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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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FEBRUARY 21-27, 2024 | Volume 51, Issue 8

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OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 LEGISLATURE AT A GLANCE 8 Budget, guns, schools and the threat of a special session are among the highlights CLIMATE COMPETITION 11 Yearly student film competition draws thousands of entries advocating for climate change solutions COVER STORY 12 PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS Eight photos with visions of New Mexico off the beaten path

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SFR PICKS 19 Artes de Cuba celebrates, Free Range Buddhas meditate, Museum of International Folk Art staffers contemplate and Foto Forum propogates THE CALENDAR 20 All the stuff there is to do, from museums to music, art shows, lectures and beyond 3 QUESTIONS 24 With new CCA Cinema Director Justin Clifford Rhody

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A&C 26 CANCELED CONCERT SPARKS ATTENTION Questions remain after Meow Wolf drops Matisyahu show under pressure from anti-war protesters and employees MOVIES 28 MADAME WEB REVIEW Are the people who made this movie mad at us and using it to punish everyone, or...?

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Special tha guest judg nks to e San Poet Laure ta Fe Tommy Arc ate huleta!

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.

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MORNING WORD, FEB. 8:

“COMMITTEE COOL ON HOUSING BILL”

LETTERS

rent to locals for reasonable prices. It’s time we take this matter into our own hands.

ARI GOLD SANTA FE

PAST AN EMERGENCY The housing crisis in Santa Fe is off the charts, given how much available housing has been swooped up by greedy landlords and out-oftowners, and reserved—not for local residents with a vested interest in building community— but for tourists who will pay top dollar for a short-term rental. It has to stop.

We’ve reached a crisis point, and are losing the young people that our arts scene has attracted in recent years. It’s time we outlaw AirBnB and Vrbo, and rent to actual Santa Fe residents who care about being good neighbors…Crime is skyrocketing. It doesn’t help to have strangers in our neighborhoods, who are clueless as to which cars are suspicious, and which ones belong to our neighbors, who pick up randoms at bars and bring them back to our apartment buildings, and our complexes.

Pure greed is pushing this nonsense, which is only exacerbated by real estate sharks who don’t even live in the state, but are swooping up properties by the dozen, so they can overcharge tourists while our own people can no longer afford to live here. We are dealing with an emergency situation, and none of our so-called representatives give a rat’s pickle about how bad it is for renters. If folks need to rent out their rooms or casitas to make ends meet, they can

OPINION, FEB. 7: “INDUSTRY, YES”

NOPE Holly Hopkins, whose LinkedIn profile suggests a career of oil and gas extraction and no ties to Santa Fe or New Mexico, is in the Reporter advocating for “leaders in Santa Fe” to support policies that will exacerbate drought, wildfire, biodiversity loss and all of the other damaging symptoms of the climate crisis to New Mexico’s frontline communities and fragile landscapes.

Rather than listen to out-of-state industry lobbyists, local and state decision-makers should ensure that they are protecting the future and health of our communities. I’ll take a sustainable, renewable, living future over the scorched-earth, short-sighted, boom-and-bust fossil fuel economy every day, even if that costs Ms. Hopkins’ industry a few dollars.

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TRUMP INTRODUCES NEW SHOES AT SNEAKER CON

Everyone agrees the word “con” is appropriate in this case.

EPA WANTS NEW RULE TO PUNISH OIL AND GAS COMPANIES FOR EXCESS POLLUTION That wasn’t already a thing?!?

NM HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO STUDY PSILOCYBIN THERAPY

Us, too, but, like, a home basis. Anyway, have you ever thought about the cosmos, man?

SANTA FE MINIMUM WAGE TO HIT $14.60 MARCH 1 Barely enough for a microdose.

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2024 Legislature at a Glance Budget, guns, schools and the threat of a special session are among the highlights B Y E VA N C H A N D L E R , M O C H A R N O T, JULIE ANN GRIMM e d i t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ith the New Mexico Legislature’s 30-day session concluded following the final gavels on Feb. 15, lawmakers, advocates and the rest of the state now await news about whether Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will approve the 72 bills that made it through both the Senate and House of Representatives.

The governor has already signed a few— notably new graduation requirements and a salary increase for Supreme Court justices.

But Lujan Grisham’s stack for consideration doesn’t include a number of measures for which she advocated in the public safety realm.

“Both chambers are well aware that I’m frustrated that not enough, or certainly more, public safety measures got up,” Lujan Grisham said during a post-session news conference, noting that just nine of 25 bills she favored on the topic earned approval.

Then came the warning: “It’s not off the table that we have a public safety special session,” she said.

Lujan Grisham has done it before: In the spring of 2021, she called a second session of the Legislature after a measure to legalize adult-use cannabis didn’t pass during the regular session; and in 2022, she called lawmakers to an extra session to consider tax rebates.

Before she makes the decision this year, however, the governor said she will “be closely evaluating” the legislation that did land on her desk. The deadline to sign bills is March 6.

Here are some of the highs and lows on major topics of the 2024 session:

lawmakers checked that box with a day and a half to spare, sending a plan Feb. 13 to the governor for a record $10.22 billion budget that includes a 30% reserve and a number of trust funds, such as the $300 million for the Conservation Legacy Fund to create a steady recurring stream of funding for water, outdoor recreation and other projects.

The proposal represents $653 million more in recurring spending than the current year’s budget, or about 6.8% more. It calls for 3% raises for state employees as well as separate hikes to judicial and State Police pay and includes $5 million for food banks; $60 million for workforce training; $75 million for childcare assistance; an additional $50 million in the housing trust; $50 million for rural health care and hospitals; and $19.7 million in services to combat homelessness.

Speaker of the House Rep. Javier Martínez, D-Albuquerque, said in a news conference on the floor shortly after the session concluded that legislators “made great headway in making a real difference” with the budget, calling it their “number one job” at the Roundhouse.

“I can tell you in my 10 years as a member…I have never been more proud of a budget that we passed out of this House,” Martinez said. “It is a budget that puts the people of New Mexico first. It is a budget that truly incorporates the needs of rural New Mexico and balances that with the needs of urban New Mexico.”

Lawmakers also approved a bill containing $1.4 billion in capital outlay for 1,400 projects. They also set aside $200 million for housing in various legislation, albeit without approving a proposal from the governor to create a new “Office of Affordable Housing.”

They didn’t, however, act on proposals to increase the tax on alcohol.

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Proposed revisions to firearm laws occupied hours and hours of legislative testimony and debate, resulting in the passage of two measures: a seven-day waiting period for firearm purchases (House Bill 129) and a prohibition against guns at polling places (Senate Bill 5). A number of other proposals died, including HB127, a bill to raise the legal

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age for firearm purchases to 21, and HB137, a ban on gas-powered, semi-automatic firearms. Neither received a hearing on the House floor after earning “do pass” votes in committees. Lujan Grisham had named both measures as part of a public safety package for the session. Martínez called the seven-day wait “a big deal” in the post-session press conference, adding when lawmakers considered potential gun measures, it “statistically has the most impact…Our job here is not to just pass bills and see what sticks.

Our job here is to be smart about what we pass and be targeted about what we pass,” he said. “We believe the waiting period bill is exactly that.”

If Lujan Grisham signs the bill, New Mexico will become the 12th state with a waiting period. Backers argued the waiting period would help reduce suicide and “crimes of passion,” while opponents— mostly Republicans but also including a number of Democrats in each chamber— said the number of days, reduced from 14 in the original proposal, was arbitrary.

A proposed constitutional amendment aimed at giving local governments the ability to make their own gun laws stricter than the state’s never had a hearing.

EDUCATION

In addition to setting up the largest-ever budget allocation for the Public Education Department at $4.4 billion, lawmakers also approved new high-school graduation requirements for New Mexico students, which the governor signed into law on Feb. 9. HB171 includes eliminating Algebra 2 as a graduation requirement; requiring a one-year course covering civics, economics and personal finance; and giving local school boards and charter schools the power to choose up two units for local graduation requirements.

Further, a new trust fund for higher education would endow funds for scholarships covering tuition and fees at public universities, with the first $48 million distribution due July 1 this year. On Feb. 14, the Senate adopted HB151 for state-funded post-secondary institutions to establish an “affirma-

tive consent” standard defining that consent to sexual activity cannot be assumed from “silence or a lack of protest or resistance,” among other specifications. The bill also requires these institutions to adopt trauma-informed policies and responses for the investigation of sexual assault allegations.

