Santa Fe Reporter, February 14, 2024 by Santa Fe Reporter

SFREPORTER.COM

•

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024

SSppeeccia iall tthhaannkkss to to gguueesstt ju juddggee SSaanntta F PPooeett LLaaure a Fee ureaattee TToom mm myy A Arrcchhuulleettaa!!

Spring Poetry Search

February 1 - 29 ENTER SUBMISSIONS at: sfreporter.com/contests DEADLINE: Midnight on February 29,2024 There is NO minimum or maximum word count. Entries must be typed and previously unpublished. There is NO limit on the number of entries per poet, but each entry should be a single poem. Winners will be published in SFR and at sfreporter.com, along with a biographical statement about the author. QUESTIONS? Contact Julie Ann Grimm at 505.988.7530 or editor@sfreporter.com

FE BRUARY 14-20, 2024

•

SFREPORTER.COM

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024 | Volume 51, Issue 7

NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

A Symbol of Commitment for More Than a Century Experienced, local professionals

OP-ED 8 Why financial literacy should be a graduation requirement—and how we can start earlier

assisting you with your Treasury Management needs. Our team

COVER STORY 10

is committed to helping your

LOVE AND SEX

BORN JUNE 26, 1974

This year, the Santa Fe Reporter celebrates its 50th birthday! Free weekly print edition and daily web updates remain the core mission. Can you help local journalism for the next 50? Learn more at sfreporter.com/friends

The Not-So-Terrible Two 11 How to Write a Love Song 12 The Numbers Game 13 Un-Hinged 14 Love and Death 15

business grow.

SANDY RASMUSSEN SVP | Managing Director of Treasury Management

Instagram: @sfreporter EDITOR AND PUBLISHER JULIE ANN GRIMM

CULTURE

ADVERTISING DIRECTOR ROBYN DESJARDINS

SFR PICKS 17 Lowrider bikes akimbo, plus new work by Kate Stringer, new-ish tunes from Lili St. Anne and a place for the teens to write THE CALENDAR 18

MyCenturyBank.com | 505.798.5908

ART DIRECTOR ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN CULTURE EDITOR ALEX DE VORE SENIOR CORRESPONDENT JULIA GOLDBERG STAFF WRITERS EVAN CHANDLER MO CHARNOT

3 QUESTIONS 22 With Momentos Studios Founder JC Ramirez FOOD 27 STRIKE WHILE THE OIL IS HOT Trina Jae’s Navajo Frybread pop-up at CHOMP food hall calls your name MOVIES 28 LISA FRANKENSTEIN REVIEW Zelda Williams’ directorial debut cobbles together spare parts

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS LAYLA ASHER ARIEL GORE MARGARET LAMBE THICK LIZZY EDITORIAL INTERN ADAM FERGUSON CLASSIFIEDS ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE ZOE WHITTLE DIGITAL SERVICES MANAGER BRIANNA KIRKLAND CIRCULATION MANAGER ANDY BRAMBLE OWNERSHIP CITY OF ROSES NEWSPAPER CO. PRINTER THE NEW MEXICAN

Cover illustration by Shelby Criswell shelbycriswell.com

www.SFReporter.com

Phone: (505) 988-5541 Mail: PO BOX 4910 SANTA FE, NM 87502

EDITORIAL DEPT: editor@sfreporter.com

CULTURE EVENTS: calendar@sfreporter.com DISPLAY ADVERTISING: advertising@sfreporter.com CLASSIFIEDS: classy@sfreporter.com

THOUGH THE SANTA FE REPORTER IS FREE, PLEASE TAKE JUST ONE COPY. ANYONE REMOVING PAPERS IN BULK FROM OUR DISTRIBUTION POINTS WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW. SANTA FE REPORTER, ISSN #0744-477X, IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, 52 WEEKS EACH YEAR. DIGITAL EDITIONS ARE FREE AT SFREPORTER.COM. CONTENTS © 2024 SANTA FE REPORTER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MATERIAL MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION.

association of alternative newsmedia

SFREPORTER.COM • • FEBRUARY FEBRUARY14-20, 14-20,2024 2024 SFREPORTER.COM

3 3

SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE The Art of Creation. 2024 Season

Pueblo Revolt

COMEDY + DRAMA

Liz Duffy Adams’

Script-in-hand staged workshop of an Indigifuturist comedy about two Indigenous brothers living under Colonial Spanish rule in New Mexico.

March 6 - 31

COMEDY

Two witty and seductive plays about three salacious wordsmiths: Will Shakespeare, Kit Marlowe, and Aphra Behn.

August 29-September 15

August 15-18

Or, & Born With Teeth

DRAMA

Heidi Schreck’s

The Melodrama

The Melodrama returns and will continue to roast the city and state we love. Featuring short-melos and community performances.

FLEXPAS

& SAVE

BUY YOUR FLEXPASS TODAY

May 9 - June 2

Cebollas

8 tickets for the price of 7! Flexible seating on a flexible schedule.

This boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.

Three Latina sisters travel from ABQ to Denver, not for business or pleasure, but to deliver a dead body.

Email boxoffice@santafeplayhouse.org, call 505-988-4262, or visit santafeplayhouse.org

What the Constitution Means to Me

Lapine & Sondheim’s

Sunday in the Park with George June 27 - July 28

Leonard Madrid’s October 17-November 10

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Revised) December 5-29

One of the most acclaimed musicals of our time, this moving study of the enigmatic painter Georges Seurat won a Pulitzer Prize, and was nominated for ten Tony Awards.

FE BRUARY 14-20, 2024

COMEDY

MUSICAL

WORKSHOP

Dillon Christopher Chitto’s

•

SFREPORTER.COM

Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts gang explore life’s great questions and celebrate the joy of friendship.

Season sponsored by Erin & Thomas Bunkley III, Bruce Stuart, and the Esther Carp School of Living Fund

SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE 42 East De Vargas Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Mail letters to PO Box 4910, Santa Fe, NM 87502; or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

LETTERS

DON USNER

SFREPORTER.COM / NEWS/LETTERSTOTHEEDITOR

ONLINE, JAN. 31:

“DIXON GARLIC FARMER, REVERED AUTHOR STANLEY CRAWFORD DIES AT 86”

DO AS HE DID Live a life so that someone can tell stories like this about who you were. What a beautiful legacy. Peace and comfort to his family and friends.

SARAH BOSES VIA TWITTER @SWEETSPROCKET23

IMMENSE LOSS Stanley Crawford memorialized Northern New Mexico and the beauty of rural life in his stories. What an immense loss to the literary community, and to the Dixon community.

US REP. TERESA LEGER FERNÁNDEZ VIA TWITTER @REPTERESALF

VALUE ADDED Very sad to hear. I really valued his work.

NICHOLAS BIRNS VIA TWITTER @NICHOLASBIRNS

MORNING WORD, JAN. 24: “EV TAX CREDITS PASS FIRST COMMITTEE”

read Cobalt Red by Siddarth Kara. Electric power-trains may be four times more efficient and cheaper to operate than internal combustion vehicles, but it takes 10,000 or more miles to zero-out the EV’s energy cost. The environment and social effects may be incalculable. Kara’s book documents the extractive process to mine heterogenite (nickel, manganese, cobalt) as well as copper in the Republic of Congo by men, women and children who earn under $2 per day. These minerals are essential to build electro-chemical batteries and EVs. Assurances by manufacturers of “fair trade” practices and “cleaner” future batteries should be scrutinized. This does not ignore the deceptive practices of petroleum industries who for decades have hidden the deleterious effects of hydrocarbon combustion to our world but illustrates the contradiction of replacing one evil with another. Rather than embrace a technology that supports our convenient form of mobility, we might consider changing our transportation system, with public transit, walk-able and bicycle-friendly communities, energy education and reduced consumption.

200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training this Summer! Embark on a transformative journey with Dirty Laundry’s YTT, guided by Missy Jones & Lauren Roberts. This online program will give you the opportunity to deepen your practice, explore yoga’s depths, and join a community of like-minded people. For more information and to register email: dirtylaundryyoga@gmail.com

COLIN MESSER SANTA FE

READ BEFORE EMBRACE The suffering inflicted on humanity and damage to the environment in the construction of electric vehicles should be considered when labeling them as “clean.” Before embracing this complex technological solution to climate chaos,

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

CHIROPRACTIC CARE • THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE SHOCKWAVE THERAPY • DRY NEEDLING CUPPING • KINESIOTAPE • CORRECTIVE EXERCISE

TURQUOISETRAILTHERAPEUTICS.COM

DR. BRENDAN T. CASEY

• 505 303 3004

SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER “I have appropriation envy.” —Overheard on the Senate floor “We’re not super close, but we’ve taken mushrooms together, so I thought that counted for something.” —Overheard in the newsroom

Send your Overheard in Santa Fe tidbits to: eavesdropper@sfreporter.com SFREPORTER.COM SFREPORTER.COM • • FEBRUARY FEBRUARY14-20, 14-20,2024 2024

S FRE P ORTE R.COM / FU N

TRUMP SAYS RUSSIA SHOULD ATTACK NATO ALLIES WHO DON’T PAY BILLS

We’ll quote NPR here: “The 77-year-old either does not understand how NATO works or is distorting the truth for political gain.”

SUPER BOWL OCCURS

Huge congrats to Taylor’s boyfriend.

BIDEN WHITE HOUSE STARTS TIKTOK ACCOUNT He’s really hi-fellow-youngpeople-ing.

FORMER NCAA SWIMMER RILEY GAINES STUMPS FOR TERFY LEGISLATION IN NM Fuck—and might we add—off.

CAT CAFÉ OPENS IN BACA STREET RAILYARD

For when you’ve just read that Trump is egging on Russia and Biden is now on TikTok.

BARNES & NOBLE TO OPEN IN SANTA FE MALL

We’d point out that the Borders-esuqe model hasn’t worked out great in Santa Fe—and that Geronimo’s Books on the Southside totally already exists.

PNM WARNS ABOUT DANGERS OF MYLAR BALLOONS AND POWER LINES AS V-DAY LOOMS

They’re bad for cats, too .

FEBRUARY FE BRUARY14-20, 14-20,2024 2024 •• SFREPORTER.COM SFREPORTER.COM

READ IT ON SFREPORTER.COM JUST WAIT

A proposed law that would impose a sevenday waiting period on gun purchases heads to the governor’s desk.

W E A R E WAY M O R E TH A N W ED N ES DAY H ER E A R E A CO UPL E O F O N L I N E EXCLUS I V ES :

NOT YET

The Santa Fe Association of Realtors asks a judge to stall the high-end housing tax pending its litigation.

C H R I S T U S S T . V I N C E N T A N D M AYO C L I N I C

Expert Care

Right Here at Home At CHRISTUS St. Vincent, the providers you know and trust have direct access to Mayo Clinic’s medical knowledge and expertise. This means, as a CHRISTUS St. Vincent patient, your expert providers can request a second opinion from Mayo Clinic specialists on your behalf and access Mayo Clinic’s research, diagnostics and treatment resources to address your unique medical needs. This clinical collaboration allows you and your loved ones to get the comprehensive and compassionate care you need close to home, at no additional cost. CHRISTUS St. Vincent and Mayo Clinic Working Together. Working for you. We accept most major insurance plans, including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Presbyterian Health Plan, Aetna, Cigna, CHRISTUS Health Plan, Humana, TRICARE and United Healthcare. Please consult with your health plan.

CHRISTUS St. Vincent 455 St. Michael’s Dr. Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 913-3361 • www.stvin.org SFREPORTER.COM

•

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024

OP-ED

Buying It

FEBRUARY FE BRUARY14-20, 14-20,2024 2024 •• SFREPORTER.COM SFREPORTER.COM

S-B

OLL

I also believe financial education benefits go beyond the classroom and may help students better handle rough circumstances. Some people argue that teaching money management doesn’t deter poor financial behaviors. A 2014 study published in Management Sciences found “that interventions to improve financial literacy explain only 0.1% of the variance in financial behaviors studied, with weaker effects in low-income samples.” High school financial literacy requirements may not be as effective as we might hope: The authors note that, “like other education, financial education decays over time.” I don’t think this is reason not to teach key life concepts, however. Continuing education could reinforce financial literacy

f the goal of K-12 education is to prepare children to be successful members of society, the basic subjects are no longer sufficient. High school graduates need financial literacy skills to productively manage their lives whether they go to college, trade school or directly into the workforce. Our teenagers already participate in the economy. In New Mexico, many contribute to household incomes and expenses. House Bill 171—one of the first measures signed into law by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham from this legislative session—requires high school economics to include some financial education, but it doesn’t make a stand-alone financial literacy class a graduation requirement. This means it doesn’t go far enough in educating our kids. New Mexico students face opportunity gaps—including lack of quality health care, food scarcity, inadequate housing and low educational attainment among parents— that result in poor outcomes. We’ve placed at or near the bottom of national child well-being ratings for years, according to the Annie E Casey Foundation’s annual Kids Count Data Book. This isn’t a one-solution problem. However, high school graduates who know how to budget, manage money, plan for long-term goals and invest stand a better chance of supporting their families’ well-being. Establishing financial literacy as a highschool graduation requirement could both close some opportunity gaps and improve math, reading and social studies proficiencies, which, in New Mexico, are among the country’s lowest. Financial education’s relevant, real-life scenarios require critical thinking and complement economics and practical mathematics, such as algebra and statistics. Employers think a financial literacy requirement is a good idea. Last year, Dion’s Pizza CEO Mark Hermann advocated for it in the Albuquerque Journal: “Some of our younger employees don’t have bank accounts in which to deposit their hardearned money; others do not know that they need to file federal and state taxes,” he wrote. “Without basic personal finance education, far too many employees turn to check-cashing outlets and get charged unnecessary fees, take out high-interest loans, or accumulate credit card debt.” Hermann identifies issues that set up

young adults for years of struggle. He stresses that they’re avoidable with education. New Mexico schools must offer a financial literacy elective, but that’s not the best standard. A stand-alone financial literacy graduation requirement is. In 2008, Utah became the first state to enact this with its General Financial Literacy standard. The class covers financial planning, income and career preparation, money management, savings, investing and retirement accounts. It’s been successful. In fact, Utah’s 2018 GFL analysis concluded that students completing the requirement “appear to have better personal financial knowledge and make better behavioral choices than those who have not.” This is worth paying attention to, especially given our state’s low child-well-being ratings. Knowing how to account for opportunities and costs goes beyond money sense: Because financial literacy involves thinking about money over time, it could help students make better life decisions. New Mexico needs to join the 25 states following Utah in recognizing the multiple, long-term benefits of financial literacy education. The Legislature has tried over recent years, and HB171 is a step in this direction, but the Senate didn’t adopt an amendment to make a financial literacy course a graduation requirement. New Mexico’s Public Education Department also made progress with its 2021 updated social studies standards. They didn’t address financial literacy, though, until enough New Mexicans pushed back against PED’s first draft. Think New Mexico, a Santa Fe-based think tank that’s contributed to proposed financial literacy legislation, led a public support effort to include personal finance in PED social studies standards. PED responded by amending its draft. Abenicio Baldonado, then Think New Mexico’s education reform director, called this success “an important first step to tackling intergenerational poverty.”

