agency, the Early Childhood Education and Care Department, has focused on building capacity in early learning programs and strengthening the early childhood workforce while providing extra support for parents.

Although the community college program ended up with room for Jefferson’s son, many working families have a difficult time accessing child care programs due to a lack of capacity. There just aren’t enough available spots for kids. According to the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Child Care Gaps Assessment from 2019, New Mexico’s child care capacity fell 23,042 licensed slots short. In 2024, the state predicts, more than 37,000 children aged 3-4 in the state will lack access to pre-K.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham elevated the topic to a cabinet-level agency with the help of the Legislature in 2019 and appointed Elizabeth Groginsky as its first secretary, then pushed for a constitutional amendment to send more money to its programs. The state also used federal pandemic relief money to increase pay for early childhood educators.

Voters agreed with the priority, adopting a ballot measure in the 2022 election that made New Mexico the first state to guarantee a right to early childhood education and allocated nearly $150 million per year from the state’s Land Grant Permanent Fund—one of the largest educational endowments in the country— to early childhood education and care.

“With the passage of the constitutional amendment, we were able to make a massive expansion of pre-K in the state, reaching thousands of more children,” Groginsky tells SFR. “But, even more importantly, reaching them with longer days and more weeks in the year.”

The efforts show progress so far: Between 2021 and 2022, the ECECD re-

New Mexico targeted early childhood education as a solution to learning gaps. How far can it go?

ports an increase in the number of childcare centers in the state from 648 to 717, with the capacity for children expanding from 54,372 to 58,151.

With extended day programs and state-supported childcare now offered year-round, children will have more instruction time and working families will have access to more support services, says Groginsky, who also testified to a

US Senate committee to show progress in the state’s child care system in May and was featured in late 2022 in The Washington Post in a story about the department’s approach.

The numbers are set to continue rising. Last month, the ECECD finalized regulations giving families who earn up to 400% of the federal poverty level child care assistance, increasing that figure from 350% previously. For a family of four, the income eligibility cap rises to $120,000 per year.

“When you think of the burden, the cost of accessing high-quality childcare, it can be upwards of 30 or 40% of a family’s income to pay for that care out of pocket,” Groginsky says.

This change has already impacted thousands of families. Since expanding eligibility, the ECECD reports it went from serving 20,017 children with child care assistance in April 2022 to 28,154 in June 2023—a 40% increase in just over a year. Compared to August 2021’s numbers, 12,589 more children now have access to child care paid for by child care assistance.

“Being able to support New Mexican families with that financial relief, [so they] also know that their child is being cared for and educated while they go to work, school or pursue their goals for

their families,” Groginsky continues, “That’s been a big help for our families.”

Jefferson’s experiences at Santa Fe Community College are possible in part because of that kind of monetary support for parents.

They’re also possible because the school has made a concerted effort to prioritize students’ children as part of the college’s dual-generation education model, which builds family well-being by simultaneously working with children and their parents.

“If we want parents in New Mexico to get their education and their degree to increase the economic mobility of their families, having on-campus childcare is essential to that,” Catron Allred, the college’s director of the Early Childhood Center of Excellence, says.

Yet, as exemplified by Jefferson’s four-month wait for enrollment, the center can’t accommodate all the need.

“For most families, early childhood education is now free,” Allred notes. “But

the problem is, we don’t have any space, and so we’re kind of in the same situation that we need more slots, we need more classrooms, more schools.”

The school plans to continue its role in shoring the workforce for child care. Its innovative Aprende Early Childhood Teacher Apprenticeship program—the first early childhood education-focused apprenticeship program in the state—offers accelerated learning for students.

“We are very concerned about the rebuilding and growth of the early childhood workforce, especially after the pandemic,” Allred says. “In Santa Fe, we lost a number of early childhood centers, a number of family child care providers, and many classrooms were unable to open because they didn’t have teachers.”

The grow-your-own approach created a “pre-apprenticeship” designed for people with no previous experience in early childhood education. By the end of the “pre-apprenticeship,” these students can receive a child development certificate from the state and get several hours of experience working with children under 5.

Last year was Aprende’s pilot year, with 35 students joining the pre-apprenticeship program, 17 in the fall, 18 in the spring. This fall, the Aprende program will host between 20 to 30 pre-apprentices, and about 10 students will join the registered apprenticeship.

Allred emphasizes the need for more teachers in early childhood programs to help children under 5 with “school readiness,” telling SFR, “We think about

The Santa Fe Community College prioritizes students’ children for enrollment at the Early Childhood Center of Excellence.

ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

Elizabeth Groginsky was named the state’s first secretary of the Early Childhood Education and Care Department.

COURTESY OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

Wh en you think of the burden, the cost of accessing high-quality childcare, it can be upwards of 30 or 40% of a family’s income to pay for that care out of pocket,

-Elizabeth Groginsky, Early

Childhood Education cabinet secretary

school readiness as just being able to learn your ABCs and read, but school readiness has a lot more to do with executive function and how your brain responds to stress or new experiences.”

Across town at the former Kaune Elementary School, the organization Growing Up New Mexico expects 120 students this fall from infancy through pre-K. That’s an increase of about 30 students from last year, thanks to its new infant and toddler program. But Rhonda Montoya, the director of early learning, says Kaune has struggled to hire early childhood educators for several years.

“It has been a little difficult coming out of the pandemic,” Montoya says. “We’re waiting for a full teaching team. I want to make sure we’re fully set up.”

Groginsky notes that’s among reasons the state agency has tried to push wages higher for child care workers through means such as its Competitive Pay for Professionals grant, which offered pay boosts for early childhood educators and increased the wage floor to $15 an hour for entry-level workers and $20 an hour for lead teachers.

“We have to pay our early childhood professionals the wages that reflect the value of the work they’re doing in order to attract and retain high-quality talent,” she says.

The department used $77 million in pandemic relief money to pay for the grants and distributed the cash to child care centers that applied. But this month marks the last payments under the program.

“It was a big life-saver,” Groginsky says. “We heard directly from providers, ‘I finally filled these positions that allowed me to open another classroom to serve more children.’ It’s all connected.”

Even as the grant ends, the state hopes to offset the loss by paying higher

subsidy rates to child care providers for child care assisted students by 20% to 30%, with the state paying the providers “a little more than $1,000 per child” each month, according to Groginsky.

Kaune’s program has accessed state funds to expand over the past year, having recently adopted extended days for students, as well as year-round child care. At its helm is Kate Noble, president of Growing Up New Mexico and member of the Santa Fe Public Schools’ Board of Education. Noble says while expansions made by ECECD provide stable funding, she believes the department still needs to tackle recruiting and retaining a workforce.

“My perspective is this has been an unstructured industry that has been

largely based on women’s work being free,” Noble says. “We don’t pay women properly. Education has that a little bit too, the teaching profession has always been [underpaid]. But, this [early childhood education] is the unorganized end of it…even though the evidence is that it has the most impact, based on brain science.”

The school is still hoping to hire a handful of educational assistants to open its two new infant and toddler classrooms.

In addition to planning for the right number of teachers and aides in each classroom, the school also tries to support staff by targeting parents with more services. Its Bridges to Opportunity program spans several parent needs.

The Early Learning Center at Kaune has expanded to 120 students this year, a number that includes new programs for infants and toddlers.

I t has been a little difficult coming out of the pandemic .

We’re waiting for a full teaching team. I want to make sure we’re fully set up.

- Rhonda Montoya, Growing Up New Mexico director of early learning

Coaches offer parents guidance, community resources—and even funds when families are in crisis.

“We’re able to connect with our coaches and say, ‘Here’s what’s happening with this family,’” Montoya says. “Then, they step in and offer that support, which allows our teachers to continue focusing on the classroom, and that family’s still getting the support that they need beyond the classroom.”

In the past year, Kaune’s Bridges to Opportunity program served 118 families for various needs, and 11 families even secured housing with the program’s help.

When it comes to supporting families, housing might seem like a big ask for a child care provider. But kids who are homeless are the least likely to receive early childhood education. In 2019, only 5% of homeless children under 6 did so.

Santa Fe public schools’ Adelante program has provided students with tutoring, school supplies, shoes, clothes, food, household goods and even financial assistance.

Adelante program coordinator Noemi Sanchez tells SFR, “When kids are experiencing homelessness, they don’t have stability.”

The Adelante program does not limit

itself to helping just homeless students enrolled in SFPS, but their entire families. Last year, 907 children were enrolled in the Adelante program, with roughly 100 to 150 of these children being under 5 years old. When any of these families include a child under 5, Adelante staff assist parents in finding pre-K or other child care programs suitable for the family’s needs. If a SFPS student has a sibling under 3, Adelante staff can enroll them and supply the family formula, diapers and clothes.

“If there’s even one child in the public schools,” says Adelante assistant coordinator Loretta Fernandez, “we help the family with the children ages 0 through 21.”

In Albuquerque, the Cuidando Los Niños program provides a free, five-star pre-K program to homeless children from infancy to age 5 and offers temporary housing to families enrolled.

According to Executive Director Jeff Hoehn, approximately two-thirds of the children enrolled in the program have developmental delays in literacy and math, a common result of families lacking stable housing.

“When you’re homeless, you don’t have Sesame Street,” Hoehn says. “You just miss so much.”

The nonprofit also takes a dual-generation approach, helping parents find stable work, housing and education for their families upon exiting the program. Its workers all receive trauma-informed training due to the high level of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) the children enrolled typically have.

“Our average [ACEs] score is a 6 out of 10, so that’s a pretty high level of trauma,” Hoehn tells SFR. “Because of the rate of poverty, domestic violence and sub-

stance abuse in New Mexico, many of our children come to childcare centers with a high level of trauma, and trauma makes learning difficult.”

Hoehn says the program has managed to maintain the necessary staff, in part because of the Competitive Pay for Professionals grant and the recent increase in state subsidies. But at the moment, 52 children are enrolled at Cuidando Los Niños, leaving the nonprofit at full capacity.

The City of Albuquerque has agreed to seek legislative capital outlay funds to construct a second building with three more classrooms, a community room and cafeteria, more housing and additional support offices in a plan that could double the number of children who could be enrolled.

“Over the last couple of legislative sessions we have amassed about $2 million in capital outlay for this project, this [next] session we will ask for an additional $4 million,” Hoehn says.

The future for New Mexico’s youngest learners and their families depends largely on the state’s continued ability to fund its strategy, Groginsky says.

The department has already received its initial disbursement from the Land Grant Permanent Fund for the fiscal year of 2024—$140 million—and the money is paying for its core programs and services, according to spokesman Micah McCoy.

Another major funding avenue for the ECECD that launched in 2020 and began supporting early childhood programming in 2022, The Early Childhood Trust Fund, will be supplemented when there are surplus oil and gas revenues, and by federal mineral leasing. Last year, the Legislature appropriated about $100 million from the trust fund to support the increase in subsidies paid to child care providers.

“[The Early Childhood Trust Fund] has helped tremendously, and it’s also good that it’s growing, because the need for child care is also continuing to grow,” Groginsky says. Since the land grant fund transfers are tied to the fund’s larger balance, the department expect an estimate for the the 2025 fiscal year transfer at the Legislative Finance Committee’s Aug. 23 meeting at New Mexico Highlands University’s Student Union Building in Las Vegas.

“We’ll need to continue to tap into these resources and other resources to make sure families who need child care have access to it,” she says, “and that the quality of that care is at the level that we need it to be.”

Toddlers enrolled at Cuidando Los Niños in Albuquerque get the opportunity to make friends during outdoor playtime.

MO CHARNOT

W hen you’re homeless, you don’t have Sesame Street. You just miss so much.