But a second try for an education bill to establish a trust fund for tribal education didn’t make it through the process. HB134 died when sponsor Rep. Derrick Lente, D-Sandia Pueblo, suddenly pulled the bill from the Senate’s calendar a day before the session ended. Another bill Lente sponsored aiming to reform funding for Indigenous education, HB135, also died in committee this year. Lente told SFR he pulled the bill in 2023 when the House Education Committee lacked consensus on the amount of funding, but this year, he paused the bill when he learned senators planned to attempt to amend it on the floor.

WATER

Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, hailed the surge of funding for the Conservation Legacy Fund as one way to turn “today money” into “tomorrow money” for water projects. But lawmakers didn’t get behind a proposal from Lujan Grisham on a “Strategic Water Supply.” A weakened version of the governor’s idea died on the vine after the Senate Conservation Committee first tabled the measure, then gave it a “no recommendation” in a rushed hearing the next day.

The governor announced her plan, which called for the state to pay private companies to develop treatment and delivery systems for underground brackish water and for water pumped to the surface by the oil and gas industry, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai last year.

While Lujan Grisham originally called for $250 million in severance tax bonds from the current legislative session and a total of $500 million with future bonds, SB 294—sponsored by Sen. Liz Stefanics, D-Santa Fe, at the governor’s behest—originally sought to carve out $100 million in severance tax bonds for the projects. Under the proposal, the state would support privately funded water treatment operations by promising to purchase water, then sell it to manufacturers.

The bill notably removed all references to the oil and gas industry’s “produced water,” and instead only included projects for “water sourced from a brackish water aquifer.” A

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Lt. Gov. Howie Morales and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speak at the conclusion of the legislative session on Feb. 15. The governor says she’s considering a special session on public safety.

last-ditch effort that Environment Secretary James Kenney brought back to the committee watered down the funding even further by adding a provision that the bonds would only be issued after approval from the 2025 Legislature.

ENVIRONMENT

PAID FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE

After the final vote to shoot down the proposed Paid Family Medical Leave Act in the House, supporters on the House floor made enough noise to merit notice

by Speaker Martinez, who asked the sergeants at arms to control the “displays of emotion” in the chamber. The 34-36 vote on Feb. 14 killed SB3, which had sailed out of the Senate 25-15. The bill called for all employees and employers with more than five workers to pay into a fund that would be administered by the state Department of Workforce Solutions to establish 12-weeks of paid leave for certain purposes, including to care for newborn children and ailing family members. It had support from the ACLU and New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice as well as the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops, NM Health Equity Council and others, all of whom say they plan to try again in a future session.

Under a 2019 executive order, state employees may access a similar 12-week benefit; the bills would have created a way for more New Mexicans to have that opportunity. Opponents said they were concerned the law would adversely affect small businesses, among other issues.

Both Houses adopted HB41 to establish a “clean transportation fuel standard.”

Backers of the legislation, which is similar to laws in place already in California, Oregon and Washington, say it will help lessen greenhouse gas emissions and decrease co-pollutants that harm human health. New Mexico would create a board responsible for rules that seek to annually reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels used in the state to at least 20% below 2018 carbon intensity levels by 2030—and 30% below by 2040. Producers and importers of high-carbon fuel must purchase clean fuels. Under the program, low-carbon fuel producers and importers would also generate clean fuels credits to sell in the markets. Revenues from the sale of credits would be invested into grid modernization, infrastructure and “other projects that support transportation decarbonization,” among other items, and 50% of the revenues must support low-income and underserved communities.

Meanwhile, bills intended to reform laws on oil and gas extraction did not succeed, including HB133, which would have increased fines for pollution, codified methane-capture rules and required setbacks from schools; and SB24, which would have hiked the royalty rate paid to the state by the extractive industries. But HB252, a measure to make tax exemptions for certain aspects of production, is heading to the governor.

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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 10

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Climate Competition Yearly student film competition draws thousands of entries advocating for climate change solutions

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ive years after Santa Fe-based nonprofit Climate Advocates Voces Unidas introduced the Climate Innovation Challenge—a yearly contest where students compete for cash prizes to create short videos about a climate change solution they want to champion—interest has grown exponentially. In 2023, CAVU received more than 10,000 video submissions from students that ran the gamut, Education Director Phil Lucero says, from “solar panels to something the student can create from their imagination.”

CAVU’s climate education program offers two prongs, the contest and a six-lesson curriculum, which he says uniquely prepares students for their “entry point” into climate change advocacy.

“That means doing kind of a deep dive on, ‘What are you good at? What are your skill sets? What are you passionate about? What are your resources?’ Or, how they can have an impact on their local communities,” Lucero says.

Originally, CAVU exclusively provided the curriculum to Santa Fe’s Title I schools, which have predominantly low-income student populations. However, during the onset

of the pandemic, Lucero focused on how to make the program work in a remote learning setting, which he says contributed to the sudden increase in participating schools.

“Because we were able to do that successfully, now we’re able to work with anyone that is interested in participating,” Lucero says.

“Now we have registrants from 24 different states in the US and 10 different countries… that all said, our focus is on the Santa Fe Public Schools, Title I schools within Santa Fe. That’s where we started; that’s where we have our closest ties.”

Despite a large number of submissions from across the globe and the “Best in Show” video—receiving a $1,500 grand prize—being from a Florida school district, projects from schools in Santa Fe still stood out in 2023.

“As we started brainstorming other ideas to help reduce food waste, we realized our lunch time—15 minutes—was a problem,” a third-grade student from Amy Biehl Community School says in his class’s video about food waste. “According to the US Department of Agriculture, extending lunch periods from 20 to 30 minutes reduces plate waste by nearly one-third.”

One 10th-grade student from the New Mexico School for the Arts detailed the way droughts affect millions of people in the US, noting, “your lawn could be wasting water and keeping it from places and people who need it” in her video titled Your Lawn Sucks.

A Carlos Gilbert Elementary fourth grader explained the dangers of fast fashion, before showing more sustainable ways to acquire new clothes, such as going to a clothing swap event in Albuquerque.

The students involved in each of these

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A New Mexico School for the Arts student won the Most Creative/Engaging Project for High School in last year’s Climate Innovation Challenge for her video titled Your Lawn Sucks.

winning submissions received between $200 and $300 prizes. This year, video submissions are due March 20, and the awards showcase will take place virtually on May 9.

Students from THRIVE Community School, a southeastern Santa Fe public charter school that opened in the 2022-2023 school year, hope to make their mark.

“Before they had students even come in the door, we were already talking with their head of school, Sean Duncan, about implementing the program at the school,” Lucero says. “THRIVE is becoming one of our strongest participants in terms of not only the numbers, but in terms of engagement throughout the staff.”

This year, THRIVE expanded the CAVU program to fifth and seventh grades.

According to THRIVE teacher Erika Gallegos, sixth-grade students responded enthusiastically to the first year in the competition. One student received an honorable mention for his video on composting during the 2023 showcase and received $50.

“The Climate Innovation Challenge has helped my class open their eyes to the impacts and effects of climate change,” Gallegos tells SFR. “I really enjoyed helping students

learn about climate change and create their videos. I am definitely looking forward to implementing the challenge with my fifth grade students this year.”

The school’s heavy involvement in CAVU, Lucero says, made THRIVE the perfect candidate for a new partnership between CAVU and the Santa Fe Community College, which afforded students a visit to the college for an educational day of climate-centered STEM presentations.

On Jan. 25, about 75 students from THRIVE Community School toured the college with Associate STEM Dean Kevin Trujillo, who also works as scientific advisor at CAVU. The students’ excitement for programs like these, he says, aligns with his goals.

“Kids will say things like, ‘I’m not a science person, I’m not a math person.’ What we’re trying to do is change that mindset into showing them that science is something they can do…and really trying to nurture that,” Trujillo says. “We also want them to view the community college as a place where they’re comfortable, and a place where they have resources and people are here to help them.”

Learn more at cavu.org/engage

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he panel of professional photographers who served as guest judges for the 2024 SFR Photo contest say choosing just eight winners proved to be a difficult task.

“What a great reminder that photography remains alive and well in our creative community,” says David Scheinbaum, of Scheinbaum & Russek LTD and College of Santa Fe professor emeritus.

Anne Kelly, photo-eye gallery director and one of Scheinbaum’s former students, says she saw a number of common threads in her favorite images.