B Y D A R A C O R D O VA M O N T O YA

Why financial literacy should be a graduation requirement—and how we can start earlier

SFREPORTER.COM/COLUMNS/OPED

and introduce updated concepts. Maybe more importantly, students can start learning about finances long before high school. Early, hands-on education sticks and responds to children’s interests. The Girl Scout Cookie Program, introduced in 1917, is an example of successful youth financial education. It’s the nation’s largest financial literacy program and develops five financial-planning skills—goal setting, money management, people skills, decision making and business ethics—years before adulthood. As a Santa Fe Girl Scout troop leader for 15 years, I taught my scouts to manage the troop checkbook and give monthly treasurer reports. They began informed participation in our economy early, provided with real-world opportunities to manage money, become ethical and reliable entrepreneurs, set goals, meet deadlines, work with others and understand customers. These skills aren’t taught in schools, and Scout leaders have filled the gap for decades. Sadly, Girl Scouts is declining in membership: Overworked, over-scheduled parents have little time to oversee extracurricular activities. Students still need to learn this information, however; and skills-based, real-world education isn’t gender specific. This is another reason why public schools should assume responsibility for teaching financial literacy. It is also why I believe New Mexico should offer financial literacy classes for all middle schoolers. Compelling programs exist, and many of our students enter the workforce in their early-mid-teens. The new law does, however, allow school districts to impose two units of their own requirements. Here’s where we must focus on adding a financial literacy course to Santa Fe Public Schools’ highschool graduation requirements. We need to meet our state’s low academic and high poverty ratings with practical, relevant, handson education. Financial literacy education can directly, immediately benefit students in our public schools and also ensure that they have knowledge to support stable adult lives, and family well-being, after graduation. Dara Cordova Montoya wrote this essay as a Mother Tongue Project English student at Santa Fe Community College, where she is pursuing a nutrition degree. A native Santa Fean, mother and grandmother, she owns Chingona Consulting Coaching and CPR. Mother Tongue Project creates academic English and family literacy programming for parenting students—and works to amplify their voices in our community. MotherTongueProject.org.

MARIANA PINEDA, a play by Federico Garcia Lorca A true story of Mariana de Pineda y Muñoz, executed on May 26, 1831 for sewing a flag for the opposition against the tyrannical rule of King Ferdinand VII.

Trident Water Wells is a Rapid Response, Water Well Drilling Contractor

February 16 - March 3 THU - FRI - SAT @ 7:30 pm SUN @ 2:00pm

Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, SFNM 87507 teatroparaguasnm.org | 505-424-1601 for reservations

www.theatresantafe.org

New Mexico license # WD-1822 SFREPORTER.COM

•

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024

h, love—that thing we do best as a species. Love can be sublime. Terrifying. Thrilling. Painful. Necessary. Ah, sex—that other thing we do that just feels so right, biological imperative or no. When thrown together...well, there’s not a whole lot more to existence when we get right down to it, right? Yes, friends, welcome to SFR’s Love & Sex issue, an annual affair that brings in various writers, thinkers, sex workers and otherwise everday people from your community (or formerly from your community) to talk about the things on their minds when it comes to, well, love and sex. This year’s a fun one, too, as we hear from SFR’s dedicated sex columnist Layla Asher in the days leading up to her second anniversary fielding your burning little sex questions (opposite page). Additionally, you’ll find a bevy of local songwriters dropping their best tips

FE FEBRUARY BRUARY 14-20, 14-20, 2024 2024

••

SFREPORTER.COM SFREPORTER.COM

for penning a song for the person (or persons) you love (page 12). You’ll also get some insight into the trials and tribulations of trying to find love when you never thought you’d be single again (hint, it’s about friendship first; page 13), dating in the modern age while working in the adult film industry (spoiler: it kind of sucks; page 14) and a gripping tale of love lost to that omnipresent bastard cancer by Ariel Gore (page 15). As always, the inimitable Shelby Criswell provided the illustrations, as well as that adorable valentine on the cover. Speaking of which, this very issue drops on Valentine’s Day, so if you’re reading it on Feb. 14 and thinking about that special someone, remember how lucky you are to have found something akin to love in this crazy, workaday world. Oh, and normalize telling your friends you love them. We got that from a meme, but we really mean it. (Alex De Vore)

The Not-So-Terrible Two We’ve come together through ‘The Naked Truth,’ Santa Fe

B Y L AY L A A S H E R misslaylaasher

id you know that The Naked Truth column in SFR is coming up on its two-year anniversary in June? Wow. Who would have thought a random, mid-pandemic text exchange about the rising popularity and success of adult content site OnlyFans could have led to something so tangible? Most correspondence in those days was brief, almost always rooted in COVID-19 fears; maybe even panic. Yet, my ongoing sex and sex advice column makes it into your hands today because of that simple exchange. While we were amping each other up about the burgeoning sexual revolution— me as an online content creator and him as an ally—my now-editor typed into his chat bubble, “Ohmygod—‘ask a content creator’ could be such a cool column.” That initial idea was rooted in de-stigmatizing sex work. Most of us view porn at some point or another, so why do we demonize the people who make it? Relatively new to sex work and body positive content creation, and possessing ever-present imposter syndrome, I ignored my self doubt and rattled back, “Dooooo ittttt!” And then he asked me to do it. Me? We’re talking about someone who, at the time, hadn’t flexed her writing muscles since high school. Sure, I’d been building up my rep as a sex worker through my online persona, Layla Asher, and I’d been learning to better embrace myself, my vessel, my sexuality, but it felt like my COVID brain couldn’t even begin to form complete sentences (you all remember that phase of lockdown, right?) let alone write an ongoing column.

“I’m nobody,” I thought. “Who’s going to give a shit about what I have to say?” Still, my mind accessed a memory, a quote, maybe, from somewhere deep inside my brain; that thing about how you should start before you’re ready. I’ve always been a risk taker, especially when opportunities fall into my lap, so I responded with a simple “Yes!” before resigning myself to a reality wherein I could figure out the rest later. And so it began. All self-deprecating humor aside, it felt like if I took the opportunity to educate myself, maybe I could help to educate my own community and maybe—just maybe—contribute to changing even one person’s mind about the harmful stigmas that haunt sex work. But I had concerns. Was I jeopardizing my safety and anonymity by publicly coming out as a sex worker? Would I be making people uncomfortable with my…let’s call them progressive ideas about things like porn and nonmonogamy? If I ended up causing readers discomfort, would that discomfort morph into hatred and then be directed my way? Rather than succumbing to fear, however, I chose to buckle up, hold on tight and stay true to why I developed Layla Asher in the first place—to create change. No one ever achieved change in silence. I started learning about the community straight away. Take my inbox following my very first piece, “Blowjobs Get a Bad Rap,” (June 22, 2022), for example. Immediately, the need for a place where people could ask questions without judgment was clear. And let me tell you, Santa Fe, you have range. I mean a Meryl Streep kind of range. Some of your messages had a Julia Child-like playful irreverence, some had straight up She Devil vibes and the occasional piece of hate mail was full of that good old-fashioned Margaret Thatcher level of rigidity. I welcomed all of it, secure in the knowledge that the good can never come without the bad

seeping through, and that the bad meant people were reading and the conversation was happening. That felt like a win. Themes began to emerge in the letters I received over time. Following a column on polyamory (March 29, 2023), a lot of readers wanted to know more about—and experience—nonmonogamy. At the same time, however, plenty of readers were still holding out hope for their person, their soulmate. That’s also very cool.

I’m also glad to say that if my readers are any indication, people are adopting a more conscious approach to sex and masturbation. This sort of signifies an overarching theme that the pandemic felt like a reset for many, like shedding old skin or a chance to change how we regarded love and sex. I also learned that more and more of you are yearning to identify what

you want when it comes to love and sex, and you’re trying to learn how to ask for it. It’s like a crossroads between the old ways of having relationships, both sexual and not, and a new era wherein folks are embracing more progressive or even radical ways of thinking. As time goes on, the best part of penning The Naked Truth has been in feeling like we’ve cultivated a new type of community together. This was not something I saw coming, honestly. I thought we’d talk about sex a little, burst a few bubbles and maybe some of you would get laid. But I think we all needed this feeling of connectivity, especially in this little town of ours, especially during a pandemic. It’s not over yet, mind you, but things are getting better. As lovely as that feels, and as I’m sure many of you are aware, Santa Fe can still feel isolated at times, whether or not the state asks us to stay home. Sure, it’s kind of nice to live in a place with ultra-low expectations when it comes to being social, but that can come at the cost of developing human connections; something we all need to survive. That said, this kind of ethereal space of togetherness emerged for us. Online relationships are real. And knowing you entrust me with the thoughts that weigh heaviest on your hearts or desires that live in the kinkiest parts of your souls makes me feel deeply connected to all of you. When the column comes out and I get inundated with messages that read, “I thought I was the only one who felt this way!” or “I’m so relieved to know I’m not alone,” I am reminded how connected you all are to each other, too, even if you don’t know it. How lucky am I to bear witness to that? Layla Asher is a local sex worker on a mission to spread radical self love to her community and the world. Want to ask your local sex worker their expert opinion on something? Let’s start a sex positive conversation that keeps respect and confidentiality at the forefront and judgment a thing of the past. Please submit your questions to thenakedlayla@gmail.com and include an alias that protects your anonymity. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

SFREPORTER.COM SFREPORTER.COM •• FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 14-20, 14-20, 2024 2024

How to Write a Love Song Hot tips for your next love jam from local musicians

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

aving cut my own musical teeth on the likes of emo greats such as Jawbreaker, Get Up Kids, Kind of Like Spitting and others; on pretty much any Motown song I could find; on Bobby Darin and Bing Crosby and Gladys Knight and the queens both Aretha and Dolly, I myself am no stranger to the concept of the love song. Of course, nine out of 10 times when we’re talkin’ love songs, we’re really talking about heartache and heartbreak songs—those “how could you do this to me?!” anthems written when the recently dumped put pen to paper and romanticize the ever-loving hell out of that person who just left, the one who got away or, sometimes, the one who has yet to come. Like most creative things, be they music, visual art, the written word, the pyramids, the moon landing or participation in oral sex classes, the arts we make all seem to work in service of attracting, arousing and/or amazing the object(s) of our desire. What, pray tell, is the point of making anything beautiful

FE BRUARY 14-20, 2024

•

without someone to admire its very existence and, by extension, the person who made it? But what if you’ve never picked up a paintbrush or called a sex shop looking for a special kind of pegging apparatus or are new to the songwriting game and rightfully refuse to pay one of those terrible AI song apps? What then?!?! You go to the experts, of course. That’s why we tracked down some New Mexico songwriters to ask what tips they have for writing a killer love song. According to bassist Rylan Kabotie (Santa Clara Pueblo, Hopi and Jicarilla Apache) of the reggae act Innastate, “The best writings when it comes to matters of the heart come from a place of honesty.” Oh, sure, Kabotie says, you could use a bunch of $10 words to make love sound like the biggest and loudest thing in the world, but that shit gets old and can come across as impersonal. It also contributes to dangerous narratives that insist love comes as a daily lightning bolt rather than the type of thing that evolves over time and requires work. “In the end, what makes your love?” Kabotie asks. “What do you want to tell that person when it comes to your individual relationship? It’s OK to be silly with it, playful, but as long as it comes from that real place

SFREPORTER.COM

that’s about you and yours, that shit will resonate hard with people.” Personal resonance is every bit as important, says musician Stephanie Hatfield. “I think it’s a giving in, a letting go, a surrender to whatever emotions come up,” she says. “They aren’t always pretty, they aren’t always rainbows and thunderbolts and unicorns and bullshit like that. That stuff might... be the initial feeling, but sometimes it’s terror. Sometimes it creates distress. Chaos. Confusion. It may not come out like you think it should.” For long-beloved and ever-popular singer-songwriter Jono Manson, the music is every bit as important as the message, if not even more so. “The melody of the song coupled with the underlying chord structure that is creating

the harmonic movement and potential tension of the song enters the heart in a way that mere words cannot,” he advises. “All the great love songs, even something like, I dunno, ‘Michelle’ by The Beatles or ‘I Will’… in those songs, the melody is more memorable than the words, and certainly more emotional.” Think of it like a movie score, Manson says. We need the music, the melodies, to tell us how to feel. And, frankly, if you’re trying to woo someone with some ill-conceived and/or bummer-ass sounding shit, you’re on your own. You should listen to the guy—he’s got about a million albums out, has toured the world and written more songs on a bad day than most folks get out in a lifetime! Seriously, Manson’s got decades in the biz, so he might know a thing or two. For country/Americana singer Esther Rose, fear is a driving force, but in a good way—in that way that tells you that you might just be onto something. “My tip would be to write what scares you the most, and I apply that to all topics, but then everything is about love when it comes down to it,” she says. “If you feel like what you’re saying is a little bit scary, that means you’re really looking in and… you’ve accessed some part of you that’s the truth-teller. Trying to get to that place is essential.” Indeed, just like the plot to all movies, the things most worth doing often seem to come with a healthy dash of fear. And honesty. And the melody part is nice. Of course, your mileage may vary when it comes to writing love tunes, and at the root of all the advice lies the same subtext to everything: To thine own self be true. Which is to say keep it real, keep it based in love. You got this.