-Jeff Hoehn, Cuidando Los Niños executive director

WATCHING INDIANS ON TV

If this time of year always leaves you craving a Smoke Signals rewatch, we’ll do you one better. Why not catch the Waiting for Guffman-esque mockumentary Hey Viktor!—co-written, directed by and starring the man who played the childhood version of Adam Beach in that iconic ‘90s film—about the attempted making of Smoke Signals 2: Still Smoking? How about if we told you a whole bunch of familiar faces from the O.G. Smoke Signals cast would be cackling in the theater alongside you? That’s just the first in a weekend-long series of Indigenous screenings presented by the National Museum of the American Indian, and honestly, there’s no better way to get your frybread power on. (Siena

Sofia Bergt)

Native Cinema Showcase Santa Fe: 7-9 pm Thursday, Aug. 17; 1-9 pm Friday, Aug. 18; 11 am-9 pm Saturday, Aug. 19; 10 am-4 pm Sunday, Aug. 20. Free. New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200

MUSIC THURS/17

MOZART’S RETURN

Just about two years ago, musician Mozart Gabriel of Taos Pueblo made his triumphant return to the Southwest after years spent honing his pop/punk/grunge/ rock craft in Europe. We loved his jams then, and we’re intrigued by his new direction now. “I wanted to create something that was more ambient and Indigenous,” Gabriel tells SFR. “Something a lot more Taos Pueblo.” The new music will take the form of two new albums Gabriel plans to start recording next month, but in the meantime he’ll hit up Meow Wolf with the Osceola Brothers and vocalist Morningstar Angeline as his backing band. “I’m playing some new stuff,” he explains, adding that while the brothers are known for heavier rock, his catchy style will remain intact. Don’t mind if we do, Mozart. (ADV)

Native Guitars Tour: Mozart Gabriel: 6 pm Thursday, Aug. 17. $35 Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

ART OPENING FRI/18

PATTON’S PATTERNS

We’ve been following Oglala Lakota artist Mikayla Patton’s work since she was a student at Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts and knocking out killer prints, incomparable jewelry and more. Thus, when we learned she was returning to town for her first-ever Santa Fe solo show at Chiaroscuro Gallery, we had to find out what’s what. Turns out Patton’s new works crafted with recycled handmade paper and mixed media are stunning two- and three-dimensional abstracts, and we’re very much here for them. At Patton’s On the Back Road, find a wide range of textures and material configurations coming together to project a certain carefully measured vulnerability. In her artist’s statement, Patton says she’s exploring matriarchal ideology through Lakota design—we’re just thrilled to see what shape that takes. (ADV)

Mikayla Patton: On the Back Road: 5-7 pm Friday, Aug. 18. Free. Chiaroscuro Gallery

558 Canyon Road, (505) 992-0711

You Can Do Both

Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival adds even more flair to the biggest Native arts weekend around

Though no one would ever suggest skipping the 101st Indian Market on and around the Plaza in Santa Fe this weekend, it’s hardly the only major coming-together of talented Indigenous artists. Take, for example, the Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival from the Poeh Cultural Center, now in its third year, a similarly massive gathering going down at Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino featuring three full days of visual arts, music, food, dancing, film and more.

“What I think is important is that we view ourselves at the Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival as part of a larger community of Native American arts organizations who work on behalf of our Indigenous people,” says Poeh Executive Director Karl Duncan (Arikara/Hidatsa/Mandan/San Carlos Apache), “and we’re excited from the success of all of the markets—that there is a lot of support locally, regionally and even nationally for Native American artists and their works.”

Indeed, in many cases, Native artists from around North America rely on these market weekends as moneymakers for

the rest of the year. But we reap benefits as arts fans, too. The rising tide lifts all ships, they say, and the gatherings present opportunities of finding new and different ways to support our incoming Indigenous artist siblings. Pathways makes it easy, too, with screenings of films like Cara Romero: Following the Light, performances from Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers, Def-i and the Pueblo of Pojoaque Youth Hoop Dancers, plus weaving demonstrations, live painting, youth arts and fashion.

“We’re trying to showcase everything,” says Poeh Marketing Manager Jacob Shije (Santa Clara Pueblo), who’ll also show photos and perform music at Pathways.

“With the new generations coming up asking what is Native art? [Pathways] is a huge mix of diverse genres and things. In my mind, Pathways is for the artists.”

(Alex De Vore)

PATHWAYS INDIGENOUS ARTS FESTIVAL

9 am-5 pm Friday, Aug. 18-Sunday, Aug. 20 Free. Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, poehcenter.org

COURTESY MOZART GABRIEL

CHIAROSCURO GALLERY

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LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

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ART OPENINGS

THE MAGIC OF THE WEST: LIVE PAINTING AND SCULPTING

Sage Creek Gallery

421 Canyon Road, (505) 988-3444

Drop by Wednesday through Sunday for demonstrations from the showcased artists.

10 am-4 pm, free

WADDELL GALLERY POP-UP

Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi

113 Washington Ave. (505) 988-3030

The Indigenous jewelry gallery’s fourth annual visit to Santa Fe.

All Day, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS AND THE SANTA FE RIVER

Water History Park

1209 Upper Canyon Road

A discussion of how much water a river needs to support an ecosystem.

6 pm, free

FACULTY AND STAFF READING

Santa Fe Community College

6401 Richards Ave.

(505) 428-1000

Hear original works from the school's English department.

4-5 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

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

Spanish guests Angel Muñoz and Charo Espino.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

The diva takes the stage with guest appearances from the likes of Vicente Griego, Eloy Aguilar, Daniel Azcarate, Eloy Cito Gonzales and more.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

ALL THINGS YARN

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

Break out those knitting needles or crochet hooks and count stitches to your heart's content.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

BENEFIT EVENT: EARLY BIRD

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

704 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-4636

Support the museum's future exhibitions while shopping donated and consigned

Indigenous art.

4-6 pm, $20

BREAKFAST WITH THE CURATORS

Museum Hill Café

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 984-8900

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture's Legacy Award recipients Lynda Teller Pete (Diné) and Barbara Teller Ornelas (Diné) join you for the first meal of the day before leading a tour through the exhibit Horizons.

8:30-10:30 am, $30-$35

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Informal chess.

10 am-1 pm, free

COACHES Q&A

624 Agua Fría St. abstracttherapie.com

An opportunity for folks considering starting or scaling a life coaching practice to ask questions of practicing intuitive coach Ryan Glassmoyer.

6:30-8 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

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

Christian Saiia invites locals to discuss local history and the effects of world geo-politics on westward colonization.

Noon-2 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Bicycle! Bicycle! 10-11 am, $5

LET’S TAKE A LOOK WITH CURATORS

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269

Bring in family heirlooms for pro analysis from museum curators.

Noon-2 pm, free

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Wayward Comedy welcomes you to make 'em laugh.  8 pm, free

VÁMONOS: WELLNESS WALK

Larragoite Park

1464 Avenida Cristobal Colon (505) 989-7019

Stroll along the Acequia Trail all the way to Ashbaugh Park.  5:30 pm, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Weekly themed storytime and creative activities for young folks.  10:30 am, free

FOOD

ARGENTINE TANGO NIGHT

Cafecito

922 Shoofly St., (505) 310-0089

Live tango and a prix fixe Argentine menu.

6 pm, $75

MUSIC

ALLY VENABLE

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

Texas blues-rock with support from Eryn Bent. Presented by AMP Concerts.

7:30 pm, $18-$23

BRAHMS AND THUILLE SEXTETS

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Also on the program is a violin and piano suite by Moszkowski. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

6 pm, $15-$80

DR. HALL

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Rock, blues and Americana.

4-6 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM Club Legato

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

BYOB: Bring your own bassoon.

6-9 pm, free

JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO AND CHRISTOPHER CANO

St. Francis Auditorium at New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's final voice and piano concert of the season.

Noon, $35-$40

THE SO LOWS

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

Southwest Americana.  8-10 pm, free

OPERA

ORFEO

WRITER'S DEN

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Write communally once a week. 5-6:30 pm, free

FILM

ENTER THE DRAGON

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678

The film that launched Bruce Lee's international stardom!

7 pm, $13-$15

Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive, (505) 986-5900

Yuval Sharon directs the Monteverdi-composed story of underworld romance.  8 pm, $50-$366

THEATER

BEAR GREASE

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

A Treaty Six Indigenous twist on the classic musical Grease 7:30 pm, $30-$75

Armond Lara presents a marionette self-portrait of the artist as Dali in his ongoing self-titled show at form & concept.

ZERO

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

A tech company on the brink of releasing a revolutionary new AI product in an Exodus Ensemble experience adapted from Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine. Ages 18+.

7:30 pm, tickets by donation

WORKSHOP

AERIAL FABRIC WITH LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Learn how to foot lock, drop and pose with the best of 'em.

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

THU/17

ART OPENINGS

BEST OF THE BEST

Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery

100 W San Francisco St. (505) 986-1234

A pre-market showcase of the exhibiting artists' finest works.

3-5 pm, free

EXHIBITION OF NATIVE POTTERY

Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery

100 W San Francisco St. (505) 986-1234

View works from beloved masters Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Tony Da (San Ildefonso Pueblo) and Dextra Quotskuyva (Hopi-Tewa).

10 am-noon, free

GROUP EXHIBITION (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Artwork by Dan Friday, Chris Pappan, Jody Naranjo, Starr Hardridge and many more.

5-8 pm, free

NATIVE AMERICAN GROUP SHOW (OPENING)

Sorrel Sky Gallery

125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555

Native American artists, including Ben Nighthorse, Kevin Red Star, Ray Tracey and more.

5 pm, free

SELECTED JEWELS FROM THE BOX OF TREASURES

Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery

100 W San Francisco St. (505) 986-1234

Pottery by Richard Zane Smith (Wyandot), Thomas Tenorio (Santo Domingo Pueblo), Sandra Victorino (Acoma Pueblo) and Angie Yazzie (Taos Pueblo).

Noon-3 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

IN EVERY ROOM

La Fonda on the Plaza

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

The La Fonda celebrates the second edition of the titular book highlighting pieces from the hotel's own art collection.

3-5 pm, free

NATIVE ART AND WEAVING

Sorrel Sky Gallery

125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555

Jackson Clark, a leading authority on Navajo weaving, discusses Native weaving.

3 pm, free

DANCE

DJ PRAIRIEDOG AFTER DARK

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

Vintage vinyl funk and soul.

8-10:30 pm, free

ECSTATIC DANCE

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo de Peralta

A weekly DJ'd free movement sesh. Contact hello@ EmbodyDanceSantaFe.com for more information.

6:30 pm, $15

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Director Antonio Granjero's flamenco company performs.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

INTRO TO SOCIAL DANCE

Dance Station

947-B W Alameda St. (505) 989-9788

Explore the basic skills of partnering, timing and basic movement while focusing on a different popular dance every week.

6:45-7:30 pm, $15

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe

750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

The New Mexican flamenco diva takes the stage.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

BENEFIT EVENT

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

704 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-4636

Support the museum's future exhibitions, educational programming and operations while shopping donated and consigned Indigenous art.

9 am-4 pm, free

BREAKFAST WITH THE CURATORS

Museum Hill Café

710 Camino Lejo, (505) 984-8900

Hadley Jensen and Rapheal

Begay (Diné) have breakfast with you before strolling through the exhibit Horizons.

8:30-10:30 am, $30-$35

CHESS & JAZZ

No Name Cinema

2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org

Chess playing, jazz listening and free herbal tea. All levels and ages welcome.

6-8 pm, free

CHESS AT THE MALL DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Informal chess 10 am-1 pm, free

THE CALENDAR

CLEAN COMEDY

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

No Bull Comedy presents fresh jokes at the organic farm. Hosted by Phil Romero with headliner Korey Herrera.

7-8:30 pm, $10

FERIA SOUTHSIDE

Fraternal Order of Police

3300 Calle Maria Luisa (505) 471-9060

Live music, family activities, cuento performances from Teatro Paraguas and more than 40 different Southside vendors and organizations.

4-7 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

Don't call it trivia.

7 pm, free

PRIDE AFTER 5

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Join the New Mexico Out Business Alliance for networking and LGBTQ+ community.

5-7 pm, free

SEEDS & SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Julia Elgatian Romero leads the little ones in garden exploration.

10:30-11:30 am, free

FILM

DARK STAR (1974)

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave (505) 466-5528

A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists set to destroy unstable planets.