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“The element of mystery makes me revisit the photograph repeatedly, often discovering something new each time,” she says. “The other through-line in most images is that they convey the experience of living in Santa Fe without being images you would typically find on a postcard. ” For CENTER Santa Fe Programs Manager Whitney Wernick, the project served as a chance to consider photographers’ motivations.

“The choice to stop and document a person, moment, view, pet, anything while the seconds and minutes spin fast around us

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makes your whole body and meaning tingle.

Or, at least, mine does!” she says.

View large-format versions in a pop-up gallery and silent auction to benefit student journalism training.

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Places 1 st Our Lady of Barrio Analco

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2nd Place Winners Movement 2nd Gorge Bridge at Speed

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2nd Place Winners odd 2nd Carmaggeadon

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2nd Place Winners Places 2nd Balloon Shadow

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Faces 2nd Lil’ Bug, Loal Tucker Horsemanship

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Performance Santa Fe presents

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.

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Quartet Tuesday, March 19 I 7:30 pm Lensic Performing Arts Center

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.

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

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FREE-DOM Sometimes the local Americana thing wears a little thin in Santa Fe—there are just so many freaking acoustic guitars—but then a band like Free Range Buddhas comes along and what starts as a begrudging listen for professional reasons turns into genuine enjoyment.

The project led by vocalist Francesca Jozette has been keeping it pretty real since its 2016 inception, but on new track “End of the Story,” a teaser track pulled from the band’s next record scheduled to release later this year, the Buddhas have come together in a way they’d not quite reached before. It’s a little bit hippie-ish in its ‘60s-like psychedelic throwback tunes, but moments of almost ‘90s Blind Melon-esque guitar emphasize what must have been a fun bit of experimentation during the writing process. To find out what else the band has been up to, trek to Madrid this weekend. (ADV) Free Range Buddhas: 8 pm Friday, Feb. 23. Free The Mine Shaft Tavern, 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

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EXHIBIT SUN/25 STAFF INFECTION (IN A GOOD WAY!) Obviously there’s something to be said for museum curators who dedicate their entire lives to putting together shows from institutional collections. But sometimes that gives everyday people the impression their own tastes aren’t up to snuff. At the Museum of International Folk Art’s Staff Picks: Favorites from the Collection show opening this week, however, staffers make the calls. In other words, MoIFA staff have culled from the museum’s extensive collection of pieces for a show encompassing eras, previous exhibits, location, etc. It’s the first such show in the museum’s 71-year history and should, by all accounts, be a rather whimsical event. MoIFA’s collection includes something like 162,000 objects, too, so there’s no telling what made the cut. Way to go, staff! (ADV) Staff Picks: Favorites From the Collection: 10 am-5 pm Sunday, Feb. 25-Sunday, Aug. 18.

By admission. Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204

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PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH 4/24 FOTO FRACAS If SFR’s annual Photo Show at Violet Crown Cinema at 6 pm on Feb. 22 isn’t enough photography action for you this week, perhaps set your adorable little eyes on Foto Forum Santa Fe’s Annual Members Show between now and April 24. The project of local photographer Sage Paisner, the nonprofit’s annual affair finds a jury selecting the very best shots from Foto Forum’s roster of mighty members for exhibit. One ultimate winner receives $500 at Visions Photo Lab for any of its services. “I think we offer a unique thing for the art world in Santa Fe and people are taking advantage of it,” Paisner tells SFR. “Our memberships start at $25 for students and $35 for individuals—and with that…you’re able to apply to the juried membership show for free.” The winner will be announced at the end of the run. (ADV) Foto Forum Annual Members Show: Noon-5 pm Tuesday-Friday. Free. Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 470-2582

ART THU/22

Cuba Libre Artes de Cuba gallery celebrates its second birthday Most people know Stuart Ashman from big titles he held in the institutional and nonprofit arts sector, including as state Department of Cultural Affairs secretary and as director of the New Mexico History Museum, as well as head of the Center for Contemporary Arts and the International Folk Art Market.

Yet these days, Ashman, along with his wife Peggy Gaustad, has a certified banger gallery on his hands with Artes de Cuba, a Midtown bastion for artists who hail from Cuba and a space that hits its second year this week.

“I worked in museums and for nonprofit organizations and…I had a job in California as the president of the Museum of Latin American Art, so I was always involved in arts and galleries, but it was inside museums,” Ashman tells SFR. “As my interest in Cuban art grew, I thought it was time to do something of my own.”

That growing love has roots in Ashman’s heritage. He’s American-born but spent the first 12 years of his life in Cuba before his folks relocated to the states. His Santa Fe story is a familiar one, too—that of a post-college artist who happens through for one reason or another and falls in love with the light, the art, the way of life. Like so many, he left the city only to be pulled back in. Ashman returned for the executive director job at CCA in 2016 and has been here full-time since.

“When I came back, I really thought that was going to be my last job, then I’d retire,” he says with a laugh.

Instead, he worked for the International Folk Art Market from 2019 to 2021, then launched the gallery the next year.

Ashman has sojourned to the island nation numerous times over the years in efforts to discover new artists. The gallery functions, of course, as a business, but Ashman says he uses his nonprofit background as a guide when it comes to helping up-and-comers. In short, much of what he shows in the gallery comes down to a gut feeling about the work. And though names like José Manuel Fors, Liudmila y Nelson and Desbel Alvarez might not be widely known in the US, they—and many others at Artes de Cuba—present fascinating views of their homeland across a variety of media such as stripped veneer, colored pencil shavings, sculpture, painting, photography and more.

If you’ve never been to Artes de Cuba, consider this week’s anniversary party the perfect opportunity. Ashman promises food, music, mojitos and revelry. Plus, there’s all that beautiful art. (Alex De Vore)

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ARTES DE CUBA SECOND ANNIVERSARY 4-7 pm Thursday, Feb. 22. Free Artes de Cuba, 1700 A Lena St. (505) 303-3138

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WED/21 BOOKS/LECTURES NATURE LOVERS BOOK CLUB Santa Fe Public Library (Southside) 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820 A nature-themed adult book club. This month’s read is The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

by Douglas W. Tallamy.

6-7:30 pm WRITING GENERATION SERIES: MANNY LOLEY Online Diné storyteller Manny Loley reads a selection of his writings. Register at surveymonkey. com/r/WritingGenSpring24.

6 pm

DANCE POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Pomegranate Studio 535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142 An after-school dance program for girls aged 13 to 18.

5-7 pm

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BENEFIT DAY FOR CASA FIRST Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 Hang out with the CASA First team as they share about programs supporting foster children. Boxcar will donate 10% of the evening’s proceeds.

5-8 pm CHESS AT THE MALL DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671 Chess, food, shopping and conversation.

10 am-1 pm GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-3278 Challenging trivia with prizes.

8-10 pm KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 Midweek karaoke hosted by Crash Romeo.

7 pm KIDS SING ALONG: RAILYARD PARK Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St., (505) 982-3373 Teachers Sarah-Jane and B lead music games and sing-alongs for toddlers and babies.

10:30-11:15 am QUEER COFFEE GET TOGETHER Ohori’s Coffee Roasters 505 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-9692 Coffee with the local queer community.

9:30-11 am WITCHY WEDNESDAY The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663 Palmstry, astrology and tarot with Eve Ostara and Stephanie Alia.

7 pm

MUSIC JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES WITH CIARRA FRAGALE El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 Country and Americana from John Francis and the Poor Clares, supported by indie-pop from Ciarra.

8-10 pm

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Master weaver Bhakti Ziek’s textile work is on display at A Tenuous Thread, opening at form & concept on Feb. 24.

KENNY CROWLEY Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068 A compelling and original voice in the Americana arena that eases you back against warm guitar melodies.

6-9 pm ORGAN RECITAL SERIES St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072 The first of four free solo organ recitals on a recently-renovated Reuter pipe organ. Organist extraordinaire David Solem plays music by Louis Vierne, J.S. Bach, and César Franck.

Noon

SECOND CHANCES COUNTRY BAND Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952 A two-piece country band.

6-9 pm SUNSQUABI Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Kevin Donohue, Josh Fairman and Chris Anderson’s live electronica.

6 pm, $20 TROY BROWNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Soulful-style songwriting.

4 pm

WORKSHOP COLORFUL ANIMAL PORTRAITS WITH MICKEY Artful Soul 227 Don Gaspar Ave., artfulsoulsantafe.com Capture the vibrant personality of your beloved pet or favorite animal in a lively portrait using acrylic paint and mixed media.

