Santa Fe Reporter, August 9, 2023

OPINION 5

NEWS

7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

GOING PUBLIC 8

Only half the candidates seeking public financing qualified, and some say it’s time for an update to the 15-year-old system

CRISIS COURSE 10

Global Warming Express offers teachers tools for classroom climate awareness

COVER STORY 12

THE LANGUAGE OF BUSINESS

New initiatives seek to empower Spanish-speaking entrepreneurship in Santa Fe

CULTURE

SFR PICKS 17

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THE CALENDAR 18

3 QUESTIONS 26

With Chef Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart

THE NAKED TRUTH 28

The whole town’s nursing a broken heart, apparently

FOOD 33

PRAISE FOR THE PYRAMID

Is it just hummus, or were we all sleeping on a local champ?

A&C 34

ROOTS PLANTED

The seeds of something new at Chlorophyll Fine Houseplants

MOVIES 36

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT

MAYHEM REVIEW

Comin’ out of their shell, and they’re doing just fine

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LAURA CRUCET Pig & Fig

NM Gas Company (NMGC)'s planned Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant, just three miles from a school and two miles from Double Eagle Airport and Petroglyph National Monument, is not worth the risk to the health and safety of Rio Rancho, Bernalillo County and surrounding communities.

As planned, LNG, derived from fracked methane gas and chilled to -260ºF, could be liquefied, stored and regasified at the plant for injection into NMGC's existing distribution pipelines and for transport by tanker trucks throughout the state. Health and safety risks include:

Physical danger from the ignition of leaking gas forming a low-lying vapor cloud that drifts until it hits an ignition source — even simple static electricity — and ignites an inferno. Depending upon wind and topography, such methane clouds can extend for miles.

LNG fires are extremely difficult to control and cannot be extinguished with water. Firefighters require special training and equipment to control the flames.

Proposed LNG tanker trucks will endanger New Mexico drivers and communities throughout the state.

Impacts from boil-off gas and other necessary intermittent venting could increase cumulative emissions and further exacerbate existing air quality issues in Rio Rancho and Albuquerque.

These dangers are not hypothetical. Even if safety procedures and technology are robust, accidents, leaks and explosions at LNG storage facilities and involving LNG tanker trucks have resulted in numerous fatalities, fires, widespread evacuations of communities in the US and around the world, and property damage in the hundreds of millions.

And the proposed facility is not cost effective. The $180M or more that could be charged to ratepayers to build the plant will cost each NMGC customer at least $3 per month for the next 30 years and will not reduce exposure to price volatility. The capacity of the plant - less than half the contracted capacity from the current supplier in Texas - means more gas will have to be purchased on the volatile swing market where gas prices fluctuate dramatically.

Now is not the time to build new infrastructure that makes decarbonization more difficult!

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FOOD, AUG. 2: “FRITO FE”

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OPERA, JULY 19: “SHADOWS AND LIGHT”

UPSTAGING THE OPERA

Thank you for the best laugh I’ve had in a long time.

I was at the unfortunate presentation of the opera [Pelléas et Mélisande] on Saturday. Ms. [Netia] Jones’ presentation totally overwhelmed the performances and the opera itself.

While there appeared to be a sizable audience at the beginning of the opera, at least in the mezzanine where I was, about one third of the people left at intermission.

Will I attend the opera again? Probably, yes. But if I see Netia Jones’ name on the production, I will avoid it. [I] couldn’t focus on the music because the visuals overwhelmed the audio.

SUSAN COVENEY SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY

CORRECTION

The story “A Budding Dispute” gave the wrong name for the business, Tingen Farms, which was involved in a zoning fight in Doña Ana County.

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

SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER

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

“Been trying to get into the dating scene here, but it’s absolute trash.”

—Overheard at a city park

“Oh, I thought the Japanese and Singapore bowls were the same thing. But that’s not your problem. It’s mine.”

—Overheard at a Railyard restaurant

STATE MIGHT BUY A SECOND PLANE FOR OFFICIAL BUSINESS

Pshshshhst—most people don’t even have one plane.

BLACK FEATHER FIRE UP TO OVER 2,000 ACRES

We’re not in love with the whole fires all the time thing.

PLASTIC RECYCLING FACILITY IN ALBUQUERQUE ALSO BURNS

What did we just say?!

RECORD HIGH HEAT AFFECTS 70 MILLION AMERICANS

Who knew you could hate pants this much? No, but seriously—we’re in very serious trouble.

BARBIE MOVIE SURPASSES $1 BILLION AT THE BOX OFFICE—A FIRST FOR A SOLO WOMAN DIRECTOR

“Well, I hated it!” shout men upset that sometimes movies aren’t made specifically for them.

HARRY’S ROADHOUSE RESTAURANT SELLS TO PAIR OF LONGTIME EMPLOYEES

We hope they keep the name because “Pair of Longtime Employees’ Roadhouse” doesn’t have the same ring.

POND ON UPPER CANYON DRAINED WITHOUT WARNING

See, we need more water, not less!

SHELTER DIRECTOR MOVES ON Jack Hagerman has resigned as director of the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society.

Going Public

paign cash since 2008. Candidates for City Council and judicial candidates who collect enough small contributions from voters in their district receive $15,000, with the option to access matching funds later to raise that figure to $22,500 if private candidates raise more.

This election cycle, however, the city allowed for candidates to collect qualifying documents through an online portal for the first time.

PUBLICLY FINANCED CANDIDATES

ready collected opinions about the process after the last election.

“We support looking at it. It hasn’t been updated in about 15 years. I would like to make some amendments,” she tells SFR. “I could see that in 2009, $15,000 was more than enough for an election, but now, it just isn’t.”

BY EVAN CHANDLER evan@sfreporter.com

The Nov. 7 municipal election ballot is shaping up, and voters from three City Council districts can expect competitive races for seats on the governing body.

Four candidates for City Council have made it to the next step in qualifying for public campaign financing for the municipal election: the waiting game.

Santa Fe City Clerk Kristine BustosMihelcic tells SFR she delivered documents to the Santa Fe County clerk just before the close of business Friday. The county clerk will next review and potentially certify the four candidates: Alma Castro and Brian Gutierrez for District 1; incumbent Councilor Mike Garcia in District 2; and Louis Carlos in District 3.

Other prospective candidates who had announced they would seek the required signatures to receive taxpayer funds for the campaign didn’t meet the requirements or didn’t turn in documents by the deadline late last month, including Katherine Rivera, who says she still plans to run for District 1 but will now try for private funds.

Candidates seeking public campaign financing faced a July 24 deadline to submit nominating petitions and 150 $5 contributions from registered voters. Bustos-Mihelcic says final word on who has qualified should come no later than Aug. 10, with money heading to the candidates by Aug. 14.

District 3 candidate Carlos tells SFR he’s taking no chances. He submitted more than the required number of both signatures and $5 contributions to ensure that even if some of his contributions are ineligible, he still makes the cut.

Santa Fe elections have included the option for candidates to seek public cam-

Though Carlos seems certain he’ll qualify, he says the system is in need of an update. He says candidates are “waiting in limbo” to hear if they truly made it through the process. Meanwhile, candidates opting for private monies can continue fundraising and have until Aug. 29 to enter the race.

“I am sort of at the beckoning of the city. I am spending a great deal of time knocking on doors and talking with people for a $5 return, then submitting everything and hoping it goes as the city requires it,” Carlos says. “It puts me at a great disadvantage compared to other candidates who are going to solicit private fundraising because I can’t go and raise more money now. Materials are expensive, and $15,000 only goes so far.”

Other candidates also offer critiques of the public financing system. Gutierrez tells SFR he was “glad to see” the online portal’s introduction but agrees there are other aspects of public campaign financing that need to be reviewed.

This is a second attempt at the seat for the District 1 candidate who runs Mr. G’s Pro Tow, a towing company, and served as the former chairman of the 2021 Planning Commission and on the 2013 Charter Review Committee. He ran using public funds in 2021 and came in second to incumbent Councilor Signe Lindell, who snagged 60% of the vote in a four-way race.

Despite the previous outcome, he’s making another go to address some long standing and often ignored issues in his district.

“In 2021, we did a lot of walking, talking ...It was a total grassroots campaign, and that’s what I plan to focus on in this campaign,” Gutierrez says.

“With the limited resources, the cost of inflation and the monies going toward a public-financed campaign, to be successful you really have to get out there and work.”

Bustos-Mihelcic says she also wants the City Council to consider future changes to the rules. The city plans to survey candidates about the current program after the election and has al-

Other cities, such as Albuquerque, have candidates running on the same deadlines and same rules, whether they are publicly or privately financed.

Miguel Acosta, District 3, did not file documents before the July 24 public campaign finance deadline, while Eric Morelli, from District 3 and Katherine Rivera, District 1, both collected signatures and cash, but fell short of the required amounts. When a candidate fails to qualify, the money they raised goes into the public fund. The candidate then has the opportunity to transition into private funding.

Rivera says she will now privately fund her campaign after meeting the signature requirement but falling around 10 donations short. Despite not getting access to city dollars, she says the fundraising process helped her meet more people, and she remains hopeful in her bid for a council seat.

“I was invited into many living rooms and front porches, and I walked away with a lot of feedback,” Rivera says. “My goal was to be on the ballot and a voice for District 1, and I definitely remain encouraged, if not more so, having gone through that exercise in May, June and July.”

District 4 Councilor Jamie Cassutt won her seat using public campaign financing in the 2019 election, but this time around, she’s going private. She tells SFR the rising costs of running a campaign led to the decision.

“At the end of the day, the amount of money that is provided at the public funding level is just not enough to run a campaign. It probably was 15 years ago,” Cassutt says. “I think we really need to take a look at our public financing system and make sure we are providing enough money that people could finance and run a campaign.”

Though Joel Nava had informed the city clerk he planned to run in District 4, he failed to turn in qualifying documents, pointing to what could be an uncontested race for the seat.

Other candidates who plan to formally file later this month include former assistant city attorney Geno Zamora in District 1; and Planning Commission members Pilar Faulkner in District 3 and Phil Lucero in District 2.

Only half the candidates seeking public financing qualified, and some say it’s time for an update to the 15-year-old system

Alma Castro

Louis Carlos

Michael Garcia

Brian Gutierrez

THE RIGHT PATH FOR YOU

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Mara Taub in her home office in Santa Fe, New Mexico, holding a stack of letters from prisoners seeking reading and support materials. This stack is several months’ worth of mail. Mara Taub en su oficina en Santa Fe, Nuevo México, sosteniendo un montón de cartas de los prisioneros que buscan materiales de lectura y apoyo. Este montón representa varios meses de correo.

Crisis Course

BY MO CHARNOT mo@sfreporter.com

Climate change can be a difficult subject to broach with children, especially when extreme weather including wildfires, floods and record-breaking heat waves have been defining the summer of 2023.

But in a new training program run by the Global Warming Express, New Mexico’s award-winning climate advocacy program, 10 teachers in Santa Fe Public Schools will increase climate awareness in their classrooms for the 2023-2024 school year.

“Where we’ve come with climate, it’s pretty obvious to anyone, especially kids—we’re in a crisis,” says Genie Stevens, executive director of the organization.

When the advocacy program kicked off, she says, global warming was hypothetical. “Eleven years ago, we weren’t really feeling the effects that much—although there were times when ash was falling out of the sky in Santa Fe, and kids couldn’t go in the public swimming pool. That was just the beginning, and in 11 years, things have escalated so fast.”

Applications for participating teachers are open through Aug. 15 for the program, designed for teachers with students between 8 and 12 years old. It combines earth science, climate science, resilient solutions, mindfulness, arts, advocacy and action in a hands-on, kinesthetic indoor/outdoor curriculum.

Stevens says weaving mindfulness training into climate education has emerged over time as a critical component.

Teachers can have a role, she says, in helping students mentally handle climate issues, which became evident after she saw kids who participated in the GWE’s early programs become “disenchanted and depressed” as they got older and noticed that little had been done to address the climate crisis.

“At this point, we don’t want to teach kids to burn themselves out,” Stevens explains. “Their action is really important, but it needs to be grounded in that mindfulness that we’re going to be teaching them. Because otherwise, they’ll become exhausted.”