4 pm, 7 pm, $5

NATIVE CINEMA SHOWCASE

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5100

expect a special reunion event with some of the original cast of Smoke Signals—Cody Lightning, Simon Baker, Adam Beach, Irene Bedard and Gary Farmer. Cute as heck! (See SFR Picks, page 17)

7-9 pm, free

FOOD

FLIGHT NIGHT

Santa Fe Spirits

Downtown Tasting Room

308 Read St., (505) 780-5906

Sample four mini cocktails.

3-10 pm, free

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

Freshest seafood in the desert. .

5-8 pm, free

MUSIC

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Sax-centric jazz.

6-9 pm, free

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BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana and honky-tonk.

4-6 pm, free

BOB MAUS

Bourbon Grill

104 Old Las Vegas Hwy. (505) 984-8000

Blues and soul classics.

5-7 pm, free

CASTLE RAT/SAVAGE

WIZDOM/IWATCHYOUSLEEP

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Medieval fantasy doom metal.

7:30-11 pm, $12-$15

DAVID GEIST

Osteria D'Assisi

58 S Federal Place

(505) 986-5858

Broadway, pop and original tunes for voice and piano.

7-10 pm, $5

DOC HALL BLUES AND ROOTS

As Above So Below Distillery

545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596

Americana, folk and rock ‘n’ roll.

8-11 pm, free

DOVER QUARTET

St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

String quartets by Schubert and George Walker. 12 pm, $35-$40

GRAHAM AND HAMPSON RECITAL

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and baritone Thomas Hampson perform alongside pianist Bradley Moore.

6 pm, $30-$125

HALF BROKE HORSES

Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge

1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817

Honky-tonk heaven.

7-10 pm, free

JERRY FAIRES DUO

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Straightforward folk.

7 pm, free

LIVE MUSIC THURSDAYS

WITH: NICK CRESPO

As Above So Below Distillery

545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596

Local acoustic folk music.

8 pm, free

MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME

JAZZ TRIO

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Sax, upright bass and drums. 2-5 pm, free

NATIVE GUITARS TOUR

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Pregame Indian Market with an all-Indigenous lineup of live music and vendors. (See SFR Picks, page 17).

6 pm, $35

PAT MALONE

TerraCotta Wine Bistro

304 Johnson St., (505) 989-1166

Solo jazz guitar.

6-8 pm, free SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

7 pm, $109-$129

OPERA

RUSALKA

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive, (505) 986-5900

Music by Antonín Dvořák

What's not to love?

8 pm, $50-$366

THEATER

BEAR GREASE

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Written and directed by hip-hop duo LightningCloud.

7:30 pm, $30-$75

JAYSON

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

The Exodus Ensemble presents a new version of Euripides’ Medea set in the Los Angeles music industry. Ages 18+.

7:30 pm, tickets by donation

SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Speak low if you speak love.

6:45-9:30 pm, $40-$55

WORKSHOP

BEGINNER FABRIC WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

If you're curious about aerial exploration but don't know where to start, Wise Fool will get you off your feet.

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

HATHA YOGA

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

Yoga with a focus on breath.

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

LEARN 3D PRINTING

Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road

(505) 819-3502

Learn the basics to complete your first print.

10 am-2 pm, $85

PAINT SIP CHILL: "SUNFLOWER DAYDREAM"

CHOMP Food Hall

505 Cerrillos Road

(505) 772-0946

Bring a printed photo of your own sunflower or take one provided by teacher.

6-9 pm, $32

THURSDAY MORNING

WHEEL

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

An all-levels opportunity to practice shaping spinning clay.

10 am-noon, $70

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TRAPEZE AND LYRA WITH LISA Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Float through the air with the greatest of ease.

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

WOODSHOP BADGE

MAKE Santa Fe

2879 All Trades Road, (505) 819-3502

Learn your way around a well stocked wood shop while making a mini hat rack to take home with you.

10 am-2 pm, $90

FRI/18

ART OPENINGS ALL SPIRITUÁL

Alberto Zalma Art Shop

407 S Guadalupe St., (505) 670-5179

Paintings by Alberto Zalma, Carlo Ray and Daniel Birdhead alongside works by Healing Halo Hats and Saba.

5-9 pm, free

ANNUAL CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN GROUP EXHIBITION (RECEPTION)

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road, (505) 992-0711

Featuring the work of Neal Ambrose Smith, Rick Bartow, Duane Slick and Emmi Whitehorse.

5-7 pm, free

ARMOND LARA (RECEPTION) form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256

Marionettes, sculptures, works on paper and more.

5-7 pm, free

ARTISTS MARKET

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

Indigenous fine art, jewelry and pottery.

9 am-3 pm, free

BRENNA KIMBO (OPENING)

Ventana Fine Art 403 403 Canyon Road 505) 303-3999

Animals sculpted in in sagebrush, willow, bronze and more.

4-6 pm, free

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Rothstein Donatelli, LLP

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Catherine Leach

Long View Asset Mgmt

Douglas Lonngren

Peter Lundberg & James Mowdy

Peace Exists

Judith Fein & Paul Ross

Joanne Feinberg

Dede Feldman

Joshua Finnell

Barbara Fix

Denise Fort

Ella Frank

Michael Friestad

Thomas G. Gallegos

Paul R. GanzenMuller & Mary Anne Crowe

Roman Garcia

Russ Garland

Lynn Gary

Tim & Lina Germann

Birgitte Ginge

Marvin Godner

Susan Gordon

Lisa Gray Fisher

Teri Hackler

Eleanor Hartgerink & Michael J Huvane

Cynthia Hartling

Annette & Ben

Hayden

Pat Hodapp

James Lutz

Scotty & Sue MacGregor

Jane & Paul Mandel

Virginia Mattingly

Kate McCahill

Jean McCray

James McGrath Morris

Mike & Mary McGuire

Jean McIntosh

Sara McKenzie

Jean McRay

Lanette & Jeff Meister

Bram Meehan

Richard Meeker

Michael A. Messner

Katherine Mille Wimmer

Karla Milosevich

Laurie Mitchell Dunn

Marylin Morgan

Judy K Mosher

Kristen S. Moy

Heidi Munziner

Juliet Myers

Lauren Paige

SUPPORTERS

Vicki Holmsten & Don Allen

Bernhard Holzapfel

Michel & Lynn Hopkins

Jane & Lee Hruska

Ken Hughes

Carol Ingells

Craig D. Jolly

Hal Kahn

Jeff & Sue

Kemner-Richardson

Thomas J Kenny

Michael Kentor & Mandy Dealey

KevinBox Studio

Pam and Vic Kovach

Corinne Kratz

Nicole Kuckly

Malissa Kullberg & Joshua Maes

Kelly & Robinson Kurth

Cathy LaForte

Bushrod Lake

Leslie Lakind

Mary Laraia & Andrew Mooney

KZ Langan & LH Cline

Kristen Pelz

Grace Perez & John Benfatto

Justin Peters

Janey Phillips

Johnnie Prather

Proctor Family Rainbird

Susan Ray

Leslie Reambeault & Carol Nolden

Greg Reiche

Shelley Robinson

John R Roby

B. Rose

Pat & Richard Rosenthal

Stephen Jules Otis

Career Rubin

Barbara Russell

Pamela Ryan

Gary A. Sanchez

Dante Schackel Bordegaray

Don Schreiber

Vickie Sewing

Mary Ann Shaening

Martin Shannon

Joan Sickler & Mike Roscow

Danette Sills

Melinda Silver & Melvin Buchwald

Caitlin Smith

Leslye Sneider

Joan Snider

Lauren Snyder

Meredith Speers

Dr. Eric Springstead

Howard & Dorothy Stein

Laura Stupin

Robert D Taylor

Caitlin Thomas

Pamela Villars

Adair Waldenberg

Jasmine Walker

Jeff Waters

Dr. David Wood & Brad Barrios

Mary Beth Yates

Kimberly Zeilik

Ellen Zieselman

Signe Lindell

Ramona Lopez Marcus

Randi Lowenthal

Dave Maass

Brandt Magic & Mary Kinney

Dorothy Marchand

Gloria Martinez

Friestad

Virginia Mattingly

Alice McAlpine

Pam McFarland

Sasha McGhee

Dee Ann McIntyre

Milagro Dental

Rohit Millstein

Native Bloom

Bob & Karan Novak

Craig O’Hare

Dylan O’Reilly & Sara Montgomery

OrigamiInTheGarden

Linda Osborne

Nancy Paap Wright

Janet Patrick

Susan Allen Priest

William & Susan Primm

Linda Prince

Daniel Quat

Photography

Dori & Tom Ramsey

James & Barbara Redd

Judith Redstone

Linda Reid

Coletta Reid & Pat Hastings

Ana Reinhardt

John Robertson

Sally Rodgers

Patsie E. Ross

Karen Rowell

Sonya & Myron

Salamon

Gail P Samota

Patrice Schooley

Roberta Shaw

Linda Siegle

Martha & Ken

Simonsen

Andrea Szekeres

Morgan Smith

Anne Souders

Carolyn Spolidoro

Monica Steidele

Dennis Storz

Melody & Michael Sumner

Edwina Taylor

Jim Terr

Rachel Thompson

Suzanne Timble

Two Star Trading

Rob Turner

Christine & Paul Vogel

Kaela Waldstein

Brian Watkins

Adam Wasserman

Elizabeth West

Brian & Joan Weiss

Janislee Wiese

Leah Yngve

Faith Yoman

La Emi

AT THE BENITEZ CABARET AT THE LODGE AT SANTA FE July

Special

TICKETS FROM $25–$55 HHandR.com/entertainment 505-660-9122

THE CALENDAR

EVER GREEN AND FOREVER BEAUTIFUL (RECEPTIONS)

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900

The MoCNA Store welcomes back Rebecca Lee Kunz (Cherokee Nation) and Jontay

“Kahm” Kahmakoatayo (Plains Cree) ’23.

4-7 pm, free

JAMISON CHAS BANKS (OPENING)

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Jamison Chās Banks (SenecaCayuga) presents satirical prints.

5-7 pm, free

JAVIER BARBOSA, JOHN

NIETO AND CASSIDY WATT (OPENING)

Ventana Fine Art

400 Canyon Road, (505) 983-8815

Paintings and contemporary totems.

4-6 pm, free

MIKAYLA PATTON: ON THE BACK ROAD (RECEPTION)

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

558 Canyon Road, (505) 992-0711

Oglala Lakota mixed media 2D and 3D abstracts. (See SFR Picks Page 17)

5-7 pm, free

NATIVE AMERICAN GROUP SHOW

Sorrel Sky Gallery

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

Artists Ben Nighthorse, Kevin Red Star, and Ray Tracey, Victoria Adams, Shane Hendren and more.

9:30 am-5:30 pm, free

NEW LOCATION OPENING

Faircloth Gallery

102 E Water St., (505) 982-8700

Handwoven pieces by Natasha Nargis, Karim J and more.

5-7 pm, free

PILAR AND CALVIN LOVATO art is gallery santa fe

419 Canyon Road, (505) 629-2332

A weeklong showcase of Native Contemporary jewelry with Heishi cut gemstones.

11 am-5 pm daily, free

PRESTON SINGLETARY: DREAMS FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

New glass sculpture with imagery and iconography reflective of Tlingit culture.

THE ART OF JEAN LAMARR (OPENING)

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900

Hard-hitting satirical artworks.

5-7 pm, free

THE HEART OF THE INDIGENOUS SPIRIT (OPENING)

Manitou Galleries

123 W Palace Ave. (505) 986-0440

Sculptures by Ed Natiya (Navajo) and paintings by Isiah Stewart (Lakota/Mohawk) and Aaron Hazel.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

JENN SHAPLAND

Garcia Street Books

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

The local author shares excerpts from and signs copies of her new collection of essays, Thin Skin

5 pm, free

NDN COLLECTIVE HOSTS RADICAL IMAGINATION

EXPERIENCE

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

An immersive event showcasing the 2021 Cohort of Radical Imagination artists through never-heard-before panel discussions.