6-9 pm, $210 PRUNING BASICS WORKSHOP Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103 Director of Horticulture Linda Churchill discusses why, how and when to prune woody plants in this hands-on, stress-free session.

10:30 am-noon, $24-$30

THU/22 BOOKS/LECTURES A LUMINOUS UPLIFT, LANDSCAPE & MEMORY Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226 John Brandi presents A Luminous Uplift, Landscape & Memory, a rich compendium of his new and selected prose spanning four decades of investigative travels through the American Southwest to the far reaches of the Himalaya.

6 pm

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POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Pomegranate Studio 535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142 An after-school dance program for girls aged 13 to 18.

5-7 pm

SACRED ALASKA Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678 From the ancient traditions of Native Alaskans and Orthodox spirituality brought by monks from Russia, Alaska is a sacred land. From Kodiak and Spruce Island with Saint Herman, to Sitka and the Aleutian Islands with Saint Innocent, these first missionaries had the central goal of “sanctifying land” through their love and care of the Native Alaskans.

6 pm, $16 THROWBACK MOVIE NIGHT: THE WIZARD OF OZ La Farge Library 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292 A free screening of The Wizard of Oz (1939)! Popcorn and hot cocoa provided. Costumes welcome!

5:30-7:30 pm

EVENTS ALL FIERCE COMEDY SHOW Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528 Grab your Grandma Tia Lola and enjoy the norteño comedy of Carlos Medina, or risk catching these chanclas.

6-8 pm 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 ARTES DE CUBA ANNIVERSARY Artes de Cuba 1700 A Lena St., (505) 303-3138 Celebrate the two-year anniversary of Artes de Cuba with mojitos, food and fun. (See SFR Picks, page 19.)

4-7 pm CHEF BRENT SUSHI POP-UP Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 Chef Brent Jung brings fresh fish directly from the boat for the tastiest sushi in town.

5-9 pm CHESS AT THE MALL DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671 Casual chess, food, shopping and conversation.

10 am-1 pm GEEKS WHO DRINK Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952 Challenging trivia with prizes.

7-9 pm SFR PHOTO SHOW Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678 See the winners of SFR’s 2024 Photo Contest at this pop-up event. Participate in a silent auction of winning works to benefit the New Mexico Fund for Public Interest Journalism’s student training program.

6-7:30 pm SORCERY AND MIGHT: BOARD GAME NIGHT Roots & Leaves Casa de Kava 301 N Guadalupe St., (720) 804-9379 Board, tabletop role-playing, collectible card trading and video games. Join the discord channel: discord.gg/GCfZrNBr. 6 pm

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MUSIC AUSTIN STAMBAUGH & WIL COPE El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 Balladeer Stambaugh performs his folk singer-songwriter jams, with Cope’s cosmic country.

7-9 pm BIG MOUNTAIN FEAT. BOOMROOTS The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, (505) 557-6182 Billboard-charting true-to-roots reggae band Big Mountain dedicate themselves to helping everyone feel more connected in a united culture of freedom, love and reggae.

7:30-11 pm, $22 BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Share happy hour with country music legend Bill Hearne.

4-6 pm DYLAN LEBLANC Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 A Southern gothic Americana singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

7:30 pm, $18-$23 FOLK JAM La Reina El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 Jam your favorite folk tunes.

7-8:30 pm KARINA RYKMAN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Straddling the worlds of jam rock and indie pop drenched in psychedelia, Rykman’s effervescent presence comes to life.

7 pm, $20

KEITH BURNSTEIN The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 A rich harmonic palette of jazz, electronic and world music.

7 pm KENNY CROWLEY As Above So Below Distillery 545 Camino de la Familia, (505) 916-8596 Americana melodies.

8-10:30 pm LADIES NIGHT Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 Free for ladies, $5 otherwise.

10 pm PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., (505) 989-1166 Jazz guitar.

6-8 pm SOMEWHERE IN THE RAINBOW The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663 Queer happy hour, followed by a nu-disco party with DJ Oona.

5 pm TERENCE BLANCHARD, E-COLLECTIVE AND TURTLE ISLAND STRING QUARTET Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234 Blanchard and acclaimed collaborators pay tribute to iconic jazz composer Wayne Shorter.

7:30 pm, $49-$72

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THEATER TEATRO PARAGUAS PRESENTS: MARIANA PINEDA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601 A historical play about Mariana de Pineda y Muñoz, 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 fake their way through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 90 minutes.

7:30 pm, $35

FRI/23 ART OPENINGS A TENUOUS THREAD (OPENING) form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256 Master weaver Bhakti Ziek unravels a globe-spanning textile history with monumental, suspended weaving that encapsulates dedication and respect for all forms of fiber work.

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THE CALENDAR BRAD OVERTON (OPENING) Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902 Realist painter Overton likes to play the role of the trickster in art and life.

5-7 pm JAY BAILEY: EAST OF THE SIERRAS (OPENING) Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St., (505) 995-9902 Bailey explores memory and fragmentation in the American West.

5-7 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES A MONUMENT WITHOUT A TOMB: ST. JOHN’S CELEBRATES MAJOR SCENES FROM SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO St. John’s College, Santa Fe 1160 Camino De Cruz Blanca, (505) 984-6408 Tutor Alison Chapman leads a panel on Shakespeare consider ing major scenes from his plays in honor of the 400th anniversary of the publication of his First Folio.

7 pm COMING OF AGE IN OPPENHEIMER’S SECRET CITY Purple Fern Bookstore 7 Avenida Vista Grande, Ste. D5, (505) 382-8711 Ellen Wilder Bradbury-Reid, author of A Nuclear Family: Coming of Age in Oppenheimer’s Secret City, signs books and leads a reading.

6 pm OLD SANTA FE ASSOCIATION BOOK CLUB Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 992-0418 Discuss historical readings with like-minded people. This week, prepare for the meeting by reading New Mexico: An Interpretive History by Marc Simmons.

4-6 pm

DANCE DRAG SHOW/QUEER DANCE PARTY Cake’s Cafe 227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880 Catch Santa Fe’s hottest new Queer Night!

8-10 pm, $15

EVENTS BOTTLES FOR CANS FOOD DRIVE Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1, 467-8892 Bring cans and non-perishable foods to donate at a party at the distillery.

4-7 pm MAKE AND BELIEVE TIME Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 An art- and reading-based hour for kids to explore a world of story and imagination.

10 am

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FILM PERFECT DAYS Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338 A film about Hirayama, a man who is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

11 am, $13

MUSIC CHARLES TICHENOR Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304 A well-crafted kaleidoscope of piano tunes and lyrics.

6-9 pm COUNTRY NIGHT The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, (505) 557-6182 Country music with Sim Balkey and his honky tonk crew.

6-10 pm DOLLY CREAMER El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 Poppy rock music with a desert country twist.

8-10 pm DUSTY THE KID FEAT. DIRTY LAUNDRY The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Dusty the Kids’ politically-charged mountain folk alongside Dirty Laundry.

5 pm DYMER FEAT. ALMOST ALWAYS NEVER The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663 Alt-rock and indie from Dymer and Almost Always Never.

8 pm FREE RANGE BUDDHAS The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 A fusion of vintage psychedelic nostalgia and folk-rock flair.

(See SFR Picks, page 19) 8 pm GRADY SPENCER & THE WORK Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 Groove-based rock ’n’ roll 7:30 pm, $15 JOHNNY LLOYD Nuckolls Brewing Co. 1611 Alcaldesa St., nuckollsbrewing.com Country favorite Lloyd performs for happy hour.

4-6 pm JUDITH HILL Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234 Judith Hill brings stellar powerhouse vocals to Santa Fe. Her music is rich in throwback soul, stunning piano balladry and swaggering psychedelic funk.

7:30 pm, $30-$55

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JULIAN DOSSETT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 A down-and-dirty traditional delta sound drawing from swing, blues, jazz and rockabilly.

4-6 pm LYRA MUSE, WICKING GROUND AND SABINE COLLEEN GHOST 2889 Trades West Road, instagram.com/ghost_santafe Local darkwave synth musician Lyra Muse and Sabine Colleen’s dark angelic folk tunes, joined

by Washingtonian band Wicking Ground.

7 pm, $10-$15 suggested MARGARET-MARY SAUPPÉ First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544 A local organist program.