Beverly Williams, a mentor for a GWE after-school program at the Mountain Mahogany Community School in Albuquerque, says letting children lead the way engages them without putting too much weight on their shoulders.

“Anything that’s fun, where kids have the agency to do it themselves, kids learn,” she

Global Warming Express offers teachers tools for classroom climate awareness

dividuals were: 25% more likely to live in areas with reductions in labor hours due to extreme temperatures; 15% more likely to live in areas with increases in childhood asthma diagnoses and 11% more likely to live in areas with increases in extreme temperature-related deaths, among other disadvantages.

Applications were originally due July 31, but the organization extended the deadline to Aug. 15 to garner more participants. In the application process, the GWE will evaluate teachers’ willingness to lead hands-on projects and outdoor learning. The teachers selected for this program will receive a $1,000 yearly stipend.

The curriculum will be provided through the GWE’s app, with weekly sessions that take about 20 minutes to complete. Teachers can pick and choose lessons based on their existing curriculum and available classroom time.

Books are also available to read or listen to on the app, including The Global Warming Express, written by Stevens’ daughter, Marina in 2016, when she was a middle-schooler at Desert Academy.

tells SFR. “It’s not my job to decide where the train is going. I’m there to provide the energy for the train to go, and make sure the tracks they’ve chosen are kept clear.”

In 2019, the third-grade students Williams mentored were instrumental in passing a plastic bag ban in Albuquerque (since repealed), five years after GWE students had worked toward passage of a similar law in Santa Fe. Williams coached the students in public speaking, accompanying them to five City Council meetings to put the pressure on officials.

“It made them feel like they really had a voice,” Williams said. “There’s so much they can gain from getting involved [with local politics].”

The training program will prioritize teachers and students in Santa Fe Public Schools this year, particularly in schools with a pronounced low-income demographic.

According to a 2021 study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency, low-income individuals are more likely to be exposed to the highest impacts of climate change. It found low-income in-

The GWE is also seeking after-school mentors and offers selected mentors a $500 yearly stipend. Mentors work in teams of two, running the after-school program once a week throughout the school year.

Paul Biderman, who served as the state Energy and Minerals Department secretary in the 1980s and who became a GWE mentor after retiring, says he joined the group to teach children about climate change through “playful, but educational” activities.

“We hope that this can expand to other communities besides Santa Fe and other schools here,” Biderman tells SFR. “More kids will have the chance to learn about this and not be misled by misinformation that’s out there.”

This January, Biderman worked with El Dorado Community teacher Hope Cahill to plan several eco-friendly activities with GWE students, including planting trees on the school’s campus to absorb more carbon dioxide from the air.

“I think the kids really are becoming more sensitized to the nature of the problem, and their responsibility to do something about it,” Biderman says.

Stevens says it’s important to run these programs over the course of the year to build relationships with students.

“We’re interested in not just exposing them to something, but having them really become engaged,” she says. “The way to do that is to take our time.”

To receive an application or more information, teachers or potential mentors can email tomás@theglobalwarmingexpress.org.

Students with the Global Warming Express participate in climate strike demonstrations in 2019.

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Global Warming Express mentor Katje Lauterstein takes her Lowell School class to help plant a tree at Loma Linda park in Albuquerque.

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The Language of Business

New initiatives seek to empower Spanish-speaking entrepreneurship in Santa Fe

BY EVAN CHANDLER evan@sfreporter.com

In episode two of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce’s new telenovela Entre El Negocio y El Amor, or Between Business and Love, hopeful entrepreneurs Carlos and Bella run into each other while each attempts to apply for a business license. As Bella finishes up her own application, she tells Carlos where he can find instructions in Spanish on how to fill out his own. Carlos takes the opportunity to invite her to lunch to learn more, a step in their pending love connection.

The YouTube miniseries, complete with its own original theme music, is one of several new initiatives for Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs from the chamber and the City of Santa Fe’s Office of Economic Development in an effort to alleviate boundaries for would-be business owners.

Chamber President Bridget Dixon says the city’s business group had not previously focused on Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs, but recently made a strategic decision to do so.

“It’s surprising to me as a community that is so rich in culture and the amount of Spanish speakers we have here that we haven’t tapped in sooner to support them,” Dixon tells SFR.

Statistics show the effort is well placed. The American Immigration Council estimates approximately 1,800 immigrant entrepreneurs generated over $35 million in business income for Santa Fe in 2019. While making up only 11% of the population, immigrants made up 15.2% of business owners in the county in the same year. Hispanic entrepreneurs made up around 66% of the total number of immigrant business owners within the city.

In the five-episode series co-starring local celebrity and comedian Carlos Medina and actress Nora Cazares, entrepreneurs can learn important information about opening a business while following the storyline of a budding romance between Carlos and Bella. The series’ first episode features a guest voice acting appearance from well-known former local newscaster Nelson Martinez.

Medina co-wrote the script with Liz Camacho, Economic Development and Communications administrator, along with ArtWalk Santa Fe co-founder Alejandra Streeper, who also worked on marketing the new programs. The city’s Office of Economic Development funded the project.

“This was [Medina’s] creative vision, and he very

much went in the direction of something that was educational and entertainment and in a very culturally compelling way,” Camacho says.

The partnership with Medina and Streeper makes sense, Camacho says, because of their individual connections to the process of becoming an entrepreneur.

“What I really appreciate is that both of them are Hispanic, and both of them have businesses, so they understand how overwhelming the process can be,” she says.

Medina tells SFR his entrepreneurial journey promoting himself began with his brothers, who already had experience as contractors. He acknowledges his privilege in already having a bit of extra support in his path, but even in the times he struggled, he found a way. The telenovela, he says, tells a relatable story.

He jokes that “he’s always been in business” for himself. As an entertainer who markets his own brand, his job requires that he take on many different roles.

“I’m not saying I didn’t hit my head against the wall at times, but the point is that you find the way,” Medina says. “I think that speaks to the spirit of the immigrant community, because some of them go through amazing hardships to get here, but they almost always find a way. I wanted to speak to that in the show.”

Entering the entrepreneurial space

When Edmundo Kelley Mendoza lost his job as a bar manager during the pandemic, he had to come up with a plan. As a first generation Mexican-American man with a passion for cooking inherited from his mom, he eventually told his wife he wanted to open a food truck. There was just one issue: He had no idea where to begin. He spent his time in lockdown preparing, and eventually opened Mas Chile in 2021.

“I came up with a whole business plan and came up with my dream of opening up my food truck,” Mendoza says of the early stages. “We just kind of go through all the bumps and figure things out as we go, but I think we’ve progressed since our opening year.”

Though the food truck only has scheduled events on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, Mendoza’s responsibilities fill his entire week. Monday is shopping day, and while lots can be found in Santa Fe, sometimes he makes a trip to Albuquerque to get all the necessary meats and vegetables. Tuesdays are prep days. Then, event days start early and can run until late, and on those days he spends most of the time in a neon green food truck that only spans a few feet wide. Inside, as he’s grilling meats and shuffling around for ingredients, temperatures reach blazing hot.

Despite the long hours and drives, Mendoza’s efforts are paying off. He enjoys serving his customers, who allow him to make a living.

“I want to show love to my community all the way through,” Mendoza says. “Everybody’s been cheering me on, they see my growth and they love it. It’s an awesome feeling.”

Obstacles exist for Latino first-time business owners regardless of a language barrier.

For eighth-generation Santa Fean Nicholas Peña, the idea to become an entrepreneur started with a trip to Phoenix. Peña had spent several years working as

an assistant gallery director on Canyon Road after graduating from the University of New Mexico. However, after the La Ciénega native took his first food tour, “A Taste of Old Town Scottsdale,” while at a friend’s wedding, he knew he had to bring something like it to Santa Fe.

“I just thought it was such a cool concept,” Peña tells SFR. “Like how amazing is it that you can just eat and explore and experience what the city had to offer in a variety of avenues?”

Annie Hartley, a long-time friend with whom he graduated high school in Santa Fe, founded Arizona Food Tours in 2009. Peña started “picking her brain” immediately after the tour was over. By 2010, he founded his own: Food Tour New Mexico.

For the first three years after Peña opened, he was the sole employee, balancing working at a ski area and bartending at various downtown locations while also attempting to get the business off the ground. His first food tour launched in 2011. Since then, he’s created two more in Santa Fe. The company later expanded outside of the city limits, introducing an additional tour in Albuquerque in 2013.

Peña says the transition into the entrepreneurial space came with a lot of research, and at times he didn’t have much guidance about where to start.

“I think the learning curve was really steep,” Peña says. “Through a lot of trial and error, with no business understanding or background, I got to work and put it all together.”

Food Tour New Mexico founder Nicholas Peña poses outside the Lensic Performing Arts Center before a food tour July 30.

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Edmundo “Mundo” Kelley Mendoza prepares an order of tacos at Tumbleroot Distillery Aug. 4.

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I ’m not saying I didn’t hit my head against the wall at times, but the point is that you find the way, -Carlos Medina comedian

He says he eventually realized how “second nature” it felt doing food tours. It reminded him of growing up and going to restaurants with visiting family members. The business has earned recognition as one of the best of its kind in the area. Its “New Mexican Flavors Tour of Santa Fe Plaza” currently tops TripAdvisor’s ranking of New Mexico food tours, and USA Today Readers’ Choice Awards recently ranked it No. 6 food tour company in the nation.

The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce honored both Mendoza and Peña last year during its inaugural “40 Under 40 Business Leaders Awards,” created to showcase young entrepreneurial success. David Fresquez, chamber president, says initiatives like these are long overdue for both chambers. The Hispanic chamber went through a slow period just before and during COVID, but has since returned to a more active role.

Fresquez tells SFR the two chambers have a working relationship on which they hope to build, but notes his chamber targets the Latino business market in the fastest-growing part of the city.

“I feel like the Southside business owner is going to come to us because they’re going to feel more at home,” he says. “They’re gonna say, ‘They’re speaking our language, and we can relate to them.’”

He suspects another difference may be his chamber’s ability to speak out on social issues, which he says can often blend with business issues. For example, the chamber in 2017 advocated for passage of a tax on sugary drinks that would have raised money for early childhood education.

Still, Fresquez emphasizes there is no competition between the chambers. He says entrepreneurs are best served to become members of both.

“They serve a different value, and I think that’s the highlight of it. The cool

part about being in Santa Fe is it’s such an intimate community that you can benefit from both chambers,” Fresquez says.

Take me to the Feria

The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce has also set up a physical presence on the Southside with its annual Feria Southside festival. The event debuted in 2022, and will return this month for its second goaround. It features live music, family activities and participation from mostly local vendors. More than 600 people attended the inaugural event in April of last year, where a total of 62 vendors and organizations promoted their businesses and learned more about entrepreneurship.

Smaller mercados occur on a bimonthly basis, giving entrepreneurs even more op-

portunities to hustle.

The city’s Office of Economic Development and the Chamber of Commerce worked together on the feria and mercados to highlight Spanishspeaking entrepreneurship in Santa Fe.

“It was really an opportunity to show the community that there was every single business sector available on Airport Road and on the Southside,” Dixon says, “and what we found is a lot of the businesses were owned by Spanish-speakers or immigrants, and they wanted to participate.”

In fact, Medina says the first feria led to the telenovela in part after several vendors were unable to participate at the first event because they lacked a license.

Even though the Hispanic Chamber isn’t part of the feria per se, Fresquez

says he’s glad to see it return. He stresses the need for community-led efforts to support the Spanish-speaking business community.

“I think it’s critical from a social equity aspect, but also from a business commerce aspect,” Fresquez says. “If one demographic is suffering...they all need to work together to provide more commerce in the city and to provide more social equity.”

‘Beyond inclusivity’

Streeper says the team behind the initiatives sought to create a culturally specific, Spanish-first approach. Some features of this include promotional efforts, such as the telenovela series being subtitled in English, but presented primarily in Spanish. Other aspects include free child-

Vendors await customers at last year’s inaugural Feria Southside. A second event is planned for Aug. 27.

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The Language of Business

care offered at educational workshops.

“It’s a whole ecosystem of resources geared more towards the people in the Southside who otherwise wouldn’t know how to start,” Streeper says.

Medina says these are especially beneficial to Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs, who often have family-run businesses.

