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LEARNING TO LABOR 11 UNM graduate students earn designation as public employees from state labor board, paving the way for unionization CONTRACT TO ATTRACT 13 Hospital workers’ union and Christus St. Vincent strike new three-year agreement with immediate and future benefits to attract service and maintenance employees COVER STORY 14

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nary arts program at Santa Fe Community College.

“This is a really good experience for me because I do want to become a chef, so this is good for me to know what I’m going to be doing in the kitchen and seeing how everyone works together,” Dominguez tells SFR. “It’s opened my eyes to what a kitchen is really like.”

Roberto Vigil, the kitchen manager’s assistant, says students are trained up on all the skills and knowledge necessary to work in a kitchen—from portioning to plating—and are sometimes brought on as full-time employees when they finish the program. Vigil says he just started working at YouthWorks three weeks ago, but the students and staff already feel like family.

Bryan Romero joined YouthBuild as a student in 2009, when he was 19. He came back to work in the kitchen last year because he wants to help young people who are struggling like he was at their age.

“When I was younger, they gave me a job when no one really would because I was on probation and they gave me a chance,” says Romero, who is in his early 30s now. “I wanted to teach these kids to do something other than screw up, because I had a really rough past, too, so any way I can change that for someone else is a good thing.”

Culinary Training Director Cecilia Tadfor says YouthBuild’s service to the homeless shelter is just the beginning of the program’s work in the food sector.

Students and staff make deliveries to some of the pueblos, and during the pandemic they prepared and distributed meals to children who were reliant on after-school programs. They even offer private catering.

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Yulissa Dominguez, left, prepares meals with another program participant in the YouthWorks kitchen at El Rancho de las Golondrinas.

meal production system in town for kids and for all the homeless that were being housed, and we were delivering meals to rural communities,” Schuyler says. “They produced over half a million meals from March [2020] to last May [2021].”

It’s a 20-minute drive to Oshara Village, where YouthBuild’s other vocational component is in full swing on a recent weekday afternoon. Two students build a wall for Habitat for Humanity housing as volunteers shuttle building materials around the site and an electric saw buzzes in the background.

Leandro Lopez, 17, and 18-year-old Miguel Sandoval are at the end of their year in the program. Lopez says he was referred by teen court, while Sandoval was referred by his dad—a YouthBuild participant in its early days. Lopez has his GED and Sandoval is getting ready to take the test.

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n a bustling kitchen in La Cienega, local youths work alongside professional chefs to prepare hundreds of meals a day for the community. At a construction site 10 miles away, other young people help build affordable housing units.

This is Santa Fe YouthBuild, a yearlong program run by YouthWorks that’s designed to give at-risk young people work experience and educational support.

Participants prepare to take the GED and gain construction or culinary skills as they work four days a week and receive a stipend.

YouthBuild recently received a $1.3 million grant from the US Labor Department Employment and Training Administration that’ll allow YouthWorks, the well-known local nonprofit, to recruit 72 young people and continue the program for three years.

It’s the largest grant the program has ever received.

“We’re very thrilled about it,” YouthWorks founder Melynn Schuyler tells SFR. “This grant allows us to add more young people per year and better staffing levels and a little more infrastructure to just add to the impact of the program.”

During SFR’s visit last week to the kitchen at the living history museum El Rancho de las Golondrinas, students and staffers cook meals for the New Mexico School for the Deaf and the Midtown homeless shelter, take orders at the museum cafe and get ready for the annual Santa Fe Wine Festival.

When their work allows, students and staff take quick breaks to talk about how YouthBuild has impacted their lives.

Yulissa Dominguez, 18, has been in the program about two months. She’s working on her GED and plans to go into the culi-

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From left to right, Leandro Lopez, Miguel Sandoval and Johnny Gee work to build a wall for a Habitat for Humanity affordable housing unit.

welding, framing and masonry work, among other things. Neither knows yet whether they want to work in construction, but because they now have construction certificates, it’s an option.

“They have more value to employers since they’ve actually done some of the work and have experience versus someone who’s never done this work,” Rob Lochner, Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity construction director, says as he takes a break from supervising. “Right now, there’s a shortage of construction workers. Everybody’s looking, so if you’re willing to work hard and you already have skills, you’re going to get paid more and have more opportunities.”

Lochner works with the students along with YouthBuild Construction Program Manager Johnny Gee, who’s been at YouthWorks three years.

Gee grew up in Santa Fe and worked for Habitat for Humanity in Portland before moving back home. He planned to start his own construction company “for youth that are struggling and don’t like high school” before seeing a job opening at YouthWorks.

“I didn’t even ask for the job. I was like, ‘Give me this job. This is my passion,’” Gee says. “I had come home, and it kind of just happened to already be there, with a bunch of beautiful people at YouthWorks. It’s just like family.”

Applications for the program’s next round—available to people ages 16 to 24— open this week and will be accepted on a rolling basis. Anyone who’s interested can learn more by contacting YouthBuild Program Director Hicham Ghizlane at hicham@santafeyouthworks.org or by calling YouthWorks at (505) 989-1855.

“We’re always open to receiving more youths and supporting them in whatever way we can,” Tadfor of the culinary arts program says. “We’ll find a way to work with any youths who walk in our doors to give them these opportunities.”

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Learning to Labor

that’s understood as someone who’s only called on on occasion to come in when the need arises, as opposed to having a regular schedule with fixed hours.” Curtice added, “Conversely, you can have a regular employment relationship where you have set hours, you have discipline procedures that you’re subject to, you have job expectations and that can be limited in duration.”

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for certification under state law.

With board approval the union can negotiate collective bargaining agreements with UNM’s administration, addressing working conditions, wages and benefits for university employees.

On June 11, Thomas Griego, the Public Employee Labor Relations Board’s hearing officer, ruled in favor of UNM, concluding that graduate workers are not public employees.

The hearing officer sided with UNM’s definition of regular work, which excludes graduate assistantships because

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he state Public Employee Labor Relations Board on Tuesday delivered a win for University of New Mexico graduate students, opening the door for them to form a union.

The board recognized the students as regular employees under the state’s Public Employee Bargaining Act—reversing an earlier ruling from its own hearing officer.

The awaited decision came during a brief meeting Tuesday morning, two weeks after the board heard arguments from the university and the students in a regular meeting. Negotiations between United Graduate Workers of UNM and UNM are expected next to establish a collective bargaining agreement.

“We’re excited to negotiate a contract with the UNM administration and basically we urge them to meet us at the bargaining table in good faith in a timely fashion,” says Lindsay Monroe, interim chair of the union’s coordinating committee. “They’ve dragged out this process enough and so we want to get to work as soon as possible. Grad workers can’t go one more year with poverty wages, lack of access to adequate medical care and unsustainable working conditions.”

The labor board ruled that graduate students fall under the definition of public employee, “as opposed to the reasoning and conclusions of law contained in the hearing officer’s recommended decision,” said board chair Marianne Bowers in announcing the board’s decision.

The university fought to keep the students from organizing, arguing that graduate students don’t qualify as workers eligible for collective bargaining because of the conditions of their employment— graduate students work for fixed durations. The university employs graduate students through assistantships, which

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include teaching responsibilities, research work and grading.

UNM spokeswoman Cinnamon Blair tells SFR the university won’t comment on whether it intends to abide by the board’s decision until officials see a written version of the ruling.

In September 2020, UNM graduate students began collecting signatures and support for the creation of a union made up of graduate workers.

After gaining a supermajority of signatures from graduate employees, organizers applied

argued in support of the hearing officer’s June ruling. She told the labor board, “The term regular is meant to mean usually, normal or habitual—an ongoing basis, without limits on duration.”

Curtice said, in the event the labor board sided with the university, he feared this would set a dangerous precedent for future labor negotiations.

“If that is all that it takes to avoid the obligations of bargaining with a union, I don’t see any reason why a public employer would not start placing most, if not all, of their employees under fixed-term contracts,” Curtice said on Aug. 3.

The successful unionizing effort comes after United Academics of UNM, representing 1,600 part- and full-time faculty, signed a collective bargaining agreement with the university in late June. Up north, unionization efforts by Santa Fe Community College faculty have long been mired in conflict and drawn-out negotiations.

Jens Van Gysel, a fifth-year doctorate student in linguistics at the University of New Mexico, got involved in labor issues last year after hearing his peers talk about “unsafe work environments; sometimes inadequate benefits, not being able to afford to go to the dentist or the doctor.”

Van Gysel says the money that comes in from his assistantship with the university barely pays the bills.

“Our stipends are about 60% of what is considered a living wage in Albuquerque,” he tells SFR. A 2020 report on basic needs insecurity from UNM found that 22% of graduate students were food insecure.

Alongside 1,500 of his peers, Van Gysel signed onto unionization efforts. Now, in addition to researching Indigenous languages of South America, Van Gysel also serves as the chief steward of the United Graduate Workers of UNM. Though graduate students’ fight for collective bargaining agreements began in the 1960s, the movement gained considerable momentum when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that graduate students at private universities were employees in 2016. For graduate employees of public universities, the right to organize depends on which state universities operate in.

In California, public graduate students have fought for collective bargaining agreements, though graduate students in Texas have no ability to negotiate as a union.

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UNM graduate students earn designation as public employees from state labor board, paving the way for unionization

they are not guaranteed through a student’s time with the university—notably during summer months when assistantships are rare.