The Numbers Game Living life as a single in Santa Fe

BY MARGARET LAMBE

’m a youthful 61 and never thought I would get divorced. I thought “Jerry” was my forever guy, the love of my life. The chemistry was unbelievable. He’d know what I was thinking before I even said it; we were so in tune with each other on so many different levels. Of course, the sex was great, but the friendship, the connection, the support. That all changed when, after more than seven years together, we ended the relationship. My experience is hardly universal. According to a recent piece in Forbes Advisor, early 2024 stats show that half of all marriages end in divorce while second and third marriages fail at a higher rate. And though the numbers might be higher than expected (or maybe they’re precisely what you expected), no one wants to experience the emotional rollercoaster ride of divorce. Adjusting to being single again feels foreign, as well as living out of the habit of being married, especially if the union lasted many years. Times change, things change, feelings change, dating changes. How do we, years out of practice, navigate a new singles world after thinking we’d never again need to weather first dates, cringey conversation and the sometimes herculean task of getting to know someone new? In her 2013 book Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie writes that “beginnings hold the promise of new lessons to be learned, new territory to explore, fear and hope. Let yourself begin anew, let it be magical.” Of course, it’s that “letting” that’s the hard part. Like most singles today, I first thought I’d give online dating a try. I felt the experience would be an important and positive learning process on my journey of discovery as a newly divorced woman. Online dating, in fact, seemed like a logical and convenient way to meet an eligible man. I allotted six months to explore this possi-

bility, during which time I learned the apps and services were anything but logical and convenient. Not only were there few nearby options in my age range, the disappointing experience was a minefield of fuzzy photos, deception and fake accounts. Many have found their significant others this way, and it was certainly worth a try, but online dating left me discouraged. Yet it also left me at least semi-hopeful. I couldn’t be the only person who felt this way. I mean, OK, maybe I’m a little old fashioned, but there’s a big part of me that still prefers to meet people in person. So I asked myself, why not explore that possibility again? Online dating doesn’t have to be the default, especially in a city like Santa Fe that falls slightly behind the times. What this city needed—what I needed—was a social group just for singles. So I created the iMeet, iMingle, iMatch Santa Fe on the Meet Up online platform. Our first event launched in October 2023 with an in-person format designed for adult

Adjusting to feeling single again feels foreign, as well as living out of the habit of being married.

singles to connect in real life. It saves time and effort, reduces uncertainty and offers a sense of safety. Best of all? You might even find someone! Here’s how it works: I ring a bell at various intervals to encourage people to move around and start new conversations through prepared ice breakers. Everybody gets a name tag emblazoned with the phrase, “Ask me about ______.”

It’s a great way to get to know people, and I try to include games for a little bit of structure—games like two truths and one lie; conversational topic cards and others. Walking into a space where you don’t know anyone…well, sometimes you can feel stuck or overwhelmed. And if people still feel pressure, they should know that events are built on a friends-first model and the idea that there be a community for singles where everyone feels welcomed. And it’s going great. The events, or socials as we call them, thus far have taken place at numerous venues in Santa Fe such as the CHOMP food hall, cozy downtown hotel La Posada, the airy Herve Wine Bar near the Plaza, Iconik Coffee Roasters in Midtown and multipurpose bar/venue/ restaurant Boxcar right downtown. At last

count, roughly 300 singles have participated, and earlier this month I even teamed up with Julie Ferman of the company Santa Fe Matchmaker, who affirms my observations about modern-day dating. “Age matters less than it used to…what family looks like is broadening—older women/younger men pairings are becoming more common; distance matters less,” she says. “Retirees and those who work from home have more flexibility, greater ability to make the drive and spend time in two places, broadening the acceptable radius for candidates for dating.” iMeet, iMingle, iMatch events in Santa Fe have drawn in participants from Albuquerque and Taos, for example. But age and distance aren’t the only factors; money matters too, but maybe not in the way you might think. “We’re beginning to see a relaxing a bit in the insistence that women often have that the man ‘out-earn’ her, especially in the older demographic,” Ferman says. “What matters far more than how much someone ‘has’ is the ability for both to be good deal-makers about how the expenses of the dating relationship might be shared.” Of course, meeting someone special might have to come first, and creating these gatherings has been rewarding. I formed the group to bring together like-minded people who want more out of life and to connect on a more personal level—and to feel a part of a singles community in Santa Fe. Life is too short to not search out the joy and love in your community, and that includes new friends. To be a part of our singles community, download the Meet Up app, next search for “iMeet, iMingle, iMatch Santa Fe,” join and RSVP for the next social. IMEET, IMINGLE, IMATCH SOCIAL 6 pm Thursday, March 7. Free. As Above, So Below Distillery, 545 Camino de la Familia, (505) 916-8596. Margaret Lambe is a Southern girl transplanted to the American West after moving to Santa Fe. 18 years ago. She has two adult daughters, her own business and it’s her goal to bring happiness and love to the Santa Fe singles community.

SFREPORTER.COM

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

•

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024

Un-Hinged The minefield of dating as a sex worker BY THICK LIZZY @ThicklizzyofficialIG

ust as I was summoning my inner Carrie Bradshaw to sit down and start writing this piece, a Hinge notification popped up on my phone. I thought it was odd as I hadn’t touched the dating app in months, but it was from someone I’d gone out with nearly a year and a half before and who, at the time, had been a perfect gentleman. We bonded over our love of travel. He showed me different van builds he’d completed and places where he’d camped in those vans. We spent an idyllic night on a blanket on the beach under the stars. At the time, I hadn’t moved to Florida from New Mexico yet; there was no pressure for a second date and we left things amicably. Seeing his name pop up put a little smile on my face as the thought of another night on the beach flashed in my head. Then I read the message: “I think we should fuck,” he wrote. He then proceeded to ask if I knew anyone who would “be down” for a threesome. That’s it. No, “How are you? or “How do you like Florida?” It might as well have read, “I know I haven’t made any effort since we last saw each other, but I still assume that not only can I get in your pants, but you’d have an equally desperate friend who’d want to join.”

FE FEBRUARY BRUARY 14-20, 2024

•

This was very much on the tame side of things I see on my phone on a daily basis, but it perfectly summed up what it’s like to date as a sex worker. There are so many ways to get into the adult industry these days. I started by selling pictures online in 2017. I phased to an OnlyFans page shortly before the pandemic blow-up of 2020. Six months after that, I was on my first professional set. I grew up in a household where nudity and sex were never things to be ashamed of, and I’ve struggled more with being shy about reading my (few) lines than taking off my clothes. The industry has been perfect for me. It fits my lifestyle. The only downside being how people outside of porn always seem to treat you differently once they find out what you do for a living. And I’m not even talking about the folks who see sex workers as less than human, because, ew, those people shouldn’t be in anyone’s dating pool. I’m talking about the people who assume what we’re all about, both as sex workers and as human beings. In reality, we’re mostly normal folks, many of whom get off-set and go home to our families or to our other jobs. I am an entire complex person with a sense of humor, friends, family, goals, hopes and dreams. I’ve spent my free time doing volunteer work, and I continue to work alongside charities in Florida. But once I mention that I do porn, I become a one-dimensional being. And it often becomes the main conversational topic thereafter, including with friends. But I’m not only that, nor are most people in porn. Most of my industry friends, myself included, for example, rarely participate in

SFREPORTER.COM

casual sex or hookups. In fact, I find sex without an emotional connection to not be worth the risk to my mental or physical health— and, if we’re being honest, most people aren’t good enough in bed for it to be worth it even if you’re not worried about sexual health. Yet people assume so much about me and my sex life. They shouldn’t, and the same goes for my colleagues. I recently attended one of the largest expos and award shows in the industry—the AVN Awards held annually by Adult Video News in Las Vegas, Nevada—and I heard performers say they couldn’t remember the last time they had sex off-camera more times than I could count. Nevertheless, in dating, no matter how much we express our needs and concerns to potential partners, they assume we’re easier to sleep with; that we’re more likely to have multiple partners; that we won’t have feelings. Some people seem all in one day only to turn up with someone else the next. Some have hit on me and my best friends in the same breath, and when confronted about it, they almost always provide some variation of, “I didn’t think you’d care because you do

porn.” I’m fine with finding different types of non-exclusive dating because of how my job works, but I still expect the same level of communication and respect that any other human deserves. I can separate my personal life from my work life. Others can’t. I’ve had moments when I’ve become frustrated by how I’m perceived, when I feel like I might need to step back from porn if I ever want to find a life partner or be taken seriously. Those thoughts tend to be fleeting, though, as I see so many of my friends in the industry get married and/or have families— and porn couple goals. But maybe it’s not just about the porn. Before I got into the industry, traveled solo often. I attended more music festivals and concerts than I could keep track of—I visited Sturgis; saw Niagara Falls; camped in Moab; and wrestled alligators. I’ve lived a whole lotta life, and I found a lot of the same issues in dating before sex work. It has felt like a lot of men don’t want someone who has had more life experiences than them. I’ve amassed a bit of an internet presence, and that has seemingly led to people building fantasy versions of me in their minds before getting to know me. But I want deeper connections, and I’m OK with waiting. I have a massive support system of family and friends and more love than I can fathom, so while I would love to have a partner to share all my adventures (or just my seven to 11 sugar cookies and a couch), I ultimately don’t feel like I’m missing out. I would much rather wait for my twin flame than bend for some possible mate. Doing porn significantly reduces the dating pool, but I guess I’ve stopped seeing that as an objectively bad thing. Still, if you have long hair, big hands and like heavy metal and country, bang my line. Thick Lizzy is a former bartender turned porn star. She’s from New Mexico but today calls Florida home.

Love & Death The recurrent silence

BY ARIEL GORE arielfionagore

here’s a metal bench at the edge of the Santa Fe River Trail. Deena said, “Can we sit down? Just for a minute?” In the first months after her cancer diagnosis, my wife seemed just as vibrant as ever, but these days she tired easily. I said, “We can sit down for as long as we want.” It broke my heart how we all feel like we have to be dying just to be allowed to sit down for more than a minute. The snowmelt had brought a little trickle to the otherwise dry riverbed. A snake slithered across the cement path and I gasped. Deena said, “It’s not a rattler.” She was right. This one was just a bullsnake. But I knew the rattlesnake of death was coming. If not this year, then some year soon. A crow cawed from a cottonwood. I’d left my phone at home intentionally, so it couldn’t track my steps, but Deena said, “I’m up to 2.7 miles today.” It’s not nothing, 2.7 miles. Sometimes when we walked along the river trail with our arms linked, I closed my eyes and pictured myself walking the same path alone—like I was rehearsing for the future. In The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde wrote of her partner, “always, there was Frances, glowing with a steady warm light close by to the island within which I had to struggle alone.” And I guess that’s all I could hope to be—what any of us could hope to be for each other—a steady warm light close by to the island. I worried I was less than a steady warm light. Over the years of treatments and tumor progressions, I often found myself rehearsing for my wife’s death. Friends sent magic mushrooms from Oregon and Albuquerque because they’d read that psilocybin pushed back against death anxiety, but Deena recoiled at the smell of them.

I shrugged. “Mind if I do?” She opened her palms: “Enjoy.” The shrooms tasted just as much like a sweaty butthole as I remembered they had the last time I’d eaten them in tenth grade. At least this time, after about an hour, when I snuggled into bed, our Mona Lisa reproduction sparkled from the wall. I’d bought Deena the art because her first oral chemo cocktail was called MonaLeesa-7, and in my magical thinking I hoped that if we started a devotion to the mysterious Italian beauty, she might save us. But Deena had been on half a dozen lines of treatment by now and I was starting to understand that despite the pink parades and “You’re a survivor!” fundraising campaigns that try to make a party out of earlier stages of the disease, metastatic breast cancer is universally terminal. “Are you feeling better about death?” Deena smirked. And that made us both laugh for a very long time. Then we were quiet. I stared at the Mona Lisa reproduction, trying psy-

chically to communicate with her. But the Mona Lisa stayed silent, the way she does. That’s when I noticed her expression change ever slightly. In her classic takedown of the pink ribbon campaign, “Welcome to Cancerland,” (Harper’s Magazine, November 2001), journalist Barbara Ehrenreich describes the endless pink décor of the breast cancer clinic and wrote, “I have picked up this warning vibe in the changing room, which, in my increasingly anxious state, translates into: femininity is death.”

I didn’t want advice. I didn’t want to know how one could meditate out of cancer. I didn’t want any more ‘warrior’ stickers.

Deena rolled a joint for herself, stood up to open our bedroom window, took a few hits. I watched her silhouette against the sunset, tried to picture the sunset without her form in front of it. “What do you think it’s like?” “What do I think what’s like?” Deena put the joint out in a ceramic ashtray. “Death.” Deena stayed silent, like the reproduction. Was it inappropriate to name the thing we were trying to evade? If femininity was death, did death itself have the scent of a woman? A color? Was death pink? Was death a white light or endless darkness? Was there any such thing as a clean or honorable or dignified death? What might happen if we took our eyes off the rattlesnake of it? On the river trail, we nodded at acquaintances as they passed. Maybe Deena was an island, but I was starting to feel kind of island-like, too. I read about the Hermits of Big Sur, near where I was born, and dreamed of running away from this desert town and living alone in some damp Pacific cave. I felt alienated from other people. Not that they ghosted me. Mostly they didn’t ghost at all, they were always “checking in” and I’d probably have been hurt if they vanished, so it was kind of a no-win for them, but mostly I didn’t want to report back to their check-ins. I didn’t want to listen and I didn’t want to talk. I could hear sounds coming out of their mouths. I didn’t even think, Stop talking. I thought, Please stop making sounds come out of your mouth. I didn’t want any advice. I didn’t want to know how one could meditate out of cancer. I didn’t want tinctures Deena wouldn’t take. I didn’t want any more “warrior” stickers that would further ruin my previously-loving relationship with the color pink. I didn’t want to hear about the miracle that usually turned out to be a reversal of a misdiagnosis. I didn’t want to explain it and I didn’t want to not explain it, so I stayed silent like the reproduction. Deena and I sat down on the metal bench. We sat down for as long as we wanted. Ariel Gore is the author of a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction including We Were Witches and The Wayward Writer. She edited the anthology Santa Fe Noir. Her next book, Rehearsals for Dying, is upcoming in March 2025 from the Feminist Press.

SFREPORTER.COM

•

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024

smoke the moon

DOUBLE OPENING THIS FRIDAY !