“In our culture, if you start a business, it’s more than likely going to involve everyone in the family,” he says. “I appreciate that [Camacho and Streeper] have taken into consideration the fact that when you have seminars like this, sometimes it’s the matriarch of the family who’s the entrepreneur because the dad is busy working construction, and she needs the childcare.”

Camacho added that women made up 100% of attendees to one of the most recent workshops. That tracks with data from the National Women’s Business Council, which indicates there are over 2 million Latinaowned businesses in the US—a sector that has grown by 87% since 2007.

Streeper remembers how overwhelming it felt when first transitioning into an entrepreneurial role. She moved from Los Angeles to Santa Fe in 2016 and worked in marketing in both places, but once the pandemic hit and events stopped, her focus shifted to art.

Streeper does embroidery and beading, making earrings and necklaces. She

and glass artist Mara Saxer decided to go to Albuquerque to sell all the art they had made during the pandemic. Given Streeper’s background in events and Saxer’s lengthy background in art, they were ready to put a much-needed Santa Fe spin on it, Streeper says.

“Here it’s a little hard to become part of the markets in Santa Fe, and there aren’t that many for people who are just starting,” she says. “We said, ‘Why don’t we just start something here and do a test to see if people show up?’”

In 2021, the pair founded ArtWalk Santa Fe, an outdoor arts and crafts market for artists of all experience levels and backgrounds to sell products and gain exposure. The organization will hold their second annual Rufina Block Party 4-8 pm Aug. 12 at and around Paseo Pottery, located at 1278 Calle de Comercio.

In addition to her art, Streeper also uses her language skills to do translation work, and she established an LLC for a translation business. But as a native of Mexico with Spanish as her primary language, she didn’t find many bilingual resources to explain the process thoroughly.

“I didn’t even know where to start, so I looked on the web for classes on how you start a business,” Streeper says. “It’s already hard enough to figure out how to be a business when you speak, or sort of speak, English, and

I never saw a lot of information in Spanish or directed towards me at all.”

Dixon says more Spanish-first initiative ideas are brewing, such as an entrepreneurial educational program specifically designed for Spanish-speaking and immi-

grant business owners. In addition to this, Camacho notes the city’s Office of Economic Development is drafting an economic development plan for Santa Fe’s immigrant populations with the help of a data project from the American Immigration Council.

The plan, Camacho says, should be finished this winter and will address barriers for immigrants entering the entrepreneurial space and the workforce. The city hopes the strategy will create more high-paying jobs for immigrants and subsequently help solve employee scarcity.

“For us, it’s important to create highwage jobs for people to be able to live in Santa Fe, and I think that we can from the point of view of workforce development,” Camacho tells SFR. “In economic development, we have a lot of tourism, and just as we saw in the pandemic, you don’t have as much resilience if you don’t have a diverse economy.”

She says the city started the process of translating into Spanish applications such as special events licensing and legislation including the Homemade Food Act, which allows individuals to prepare certain low-risk food items in their residence and sell them directly to consumers without a permit.

Gretel Barrita, member of the community-based and immigrant-led organization Somos Un Pueblo Unido, which promotes worker and racial justice, underscores the need for many different types of resources, not only translations.

“There are times where you have to fill out forms that you don’t understand, even sometimes when the words are written in Spanish, in order to fill out an application for a license or permit, and you end up asking yourself, ‘What is this? What do I have to put here?’” Barrita tells SFR. “It’s a hard road.”

With so many initiatives and translations still in the works, Medina is thankful for his position today. He hopes the educational series and additional resource will help others get there too. He highlighted the value of moving “beyond inclusivity.”

“People do need that help to be included, but it’s easy to just stay in that step, but then you’re never really given the agency,” he says. “I’m hoping that with this initiative that we started with the city, it helps those businesses get to the point where they can call their accountant and say, ‘Hey, I need another LLC.’”

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FERIA SOUTHSIDE

4-7 pm, Thursday, Aug. 27 Fraternal Order of Police 3300 Calle Maria Luisa santafechamber.com/feria

I t’s already hard enough to figure out how to be a business when you speak, or sort of speak, English, and I never saw a lot of information in Spanish or directed towards me at all.

-Alejandra Streeper co-founder of ArtWalk Santa Fe

In episode two of the new educational telenovela Entre El Negocio y El Amor, or Between Business and Love, lead characters Carlos and Bella run into each other while attempting to secure business licenses.

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MUSIC FRI/11

HIP-HOPPY BIRTHDAY

Hip-hop trailblazers The Pharcyde might have come up in the same general late ‘80s-early ‘90s Los Angeles milieu that birthed N.W.A, Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Doggy Dogg, of course) and much of the original Death Row Records crew. But Pharcyde’s jazz-drizzled sound is about as far from gangsta rap as you can get—falling more in line with sonic descendants such as Flying Lotus and Aesop Rock. The pioneering group heads to Santa Fe this week to perform at the free Raashan Ahmad-hosted 50th anniversary celebration of hip-hop through the Lensic360 nonprofit imprint. The event also promises a fashion show, live screenprinting and vendors—and with five full hours of beats and bars on the lineup, you don’t wanna let this one go passin’ you by. Stick around the Railyard following the show to find out where the afterparty’s going down, too (Spoiler: it’s at Opuntia). (Siena Sofia Bergt)

The Pharcyde: 5 pm Friday, Aug. 11. Free Santa Fe Railyard Plaza, 1612 Alcaldesa St., Lensic360.org

ART OPENING FRI/11

WANDER WOMAN

Calling to mind that old Tolkien saying about wanderers, Texas-based artist Leticia Herrera recreates the nigh-unexplainable allure of wandering in her upcoming Walkers exhibit at Canyon Road’s Thornwood Gallery. Herrera’s new series of oil paintings focuses on the movement of those in search of freedom and unity and was reportedly inspired by her own emigration to the US from Mexico City in 2007. In all of the paintings, Herrera puts families of impasto figures into motion, on their way to some vague destination and often emerging from some darkness and toward a mysterious source of light. It seems likely you’ll feel a little wanderlust of your own just looking at them. (Noah Hale)

Leticia Herrera: Walkers Opening: 3-6 pm Friday, August 11. Free Thornwood Gallery, 555 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0279

EVENT MON/14

TONIGHT WE’RE GOING TO PARTY LIKE IT’S 1990-SOMETHING

Though some folks of a certain age around the SFR offices are baffled by literally any romanticized notions of the ’90s, it’s hard to deny the weird and brazen pop culture beats of the decade that birthed such bangers as the grunge movement, Saved by the Bell (keep your ’80s-born Miss Bliss feelings to yourselves, SBTB purists!), Hypercolor and Pogs. So don your sweetest Body Glove tee, DC shoes and Jnco jeans for the ’90s ONLY Music Video Dance Party at La Reina bar within the El Rey Court. We’re told this throwback jam should have plenty of Spice Girls, Selena and Shania on tap, and you just know someone’s gonna play “Black Hole Sun” or, like, “Heart Shaped Box” or something. Is it the decade we miss, or is it our very youth? Do not ask for whom the boy band tolls—it tolls for thee. (ADV)

‘90s ONLY Music Video Dance Party: 7:30 pm Monday, Aug. 14. Free. La Reina, 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931

MUSIC SAT/12

Step on Through

DIY event Santa Fe Portalfest hits year two with way more everything

At last year’s Santa Fe Portalfest, roughly 27 acts played on porches, portales and driveways throughout the neighborhood surrounding Alto Park while eight or nine arts vendors hocked their wares. This year’s fest, according to organizers Jules Hoffman and Sal Maxwell, ups the ante to 50 bands, performers and solo artists plus 42 art vendors across nine stages in the same neighborhood and at Casa Solana.

Hoffman and Maxwell kicked things off last year in the vein of similar nationwide events. Hoffman, also a musician, cut their teeth on similar fests in the Boston area, where Maxwell had also discovered the power of community organizing and porch-playin’. Together, they hatched the concept for a Santa Fe version that would not only create opportunities for local musicians and artists who might not have an easy route into Santa Fe’s admittedly scant venues, but that would come with a few bucks for those participating. Now, with a dream in their hearts, a combined $3,000 grant from the Santa Fe Community Fund and the Envision Fund and more than $5,000 from a GoFundMe campaign as of this writing, the second now-annual Santa Fe Portalfest steams ahead.

“It’s a day of music and community— it’s creating opportunities for musicians of all styles and experience levels,” Hoffman says, “to have a space to tell their stories.”

“I’m just excited to see all our friends play music,” Maxwell adds. “To be sur-

rounded by the talent of our beautiful friends...”

She trails off, but it’s a wonderful thought. And this year’s Portalfest lineup is no joke. We’re talking performances from rock act Gold Tides, thrash-punks The Illegal Aliens, singer-songwriters Hannie Lyles and Lyra Muse and so many more. Additionally, attendees can expect to find vendors like Golda Blaise Jewelry & Accessories, Cosmic Cowboys Creative Studios, Chelsea Call Ceramics, Kokopelli Design Studio and many more; plus drag storytime, a community wellness area run by the Queer Community Care collective (with information about Narcan, safe needle exchange, massage and more), plus food from the farm at Reunity Resources and other elements and surprises.

“There’s such a hunger for queer community spaces,” says Maxwell. “There are a lot of young queer people here...we’re creating DIY spaces where people can gather and support one another.”

To make things simpler, Hoffman and Maxwell suggest starting the day at the Aspen Community Magnet School and spiraling out from there. You can still donate at gofundme.com/santafeportalfest2023, too! (Alex

De Vore)

SANTA FE PORTALFEST 2023 Noon-7 pm Saturday, Aug. 12. Free Aspen Community Magnet School 450 La Madera St., santafeportalfest.com

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WED/9

ART OPENINGS

AFRICAN MINIATURE ART

Intrigue Gallery

238 Delgado St., (505) 820-9265

Antiques and current paintings.

10:30 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

PLANNING FOR OUR FUTURE: WATER PLANNING IN NEW MEXICO

Water History Park 1209 Upper Canyon Road (505) 955-6853

Learn about New Mexico's 50-year water planning, the 2018 State Water Plan and the Water Security Planning Act. Hosted by the City of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe River Commission.

6 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Director Antonio Granjero's flamenco company performs with Spanish guests Angel Muñoz and Charo Espino. Arrive early to dine on tapas while building anticipation for the show.

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 Gonzales and more.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

ALL THINGS YARN

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

If you picked up a fiber-based hobby during the pandemic, this is your chance to break out those knitting needles or crochet hooks and collectively count stitches to your heart's content.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Informal chess, timed or untimed.

10 am-1 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

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

Walking tour guide Christian Saiia invites locals to gather every Wednesday 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

Thrice-weekly instructor-led bike rides through the city.

10-11 am, $5

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Wayward Comedy welcomes you to the stage weekly. And in the immortal words of Donald O’Connor, “Just slip on a banana peel, the world’s at your feet— make ‘em laugh.” 8 pm, free

TOUR THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION

New Mexico Governor's Mansion

One Mansion Drive (505) 476-2800

Enjoy a docent-led tour of the art and furniture on display at the governor's digs.

Noon, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Themed storytime and creative activities for the kiddos. This week’s subject hasn’t yet been announced, but last week centered on robots.

10:30-11:30 am, free

WRITER'S DEN

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

A weekly quiet, communal space to write to the sound of others' clicking keyboards. And did you know the place has a coffee bar now, too? You’re welcome for that little tidbit.

5-6:30 pm, free

MUSIC

BILL HEARNE

La Fonda on the Plaza

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

Traditional Americana and honky-tonk from a Santa Fe mainstay.

6:30-9 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Join the professionals in their weekly improvisation—just don’t forget to bring an oboe of your own.

6-9 pm, free

MARISSA AND PETE Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

This listing is a bit mysterious, but knowing the good old C-girl, chances are high there'll be a touch of Americana, blues and/or country in tonight’s musical mix.

4-6 pm, free

Jason Poole finds the supernatural within the natural in “Monoliths, Study III,” from The Edge of Wildness, opening this week at Aurelia Gallery.

MOZART, LINDBERG AND NEIKRUG

St. Francis Auditorium at New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Speaking of oboes—Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Artistic Director Marc Neikrug is premiering his own oboe composition alongside classical and modern classical mainstays.

6 pm, $40-$80

SECOND CHANCES

Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

Classic and original country tunes for swingin’ to.