The United Graduate Workers of UNM appealed the hearing officer’s decision on June 25, and in the earlier Aug. 3 meeting, the Public Employee Labor Relations Board heard from the two sides’ legal teams.

Stephen Curtice of the Youtz Valdez law firm, representing the graduate workers, took exception with several facts from the hearing officer’s ruling. Curtice pointed to K-12 teachers—public employees who work on annual contracts—to refute the university’s definition of regular employees.

Curtice argued that “regular” should be contrasted with “casual.” He explained: “Typically

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n the early months of the pandemic, the public offered doctors, nurses and other medical providers a taste of appreciation for their work as hospitals swelled with COVID-19 patients. Over a year later that gratitude has yet to translate into tangible benefits for many health care providers.

But for another group of essential workers at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center—those working in service and maintenance areas of the hospital system—financial benefits have arrived.

At the end of July, the medical center and hospital workers’ union agreed to a new three-year contract for service and maintenance employees, increasing the minimum wage and differential benefits and clarifying the discipline article to address bullying, according to a union organizer.

Neither hospital officials nor the union would share the contract with SFR. The renewed contract—which begins Oct. 1—comes in response to the challenges many other companies face: employee shortages and retention concerns.

“What we are experiencing is very similar to all businesses in Santa Fe

needed the money. [With] negotiations you only have so much to go with, so we felt that the employees needed the wages now,” says Ulmer, adding that the wage increase will make hospital jobs more attractive to new hires.

In April 2020, Christus put 300 employees on “temporary low volume leave” for 90 days in response to declining patient numbers. The medical center is the third largest employer in the Santa Fe area, after the state and Los Alamos National Laboratory, with 2,300 employees.

Roughly 30% of those employees are represented by District 1199NM. The union represents 307 nurses, 108 licensed techs and 279 service and maintenance

workers under three separate contracts.

Ortiz explains that employees working in a COVID unit or in rooms where a patient tested positive receive an additional $10 per hour. The union and the hospital signed a memorandum of understanding outlining the benefit in February of 2020. and Northern New Mexico,” Christus “I believe we were the first hospital that President and CEO Lillian Montoya offered a COVID bonus to our employees writes to SFR. “This includes recruiting in New Mexico,” Ulmer tells SFR. and retaining food and nutrition staff, Union leadership echoes the hospital environmental services staff and nursing administration’s need for attracting and assistants.” retaining workers.

James Ortiz, president of District “For the service workers, it’s been low.

1199NM, the local chapter of the National We’re really hurting right now,” Ortiz Union of Hospital and Health Care tells SFR. “That’s where we, in the hospiEmployees, confirms the pandemic put tal, felt that bringing up the wages would immense pressure on hiring and mainhelp in recruiting and retaining taining a sufficient workforce. employees.”

He also knows the value of his The challenges of maintainunion members’ efforts: “We ing a sufficient service work force have a great working relationin the hospitals led Ortiz and ship with the hospital, so they his union colleagues to research know these are hard jobs.” wages in Santa Fe and elsewhere Union leaders say the curin New Mexico. “We wanted to rent contract ends Sept. 30. The beat everybody else so we can get new agreement, Ortiz says, was people—so we can attract people quickly ratified by the union afto the positions,” he says. ter negotiations in July.

Both the union and the medThe agreement settled on ical center hope the increase in both immediate and future base pay will draw in new workbenefits for hospital workers. ers to help alleviate the burden In addition to securing the Ortiz says has been placed on $15.25 minimum wage for new service and maintenance ememployees, differential pay inployees over the last year and a creases will come in October of half. Montoya also hopes to re2022. Employees receive differtain employees, tracking them ential pay when working eveinto other positions in the medning, night or weekend shifts. ical group.

According to union leadership, “This was a limited openevening workers will receive er, and we chose to focus prian additional $2 per hour, night marily on wages to ensure they workers will earn $4 more, and remain competitive and that employees working on weekwe can continue to recruit and ends will receive $3 extra. retain our health care teams,” Union organizer Yolanda Montoya writes to SFR, noting Ulmer says negotiations foMichael Martinez, a union member who works in the Christus that “these positions are actucused on immediate support emergency department, was part of the negotion team that ally a great gateway to other cawhile also attracting new workformed the new contract. reers” with Christus. ers. ”We felt the employees COURTESY DISTRICT 1199NM

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A new generation of Indigenous artists take on Indian Market and beyond

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ven if curator Nina Sanders (Apsáalooke) hadn’t approached SFR with a possible feature idea shortly after she returned from a rather impressive stint at the Field Museum in Chicago, we probably would have wanted to cover the 11 Indigenous artists contained herein.

In a photo shoot produced by Sanders and executed by photograher Garret Vreeland, a veritable who’s-who of young talent shines, and the shot is not solely impresive for its volume, but that every artist contained therein managed to be in one place at one time while maintaining disparate practices.

In Sanders’ words, they came together to “celebrate and rep their connection and commitment to Native art and Indian Market, each with prodigious talent, a legacy to draw from and protect and a community of Native people to support them.”

As Santa Fe gears up for what would have been the 100th year of the Southwestern Association for American Indian Arts’ Indian Market (COVID-19 put the kibosh on last year’s 99th, so consider this year a do-over), it’s important to look to the future while we’re maintaining local traditions—especially when it comes to Indigenous art. As I’ve said in the pages of SFR before, if you’re not keeping an eye on Native cre-

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ators, you’re missing out on one of the most vital and enjoyable pieces of the broader international arts puzzle.

“In a time when our young people are faced with the insurmountable task of protecting the land and water, with bringing justice to Indigenous women and children and defending our cultures, we are forced to ask if they are up to the challenge,” Sanders says of these 11 artists. “I believe we are in good hands.”

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book, and experimenting with beads and quills that my mom had used to try to teach herself this skill. The two art forms’ techniques are actually related: the two-needle band in quillwork is similar to the beadwork’s lazy stitch.

People often say that beadwork takes patience, but I don’t see it that way. It’s like coloring to me; I see the designs and colors become reality in my hands.

I never think of beadwork or quillwork as craft, but as fine art.”

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On Instagram: @hchitto

Hollis Chitto, Ko’chani

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Rainbow masks created by Santiago Romero.

Hollis Chitto is an accomplished Santa Fe-based artist who works primarily in contemporary beadwork.

“My interest in art began at an early age,” Chitto says. “I’m told my grandmother was a beadworker. Although she died when I was very young, many people believe her talent was passed down to me. But I first started doing quillwork. I taught myself by looking at illustrations in a French Canadian

Engineering in electromechanical engineering and enjoys teaching STEAM workshops and concepts throughout New Mexico Public Schools as a member of the NNMC Mentor Collective at Northern New Mexico College.

Nambe Pueblo Tewa

Edwin Felter is a singer, songwriter, educator and engineer who was born in Nambe Pueblo, where he continues to live and work. Felter’s love for music was born from and continues to grow through traditional songs and his cultural environment. Felter explores multiple genres, with hip-hop and rap at the forefront and the source of his inspiration coming from artists such as Elvis, David Lee Roth, Lil Wayne and Andre 3000. Felter intends to continue to maximize his own understanding and experience in sound and style, and encourages other young artists to do the same. A large part of Felter’s time is dedicated to the Lightning Boy Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Northern New Mexico that provides traditional hoop dance instruction and other dance programming to youth ages 2 and up. The organization’s mission is dedicated to nurturing and building confidence and integrity through culture and artistic expression. Edwin is the singer for the group and travels with them as they tour. In addition to his music and work for the community, Edwin has a Bachelor’s of

On Instagram: @charinepilarpovi

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Edwin Allen Felter, Wiyeh Than (Two Suns)

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Hollis Chitto made this bag for US Sec. of the Interior Deb Haaland. True story.

Tribal Radio. She is a 2021 Native Lab Artist in Residence through Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program, a current Artist in Business Leadership Fellow through First Peoples Fund and was selected to participate as a Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellow. Gonzales earned an English Communication BA from Fort Lewis College in 2017. Her favorite foods are red chile and oven bread.

Charine Pilar Gonzales, Turquoise Flower San Ildefonso Pueblo Tewa

Charine Gonzales is a Tewa filmmaker whose work supports the growing visibility of Native peoples through many forms of media, especially visual storytelling. She’s a 2021 graduate from the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she studied cinematic arts and technology. Gonzales is lead editor for Native Lens, a crowdsourced series

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ing for photographer Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) and recently began studying under Cochiti potter Diego Romero. She is planning on pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in fall 2022 in Italy.

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degree in environmental science.

Currently, he is a working ceramic sculptor, painter and active cultural participant. Romero strives to integrate his education and experience into all of his work by incorporating different techniques, both traditional and contemporary, as well as themes of science, Pueblo iconography and human nature. He has won several awards for contemporary ceramic sculpture from SWAIA, including second place in sculpture. He is currently represented by Faust Gallery in Scottsdale and resides in Phoenix.

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“Fangy Boi” by Jo Povi Romero.