11 am-9 pm, $1-$2

NEXT WAVE OF INDIGENOUS ART CURATORS

Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts

1590 Pacheco St. (505) 983-6372 Moderator America

Meredith (Cherokee Nation) joins panelists Kalyn Fay Barnoski (Cherokee Nation/ Muscogee), Nadia JackinskySethi (Alutiiq), Tess Lukey (Aquinnah Wampanoag), Rachelle B. Pablo (Diné) and Melissa Shaginoff (Ahtna Athabascan/Northern Paiute).

2-4 pm, free

PAHPONEE DURING INDIAN MARKET: POTTERY LECTURE

Sorrel Sky Gallery

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

Pahponee, one of the top Native American pottery artists, offers a free lecture.

3 pm, free

THE PROPHETIC STORIES OF THE ELDERS: THE RELEVANCE OF NATIVE WISDOM IN TODAY'S WORLD

Hotel Santa Fe

1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

Wings of America and the American Indian Youth Development Program of Earth Circle Foundation present Oren Lyons and Brenda Toineeta Pipestem in conversation.

1:30 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Director Antonio Granjero's flamenco company performs.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800

The New Mexican flamenco diva takes the stage.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

NIGHT SHADE

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Jean Fogel Zee and Heloise Gold present a "dance dreamscape" probing collective absurdity.  7 pm, $15-$25

EVENTS

ART WALKING TOUR

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072

Museum docents guide an art and architecture-centric tour.

10 am, $20

BENEFIT EVENT

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

704 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-4636

Support the museum's future exhibitions, educational programming and operations.

8 am-4 pm, free

BILINGUAL STORY TIME

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200

Local educators read cuentos.

6-6:30 pm, free

BREATHE IN SHABBAT AT THE LIVING ALTAR

Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar

137 W San Francisco St. (505) 986-5037

Cantor Linda Hope leads a Shabbat service complete with Mediterranean apps and elixirs.

5 pm, $18

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Informal chess.  10 am-1 pm, free

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery

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

Bring a pink wig and live out that Lost in Translation scene.

9 pm-1 am, free

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359

Guests from Queen Bee Music Association bring ukuleles and an "instrument petting zoo" to the museum.

2-4 pm, free

INDIGENOUS WAYS FESTIVAL Railyard Park

740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596

In addition to recurring Indigenous Ways offerings, this installment features a live performance by none other than internationally celebrated poet Joy Harjo!

5-9 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501

Bring a bike to ride—or borrow one from the city.

10-11 am, $5

MAKE AND BELIEVE TIME

Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

One hour's worth of story time and art projects with librarian-selected books.

10 am, free

MINIATURES PAINTING

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 395-2628

Gather weekly to paint table-top game figurines.

4-6:30 pm, free

PATHWAYS INDIGENOUS

ARTS FESTIVAL

Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino

20 Buffalo Thunder Trail (505) 455-5555

More than 350 booths of Indigenous art offerings. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

8 am-5 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Staff members and docent tour leaders pay special attention to their own unique floral faves, so it's worth taking the tour more than once.

10 am, $12

RHPS OPEN MIC

Roots & Leaves Casa de Kava

301 N Guadalupe St.

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure—be it shadowcasting, singing or just sitting back and watching the action play out.

Roadrunner Runway's Adam Bomb plays the Criminologist.

8:30 pm-midnight, free

SANTA FE TRAIL IN THE GARDEN

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Docent Terry Foreback reveals little known facts about Santa Fe Trail history and ruts.

10-11 am, $8-$10

WALKING HISTORY TOUR

School for Advanced Research

660 Garcia St., (505) 954-7213

Check out the interior of the 1920s estate turned artist residency center. This spot was apparently known as “El Delirio” (The Madness) back in the day!

10-11:30 am, $15

FILM

NATIVE CINEMA SHOWCASE

SANTA FE

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100

The National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Native film. See the complete schedule of films and events online at s.si. edu/3seoUCG. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

1-9 pm, free

SMOKE SIGNALS (1998) Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Chris Eyre’s classic of Indigenous cinema—and a fine example of the oral tradition to boot.

8 pm, $5

MUSIC

BILL HEARNE

Ahmyo River Gallery Wine Garden 652 Canyon Road, (505) 820-0969 Americana and honky-tonk.

2-5 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304 King Charles and occasional guests serenade diners.

6 pm, free

GARY FARMER AND THE TROUBLEMAKERS

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

Jam the night away with Gary. 8-11 pm, free

JESS WILLIAMSON

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 303-3808 Indie folk from a Waxahatchee collaborator.

7:30 pm, $20

John Nieto: Images of Ancestry. Cut Foot, 1991, Acrylic on canvas,

COURTESY

JOHNNY LLOYD

Upper Crust Pizza

329 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 982-0000

Old school Americana.

6-8 pm, free

JONO MANSON

CHOMP Food Hall

505 Cerrillos Road (505) 772-0946

Americana from the producer (and singer-songwriter) behind Kitchen Sink Studios.

7-9 pm, free

PAT MALONE

Four Seasons Resort

Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Solo jazz guitar.

7-9 pm, free

PHIL AND BLAIR

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Classic Americana.

5 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

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

Rehearsed jazz/jazz jamming followed by guest appearances.

6-9 pm, free

SAKA

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Experimental electronic with support from Jungle Rivers.

10 pm, $20-$35

SFNO: UNTRAMMEL/THEO

KRANTZ/REEDER, SEWARD & WEATHERS

TITLE GALLERY

423 W San Francisco St.

Longform drone, sound collage and free improv from locals Untrammel and Theo Krantz, and a touring trio.

7 pm, $5-$10 suggested

SCHUBERT, BACH AND BEYOND

First Presbyterian Church

208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544

Featuring mezzo soprano

Elaine Wang Meyerhoffer, pianist Richard Bentley and flutist Geraldo Lopez.

5:30 pm, free

STRANGERS FROM AFAR

The Mine Shaft Tavern

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

The local power duo plays songs from their debut album.

8-11 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

7 pm, $109-$129

WESTIN MCDOWELL AND THE SHRINERS CLUB

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Al fresco jazz.

7-9:30 pm, $20

OPERA

PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive, (505) 986-5900

Debussy's oneiric story of regal love triangles.

8 pm, $50-$336

THEATER

BEAR GREASE

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Get ready for Bear Greased Lightnin’.

6 pm, 8 pm, $30-$75

JAYSON

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

Seemingly everything Sam Levinson’s The Idol wanted to be and wasn’t.

7:30 pm, tickets by donation

SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

For there was never yet philosopher/That could endure the toothache patiently.

6:45-9:30 pm, $40-$55

WORKSHOP

AERIAL FABRIC WITH LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Learn how to foot lock, drop and pose with the best of the acrobats!

10:30 am-noon, $23-$28

BRONZE CASTING

Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road

(505) 819-3502

Learn safety basics and explore the 6,000-year-old medium.

10 am-2 pm, $90

GLASS BLOWING DEMONSTRATIONS

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Glass blowing demonstrations with Preston Singletry, Dan Friday and Raven Skyriver.

11 am-3 pm, free

SHAPER ORIGIN

MAKE Santa Fe

2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn how to use the titular CNC router to cut safely. No experience necessary.

10 am-2 pm, $75

TEEN INTRO TO CIRCUS WITH CAREY

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

A chance for teens to pretend that they’re running away and joining the circus.

4-5:30 pm, $18-$22

YOUTH AERIALS WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Young folks explore trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope with Kristen.

5-6 pm, $22-$25

SAT/19

ART OPENINGS

ARTISTS MARKET

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

The museum presents its third annual Case Trading Post.  9 am-3 pm, free

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EHREN KEE NATAY MURAL DISCUSSION

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

The muralist discusses his use of the Three Sisters imagery. For those unfamiliar, the trio symbolizes sustainability of life through corn, beans and squash, which have always been vital nutritional sustenance to Indigenous peoples—especially here in the Southwest.

1:30-2:30 pm, free

MICQAELA JONES: BRUSH (OPENING)

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

New paintings from the Western Shoshone artist.

5-6:30 pm, free

MOCNA STORE EVENTS

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

The Museum Store spotlights several artists. Rebecca Lee Kunz (Cherokee Nation) demos live printmaking in MoCNA’s North Courtyard from 10 am–4 pm and recent graduate Jontay “Kahm” Kahmakoatayo ’23 sells miniature dresses from his Regalian Body collection alongside wall hangings, “offthe-cuff dresses,” butterfly paintings and earrings.

8 am-5 pm, free

NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISANS PORTAL PROGRAM

Palace of the Governors 105 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5100

Take a peek into the Palace of the Governors' courtyard for even more Indigenous art, food booths and traditional dances during Indian Market.

10 am-4 pm, free

THE MAGIC OF THE WEST Sage Creek Gallery

421 Canyon Road, (505) 988-3444

Featuring Scott Rogers, J.R. Hess, and Donald Weber.

10 am-5 pm, free

THE CALENDAR

THE SANTA FE ARTISTS

MARKET

Santa Fe Railyard

Market and Alcaldesa streets (505) 982-3373

An outdoor juried art market featuring pottery, jewelry, painting, photography, furniture, textiles and more.

9 am-2 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

DANIEL MCCOY: ARTIST TALK

Hecho Gallery

129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

The artist discusses his artistic processes in the context of his exhibit Mvskoke Diaspora.

2-3 pm, free

DAVID YARROW: BOOK

SIGNING AND ART TALK

Sorrel Sky Gallery

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

The author signs copies of his new book book, Storytelling

5-7:30 pm, free

JENNY IRENE MILLER: HOW TO SKIP A ROCK

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

The artist discusses her "visual poems" capturing queerness through photography.

2 pm, free

JERRY WEST

Pie Projects

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

The artist joins art critic and historian MaLin Wilson-Powell for a discussion of his exhibition, The Vernacular Sublime

4-5 pm, free

Q&A WITH STEVEN J YAZZIE AND ANDREA HANLEY

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

An in-depth conversation with Steven J. Yazzie. Yazzie was the 2021 recipient of the Eiteljorg

Contemporary Art Fellowship and the 2022 Native Artist in Residence at the Denver Art Museum.

2 pm, free

THE ART OF JEAN LAMARR

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900

A panel conversation featuring Native activist and artist Jean LaMarr with Nevada Art Museum

Associate Director and Chief Curator, Ann Wolfe.

9:15-10:15 am, free

THE FUTURE OF NATIVE FASHION AND ART

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road

(888) 741-0480

A group conversation touching on new trends, Indigenous entrepreneurship and more.

5 pm, $50

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

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

Castanets will be clacked.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe

750 N St. Francis Drive, (505) 992-5800

The New Mexican flamenco diva takes the stage.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

NIGHT SHADE

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

Jean Fogel Zee and Heloise Gold present a "dance dreamscape" probing collective absurdity through modern experimental movement.

7 pm, $15-$25

EVENTS

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671

Informal chess, timed or untimed.

10 am-1 pm, free

CREATE STATION!

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072

Creatively inclined folks of all ages are invited to enjoy the art-making materials and activities on offer from the museum at Indian Market.

10 am-4 pm, free

HACER SANTA FE TRUNK

SHOW-INDIAN MARKET

Hacer Santa Fe

311 Montezuma Ave. (505) 467-8174

A showcase of Candice English (Blackfeet Nation) of Farmer’s Daughter Fibers alongside kits featuring the work of Diné knitwear designers Tressa Weidenaar and Jennifer Berg.

11 am-5:30 pm, free

HORNO DEMONSTRATION

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Learn about the history of hornos while making your own traditionally prepared treats.

10 am-noon, $12

INDIAN MARKET

Santa Fe Plaza

100 Old Santa Fe Trail, swaia.org

Between the hundreds of traditional and contemporary artists featured on the Plaza by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts and the jaw-dropping runway looks on display at the Indigenous Fashion Show, Indian Market is arguably Santa Fe’s most visually stunning weekend of the year. Plus, catch the King Island Singers and Dancers from Anchorage, Alaska in conjunction with the Museum of International Folk Art's ongoing To Keep them

Warm exhibit.