Pink Noise: new work by Kate Stringer FEBRUARY 16 - MARCH 24, 2024

The Love Show:

Kate Stringer - Portrait II

a group exhibition

FEBRUARY 16 - MARCH 24, 2024 featuring work by: daniella ben-bassat • monica berger • edward cushenberry • ronan day-lewis • alison kruse diego medina • aaron nemec • lindz redd luke van h

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 6:00PM to 8:00PM

smoke the moon • 616 ½ canyon road, santa fe, new mexico 16

FE BRUARY 14-20, 2024

•

SFREPORTER.COM

COLORFUL NEW WORLD In 2022, SFR first learned about Kate Stringer, a brilliant local graphite artist whose depictions of ethereal concepts like anxiety and depression take the form of bizarre women twisted into impossible positions and realities. Since then, Stringer has phased over to the Canyon Road gallery sphere and her upcoming Pink Noise show at smoke the moon. She’s also expanded her repertoire to include colorful watercolors that work like companions to her illustrations. “I’ve used watercolor before, but never to this degree,” Stringer says. “With graphite…I started wondering if I was doing it because I like it or because I got used to it. I kind of wanted to see if I still had it.” Oh, she still has it, alright, and as gorgeous counterpoints to the warts-and-all nature of her illustrations, the contrasting analytical possibilities of the watercolors seem endless. (ADV) Kate Stringer: Pink Noise: 6-8 pm Friday, Feb. 16. Free smoke the moon, 616 ½ Canyon Road, smokethemoon.com

S FR EPO RTER .CO M /A RTS / S FR PI CKS ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

COURTESY SMOKE THE MOON

ART OPENING FRI/16

COURTESY LILI ST. ANNE

MUSIC SAT/17 SAINTHOOD It’s only natural to wrap your head around new music by likening it to other acts, but once you get beyond the notion that local singer-songwriter Lili St. Anne’s tunes sound a bit like indie-folk duo First Aid Kit, there’s a lot more to find. The project of one Elizabeth Fagan, Lili St. Anne embraces the living room recording aesthetic on Tin Can Times, Fagan’s newest and a pandemic-spurred solo project that morphed into a full-on band release. It’s so pretty, but Fagan goes the raw emotionalism route rather than the over-slick production route. You’ll find ruminations on fear and love and loss within the seven-track release, sure, but in its quieter moments and someplace between the guitar, the cello and even the trombone, a message of hope and connectivity. (ADV) Lili St. Anne: 10 am-noon Saturday, Feb. 17 Free. Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red) 1366 Cerrillos Road, (505) 428-0996

COURTESY MARGUERITE L. SCOTT

WORKSHOP MON/19 AH, YOUTH Though the Santa Fe Playhouse was forced to cut its Young Playwrights Project in 2021 (yet another pandemic loss), facilitator Marguerite L. Scott kept the dream alive and has since relaunched the weekly gathering at the Southside branch of the Santa Fe Public Library as the Young Creators Project. Through up-and-coming arts organization LiveArts Santa Fe, Scott helps kids aged 9-16 get into writing plays, stories, novellas and performance pieces. The kids then have a chance to present to the group if they wish. “We use improvisation to spark their creative impulses,” Scott tells SFR. “Some are natural playwrights, others are more drawn to poetry. The goal is to increase their literacy, both reading and writing, through different arts practices, and even visual arts can become a component of that.” (ADV) Young Creators Project: 3:45-5:30 pm Mondays through May 13. Free. Santa Fe Public Library (Southside) 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

EXHIBIT FRI/16

Low, Low, Low, Low, Low, Low, Low, Low Española program brings lowrider bikes to Museum of Spanish Colonial Art Nearly seven years have passed since Santa Fe’s Plaza-adjacent museums joined forces to celebrate lowrider culture through a series of joint exhibits and the first-ever Lowrider Day in Santa Fe. Northern New Mexico’s long-running love affair with all things lowrider continues in the form of Lowrider Bike Club, a new exhibit at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art and the result of a collaborative effort between Española’s Lowrider Bike Club, nonprofit Hands Across Cultures, the Española Lowrider Museum Coalition, the National Latino Behavioral Health Association’s Connecting Our Voices program and the Española YMCA Teen Center. In broad strokes, the local programs gathered Española teens weekly to visualize, design and then actually build lowrider bikes—themselves works of art sometimes on par with their namesake cars, even if they’re a little smaller. “The whole intention was to improve relationships with the kids and have some of our groups work together,” says Hands Across Cultures Executive Director Diego López. “It’s a part of the culture growing up

here, and I think the main thing is that we wanted to mentor youths.” López and the rest of the crew enlisted numerous artists to help in that mission, including car painters, muralists, fabricators and mechanical experts. The kids met weekly with the mentors to build the bikes, six of which will be on display starting Friday. “The detail of the work, of course, looks really cool overall, and these kids were learning new skills,” says museum Curator Jana Gottschalk. “The art in Española is largely ignored, but some of the coolest things are happening there…we’re just trying to show what’s happening culturally while encouraging younger people to keep these connections—their art is important and people want to see it.”

SFREPORTER.COM

LOWRIDER BIKE CLUB OPENING 5-6:30 pm Friday, Feb. 16. Free Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-2226 •

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024

Want to see your event listed here? We’d love to hear from you. Call (505) 695-8537 or send notices via email to calendar@sfreporter.com. Make sure you include all the pertinent details such as location, time, price and so forth. Submission doesn’t guarantee inclusion.

WED/14 ART OPENINGS 2024 LA ART SHOW (OPENING) Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902 A visual feast featuring western heritage, contemporary realism, studio glass and Indigenous art. 6-10 pm

DANCE POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Pomegranate Studio 535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142 An after-school girls’ dance program founded by Myra Krien. 5-7 pm

EVENTS CHESS AT THE MALL DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671 Chess, food and conversation. 10 am-1 pm

DRAG BINGO Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 An unforgettable evening of bingo, laughter and dazzling drag performances. Ticket includes six bingo cards. 7-9 pm, $20 GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Paralta, (505) 989-3278 Challenging trivia with prizes. 8-10 pm HE-ARTS IN EL DORADO Legal Tender Saloon & Eating House 151 Old Lamy Trail, Lamy, (505) 466-1650 An adults-only arts gala and auction celebrating and supporting arts programs at El Dorado Community School. 5-8 pm, $30-$60 KIDS SING ALONG: RAILYARD PARK Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St., (505) 982-3373 Teachers Sarah-Jane and B lead classes through a variety of engaging music games and singalongs for toddlers and babies. 10:30-11:15 am LOVE SUCKS: VALENTINE’S DAY COMEDY SHOW Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262 A special pop-up comedy show. Denver’s hilarious and brilliant Hannah Jones takes the stage with jokes about dating, relationships and more. 6-8:30 pm, $25 QUEER COFFEE GET TOGETHER Ohori’s Coffee Roasters 505 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-9692 Coffee with the local queer community. 9:30-11 am

MUSIC DON CURRY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Originals and rock covers. 4 pm HISTORIAS DE AMOR San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 983-3974 Flamenco, jazz and world music with guitarist Juani de la Isla and pianist/singer Diego Amador Jr. 7-8:30 pm, $35

FE FEBRUARY BRUARY 14-20, 14-20, 2024 2024 •• SFREPORTER.COM SFREPORTER.COM

COURTESY BLUE RAIN GALLERY

THE CALENDAR

“Some Kind of Sign” by Tony De Luz evokes a nostalgic roadside Americana aesthetic with an Española landmark as part of his Saints and Sinners exhibition at Blue Rain Gallery. MATISYAHU Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Matisyahu plays a blend of reggae, hip-hop and indie rock that centers his Jewish heritage. 7 pm, $50-$145 NOCHE DE AMOR WITH NACHA MENDEZ & FRIENDS Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204 Chihene Nde vocalist Mendez and her band play original, eclectic pan-Latin-style songs. 6-8:30 pm, $60-$100 RED MCADAM AND MARLEY HALE El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 Old-school country tunes. 8-10 pm

ROSANNE CASH Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234 Country singer Cash performs her musings. 7:30 pm, $59-$84 THE CHACHALACAS The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Eclectic and festive jazz tunes. 6 pm

WORKSHOP VALENTINE’S DAY RETABLO PAINTING WORKSHOP ELECTR∆ Gallery 825 Early St., Ste. D, (505) 231-0354 Paint a Valentine’s Retablo for yourself or someone you love. 2-5 pm, $125

MAKE YOUR OWN STAINED GLASS HEART WORKSHOP TLC Stained Glass 1730 Camino Carlos Rey, Ste. 100, (505) 372-6259 Celebrate your love and learn how to create your own stained glass heart from start to finish at a local artist’s studio. 6-7:30 pm, $80 VALENTINE’S DAY CHOCOLATE MAKING WORKSHOP AND PAIRING Tumbleroot Pottery Pub 135 W Palace Ave., (505) 982-4711 During this 3-hour workshop, participants learn how to roast and make their own chocolates while enjoying sample pairings showcasing hand-made chocolates, artisanal spirits, beers, and cocktails. 7-10 pm, $175

THU/15 ART OPENINGS CELEBRATION OF THE BOOK Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., (505) 428-1000 Sculptural, two-dimensional and multi-dimensional book art. 4-6 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES COUNTDOWN Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226 Science journalist Sarah Scoles’s riveting investigation into the nuclear weapons landscape. 6 pm

THE CALENDAR

EN T ER E V E NTS AT SFREPORTER.COM/CAL

DANCE POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Pomegranate Studio 535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142 An after-school program for young women aged 13-18, founded by dancer Myra Krien. 5-7 pm

EVENTS ANIMAL MEET & GREET Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359 Meet the museum pets. Say “hi” to Cornelius the corn snake, Bisquick the tortoise and Fafnir the lizard. 12:30-1 pm CHESS & JAZZ No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St., nonamecinema.org Play chess and listen to jazz, with free herbal tea on the side. 6-8 pm CHESS AT THE MALL DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671 Chess, food, shopping and conversation. Watch, play or learn from the experts. 10 am-1 pm GEEKS WHO DRINK Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952 Challenging trivia with prizes. Show ‘em what you got. 7-9 pm SEEDS & SPROUTS Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359 Kids explore hands-on gardening and nature-themed activities with museum educators. 10:30-11:30 am SORCERY AND MIGHT: BOARD GAME NIGHT Roots & Leaves Casa de Kava 301 N Guadalupe St., (720) 804-9379 A friendly and inclusive community of gamers who organize a variety of events including board, tabletop role-playing, collectible card trading and video games. Join the discord channel: discord.gg/GCfZrNBr. 6 pm

MUSIC BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Share happy hour with Santa Fe’s own country music legend Hearne. 4-6 pm DAVID GEIST EXPERIENCE Osteria D’Assisi 58 S Federal Place, (505) 986-5858 Tony Award winner and pianist/ vocalist David Geist performs. 7-10 pm, $5

GRANT TURNER AND CARSON BARRY The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Folk singer-songwriters. 7 pm PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., (505) 989-1166 Jazz guitar. 6-8 pm

THEATER THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) (REVISED) [AGAIN] New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533 Watch three crazy actors fake their way through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 90 minutes. 7:30 pm, $35

WORKSHOP PAINT-SIP-CHILL: MY PRICKLY VALENTINE CHOMP Food Hall 505 Cerrillos Road, Ste. B-101, chompsantafe.com Let your creativity fly while enjoying CHOMP Food Hall’s diverse food vendors. 6-9 pm, $33

FRI/16 ART OPENINGS BLOSSOMING LOVE Storyteller Fine Art 203 W. Water St., instagram.com/ jessaminenaritaart A treat for the senses! Artists Brad Smith, Penny Peterson and Jessamine Narita brighten up February with their vibrant and expressive floral paintings. Rachel Kelli provides live music. 5-7 pm JANDEY SCHACKELFORD: IMPRINT (OPENING) Strata Gallery 125 Lincoln Avenue, Ste. 105, (505) 780-5403 Arizona-based artist Shackelford’s exhibition centers on the forms of oppression that persist in today’s society, specifically in a home setting. Shackelford uses footprints from herself and others as tangible evidence of the impact this space has on those who occupy it. 5-7 pm PINK NOISE smoke the moon 616 1/2 Canyon Road, smokethemoon.com Like pages torn from an eerily amorous storybook, Kate Stringer’s illustrations couple sensual, chimeric scenes of intimacy with haunted layers of detail. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 6-8 pm

SIN ROPA: A VALENTINE’S DAY NUDE DRAWING SHOW (OPENING) Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902 Departing from her usual portrait work, artist Erin Currier’s exhibition features intimate nude drawings offering a unique perspective into the artist’s ability to capture the essence of her subjects. 5-7 pm TANIA POMALES: GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE (OPENING) Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave., (505) 557-9574 Jersey-based Puerto Rican artist Tania Pomales specializes in dark and surreal oil works. As a nod to her colorful and bold heritage, Pomales incorporates bright color palettes in juxtaposition with skulls and human anatomical references. 5-8 pm THE LOVE SHOW smoke the moon 616 1/2 Canyon Road, smokethemoon.com A glimmering nine-person group show on love that includes pastel palettes, oil and polaroid paintings and ceramic sculptures. 6-8 pm TONY DE LUZ: SAINTS AND SINNERS (OPENING) Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902 Paintings pay homage to vintage Americana, blending the glow of neon signs with the nostalgia of old cars and the untamed spirits of motorcycles. 5-7 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND ONTOLOGY OF ELEVATIONAL RANGES St. John’s College, Santa Fe 1160 Camino De Cruz Blanca, (505) 984-6408 Ethan Linck, assistant professor of biology at the University of Montana, delivers a lecture about the elevational distribution of organisms. 7 pm POETS FOR PALESTINE Hecho a Mano 129 W Palace Ave., (505) 455-6882 Readings by local poets and writers with all funds going to the Middle East Children’s Alliance. Guests receive refreshments from Kohinoor and a surprise literary gift from the Lannan Foundation. Suggested donation is $30. 6:30 pm TONY ABEYTA: HERE, NOW AND ALWAYS NATIVE NARRATIVE SPEAKER SERIES Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269 A discussion with an acclaimed Diné mixed media painter. 1-3 pm, $7-$12

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

SFREPORTER.COM •• SFREPORTER.COM

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024

THE CALENDAR DANCE SPRING INTO MOTION The Dance Barns 1140 Alto St., (505) 983-7646 An annual advanced dance performance in two parts begins with El Muro/The Wall, exploring the plight of migrants from Latin America seeking asylum at the US border. The second half, Unfolding, is a collaboration informed by specific works of authors Luci Tapahonso and Lauren Camp, reflecting the challenges, insights, strengths and experiences of women everywhere. 7 pm, $12

EVENTS CHEER UP, SWEETHEART Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Ste. A, santafeimprov.com Improv teams Sibling Rivalry and Smoke & Crepes soothe the post-Valentine’s Day malaise with comedy. 7:30 pm, $10

FILM

NDI NEW MEXICO PRESENTS

RODNEY RIVERA, Dance Barns Artistic Director, & DR. JESSIE WENCHIEH LO, Dance Barns Music Director, in collaboration with DANA TAI SOON BURGESS, NDI New Mexico’s Inaugural Teaching Artist in Residence, LUCI TAPAHONSO, Navajo Nation Inaugural Poet Laureate, & LAUREN CAMP, New Mexico Poet Laureate

MUSIC

RS! YEA

Spring into Motion

©photography by Audrey Derell

EL MURO/THE WALL & UNFOLDING February 16-17, 2024 @ 7 p.m.