Cree LaRance

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Jo Povi Romero

Pojoaque/Cochiti/Santa Clara/ Ohkay Owingeh Jo Povi Thung Romero was raised in Pojoaque Pueblo along the Northern Rio Grande. She is also from Cochiti, Santa Clara, and Ohkay Owingeh and currently resides in Santa Fe. Her name in Tewa means “Cactus Flower Basket,” and was passed down from

her great-grandmother. Romero was raised in the studio painting alongside her father, Mateo Romero, and learning traditional pottery techniques from her mother, Melissa Talachy, and grandparents Joe and Thelma Talachy. Romero graduated from Dartmouth College with a major in sculpture and photography and a minor in anthropology. Her main sculpture mediums include clay (traditional and commercial), plaster and metal. Her photography is medium-format black and white film, and she specializes in multiple exposures stacked in the camera. Primarily photographing women, Romero aims to capture their complexity and strength, and her work further explores her identity as a Native queer

woman, as well as influences from ancient Mimbres pottery designs, Indigenous mythology, pop culture and comic books. Through her work, she aims to transform the widespread lack of knowledge the public has of modern Native American people, our history and our traditional knowledge. Her work has been displayed at the Black Family Visual Arts Center, Barrows Rotunda Gallery, JaffeFriede Gallery and Nearburg Gallery.

Recent projects include the SWAIA Drum Auction for Missing Murdered Indigenous Women and participation in the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s Mural Project led by the Living Legends recipients Diego and Mateo Romero. For the past two years, she has been work-

Cree LaRance is an award-winning Native American jeweler living in Santa Fe. He is an enrolled member of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, however his roots also include Hopi, Navajo and Assiniboine. LaRance is the son of renowned Native American artists Steve “Wikviya” LaRance and Marian “Kaawaadeh” Denipah. He works in silver and gold, turquoise, coral and multiple other precious stones. His art is heavily influenced by his Native American culture, religion, family and way of life. Cree’s work employs modern and classical approaches in jewelry making that creates an ever evolving style continuously rooted in a legacy.

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Born in 1993, Del Curfman grew up in the divides between his Apsáalooke

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Pottery is just one of Kaa Folwell’s artistic pursuits.

she strengthened her cultural ties and developed her love for art. “Art was never considered a hobby in my family and is a part of daily life,” she says. “It’s almost another family member. Being able to use ancient techniques to build contemporary pottery is in essence exactly what its intended purpose is, to be a vessel that sustains life.”

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Del Curfman, Baatchilish (He Will Live a Fortunate Life), Xuhkaalaxche (Ties-in-a-Bundle) Clan

(Crow Tribe of Montana) heritage and the greater Western/Montanan/ non-Native culture, forever influencing him and his artwork. A graduate and alumni of the Institute of American Indian Arts and emerging artist, his work has found significance as a reminder that American Indian culture and traditions have not faded into history or obscurity. His artwork is a conduit for cross-cultural dialogue. Through time, space and movement, his paintings transgress the boundaries and limits of American Indian stereotypes, and his work has been featured internationally, at the Field Museum of Chicago and the Neubauer, as well as in local and national publications and galleries in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Bristol, England.

Curfman is now based in Santa Fe, where he remains concentrated on creating socially aware, community-engaged artwork.

On Instagram: @crow_colors_studio

Kaa Folwell, Kaa Ojegi (Frost on the Leaves)

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Khapo Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo Tewa)

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Kaa Folwell received her bachelor’s degree in studio arts from the Institute of American Indian Art in 2018 and explores her creativity and heritage through mostly contemporary Pueblo pottery—though her practice is not limited only to those things. During her senior show titled Bridgework, she created a series of turquoise and silver teeth grillz that represent the fluency and journey of relearning the Tewa language. During Folwell’s creative process, she utilizes both traditional methods to build while incorporating contemporary design. Her work is often accompanied by Pueblo and graffiti-inspired iconography. Folwell comes from a prominent artist family in New Mexico: She is the daughter of contemporary Pueblo potter Polly-Rose Folwell, niece of Susan Folwell and granddaughter of the legendary Jody Folwell, one of the first contemporary Pueblo potters. Kaa grew up in Santa Clara Pueblo, where

Jacob Shije, Kaa Tsire (American Goldfinch)

Tribe: Kha’p’o Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo Tewa) There is blissful energy emerging in the music industry, and Jacob Shije is quickly becoming known for his empathy, guitar prowess and singer-songwriter performances. Shije embarked as a solo artist in 2019, inspired by artists like John Mayer, The Beatles and Ritchie Valens. Like clay from his homelands of Santa Clara Pueblo, he molds music into something rhythmically groovy and sonically vivid with vintage textures like

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Lab, hosted by Joan Tewksbury.

Throughout the years, she has worked on many sets, from Drunktown’s Finest to Mud (Hast?’ishnii). In 2019, she had the honor of receiving Sundance’s Native Filmmakers Lab Fellowship, where she had the opportunity to workshop her script, The Daily Life of Mistress Red, a mockumentary short film about a Native dominatrix for hire who whips apologies out of white supremacists. It is currently in post production. After graduating from the Academy of Art’s screenwriting program in 2020, Bread has worked with Amazon Studios and is creating new film works while serving as creative director for clothing and textiles brand Teton Trade Cloth.

an old soul. Shije is supporting his debut single “Hide the Heartbreak” with a series of club shows across the Southwest, is currently performing with the Levi Platero Band and is an endorsed artist with Delaney Guitars.

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On Instagram: @jacobshije

Peshawn Bread Comanche/Kiowa

Ashley Browning works in various media, as well as traditional drawing and painting styles.

Ashley Browning, Yellow Butterfly

Pueblo of Pojoaque/Pueblo of Santa Clara Ashley Browning is from the pueblos of Pojoaque and Santa Clara, in what is currently known as New Mexico.

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Peshawn Bread (she/they, them) is a screenwriter, director and creative director from the Penatuku (sugar eater) and Yapuruka (root eater) bands of the Comanche tribe. Her writing focuses on Indigenous women, sexuality, and humorous experiences. In the winter of 2015, she was introduced and welcomed as one of Sundance Institute’s Full Circle Kellogg Fellows. Bread was also a 2015–2016 recipient of the 4th World Indigenous Media Lab Fellowship supported by the Seattle International Film Festival and in partnership with Longhouse Media, Sundance and documentary funding outfit ITVS. Bread also attended the Sundance Screenwriters

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On Instagram: @the.pbread

Still from filmmaker Peshawn Bread’s The Daily Life of Mistress Red.

She received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree in film and digital media from the University of New Mexico with a concentration on production. During her time studying at UNM, she honed her graphic design and photography skills and explored different types of digital media, such as screenwriting, sound mixing, cinematography and 3D animation. Not long after graduating, Browning was selected to participate in the Full Circle Fellowship with the Indigenous Program with the Sundance Institute. Since completing her fellowship, she has worked on a variety of productions in roles that range from production assistant to sound mixer. Browning supports other local Indigenous filmmakers, such as Shaadiin Tome, Peshawn Bread, and Charine Gonzales. Browning was introduced to the art by her grandmother, Lu Ann Tafoya. Tafoya creates traditional Santa Clara deep-carved, red and black pottery, and Browning continues the family legacy through her mentorship and expertise. Ashley’s family has been part of the Southwest

Association for Indian Arts since its inception in 1922. During her first experience at the market, in 2013, she entered the painting, drawing and photography divisions, winning two firstplace ribbons for her “Paper Doll” and “Juxtaposition” pieces. Since then, she has entered the competition every year, taking home numerous awards for her contemporary and traditional pieces.

The highest award she received was a “Best of Division” for her piece titled “NDN iPhone,” a photo that puts an Indigenous spin on the contemporary iPhone layout. Collaborating with her mother, Michele Tapia Browning, the two created an Indigenous board game titled “NDN-OPOLY” which has since been featured in local and national museums and in several publications.

While pursuing her film and art career, she works in the marketing department for the Pueblo of Pojoaque’s Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino. Find Ashley’s work at Pathways Native Arts Festival Aug. 20-22, Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino.

On Instagram: @ybutterfly2

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HORN HOMECOMING SITE Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Music Collective come together to produce the monthly series JAZZ at SITE once again, and in this rendition, organizers present one of the most celebrated trumpeters to ever hail from Santa Fe. J.Q. Whitcomb returns home from the Big Apple to show off some of what he learned while picking up his master’s degree from Juilliard. Expect passion as he covers the jazz styles of Fats Navarro’s students Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan and Woody Shaw. The show must be indoors to stop his fiery playing from starting a blaze in the wilderness. (CLM) Fats on Fire: A Musical Retrospective Tracing the Trumpet lineage of the Legendary Fats Navarro featuring J.Q. Whitcomb: 5 pm Friday, Aug. 20. $25-30. SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199, sitesantafe.org

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ART OPENING WED/25 PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE AGES Rania Matar grew up in Lebanon before moving to the US as a young woman. Drawing from this experience, as well as from watching her own daughters grow up, Matar trained her eye to capture the subtle moments as girls across the globe turn into women. Her subjects range from her own daughters and strangers on Instagram to the women she meets on the street, both in the US and Middle East. Matar’s new exhibit SHE shows the parallels between two seemingly disparate worlds and how the transition from girlhood to womanhood really isn’t that different, no matter where it happens. (CLM) Rania Matar: SHE Reception: 5-7 pm Wednesday, Aug. 25. Free Obscura Gallery, 1405 Paseo de Peralta (505) 577-6708

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Tall Trees Local wordsmiths tell tales in the literal forest “The theme of the event,” local author E.A. Gray (aka Lisa Gray Fisher) tells SFR, “is to show how closely we are all tied together as humans, and with so many other species in this world.”

At Gray’s upcoming Words in the Woods event, five local artists of various genre, age and media take to the forest, not only to bring people together but help them connect with the natural world more directly.