9 am-5 pm, free

LA TIENDA FLEA

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road

Basically a giant city-wide garage sale that surely holds hidden treasures.

8 am, free

NEW MEXICO ALE TRAIL

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (505) 743-3759

Enjoy local brewery samples onboard.

1:30 pm, $99

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PATHWAYS INDIGENOUS

ARTS FESTIVAL

Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino

20 Buffalo Thunder Trail (505) 455-5555

More than 350 booths of Indigenous art offerings. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

8 am-5 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Staff members and docent tour leaders pay special attention to their own unique floral faves.

10 am, $12

SAND PLAY SATURDAY

Railyard Park

740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596

Kids (defined here as all those elementary school age and under) are invited to expand their creative cognition through sand, water, toys—and, apparently, kitchen utensils.

10 am-12 pm, free

SCIENCE SATURDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Special guest scientists Xiaobai Li and Zhe Mei share a handson experiment with the kiddos.

2-4 pm, free

SPEAKEASY EXPRESS

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Hop onboard and pretend it's prohibition times.

7 pm, $109

FILM

DARK STAR (1974)

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

A sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. They have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

9 pm, $5

CONTINUED ON PAGE 27

As SFR prepares for its annual Back-toSchool Reading List issue next week, it seemed a pertinent moment to sit down with local wordsmith James Reich to discuss his sixth and most recent novel, The Moth for the Star. In an an international murder mystery of sorts, Reich’s protagonist Charles Varnas knows he’s killed someone, he just isn’t sure who that might be. Cue globe-traipsing hedonism and a borderline desire to simply disappear. Reich shifts his tale between Egypt, Italy and America, setting the book’s events in the late-1920s as homage not only to isolation and transition, but to both timely and timeless elements that put its principal characters front and center. You can pick up a copy of the books issue and catch Reich at a reading and Q&A with SFR’s Julia Goldberg next week (6 pm Wednesday, Aug. 23. Free. Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678), and you can learn a little more in the meantime right here and now. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. (Alex De Vore)

I haven’t finished reading the book just yet, but these words from the dust jacket are sticking with me, which read that The Moth for the Star is ‘a tender ode to a dying future.’ Is this a societal thing? A climate thing? All the things?

It’s [set near] the 1929 stock market crash, which is a metaphor for all kinds of crashes in the novel. So, it’s the emotional crisis that accompanies the characters who are struggling with murder and with amnesia. But also, the crash is a projection of future crashes. What did you say? Climate? I mean, there’s something of that, yeah, but it’s multiple layers of existential and climate and economic and spiritual crisis. These things can only be articulated, at least in this novel, in, let’s say, an abstract way.

Let’s talk about the era in which you’ve set the book. You said it yourself—the stock

market crash is such an iconic turning point in American history. Was the goal that the time in which it the story is set is as tumultuous as the story itself?

It was partly that, but it was also because it’s a time that lacks technology. That gets in the way of a novel these days—you don’t want to write defensively or think about whether the reader is going to ask about a camera phone. It’s like how The X-Files depends on them never having a camera. It was also nostalgia for that period when the novel opens, in Cairo, Egypt, and it just felt like since I was writing a book that was something like The Great Gatsby with extra Satanism, it needed to be of that period. The existential crises of the characters also required almost a period style of writing, and that just so happens to be close to my natural style. To blend in, say, with F. Scott Fitzgerald was the way to tell the story. His characters had that relationship to money, to alcohol, to each other—and to death. It felt like that was more possible in a different period.

They are, in many senses, alone. [In The Moth for the Star] the characters have each other, and that’s essentially it, because of the crime that has isolated them from society. And they can’t really really integrate ever again. They’re alien wherever they go. So that was the point of the different...the travel in the novel; through Cairo, through Venice, even Manhattan. They are alien to Manhattan—they treat it both like they’re tourists and like it’s a hedonistic environment.

There’s this story by Isabelle Eberhardt called The Oblivion Seekers, and that’s essentially what these characters are like. Hers are in a hashish den, but this is very much like that—that willingness, that desire to kind of fall off the map and disappear. I sort of relate to that. I think some of the things like melancholia, that sense of vanishing, the alcohol, the various devils that I understand...and also there are remedies.

In regards to relating to a desire to disappear and to remedies, if you’re getting this out on the page, do you let those things go on some level?

I think I already had let it go, otherwise I might not have been able to write about it. I think everything I write is pretty personal. There is a specific event in the novel, which is what might have happened to me if things had played out a different way. But if there’s something this book is about, it’s kind of cruelty, callousness. A lot of cruelty happens to us, and sometimes we don’t know it’s occurring, that people are being cruel to us. I think what a lot of the people a lot of the time are escaping is the need to negotiate identity. I think these characters I wrote about are trying to escape the transactional nature of identity.

With Author James Reich

COURTESY JAMES REICH

NATIVE CINEMA SHOWCASE

SANTA FE

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5100

The National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Cinema Showcase celebrates the best in Native film. See the complete schedule of films and events on the Showcase site.  (See SFR Picks, page 17)

11 am-9 pm, free

SATURDAY MORNING

CARTOONS

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 395-2628

Nostalgic cartoons and cereal all day at the local fantasy and scifi specialty bookstore.

11 am-7 pm, free

SMOKE SIGNALS (1998)

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling stories on deaf ears.

3 pm, $5

THE RIGHT TO READ

Santa Fe Public Library

145 Washington Avenue

A documentary film by Jenny Mackenzie, executive produced by Levar Burton.

1-3 pm, free

FOOD

NARRATIVES: MICQAELA

JONES AND CHEF PABLO

PEÑALOSA

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road

(888) 741-0480

Bobby Beals Presents promises

"a night of story telling and vivid narratives" combining the Western Shoshone artist's paintings with the chef's culinary instincts. Reservations required.

6:30-9 pm, $145

SANTA FE FARMERS' SATURDAY MARKET

Farmers' Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 983-7726

One of the oldest, largest and most successful markets in the country—featuring goods from 150 farmers.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

BABY WEEKEND AND THE SOOTHSAYERS

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Rufina taproom is hosting a night of hard-hitting Balkan Boom Bap, Turkish Trap, and New Mexico

Hip Hop.

8-10 pm, free

BOB MAUS

Inn & Spa at Loretto

211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Piano and voice takes on blues and soul classics.

6-9 pm, free

CHANGO

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

High energy rock covers.

8-11 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304

Vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

DAVE PAYNE AND SALT CEDAR

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Rock and honky-tonk.

3 pm, free

FREDDIE SCHWARTZ

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Classic rock from a New Orleans native.

2-5 pm, free

JAZZ ON THE PATIO

Palace Prime

142 W Palace Ave., (505) 919-9935

Featuring Loveless Johnson

III, Richard Snider and Ralph Marquez.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

JEFFREY GIBSON TEA DANCE

AND BOOK LAUNCH: AN INDIGENOUS PRESENT

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Join exhibiting artist Jeffrey Gibson at for the launch of An Indigenous Present with DJ sets by Miss Ginger, Raashan Ahmad, and DJ 13pieces, dancing, book signing, food by Sanchez Tacos.

2-5 pm, free

LOVE MISCHIEF

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Funk-heavy jam band.

8 pm, free MARKETMUSIC

Sanbusco Market Center

500 Montezuma Ave. (505) 837-4951

Severall Friends presents a series of concerts paired with Farmers' Market food talks.

Noon-1 pm, $20 suggestion

NATIVE GUITARS TOUR

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Rock out with this do-not-miss epic guitar tour.

7 pm, $25-$30

OPERA IN THE OLDEST

CHAPEL

San Miguel Mission

401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974

Singers, instrumentalists and friends of the Santa Fe Opera reunite for annual favorites.

3 pm, $15-$35

PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN

La Boca (Taberna Location)

125 Lincoln Ave., (505)988-7102

Jazz guitar.

7-9 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

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

Three times the jazz jamming.

6-9 pm, free

STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St.(505) 982-2565

Native blues.

1 pm, free

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St (505) 743-3759

All rails and cocktails.

7 pm, $109-$129

THE FOUR SEASONS

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

Violinists Benny Kim, Daniel Phillips, Ida Kavafian and Jennifer Gilbert tackle Vivaldi's classic.

6 pm, $47-$60

WYATT FLORES

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Nashville country and Americana.

8 pm, $20

OPERA

TOSCA

Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive, (505) 986-5900

Puccini's tale of political intrigue, suicide and torture.

8 pm, $50-$366

THEATER

BEAR GREASE

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

A Treaty 6 Indigenous twist on the classic musical Grease, written and directed by hip-hop duo LightningCloud.

1 pm, 4 pm, 8 pm, $30-$75

ISIAH YAZZIE COMEDY SHOW

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Multimedia projections with clips and photos.

7 pm, $20

SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

We all agree it's about time to reclaim Beatrice and Benedick from Joss Whedon's sweaty hands, right?

6:45-9:30 pm, $40-$55

WORKSHOP

GLASS BLOWING DEMONSTRATIONS

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Glass blowing demonstrations with Preston Singletary, Dan Friday and Raven Skyriver.

11 am-3 pm, free

GONG BATH WITH OPTIONAL MICRODOSE

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health

909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

This sound journey will include a Planetary Earth Gong Bath, facilitated by Gina Devani.

4-5:30 pm, $25

JODY NARANJO POTTERY DEMONSTRATION

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902

Potter Jody Naranjo of Santa

Clara Pueblo embraces classic and atypical vessel forms.

11 am-3:30 pm, free

KAULA TANTRA YOGA

Water History Park

1209 Upper Canyon Road

Participate in dance and chakra-centric healing.

4-5:45 pm, $15-$30

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700

Yoga designed to open (and, apparently, strengthen) chakras.

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

SUN/20

ART OPENINGS

ARTIST MARKET DURING

ANNUAL SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET

Sorrel Sky Gallery

125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555

Sorrel Sky Gallery creates a market-like setting to highlight several of the gallery’s Native American artists, select non-Native artists, and several guest artists.

10 am - 5 pm, free

IAIA STUDENT AND RECENT GRADUATE ART MARKET

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place, (505) 983-8900

This free event brings together current IAIA students and recent IAIA graduates to sell their artwork. Managed by the IAIA Museum Club, all booth fees go to the student club.

8 am-5 pm, free

MOCNA STORE EVENTS

FEATURING REBECCA LEE KUNZ, JONTAY KAHM AND NICOLE LAWE

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place, (505) 983-8900

The Museum Store at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) will spotlight several artists.

10 am-5 pm, free

NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISANS PORTAL PROGRAM

Palace of the Governors

105 W Palace Ave.

(505) 476-5100

While you're strolling through Indian Market, don't forget to take a peek into the Palace of the Governors' courtyard for even more Indigenous art, food booths and traditional dances.

10 am-4 pm, free

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Farmers' Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Buy fine art and crafts directly from local creators.

10 am-3 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

BLOOD SECRETS

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Local writers Andrea Watson, Joan Ryan and more read aloud from their new poetry collection probing experiences of crypto-Judaism in New Mexico.

5 pm, free

FREETHINKERS FORUM: HEALTH SECURITY NEW MEXICO bit.ly/3YxSK18

Mary Feldblum, executive director of the Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign, chats about her support for the Health Security Act now under discussion by the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee.

8:30-10 am, free

JACKSON CLARK: NATIVE ART & WEAVING LECTURES

Sorrel Sky Gallery

125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555

Jackson Clark, a leading authority on Navajo weaving, owner of Toh-Atin Gallery in Durango will give two free lectures during Indian Market.On August 20 at 11:30 am. “Trading Posts and Traders; Their Influence on Navajo Weaving” will address the role that Traders played in shaping the history of Native weaving.

11:30 am, free

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WITNESS A MONUMENTAL PERFORMANCE

When: Saturday, September 16, 6 pm

Where: St. John’s College, outdoors

$49

TRANSIENT LANDSCAPES is a fully immersive sound art project creating the auditory experience of traversing a glacier. You can experience it yourself, or only know of it from stories. It will only happen once in Santa Fe.