5:30 pm MINNESOTA Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 A force on the bass scene influenced by the underground electronic scene in Santa Cruz.

8 pm, $15-$22 TERRY DIERS Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 Blues, rock and funk.

6-8 pm UNA MAS Y LA CHACHA Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952 Northern New Mexico soul.

6 pm

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

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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.

7:30 pm, $35

THE BEASTLY BOOK CLUB Beastly Books 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 395-2628 Sink your fangs into the immortally iconic characters of The Prince Lestat.

1-2 pm

DANCE

WORKSHOP

APRÈS SKI WITH SPENCER TOLL El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 A post-ski dance party featuring Spooliud DJ Spencer Toll.

6-9 pm

ZOZOBRA PUPPETRY Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359 Learn all about puppets and marionettes and make your very own Zozobra marionette creation with Jeff Cornett, master puppeteer and volunteer.

2-4 pm

EVENTS KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 Karaoke hosted by Crash Romeo.

7 pm RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers’ Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta About 40 local painters, potters, jewelers, weavers, pinon incense makers and more every Sunday.

10 am-3 pm

SAT/24 BOOKS/LECTURES BLACKDOM, NEW MEXICO: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AFRO-FRONTIER, 1900–1930 Santa Fe Public Library (Main) 145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-6780 Timothy E. Nelson presents about Blackdom, New Mexico, a Black township that lasted about 30 years.

2 pm PRIVATE LANDOWNERS PROTECTING PINYON JAYS Santa Fe Public Library (Southside) 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820 Learn about the pinyon jay, the role it plays in maintaining the biodiversity of the West and how to help via community science projects.

2-3 pm

DANCE CONTRA DANCE Odd Fellows Hall 112 Cerrillos Road, (505) 690-4165 A living tradition of community folk dance for all ages.

Beginners, kids and singles are welcome. Lesson at 7, dance begins at 7:30.

7-10:30 pm, $0-$10

EVENTS SCIENCE SATURDAY Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359 Wade Harrell from the Santa Fe Reptile & Bug Museum brings his creepy crawly insects at this week’s Science Saturdays.

2-4 pm

MUSIC B.A.B.E.S. DJ COLLECTIVE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 An all-gals DJ collective shakes Tumbleroot’s dance floor. Ages 21 and up only.

9 pm, $13

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FILM

All of Minol Araki’s ink paintings are created in the ancient literati tradition in the Where Beauty Dwells exhibit at LewAllen Galleries.

THE BEACHES Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 ‘80s-tinted melodies and quick-witted lyrics. Sold out, but you can still look for tix on Stubhub and the like.

8 pm BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 988-5531 Piano and voice takes on blues and soul classics.

6-9 pm CHARLES TICHENOR Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, (505) 992-0304 Piano tunes and lyrics.

6-9 pm CURRY SPRINGER DUO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Classic rock..

1 pm GARY ALLAN Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, (505) 455-5555 Country artist Allan merges ‘90s nostalgia with the vibrancy of today’s sound. Sold out, but keep refreshing all resale sites if you want those tickets.

8 am, $69-$89

HALF BROKE HORSES Legal Tender Saloon & Eating House 151 Old Lamy Trail, Lamy, (505) 466-1650 Honky tonk and Americana.

6-8:30 pm IRON CHIWAWA The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Rock’n’roll jams.

2 pm JOHNNY LLOYD LIVE ON SKY RAILWAY/LORE Sky Railway 410 S Guadalupe St., (844) 743-3759 Country on the Ale Trail.

11:30 am-2 pm, $115-$159 LAMBY Totemoff’s Bar 1477 NM-475 Indie jamz.

11 am-3 pm OPERATION REWIND The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Funk and rock.

8 pm VIOLET RISING AND OMI.O The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663 Pysch rock and new wave courtesy of Mama Mañana Records.

7 pm

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 All 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 90 minutes.

7:30 pm, $35

WORKSHOP CHAKRA ALIGNMENT AND BALANCE WORKSHOP Prana Blessings 1925 Rosina St., Ste. C, (505) 772-0171 Exploring chakras.

Noon-1:30 pm, $35 SUCCULENTS & SIPZ Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Decorate a pot for your very own succulent. Bring a friend or come to mingle.

4 pm, $20

SUN/25 ART OPENINGS SUE DREAMER AND LAIRD HOVLAND COLLABORATION WITH INTERFUSION ART InterFusion Art 150 Washington Ave., Ste. 103, (505) 467-8081 One-day-only event showcasing the unique collaboration of local designer Dreamer and sculptor Hovland alongside art jewelry presented by InterFusion Art. Please call to RSVP. 1-4 pm STAFF PICKS: FAVORITES FROM THE COLLECTION Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204 The first MoIFA exhibition with work chosen by the museum staff. Showcasing hidden gems and personal favorites, 35 staff members selected two objects from the permanent collection for a total of 70 artworks. Enjoy performances by the Academy for the Classics & Technology Stringband, and refreshments by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico. (See SFR Picks, page 19.)

10 am

GESHE WANGYAL, WITH BLESSING OF THE THREE JEWELS: BUDDHIST CENTER MOVIE NIGHT Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 130 Rabbit Road, (505) 660-7056 A free screening of Geshe Wangyal: With Blessing of the Three Jewels (2022).

5-7 pm

MUSIC BASILARIS TRIO Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068 Jazz fusion.

1-4 pm DISCOVERY SERIES: MASTERCLASS St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave, (505) 476-5072 The Elias Quartet and select student ensembles dig into the details of making music.

10-11 am DOUG MONTGOMERY Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 955-0765 Santa Fe’s Piano Man plays everything from movie themes to the Great American Songbook.

6-9 pm ELIAS QUARTET New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072 Performing groundbreaking compositions that altered the trajectory of the string quartet.

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CLIFFORD RHODY

with CCA Cinema Director Justin Clifford Rhody

Following near-closure and the subsequent borderline-frantic community actions and fundraising that kept it alive last April, Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts continues to forge a path forward. Part of the new world order includes nonprofits like Albuquerque-based contemporary chamber music outfit CHATTER and experiential theater company Exodus staking claims in the Tank Garage gallery space; part of it has been the onboarding of General Manager Paul Barnes, a filmmaker whose ongoing work comes on a voluntary basis. Last week, the CCA also announced that Justin Clifford Rhody, anti-profit DIY theater No Name Cinema co-founder, will take the helm as cinema director. We spoke with Rhody as he settles into his new role.

This interview has been edited for length and concision. (Alex De Vore) Let’s start with the question I think everyone has about CCA just now.

What’s your take on its current shape and are things looking up after last year’s challenges?

The incredible outpouring of support from the local community last spring really showcased how important CCA is to so many people, and what a significant loss would be suffered without its continued contributions to Santa Fe’s stratosphere of film exhibition.

Since that time, we’ve all been working hard behind the scenes to redesign and restructure the administration into a sustainable model that’s able to accomplish more using less while also providing a truly ‘livable wage’ for all of its employees. We’re now in a position of absolute financial stability and have more than doubled ticket sales compared to the year prior.

It’s gratifying to experience such a positive response to our attempts at thoughtful programming and highly curated film series, but it can’t be stressed enough that we would not even be in a position to offer such things if it were not for the generous donations we regularly receive from the community. As a nonprofit arthouse cinema, CCA is uniquely poised

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to present works of diverse perspectives from unique voices, and the membership fees and donations...make that possible.

Likewise, I’m fortunate to be working with a team of committed and communityminded cinephiles who are all passionate about what we do. Every contribution made—from the guest speaker of an event to the part-time employee who handles invoices—is absolutely crucial to working successfully on a large scale in a sustainable manner.

The CCA cinema has always engaged in partnerships; programming with special guests; and collaborations. What are your thoughts about potential collaborations moving forward?

I’m very excited…to expand the organization’s support for local emerging artists. In addition to establishing a new quarterly exhibition series in the Cinema Gallery, I also look forward to organizing film screening panel discussions involving members of Santa Fe’s diverse population.

As many of these plans are still in the early stages...I encourage everyone to keep their eyes peeled and sign up for the weekly CCA newsletter. Very exciting things are on the horizon!

No Name Cinema is known for experimental experiences, lesser-seen films, oddities, forgotten works and so on.

Do you hope to bring any of those ethos to CCA? We started No Name Cinema with a mission to exclusively showcase experimental and personal artist’s films, and after three years of programming it’s undoubtedly but surprisingly a success. But as with most things in life, the context that a work of art is seen within deeply informs its reading.