Jack Loeffler, whom Gray calls, a “legendary elder,” spent his earlier days as a counterculturist, sometimes working with legendary environmentalist Edward Abbey and Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Snyder to defend nature from consumption. He’ll share his account of these days by reading from his memoir, Headed into the Wind.

Representing a younger generation, Natachee Momaday Gray, granddaughter of another Pulitzer Prize winner, N. Scott Momaday, reads her poetry accompanied by her husband Kyle Perkins on guitar. Her poetry draws on the intimacy of connection.

Finally, E.A. Gray reads from her new novel, Memory’s Fire, accompanied by the voice of her son Eliot Gray Fisher. In the book, protagonist Alex Mann loses his

town to a fire before embarking on a journey to recreate himself.

As for the venue, Group Site #2 on Hyde Park Road, Gray tells us, “it’s surrounded by pines and aspen, feels very secluded and there’s wind in the trees.”

While nature is aplenty, parking is limited, so consider carpooling—it’s more in line with the theme of being together, anyway. The official festivities are scheduled to run for an hour or so, but the time to get there needn’t be only for the reading. Gray encourages potential visitors to bring their own victuals, but even more so, to bring their hiking boots to explore the surrounding nature and their own relationships with it. And why not? It’s free.

“We do it just because we want to do it,” Gray says, “because we would like to share the work, and we’d love to have people take part in it and respond to it as they see fit and as they are moved to do.”

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GO WEST SAID A SMALL VOICE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Landscapes, woodblocks and marionettes by Gustave Banmann.

All day, $0-$12 MANIFESTING OUR DESTINIES IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 IAIA graduate showcase where students redefine their cultural heritage.

All day, free KANOSDAYA Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road (505) 916-1341 From artist Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band Cherokee/Santa Clara Pueblo), a new exhibition of threedimensional paper.

All day, free LEX LUCIUS: PAINTINGS, A SOLO EXHIBITION Peyton Wright Gallery 237 E Palace Ave. (505) 989-9888 Lucius’ admiration for horses translates into his paintings.

All day, free INSPIRATIONS Sage Creek Gallery 421 Canyon Road (505) 988-3444 Experience harmony with the natural world through this celebration of Indigenous culture.

All day, free NATIVE VISIONS Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 Chiaroscuro’s 15th Annual Contemporary Native Show.

All day, free NAVIGATORS Vital Spaces 220 Otero St. Diagrams, infograms, drawings and sculpture. Open by appointment. Contact jerrywellman1@gmail.com.

All day, free BALANCING CULTURES Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 Jerry Takigawa is the winner of the Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award. His show displays the impacts of the incarceration of JapaneseAmericans during WWII. All day, free

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ONGOING ART YOU ARE STANDING EXACTLY WHERE MEANING IS 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Oil and graphite works on canvas from Allan Graham.

All day, free VISIONS OF THE SANTA FE TRAIL AT 200 El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 983-2567 Work inspired by the remnants of the Santa Fe Trail.

All day, free ISOHI SETSUKO TAI Modern 1601 Paseo de Peralta (505) 984-1387 Japanese bamboo art in geometrical patterns.

All day, free DENNIS ZIEMIENSKI AND BILLY SCHENCK Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 Western-themed paintings.

All day, free FUTURE INTERCEPT Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 Indigenous and Native stereotypes juxtaposed, and photographer Douglas Miles’ (San Carlos Apache-Akimel O’odham) ideas of who they might come to be.

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You re-took the reins of SITE at a particularly challenging point in human history. How has the transition been and have you been able to accomplish anything of which you’re particularly proud since March?

We haven’t announced the program publicly yet, but…thinking about how you restart an art program for a community that I hoped would happen post-pandemic, we’re going to start with Helen Pashgian, a light and space artist doing remarkable work in terms of understanding light and how we perceive light. It’ll be a very meditative and very experiential exhibition.

For next season, we’ve confirmed two artists I’m extraordinarily committed to—there’s Jeffrey Gibson, who has had some presence at SITE in a group show, and this is an opportunity to present someone who has incredible history and interest in his Indigenous culture. His family are Cherokee from Mississippi, and he is, at this moment in his career, doing outstanding work. It’s three-dimensional, it’s film and video; performance textile work—it’s all synthesized beautifully.

Then a year from this fall, we’re presenting a project with the artist Shirin Neshot, who was featured in the 1999 [SITE] biennial with an incredible twochannel video project called Rapture. She’s an artist from Iran, and what’s so exciting about her new project Land of Dreams is that it was conceived here in New Mexico. She and her partner were based in Corrales for about a year, and they developed a series of around 100 photographs and a video work and feature-length film The biennial has been so much a part of how people identify us, and I think that

commitment is really important to the continuation and evolution. I have this remarkable facility to work with that I didn’t have when I was here before. SITE Santa Fe was a really modest space, and now we have a lot more opportunity to develop multi-disciplinary programing and the flexibility within our spaces.

Do you think we’re at a point where we’ve realized how badly we need art as a society?

This is one of the things when, knowing we had to organize for the fall…making a show that’s so much about spirit and perception and experience—art that can transport you in the subtle but elegant ways. It’s that nourishment we need as humans and artists, whether it’s performance or a physical experience or sound. These are things that really give us hope and create a richness for our lives. The need to isolate hit us hard. The interaction—not just with art, but artists and people—is something we know we missed and needed to bring back.

SITE Santa Fe is at its best as a cultural gathering place. I just wish we could get through this vaccination stuff so we can all feel comfortable about public gathering again. I got COVID when it first hit, and the self-isolation and Zoom calls just don’t cut it. People need to experience one another experiencing art, and you need that kind of relationship with the world to really have a vibrant and enriched existence.

The words “equity and diversity” come up in the press materials about the new grant. What do these things mean to SITE and how are you hoping to implement?

What’s so great about this grant is that it empowers us to move forward, first internally and then in evolution of a core value for SITE Santa Fe. SITE needs to come out of that process of going through the kind of workshops we’ll be able to implement and the mentoring we can get through an HR specialist and consultant.

We’re able to now advance that kind of thing and start doing the work.

In terms of diversity and equity, you have to do it throughout the institution— that means governance and board of directors, frontline staff, our staff as a whole. The kind of awareness and training needs to cut through the entire organization. The challenge is making ourselves and our programs accessible to the community, and there are many strategies underway.

One that’s being tested right now, and we’re hoping it’ll be a year-long program, is that we’re working hard to make SITE free admission to everyone, year-round—24/7.

But it’s not only how we work together as a team, it’s how we understand our community, how we program, and those discussions need to be ongoing, and that’s where I think the grant is really going to help us get to that place. The good news is that we have an incredibly committed board of directors and staff who are allin for going through all the training and are willing to evolve as we go through training, select programs and work with our community. The biggest challenge is how we communicate accessibility to the community. This should be a place for everyone.

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RON COOPER: CARS & BARS Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688 Cooper uses plexiglass, resin and lacquer to capture and manipulate the perceptual phenomenon of light. Vintage cars included.

All day, free TERMS & CONDITIONS Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Porter Lara is a conceptual artist who is interested in the ways humans use ideas about what is “natural” to naturalize political constructs through sculpture, printmaking and sign-making, as well as sewing and embroidery.

All day, free FIREBRANDS: JUDY CHICAGO, SWOON, AND HUNG LIU Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681 Rarely seen pieces from three legendary artists.

All day, free

WED/18 ART ANTIQUE AMERICAN INDIAN ART El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591 Basketry, jewelry, textiles, kachinas, sculptures, pottery and much more.

11 am-5 pm, $15-$25

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Where Spanish guitar and fabulous flamenco might bring you a night like no other.

6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 More flamenco from La Emi and company.

8 pm, $20-$50

EVENTS BREWING & DISTILLING TOUR Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 32 Bisbee Ct. (505) 393-5135 Take a tour of Tumbleroot’s production center to learn how the goods get made.

4:30 pm, free IAIA VIRTUAL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER Online bit.ly/3yNaN5S Online auction of art pieces donated by some of IAIA’s award-winning artists.

5:30 pm, free

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WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM FUNDRAISER Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636 Support Indigenous artists (and the museum) by buying some of their their awesome artwork.

4-6 pm, $20

FOOD COOKING CLASS: NATIVE AMERICAN CUISINE Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 Taught by Native food historian Lois Ellen Frank.

Learn to make trout with herbs and bacon baked in clay, Indian wild rice sauté, sautéed rainbow chard and berry crisp.

10 am-1 pm, $95 GIN AND AMARO TASTINGS Sassella 225 Johnson St. (505) 982-6734 Gins and amaros for you to sample so you can sound fancy at your next party. Call to RSVP. 4-5 pm, $45

MUSIC ELIZABETH AND A PIANO The Hollar 2849 NM Hwy 14, Madrid (505) 471-2841 Every week Elizabeth brings the country blues. Classic covers and some originals mixed in.

5 pm, free GERRY CARTHY La Posada de Santa Fe 330 E Palace Ave. (505) 986-0000 Traditional Irish music.

6-9 pm, free PAT MALONE JW Windsor's Coffee Shop 145 Lincoln Ave. Jazz guitar. Your latte will be that much sweeter.

4-6 pm, free SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: ZOLTAN FEJERVARI St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Piano recital with Couperin’s Selected Works, Bach’s French Suite in G Major, BWV 816 and Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin.

Noon, $35-$40 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: HAYDN, BARTOK AND BRAHMS St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Haydn's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 71, No. 3, Bartók's String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114 and Brahms Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 87.

6 pm, $40-$80

OPERA SANTE FE OPERA: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Mozart’s classic opera.