Sign Language Interpreter Present

dancebarns.com/tickets The Dance Barns

BONNEVILLE, ARIZONA No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St., nonamecinema.org A bizarre film that seems impossible to view outside of a limited and difficult-to-find VHS release. In Ruffier’s low-budget feature there lies a sincerity that transcends the obvious intentions of commercial works and situates the viewer in the confusion of the protagonist. 7:30 pm, $5-$15 donation NANCY HOLT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528 A screening of artist Nancy Holt’s film and video works, in conjunction with an inaugural exhibition of her work with light and shadow. 7 pm, $5

1140 Alto Street

Generously sponsored by

Santa Fe, NM 87501 505.983.983.7661

FE F EBRUARY BRUARY 14-20, 14-20,2024 2024 • • SFREPORTER.COM SFREPORTER.COM

A LOVE SUPREME: THE MUSIC OF JOHN COLTRANE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199 Decades after his death, John Coltrane remains one of the most influential saxophone players in jazz. Hear Alex Murzyn on tenor saxophone, Bob Fox on piano, Terry Burns on bass and John Trentacosta on drums present an entire evening of Coltrane’s work. 7 pm, $30-$35 BEAUSOLEIL AVEC MICHAEL DOUCET Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 Cajun music deriving from New Orleans jazz, blues rock, folk, swamp pop, Zydeco, country and bluegrass. BeauSoleil is brings even the most staid audience to its feet. 7:30 pm, $30

EN TER EV EN TS AT SFREPORTER.COM/CAL

BLUEBIRD CAFÉ SONGWRITERS CONCERT SERIES Bishop’s Lodge 1297 Bishops Lodge Road, (888) 741-0480 The Bluebird Café brings its signature In The Round songwriter show format to Bishop’s Lodge. This weekend features country covers sung by JT Harding, Marv Green and Jenn Schott. Following is a post-show dinner at SkyFire restaurant. 5-9 pm, $75-$195 CHARLES TICHENOR Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304 Piano tunes and lyrics. 6-9 pm DANI-RAE CLARK AND THE LETDOWNS The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Country songwriter jams. 7 pm MANILA KILLA Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Producer Manila Killa dedicates himself to the consciousness of contemporary dance music. 8 pm, $15-$25 MARION CARRILLO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Marion’s songs pull from his personal life and the world around him to great comedic and heart-wrenching effect. 4 pm QUEEN BEE The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Bohemian pop from a local music education group. 5 pm SANTA FE MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION STUDENT SHOWCASE First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544 A student showcase hosted by the Santa Fe Music Teachers Association. 5:30 pm SWEET NOTHIN FEAT. THE HEART CLUB The Mystic 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663 All-American, high-energy rock band Sweet Nothin’s new single release party, supported by The Heart Club. 8 pm

THEATER TEATRO PARAGUAS PRESENTS: MARIANA PINEDA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601 Teatro Paraguas presents Federico Garcia Lorca’s second play Mariana Pineda, based on the true story a woman executed for sewing a flag opposing the rule of King Ferdinand VII. 7:30 pm, $15-$25

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) (REVISED) [AGAIN] New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533 Laugh until it hurts as three crazy actors fake their way through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 90 minutes. 7:30 pm, $35

WORKSHOP FINE ART FRIDAY Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359 Celebrate Black History Month by learning about distinguished artist Alma Woodsey Thomas and make collages inspired by her work. 2-4 pm

SAT/17 ART OPENINGS THE MOVIES (OPENING) Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave., (505) 992-0800 The movies aren’t confined to the silver screen; they permeate our culture, influence fashion and shape societal norms. This exhibition features photographs from classic films of the 20th century. 4-6 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES WITH ALEXANDER HEFFNER Santa Fe Public Library (Main Branch) 145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-6780 Journalist Alexander B. Heffner presents documents (speeches, letters, tweets, Supreme Court decisions and more) that have forged American history. 2 pm

ENTER EV EN TS AT SFREPORTER.COM/CAL

ODD DOG The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 A versatile jam cover band. 2 pm QUEEN BEE BAND Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., (505) 982-8474 Rock, country, and pop covers. 7-9 pm THE BLUES REVUE BAND Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, (505) 983-9817 Blues and classic rock deep cuts. 8 pm ZODIAC PARTY: AQUARIUS FT. DJ BACON El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 A Zodiac dance party featuring Ben Wright’s (aka DJ Bacon) dynamic DJ set through landscapes of dance music from house and techno to bass music, electronica and beyond. 8-11 pm

COURTESY SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

THROUGH THE LENS OF MY CAMERA: THE ESSENCE OF WOMAN Pomegranate Studio 535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142 Through her camera lens and her writing, photographer and author Joan Brooks Baker focuses on searching for the essence of woman, past and present. 6 pm YA AUTHORS ALEXANDRA DIAZ, JENNIFER BOHNHOFF & FRIENDS Geronimo’s Books 3018 Cielo Court, Ste. D, (505) 467-8315 Authors Diaz and Bohnhoff host a reading and discussion on the young adult genre of fiction. 4-5 pm

THE CALENDAR

DANCE SPRING INTO MOTION The Dance Barns 1140 Alto St., (505) 983-7646 An annual advanced dance performance begins with El Muro/ The Wall, exploring the plight of migrants from Latin America seeking asylum in the US. The second half, Unfolding, is a collaboration informed by specific works of authors Luci Tapahonso and Lauren Camp, reflecting the challenges, insights, strengths and experiences of women. 7 pm, $12

THEATER TEATRO PARAGUAS PRESENTS: MARIANA PINEDA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601 A historical play about a woman executed for sewing a flag opposing King Ferdinand VII. 7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) (REVISED) [AGAIN] New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533 Three actors act out all of Shakespeare in 90 minutes. 7:30 pm, $35

EVENTS A WALK THROUGH ART HISTORY WITH JACK LEMON CONTAINER 1226 Flagman Way, (505)995-0012 Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of print-making with the legendary Jack Lemon.. 2-4 pm CHESS AT THE MALL DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671 Chess, food and conversation. 10 am-1 pm MERCADO SOUTHSIDE Fraternal Order of Police 3300 Calle Maria Luisa Enjoy 30+ Southside vendors, music and danza folklórica. 2-6 pm SCIENCE SATURDAY Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359 Create your own spacecraft out of cardboard then test whether it could survive flying to space. 2-4 pm

FILM NANCY HOLT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528 A screening of artist Nancy Holt’s film and video works, in conjunction with an inaugural exhibition of her work with light and shadow. 7 pm, $5

WORKSHOP

“Songs of Kaua’i” by Laurel Moorhead is one of many multi-dimensional book art works from the Celebration of the Book exhibition at the Santa Fe Community College’s Visual Arts Gallery.

MUSIC A TRIBUTE TO PHILL NIBLOCK ICA Santa Fe 906 St. Francis Drive, icasantafe.org A Tribute to Phill Niblock (1933– 2024) brings together over 20 musicians from Northern New Mexico to honor the artist’s practice with a long-form microtonal drone composition, an homage to Niblock’s own marathon performances. 6 pm BABY WEEKEND Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068 Freestyles, cyphers and sets by The Nomad Billy Juan, Tug Keith, Bricey and DJ Ickymac. Emcees are welcome to join in on the freestylers and cyphers. 8:30-11 pm

BELLA GIGANTE CABARET SHOW FEAT. MELANIE MONSOUR The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Drag queen Bella Gigante returns to Santa Fe, bringing a unique brand of disco drag cabaret, supported by Santa Fe-based pianist and composer Melanie Monsour. 8 pm BLUEBIRD CAFÉ SONGWRITERS CONCERT SERIES Bishop’s Lodge 1297 Bishops Lodge Road, (888) 741-0480 The Bluebird Café’s signature In The Round songwriter show. This weekend features country covers sung by JT Harding, Marv Green and Jenn Schott. A dinner at SkyFire follows. 5-9 pm, $75-$195

BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 988-5531 Blues and soul classics. 6-9 pm CHARLES TICHENOR Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304 Piano tunes. 6-9 pm EL SHOW WITH NOSOTROS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fria St., (505) 303-3808 Carlos Medina performs with his Conjunto and Nosotros closes the night with Latin dance. 8 pm, $15 FELIX Y LOS GATOS Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 Blues from a local fave. 6-9 pm

LATE NIGHT RADIO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Alex Medellin gets his hybrid electronic sound from classic soul and third coast hip-hop. He’s been perfecting it for nearly a decade; see for yourself. 8 pm, $22 LILI ST ANNE Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red) 1366 Cerrillos Road, (505) 428-0996 Psychedelic rock with a touch of grit and grace. Go on a coffee date with Santa Fe’s Lili St Anne (See SFR Picks, page 17). 10 am-noon MONSOON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 A contemporary trio plays rock, blues, country, R&B and soul. 1-3 pm

THE SYMBOLISM OF THE ROSE ELECTR∆ Gallery 825 Early St., Ste. D, (505) 231-0354 Use watercolor painting and drawing to discover the secrets of this infamous flower. 2-5 pm, $125

SUN/18 ART OPENINGS ERIC MCCOLLUM Edition ONE Gallery 728 Canyon Road, (505) 570-5385 Learn about McCollum’s fine art digital and analog photography. 3-5 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES THE POEMS OF LISE GOETT AND TINA CARLSON HERE Gallery 213 E Marcy St., (562) 243-6148 Award-winning poets Goett and Carlson read their latest work. 2-3 pm CONTINUED ON PAGE 23

SFREPORTER.COM •• SFREPORTER.COM

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024

FREE LIVE SHOWS

COURTESY JC RAMIREZ

MUSIC & BEER

With Momentos Studios Founder JC Ramirez

Second Street Brewery SAT 2/17 - BABY WEEKEND DOOM-BAP TAKEOVER 8:30 PM @ Rufina Taproom WED 2/21 - Wednesday Night Folks - KENNY CROWLEY 6-9 PM @ Rufina Taproom SUN 2/25 - Sunday Swing - BASILARIS TRIO 1-4 PM @ Rufina Taproom THUR 2/29 - ALMA 8:30 PM @ Rufina Taproom www.secondstreetbrewery.com

In the new short documentary Dignity Not Detention, from Albuquerque-based Momentos Studios in collaboration with the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, the team shines a light on inhumane living conditions for individuals in detention centers operated by private prisons and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The center played a vital role in lobbying Senate Bill 145, which sought to prohibit public entities from entering into agreements to incarcerate people for federal civil immigration violations and to terminate existing ones. The bill died in committee. But the work didn’t stop there: Momentos Studios also showcased a series of four art pieces, for which it commissioned immigrant youth, and created an immersive AR experience that transformed youth into superheroes by telling their stories through comics. We caught up with community leader and studio founder JC Ramirez, a native of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to learn more about how he uses artivism—or activism through art—to work against inhumane immigration policies and practices. Watch the documentary on YouTube. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. (Evan Chandler) I was really intrigued by this concept of ‘artivism.’ How do you blend that world between art and activism when it comes to these topics that can be so personal, dark and traumatizing for a lot of people? When the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center reached out to me the first year to create some canvas pieces using that term ‘artivism,’ I realized that’s kind of exactly what I’ve been doing my whole life: trying to create art and trying to share these stories. It was the perfect fit. Using the creative skills that I’ve kind of gathered over the years of my schooling, and everything I’ve been involved with, I created four pieces. And that’s kind of how we got started with Momentos Studios, which means ‘moments.’

FE FEBRUARY BRUARY 14-20, 14-20, 2024 2024 •• SFREPORTER.COM SFREPORTER.COM

We wanted to share important moments going on in our community and people’s lives. It is a deep, hard-to-talkabout subject. The way we thought to make it more digestible for people was to make it through art and share their stories as if they were superheroes, because they really are. They have that resilience and those superpowers to keep them going through all conditions that can happen to them. It was just listening to some stories and creating these places for people to get attracted to and come check out and then read the bio, with a superhero origin story through that lens of art. Using film and art is an interesting medium to deliver the message. Given the role you’ve played in influencing legislation, do you believe this is a more effective way to reach people as opposed to lobbying, for example? I do believe art and film and any creative outlet is easier for people to get their eyes on at least. That’s not to say that all the legal stuff isn’t working too, but I would say art is a good spearhead for this bigger message that we want to share with others. It’s fun. It’s easy to take in, and it’s easy to share with friends to get the word out. We will continue trying to share through different outlets. I feel like films are a more personal way because you can see the people’s reactions when they’re telling their own stories. So I definitely think it’s a strong carrier to share those messages. How do you create that connection with people who are coming to the United States to be able to share those stories? I would imagine there can be a lot of fear behind detailing those experiences. That is something even while editing I have to take it in and think, ‘This is someone’s real life story. These are all their hardships, but they’re here now, what can they do now?’ And that’s kind of what keeps me going, and it’s also the part that we want to share with others. This could happen to anyone. Being an immigrant myself, that could have happened to me. So I want to really just focus on what’s going to be a little light that’s going to keep me or someone else going to want to better their lives. Visiting these detention centers and talking to the refugees, it’s not a place for someone running away to keep themselves alive. That place makes them want to harm themselves; so anything would be better than being stuck in a detention center. This community is here, and there’s going to be more people from all around the world trying to better themselves, and however we can make the process better to bring people in and create a diverse community is going to help everyone in the long run.