No Name Cinema existing in a DIY warehouse space with limited seating and sliding-scale admission are all very intentional choices that we made and they’re not the result of us simply not being able to figure out how to operate like a ‘normal’ business. I personally really enjoy the different personalities and offerings that each of the theaters in town contribute to the overall cultural landscape. And I don’t see any reason that those offerings need to become more homogenized.

The programming of international, independent and repertory films that CCA has historically offered will still remain the same. The reason I’m so pleased to work with CCA is that it has consistently offered space for uncompromising filmmakers like Guy Maddin; presented overlooked masterpieces like The Exiles; and allowed visionary artists like Deborah Stratman to exist alongside titles that receive festival acclaim and rave reviews from the mainstream press.

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I HEAR MUSIC IN THE AIR: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SACRED MUSIC Santa Maria De La Paz Catholic Community 11 College Ave., (505) 473-4200 An event honoring the contributions of African American composers and conductors.

2 pm JOHNNY LLOYD Nuckolls Brewing Co. 1611 Alcaldesa St., nuckollsbrewing.com Country jams.

4-6 pm JULIAN DOSSETT The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 A delta sound drawing from swing, blues, jazz and rockabilly.

2 pm KARAOKE NIGHT Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952 Crash Romeo hosts karaoke.

6-9 pm KID BLOOM Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Instrumentalist Lennon Kloser crafts his own genre, landing between modern and ‘80s pop with an R&B groove.

7 pm LAS MIGAS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234 This group’s distinctive approach to flamenco mirrors the diverse origins and backgrounds of its band members.

7:30 pm, $10-$49 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 TELEMANN IN PARIS New Mexico School for the Arts 500 Montezuma Ave., Ste. 200, (505) 310-4194 Baroque flutist Sandra Miller joins Severall Friends’ players, dedicating the program to three of Georg Philipp Telemann’s twelve Paris Quartets, nailing the virtuosic, sophisticated and delicious French style.

4 pm, $10-$30 YOUR BOY REFLEX Totemoff’s Bar 1477 NM-475 A sound smoothie ranging from underground hip-hop to reggaeton and country.

11 am-3 pm

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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/26 EVENTS CHESS AT THE MOVIES Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St., (505) 216-5678 Casual chess and movies.

6-9 pm KIDS SING ALONG: QUEEN BEE MUSIC ASSOCIATION Queen Bee Music Association 1596 Pacheco St., (505) 278-0012 Teachers Sarah-Jane and B lead music games and sing-alongs for toddlers and babies.

10:30 am MEET WITH MAYOR WEBBER City Hall 200 Lincoln Ave., (505) 955-6621 Stop by City Hall for a one-onone conversation with Mayor Alan Webber.

2-5 pm

FILM VIDEO LIBRARY CLUB Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528 Free films every Monday with Lisa from Video Library—the country’s oldest continuously operating video rental store.

6:30-8:30 pm

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

6-9 pm JOHNNY LLOYD Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Country jams.

4-6 pm KARAOKE WITH CRASH! Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Start the week with karaoke!

7-10 pm

THEATER

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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. 2 pm, $15-$25

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.

3:45-5:30 pm

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BOOKS/LECTURES OF NOBLE KINGS DESCENDED: COLONIAL DOCUMENTS AND THE ANCIENT SOUTHWEST St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave, (505) 476-5072 Unlock the secrets of the ancient Southwest through Early Spanish and Mexican records.

6 pm, $0-$10

FILM MUSIC IS MY LIFE: JOSEPH SHABALALA AND LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338 The story of the late South African musician Joseph Shabalala, who rose to international fame with his band Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

6 pm, $13

MUSIC GARY GORENCE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 A singer-songwriter from Pecos performs at happy hour.

4 pm MINDCHATTER Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369 Singer, songwriter and producer Bryce Connolly fuses introspective and thought-provoking lyrics with infectious, danceable beats.

7 pm, $22 THE DOWNTOWN BLUES JAM Evangelo’s 200 W San Francisco St., (505) 982-9014 Santa Fe’s premier event for live blues music, hosted by house band Brotha Love & The Blueristocrats.

8:30-11:30 pm

WORKSHOP FINDING REAL PROTECTION: REFUGE FOR THE MIND Santa Fe Women’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 983-9455 Discover what real refuge and protection is and how to develop it within your mind.

6-7:30 pm

ONGOING ART 5TH ANNUAL FORO FORUM MEMBERS SHOW Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 470-2582 More than 60 original photographic works. (See SFR Picks, page 19)

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Canceled Concert Sparks Attention Questions remain after Meow Wolf drops Matisyahu show under pressure from anti-war protesters and employees

cidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

That coalition publicized an overnight plan to demonstrate at Meow Wolf, but learned the show had been canceled before the action took place. About a dozen people briefly protested outside Matisayahu’s tour bus.

“In addition to local pro-Palestinian activists,” the coalition statement continues, “Meow Wolf Workers Collective Members and leadership also advocated for the show to be canceled.”

A few days later, the union clarified its official position wasn’t about the message of the show, but about the potential for conflict.

“Meow Wolf leadership has said that their decision to cancel the concert has nothing to do with politics, culture or religion and was an operational decision based on safety concerns. We agree with the decision,” reads a

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statement issued by the Meow Wolf Workers Collective on Saturday, Feb. 17. “MWWC did not have time to democratically take an official stance on the concert or take any action, though we defend staff for choosing to defend personal safety. Meow Wolf Workers Collective believes in free expression, however we do not tolerate hate, discrimination, violence or violent rhetoric.”

One Meow Wolf worker who didn’t want to be identified out of fear of retaliation, however, said some employees objected to comments Matisayahu has made, including in a Newsweek feature in January where he was quoted as saying, “I would like to see any terrorist, Hamas, or person who believes Israel has no right to exist or the Jews have no right to it, I would like Israel to destroy those people.”

The Santa Fe Democratic Socialists of America’s William Whiteman, a co-signatory of the statement from the coalition of activists who protested the show, tells SFR the message from his and the other organizations was careful to note it was “members of the Meow Wolf Workers Collective rather than the entity itself.”

Others, Matisyahu included, have intimated antisemitism fueled the show’s cancella-

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Matisyahu’s Santa Fe show was canceled last week, leading to no small amount of discourse online.

COURTESY SANTA FEANS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE

n the week since Santa Fe arts corporation Meow Wolf canceled Jewish reggae artist Matisyahu’s Feb. 14 concert, ire, criticism and support has erupted from across the political spectrum, as well as a deluge of international coverage from outlets such as NBC, TMZ, Fox News, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post and others.

Local anti-war protesters who decried Matisyahu’s stance on the Israel-Gaza conflict were quick to claim credit for the sudden change of direction, but the Meow Wolf Workers Collective workers’ union now says its actions weren’t linked to politics.

According to the company’s official stament, a number of staffers called out of work for the night of the would-be Valentine’s Day show featuring the American musician (real name Matthew Paul Miller): “Due to general safety concerns that have come to light in recent hours, we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel tonight’s show. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

The following day, the company notified ticket-holders it would issue refunds.

The Rialto Theatre in Tucson, Arizona also canceled Matisyahu’s appearance slated for Feb. 15, though that show ultimately moved to neighboring venue The Rock.

The artist addressed the cancellations himself via X (formerly Twitter), writing, “the staff at these venues refused to come to work, forcing cancellations. Without our permission or approval, the venue in Santa Fe misinformed our fans canceling the show due to ‘security concerns’ when the only concern was a group of staff unwilling to work my show.”

A coalition of Santa Fe organizations including Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine, New Mexico Jews for a Free Palestine, Stand Up For Racial Justice New Mexico and the Santa Fe Democratic Socialists of America claimed victory in the Santa Fe cancellation, saying in a joint statement that “Matisyahu has been an outspoken supporter of the geno-

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Activists from numerous Santa Fe groups stand outside reggae artist Matisyahu’s tour bus after Meow Wolf suddenly called off his Valentine’s Day performance.

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tions in Tucson and Santa Fe. Mayor Alan Webber, for example, released a statement Feb. 15 saying, “There is a significant difference between protesting against the policies of the Netanyahu government in Gaza and shutting down the performance of a Jewish-American artist in Santa Fe. There’s no excuse for antisemitism, Islamophobia, bigotry, bias, racism or intolerance, not here, not now, not ever. The war in Israel and Gaza is a humanitarian tragedy, and we should all join in the call for the safe return of all hostages and an end to the killing. We need to see peace in the Middle East.”