PerformanceSantaFe.org

505 984 8759

Presented in partnership with St. John’s College and Santa Fe Desert Chorale Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts

THE STORIES WE CARRY EXHIBITION—PANEL

DISCUSSION

IAIA Museum of Contemporary

Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place, (505) 983-8900

Join guest curator Brian Fleetwood (Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma) and MoCNA

Curator of Collections Tatiana

Lomahaftewa-Singer (Choctaw and Hopi) as they discuss the recent history of Indigenous jewelry.

11 am-noon, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

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

Director Antonio Granjero's flamenco company performs.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

The Lodge at Santa Fe

750 N St. Francis Drive, (505) 992-5800

The New Mexican flamenco prima dancer takes the stage.

1:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

HACER SANTA FE TRUNK SHOW

Hacer Santa Fe

311 Montezuma Ave., (505) 467-8174

Hacer is holding a trunk show for Candice English (Blackfeet Nation) of Farmer’s Daughter Fibers, with kits featuring Diné knitwear designers Tressa Weidenaar and Jennifer Berg.

11 am-5:30 pm, free

INDIAN MARKET

Santa Fe Plaza

100 Old Santa Fe Trail, swaia.org

Between the hundreds of traditional and contemporary artists featured on the Plaza by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts and the jaw-dropping runway looks on display at the Indigenous Fashion Show, Indian Market is arguably Santa Fe’s most visually stunning weekend of the year.

9 am-5 pm, free

LORE OF THE LAND

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St., (844) 743-3759

Learn a bit of local history.

1:30 pm, $115

OPEN MIC JAZZ

Chile Line Brewery

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

Bring your Billie Holiday or Chet

Baker dreams to life.

6-8 pm, free

PATHWAYS INDIGENOUS

ARTS FESTIVAL

Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino

20 Buffalo Thunder Trail (505) 455-5555

More than 350 booths of Indigenous art offerings. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

8 am-5 pm, free PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Staff members and docent tour leaders pay special attention to their own unique floral faves.

10 am, $12

FILM

DARK STAR (1974)

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot.

7 pm, $5

NATIVE CINEMA SHOWCASE

SANTA FE

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100

An annual celebration of the best in Native film. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

10 am-4 pm, free SMOKE SIGNALS (1998)

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold's remains.

4 pm, $5

MUSIC

'SAL GOOD SUNDAYS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 393-5135

Close out your weekend on the porch with DJs Dmonic and Dynamite Sol.

4-9 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Master pianist Montgomery performs in the President's Room.

6 pm, free

EDGAR MEYER QUINTET

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

The titular bassist joins forces with the Dover Quartet for a folk, jazz and bluegrass-influenced evening. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

6 pm, $15-$100

GRAND EXIT 4

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135

Hip-hop artist def-i presents a full lineup including local comedians, DJs, a shred-off between Sage Cornelius and Geneviève Gros-Louis Salamone, a laser show (so Freaks and Geeks!) and more.

6 pm, $20-$40

JAZZ BRUNCH

Bishop's Lodge

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

The Pat Malone Trio serenades your meal.

11:30 am-2:30 pm, free

JOE WEST AND FRIENDS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Folk with a flair for the theatrical.

Noon, free

MARC & PAULA’S ROADSIDE

DISTRACTION

Vanessie Restaurant & Piano Bar

427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966

Marc and Paula take you on journey of a variety of of self described “swampy” folk.

7-9 pm, free

SERENATA FLAMENCA

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Flamenco dance on a moving train must require some next-level coordination.

1:30 pm, $109

SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH

Vanessie Restaurant & Piano Bar

427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966

Jive with the Loveless Johnson Quartet.

11 am-1:30 pm, free

SUNDAY STRINGS WITH WILL TAYLOR

Sky Coffee

1609-A Alcaldesa St.

Acoustic classical music with the Austin violinist.

10 am-noon, free

SWING SOLEIL

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090

Swing Soleil is an all-acoustic swing-jazz manouche band based in Santa Fe.

2-5 pm, free THE WITHDRAWALS

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Jam band jamming.

3 pm, free TRIPLE TAKE

Unitarian Universalist Congregation

107 W Barcelona Road, (505) 982-9674

Piano trios by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.

3 pm, $10-$30 suggested

WESTIN LEE MCDOWELL

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Folk-heavy jazz.

1 pm, free

OPERA

APPRENTICE SCENES

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive, (505) 986-5900

One of two distinct programs showcasing the SFO's singing and technical apprentices.

8 pm, $5-$15

THEATER

BEAR GREASE

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

A Treaty 6 Indigenous twist on the classic musical Grease, written and directed by hip-hop duo LightningCloud.

1 pm, $30-$75

SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Enjoy a Shakespeare classic in a romantic setting in the garden and local cast.

6:45-9:30 pm, $40-$55

SUNDAY GET DOWN DRAG SHOW

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

The Sunday Get Down Drag Show, hosted by Brandi!

Noon, $20

ZERO

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

Choose your player in this surreal Exodus experience adapted from Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine.

Ages 18+.

7:45 pm, tickets by donation

WORKSHOP

BELLYREENA BELLY DANCE

Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 670-4386

Learn classic and fusion techniques.

1-2 pm, $15

HATHA YOGA CHOMP - Santa Fe 505 Cerrillos Road (505) 470-8118

All levels plus happy hour after!

Noon-1 pm, $10

INTRODUCTION TO ZEN

MEDITATION

Mountain Cloud Zen Center

7241 Old Santa Fe Trail

Valerie Forstman teaches breath awareness to dealing with mental chatter. All levels welcome.

10-11:15 am, free

KAULA TANTRA YOGA

Water History Park

1209 Upper Canyon Road

Ecstatic dance, savasana and chakra-centric healing.

8-9:45 am, $15-$30

KIDS SOCIAL DANCE CLASS

Dance Station

947-B W Alameda St. (505) 989-9788

Salsa, swing and ballroom for ages 7-12.

12:45-1:30 pm, $10

KIDS' CREATIVE MOVEMENT

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing, (505) 393-1196

Dancer Tamara Bates helps little ones explore new forms of expression through movement.  10-10:45 am, $25 for five classes

PAINTING ON THE PATIO

Hotel St. Francis

210 Don Gaspar Ave. (505) 983-5700

A Paint and Sip class featuring local artist, Andrea Cermanski. One glass of wine is included along with small bites and 20% off individual bottle sales.

6-8 pm, free

SOUL-FULL SUNDAY FLOW

Louis Montaño Park 730 Alto St.

A gender-inclusive, body-positive asana practice. Contact knowyouredgeyoga@gmail.com for more information.

8-9 am, $15 suggested

SUNDAY YOGA IN THE PARK

Bicentennial Alto Park 1121 Alto St.

Build strength with Vinyasa yoga.

10 am, $15

WHEEL CLASS Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Another all-levels instructor-led throwing opportunity.

11 am-1 pm, $70

MON/21

BOOKS/LECTURES

MATEO ROMERO AND "THE USUAL NATIVE SUSPECTS” Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 982-1200

The Cochiti Pueblo artist joins a discussion of the question, “When are Indians going to be the 'good guys' in the movies?”

6 pm, $20

EVENTS

CHESS AT THE MOVIES

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678 Informal chess.

6-9 pm, free

LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park 490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501

Thrice weekly instructor-led bike rides through the city. 10-11 am, $5

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FILM

VIDEO LIBRARY CLUB

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave.

(505) 466-5528

Every Monday evening Lisa from Video Library (with assistance from her devotees) picks a film from her shelves—ranging from obscure cult flicks to blockbuster classics—to share on the big screen.

6:30 pm, free

FOOD

FOOD DEPOT MOBILE FOOD PANTRY

Santa Fe Public Library

145 Washington Ave (505) 955-6781

Free Food Distribution every 4th Tuesday of the month provided by the Food Depot. No identification required.

10-11:30 am, free

MUSIC

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Master pianist Montgomery performs in the President's Room.

6 pm, free

TROUT QUINTET

Lensic Performing Arts Center

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

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival closes out its 50th season with a night of Schoenberg and Schubert.

6 pm, $15-$100

ZAY SANTOS

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Bluesy rock n' roll from the local guitarist.

4-6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

ADVANCED WHEEL

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Learn to throw more advanced shapes and explore lidded vessels.

6-8:30 pm, $70

BEGINNER ROPES WITH CAREY

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Get roped into a new hobby.

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

MIXED LEVEL FABRIC WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road

(505) 992-2588

Come collectively practice your vertical skills. All levels welcome.

6:30-8 pm, $23-$28

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592

(505) 946-5700

Elementally-focused yoga designed to open (and, apparently, strengthen) chakras.

5:30-6:30 pm, $18-$90

TEEN/TWEEN AERIALS WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road

(505) 992-2588

For all those 11-15 who are curious about acrobatics, this class offers the opportunity to explore trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope.

5:15-6:15 pm, $22-$25

UNICYCLING AND JUGGLING WITH INDI

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Practice balance with Indi!

6:30-8 pm, $18-$22

WEB DESIGN

Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Learn the basics of working with or becoming a web designer.

9-11 am, free

TUE/22 EVENTS

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Santa Fe Brewing Company

35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333

Don't call it trivia.

7 pm, free

OPEN MIC POETRY AND MUSIC

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Be a modern-day bard for your fellow Santa Feans.

8 pm, free

PATTERNS IN THE GARDEN

TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103

Join Ivars Peterson for a walk through the Garden correlating math and nature.

9:30-10:30 am, $12

FOOD

SANTA FE FARMERS' DEL SUR

MARKET

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center 4801 Beckner Road (505) 983-4098

Fresh local produce shopping for the Southside? Heck yeah. Expect a Create Station activity booth from the New Mexico Museum of Art.

3-6 pm, free

MUSIC

W.I.T.C.H. (WE INTEND TO CAUSE HAVOC)

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369

Zambian psychedelic rock, presented by Lensic360.

7 pm, $30

ENGLISH BEAT

Santa Fe Brewing Company

37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182

Not to be confused with “The Beat” of the Americas.

7:30 pm, free

JIM ALMAND

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana, country and jazz.

4-6 pm, free

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JOE WEST AND FRIENDS

Santa Fe Plaza

100 Old Santa Fe Trail

lensic360.org

Folk with a flair for the theatrical. Support from Strangers from Afar. 6 pm, free

MATT TEDDER

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Acoustic tunes with a psychedelic twist.

8-10 pm, free

RAIDER/MARROW MONGER/ NIGHTSOIL/DIE HIGH

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

A full metal lineup courtesy of The Decibel Foundry, with headliners all the way from Ontario.

7-11 pm, $12-$15

SANTA FE GUITAR ENSEMBLE

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

Do you play guitar and read music? If so, you are invited to join the Santa Fe Guitar Ensemble. We meet weekly at La Farge Branch Library and we welcome all musicicans.

THE DOWNTOWN BLUES JAM Evangelo's 200 W San Francisco St. Loveless Johnson III plays with his band Brotha Love & The Blueristocrats.

8:30-11:30 pm, free

OPERA

RUSALKA

Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900

The story's basically a Freudian take on The Little Mermaid 8 pm, $50-$366

WORKSHOP

QUEER BURLESQUE WITH AUDREY

Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Queer cutiesl earn the basics of constructing a persona and more.

7:30-9:30 pm, $18-$22

1 FOOD BANK.

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Second Chances

Three years after a so-so experience, La Plancha Latin Grill flips the script

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Way back in the beginning days of the pandemic—early fall, 2020, and during a time when we were all cautiously engaging with the world again— SFR editor Julie Ann Grimm and I made the trip to Eldorado to sample La Plancha Latin Grill. At the time, I spoke highly of its ambiance and service, though ultimately came to the conclusion that I likely wouldn’t make the drive to the restaurant on any kind of regular basis.