EN T ER E V E NTS AT SFREPORTER.COM/CAL

EVENTS COMMUNITY DAY AT THE GARDEN Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103 Free admission and garden tour. 1 pm FEBRUARY FOR THE BIRDS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103 Participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count, and then make a heart-shaped suet snack to take home for your neighborhood birds. 10 am-noon KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 Warm up your vocal chords and come with your go-to karaoke song. 7-11 pm RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers’ Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta About 40 local painters, potters, jewelers, weavers and more every Sunday. Santa Fe’s best-kept secret. 10 am-3 pm SORCERY AND MIGHT: BOARD GAME NIGHT CHOMP Food Hall 505 Cerrillos Road, Ste. B-101, Board, tabletop role-playing, collectible card trading, and video games. Join the discord channel: discord.gg/GCfZrNBr. 6 pm

MUSIC CLARK LIBBEY The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Singer-songwriter tunes. 2 pm CORO DE CAMARA: TIME TO...DANCE Paradiso 903 Early St., (505) 577-5248 Dance the night away at Coro de Cámara’s pop music concert. Entreflamenco Youth Dancers open the show with flamenco dances. 4-6 pm, $20 DOUG MONTGOMERY Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 955-0765 Santa Fe’s Piano Man plays everything from Broadway favorites and movie themes to the Great American Songbook standards. 6-9 pm MEOW WOLF & CHILL Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Embrace the anti-Valentine’s vibe with karaoke. 4:30 pm STEPHANIE HATFIELD El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 Americana, country and rock. 7-9 pm

THE CALENDAR

SUGAR MOUNTAIN BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Even younger Neil Youngs cover his songs. At least, we think they’re younger. Noon THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY: AMERICAN CLASSICS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234 Violinist Alexi Kenny performing Barber’s Violin Concerto No. 1 for American Classics, with additional works by Bernstein and Copland. Presented as part of the Art + Sol Santa Fe Winter Arts Festival. 4 pm, $25-$92

THEATER ALCHEMY OF RESISTANCE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 A cabaret variety show including dance, music, poetry, circus and performance art resisting systems of oppression. All proceeds go to both performers and Palestinian families in Gaza. No one turned away for lack of funds. 7-9:30 pm, $10-$50 DRAG KING BRUNCH: KING CAKE The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663 Get down and dirty celebrating the art and excitement of Mardi Gras with a Drag King-themed brunch, NOLA-style. 10:30 am-2 pm, $10-$120 TEATRO PARAGUAS PRESENTS: MARIANA PINEDA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601 Federico Garcia Lorca’s second play Mariana Pineda, based on the true story of Mariana de Pineda y Muñoz, who was executed on May 26, 1831 for sewing a flag for the opposition against the tyrannical rule of King Ferdinand VII. 2 pm, $15-$25 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) (REVISED) [AGAIN] New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533 Three actors fake their way through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 90 minutes. 2-4 pm, $35

MON/19 MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 955-0765 Santa Fe’s Piano Man plays everything from Broadway favorites and movie themes to Great American Songbook standards. 6-9 pm

KARAOKE WITH CRASH! Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Start the week with karaoke! 7-10 pm MARSHALL NELSON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Classic rock-based tunes. 4 pm

THEATER YOUNG CREATORS PROJECT Santa Fe Public Library (Southside) 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820 A free program teaching theater skills to youth aged 9-16. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 3:45-5:30 pm

TUE/20 EVENTS SOLO-PRENEUR SOCIAL CLUB Iconik Coffee Roasters (Red) 1366 Cerrillos Road, (505) 428-0996 Small business networking and new friends. 6:30-8:30 pm SORCERY AND MIGHT: BOARD GAME NIGHT Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 Board, tabletop role-playing, collectible card trading and video games. Join the discord channel: discord.gg/GCfZrNBr. 7 pm

Winter Lecture Series Dr. Stephen Lekson Of Noble Kings Descended: Colonial Documents and the Ancient Southwest February 27 | 6pm, Doors at 5:30pm St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art $10, Free for Las Golondrinas and MNMF Members Unlock the secrets of the ancient Southwest through Early Spanish and Mexican records, revealing hidden insights in light of Native accounts and archaeological data. Go to golondrinas.org to reserve tickets.

all tickets must be purchased online

Partially funded by the city of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers’ Tax, County of Santa Fe Lodgers’ Tax, and New Mexico Arts.

MUSIC JUSTIN ADAMS & MAURO DURANTE San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 983-3974 Guitarist, producer and composer Justin Adams collaborates with pizzica-style musician Mauro Durante. 7:30 pm, $30-$50 SHANE WALLIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Singer-songwriter tunes. 4 pm SHAWN HESS & EARL BUCK El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 A blend of skillful songwriting and western style. 7-9 pm

ONGOING ART 5TH ANNUAL FORO FORUM MEMBERS SHOW Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 470-2582 A juried group exhibition featuring more than 60 original photographic works. CONTINUED ON PAGE 25

SFREPORTER.COM •• FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 14-20, 14-20, 2024 2024 SFREPORTER.COM

I HEAR MUSIC IN THE AIR

Guest Conductor - Dr. Anton Armstrong A Choral Festival of African American Music - all singers welcome! Saturday February 24 (all-day) - Rehearsal and Workshops at United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso Sunday, February 25, 2pm - FREE Concert at Santa Maria de la Paz, 11 College Avenue For more information and registration visit abqcorolux.org or 505.988.3295

FE BRUARY 14-20, 2024

•

SFREPORTER.COM

ENTER EV EN TS AT SFREPORTER.COM/CAL

HOWARD STEIN: LAST FRAME OF PICTURE Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado, (505) 466-7323 A photography collection of small town movie theaters alongside Kathy Minnich's organic, earthy-looking handbuilt pottery. JOSÉ SIERRA: CHOLLA GALÁCTICA Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700 Colorful twisted vessels resembling dramatic landscapes based on Sierra’s Venezuelan roots. KNOWN POINTS form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256 Mixed-media landscape compositions titled alongside iconic figurative and abstracted prints. LOUISA MCELWAIN: DISTANT THUNDER (OPENING) Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St., (505) 995-9902 McElwain’s bold paintings of the American Southwest are grand expressions of an awe-inspiring love of nature. MAURICE GOLUBOV: ARTIST OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250 Golubov’s unique and intrinsic form of art explores his personal quest of spirituality, which involved a pursuit of an alternate dimension that, in his mind, captured a greater essence of reality in a realm beyond the merely physical, called “The Fourth Dimension.” R-E-D 2024 Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road, (505) 988-3888 A curated collection of work celebrating the color red and its proximity to love and passion. REX RAY: LUMINATE (OPENING) Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road, (505) 986-9800 The late artist Ray’s most intense decade of painting and printmaking, from 2003 to 2014.

SANTA FE: TRUE OR FALSE? El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road, (505) 982-0016 Creative collaborators and El Zaguán Artist Residents Spencer Windes and Dominic Cappello combine text and whimsical imagery to present a series of questions focused on testing the knowledge of Santa Feans about their City Different. The answers may surprise you. TENDING SOIL Martinez Studio 223 1/2 Canyon Road, (920) 288-7157 Lila Steffan works with foraged plant and mineral pigments in Tending Soil, an exhibition of her work on handmade paper and recycled fabric. Her watercolors are hand-ground from rocks, soils and plants. THE NEW VANGUARD: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE NEW CONTEMPORARY V Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave., (505) 557-9574 A collection of multimedia art that pushes the boundaries in a variety of genres including but not limited to: high-brow, lowbrow, pop surrealism, hyperrealism, graffiti art and abstract art. TRANSCENDENT FIELDS Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915 Works on paper, aluminum and lenticular emanate a surreal essence, crafted with the aid of computers using both custom and commercial software. TRUE COLORS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250 An exhibition of color abstraction, featuring a variety of rich, multi-layered surfaces of color. WILLIAM REYNOLDS: SHAZAM! Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St., (505) 372-7681 An exhibition honoring the life and art of William Reynolds, AKA Captain Marble. The show features paintings from his years in the Himalayas, a selection of his Bar Code portraits and works from a few close artist friends.

MUSEUMS BLAIR CLARK

AN INNOCENT LOVE: ANIMAL SCULPTURE ARTISTS OF NEW MEXICO Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road, (505) 983-0433 The cutest little animal sculptures you ever did see by artists Kari Rives and Fran Nicholson. ANDREW DASBURG: SYMPHONIC DRAWINGS Addison Rowe Gallery 229 E Marcy St., (505) 982-1533 A collection of cubist artist Dasburg's Western landscape works from when he settled in Taos during the 1930s. DAVID JOHNSON: TALKING WITH TREES Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Hwy. 165, Placitas, (505) 867-2450 When woodworker David Johnson’s hands are in harmony with the tools and the wood, magic happens. In addition to David’s famous cutting boards and household items, this exhibition will show new tables of various sizes and styles. DAVID SIMPSON: FIRST LIGHT Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St., (505) 989-8688 Simpson uses light like an impressionistic painter to reveal the ever-changing beauty, colors and serenity of natural settings. FORBIDDEN RITUAL As Above So Below Distillery 545 Camino de la Familia, (505) 916-8596 A Tiki pop-up featuring an exotic cocktails, weekly surf-inspired DJs and and a Kauaian menu is open from 2 pm until close of business from Thursdays through Sundays until March 3. FROM BAMBOO TO BRUSH TAI Modern 1601 Pase de Paralta, (505) 984-1387 Japanese bamboo art and contemporary Zen ink brush painting. GLASSEN WONDERS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250 World-class contemporary glass art pieces by 23 internationally recognized glass artists.

THE CALENDAR

NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200 The Santos of New Mexico. Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. Miguel Trujillo and the Pursuit of Native Voting Rights. EnchantOrama! New Mexico Magazine Celebrates 100. 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri. of the month MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-2226 Lowrider Bike Club Feb. 16, 5-6:30 pm; What Lies Behind the Vision of Chimayo Weavers. 1 -4 pm, Wed-Fri, $10, children free NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5063 Selections from the 20th Century Collection. The Nature of Glass. To Make, Unmake, and Make Again. A jack rabbit ashtray from the exhibition Setting the Standard: Ways of Seeing: Four Photography The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy at the New Mexico Collections. History Museum. 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm every Fri. May-Oct. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS POEH CULTURAL CENTER 217 Johnson St., AND CULTURE 78 Cities of Gold Road, (505) 946-1000 710 Camino Lejo, (505) 455-5041 Making a Life. Radical (505) 476-1269 Di Wae Powa. Seeing Red: an Abstraction. Rooted in Place. Down Home. Here, Now and Indigenous Film Exhibit. Youth Push 10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20 Always. Horizons: Weaving Pin Exhibit. (under 18 free) Between the Lines with Diné 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, $7-$10 IAIA MUSEUM OF Textiles. CONTEMPORARY 10 am-5 pm, $7-$12, NM residents VLADEM CONTEMPORARY 404 Montezuma Ave., NATIVE ARTS free first Sunday of the month (505) 476-5602 108 Cathedral Place, MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL Shadow and Light (505) 983-8900 FOLK ART 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 amWomb of the Earth: Cosmovision 706 Camino Lejo, 7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents of the Rainforest, Inuk Silis (505) 476-1204 free 5-7 pm every Fri. May-Oct. Høegh: Arctic Vertigo. Between the Lines. Yokai: 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF Ghosts & Demons of Japan. 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 THE AMERICAN INDIAN Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep Free Admission every Friday 704 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-4636 Them Warm: The Alaska Native Masterglass: The Collaborative Spirit MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART Parka. La Cartonería Mexicana of Tony Jojola. Pathfinder: 40 Years of 18 County Road 55A, / The Mexican Art of Paper and Marcus Amerman. (505) 424-6487 Paste. Protection: Adaptation 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $10, free Permanent collection. Global and Resistance. Warming is REAL. 10 am-5 pm, $3-$12, NM residents first Sunday of the month 11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun, $10 free first Sunday of the month (18 and under free)

Your energy source matters. Powering your home with solar energy is an easy, tangible way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions while saving on energy costs & providing greater energy independence. Positive Energy is Santa Fe’s local, trusted solar company since 1997. LOCAL

SFREPORTER.COM •• FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 14-20, 14-20, 2024 2024 SFREPORTER.COM

now Liv e!

Nominations Ballot February 1 - March 15 vote.sfreporter.com

Want to see your business listed as a pre-choice on the ballot? Contact us! advertising@sfreporter.com or 505.395.2911

Our Volunteers Make History

RET HIST OR ERP NT

ISTORIC S KI NH R L A

Volunteer training is on March 2, 9, 16, & 23. Contact Laura Griego at laura@golondrinas.org

505-471-2261 | GOLONDRINAS.ORG | 334 LOS PINOS ROAD, SANTA FE, NM Partially funded by the city of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers’ Tax, County of Santa Fe Lodgers’ Tax, and New Mexico Arts.

FE BRUARY 14-20, 2024

•

SFREPORTER.COM

VE CULTU SER R RE

Volunteer with us at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas! We are looking for tour guides, historical interpreters, artisans, and anyone with an interest in history, culture, or nature. Our volunteer program welcomes individuals of all ages and abilities. No experience necessary—all training is provided.

SFREPORTER.COM/FOOD

Strike While the Oil is Hot BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

hough it took several attempts to find it open, mostly because I just kind of didn’t ask anyone about the hours for some strange reason, Trina Jae’s Navajo Frybread pop-up at CHOMP food hall (505 Cerrillos Road) proved to have one of the most delicious versions of the Navajo taco I’ve ever eaten—and believe me, I’ve eaten my fair share of Navajo tacos. I suggest getting your own while the getting’s good, too, as proprietor Trina Jae Reid (Diné Asdzáán, Áshįįhí Tódích’ii’nii Clans) opened the pop-up in late-January and will only serve up her special proprietary recipe on Fridays and Saturdays during lunch and dinner through the end of the month. I know, I know—that’s a brief window, but consider this recommendation a real better-to-have-loved-andlost thing. In other words, I kind of need everyone to get obsessed with me right now, even if they know the pop-up is fleeting, because maybe that will convince Reid to keep on popping up at CHOMP or elsewhere down the road. Reid’s business currently operates from the CHOMP stall that usually houses Chef Nath’s Inspired Khmer Cuisine. (Nath will return after visiting friends and family at home in Cambodia, so don’t worry). Reid nonetheless stands as a frybread magician and wildly positive ray of sunshine in the local food world—fleeting or not. In fact, should we all drop whatever we’re doing to have frybread this weekend? Probably. Recipes for frybread, or dah dinííghaazh in the Diné language, according to Reid, can vary from community to community. For her part, she says, being born in Tuba City, Arizona, and growing up in Rocky Ridge/ Dinnebito on the Navajo Nation informs her specific style. At her pop-up, she uses a simple recipe she has developed over the years— flour, baking powder and salt, though she won’t specify in what ratios—not to mention hand techniques rather than tools like rolling pins, along with family know-how and, in a 100% earnest way, love. “I wasn’t really so much taught how to make bread,” Reid explains, “because I was

born in the ‘70s and grew up in the ‘80s, and times were different. No one would be like, ‘Hey, let me teach you.’ If you wanted to learn, you had to watch it and try it and master it.” Watch and master it, she did. Reid is the eldest daughter in her family and counts six brothers and sisters. Because of her place in the offspring lineup, she says, she was expected to take on certain duties, cooking for her siblings among them. Frybread was often on the menu. Growing up observing her mother, or shimá, maternal grandmother, or shimásáni, and paternal grandmother, or

laughing and making conversation and explaining her frybread ethos: It needs to be light and airy; it needs to be a little crispy at the edges; it needs to hold up under the beans, beef, chile, lettuce and tomato that come on a Navajo taco. Like the frybread itself, Reid handles those ingredients expertly. And like the frybread, she won’t disclose the precise seasonings she likes to use. She does note all her ingredients are sourced locally, and you can tell in the freshness of each taco. The tenderness and flavor of the beef and beans, for example, contrasts the crunch of the lettuce and the meat of the tomatoes so well. The nuanced flavor of the still-hot bread tastes almost like a savory donut with just enough salt. I’ve eaten at Trina Jae’s twice now, and in both cases I couldn’t help but tear into the taco like a bear who came across a cooler full of sandwiches. Maybe it’s about the subtle red chile? “It’s more about flavor than spiciness,” Reid says.