Purchase tickets in advance.

8 pm, $70-$329

THU/19 ART HANDS-ON WITH THE COE Coe Center for the Arts 1590 Pacheco St. (505) 983-6372 An interactive art experience.

New art unveiling, food from Youthworks, photography, hoop dancing and music from DJ Celeste Worl.

6-8 pm, free RAVEN @ THE BIG BANG TAI Modern 1601 Paseo de Peralta (505) 984-1387 Ramona Sakiestewa is a central figure among contemporary Native American artists. This exhibition shows her work of ravens, a prevalent animal in many Native American cultures.

All day, free AXLE: THE ELEVEN Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts 1590 Pacheco St. axleart.com Painting, photography, clay, music and video from a diverse group of young artists (see cover, page 14).

6-8 pm, free DAVID YARROW Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555 American West photography.

All day, free

AUGUST 27 - 29, 2021 The Onlies • Alan Munde Bluegrass Trio • Elliott Rogers Cahalen Morrison • Lara Manzanares Kitty Jo Creek • Higher Ground Bluegrass

Maddy Mullany & Clarke Williams • Karina Wilson Margot Leverett & Duke City Hora • Gerry Carthy Mariachi Sonidos del Monte • ATC String Band • Robert Shlaer Steve Cormier • Rob Martinez

Jam Sessions Music Workshops Children’s Activities Details and tickets online:

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BOOKS/LECTURES IN PLACE: THE ECOLOGIES OF SOUND IN THE SOUTHWEST Online sciartsantafe.org Artists Jennifer Diaz and Dylan McLaughlin in conversation with Steven Feld, PhD, examining the role of sound in artistic and scientific practices in the Southwest.

5:30 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 It’ll make you feel cultured.

6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 More and more and more flamenco for the flamenco fanatics out there. And the regular folks.

8 pm, $20-$50

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AL ROGERS WITH JON GAGAN Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Pianist Al Rogers and bassist Jon Gagan bring joyful music to Vanessie patrons (which could include you).

6:30 pm, free

BREWING & DISTILLING TOUR Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 32 Bisbee Ct. (505) 393-5135 It’s the chemistry behind alcohol 4:30 pm, free WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM FUNDRAISER Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636 Got extra money laying around? Use it to support Indigenous artists before inflation destroys us all.

10 am-4 pm, free

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MUSIC HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817 Honky-tonk and Americana and perfect summer sounds.

7-10 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St. (505) 989-1166 Try jazz guitar with your wine.

It goes down smooth, we think.

6-8 pm, free SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: SCHUBERT AND SCHOENBERG St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Schubert's String Quartet in C Minor, D. 703 and Quartettsatz and Schoenberg's String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 7.

12 pm, $35-$40 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: A SONG BY MAHLER St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 New Mexico premiere of Marc Neikrug’s chamber opera, A Song by Mahler. Featuring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cno and one of the world’s leading baritones, Kelly Markgraf.

6 pm, $15-$80

SANTA FE OPERA: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 This is an operatic version of Shakespeare’s famous play where fun nonsense happens in some magical woods. You must buy your tickets in advance.

8 pm, $103-$197

THEATER THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, Ste. B (505) 395-6576 What is the truth? This play explores what it means to tell the truth as a writer.

Based on the real life events of American essayist John D'Agata and fact-checker Jim Fingal, the question at hand is how much can one distort facts and still tell the truth?

7:30 pm, $25-$90 AS YOU LIKE IT Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 466-1358 Shakespeare in the garden. We hope for many fancy words and many fancy honeybees.

6:45 pm, $35-$45

FRI/20 ART AXLE: THE ELEVEN Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts 1590 Pacheco St. axleart.com Painting, photography, clay, music and video from a diverse group of young artists (see cover, page 14).

6-8 pm, free

STORY PAINTINGS IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Artist Rebecca Lee Kunz' paintings tell stories. In her work, Cherokee mythology is re-imagined from the perspective of animals living in the modern world.

10 am-4 pm, $0-$10 GLASS BLOWING DEMONSTRATION Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 With Preston Singletary and Dan Friday. See how hot sand makes cool shapes.

11 am-3 pm, free SANCTUARY Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800 Legendary artist Hung Liu passed away on Aug 7. See here some works concerning themes of Asian-American immigration and displacement.

All day, free K'IDADIILYÉ (WE ARE PLANTING) Vital Spaces 220 Otero St. David Sloan, aka Sundog Zillionare, aka Antonio Bandanas, sells his pandemic project goods at this pop-up market.

3-6 pm, free ONE TRICK PONY GF Contemporary 707 Canyon Road (505) 983-3707 Tiny horses on huge canvases.

Tiny, as in 2" by 2", on a canvas as large as 5' by 5'.

All day, free PATTERNS OF EXPRESSION Nuart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888 Group exhibition featuring new works by Rose Masterpol and Sunny Taylor. Expect bold geometrical patterns.

All day, free PLAY THE GAME Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574 Exhibition for Juan Manuel Sanabria, whose work explores “dis-connection.”

All day, free

Coe Center

Art inspires, energizes, and challenges.

PRESTON SINGLETARY: NEW WORKS IN GLASS Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 In a unique meeting of European glass-blowing tradition and Northwestern Native design, Preston Singletary's glasswork depicts cultural and historical images from his Tlingit ancestry in richly detailed, beautifully hued glass.

All day, free SIDE BY SIDE 1228 Parkway Art Space 1228 Parkway Dr., Unit F (505) 603-1259 Inspired by edgy and bold work? Julie Schumer and James Koskinas, a pair of married artists, open their studio to display their latest edgy and bold works in what we expect to be an edge and bold way.

5-8 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES JACKSON CLARK LECTURE Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555 Jackson Clark, a leading authority on Navajo weaving, gives first of two free lectures. Clark has worked for decades to promote authentic Native American arts and crafts. Great for those with an interest in the Diné people and their history.

4 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 You can sit at home thinking about attending an affordable flamenco show in the heart of downtown Santa Fe, or...

6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Did you know there are more flamenco dance academies in Japan than in Spain? Neat.

Also, check out this show.

8 pm, $20-$50

Go to the Coe!

—visit virtually at www.coeartscenter.org —check out our YouTube channel —schedule a private on-site tour

Coming soon—return of First Fridays!

Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts

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EVENTS DJ PYGAR Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery 2797 Agua Fria St. (505) 393-5135 Drinks, dancing and outdoor air. Tunes from all over the multiverse.

6-9 pm, free HACIENDAS: A PARADE OF HOMES Around the Fe sfahba.com Learn more about the “Santa Fe style“ in this self-guided tour of new and newly remodeled homes, celebrating the best in design, including sustainable “green” technologies.

11 am-6 pm, $20 PATHWAYS: NATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail (505) 455-5555 A festival to advance Native artistry and creativity. Artist booths, live music and amazing food.

9 am-5 pm, free

MUSIC BERT DALTON TRIO C3's Bistro 4940 Corrales Road, Corrales (505) 398-9449 Live jazz.

5:30-8:30 pm, free FATS ON FIRE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 A musical retrospective tracing the trumpet lineage of the legendary Fats Navarro and featuring J.Q. Whitcomb. (see SFR picks, page 21) 5 pm, $25-$30 GHOST RANCH MUSIC WEEKEND Ghost Ranch 280 Private Drive 1708, Abiquiu (505) 685-1000 Music celebrating pioneering women in the arts. A portion of the proceeds goes to support the work of Tewa Women United. Music with a view of Northern New Mexico's incredible landscape—food and lodging options availible.

All day, $88-$175

SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSICAL FESTIVAL: GUITAR RECITAL St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Free recital to coincide with Indian Market—pieces by Sainz De La Maza, Falla, Barrios and more.

6 pm, free BLUE RHAPSODY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Jazz, R&B, soul and blues.

6:30 pm, free TGIF VIRTUAL CONCERT Online fpcsantafe.org/tgiftube/ Music this week is Claude Debussy, played by David Solem on the piano.

5:30 pm, free

OPERA SANTA FE OPERA: EUGENE ONEGIN Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Tchaikovsky’s rendition of Pushkin’s love story wherein Onegin rejects Tatyana, only to realize it was a mistake. Buy tickets in advance.

8 pm, $70-$329

THEATER A STREETLIGHT NAMED SANTA FE PREVIEW Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta A lampoon tradition since 1919, see the cast play a 30-minute snippet—like a trailer for the upcoming Fiesta Melodrama at the Santa Fe Playhouse.

Noon-4 pm, free THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, Ste. B (505) 395-6576 Another chance to check out the New Mexico Actors Lab’s new production.

7:30 pm, $25-$90 AS YOU LIKE IT Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 466-1358 Thou art in thy leaves.

6:45 pm, $35-$45

LIVE MUSIC FOOD & FUN! August 21, 5-9pm

3 live bands. Local food trucks.

Tickets $10, kids are FREE. At SFWS campus, 26 Puesta del Sol

Details & tickets at santafewaldorf.org/SOL Now enrolling! 505.467.6431 preschool - high school

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SAT/21 ART OPENINGS GLASS BLOWING DEMONSTRATIONS Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902 Look but don’t touch. Expect to be mesmerized by hot spinning sand.

11 am-3 pm, free MAGICAL BEINGS Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road (505) 983-0433 Molly Heizer and her reverently-crafted Nativeinspired kachinas and animals, in addition to Bob Brubaker's stoutly-built beings.