The New Mexico Jewish Community Relations Coalition did not mince words in a letter to both Webber and Meow Wolf CEO Jose Tolosa, reading in part: “Matisyahu became a target only because of his identity as a Jew with an affinity toward Israel.”

“This is troubling to us,” coalition spokesman Zachary Benjamin told SFR the day after the canceled show. “We believe it sets a dangerous precedent; we’re talking about what we perceive as a potential act of bias, so this is something that, as a Jewish community, is of concern to us—and as New Mexicans.”

Whiteman denies the accusation of antisemitism. For example, the Democratic Socialists of America helped organize the recent Klezmer for Palestine concert at Santa Fe DIY venue Baby Grand, “at which we had Jewish performers singing in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino,” he tells SFR. “We upheld sacred Jewish traditions as a group—that is us platforming Jewish performers.”

Online conversations have also, perhaps inevitably, dipped into dialogue surrounding cancel culture and censorship. Santa Fe lawyer Talia Kosh, who formerly counted Meow Wolf among her clients, says the company acted within its rights.

“Artistic expression through the spoken or written word, particularly in the form or political protest or satirical speech or writing such as plays or songs, is akin to ‘pure speech,’ and is entitled to comprehensive protection under the First Amendment,” Kosh tells SFR. “However, since Meow Wolf is a private company, it can censor artistic expression as they so choose. As a private company, Meow Wolf also has freedom of speech to select and decide not to feature certain artists.”

Matisyahu continues to tweet about the cancellations. A video posted on Feb. 16, for example, features a caption that reads in part, “The Rock [in Tucson] was happy to have us.

No security issues. If a venue has a staff who’s afraid to stand up to these fools, I will find a venue who supports me and my beautiful fans…we will keep playing and singing and dancing.”

His next scheduled tour stops are in California, Nevada and Oregon.

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HOWARD STEIN: LAST FRAME OF PICTURE Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado, (505) 466-7323 Photos of small town movie theaters alongside Kathy Minnich's organic, earthy-looking pottery.

I SAY WITH MY FULL ESSENCE Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338 Contemporary women artists whose practices uniquely address their historiess.

JANDEY SCHACKELFORD: IMPRINT Strata Gallery 125 Lincoln Avenue, Ste. 105, (505) 780-5403 Shackelford's exhibition centers on the forms of oppression that persist in today's society.

KNOWN POINTS form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256 Mixed-media landscape compositions titled alongside iconic landscape prints.

LOUISA MCELWAIN: DISTANT THUNDER Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St., (505) 995-9902 McElwain’s bold paintings of the American Southwest.

MINOL ARAKI: WHERE BEAUTY DWELLS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250 The work of Minol Araki (19282010), an industrial designer and Japanese ink painter in the ancient literati tradition.

PINK NOISE smoke the moon 616 1/2 Canyon Road, smokethemoon.com Kate Stringer’s illustrations interlace together a world of feminized creatures, markings and graphic narrative.

REX RAY: LUMINATE Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road, (505) 986-9800 The late artist Ray’s most intense decade of painting and printmaking. “Intense decade” is a pretty cool way to describe a thing, we think.

SANTA FE: TRUE OR FALSE? El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road, (505) 982-0016 A series of questions testing the knowledge of Santa Feans about their City Different.

SIN ROPA: A VALENTINE'S DAY NUDE DRAWING SHOW Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902 Intimate nude drawings offering a unique perspective into the artist's ability to capture the essence of her subjects.

THE MOVIES Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave., (505) 992-0800 Photographs from classic films of the 20th century.

TANIA POMALES: GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave., (505) 557-9574 Pomales specializes in dark and surreal works juxtaposing bright colors with skulls and human anatomical references.

TENDING SOIL Martinez Studio 223 1/2 Canyon Road, (920) 288-7157 Lila Steffan works with foraged plant and mineral pigments in an exhibition of her work on handmade paper and recycled fabric.

TONY DE LUZ: SAINTS AND SINNERS Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902 Captivating paintings paying homage to vintage Americana on the road.

TRUE COLORS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250 Color abstraction featuring a variety of rich, multi-layered surfaces of color.

WILLIAM REYNOLDS: SHAZAM! Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St., (505) 372-7681 Paintings from the late Reynolds’ years in the Himalayas, a selection of his “Bar Code” portraits and more.

MUSEUMS COURTESY THE MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART

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 Cubist artist Dasburg's Western landscape works from when he settled in Taos during the 1930s.

BROOKS WILLIAMS, TRANSCENDENT FIELDS Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915 Williams’ works on paper, aluminum and lenticular emanates a surreal essence.

DAVID JOHNSON: TALKING WITH TREES Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Hwy. 165, Placitas, (505) 867-2450 Woodworker Johnson’s famous cutting boards and household items, as well as new tables of various sizes and styles.

DAVID SIMPSON: FIRST LIGHT Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St., (505) 989-8688 Photographer Simpson uses light like an impressionistic painter to reveal the ever-changing beauty, colors and serenity of natural settings.

FROM BAMBOO TO BRUSH TAI Modern 1601 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 984-1387 A curatorial vignette in collaboration showcasing the synergy between Japanese bamboo art and contemporary Zen ink brush painting.

FORBIDDEN RITUAL As Above So Below Distillery 545 Camino de la Familia, (505) 916-8596 A Tiki pop-up featuring an extensive menu of exotic cocktails, weekly surf-inspired DJs and a Kauaian menu, running every afternoon until close of business on Thursdays through Sundays until March 3.

THE CALENDAR

NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200 The Santos of New Mexico. Miguel Trujillo and the Pursuit of Native Voting Rights. EnchantOrama! New Mexico Magazine Celebrates 100.

Silver and Stones: Collaborations in Southwest Jewelry.

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. Generarions of Imagination: 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. Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest A collection of lowrider bikes created by students from 1900-1969. To Make, Unmake, and Española is on display at The Museum of Spanish Make Again. Ways of Seeing: Four Colonial Art. Photography Collections.

10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS free 5-7 pm every Fri. May-Oct. 217 Johnson St., AND CULTURE POEH CULTURAL CENTER (505) 946-1000 710 Camino Lejo, 78 Cities of Gold Road, Making a Life. Rooted in Place.

(505) 476-1269 (505) 455-5041 10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20 Down Home. Here, Now and Di Wae Powa. Nah Poeh Meng. (under 18 free) Always. Horizons: Weaving 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, $7-$10 Between the Lines with Diné IAIA MUSEUM OF VLADEM CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY Textiles.

NATIVE ARTS 10 am-5 pm, $7-$12, NM residents 404 Montezuma Ave., (505) 476-5602 108 Cathedral Place, free first Sunday of the month Shadow and Light (505) 983-8900 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 amWomb of the Earth: Cosmovision FOLK ART 7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents of the Rainforest, Inuk Silis 706 Camino Lejo, free 5-7 pm every Fri. May-Oct. Høegh: Arctic Vertigo. The Stories (505) 476-1204 We Carry.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon THE AMERICAN INDIAN Them Warm: The Alaska Native 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 704 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-4636 Parka. La Cartonería Mexicana Free Admission every Friday Masterglass: The Collaborative / The Mexican Art of Paper and Spirit of Tony Jojola. Pathfinder: MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART Paste. Protection: Adaptation 40 Years of Marcus Amerman.

18 County Road 55A, and Resistance. Multiple Journeying Through the Archives of (505) 424-6487 Visions: A Common Bond.

Permanent collection. Global 10 am-5 pm, $3-$12, NM residents the Wheelwright Museum. Rooted: Samples of Southwest Baskets.

Warming is REAL. free first Sunday of the month 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $10, free 11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun, $10 first Sunday of the month (18 and under free)

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RATINGS BEST MOVIE EVER

Madame Web Review Straight up, this is just a terrible movie

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Superhero fatigue or no, Marvel Studios has at least crafted a formula that brings in box office bucks. Even when we don’t love the movies, they’ve become reliable rainy day schlock full of fun explosions and silly jokes. They’re fast food for the most part.

With the newly released Madame Web, however, Sony-owned Columbia Pictures has so bungled its access to the Spider-Man license and its stable of characters—oh, did you not know that Marvel doesn’t actually own Spidey, and that those Tom Holland-led movies are the result of a 2015 deal all but signaling Sony doesn’t much know how to make it work?—that one wonders if the company might just throw in the towel and leave the franchise to literally anyone else.