Maybe it’s about a food artisan caring enough to make something well? “It’s important to include the love and the spiritual,” she says. “People can taste that.” So where’s she been all our lives? Reid has traveled to Santa Fe annually since 2003 to model clothing and jewelry for artists showing at Indian Market. She even moved here temporarily last August, though she’s not sure she’s ready to call it home full time. “It’s a beautiful place to visit, but I’ll always be an Arizona girl,” she says, noting CHOMP owner Ken Joseph “has told me I’ll always be welcome, though, which is such a nice opportunity.” Customers have responded well, Reid says. Some have never heard of Navajo tacos or even frybread itself. They’ve since become converts. Others, she says, have remarked that her frybread recipe reminds them of home. “One person said, ‘You transported me back to the Navajo Nation, so thank you for that,’” Reid tells SFR. “Every single person I’ve met has been so stoked.” At $15 per taco and $7 per frybread with honey, you’d kind of have to be stoked. Are those prices perhaps a little more than you’d think? Maybe so. But food costs are up across the board—just ask any McDonald’s fan you know—and it’s important to remember that you’re not just paying for the food at Trina Jae’s, but for years of practice and trial and error; for years spent developing a particular recipe; for generational tradition. You’re paying for expertise, and in a world where more Indigenous chefs are hitting the mainstream— think Ray Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo) or Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart (Oglala Lakota)—that expertise remains part of a premium experience. Plus, if you’re willing to ask, Reid is willing to tell you almost anything about frybread. “It feels very empowering to educate people,” she says. “And everything I do is with purpose and good intention…I’m passionate about it.” In the not-so-distant future, Reid adds, that passion could morph into private events, more pop-ups or even catering gigs. For now, though, she’s focused on getting through the rest of February and serving up as many tacos and frybread orders as possible. “It’s going to be hard to say, ‘See you later!’” she says. ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

Trina Jae’s Navajo Frybread pop-up at CHOMP food hall calls your name

FOOD

shinálí, was half the battle in learning. The rest, she says, was working out her own style and technique over time. “It’s kind of like pizza dough,” she explains. “You see those people throwing it and it looks easy, but it’s not—that’s skill.” She’s right. Sometimes things that look simple are actually the culmination of years of practice and dedication. On the day I visited Trina Jae’s with SFR art director Anson StevensBollen in tow, for example, we watched her flapping little balls of dough between her hands to hit the proper shape, thickness and size. She then kneaded and stretched and shaped them by hand until they met her standards, and all the while she was

You’ll only have a few more chances to get Navajo tacos from Trina Jae Reid’s pop-up at CHOMP, and believe us—you want to do that.

Get the latest on Trina Jae’s Navajo Tacos by following @trina_jae_ on Instagram.

SFREPORTER.COM •• FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 14-20, 14-20, 2024 2024 SFREPORTER.COM

RATINGS BEST MOVIE EVER

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 WORST MOVIE EVER

Lisa Frankenstein Review Zelda Williams’ directorial debut cobbles together spare parts

Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody returns with Lisa Frankenstein, also Zelda Williams’ (yes, Robin’s daughter) directorial debut and a bizarre mishmash of superior films that smacks of millennials telling the zoomers that they (we?) are still hip and groovy while somehow forgetting to make a film worth watching. Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star Kathryn Newton here plays Lisa, a high school-aged dork with goth leanings circa 1989 whose father remarried a little too quickly after her mother died, forcing them into a new home in a new town just as Lisa hits her senior year. There, Lisa’s stepmother (a cheesy-but-in-a-bad-way Carla Gugino) criticizes her every move while her father stands by cluelessly. School is a living hell, too, and Lisa’s only respites come from her stepsister Taffy (Liza Soberano, who is easily the funniest—read, only reliably funny— performer in the movie) and a weird cemetery in the woods called Bachelor’s Grove where only single dudes ever got buried in the 1800-somethings. Presenting a rather reductive and borderline mean look at ‘80s goth culture, Cody here has Lisa reading poetry to a literal grave and even wishing during a storm that she could be with one of the

+ SPY MOVIES ARE ALWAYS A LITTLE FUN - NOT FUNNY ENOUGH TO LAMPOON, NOT SERIOUS ENOUGH TO MATTER

Kingsmen series director Matthew Vaughn is back with another kicky little spy comedy, this time set in America, and full of silly little moments that sap any credibility from its trailers’ insistence the filmmaker has a twisted mind at every turn. Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World) plays writer Elly Conway, a spy fiction novelist nearing the end of a series of bestsellers about a secret agent named Argylle (played in fictional vignettes by The Witcher star Henry Cavill). She has writer’s block something fierce, however, so she books a trip home to see her mom (Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek) whom, we learn, has helped her daughter work out her stories in the past. The thing is, Conway’s books are oddly prescient, or at least chock full of things that actually happened amongst real-world spies, and a clandestine organization of killers and geo-political movers and shakers has taken notice. They believe her next book might even hold the key to locating a damning file stolen by a British hacker who went missing. This is where Sam Rockwell comes in—as a spy named Aidan Wilde (ugh, they could have just named him Spy Spyerson) 28

3 + SOBERANO IS

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

ARGYLLE

MOVIES

A PLEASURE TO WATCH; NEWTON HAS A CERTAIN CHARM - NOT PARTICULARLY FUNNY; WEAK WRITING

guys buried there. Said storm brings that dude, thereafter known as The Creature (Cole Sprouse, Riverdale), back to life, and he naturally starts killing anyone who wrongs Lisa to harvest their body parts which, for whatever reason, slowly de-zombify him through the power of a magic tanning bed. Lisa goes way more goth; The Creature gets a new hand and ear culled from his murder victims; high school continues to suck. Newton surely tries her best as the outcast Lisa, and even hits some funny-ish moments regarding insecurity and budding sexuality. Cody lands on a bit of witty dialogue a handful of times, but Lisa Frankenstein abounds with inexplicable moments—like the neighborhood couple who sits on their lawn in the dark while reading solely in service of exposition, or the weird way people just walk into other peoples’ homes unannounced. Williams’ newcomer status shows in most of her stilted choices. Meanwhile, whoever was in charge of set design clearly forgot—or just plain

who vows to protect Conway while tapping into the research-obsessed part of her writer’s brain. Cue globe-traipsing espionage with Conway’s Scottish fold Alfie. Argylle has a twist, of course, and maybe even more than one, but despite the gentleman in the screening who sincerely gasped at one of the rapid-fire a-ha moments littered throughout Vaughn’s latest, each one feels more movie-ish than the last. Where Argylle does tread some interesting ground is in its insistence that spies don’t run around in tailored suits looking handsome as hell so much as they blend into the crowd with unremarkable characteristics. Makes sense. Rockwell here hits some of his Rockwelliest combinations of stoner-lite and silly, against which Howard’s decidedly unfunny performance lags. Bryan Cranston appears as the leader of the shadowy organization after Conway. Sadly, he and O’Hara languish in the land of the one-dimensional caricature throughout the movie while Samuel L. Jackson only pops in long enough to be like, “Lemme just fill in the rest of the exposition. Bye.” Oh, also, Alfie the cat literally winks at one point during a particularly cringey scene. This, in a nutshell, describes Argylle rather well: It’s not very funny, it smacks of secondhand embarrassment and not even the ever-charming John Cena’s too-brief appearance as another of Conway’s fictional spies

FE FEBRUARY BRUARY 14-20, 14-20, 2024 2024 •• SFREPORTER.COM SFREPORTER.COM

didn’t know—that the 1980s were a lot more brown and beige than they were the bright teals and pinks and neons of the very early ‘90s. Lisa Frankenstein thus reads like a strange mix between the tone of Heathers without the cynical wit, Edward Scissorhands without the social commentary and that of the tragically underrated absurdity of 1993 zom-com My Boyfriend’s Back, only without the sincerity. Cody and Williams make it nearly impossible to discern whether they’re attempting to deliver a message or not. If they are, they kind of dropped the ball. If not, and Lisa Frankenstein is just supposed to be a silly little comedy…well, better luck next time, Zelda.

can do anything to stop it. We’ll forget this one by the summer, probably. (ADV)

Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 139 min.

THE PROMISED LAND

+ HISTORIC DRAMA AT ITS FINEST - SO MUCH SCREENTIME WITH ONLY MEN’S FACES

Lovers of historical drama, take note: The Promised Land, playing in partnership with the Santa Fe International Film Festival, will knock off your gilded hosiery. At its center, two men present more or less a classic battle for good and evil. Capt. Ludvig von Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen, the villain from 2006’s Casino Royale) has clawed his way through the ranks of the German army after 25 years, during which he contrived a detailed strategy to become the first successful farmer on Jutland heath with permission from the king. But when Kahlen begins his arduous endeavor, he encounters an arrogant nobleman who insists the land belongs to the De Schinkel family by rights. The battle ensues: Writer/director Nikolaj Arcel characterizes Frederik De Schinkel (Simon Bennebjerg, The Pact) with absurdly large wine glasses, silken trousers, dinners with wobbly gelatin towers as dessert and all the opulent and

LISA FRANKENSTEIN Directed by Williams With Newton, Soberano and Sprouse Violet Crown, Regal, 101 min., PG-13

demeaning events that go with it. Plus, he’s a rapist and a sadist. Kahlen, on the other hand, stays up all night with a lantern digging around in the heath to find the perfect spot to plant the miracle crop of the 1700s. He’s rigid, meticulous, obstinate and determined—and also compassionate and ruthless in turns. And as the battle with De Schinkel comes to a head, he ultimately realizes success that comes with isolation isn’t worth its weight in potatoes. Mikkelsen, a Danish powerhouse starring in a Danish film, is fierce; Bennebjerg is hateable; but don’t overlook the female protagonists of the narrative: the two women, Kahlen’s worker-turned-lover Ann Barbara (Amanda Collin) and De Schinkel’s cousin and would-be fiancé Edel (Kristine Kujath Thorp), who get the typical 18th-century treatment from both Kahlen and De Schinkel, the latter to a much worse degree. This fim certainly would not pass the Bechdel Test. Arcel composes a devastating film, and at times it’s surprisingly graphic, with no shortage of torture and throat slitting. But it’s also a visual feast: The wrinkles in the folding fabric of the working women’s dresses and the muted tones of the fields and sky are reminiscent of classic, lightstroked popular oil painting that coincides with the rough time period of the film. (Julie Ann Grimm)

Violet Crown, R, subtitled, 127 min

SFR CLASSIFIEDS

JONESIN’ CROSSWORD “I Remember That!”—returning the favor. 2

14 17

18 21

30 33

42 44

43 45

58 61

by Matt Jones 8

59 64

56 60

ACROSS

52 Description that spares no detail 1 Ceremonial act 57 Teachers’ org. 5 Angry 58 Number after sieben 8 Toy manufacturer in a 2023 59 Magic Johnson’s real first movie name 14 Even, to Yvette 61 Sly question of confirmation 15 Sugary suffix 64 Repeat reference, or what 16 Kay Thompson’s Plaza Hotel the long theme answers girl demonstrate 17 Effect of ongoing muscle 66 Longtime Vogue strain, maybe photographer Richard 19 Gas station brand 67 “Beds Are Burning” band 20 “God giveth, and the DMV Midnight ___ ___ away” (memorable line 68 Inkling from 1988’s “License to 69 Fit in Drive”) 70 Thirsty 21 Skirt length 22 “Can I buy ___?” (request to 71 MirÛ Museum architect Jose Luis ___ Graham Norton on the U.K.’s “Wheel of Fortune”) DOWN 23 Soda concoction that’s not 1 Item for a markdown sale quite cream soda 2 Baja lizard 29 Clothing 3 Chatterbox 31 LAX postings 4 Magazine with a palindromic 32 Prepared name 33 Seal-hunting swimmers 5 Coffeehouse order 36 Corned beef dishes 6 Mt. St. Helens output (which 39 Business with wholly owned I was around for) subsidiaries 7 “Don’t Go Breaking My 43 Medium setting? Heart” duettist Kiki 44 Alphabetically last Marx 8 High school class with basic brother welding 45 “32 Flavors” singer DiFranco 9 Echo responder 46 World of Warcraft beginner, 10 2004 Britney Spears single perhaps 11 Tamera’s “Sister, Sister” sister 48 Clean (up) 12 “Cancel” PC key 13 Summer sign

18 Dirt bike’s cousin 21 Gp. that publishes a scholarly style manual 24 “Snow Crash” novelist Stephenson 25 “Crazy stuff going on here” 26 Workplace-monitoring gp. 27 Sharp 28 Crafter’s website 30 Word before yesterday 34 “Parks & ___” 35 Closing into a fist 37 Guitar intensifier 38 Identify 39 Academy in Colorado, briefly 40 Handout at a restaurant 41 Leave abruptly 42 “From Peru to ___ ...” (line from Enya’s “Orinoco Flow”) 47 10 of 12, for short 49 Intrude upon 50 Airport winter need 51 Pull vigorously on 53 “Star Wars” character Calrissian 54 Respond to, as an order 55 “Hot in Herre” rapper 56 “QuÈ ___?” (“How’s it going?”) 60 Baseball card stats 61 The Last ___ (“Hot Ones” closing sauce, usually) 62 Suffix for reflect or reflex 63 Improv comedy pioneer ___ Close 64 Fish and chips fish 65 Show on television

Stay cozy this winter. Let the

come to you!