All day, free THE HOMESTEAD AND THE HIGHLANDS Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road (505) 983-0433 From artist Andrée Hudson— see her highly expressive paintings use contrasting light and dark colors to explore movement, creating the feeling of western life on the move.

All day, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 If you’ve ever dreamed of throwing it all away and joining a traveling flamenco troupe, consider this a demo.

6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 What can we say, we like flamenco here at SFR and we think you should too.

8 pm, $20-$50 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Indigenous youth dancing from the Lightning Boy Foundation.

3:30-5 pm, free (but tip, don’t just gawk and take pictures)

EVENTS HACIENDAS: A PARADE OF HOMES In and around Santa Fe sfahba.com Go peak around some open model homes. Hosted by the Santa Fe Area Homebuilders Association.

11 am-6 pm, $20 INDIAN MARKET Downtown Santa Fe (505) 349-1414 Whoa, buddy. It’s back in action—alas, there’s ticketed entry this year, but we gotta have some compromises.

Wear a mask and check out some of the best works out there from Indigenous folk.

And check out the many sideevents in conjunction with the market all around downtown.

All day, $15-$35 WORDS IN THE WOODS Hyde Memorial State Park 740 Hyde Park Road Author and historian Jack Loeffler, spoken word artist Natachee Momaday Gray and author Lisa Gray Fisher (E. A. Gray) read and perform original work at Group Site 2 in Hyde Memorial State Park. (see SFR picks, page 21) 1 pm, free PATHWAYS: NATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail (505) 455-5555 Day two of the festival to promote Native arts. Booths, food, music and a vaccination station.

9 am-5 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET The West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Local craftwork for sale.

8 am-2 pm, free

FOOD COOKING CLASS: RED CHILE WORKSHOP Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. (505) 983-4511 Learn to make corn tortillas, red chile sauce made from New Mexican powder; roasted tomato-chipotle sauce; red chile sauce.

2-4 pm, $84

SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Buy kale or something.

7 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC BALKAN BRASS WITH KORVIN ORKESTAR Tomasita's 500 S Guadalupe St. (505) 983-5721 After-hours Indian Market after-party. A rarefied music experience.

10:30 pm, $10 BOB MAUS Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive (505) 471-1111 Piano, vocals and pizza.

5:30-8:30 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN Santa Fe Spirits Downtown Tasting Room 308 Read St. (505) 780-5906 Jon Gagan on upright bass and Pat Malone, guitar, play jazz with a blues heart.

6-9 pm, free MUSIC DEL SOL: A SUMMER COMMUNITY BENEFIT CONCERT Santa Fe Waldorf School 26 Puesta del Sol (505) 983-9727 Open-to-all community celebration. Join to hear three live bands and local food trucks.

5-9 pm, $10 AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Al Rogers on the piano for Fenix patrons.

6:30-9:30 pm, free NATAANII MEANS AND DEF-I WITH YOUNG NATIVE AND B3AR SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Indian Market after-party.

Curated by Echota Killsnight.

Features Taos Pueblo tribal member and powerful emcee B3ar with DJ Element and a bunch more talented Native folks.

9 pm, $10-$15

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Drawing #8, from Clayton Porter’s “One Trick Pony“ at GF Contemporary RESURGENCE FESTIVAL Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 A collective of Indigenous artists striving to promote Native music, art and fashion.

7 pm, $15 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: BACH GOLDBERG VARIATIONS TRIO St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Bach's Aria with Thirty Variations, BWV 988, and Goldberg Variations.

6 pm, $15-$58

OPERA

AS YOU LIKE IT Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 466-1358 Shaking up Shakespeare by adding some extra dirt from the great outdoors.

6:45 pm, $35-$45 WORDS IN THE WOODS Hyde Memorial State Park 740 Hyde Park Road Original works by Jack Loeffler, Natachee Momaday Gray and Lisa Gray Fisher (E. A. Gray), all in the mountains. (see SFR picks, page 21) 1 pm, free

SANTE FE OPERA: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 More opera. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

8 pm, $70-$329

THEATER THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Theater about facts vs. truth in writing.

7:30 pm, $25-$90

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SUN/22 BOOKS/LECTURES JACKSON CLARK LECTURE Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555 Lecture #2 from Clark on Navajo weaving.

11:30 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO SUMMER SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 All your Spanish culture dreams coming true.

6:15 pm, $25-$40 LA EMI: SUMMER FLAMENCO The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 Más flamenco.

8 pm, $20-$50 HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Traditional Indigenous dancing.

3:30-5 pm, free (but tip)

EVENTS HACIENDAS: A PARADE OF HOMES Around town sfahba.com Fancy homes on display in this self-guided tour, featuring the best of Santa Fe architecture and green home technologies. Architecture nerds, you better be listening.

11 am-6 pm, $20 YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. Downward dog forever. Bring your own mat and let the flow floooooow, you know?

10 am, $10

MUSIC DANA COOPER La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511 This poetic songwriter and storyteller is a legend among guitarists. Featuring a special appearance by Bill Hearne. Email corinne@blueskiesmgmt.com to reserve your seat.

2-4 pm, free GRAND EXIT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 21+ event. Come jam and drink to DJ Element, Mato, Lady Saywut?! & Nuh Uh, Sage Cornelius and a bunch more musicians.

6 pm, $10 MT. JOY AND TRAMPLED

BY TURTLES The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182 The indie bands have arrived.

Folksy sounds for folksy folks.

7 pm, $49-$169

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SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: BEETHOVEN AND SHOSTAKOVICH St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Beethoven's String Trio in D Major, Op. 9, No. 2 and his Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, Op. 16. Shostakovich's Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57, joins the fun.

6 pm, $15-$80

SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSICAL FESTIVAL: HAYDN, DOHNÁNYI AND WEBER St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 983-2075 Festival finale and final show. Haydn's String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2, Fifths, Dohnányi's Serenade in C Major, Op. 10 and Weber's Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 34.

6 pm, $15-$80

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SANTA FE OPERA: APPRENTICE SHOWCASE SCENES Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 The opera's singing and technical apprentices get their night to shine.

8 pm, $5-$21

THEATER AS YOU LIKE IT Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 466-1358 It really is Shakespeare’s summer, and we’re just living in it.

6:45 pm, $35-$45 THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, Ste. B Contributing their tradition of presenting timely, evocative work, New Mexico Actors Lab presents their take on this comedic new take on the battle of facts vs. truth.

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Julianne Burton-Carvajal, historian and organizer of exhibitions will share book selections of various historical periods.

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EVENTS MEET ROUTE 66 HISTORIAN WILLIE LAMBERT El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Stop by and learn something about the nation's most famous route. (see SFR picks, page 21) 11:30 am-3 pm, free YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. Where the stretches never felt so good.

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FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Lettuce, but Tuesday lettuce.

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SANTE FE OPERA: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Santa Fe Opera 301 Opera Drive (505) 986-5900 Mozart’s opera. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

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COURTESY TO THE ARTIST

Very Fine, Indeed

Why we worried about this Charles Rosenthal painting, and why you shouldn’t

Please don’t look at Charles Rosenthal’s “Very Fine People” and jump to any conclusions.

BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ay back in the halcyon days of July, SFR held our annual Illustrator’s Cup contest.

Perhaps you’d be surprised that we don’t honestly receive that many illustrations for the yearly thing, more paintings, really, but that’s OK because paintings and digital collages and whatever else Santa Feans send are fine by us—turns out you don’t even have to be a well-known artist to be good at making art. And though the judging was fast and furious and full of more than a few “Fuck you!” moments between staffers, we like to think we ended up with an impressive selection of original pieces.

But then there was that one entry we loved but didn’t print. Or couldn’t? Maybe it’s something about how we should have, but got nervous. Don’t worry, because we still wound up choosing an entry from local oil painter Charles Rosenthal (the 2nd Place-winning “Selfie” based on the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot), but the work we honestly liked more, a surrealism-meets-realism number dubbed “Very Fine People,” was set aside.

Why?

Well, it’s kind of tricky. See, “Very Fine People” elicits visions of the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, tiki torch rally spearheaded by white supremacists whom former president Donald Trump described as “very fine people,” thus the painting’s namesake. There’s a dreaded MAGA hat in the piece. And swastikas. Its four terrifying humanoid subjects seem to be making their way across some sort of stormy void.

We figured that to print it without an explanation from its creator (something for which the contest issue doesn’t have much space) would have resulted in readers taking a quick glance, seeing Nazi ephemera and making snap assumptions about its content, even if the painter’s last name is Rosenthal—even if we’d like to think SFR has proven we’re not pro-Nazi at some point during our decades of existence.

So I tracked Rosenthal down (it wasn’t hard since I literally had his email already) and met up with him to get a clearer idea of the reasoning behind “Very Fine People.”

But let’s go back a little bit first, because it turns out Rosenthal has done some pretty interesting living.

A native of New York City, Rosenthal became what he calls a “serious painter” during high school. Afterward, he would

have been part of the first accredited graduating class at the School of Visual Arts. Attending on on a full scholarship, Rosenthal’s father died in 1979, at which point, he says, he sort of embraced nihilism and dropped out. By 1981, he’d entered the community college system to study physical anthropology. A resultant work study in Costa Rica took him out of America for the first time, where he learned more about the Iran-Contra stuff and Nicaragua.

“I came back to America, and there were two things that became clear: The environmental degradation going on at the time and the military situation in Nicaragua,” he tells SFR. “I became politicized. I opened my eyes. So, I came back talking to anyone who would listen, and nobody could care less.”