It couldn’t possibly get worse.

In Madame Web, Dakota Johnson plays Cassandra Web, a New York City-based EMT whose mother died during childbirth in the Peruvian Amazon while looking for magic spiders (seriously). Cut to 30 years later and Cassie doesn’t much like people, save her partner Ben Parker (as in, Uncle Ben, but, like, Peter Parker’s uncle, not the rice guy; Adam Scott) and she certainly won’t be roped into anything resembling a relationship, platonic or otherwise.

But when she technically dies for a sec during an emergency call, Cassie gains the ability to see a cou-

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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 schoolaged 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 guys buried there. Said storm brings that dude, 28

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ple minutes into the future. Her new powers thrust Cassie into a caretaker position with a trio of teen ladies (Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced and Celeste O’Connor) who might just get their own spider-adjacent powers someday if her visions are to be believed.

Chaos ensues for two terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad hours while we wonder if Cassie’s powers will help her thwart tragedies or only lead to their inevitable outcomes—y’know, like in all mythology? Just kidding, no one wondered that so much as they wondered when the movie would end.

The only thing more absurd than Johnson’s mind-numbingly emotionless performance as Madame Web (how lucky that her last name denotes spider stuff!) is the script from writers Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless and Claire Parker. The villain in the film (a hysterically cartoony only not fun Tahar Rahim, Napoleon) has visions, too, and thinks those would-be Spider-Gals might kill him one day if he

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 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

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doesn’t kill them first. He repeatedly says he won’t let them destroy what he’s built, only we never learn what that is. Is it a company? A lego castle? Rich friendships? No one knows, and Madame Web isn’t telling.

And the dimensionless villain makes up the least of our problems. In fact, it wouldn’t be shocking if director SJ Clarkson (who mostly has TV credits under her belt) came out to say the suits at Sony got their grubby mitts onto this movie. There is otherwise no excuse.

Madame Web is for the ironic likers and the people who can’t look away from a car crash—everyone else should just forget it exists like Dakota Johnson is likely doing right now, even as we speak.

MADAME WEB Directed by Clarkson With Johnson, Sweeney, Merced, O’Connor and Scott Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 116 min.

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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)

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

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In my astrological estimation, the coming weeks will be an ideal time for you to declare amnesty, negotiate truces, and shed long-simmering resentments. Other recommended activities: Find a way to joke about an embarrassing memory, break a bad habit just because it’s fun to do so, and throw away outdated stuff you no longer need.

Just do the best you can as you carry out these challenging assignments, Aries. You don’t have to be perfect. For inspiration, read these wise words from poet David Whyte: “When you forgive others, they may not notice but you will heal. Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves.”

make me wiser, kinder, and wilder. The appearance of the devil card suggests that I need to be challenged so as to grow a new capacity or understanding. It’s a good omen, telling me that life is conspiring to give me what I need to outgrow my limitations and ignorance. Now apply these principles, Libra, as you respond to the devil card I just drew for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A taproot is a thick, central, and primary root from which a plant’s many roots branch out laterally. Typically, a taproot is fairly straight and grows downward. It may extend to a depth that is greater than the part of the plant sprouting above ground. Now let’s imagine that we humans have metaphorical taproots. They connect us with our sources of inner nourishment. They are lifelines to secret or hidden treasures we may be only partly conscious of. Let’s further imagine that in the coming months, your own taproot will be flourishing, burgeoning, and even spreading deeper to draw in new nutrients. Got all that? Now I invite you to infuse this beautiful vision with an outpouring of love for yourself and for all the wondrous vitality you will be absorbing.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “When a mountain doesn’t listen, say a prayer to the sea,” said Taurus painter Cy Twombly. “If God doesn’t respond, direct your entreaties to Goddess,” I tell my Taurus daughter Zoe. “If your mind doesn’t provide you with useful solutions, make an appeal to your heart instead,” my Taurus coach advises me. All these words of wisdom should be useful for you in the coming weeks, Taurus.

It’s time to be diligent, relentless, ingenious, and indefatigable in going after what you want. Keep asking SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Behavioral ecologist until you find a source that will provide it.

Professor Dan Charbonneau has observed the habits GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini philosopher Ralph of ants and bees and other social insects. He says that Waldo Emerson offered advice that’s perfect for you. He a lot of the time, many of them are just lolling around said, “Though we travel the world over to find the doing nothing. In fact, most animals do the same. The beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” creatures of the natural world are just not that busy.

Here’s what I will add. First, you very much need to Psychologist Dr. Sandi Mann urges us to learn from commune with extra doses of beauty in the coming their lassitude. “We’ve created a society where we weeks. Doing so will expedite your healing and further fear boredom and we’re afraid of doing nothing,” she your education—two activities that are especially says. But that addiction to frenzy may limit our important right now. Second, one way to accomplish that inclination to daydream, which in turn inhibits our is to put yourself in the presence of all the beautiful creativity. I bring these facts to your attention, people, places, and things you can find. Third, be diligent Sagittarius, because I suspect you’re in a phase when as you cultivate beauty within yourself. How? That’s your lolling around doing nothing will be extra healthy for homework. You can start by making a list of the three you. Liberate and nurture your daydreams please! most beautiful acts you have ever performed.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Education is an CANCER (June 21-July 22): I bet that sometime soon, admirable thing,” wrote Oscar Wilde, “but it is well to you will dream of flying though the sky on a magic remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.” carpet. In fact, this may be a recurring dream for you in As I ponder your future in the coming weeks, I the coming months. By June, you may have soared along on a floating rug more than 10 times. Why? What’s this vociferously disagree with him. I am sure you can learn all about? I suspect it’s one aspect of a project that life many things worth knowing from teachers of all kinds. is encouraging you to undertake. It’s an invitation to It’s true that some of the lessons may be accidental or indulge in more flights of the imagination; to open your unofficial—and not delivered by traditional teachers— soul to mysterious potencies; to give your fantasy life but that won’t diminish their value. I invite you to act as permission to be wilder and freer. You know that old if you will in effect be enrolled in school 24/7 until the platitude “shit happens”? You’re ready to experiment equinox. with a variation on that: “magic transpires.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): On February 22, ancient Romans celebrated the holiday of Caristia. It was a time for reconciliation. People strove to heal estrangements and settle longstanding disagreements. Apologies were offered and truces were negotiated. In alignment with current astrological omens, I recommend you revive this tradition, Leo. Now is an excellent phase of your life to embark on a crusade to unify, harmonize, restore, mend, and assuage. I dare you to put a higher priority on love and connection than on ego!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The planets Mars and Venus are both cruising through Aquarius. Will they generate synchronicities that weave magic into your destiny? Here are a few possibilities I foresee: 1. arguments assuaged by love-making; 2. smoldering flirtations that finally ignite; 3. mix-ups about the interplay between love and lust or else wonderful synergies between love and lust; 4. lots of labyrinthine love talk, romantic sparring, and intricate exchange about the nature of desire; 5. the freakiest sex ever; 6. adventures on the frontiers of intimacy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Unlike the Pope’s decrees, my proclamations are not infallible. As opposed to Nostradamus and many modern soothsayers, I never imagine I have the power to definitely and absolutely decipher what’s ahead. One of my main mottoes is “The future is undecided. Our destinies are always mutable.”

Please keep these caveats in mind whenever you commune with my horoscopes. Furthermore, consider adopting my approach as you navigate through the world—especially in the coming weeks, when your course will be extra responsive to your creative acts of LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If the devil card comes up for willpower. Decide right now what you want the next me in a divinatory Tarot reading, I don’t get worried or chapter of your life story to be about. scared that something bad might happen. On the contrary, I interpret it favorably. It means that an Homework: Make a guess about when you will finally interesting problem or riddle has arrived or will soon understand your purpose here on Earth. Newsletter. arrive in my life—and that this twist can potentially FreeWillAstrology.com VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My poet friend Jafna likes to say that only two types of love are available to us all: too little and too much. We are either deprived of the precise amount and quality of the love we want, or else we have to deal with an excess of the stuff that doesn’t quite match what we want. But I predict that this will at most be a mild problem for you in the coming weeks— and perhaps not a problem at all. You will have a knack for both giving and receiving just the right amount of love, neither too little nor too much.

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