Now, though, I don’t have to—La Plancha has made a new home in San Ysidro Plaza, the very same shopping center that boasts such food and coffee businesses as Tribes Coffee House, Santa Fe Capitol Grill, Cleopatra, the Plaza Café Southside, Pizza Centro and El Milagro. Actually, as I type out all those names it occurs to me that despite the loss of the Regal movie theater in the same little strip mall, it has lots to be proud of in the food milieu—and anyway, who doesn’t love a good redemption story?

By way of a little mea culpa, I must first address my experience at the original La Plancha. I ordered grilled salmon and, in retrospect, might have gone for something a little more specific to the La Plancha vibe. As I’ve looked into the restaurant’s owner/ chef Juan Carlos Pineda, who runs the business as a family affair, it has become clear

I should have ordered something from the restaurant’s Mexican/New Mexican/Central American selections rather than a piece of grilled fish. And now that I’ve re-sampled what Pineda has to offer, too, I’m here to say it: La Plancha is excellent, especially since its new convenient location is the very definition of a perk.

And we arrived almost by accident during an afternoon where the only directive was, “I bet if we head that way we’ll find something good.” Though La Plancha’s new location is what one might call minimalist in brightly painted interior, it’s clean space with a friendly staff waiting to make diners feel like they matter. I’m grow ing less accustomed to people seeming excited to see me, but without dipping into that faux and impersonal saccharine politeness that plagues many a restaurant worker, our server was friendly and attentive and, more importantly, spoke to me and my din ing companion like we were regular human people.

As we munched chips and guac that came in one of those underrated tortilla chip ramekins ($8.50), selecting from the menu proved challenging. Chef Pineda has crafted a rather enticing range of dishes consisting of familiar things like salads, huevos rancheros, tamales (in both local and Central American style), enchiladas, burritos and so on. But he’s also known for trying out weekly specials and crafting unique items from familiar ingredients. In the end, my companion opt-

ed for the always-available vegetarian tacos ($13.50) and I for the chicken mole lunch dish ($14.50). In both cases, our plates came with black beans (refried for the taco plate, whole for the mole) and Pineda’s signature green rice—a deliciously bright combination of rice, spinach, green onion and cilantro.

The tacos were, frankly, stunning, both in scope and presentation. Served as a trio, the veggie version came packed with spinach, grilled to near-perfection with the slightest hint of char on their respective exteriors. The two sides of salsa—a traditional red and a creamy green with hints of onion—altered the profiles of the tacos wonderfully, from the crisp bite of the red to the cool and complex green that slowly unfurled on the tongue with evolving notes. Had I not experienced one of the most delectable examples of mole I’ve ever found in Santa Fe, I might have been

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jealous of those tacos, but hear and believe me about Pineda’s mole chops—they should be legendary around here.

I’ve often found mole a deceptively simple bit of sauce wizardry. Too earthy and you miss out on nuance; too much sweetness can overpower the entire dish. In Pineda’s hands and served atop grilled chicken, the expertise was unmistakable. It took all I had, in fact, to not grab the chicken breast in my hands and ravenously devour it, but the three soft corn tortillas that came with the meal (served steaming hot, wrapped in foil) gave me the option to craft my own chicken mole mini-tacos. And as I shoveled my side of green rice and whole black beans into the tortilla along with a healthy smattering of that deep, red mole, I knew I’d found the type of restaurant one recommends to friends for years to come.

We capped the meal with a shared slice of tres leches cake ($7.50), which sadly lacked any notable elements. If I had one piece of advice for any wouldbe La Plancha patrons out there, it’s to skip dessert and focus more on the entrees. I’ve already crafted a game plan for a future visit, one where I’m ready to receive chef Pineda’s gifts more readily. In other words, if this is what this guy does with mole, what the hell else have I been missing over there? I’ma find out.

x 14 years in a row

Throw that chicken and mole in the tortilla with some of that rice and beans, baby!

The elevator doors slide open to reveal curator, educator, art historian and fashionista AmberDawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation). She’s dripping impossible style in a lime green frock and two-tone glasses in a similar shade of green with deep browns running along the upper part of the frames. Beside her, as always, Bear Robe’s small dog Vegas projects a similar confidence in a turquoise-encrusted collar more fashionable than most humans can muster on a good day. Together, they’ve descended from the third floor offices of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, the nonprofit that executes Indian Market each year. Inside, workers flit about in hurried anticipation of the upcoming 101st year of the annual event on Saturday, Aug. 19 and Sunday, Aug. 20. Bear Robe, however, is eerily calm.

In her office, she has assembled a number of photographic grids on the wall perpendicular to her desk. The photos in each grid feature models who will walk at the Indigenous Fashion Show during the market. All told, roughly 200 models will travel to Santa Fe for the event this year, all on their own dime, according to Bear Robe, and all excited to be part of something that has grown exponentially, year after year. Today’s show is a far cry from its early days in Cathedral Park—back when Bear Robe had no budget of which to speak and had to rent and drive U-Hauls full of designer pieces herself to make it work. Today, the always sold-out event has proven huge for the market and for the city itself. Still, Bear Robe says, she never saw it coming, at least not at such an accelerated pace. And yet the show has endured. So much so, in fact, that SWAIA recently announced it will kick off the first-ever US Indigenous Fashion Week in Santa Fe next May under Bear Robe’s stewardship. It’s a good time to be into Native fashion.

“I will say that the original designers of North America were Indigenous artists,” Bear Robe tells SFR, “and you don’t get more couture. Within fashion history, within art history, Native art and design have been pigeonholed and held under a magnifying glass as objects of curiosity, for study—but the thing is, it’s a matter of art interwoven into daily life.”

Things on the market side have, of course, changed in recent memory. Following years of pandemic shakeups, online offerings, the creation of an entirely virtual market-going experience dubbed NDN World and a year spent as a ticketed event, this year’s upcoming Indian Market is totally free to attend, and it seems like a big one. Yes, last year’s iteration marked the

Make It Work

With first-ever US Indigenous Fashion Week slated for 2024, curator/art historian Amber-Dawn Bear Robe prepares for ongoing Indian Market Indigenous Fashion Show

BY ALEX DE VORE | alex@sfreporter.com

100th anniversary of the stalwart gathering, though 2023’s already feels more akin to the good old days or, at the very least, the good old in-person days. And amidst the market’s innumerable artist-vendors set to take over the Plaza and surrounding streets, a flurry of offshoot events, parties, panels, screenings and more will flesh out the retail options.

Perhaps most popularly, however, the Indigenous Fashion Show, which Bear Robe created and continues to produce, will host catwalk events during both market nights at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center with a bevy of established and up-and-comer Native designers such as Tracy Toulouse, Rebecca Baker-Grenier, Elias Not Afraid, Clara

McConnell, Patricia Michaels, Jamie Okuma, Orlando Dugi, Pam Baker, Dusty LeGrande, Jontay Kham, Lauren Good Day and Jason Baerg. That’s not even counting the models, the support staff and, if previous years are any indication, celebrities, journalists and fashion-lovers who will attend the show.

“We love that it’s under the umbrella of SWAIA,” says SWAIA Executive Director Jaime Schulze (Northern Cheyenne). “I think Amber-Dawn brings such a grounded acumen to the programming, and one of the important pieces for us was to understand the cultural representation and stories behind it—as Indigenous folks move from invisibility to visibility in all these different arenas, our clothing has always been something we’re very creative around; it’s lovely to have those things intersect as design and fashion are truly fine art as well.”

Schulze knows Indigenous Fashion Week won’t be cheap to produce, though. She’s prepared to throw SWAIA’s full weight behind the burgeoning event, both as a show of support for what Bear Robe has achieved, and as a means to showcase contemporary Native artistry.

“I think in the nonprofit world, we’re always fundraising,” Schulze says with a laugh. “We’re earmarked for all kinds of different programs, and one of the things I’m very aware of is that there are many hands out there asking for help. But Amber-Dawn brings a wealth of knowledge about fashion and Native arts. From the beginning, it’s more than a fashion show. You look for invitations to change the narrative, to have deeper conversations—in this time and place, everybody loves fashion.”

As such, Bear Robe’s vision has room for Fashion Week to grow to a size and scope on par with New York or Paris, but she’s hardly getting ahead of herself. These are early days, and though the Indigenous Fashion Show as we know it has grown beyond anything she could have dreamed, she’s pragmatic. Still, 2024 and Indigenous Fashion Week aren’t as far off as they sound, and much work remains before then. It won’t be long before this year’s already established show kicks off, blows minds and then becomes a memory. Bear Robe plans to dive headfirst into Indigenous Fashion Week immediately after. Not one to count her chickens, she’s cautiously optimistic.

“Maybe it can become an international event that people come to annually, just like Indian Market,” Bear Robe says. “This can be the place people come to experience the work, to work with Indigenous designers and models, to collaborate. This can be the hub for that.”

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter Review

Fangs for nothing?

BY SIENA SOFIA BERGT author@sfreporter.com

There are only two justifiable reasons in a film world so prone to IP cannibalization for re-adapting a novel that’s already been transformed for the screen: to correct a wrong or to take an entirely new adaptation approach. When the source material in question is Dracula, the stakes (oh, no) are even higher/pointier—whether you tend more towards Nosferatu or fall squarely in the Francis Ford Coppola camp, it’s already undeniably been done well. Last Voyage of the Demeter isn’t even the only such spinoff released by its studio this year (Universal was also responsible for this spring’s Renfield). But while there are certainly versions of this narrative with more bite, the latest Stoker extrapolation does, at least, manage to justify its existence. And that may be all it really sets out—or needs—to do.

Demeter takes a single episode from the original Bram Stoker novel—the “Captain’s Log” section of chapter 7—and stretches the story of a ship unknowingly transporting Dracula from Bulgaria to England into a full feature. Working with such a small bit of

+ CORE CAST NAILS IT; ANIMATION IS WILD AND FUN; ACTUALLY FUNNY

SOME JOKES FEEL MEME-Y

Whereas an inherent lack of identity in a film like Elemental from animation juggernaut Pixar earlier this summer proves the company seems to be grappling with relevance and a fundamental misunderstanding of the makeup of its audience, newly minted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem from celebrated Hollywood stoner Seth Rogen and longtime writing/producing partner Evan Goldberg captures that certain something special that speaks to moviegoers of all ages.

Let us tip our caps, of course, to the recent format-busting Spider-Verse animated movies for establishing the market desire for offbeat art styles, but Rogen and company have something special on their hands with their new animated property.

See, Elemental (and other recent-ish Pixar properties) have struggled to adapt to various ages. Are the Disney-owned studio’s films aimed at today’s kids and their sensibilities? The parents? Neither, it turns out, at least not effectively—oh, how their ’90s heyday feels so, so long ago!

Rogen, however, understands the sweet spot lies in using characters that aging nerds recognize, but designing them, writing them and executing them specifically for kids from the internet era. The older dorks who grew up with TMNT react to new takes on characters they know and love, the younger generations go wild for age-specific humor.

text proves to be both the film’s downfall and its saving grace, as screenwriters Bragi Schut Jr. and Zak Olkewicz are left to supply all the new muscle for Stoker’s skeleton (the log from the book reads as little more than bullet points on the page). The pair rely on bloodless genre tropes and dialogue formulas to fill in the gaps, leaving few true surprises for the viewer. Still, by honing in on such a brief segment, Demeter avoids the cramped feeling that curses most full novel adaptations—leaving more room for the slow, moody atmosphere that makes the original tale so potent. When the animals in the cargo hold meet a bloody end below or when the ever-chittering rats abandon ship in hope of greater safety at sea, the gothic undertones of infection and plague so crucial to the novel crystalize more clearly than in wider-ranging adaptations.

In the newest outing for the fearsome fighting teens, heroes Leo (Nicolas Cantu), Donnie (Micah Abbey), Mikey (Shamon Brown Jr.) and Raph (Brady Noon) long to co-exist with the human world. Their adoptive father, the rat-man Splinter (a very funny Jackie Chan), forbids this—humans and mutants don’t get along! Enter April O’Neil (The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri), a high school-aged would-be journalist with a penchant for investigation who becomes the recipient of some ninja-based assistance and accepts the turtles; together, they investigate a series of crimes throughout New York City. The turtles, they reckon, will be accepted by society if they do hero stuff.