6-9 pm, free

TONY ARNOLD AND MOVSES

POGOSSIAN RECITAL

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

The soprano and violinist tackle György Kurtág’s Kafka-inspired compositions. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

Noon, $35-$40

WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOLKS

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

Acoustic tunes provided by Marc & Paula's Roadside Distraction.

6-9 pm, free

OPERA

PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900

Netia Jones directs Claude Debussy's oneiric story of love triangles amongst members of a fictional royal family.

8 pm, $50-$336

THEATER

ZERO

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

Enter the sleek halls of Equilibrium, the tech company on the brink of releasing a revolutionary new AI product. Choose your player and battle for their life in this surreal Exodus Ensemble work adapted from Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine. Ages 18+, please.

7:45 pm, tickets by donation

WORKSHOP

3D MODELING: FUSION360

MAKE Santa Fe

2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn the basics of the computer-aided modeling program to get that much closer to exploring your inventions and brainstorms in additional dimensions.

10 am-2 pm, $80

AERIAL FABRIC WITH

LISA

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

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

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

THU/10

BOOKS/LECTURES

KIM PEGRAM

Stewart Udall Center

725 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1125

The Santa Fe Botanical Garden's summer pollinator series continues with a discussion of monarch butterflies and their beloved native milkweeds.

11 am-noon, $32-$40

SAR ARTIST TALK AND STUDIO TOUR

School for Advanced Research

660 Garcia St. (505) 954-7200

Heidi Brandow discusses her work and time at the School for Advanced Research as the 2023 Ronald and Susan Dubin

Native Artist Fellow before walking visitors through her workspace.

5:30-7 pm, free

DANCE

ECSTATIC DANCE

Railyard Performance Center

1611 Paseo de Peralta EmbodyDance hosts 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

With nearly 100 performances every year, these folks really have their flamenco down to a science.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

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

Expect an assortment of guest appearances from the likes of Vicente Griego, Eloy Aguilar, Daniel Azcarate, Eloy Cito Gonzales and more.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

EVENTS

ALL FIERCE COMEDY SHOW

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

We heard through the grapevine that norteño comic Carlos Medina is working on a new character, and we're intrigued.

(See Cover, page 12) 7 pm, $10-$30

THE CALENDAR

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Go forth and capture that king, young knight. All levels welcome.

10 am-1 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

A not-so-trivial pursuit most appropriate for fans of Britishstyle pub quizes.

7 pm, free

SALAAM~SHALOM: A COMMUNITY CELEBRATION OF PEACE

Farmers' Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Eat, drink and dance in celebration of peace alongside the young Israeli and Palestinian women participating in this year's three-week Tomorrow's Women leadership camp.

6-8 pm, $15-$30

SEEDS & SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Julia Elgatian Romero leads the little ones in an hour of guided garden exploration. Last week’s attendees got to meet feathered friends from the New Mexico Wildlife Center.

10:30-11:30 am, free

VÁMONOS WALKS: FIND A NEW PATH La Familia Health Southside Clinic

2145 Caja del Oro Grant Road (505) 989-7019

Explore the trail leading from the popular local health clinic all the way to Reunity Resources farm.

5:30 pm, free

FILM

CLOSER LOOKS: PERSONA

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338

A screening and discussion of Ingmar Bergman's identity-bending black and white masterpiece.

6 pm, $13

FOOD

FLIGHT NIGHT

Santa Fe Spirits

Downtown Tasting Room

308 Read St. (505) 780-5906

For those who prefer their tipsiness with a little less decision-making, every Thursday night offers the opportunity to sample four different mini cocktails instead of one large one.

3-10pm, free

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 393-5135

Brent Jung brings you seafood fresh off the plane.

5-8 pm, free

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La Emi

MUSIC

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET

Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Sax-centric jazz.

6-9 pm, free

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana, country and honky-tonk.

4-6 pm, free

FREDDIE SCHWARTZ

As Above So Below Distillery

545 Camino de la Familia (505) 916-8596

Classic rock from a New Orleans native.

8 pm, free

GEOFFREY CASTLE

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

An electric six-string violinist? Woah. How many of those do you see coming through Santa Fe?

7 pm, free

JOHNNY LLOYD

The Hollar

2849 NM Hwy 14, Madrid (505) 471-2841

Old school Americana.

12-2 pm, free

LA BUENA ONDA

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Femmes, thems and Latine DJs (including host Luz Skylarker) spin cumbia, reggaetón and more.

6-9 pm, free

LOST PADRE 45RPM PARTY

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Lost Padre Records' owner celebrates his 45th birthday with an evening of 45 rpm spinning featuring the likes of local DJs such as Christina Swilley, Prairie Dog, Grgor, Hidden Volume, Criminal D, Summerman and more.

7 pm, free

MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME

JAZZ TRIO

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio 652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Saxophone, upright bass and drums.

2-5 pm, free

NICOLAS NAMORADZE

PIANO RECITAL

St. Francis Auditorium at New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Bach, Ligeti and Schubert. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.  Noon, $35-$40

NOVALIMA

Santa Fe Plaza

100 Old Santa Fe Trail

Afro-Peruvian beats, with support from Barcutanga. Presented by Lensic360.

6 pm, free

PAT MALONE

TerraCotta Wine Bistro

304 Johnson St. (505) 989-1166

Solo jazz guitar and fingerplucking from the beloved local educator.

6-8 pm, free

SIR CHLOE

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Vermont-based indie rock outfit with support from Albuquerque singersongwriter Willajay.

8 pm, $20-$35

SUNSET SERENADE

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Admire that famous Santa Fe sunset from the deck of a moving train car.

7 pm, $109-$129

OPERA

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900

David Alden brings Wagner's saga of doomed love and salty seas to Santa Fe for the first time in 35 years.

8 pm, $50-$366

THEATER

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

An Edwardian musical farce drawn from the same source material (Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal) as the film Kind Hearts and Coronets

7:30-10 pm, $15-$75

CITY MICE

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

A pair of brothers—one a hippy Vermont farmer and the other an urbane New Yorker—hash out their differences with the support of their wives, poetry and pot.

7:30-9:15 pm, $15-$25

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

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 quite where to start, Wise Fool will get you off your feet and on your way to the ceiling.

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

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EMBEDDING PURPOSE IN YOUR MARKETING

Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red) 1366 Cerrillos Road (505) 428-0996

Bring an advertising sample for pro analysis from Seekees Consulting founder Savannah Hoover.

9-10 am, free

HATHA YOGA

The Spa at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado 198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Gentle yoga with a focus on breath work.

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

THURSDAY MORNING WHEEL

Paseo Pottery 1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

An all-levels-welcome opportunity to practice shaping spinning clay.

10 am-noon, $70 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

FRI/11

ART OPENINGS

ANNUAL CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN GROUP EXHIBITION

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

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

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

BILL STANKEY (OPENING)

The Rooster on Canyon and WGD Interiors

205 Canyon Road (505) 313-4170

Colorful abstract paintings.

5-7 pm, free

CARLOS CARULO (OPENING)

Goldleaf Gallery

627 W Alameda St. (505) 988-5005

Small scale gestural abstract watercolors.

9:30 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri, free

DEBORAH ROBERTS: COME WALK IN MY SHOES (OPENING)

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Celebrate the new exhibit of figurative collages and paintings exploring black boyhood in the United States with food from Power 5 BBQ and drinks by Leaf and Hive.

5-9 pm, free

HYUNMEE LEE: SHIFTING HORIZON (OPENING)

Nüart Gallery

670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888

Abstract images probing the nature and lived experience of transformation.

5-7 pm, free

JENNIFER MEDINA

art is gallery santa fe 419 Canyon Road (505) 629-2332

The Santo Domingo Pueblo jeweler showcases Native Contemporary pieces with Heishi cut gemstones.

11 am-5 pm daily, free

KATHLEEN MCCLOUD: SONG OF GLORIA MUNDI (OPENING)

GF Contemporary

707 Canyon Road (505) 983-3707

Fabric collages and assemblages inspired by the artist's relationship to Southwestern plants.

5-7 pm, free

LETICIA HERRERA: THE WALKERS (OPENING)

Thornwood Gallery

555 Canyon Road (505) 428-0279

Oil paintings of travelers and their paths, with live music and snacks to celebrate. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

3-6 pm, free

MIKAYLA PATTON: ON THE BACK ROAD

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711

Oglala Lakota mixed media 2D and 3D abstracts.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

PATRICK DEAN HUBBELL: YOU EMBRACE US (OPENING)

Gerald Peters Contemporary

1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

New works examining the commodification and appropriation of Indigenous designs.

5-8 pm, free

REBECCA CROWELL: CONTEMPLATIVE SPACES (OPENING)

Winterowd Fine Art

701 Canyon Road (505) 992-8878

Pensive, chromatically subdued oil and cold wax abstract landscapes.

5-7 pm, free

STEVEN J YAZZIE: THROWING STARS OVER MONSTERS (OPENING)

Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

Paintings, drawings, photos and video works exploring the intersection of nature, culture and technology.

5-8 pm, free

THE TOPOGRAPHY OF MEMORY (OPENING)

Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

Teresa Baker, Elizabeth Hohimer and Hank Saxe test the boundaries of the idea of "landscape art."

5-8 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

SALON EL ZAGUÁN: WHO

OWNS THE WATER HERE?

Water History Park

1209 Upper Canyon Road (505) 983-2567

Mac Watson walks attendees through the past and present of water rights in Santa Fe.

Presented by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation.

6:30 pm, $11

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER

SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

Did you know El Flamenco Cabaret has its own flamenco school on top of the live performances? A real one stop flamenco shop.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO

SERIES

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

While we’re talking flamenco teachers, La Emi runs her own EmiArteFlamenco courses as well.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

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 of the museum’s downtown neighborhood (weather permitting).  10 am, $20

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

It may be true that nothing good happens after midnight, but the karaoke probably sounds better when you're a little bit delirious.

9 pm-1 am, free

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Little ones enjoy theatrical play led by Talia Pura of Theatre Santa Fe and Blue Raven Theatre.

2-4 pm, free

LBGTQIA+ SPIRITUAL SUPPORT GROUP

Unity Santa Fe

1212 Unity Way (505) 989-4423

An open forum for queer folks to discuss individual and collective understandings of spirituality.

6:30 pm, free

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 tabletop game figurines with like-minded nerds.

4-6:30 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. You’ll spot something new each time.

10 am, $12

SANTA FE QUEER &

TRANS OPEN MIC

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing, (505) 393-1196

A performance space for poetry, prose music, dance, comedy, spoken word, theater, movement and more from Santa Fe's queer, trans and gender-creative community.

6:30-9 pm, free

THE STARGAZER

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Travel to the Galisteo Basin for ultimate low-light onboard stargazing with pro guides.

9:30 pm, $139

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. It was apparently known as “El Delirio” way back in the day, which sounds promisingly spooky.

10-11:30 am, $15

FILM

ROUTE 66: THE UNTOLD STORY OF WOMEN ON THE MOTHER ROAD

La Fonda on the Plaza

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

A panel discussion and doc film series screening exploring intersectionality in the lives of women living and working along the iconic road.

3-5 pm, free with registration

THE SHORT FILMS OF JANELLE VANDERKELEN

No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org

The Milwaukee-based educator and experimental animator will be on site for a Q&A following the screening.  7 pm, free

MUSIC

CHARLES TICHENOR CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley (505) 992-0304

King Charles and occasional guests serenade diners with vocals and piano.  6 pm, free

GARY GORRENCE

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio 652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Acoustic classic rock.

2-5 pm, free

JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

High energy recognizable dance band tunes.

8-11 pm, free

THE PHARCYDE Railyard Plaza Market and Alcaldesa streets lensic360.org

Celebrate the 50-year history of hip-hop with local and touring artists in the genre. Hosted by Raashan Ahmad and presented by Lensic360. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

5 pm, free

PUPFISH FEATURING

RYAN MONTAÑO

Second Street Brewery

(Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

Funk, jazz and general grooving from a group of Santa Fe locals.

8-10 pm, free

ROB SCHEPS

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Tenor saxophone from a musician who recorded alongside the likes of Aretha Franklin and Gil Evans.