What was a politicized and painterly anthropology enthusiast to do?

“I decided to go to Europe,” Rosenthal explains, “and see if it was any better over there.”

Selling his prized comic book and record collections, Rosenthal flew to London, which he’d consider home base for roughly 17 years. Waiting tables, bartending and painting in his free time, he’d marry his then-girlfriend (something he says they

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“never would have done under any circumstances if I weren’t going to have to leave the country,”) and the relationship disintegrated shortly thereafter. He traveled, met and married a French national (who’s still a good friend, he says) and continued working on his degree. Today, he’s one math credit short of achieving the damn thing, but it seems he doesn’t care.

With his French wife, Rosenthal would travel to and work in Africa and Asia; they’d set up shop in the south of France for a time. By 1999, his mother retired to Tucson. Facing divorce once more, he went to visit her and stayed a year before returning to New York City. All the while, he was painting. Back home, he’d pick up professional gallery representation while meeting and marrying a third time. The couple would move to Los Angeles and implode as well. Then it was back to New York, a fourth marriage in 2005 (that one stuck) and once Rosenthal lost an art director job with ad agency Droga 5—and his wife discovered she could work remotely—the couple moved to Santa Fe in May because “the art scene seemed more accessible than Los Angeles or New York.”

Whew. Still with me? Take your time and think about it, because that’s a lot. You good? OK, let’s press on.

Which brings us to today and the patio of Iconik Coffee Roaster’s original Lena Street location where I explain to Rosenthal why we didn’t run “Very Fine People” in our Illustrator’s Cup issue.

Turns out he understands our concerns, and that the core of the piece came from a quick sketch he drew in ’93 or ’94 of four strange figures seemingly in transit across a shapeless background. Every so often he’d pull it out and consider a new direction, but when the Charlottesville stuff went down in 2017, inspiration finally struck. Make no mistake, the creatures in Rosenthal’s piece are not meant to be celebrated or considered heroic in any way.

“I just felt like I had something to say about it—not a responsibility, but something I had to get out of me,” he says.

“Living abroad for so many years, you learn to fear Americans, and today I think Charlottesville was, in a way, so much more upsetting an incident than the Capitol insurrection. This all feeds into where we are now, and just because you’re educated doesn’t mean you’re intelligent or able to think clearly or critically.”

So there you have it. Will you hang “Very Fine People” in your house?

Probably not, but here’s hoping it at least inspires a conversation. Or maybe winds up in a museum someday? Oh, and before I forget, I’m gonna need a local gallery to start representing Rosenthal. Dude’s amazing.

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ll I want is to eat and watch movies and get paid to do it. If writing about those things is the price to pay, so be it.

As my internship at SFR comes to close, I’ve realized this dream (you’ll find reviews of The Suicide Squad and downtown eatery Henry & the Fish at sfreporter.com among other pieces), and in this last week that intense desire to eat boils down to boiled hot dogs.

My future sister-in-law and her husband recently came from the Italian part of Massachusetts to see, in order from most important to least, Foo Fighters, my fiancée and, lastly, me. Earlier, they spied downtown hot dog joint Chicago Dog Express (600 Cerrillos Road, 505984-2798) from their balcony at Hotel Santa Fe, and have wanted to go; so, combining work and family duties, a-hot-dogging did we go.

Pulling up on my bike, I spy with my hot-doggy eye an idyllic patio and stand/ kitchen, with surprisingly ample parking hidden behind. An array of flowers surrounds a patio of six tables with five umbrellas and numerous diners; a line of others waits to go under the exact kind of façade one wants to see on a hot dog shop: The protective coverings of the windows swing open to reveal menus on their bright blue backsides as well as “masks required” signs; an awning with the restaurant’s sensible name advertises not only its offerings, but its entire essence—Chicago hot dogs done quickly.

Chicago Dog Express hits the spot hard with namesake dog

This is non-pretentious and quick, a bit of a legendary spot for Santa Feans; hot dogs are simple and require very little of their vendors.

When we get to the window to order, one of my companions has no mask.

Whoopsie! Luckily, one of the stand’s three employees hands him one. They take safety seriously—all employees have masks and gloves on and they measure the dogs’ internal temperature regularly.

Granted, this particular item comes precooked and is typically safe to eat cold, but, if nothing else, “temping” the dogs ensures that Chicago Dog’s namesake meal comes out perfectly each time.

One of my companions orders three Chicago Dogs ($5.72-6.72), all regular-sized (1/6 pound rather than the 1/4 pound jumbo dog). Two of those are half-loaded, and one fully loaded—loading, of course, refers to the amount of toppings, in this case mustard, relish, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, pickle spear, sport peppers and celery salt seasoning. They do not have the key lime soda advertised, but he settles for a regular old lime one.

Mel Brooks might call it a tragedy.

“Do I get a number or something?” he asks the staff.

“No,” one of them replies. “I’ll just yell out.”

Take a hike, pretense!

I order a small Frito pie ($5.72), Christmas (for you, dear reader, since I prefer green), a cream soda ($2.86) and the jumbo Santa Fe Dog ($8.67) fully loaded with cheese, onions and chile.

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dog is beautifully decorated down to the poppy seeds spotting the bun, even if they forgot the pickle.

My Santa Fe dog and Frito pie fill me up. In that regard, the meal succeeds. But the chile on the pie, which I magnanimously shared with my party, lacks kick, especially the red.

My male companion agrees: “Pretty flat,” he says.

“Monotone,” his wife throws in.

In fairness, I have yet to meet a Frito pie I like. I love Fritos and I love chile and yet somehow, together, the coupling tastes bland to me. Send me back to New England—and clam chowder—if you must, Santa Fe, but please let me graduate from St. John’s College before you do.

Still, the Santa Fe dog, though not as good as the Chicago variety, satisfies, largely due to the quality and dominance of the 1/4 pound Vienna Beef (which advertises as “Chicago’s Hot Dog”) wiener contrasting with a bun made soggy by melted cheese and overflowing chile. This is not a hand-held dog, though equipped with a knife and spork, I render it edible.

Fresh white onion adds crisp texture to the meaty, gooey bites.

But not everyone wants a hot dog, or even meat at all, for that matter. To satisfy the meatless, Chicago Dog Express offers a vegetarian Frito pie as well as a veggie sandwich—essentially the Chicago dog without the dog.

For breakfast (8-10:30 am, Monday-Friday) find handheld and smothered breakfast burritos ($6.04-7.28), with eggs, potatoes, cheese and vegetarian green chile. Add bacon for a mere 65 cents if you like.

Despite our soda SNAFUs, my sister-in-law lays out how we we all feel by the end of the meal.

“Tomorrow,” she says, “I want to try the kielbasa.”

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Still, tragedy strikes a second time as I learn the Henry Willard cream soda I want is unavailable. Wounded, I settle for a root beer only to receive one which is not the brand advertised. To be fair, I could probably return it as it is unmolested and still-closed. Somehow, I soldier through.

My order takes as long to make as it does for me to photograph my companions’ meals. After my impromptu shoot, I graciously allow them to eat their Chicago dogs.

“They’re good,” says one fellow diner. “Hot peppers is probably a Santa Fe touch.”

“This is legit,” says another. High praise, indeed.

Still, in measuring and sampling out collective dogs, I discover that, for the extra dollar, the ratio of dogs-to-stuff feels more effective with less. The smaller Chicago dogs are ideal, particularly compared to my massive quarter-pounder.

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Swan Song+Review

BEST MOVIE EVER

Todd Stephens brings a joyous, touching tribute to lost queer spaces

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Old age for Pat Pitsenberger (Udo Kier of Bacurau) is seemingly about little more than wasting away in a nursing home. It’s just as drab as you can imagine until the retired hairdresser (nicknamed the “Liberace of Sandusky”) gets a chance for one more do-up when he learns a former estranged client has died and needs to look her best before she’s put in the ground. To get to the funeral home, he takes a long walk through Sandusky, Ohio— but oh, how the city has changed.

Pat inhabits an overcast world, and his long sojourn is almost like a metaphor for the devolving Rust Belt itself. Half the locations he passes are shut down, boarded up, decaying or outright vanished, and director Todd Stephens’ desire to produce an ode to queer safe spaces that, like the region itself or the memories of old age, dissipate as time chugs along, catches the viewer off-guard.

Pat’s dual fascination with what’s lost alongside his internalized mourning present

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CODA

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Ruby (Emilia Jones) is a CODA—Child of Deaf Adults—and as the only one in her family who can hear, she’s essential in operating the fishing business and helping her folks navigate daily life. But when Ruby joins the high school choir on a whim and learns she’s a heck of a singer, she’s at odds with her financially struggling family as they can’t, for obvious reasons, connect with her blossoming passion for music.

CODA wobbles throughout its runtime, wavering between a typical coming-of-age tale with all the corresponding young adult tropes we’ve come to expect in a story about an art kid and nuanced (read, far more interesting) family drama. Even so, clichés can be tolerated, and CODA’s most vulnerable moments are knock-outs with roaring performances from veteran deaf actors Troy Kotsur and Marlee Matlin as Ruby’s parents.

Still, the film is a bit of a conundrum and is equal parts annoying even while it does resonate. It’s never quite dull, yet it never holds much in the way of surprise. Ruby’s eccentric choir director (Eugenio Derbez) inhabits a space and feel akin to what might have been

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a career-high for 76-year-old Kier, a German native who jumps from relatively obscure cinema to embodying an Ohio hairdresser with a mountain of empathy. Swan Song often leans into pure camp, too, and never apologizes for its outlandish moments.