Get SFR by mail! 6 months for $95 1 year for $165

sfreporter.com/shop

SOLUTION Want to be the next crossword sponsor?

classy@sfreporter.com 505.395.2904

O U R L O G O

R I T E M A D M A T T E L O S E E L O I S E E G A L T E X A C O D U L L A C H E M A X I T A K E T H A N E V A N I L L A C O K E E T A S S E T G A R B O R C A S H A S H E S U M B R E L L A C O M P A N Y Z E P P O S E A N C E A N I N O O B T I D Y N E A F U L L A C C O U N T A C H T E A R V I N C A L L B A C K D I D N T I O I L I D E A A V E D O N D R Y S E R T B E L O N G

SFREPORTER.COM

•

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024

SFR CLASSIFIEDS

MIND BODY SPIRIT

Rob Brezsny

Week of February 14th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Some stories don’t have a distinct and orderly beginning, middle, and end. At any one point, it may be hard to know where you are. Other tales have a clear beginning, middle, and end, but the parts occur out of order; maybe the middle happens first, then the end, followed by the beginning. Every other variation is possible, too. And then there’s the fact that the beginning of a new story is implied at the end of many stories, even stories with fuzzy plots and ambiguous endings. Keep these ruminations in mind during the coming weeks, Aries. You will be in a phase when it’s essential to know what story you are living in and where you are located in the plot’s unfoldment.

serves as a vehicle for the other but gets nothing in return. The fourth kind of partnership is symbiotic. It’s beneficial to both parties. I bring these thoughts to your attention, Libra, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to take an inventory of your alliances and affiliations—and begin to de-emphasize, even phase out, all but the symbiotic ones. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Dan Savage says, “I wish I could let myself eat and eat and eat.” He imagines what it would be like if he didn’t “have to monitor the foods I put in my mouth or go to the gym anymore.” He feels envious of those who have no inhibitions about being gluttonous. In alignment with astrological aspects, I authorize Savage and all Scorpios to temporarily set aside such inhibitions. Take a brief break. Experiment with what it feels like to free yourself to ingest big helpings of food and drink—as well as metaphorical kinds of nourishment like love and sex and sensations and entertainment. Just for now, allow yourself to play around with voraciousness. You may be surprised at the deeper liberations it triggers.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I meditate on your destiny in the near future, I sense you will summon extra courage, perhaps even fearless and heroic energy. I wonder if you will save a drowning person, or rescue a child from a burning building, or administer successful CPR to a stranger who has collapsed on the street. Although I suspect your adventures will be less dramatic than those, they may still be epic. Maybe you will audaciously expose corruption and deceit, or persuade a friend to not commit self-harm, or speak bold thoughts SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dear Wise Gambler: You rank high in your spacious intelligence, intuitive you haven’t had the daring to utter before. logic, and robust fantasy life. There’s only one factor GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Lately, you have been that may diminish your ability to discern the difference learning more than you thought possible. You have between wise and unwise gambles. That’s your surpassed and transcended previous limits in your tendency to get so excited by big, expansive ideas that understanding of how the world works. Congratulations! you neglect to account for messy, inconvenient I believe the numerous awakenings stem from your details. And it’s especially important not to dismiss or willingness to wander freely into the edgy frontier—and underplay those details in the coming weeks. If you then stay there to gather in all the surprising discoveries include them in your assessments, you will indeed be and revelations flowing your way. I will love it if you the shrewdest of wise gamblers. continue your pilgrimage out there beyond the borders CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn golfer Tiger for a while longer. Woods is one of the all-time greats. He holds numerous CANCER (June 21-July 22): As I study the astrological records and has won scores of tournaments. On 20 omens for the coming weeks, I suspect you will feel occasions, he has accomplished the most difficult feat: more at home in a situation that has previously felt hitting a hole-in-one. But the weird fact is that there unnerving or alien. Or you will expedite the arrival of the were two decades (1998–2018) between his 19th and future by connecting more deeply with your roots. Or 20th holes-in-one. I suspect your own fallow time came you will cultivate more peace and serenity by exploring in 2023, Capricorn. By now, you should be back in the exotic places. To be honest, though, the planetary hole-in-one groove, metaphorically speaking. And the configurations are half-mystifying me; I’m offering my best guesses. You may assemble a strong foundation for coming months may bring a series of such crowning an experimental fantasy. Or perhaps you will engage in strokes.

imaginary travel, enabling you to wander widely without AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Poet Anna Akhmatova leaving your sanctuary. Or all of the above. (1889–1966) lived till age 76, but her destiny was a LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Of your hundreds of wishes and rough ride. Her native country, the authoritarian Soviet yearnings, Leo, which is the highest on your priority Union, censored her work and imprisoned her friends list? And which are the next two? What are the sweet, and family. In one of her poems, she wrote, “If I can’t rich, inspiring experiences you want more than anything have love, if I can’t find peace, give me a bitter glory.” else in life? I invite you to compile a tally of your top She got the latter wish. She came close to winning a three longings. Write them on a piece of paper. Draw or Nobel Prize and is now renowned as a great poet and paste an evocative symbol next to each one. Then place heroic symbol of principled resistance to tyranny. Dear this holy document in a prominent spot that you will Aquarius, I predict that your life in the coming months see regularly. According to my analysis of the will be very different from Akhmatova’s. I expect you astrological omens, you are in a phase when focusing will enjoy more peace and love than you’ve had in a and intensifying your intentions will bring big rewards. long time. Glory will stream your way, too, but it will be graceful, never bitter. The effects will be heightened if VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Actor and travel writer you express principled resistance to tyranny. Andrew McCarthy hiked across Spain along the famous pilgrimage route, Camino de Santiago. On the way, he PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean perfumer Sophia felt so brave and strong that at one point he paradoxically Grojsman says, “Our lives are quiet. We like to be had a sobbing breakdown. He realized how fear had disturbed by delight.” To that end, she has created over always dominated his life. With this chronic agitation 30 best-selling fragrances, including Eternity Purple absent for the first time ever, he felt free to be his Orchid, Désir Coulant (Flowing Desire), Spellbound, genuine self. “I started to feel more comfortable in the Volupté (Pleasure), and Jelisaveta (“God is abundance”). world and consequently in my own skin,” he testified, I bring this up, Pisces, because I believe it’s now concluding, “I think travel obliterates fear.” I recommend essential for you to be disturbed by delight—as well as applying his prescription to yourself in the coming to disturb others with delight. Please do what’s months, Virgo—in whatever ways your intuition tells necessary to become a potent magnet for marvelous interruptions, sublime interventions, and blissful you are right. Cosmic forces will be aligned with you. intrusions. And make yourself into a provider of those LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the natural world, there healing subversions, too. are four partnership styles. In the parasitic variety, one living thing damages another while exploiting it. In the Homework: I dare you to forgive yourself for a past commensal mode, there is exploitation by one partner, event you’ve never forgiven yourself for before. but no harm occurs. In the epizoic model, one creature Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. © CO P Y R I G H T 2 0 24 R O B B R E Z S N Y 30

FE BRUARY 14-20, 2024

•

SFREPORTER.COM

PSYCHICS

INTUITIVE COACHING

PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS & SPIRITUAL COUNSELING ALEX OF AVALON “Hi Alex, you were right about everything ” Client, Santa Fe, NM For more information call 505-982-8327 or visit www.alexofavalon.com.

Envision Your 2024 When you’re not clear, it’s hard to do or feel well. In 2024, you can decide to resource yourself from the inside out. Finding the light of your path and the confidence to walk somewhere truly new. Abstract Therapie is Intuitive Coaching for Creatives, Empaths and Entrepreneurs. Book a Discovery Call with Coach Ryan; text 505-231-8036 or access the code below. abstracttherapie.com

ARE YOU A THERAPIST OR HEALER? YOU BELONG IN

MIND BODY SPIRIT! CALL: 505.395.2904 OR EMAIL: CLASSY@ SFREPORTER.COM

SERVICE DIRECTORY

LEGALS

CHIMNEY SWEEPING COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

CASEY’S TOP HAT CHIMNEY SWEEP Thank you Santa Fe for voting us BEST of Santa Fe 2023 and trusting us for 44 years and counting. We are like a fire department that puts out fires before they happen! Thank you for trusting us to protect what’s most important to you. Call today: 989-5775 Present this for $20.00 off your fireplace or wood stove cleaning in the month of February.

Clean, Efficient & Knowledgeable Full Service Chimney Sweep/Dryer Vents. Appointments available. We will beat any price! 505.982.9308 Artschimneysweep.com

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

33 39 44

56 64 68 71

SANTA FE CALL 505.988.5541 TO PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY!

Do you have a service to offer the community? HANDYMAN? PLUMBER?

CROSSWORD?

IT’S BIGGER THAN 41

THE NEW YORK TIMES 50

ATTORNEYS PARALEGALS STORAGE FACILITIES ETC.

THE MOST AFFORDABLE PRICES IN THE SANTA FE AREA.

CALL US FOR ALL YOUR LEGAL NOTICES

505.988.5541

48 51

Sell it here in the MARKETPLACE 36

Too much junk in the trunk?

Get a spot in our Service Directory. It’s fast and easy. Email: CLASSY@ SFREPORTER.COM

ATTENTION:

SEEN THE SFR

HAVE YOU

17 20

CLASSY

Mediate—Don’t Litigate! PHILIP CRUMP Mediator I can help you work together toward positive goals that create the best future for all • Divorce, Parenting plan, Family • Business, Partnership, Construction FREE CONSULTATION philip@pcmediate.com 505-989-8558

KEEP IT

Finding Real Protection Refuge for the Mind Classes meet 6:00p - 7:30p at the Santa Fe Women’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe. We all naturally look for protection from different kinds of dangers or difficulties in our lives. Most of us are skilled at finding temporary protection, but how do we find actual lasting protection? Since the mind is the creator of all our happiness and suffering, we need to get to know our mind, develop our good qualities, like wisdom and compassion, and let go of temporary negativity and ignorance in our mind. In this series, we will discover what real refuge and protection is and how to develop it within our mind. Feb. 6 - Finding Lasting Protection Feb. 13 - Understanding the Buddha Jewel Feb. 20 - The Power of a Controlled Mind Feb. 27 - The Beauty of the Sangha Jewel About the Teacher Gen Khyenwang is the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Center New Mexico. The teachings she shares are clear, heartfelt and extremely practical for modern life. Gen Khyenwang is an inspiring example of a contemporary Buddhist practitioner and is known for her warmth and sincerity, putting time-tested teachings into practice in daily life. Registration There is no need to pre-register for this drop-in class. Suggested donation is $10 but no one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact admin@meditationinnewmexico.org or call (505) 292-5293 if you have any questions.

STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF No. 2023-0245 DEANETTE MARIE SHIELDS DECEASED. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 100 Catron Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Dated: (February 7, 2024) Rance Shields 789 Pashuta Drive Gunnison, CO 81230

SFR CLASSIFIEDS

CLASSY@ SFREPORTER.COM 61

SFREPORTER.COM

•

FEBRUARY 14-20, 2024

SFR BACK PAGE WE BUY DIAMONDS GOLD & SILVER

BASE PRICE: $25 1. ALL CAPS bolded line (Maximum 16 characters) 2. Normal Text lines (Maximum 28 characters per line)

check out weirdnews.info

Spaces count as 1 character.

ADDITIONAL LARGE LINES: $10 per line ADDITIONAL SMALL LINES: $5 per line CUSTOMIZE WITH COLOR: BACKGROUND $12 - YELLOW or ORANGE TEXT $12 - RED ORANGE GREEN BLUE or VIOLET

new online newspaper

GRADUATE GEMOLOGIST THINGS FINER Inside La Fonda Hotel 983-5552

COME BROWSE OUR MOVIE ARCHIVES video library 839 p de p 983-3321 fri-mon 12-6pm

JUST EAST OF ALBUQUERQUE’S NOB HILL

Quirky Used Books & More 120 Jefferson St. NE 505-492-2948

DEADLINE FRIDAYS PRIOR BY 12 CLASSY@SFREPORTER.COM

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Kitchen Angels needs you. VOLUNTEER NOW! volunteerservices kitchenangels.org or 505-471-7780 x202

TREE SERVICE

LOST PADRE RECORDS

New/Used Vinyl & Tapes Buy • Sell • Trade 131 W. Water Street

MAKE VENUS NOT MARS

Abundant Energy, LLC Dead Tree Removal LIC. 235374 Insured Free Estimates 505.946.8183

DIAMONDS AND GOLD WE BUY AND SELL SILVER • COINS JEWELRY • GEMS TOP PRICES • CASH 3 GEMOLOGISTS ON STAFF Earthfire Gems 121 Galisteo • 982-8750

POSITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY CAREER COUNSELING SAM SHAFFER, PHD 982-7434 www.shafferphd.com

MASSAGE BY JULIE Swedish • Deep Tissue Same Day Appts Welcome $65 60 MIN - $80 75 MIN $95 90 MIN 20+ YEARS EXPERIENCE LIC. 3384 - 670-8789

TAKE YOUR NEXT STEP

XCELLENT MACINTOSH SUPPORT

30+ yrs professional Apple and Network certified xcellentmacsupport.com Randy • 670-0585

Transmuting Fear Into Big Love Pi Day SF NM Live/Online 3/14/24

COME HIKE THE CERRILLOS HILLS STATE PARK Find Hikes, Events and Volunteer opportunities at CerrillosHills.org

PRECISION MAC

UNCLE DT’S BBQ

Mac Computer repair Patient tutoring•Home & Office WiFi / Internet improvement 25 years experience Tim • 505-216-0684

SANTA FE WEBHOSTING

precisionmac@gmail.com

Business Servers, Email, Cpanel, SSL, and more. Serving Santa Fe to the World since 1994. Support local with a free site migration. 505.438.0505 studiox.com

HEARTLOVE.INFO Heart Love Healing, Iridology & Nutrition, Astrology Archetypes.

Santa Fe’s best BBQ. 3134 Rufina Street Tue - Sat 11:30 am to 2 pm & 5 pm to 7:30 pm Come on in! Online Ordering available: www.uncledt.com

TEXTILE REPAIR 505.629.7007 Reawakening Santa Fe Counseling Services

FREE In itia Consultat l io Call now n. !

Your Life Reimagined. Individual & Group Therapy

P r o u d c a r r i e r o f t h e Fo x Fa r m P r o d u c t l i n e . Fo r e v e r y s e a s o n !

7 5 0 1 C e r r i l l o s R o a d , S a n t a Fe | 5 0 5 . 4 7 1 . 8 6 4 2

FE BRUARY 14-20, 2024

•

SFREPORTER.COM

In person or telehealth

Marybeth Hallman MA, LMHC

505.458.8188 | 215.983. 6036 | Reawakensantafe.com