6 pm, $30-$35

ROBERT MARCUS AND EDWIN LIGHT

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

Finzi and Horovitz compositions for clarinet and piano, presented as part of the church’s weekly free Friday evening music offerings.

5:30 pm, free

STEPHANIE HATFIELD

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Straightforward local indie folk rock

5 pm, free

TRINITY SOUL

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Rock, reggae, funk and (in case it wasn’t obvious) soul. 8 pm, free

New visions of Black childhood in Deborah Roberts: Come walk in my shoes, opening this week at SITE Santa Fe.

WITNESS A MONUMENTAL PERFORMANCE

A SONIC EXPERIENTIAL GLACIER IN SANTA FE

OPERA ORFEO

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive

(505) 986-5900

MacArthur Prize Winner Yuval Sharon directs the Monteverdicomposed (and Nico Muhlyarranged) story of underworld romance.

8 pm, $50-$366

THEATER

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

An Edwardian musical romp.

7:30-10 pm, $15-$75

CITY MICE

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Nick Stofocik directs Rosemary Zibart's tale of two brothers.

7:30-9:15 pm, $15-$25

SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

SAT/12

ART OPENINGS

ABSTRACT X PRISM

Prism Arts & Other Fine Things

1300 Luisa St., Ste. 3A (248) 763-9642

A one-day exhibition featuring the likes of Autumn Fae, Elijah Chong, Rachelle Rowlett and more.

5-8 pm, free

DOUG HYDE

Nedra Matteucci Galleries

1075 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4631

Indigenous sculptures carved from marble, alabaster and more.

9 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free

JASON POOLE: THE EDGE OF WILDNESS (RECEPTION)

Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Photographs probing the boundaries between the organic and the artificial.

5-7 pm, free

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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

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

We’ve been talking for weeks now about how much we hate the Joss Whedon adaptation, but how about that 1993 version?

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

TWELFTH NIGHT

UUC Santa Fe

107 Barcelona Road (505) 466-3533

Shakespearian gender-swapping at its best, courtesy of the young thespians of Upstart Crows.

6:30-9:15 pm, $10-$20

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.

10:30 am-noon $23-$28

INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Education Annex

123 Grant Ave. (505) 946-1039

Use O'Keeffe's sketchbook studies and pen drawings as inspiration for your own sketches. Props provided.

1-3 pm, $35-$45

TEEN INTRO TO CIRCUS WITH CAREY

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

All the rebellious vibes of running away and joining the circus, minus the actual running away.

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—a real four-aerials-for-the-price-of-one deal.

5-6 pm, $22-$25

PRINT! BANG! BOOM!

Phil Space

1410 Second St. (505) 983-7945

A printmakers' showcase intended to whet appetites in the lead up to tomorrow's Printer's Planet Festival.

5-8 pm, free

SANTA FE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS SHOW

Santa Fe Society of Artists

122 W Palace Ave. (505) 926-1497

An open-air seasonal weekend showcase featuring local painting, printmaking and photography.

9 am-5:30 pm, free

THE SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET

Santa Fe Railyard Market and Alcaldesa streets (505) 982-3373

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

9 am-2 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

ARCHAEOLOGY OF FORGOTTEN NARRATIVES

Strata Gallery

125 Lincoln Ave., Ste. 105 (505) 780-5403

Donald Levering shares poems inspired by David Olivant's ongoing exhibition, Whether or Not Something Bad Has Happened

3-4 pm, free

DEBORAH ROBERTS IN CONVERSATION

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

The artist joins curators Ekow Eshun, Phillip Townsend and Jakia Fuller for a conversation about experiences of Black childhood in conjunction with Roberts’ ongoing exhibition.

2 pm, free

LEARN ABOUT SANTA FE COUNTY'S GREEN INITIATIVE

Santa Fe County Fairgrounds

3229 Rodeo Road (505) 955-6853

Hear from the county's Sustainability Division about its Climate Action Plan and incorporation of stormwater infrastructure to recycle water. Sponsored by the City of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe River Commission.

10 am, free

SOUTHWEST WRITERS

READING

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Contributing authors Joe Brown, Mark Fleisher and more read aloud from their new militaryand veteran-centric anthology, Holes in Our Hearts

2 pm, free

DANCE

CONTRA DANCE

Oddfellows Hall

1125 Cerrillos Road (575) 387-6853

No prior experience (or partners) needed. Arrive at 7 pm for a lesson, then get dancin' to the sweet sounds of The Parson Sisters.

7-10 pm, $9-$10

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

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

The fall season starts Sept. 8, so you only have a month left to catch this particular program.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

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

Remember us mentioning La Emi teaches? Well, we left out this part—she’s been offering flamenco instruction since the age of 12. Bananas.

7:15 pm, $25-$55

THE CALENDAR

EVENTS

A FIBER FLEA

Santa Fe Women's Club

1616 Old Pecos Trail

nnmqg.org

Northern New Mexico Quilt

Guild members sell all things books, patterns, notions, fabric, kits, finished items and more.

10 am-1 pm, free

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!

Railyard Plaza

Market and Alcaldesa streets

(505) 982-3373

Creatively inclined folks of all ages are invited to enjoy the art-making materials and activities on offer at the Railyard Art Market from the New Mexico

Art Museum.

8 am-1 pm, free

INDIGENOUS WALKING

TOUR OF DOWNTOWN OGA

POGEH/SANTA FE

Cathedral Park

131 Cathedral Place

christinamcastro.com

Christina M. Castro (Taos and Jemez Pueblo) shares a Pueblo perspective on the history and present of White Shell Water Place (aka Santa Fe).

10 am-noon, $40 suggested

LA TIENDA FLEA

La Tienda at Eldorado

7 Caliente Road

Imagine if you took all the individual yard sales happening on a given weekend and combined them into a single space.

8 am, free

MARGARITA RAIL

Sky Railway

410 S Guadalupe St.

(844) 743-3759

Tequila and live tunes for your train ride.

3:30 pm, $99

NAVAJO RUG AUCTION

Palace of the Governors

105 W Palace Ave.

(505) 476-5100

Indulge your appreciation for Indigenous fiber arts to benefit the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. Previews at 9 am, bidding at 11 am.

9 am, free, bid cards for $5

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo

(505) 471-9103

The local pollinators are extra busy right now with all the plants blooming right before the harvest hits, so it’s great timing for bee-spotting.

10 am, $12

RUFINA BLOCK PARTY WITH ARTWALK SANTA FE

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Join Paseo Pottery, Tumbleroot, Meow Wolf and MAKE Santa Fe for an evening of art, activities, music, food, vendors and more.

4-8 pm, free

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-noon, free

SCIENCE SATURDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Young ones play with and create 3D digital photos.

2-4 pm, free

VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT

FAIR

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Stop by to chat with current staff and volunteers about their experiences in the garden and enjoy free admission after signing in.

3-5 pm, free

FILM

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946)

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

If you need a reminder that fairy tales are for adults, too, this cinematic version of the story is your best and most mature bet (not to mention those gorgeous hallway shots!).

3 pm, $5

SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS

Beastly Books

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 395-2628

Nostalgic cartoons and cereal all day at the local fantasy and sci-fi specialty bookstore. Pajamas highly encouraged.

11 am-7 pm, free

THE RIGHT TO READ

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

A documentary following an NAACP activist, a teacher and two American families working to uplift literacy.

1-3 pm, free

THE ROOM

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Oh, hi Mark! Greg Sestero himself will be on site to discuss Tommy Wiseau’s trash classic and screen a 25 minute making-of doc.

6 pm, $20-$50

FOOD

SANTA FE FARMERS'

SATURDAY MARKET

Farmers' Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

One of the oldest, largest and most successful such markets in the country—featuring goods from 150 farmers and producers from 15 northern New Mexico counties.

8 am-1 pm, free

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MUSIC

BACH BRANDENBURG

CONCERTO 3

St. Francis Auditorium at New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

With violinist Daniel Phillips, pianist Nicolas Namoradze and more. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

5 pm, $47-$50

BOB MAUS

Bourbon Grill

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

Piano and voice takes on blues and soul classics.

5-7 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

CANDY BOMBER

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

A father/son blues band.

1-3 pm, free

CHARLES TICHENOR

CABARET

Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant

31 Burro Alley (505) 992-0304

Vocals and piano.

6 pm, free

DANIEL NASH/ TORI FRANKLIN AND THE SHAKES

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Straightforward rock.

8 pm, free

EL SHOW WITH NOSOTROS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 393-5135

The beloved norteño band celebrates a full year of El Show concerts with special guests Lone Piñon and DJ Luz Skylarker.

8 pm, $15

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As Santa Fe gears up for (arguably) its biggest weekend of the year via the 101st annual Santa Fe Indian Market by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Indigenous visual art reclaims a much-deserved spotlight. But while the market itself highlights both pre- and post-colonial Native art practices, the associated food offerings have remained firmly on the post-contact side. And though we love a frybread mutton taco as much as the next human with tastebuds, focusing exclusively on survival food does little to nourish traditional foodways. Oglala Lakota Chef Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart is serving up a tradition-steeped alternative—a four course meal based entirely on plants and animals that sustained stewards of this land long before Columbus’ ship lost its way (6:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 19. $150. The Kitchen Table, 313 Camino Alire, (505) 226-1984)—and just talking to her about her kitchen practices left us hungry for more. (Siena

Sofia Bergt)

You describe this event as ‘blending precolonization Indigenous flavors with a contemporary twist.’ Can you share a bit about some of the pre-colonial flavors you’re featuring?

Sure! I mean, I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. [Pre-colonization], we were hunter-gatherers. Some tribes were cultivators and gardeners and that’s not what we were, and so I want to also honor the people of your land in Santa Fe. So I will do some corn-based nods, some tepary beans and things like that. Pre-colonial means no dairy, no gluten, things that were from this land pre-contact. And, you know, I’ve been studying Indigenous techniques and culinary history, not just for my nation, but throughout the country as I’ve developed as a chef, so I will definitely give some nods to different ingredients and techniques from the area. But I’m definitely going to include the primary game proteins that I cook on a daily basis such as rabbit, elk and bison.

What does this event’s timing mean to you, and what does the conjunction with SWAIA bring to the table?

I mean, Indian Market is one of the most premiere artisan gatherings for Indigenous people throughout the country. And people prepare for a long time to do it. This was kind of a career goal since I opened six years ago—and it never really came to light on its own. I’ve been working with Lauren [Stutzman] from [cheese and charcuterie board company] Picnic New Mexico, and she said, ‘Well, why don’t we just make it happen? Your talent needs to be shown to this audience.’ And I prayed about it and I was like, ‘This is awesome.’ It felt right. And it felt like I had a team of people there locally as well as nationally that wanted me to do it and support me in the process. And for me, it’s kind of showcasing my talent beyond the borders of South Dakota. Saying that I can travel, I can do all these things, share where I’m from and my people’s history through food. Invisibility is the last step in genocide, and so visibility is a way of reclaiming who we are as Indigenous people and reclaiming our power back. That’s my goal.

It seems like the culinary arts are an area where the non-Indigenous world is especially far behind in recognizing Indigenous contributions. Given that, could you tell me a bit about what it means to you from a cultural perspective to be raising awareness of Indigenous foodways?

You know, I believe that our foods are medicine. That they speak to our spirits. And when we gather them, when we prepare and consume them, it is a spiritual experience. And sometimes in nonNative society, it is not easy to actually understand that. That you’re not walking up to a stand and eating colonized frybread that was created based on survival. When you eat our food, this is the food that actually sustained us. If you meet a Lakota person, they are in existence today because of our relationship to Pte Oyate, Buffalo Nation. What I love about our Indigenous foods is that they are a way to connect people, because a lot of times we have these walls up. But when we are willing to try something new, you can recognize that these foods will also speak to your spirit. And there’s a power in reclaiming that, but also from a non-Native perspective, in honoring and highlighting and celebrating it. I mean, to be frank, there should be thousands of Indigenous restaurants throughout the country. And non-Native chefs and consumers need to give space for Indigenous chefs to tell our stories through our foods.

With Chef Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart PAYTON SKYE BRAVE HEART

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 the vocals of Loveless Johnson III alongside Thom Rheam on piano and trumpet, Richard Snider on bass and Ralph Marquez on drums.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Rock 'n' roll covers.