Like most festival circuit works, Stephens’ opus is not the cleanest film, nor is every directorial decision the most coherent. In fact, its low-budget vibe and supporting roles aren’t even close to convincing much of the time. There is a strong screenplay, however, anchored by a deep thematic core, and in moments wherein Swan Song’s melancholic scenes are well-balanced and tempered with

a side character in some facile 2004 film with Hillary Duff and Chad Michael Murray—one wherein comedic elements, extreme personas and dramatic elements feel far more down-toearth—or maybe just lackluster.

Despite the frustrations, CODA’s screenplay attempts to do good and delve into an honest portrayal of the complexities of a deaf household, and that gives it at least a little bit of cred. That is, moments remind those of us with the privilege to hear that we all need to think against the notion that the deaf community is helpless. Oftentimes we can forgive stories when they go down well-trodden paths so long as there are newer or more enlightened truths.

Once the credits roll, it’s clear CODA’s strength is in its heart rather than its tropes, but then, can’t that be said of most movies? What it does well, it does well, and what it does poorly—well, it ain’t the worst. (RG) Apple TV+ and Violet Crown, PG-13, 112 min

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This is not Suicide Squad 2—this is The Suicide Squad. T-H-E. And rather than follow in director James Ayer’s too-dour

rumination on life’s inevitabilities, a tear or two might fall. For all of its obvious limited production values, Swan Song does stand out within the indie world and holds its own as one of the most heartfelt films of 2021 thus far—its selection into festivals like SXSW are well deserved.

Suicide Squad footsteps circa 2016, director James Gunn recycles characters from the non-T-H-E version for something that feels a little more new, even if it is a mid-summer comic book blockbuster kind of thing.

Other movies reside on its superblock—Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy live right next door. And like the proverbial milkman impregnating two neighboring rival housewives, Gunn wrote Guardians for Marvel (Disney) and this for DC (HBO, maybe? Warner? Both? Who cares?). He even brought his Guardians bag o’ tricks over to DC from the house of mouse (which fired him for old rapey tweets then re-hired him later). Squad’s soundtrack of indie, country and classic rock songs courtesy of bands like The Decemberists and Johnny Cash adds to the mood—or at least tells us how to feel—and its ensemble cast, which is practically a character-to-character overlay with Guardians, makes for fun interactions centering around the film’s ultimate selling point: it’s bold, brash and stupid funny.

Not stupidly funny, but stupid, cartoonish, ridiculous funny.

In short, a small country revolts and, surprise, the US secret ops, led by Viola

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Davis (Fences), needs to intervene. She assembles a team of prisoners who must choose between more jail time or—get this—a suicide mission. Margot Robbie (Bombshell) performs her day job as psychotic hottie Harley Quinn and earns her paycheck, while Idris Elba drives the plot and John Cena plays the comic relief in beef. An unrecognizable Sylvester Stallone shocks as the sympathetic CGI King Shark, while Daniela Melchior (Parque Mayer) steals scenes as Ratcatcher 2, the only nuanced character in the movie. Pete Davidson is in there, too, for the youths.

But it’s a gratuitous penis and what it symbolizes that pushes this movie forward. For no reason but our pleasure, an extra gets shot to death while Porky Piggin’ it (that’s pants-free, folks). His penis represents childish humor brought to the big screen, not in a kids’ movie way, but in an R-rated one, and the over-the-top violence, terrible jokes and physical humor mix together to make a caricature for capital-A adults. Squad lacks some fundamentals, sure, but everything that crosses the line set by Deadpool helps put the comic back in comical.

(Campbell Lozuaway-McComsey) Violet Crown, HBO Max, R, 132 min.

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Week of August 18th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A blogger who calls herself TheSaddestChorusGirlInTheWorld writes, “Having sex with someone is a big deal and involves a ton of vulnerability. And I think it’s troubling and gross and unhealthy and, yes, dangerous that we pretend otherwise and encourage people to ‘be mature’ by compartmentalizing or completely eliminating their deeper emotions from their sexuality. And even worse, any other view is dismissed as prudish and invalid and unenlightened and restrictive.” You may agree with everything TheSaddestChorusGirl says here. But if you haven’t arrived at her conclusions, now is a good time to meditate on them. Why? Because your assignment in the coming weeks is to deepen and refine your relationship with your sexuality. Be extra reverent about your sensual longings. Ensure that your erotic activities serve your highest ideals and noblest goals.

like Woolf: people and animals and places and experiences that can bring you into more intimate contact with your soul. I hope you take full advantage.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): At the age of 70, Libran novelist Magda Szabó mused, “I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.” In that spirit, Libra, and in accordance with astrological omens, I authorize you to express affection in lively, unruly, demonstrative ways. Give yourself permission to be playfully imaginative, exuberantly revelatory, and vivaciously animated as you show the people and animals you cherish the nature of your feelings for them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Do you Scorpios lie to yourselves more than the other signs lie to themselves?

Are you especially prone to undermine yourselves TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The popular American through self-deception? I don’t think so. However, you TV sitcom 30 Rock produced 138 episodes in seven might be among the signs most likely to mislead or seasons. At the height of its success, it crammed an beguile other people. (But here’s a caveat: On some average of 9.57 jokes into every minute. Its comic richness derived in large part from multi-talented Taurus occasions, your trickery is in a good cause, because it serves the needs of the many, not just yourself.) In any star Tina Fey, who created the show and played one of case, dear Scorpio, I will ask you to minimize all such its main characters. She was also a writer and executive behavior during the next five weeks. I think your success producer. I propose we make her your role model in the will depend on you being exceptionally honest and gencoming weeks. According to my projections, you’re uine—both to yourself and to others. entering a charismatic, ebullient, and creative phase of your astrological cycle. It’s time to be generous to the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I like being broken,” parts of your life that need big happy doses of release says Sagittarius actor Jamie Campbell Bower. “It means I and liberation. can have chocolate for breakfast.” I guess that when he feels down, he gives himself special permission to enjoy GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I got an email from a Gemini extra treats and privileges. According to my assessment reader named Jaylah. She wrote, “Hi, not sure if you of the astrological omens, you now have the right to give remember me, but in our past lives, you and I used to yourself similar permission—even though I don’t expect write sacred cuneiform texts on clay tablets while sitting you’ll be broken or feeling down. Think of it as a reward across from each other in a cave in Mesopotamia 4,910 for the brave work you’ve been doing lately. Enjoy this years ago. Your name was Nabu. Mine was Tashmetu. I chocolatey grace period! was always a little jealous because you earned more money than I, but it didn’t get in the way of our friendCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Abraham Joshua ship. Anyway, if you ever want to catch up about the old Heschel (1907–1972) was a Jewish theologian born days, give me a holler.” I loved receiving this inquiry from under the sign of Capricorn. He wrote, “Indifference to a soul I may have known in a previous incarnation. And the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.” That’s a what she did by reaching out to me happens to be the different definition of sin from what we’re used to! To be perfect type of activity for you Geminis right now. a moral person, Heschel believed, you must be in “radiSecrets of your history may be more available than cal amazement” about the glories of creation. I hope you usual. The past may have new stories to tell. A resource will cultivate such an attitude in the coming weeks, from yesteryear could prove valuable in the future.

Capricorn. It would be a mistake for you to numbly take things for granted. I dare you to cultivate as much awe, CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian-born Franz Kafka reverence, and adoration as you can muster. was an interesting writer and a master of language. But even for him, it could be a challenge to convey what he AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A blogger who calls herself Hopeful Melancholy wrote a message to her lover. really meant. He said, “I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain some- She said, “My favorite sexual position is the one where you work on your paintings and I work on my book, but thing inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in we’re in the same room and occasionally smile at each my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.” Now here’s the good news, as far as you’re con- other.” You might want to consider trying experiments comparable to that one in the coming weeks, Aquarius. cerned, Cancerian: I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have more power than usual to do exactly what The time will be fertile for you and your dear allies to work side-by-side; to cheer each other on and lift each Kafka aspired to do. You will be able to summon extra ease and grace in expressing your truths. I invite you to other up; to explore new ways of cultivating companionship and caring for each other. be a connoisseur of deep conversations.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If we wait until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of our lives,” declared novelist Lemony Snicket. This is good advice for you to heed right now. I really hope you avoid the temptation to wait around for the perfect moment before you begin. In my vision of your best approach, you will dive into the future without trying to have all your plans finalized and all your assets gathered. I expect you will acquire the rest of what you need once the process is underway.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dick Dudley was a 17thcentury swindler. Among his many victims was the Pope. Dudley offered an item for sale that he claimed was a divine relic: a piece of the beard of St. Peter, founder of the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope paid Dudley a small fortune for the treasure, and kissed it copiously. Only later did the full story emerge: The socalled beard was in fact a sex worker’s pubic wig. I hope you don’t get involved in switcheroos like that anytime soon, Pisces. Make sure that the goods or services you’re receiving—and offering, for that matter—are exactly what they’re supposed to be.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Author Katherine Mansfield once told her friend Virginia Woolf, “You put me in touch with my own soul.” I’m sorry Mansfield didn’t preHomework: Describe what you’re ever so thankful for. viously have that precious connection, but I’m elated Newsletter@FreeWillAstrology.com that Woolf helped her make it. In the coming weeks, I expect you will encounter an abundance of influences

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