It’s not totally a spoiler to say that it’s mutants behind the crimes, but this is where the new TMNT truly shines: embracing the weirdo offshoot characters from the old TMNT days that mainly showed up as toys—characters like cyborg alligator Leatherhead (Rose Byrne), über-’90s skateboarding lizard Mondo Gecko (Paul Rudd), the bizarre Genghis Frog (Hannibal Buress), the impossibly land-based stingray Ray Filet (Post Malone) and the inimitably strange bat Wingnut (What We Do in the Shadows’ Natasia Demetriou) among others. The soft-reboot of the series mainly excels in the hand-drawn look to the 3D computer animation, though.

Even so, each turtle now has its own notable identity, thanks both to the writing’s homage to longtime traits set down since the early days of TMNT and the standout performances of the core four’s teen voice actors. Reworking April as a teen helps, too, as it’s strange, in retrospect, that a bunch of teenage turtles were cavorting through NYC

It’s no surprise, then, that goth king Guillermo del Toro was once attached to direct; the practical construction of the vampire would make that creature master proud. As it stands under André Øvredal’s (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) direction, Demeter delivers an enjoyably bloody popcorn flick. But we can’t help wondering what additional complexity a director like del Toro might have sucked from the source.

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with a grown woman/professional journalist. Like, she just hung out with a bunch of teens? Weird. Edebiri’s nuanced take on the character is wildly enjoyable, too, and the interplay between April and the turtles is consistently funny and heartwarming while avoiding schmaltz.

Mutant Mayhem’s risky take on established properties makes it a winner that brings them into the now while paying the proper respect to their roots.

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TALK TO ME

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+ HORROR AS TRAGEDY; SOPHIE WILDE’S POSSESSED LAUGH - VISUALLY CONVENTIONAL

“Gripping” is possibly the cheesiest word to apply to a horror movie about an embalmed hand. In the case of Australian twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou’s debut feature Talk to Me, it’s also likely the most succinct summation. But whether Talk To Me may be best appreciated through the lens of “horror” at all remains a matter for more debate.

That’s not to say the film isn’t frightening. The first possession scene occurs within mere minutes, after main character Mia (Sophie Wilde) learns the lore of the central ceramic-encased severed hand (possibly that of a psychic, as we discover in an exchange poking fun at the seriousness with which most high concept horror handles its mythology). She need only hold the hand, whisper the movie’s title and issue the invitation “I let you in” to be taken over by whatever spirits accept her offer. But before 90 seconds have passed, the connection

between the realms must be cut lest the departed take up more permanent residence in their living hosts.

Of course, any rule introduced so early in a scary movie has to be broken—and Wilde’s committed and intensely physical performance left even this self-professed gorehound trembling home from the theater. The film as a whole is so unrelenting it doesn’t even yield the checked-out relief that often comes when a story pushes past one’s terror tolerance threshold. It simply doesn’t let you go.

But unlike in the vast majority of horror movies, the fear doesn’t originate with the unknown—a murderer in a mask, a hidden cannibal cult, an ancient evil unleashed. Viewers see in the graphic cold open exactly what will happen to Mia, and multiple prophetic figures throughout the story reinforce that fate. Yet both she and the audience are helpless to stop it. In other words, we’re talking about a classic Greek tragedy. For all its abundant jump scares, its tightly-wound plot and gorgeous practical effects, Talk to Me is truly a film about the cyclicality and loneliness of grief. And grief is, after all, a horrifying experience.

Because of that trauma-steeped subject matter, this film might not satisfy those who turn to genre for an escape from lived pain (and extra care might be warranted for anyone sensitive to depictions of suicide). It’s also not a movie that’s going to thrill folks looking for visual innovation—the cinematography serves the story without ever offering much originality. But for anyone who loves Antigone as much as Antichrist, Talk to Me’s grasp will be too potent to resist. (SSB)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1 is a hollow globe of aluminum launched into Earth orbit in 1965. Fifty-eight years later, it continues to circle the planet—and is still doing the job it was designed to do. It enables ground-based radar devices to perform necessary calibrations. I propose we celebrate and honor the faithfulness of this magic sphere. May it serve as an inspiring symbol for you in the coming months. More than ever before, you have the potential to do what you were made to do—and with exceptional steadiness and potency. I hope you will be a pillar of inspiring stability for those you care about.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Live as though you’re living a second time and as though the first time you lived, you did it wrong, and now you’re trying to do things right.” Holocaust survivor and author Viktor Frankl offered this advice. I wouldn’t want to adhere to such a demanding practice every day of my life. But I think it can be an especially worthwhile exercise for you in the coming weeks. You will have a substantial capacity to learn from your past; to prevent mediocre histories from repeating themselves; to escape the ruts of your habit mind and instigate fresh trends.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini author Jamie Zafron wrote an article titled “To Anyone Who Thinks They’re Falling Behind in Life.” She says, “Sometimes you need two more years of life experience before you can make your masterpiece into something that will feel real and true and raw. Sometimes you’re not falling in love because whatever you need to know about yourself is only knowable through solitude. Sometimes you haven’t met your next collaborator. Sometimes your sadness encircles you because, one day, it will be the opus upon which you build your life.” This is excellent advice for you in the coming months, dear Gemini. You’ll be in a phase of incubation, preparing the way for your Next Big Thing. Honor the gritty, unspectacular work you have ahead! It will pay off.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’re entering a phase when you will generate maximum luck if you favor what’s short and sweet instead of what’s long and complicated. You will attract the resources you need if you identify what they are with crisp precision and do not indulge in fuzzy indecision. The world will conspire in your favor to the degree that you avoid equivocating. So please say precisely what you mean! Be a beacon of clear, relaxed focus!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Unless you are French, chances are you have never heard of Saint-John Perse (1887–1975). He was a renowned diplomat for the French government and a poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Now he’s virtually unknown outside of his home country. Can we draw useful lessons for your use, Leo? Well, I suspect that in the coming months, you may very well come into greater prominence and wield more clout. But it’s crucial for the long-term health of your soul that during this building time, you are in service to nurturing your soul as much as your ego. The worldly power and pride you achieve will ultimately fade like Perse’s. But the spiritual growth you accomplish will endure forever.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.” Virgo author Christopher Isherwood said that. I’m offering his thought because I believe life will be spectacularly not bad for you in the coming weeks— whether or not you have a good physique. In fact, I’m guessing life will be downright enjoyable, creative, and fruitful. In part, that’s because you will be the beneficiary of a stream of luck. And in part, your gentle triumphs and graceful productiveness will unfold because you will be exceptionally imaginative.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “You know how crazy love can make you,” write Mary D. Esselman and Elizabeth Ash Vélez in their book Love Poems for Real Life. “On any given day, you’re insanely happy, maniacally miserable, kooky

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with contentment, or bonkers with boredom—and that’s in a good relationship.” They add, “You have to be a little nuts to commit yourself, body and soul, to one other person— one wonderful, goofy, fallible person—in the hope that happily-ever-after really does exist.” The authors make good points, but their view of togetherness will be less than fully applicable to you in the coming months. I suspect life will bring you boons as you focus your intelligence on creating well-grounded, nourishing, non-melodramatic bonds with trustworthy allies.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I don’t adopt anyone’s ideas—I have my own.” So proclaimed Scorpio author Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883). Really, Ivan? Were you never influenced by someone else’s concepts, principles, art, or opinions? The fact is that all of us live in a world created and shaped by the ideas of others. We should celebrate that wondrous privilege! We should be pleased we don’t have to produce everything from scratch under our own power. As for you Scorpios reading this oracle, I urge you to be the anti-Turgenev in the coming weeks. Rejoice at how interconnected you are—and take full advantage of it. Treasure the teachings that have made you who you are. Sing your gratitude for those who have forged the world you love to live in. You now have the power to be an extraordinary networker.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Tibetan term lenchak is often translated as “karmic debt.” It refers to the unconscious conditioning and bad old habits that attract us to people we would be better off not engaging. I will be bold and declare that sometime soon, you will have fully paid off a lenchak that has caused you relationship problems. Congrats! You are almost free of a long-running delusion. You don’t actually need an influence you thought you needed.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you’re like many of us, you have a set bathing routine. In the shower or bath, you start your cleansing process with one particular action, like washing your face, and go on to other tasks in the same sequence every time. Some people live most of their lives this way: following well-established patterns in all they do. I’m not criticizing that approach, though it doesn’t work for me. I need more unpredictability and variety. Anyway, Capricorn, I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will benefit from trying my practice. Have fun creating variations on your standard patterns. Enjoy being a novelty freak with the daily details.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In July 1812, composer Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a 10-page love letter to a woman he called “My Angel” and “Immortal Beloved.” He never sent it, and scholars are still unsure of the addressee’s identity. The message included lines like “you — my everything, my happiness . . . my solace — my everything” and “forever thine, forever mine, forever us.” I hope you will soon have sound reasons for composing your own version of an “Immortal Beloved” letter. According to my astrological analysis, it’s time for your tender passion to fully bloom. If there’s not a specific person who warrants such a message, write it to an imaginary lover.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): At age 32, artist Peter Milton realized the colors he thought he used in his paintings were different from what his viewers saw. He got his eyes tested and discovered he had color blindness. For example, what he regarded as gray with a hint of yellow, others perceived as green. Shocked, he launched an unexpected adjustment. For the next 40 years, all his paintings were black and white only. They made him famous and have been exhibited in major museums. I love how he capitalized on an apparent disability and made it his strength. I invite you to consider a comparable move in the coming months.

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NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME

TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Monica Carolyn Montaño will apply to the Honorable Maria Sanchez-Gagne, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:35 a.m. on the 21st day of August, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Monica Carolyn Montaño to Monica Carolyn Reau.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk

By: Marquel Gonzales-Aragon Deputy Court Clerk

Submitted by: Monica Carolyn Montaño

Petitioner, Pro Se

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

Case No. D-101-PB-2023-00088

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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GUADALUPE MARTINEZ, DECEASED.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: P.O. Box 1985, Santa Fe, NM 87504.

Dated: July 26, 2023

Frank J. Martinez, Personal Representative P.O. Box 336 Tesuque, NM 87574 505-670-9433

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NORMA EVANS, DECEASED. NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF NORMA EVANS, DECEASED, AND ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO HAVE OR CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF NORMA EVANS, DECEASED, OR IN THE MATTER BEING LITIGATED IN THE HEREINAFTER MENTIONED HEARING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following: 1. NORMA EVANS, Deceased, died on February 17, 2023; 2. ROBERT E. EVANS filed a Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirship, and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative in the above-styled and numbered matter on March 28, 2023, and a hearing on the above-referenced Petition has been set for September 20, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at the First Judicial District Courthouse before the Honorable Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood via Remote Access which are conducted by Google Meets. The Court prefers counsel and parties to participate by video at: https://meet.google.com/ wof cof-tuq. If it is not possible to participate by video, you may call 1 (563) 503- 5060 and enter PIN: #818 230 380#. 3. Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 (A) (3), N.M.S.A., 1978, notice of the time and place of hearing on the abovereferenced Petition is hereby given to you by publication, once each week, for three consecutive weeks.

Transportation providers, be advised that the North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) will be applying to the New Mexico Department of Transportation Transit and Rall Division for FTA USC 49 §5311 Formula Grants for Rural Areas for Federal Fiscal Year 2025. The grant award amount will not exceed $10,000,000. The purpose of this application will be to continue funding transit In the NCRTD’s four-county service area of Los Alamos, Taos, Santa Fe, and Rio Arriba. Public and private transportation providers are invited to submit comments/ questions to: Anthony Mortillaro, Executive Director, North Central Regional Transit District, 1327 North Riverside Drive Espanola, New Mexico 87532. Phone: 505.629.4713. A public hearing may be requested by any public or private transportation provider. Written comments/questions or requests for a public hearing should be received at the above address no later than August 31, 2023.

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