8-11 pm, free

LOS LOBOS

Santa Fe Brewing Company

35 Fire Place

(505) 424-3333

Norteño rock to benefit United Way of North Central New Mexico. Presented by Lensic360.

7:30 pm, $39-$100

MYRRHINE AND THE BIG SUITCASE

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Blues-rock.

3 pm, free

ROBERT FOX JAZZ TRIO

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Rehearsed jazz followed by jazz jamming followed, occasionally, by appearances from special guests.

6-9 pm, free

SANTA FE PORTALFEST

La Madera Neighborhood

1011 Lopez St. santafeportalfest.com

A DIY music festival featuring a community wellness area, family zone and food vendors. Shows take place on porches, driveways and yards within an eight-block radius of Alto Park. We hear DIY space Cirque du So Gay is planning an afterparty as well. (See SFR Picks, page 17) Noon-7 pm, free

THE JUNIPER TRIO

San Miguel Mission

401 Old Santa Fe Trail chambermusicatsanmiguel.com

A husband/wife/son trio present a string-centric performance on cello, violin and viola.

3 pm, $15-$35

OPERA

TOSCA

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900

Stage director Keith Warner doses Puccini's tale of political intrigue, suicide and torture with a touch of Hitchcockian suspense.  8 pm, $50-$366

THEATER

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

Santa Fe Playhouse

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

Who doesn’t love a good old fashioned murder musical?

2 pm, 7:30 pm, $15-$75

CITY MICE

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Yes, the title is a reference to the whole city mouse/country mouse thing, but the characters aren’t literal rodents. Just to clarify.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

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 fast-paced, brutal Los Angeles music industry. Ages 18+, please.

7:30 pm, by donation

SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo

(505) 471-9103

Seriously, Emma Thompson’s Beatrice steals every scene she’s in. What’s she been up to these days, anyway? We miss her.

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

TWELFTH NIGHT

UUC Santa Fe

107 Barcelona Road (505) 466-3533

The title refers to the final night of entertainment in the Elizabethan Christmas season. Presented by the young thespians of Upstart Crows.

6:30-9:15 pm, $10-$20

WORKSHOP

FREE TO WRITE!

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

Gino Brazil guides participants in the creation of personal narratives, short stories and more. Registration is required, but you needn't have attended previous workshops.

2-4 pm, free

KAULA TANTRA YOGA

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2501

For the unfamiliar, “tantra” isn’t all about Kama Sutra-type NSFW experiences; it refers to a whole lineage of physio-spiritual practices dating back to at least the eighth century.

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

LANDSCAPE DESIGN BASICS

El Zaguán

545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016

The Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners use the El Zaguán garden as an example for their discussion of how best to revitalize flower beds.

9-11 am, free

PAINT NITE: OWL NIGHT

LONG

Social Kitchen & Bar

725 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-5952

Swing by for a supplies-included evening of painting images of owls.

4 pm, $31

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

The Spa at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

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

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

SUN/13

ART OPENINGS

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Farmers' Market Pavilion

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Buy fine art and crafts directly from local creators. Expect lots of goat milk- and lavender-based offerings.

10 am-3 pm, free

SANTA FE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS SHOW

Santa Fe Society of Artists

122 W Palace Ave. (505) 926-1497

Closing out this weekend’s showcase of local 2D work including painting, printmaking and photography.

9 am-5:30 pm, free

THE PRINTERS PLANET FESTIVAL

Santa Fe Railyard Plaza

1612 Alcaldesa St. theprintersplanet.com

The second annual showcase and market for local printmakers (and their patrons and admirers).

10 am-4 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

GALLERY TALK AND DISCUSSION: MARA TAUB

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1204

The prisoner and immigrant rights advocate discusses her work in the context of the ongoing exhibit Between the Lines: Prison Art and Advocacy Attendees are invited to bring paperback books to donate to incarcerated folks.

2-3 pm, free

DANCE

ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON

El Flamenco Cabaret

135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302

The company was founded in 1998 in Madrid (Spain, not New Mexico), so it’s extra Iberian.

7:30 pm, $25-$48

LA EMI 2023 FLAMENCO SERIES

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

EmiArteFlamenco, on the other hand, was formed by Emi and Vicente Griego in 2014 right here in Santa Fe, which earns a soft spot in our hearts.

1:15 pm, $25-$55

SANTA FE SCENIC WITH NATIVE AMERICAN DANCERS

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

Hoop—and/or buffalo—dance on a moving car? Dang. Think how much hand-eye coordination those interlocking hoop moves take on stationary ground.

1:30 pm, $125-$145

EVENTS

BIRD WALK

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Bring or borrow binoculars for a morning of all-levels avian ogling.

7:30-9 am, $8-$10

BLUEGRASS AND BAGELS

Railyard Park

Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe Street (505) 982-3373

Jamming and a schmear. Hopefully the Boultawn’s bagels in question will be of the blueberry variety, in keeping with the theme.

10 am-noon, free

CHESS AT THE MALL DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Informal chess, timed or untimed.

10 am-1 pm, free

FAMILY FUN DAY: ALL ABOUT STYLE! Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Education Annex 123 Grant Ave. (505) 946-1039

Little ones explore personal style through creative activities designed to play off the ongoing Georgia O’Keeffe: Making A Life exhibit.

11 am-3 pm, free

FREE KIDS' SINGALONG

Reunity Resources

1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196

Sarah-Jane from Queen Bee Music Association leads music games and singalongs for toddlers and babies to aurally explore.

10:45-11:30 am, free

LORE OF THE LAND Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St. (844) 743-3759

Learn local history to the sounds of live music.

1:30 pm, $115

OPEN MIC JAZZ

Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Join High City Jazz Quartet onstage and bring your Billie Holiday or Chet Baker dreams to life with live instrumental accompaniment.

5-7 pm, free

PUBLIC GARDEN TOUR

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

Your final weekly opportunity for a spot of floral fawning with the garden’s staff and volunteer tour leaders.

10 am, $12

THE MARGINS: SOUND THE ALARM

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

A queer protest and variety show responding to increasing anti-queer, anti-Black politics and legislation. Hosted by Roadrunner Runway's Tyrone. No one turned away for lack of funds.

7 pm, $25 suggested

FILM

ACEQUIAS: THE LEGACY LIVES ON (SCREENING AND Q&A)

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

Aracely Chapa's documentary about the cultural significance of New Mexican agricultural waterways. Presented by the Old Santa Fe Association.

1 pm, $5 suggested

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MUCH NOTHING ABOUT ADO

BY LAYLA ASHER

STARTING OVER WITH SOMEONE NEW

Sweet Santa Fe—how are your hearts? From the state of my inbox, they must be aching. Has everyone gone through a life changing breakup in 2023, or what? Was it Pluto, the planet of major transformation, entering Aquarius for the first time in over 200 years that caused this? The last time that happened, it only sparked the American and French revolutions. No big deal. Or was it that we all got just a little bit weird from COVID? Whatever it was, I’m honored so many of you have trusted me with matters of the heart this month, and not just your freaky shit—though you know I love that, too.

My long-term relationship ended in a way I had no choice in earlier this summer. It was and still is pretty full of drama. Recently, though, I have started hanging out with a friend and could see myself falling into something quickly with her. Do you think this is a good idea, especially with a friend?

-NOT SURE WHAT TO DO NEXT

Dramatic or not, the end of a long-term relationship is a life-altering event, and when things end in an abrupt way, in a way you have no choice in, it leaves you without closure and that, my friend, is something every broken heart desperately needs. Have you ever thought about why every culture in the world has some kind of ritual or ceremony after death? Yes, it’s also to celebrate life and to remember who has passed on, but the act is an important and necessary step toward acceptance. Breakups are different from death, yes, but they are not entirely unlike death, and both come with odd feelings; both require something palpable and/or validating that can make the ending of something feel more like reality.

Now you have the tough job of figuring out what steps to take to accept your new reality on your own terms. I’ve always found that talking about things out loud, as silly as it sounds, helps bring them into reality. Bonus points if you can do that with a therapist. As far as getting into a relationship with a friend, it can feel truly wonderful because trust (aka safety) is often already in place. This is why it feels so easy to fall into something. It will, however, always put the friendship at risk. If it feels worth that risk, rock on, but have

a raw conversation with her right now about what both of your expectations are around “hanging out” and what your limitations are while you are grieving this last relationship (because you just straight up are still doing that). Remember how shitty it felt to not have a choice when your relationship ended? Make sure she has one.

I am a recently divorced woman in my 50s and all I know is I really want to have sex again. What advice do you have for someone like me who has never online dated before? Is that the best way to achieve this?

-ENTERING A WHOLE NEW WORLD

I love that you know what you want! Now, how to get it…?

Online dating is such a mixed bag. On one hand, the accessibility is hard to beat. My friends and I call it “boy shopping” for “D.O.D.” (dick on demand). On the other hand, you must wade through an actual cesspool to find someone with whom you connect. And it must be said—that’s especially true in Santa Fe where everyone knows everyone and has already dated or slept with everyone else.

A better way to start might be to let your friends know what you’re looking for and see if they know of anyone looking for something similar. You might join a local meet-up group like Friends First, a group specifically designed for singles 50 and up. Their mission statement says they are not a dating group, and that dating is neither discouraged nor encouraged yet does occur. I happen to know of the cutest love story that came out of that group, so I happily verify that claim.

One thing on which you can always rely—one of the things that gets me through—is the good ol’ adage that if you’re a woman and you want to have sex, you will have sex. It really is as simple as all that. Even so, often, after the demise of a relationship or marriage, the advice is to get to know yourself again. Spend time with yourself and take ample time before starting something new. There is some truth and definitely some value to that, but that may not be what everyone needs. If your nervous system feels soothed by having sex with someone new or by seeking refuge and comfort in a friend, why not do it?

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

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

(1946)

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Celebrate the theater's namesake (and 10 years of ownership by George R.R. Martin) with a screening of Cocteau’s most iconic cinematic work. Seriously, that black and white cinematography is just stunning.

3 pm, $5

THE ROOM

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Anyway, how is your sex life?

Oh, and don’t forget to bring plenty of plastic spoons to throw at the screen any time a painting of cutlery inexplicably appears in the background of a scene.

6 pm, $20-$50

MUSIC

'SAL GOOD SUNDAYS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 393-5135

Close out your weekend on the porch with some al fresco accompaniment courtesy of local DJs Dmonic and Dynamite Sol.

4-9 pm, free

D. HENRY FENTON

Mine Shaft Tavern

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

Australian folk.

1 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Master pianist Montgomery tickles the ivories in the President's Room.

6 pm, free

FESTIVAL OF SONG: LAUREN

SNOUFFER AND ROLANDO

VILLAZÓN

Scottish Rite Center

463 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4414

Two stars of  Orfeo take to a more intimate stage. Presented by Performance Santa Fe.

4 pm, $45-$95

GILBERT CONDUCTS

MESSIAEN

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

Showcasing a composition inspired by the landscape of southwestern Utah. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

6 pm, $15-$100

HOGAN AND MOSS

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

Scorch folk and self-described "old weird Americana." We love the forthrightness.

3 pm, free

JAZZ BRUNCH

Bishop's Lodge

Auberge Resorts Collection

1297 Bishops Lodge Road (888) 741-0480

The Pat Malone Trio gently serenades your meal and/or mimosas.

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

JOHNNY LLOYD

Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio

652 Canyon Road (505) 428-0090

Old school Americana.

2-5 pm, free

MIKAELA DAVIS

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Harp-driven indie folk with support from Zivi.

8 pm, $20-$35

NEW YORK SOUNDSCAPES

San Miguel Mission

401 Old Santa Fe Trail chambermusicatsanmiguel.com

An eclectic program featuring soprano Jamie Jordan Druckman, flutist Patricia Zuber and harpist Grace Browning. Presented by Chamber Music at San Miguel Chapel.

1 pm, $15-$35

OPEN AND UNPLUGGED

ACOUSTIC JAM

Eldorado Community Center

1 Hacienda Loop, Eldorado (505) 466-4248

Calling all strummer, pickers, singers and listeners to join the music-making.

4-6 pm, free

STRANGERS FROM AFAR

La Reina El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

The local power duo shares selected songs from their debut album, Pause & Effect

7-9 pm, free

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 SWING

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

Boogie to the music of Robert Marcum and Brian Dear.

1-4 pm, free

OPERA

APPRENTICE SCENES

Santa Fe Opera

301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900

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

8 pm, $5-$15

THEATER

CITY MICE

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Your final chance to catch the tale of two brothers.

2-3:45 pm, $15-$25

JAYSON

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail

(505) 982-1338

Set in a world similar to that of the ill-fated The Idol, but (blessedly) with less Sam Levinson.

7:30 pm, by donation

SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

And Denzel Washington’s Don Pedro? Don’t even get us started.

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

TWELFTH NIGHT

UUC Santa Fe

107 Barcelona Road (505) 466-3533

Shipwreck-separated twins and abundant gender-swapping. Presented by Upstart Crows.

6:30-9:15 pm, $10-$20

WORKSHOP

BELLYREENA BELLY DANCE

Move Studio

901 W San Mateo Road (505) 670-4386

Learn classic and fusion techniques.

1-2 pm, $15

CREATIVE OPEN STUDIO SUPPORT

bit.ly/3QsjluC

Lauren Dana Smith holds an online space for artists to engage in their creative practices in a shared supportive environment.

11 am, $45

HATHA YOGA

CHOMP: Santa Fe

505 Cerrillos Road (505) 470-8118

Find your flow in the food hall's loft. All levels welcome—and check out the happy hour immediately following the class, too.

Noon-1 pm, $10

INTRODUCTION TO ZEN MEDITATION

Mountain Cloud Zen Center

7241 Old Santa Fe Trail

Valerie Forstman teaches the basics of simply sitting, from breath awareness to dealing with mental chatter.

10-11:15 am, free

KAULA TANTRA YOGA

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

Ecstatic dance, savasana and chakra-centric healing.

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

KIDS SOCIAL DANCE CLASS

Dance Station

Solana Center

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

Salsa, swing and ballroom lessons for young folks ages

7-12. No experience necessary.

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 creative movement in the most bucolic of settings.

10-10:45 am, $25 for 5 classes

MAKE AND TAKE

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1204

Attendees are invited to drop by and craft their own maracas with museum-supplied materials.

10 am-4 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. Proceeds from the class will be donated to the Shontez 'Taz' Denise Morris fund. Rest in peace, dear Taz.

8-9 am, $15 suggested

SUNDAY YOGA IN THE PARK

Bicentennial Alto Park

1121 Alto St.

Build strength (and, quite likely, improve your lung capacity) by starting the day with an all-levels welcome al fresco Vinyasa flow.

10 am, $15

WHEEL CLASS

Paseo Pottery

1273 Calle de Comercio (505) 988-7687

Another all-levels instructor-led throwing opportunity. Students who just can’t get enough of that clay also have access to open studio time for an additional $5 an hour.

11 am-1 pm, $70

MON/14

ART OPENINGS

EXTENDED OPEN HOUSE

Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts

1590 Pacheco St., (505) 983-6372

With the center for worldwide Indigenous art extending its hours around Indian Market, it's the perfect time for folks who haven't yet seen the extensive collection to check it out. Stop by between today and Friday, Aug. 18.

1-4 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

ANDREW GULLIFORD Hotel Santa Fe

1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

The photographer and historian lectures on the past and present of Bears Ears National Monument. Presented by Southwest Seminars.

6 pm, $20

DANCE

90'S ONLY MUSIC VIDEO DANCE PARTY La Reina El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Classic '90s icons (think along the lines of Spice Girls, Shania Twain, Selena and the like) mixed in between one hit wonders and Eurodance numbers.

(See SFR Picks, page 17)

7:30-10:30 pm, free

EVENTS

CHESS AT THE MALL DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Informal chess, timed or untimed.

10 am-1 pm, free CHESS AT THE MOVIES

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

Keep the chess going with theater popcorn to fuel you.  6-9 pm, free

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LEISURELY BIKE RIDE

Fort Marcy Park

490 Washington Ave. (505) 955-2500

Bicycle! Bicycle!

10-11 am, $5

FILM

VIDEO LIBRARY CLUB

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Lisa from Video Library picks a film from her shelves—ranging from obscure cult flicks to blockbuster classics—to share on the big screen.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC

BEETHOVEN AND POULENC

TRIOS

St. Francis Auditorium at New Mexico Museum of Art

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Beethoven for clarinet, cello and piano—and Poulenc for oboe, bassoon and piano. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

6 pm, $15-$100

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse

414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Pianist with a pedigree.

6 pm, free

JOHNNY LLOYD

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Old school Americana.

4-6 pm, free

LADY WRAY

Santa Fe Plaza

100 Old Santa Fe Trail lensic360.org R&B and soul, with support from Brainstory. Presented by Lensic360.

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

Collectively practice your vertical skills.

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

PRANAYAMA SHAKTI YOGA

The Spa at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado

198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Elementally-focused yoga.

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

TEEN/TWEEN AERIALS WITH KRISTEN

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Ages 11-15 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

Come on—we know you're at least curious about that unicycle.

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

TUE/15 EVENTS

CHESS AT THE MALL

DeVargas Center

564 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4671

Informal chess.

10 am-1 pm, free

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.

8 pm, free

SANTA FE FARMERS’ MARKET INSTITUTE TOURS

Santa Fe Railyard Market and Alcaldesa streets (505) 982-3373

Enjoy communal breakfast in the Market Pavilion, discussions of the institute's work and a guided tour of the market.

9 am, free with registration

WHAT'S BLOOMING IN THE GARDEN TOUR

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

Ken and Susan Bower teach you to identify blooming plants.

9:30-11 am, free

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.

3-6 pm, free

MUSIC

DALE WATSON AND HIS LONE STARS

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 393-5135

Self-dubbed "Ameripolitan" honky-tonk.  8 pm, $23

DREAMBOAT CAPTAIN

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

A singer-songwriter duo.  7 pm, free

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GARY GORRENCE

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

Acoustic classic rock. 4-6 pm, free

HAOCHEN ZHANG PIANO RECITAL

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

All Beethoven all the time. Presented by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.  Noon, $35-$40

ROBERT MIRABAL WITH LEVI PLATERO

Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail lensic360.org

Taos Pueblo flute and Navajo guitar. Presented by Lensic360.  6-8 pm, free

THE DOWNTOWN BLUES JAM

Evangelo's 200 W San Francisco St. Featuring Brotha Love & The Blueristocrats.

8:30-11:30 pm, free

OPERA

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900

Wagner’s tale of maritime heartbreak.  8 pm, $50-$366

WORKSHOP

HATHA YOGA

The Spa at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado 198 NM-592 (505) 946-5700

Gentle, breath-centric yoga.  10:30-11:30 am, $18-$90

QUEER BURLESQUE WITH AUDREY

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road (505) 992-2588

Queer cuties learn the basics of constructing a persona, walking a stage, teasing off clothes and plenty more.

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

Praise for the Pyramid

A locals’ favorite not to be forgotten

BY NOAH HALE intern@sfreporter.com

When brothers Houssem and Mohammed (“Ziggy”) Rzig took over Pyramid Café in February 2006 after moving to Santa Fe from Tunisia, they planned to revamp the menu to make it more inclusively Mediterranean by adding Moroccan and Tunisian fare. With their eyes on expansion, they also opened a new location in Los Alamos’ historic Bathtub Row district that September, and both restaurants have been serving up some seriously good (and affordable) food ever since—so good, in fact, that Pyramid has firmly established itself as a goto favorite among locals.

Even so, with so many new restaurants popping up in Santa Fe year after year and constantly enticing us with newness, it’s easy to forget the stand-by establishments like Pyramid. Maybe you’ve taken for granted how important Pyramid has been for the local eats game, or maybe you’ve just forgotten how good the food is over there? Allow SFR to refresh your memory.

Situated within the El Mercado shopping center on Cordova Road between The Center

Barber Shop and the Vietnamese-forward Saigon Café, Pyramid’s atmosphere is warm and relaxed, and decorated with eclectic North African art in homage to the Rzigs’ Tunisian roots. Pyramid closes following lunch service between 2:30 and 4:30 pm, yet I arrived in the late afternoon with my com panion thinking of our outing as a super-late lunch. Even though we were early for the dinner service, it didn’t take long for more guests to file in. Pyramid seems to attract three types of diners: the regulars, the picker-uppers and the curious and/ or clueless. Having never dined there before, we were members of the latter camp, of course, but we were also in the minori ty. Most of the diners walking in after us looked like regulars, and many sped directly to their tables like they owned them. My companion and I agreed—this was a good sign.

To start, diners can choose between one, two or three appetizers ($5.95, $8.95 or $11.95) from a list of five. Our server rec ommended the hummus, baba ganoush and tabbouleh. When it comes to Mediterranean food, these are the big-name items, and we took her advice—although we made a mental note to try the dolmas and miswiya (a Tunisian charred green chile salad) next time. Our trio of appetizers came together on one plate with a side of pita bread for dipping and scooping. I immediately fell in love with the creamy texture of the hummus, almost always a surefire indicator that some unsung culinary genius in the kitchen knows the secret to a bona fide hummus is all about the freshness of the garbanzo beans and how long you cook them. With notes of tahini and garlic to whet the edge of every bite, I couldn’t have been more pleased, and the warm, soft pita bread paired equally well with all three appetizers, even if we did look a little silly trying to scoop up the tabbouleh like ama-

teurs. An Eastern Mediterranean salad made mostly with parsley, mint, onions, tomatoes and drizzled with lemon juice, this tabbouleh was my favorite part of our mini mezze—the cucumbers in Pyramid’s version were crisp, the tomatoes were fresh and flavorful and the

only made it about two bites into the sandwich, but the following day told me it was even tastier as leftovers. The fries were some of the best we’ve had anyplace; soft without being soggy, yet firm without being overly crispy. If I had to nitpick, I’d say the jasmine rice under my kabobs wasn’t as warm as I’d like, but this was easily fixed by whittling the gyro meat, roasted onions and peppers of the kabob off the skewer and onto the rice with tzatziki sauce moreover. After downing one kabob, though, I was utterly stuffed. I did manage to eat a piece of near-perfectly cooked chicken with a slice of grilled tomato and tzatziki sauce that made me want to run into the kitchen and kiss the chef, but I got ahold of myself.

profile of the dish as a whole.

And this was only the beginning. Right as we began to worry we wouldn’t have enough pita left to finish our appetizers, our server delivered another plateful, along with a cup of hearty lamb stew ($6). While many lamb stews skimp on the meat, or worse—do very little to flavor it—Pyramid’s wasn’t stingy and featured an often-overlooked piquancy in a way that even made the veggies feel exciting.

For our main dishes, I ordered the combination kabob plate ($18.50) with gyro meat (lamb and beef in this case) and chicken, while my companion chose the Pyramid classic falafel sandwich with fries ($11.95). In both cases, the dishes arrived with generous portions. Having eaten a healthy amount during the starter course, my companion

As is the case for any meal, looking at the dessert menu magically conjured room for more food. Patrons can choose between Key lime pie, chocolate lava cake (both $4.95) or the Levantine baklava ($3.95). We decided to share the Key lime pie, which, we’d heard, has gained quite the favorable reputation in town. Watching our spoons sink dreamily through downy-soft layers of meringue, filling and the thin graham cracker crust became our meal’s bittersweet swan song. And I realized something: I might have come to Pyramid as an uninitiated newcomer, but from here on out I’m as good as any loyal regular.

Falafel sandwich and fries.

Roots Planted

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Studies have shown music can have an effect on plant growth, but it might not work the way you think. Plants, of course, lack ears, so the how and why of the effect of music on their growth really comes down to vibrational stimuli. In other words, sound waves, particularly musical sound waves, can reportedly alter a plant’s destiny, or at least how their cells jive within their structure, through vibration. Some claim certain types of plants prefer certain styles of music over others (eg, gentle songs versus harsher styles; classical versus metal). And though it’s an interesting line of thought to follow, it does not likely have realistic real-world applications in most cases. The vast majority of nurseries don’t much have the time to worry about curating musical experiences for their offerings; plants, music or no, are going to grow. But there’s still something to the idea, and those who love and/or care for flora are finding interesting ways to merge music and botany.

Enter Chlorophyll Fine Houseplants (922 Shoofly St. Unit B, chlorophyllfinehouseplants.com) at the Trailhead in the Baca Street Railyard (right across from Cafécito)—a combination retail shop for all types of houseplants and musical gallery owned by local enthusiasts/self-taught horticulturists, botanists and life partners, Mara Lafferty and Daniel Murphy. Chlorophyll has its roots in both world travel and the stricter days of the COVID lockdowns. Today, it’s just about two years old, but years prior to that whole world health crisis thing, Murphy and Lafferty spent several months in Madrid, Spain, circa 2008—where Murphy was born. While there, Lafferty explains, the couple lived mere blocks from and would often visit the Royal Botanic Garden, where they developed a deep love for lesser-seen plants, tropical varieties and other wildcard plants, and for the possibilities of transforming interior spaces into greenery-laden paradises.

“When you see 500-year-old trees that were planted by Prince Phillip...that was something that made us bring more plants into our home,” Murphy adds.

Around the time they returned to the states, Lafferty dug in to the world

Chlorophyll Fine Houseplants grows its scope at the intersection of botany and music

of plants. She took a job with Santa Fe Greenhouses, then, later, with Newman’s Nursery and Payne’s Nursery. At the latter, she worked her way up to the manager of tropical plants before kicking off her own business, Frond Plantscapes. The endeavor began as a service to bring more exotic plants into homes and businesses, with Lafferty handling their care and maintenance through regular house calls.

“It really started out as going to people’s homes and helping them fix their plant problems,” Lafferty explains. “In a

place like Florida, it’s a normal part of the industry of restaurants, hotels—plants are implied and assumed for interiors.”

Though Lafferty would gravitate back to nursery work while becoming a selfmade botanist and horticulturist, the idea to create her own brick and mortar business persisted, even as COVID lockdowns spawned more Santa Feans looking to beautify their home interiors, many of whom made use of Lafferty’s services. Frond Plantscapes made way for Chlorophyll.

“The plants made me do it, for real,” she says with a laugh. “Several times I tried to quit working with plants, but they pulled me back in.”

For Murphy’s part, his grandfather Jonas Kolker was a Freudian psychiatrist with a borderline obsessive bonsai hobby. According to Murphy, his grandfather’s love of bonsai stewardship led him to amass quite a collection and he bequeathed 70 of his own trees to the Smithsonian, which would play a role in the founding of the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, DC. That history, coupled with the Spain trip, set up Murphy to be a lifetime aficionado. Still, as a one-time member of local mathy metal act Fields of Elysium—and a celebrated solo master of improvisational and experimental guitar-based music—his contributions to Chlorophyll are twofold: both as an expert in plants and as a recording artist. The store is open Wednesday through Sunday, and each day Murphy records a 16-minute piece of music based in ambient loops, audio effects and improvisation (think Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, but, like, for plants). That piece plays during business hours and he destroys it at the end of the day, similar to the ethos of the gorgeous yet impermanent sand mandala. Murphy offers, however, a permanent collection of songs—the aptly titled Welcome to Chlorophyll, which features similarly effects-laden compositions that evoke his relationship to plant life.

Today, the marketplace for a local shop specializing in houseplants continues to evolve. Lafferty no longer travels to clients’ homes and Murphy’s improv pieces have grown more refined. Chlorophyll holds a USDA license to source certain plants from sustainable growers, too, with Lafferty and Murphy even cultivating their own seeds for potential future sale, though those might just as easily wind up in their personal collection. The greenery spilling across the walls, floors and shelves and casting enticing smells throughout the space makes it a lovely shop.

“Without plants there would be nothing,” Lafferty muses. “Almost everything we interact with is a plant—our food, utensils, rubber...”

“Even if you eat meat, your meat is eating plants,” Murphy adds. “This is leading into what we see as a possible tropical conservatory here in Santa Fe, with public access, educational tours and resources to understand habitats and eco commerce.”

That’s down the road, of course. And at least for now, both are happy to surround themselves with plants, to drink it all in.

Looking for a dope-ass houseplant? Ambient soundscapes? Daniel Murphy and Mara Lafferty have you covered at Chlorophyll Fine Houseplants.

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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

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“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

to new takes on characters they know and love, the younger generations go wild for age-specific humor.

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’

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. (Siena Sofia Bergt) Violet Crown, R, 95 min.

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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 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. Cowabunga, dudes.

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Most New Mexicans who viewed Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer had a head start on other moviegoers. Whether they had read the Pulitzer Prizewinning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer or had learned about the state’s role in the birth of atomic war in grade school, they also carry other connections to the enduring legacy of the story.

Nolan’s script adapted from American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin unfolds as three storylines: Oppenheimer’s rise to become director of the nation’s new secret weapons lab and the subsequent removal of his security clearance; the birth of the bomb itself from the chalkboard to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of World War II; and onetime Atomic Energy Commission Director Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.) as the story’s true villain.

Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders) disappears into J. Robert Oppenheimer, delivering a performance that captures the fresh and frantic graduate student in the pre-war days all the way through to the ghoulish, battered “father of the atomic bomb” phase as he undergoes a Red Scare beat-down of his reputation.

The hopscotch through time can be confounding, though expert costuming and makeup help sync the

logic, as do shifts between black and white and color photography. The sheer number of characters, however, has a tendency to overwhelm.

Women take a decidedly backseat role in this version of the story. Emily Blunt has a few powerful moments as Oppenheimer’s troubled and alcohol-dependent wife Kitty, but Nolan’s choices around how much Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh) appears onscreen don’t quite add up. It’s a pity the majority of Pugh’s screen time depicts Tatlock as nude and/ or neurotic. Kai and Sherwin’s book portrays both women as troubled, but doesn’t attempt to draw such a tidy bow on their disparate relationships with Oppenheimer or cast them as antagonists the way Nolan does.

The film acknowledges New Mexico’s role in the project but doesn’t offer a true sense of place. Nolan smartly filmed on-location; the script, however, contains little mention of the contributions locals made to the project and no mention of the ongoing environmental damage wrought by the Manhattan Project and the people who suffered and died from radiation poisoning due to the secret Trinity test detonation. Yet, the story of why and how the United States developed the atomic bomb is itself more than complex, and Nolan’s film takes an admirable stab at unpacking the overlooked historical tick-tock.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In Stephen King’s novel It, a character named Beverly is in love with a man who projects a sense of authority but also listens well. He is strongminded but receptive; confident but willing to be changed; self-possessed but open to influence. That’s an apt description of the allies I wish for you to attract into your life in the coming months. Whether they are lovers or partners, companions or collaborators, friends or colleagues, you need and deserve the high-quality, emotionally intelligent exchanges they offer.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Seventy-year-old Taurusborn Eric Bogosian is a prolific playwright and author renowned for his hard-edged satire. The title of one of his books is Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead. But one critic speculates he may be softening as he ages, noting that he “seems more amused than disgusted by the decaying world around him, as if his anger has been tempered by a touch of hope.” The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to cultivate a comparable reshaping, dear Taurus. Can you tenderize what has been tough? Is it possible to find redemption or entertainment in situations that have been challenging? Are you willing to add more levity and geniality to your perspective?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Decca is a UK-based record label that has produced the work of many major musicians, including Billie Holliday, the Rolling Stones, and Tori Amos. They made a huge mistake in 1962, though. A fledgling group named the Beatles tried to get signed to Decca. An executive at the company declined, saying, “We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out.” Oops. The Beatles eventually became the best-selling and most influential band of all time. I don’t think you’re at risk of making as monumental a misstep, Gemini. But please be alert to the possibility of a key opportunity coming into view. Don’t underestimate it, even if it’s different from what you imagine you want.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m a Cancerian who used to be overly reactive to people’s carelessness. If someone was in a bad mood and flung a rash insult at me, I might take offense too easily. If a friend misunderstood me, even with no malice intended, I may have sulked. Thankfully, over time, I have learned to be more like a honey badger, whose thick skin protects it well against stings and pricks. I bring this up because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to practice my approach. First step: Understand how people sometimes direct their frustration about life toward undeserving recipients. Second step: Vow to take things less personally. Third step: Give yourself regular compliments. Actually say them aloud.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Now and then, there comes a time when I acquire an uncanny knack for seeing the totality of who you really are. I tune in to everything you do that few others know about or appreciate. I behold the big picture of your best possible future. One of those magic moments has now arrived. And it’s no accident that your energy matches mine. In other words, my power to consecrate you reflects your ability to bless yourself. So give yourself the ultimate gift, please.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the 17th century, Virgo musician Johann Pachelbel composed a piece of music he called the Canon in D. It soon went out of style and disappeared into obscurity. But over 250 years later, a French chamber orchestra rediscovered it, and by the 1980s, it was everywhere. Ever since, Pachelbel’s Canon has been used in many pop songs and is a common anthem at weddings and funerals. I’m predicting a comparable revival for you, Virgo. An influence, creation, or person that has been gone for a while will re-emerge as a presence in your life. Be decisive in adopting it for your benefit.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Iain S. Thomas tells us, “There is magic even in gridlock, in loneliness, in too much work, in late nights gone on too long, in shopping carts with

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broken wheels, in boredom, in tax returns.” He says it’s the same magic that prompted Joan of Arc to believe that God spoke to her and empowered her to lead an army. I wouldn’t agree that it’s the same magic. But I do advise us all to be alert for enchantment and interesting mysteries even in the most mundane affairs. I am a champion of the quest for holiness, delight, and marvels in seemingly unlikely locations. In the coming weeks, Libra, you will have a special talent for finding these revelatory joys.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Rainer Maria Rilke said, “Self-transformation is precisely what life is.” If that’s true, you are in luck. Of all the zodiac signs, you are the most skillful self-transformer. Moreover, you are entering a prolonged phase when your instinct and talent for selftransformation will be even more potent than usual. I plan to observe you closely in the hope of learning your tricks for changing into an ever-better version of yourself. Show us all how it’s done, dear Scorpio!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Born under the sign of Sagittarius, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was one of history’s most influential composers of classical music. His elegant, lyrical works are still widely played today. He was also a revolutionary innovator who expanded the scope of many musical genres. One composition, Piano Sonata No. 32, prefigures elements of ragtime, jazz, and boogiewoogie—70 years before those styles emerged. In this spirit, I invite you to plant a seed for the future. You will soon get glimpses of creative shifts that will someday be possible. And you will have an enhanced ability to instigate the inventive momentum that generates those shifts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s be honest. Most of us—maybe all of us!—fail to grasp the world objectively. Our perceptions get filtered through our opinions and beliefs and habit minds. The events we think we see are shaped by our expectations about them. Our projections often overrule the possibility of unbiased impartiality. We are serial misinterpreters. But there’s no need to be ashamed! It’s a universal human tendency. Having said all that, however, I believe you will have a special knack, in the coming weeks, for observing reality with more clarity and open-mindedness than usual. You will have an unprecedented opportunity to see accurately and gather fresh, raw truths.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is this a phase of your cycle when you’ll be prone to saying things like “Why do you take me for granted?” and “I’m feeling cranky” and “It’s not what you said, it’s the way you said it”? Or are you in a time when the following expressions are more likely to emerge from your mouth: “I have come to understand you in a totally new and interesting way” and “Life has blessed me by removing one of my unnecessary obstacles” and “I would love to learn more about the arts of cooperation and collaboration”? Here’s what I think, Aquarius: Which way you go will depend on how clearly you set your intentions. Life will respond in kind to the moods you cultivate and the specific requests you make.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Our bodies are imperfect. They are often less than 100 percent completely healthy. They don’t always do what we wish they would. Yet even when we feel less than our best, our body continually carries out millions of biochemical marvels, mostly below the level of our conscious awareness. As the creation of an evolutionary process that has unfolded for eons, our precious organism is an amazing work of art that we have every right to regard as miraculous. According to my astrological reckoning, the coming weeks are the best time this year to honor and celebrate your body. What does it need to flourish? Ask your intuition to show you.

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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 above-referenced Petition is hereby given to you by publication, once each week, for three consecutive weeks. DATED this 7th day of August, 2023. /s/ Kristi A. Wareham, Esq. KRISTI A. WAREHAM, P.C.

Attorney for Petitioner

300 Paseo de Peralta, Ste. 103 Santa Fe, NM 87501

Telephone: (505) 820-0698

Fax: (505) 629-1298

Email: kristiwareham@icloud.com

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