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Shelter Shopping As the city prepares to put its first safe outdoor space to the test, interest appears minimal for additional host sites B Y E VA N C H A N D L E R e v a n @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

he City of Santa Fe might run into problems finding additional host sites and operators if its pilot Safe Outdoor Space site proves successful. Last March, city officials approved a plan to purchase 25 pallet homes for safe sites with $1 million from the American Rescue Plan Act; seek religious organizations to provide land to host unhoused people in small, livable buildings; and contract a nonprofit to offer support services and security. But a pilot project set to begin operations late next month will only use 10 of the structures. Few potential partners applied to participate in the pilot launch: just one host site and two operators responded to the city’s search. The City Council and mayor unanimously approved contracts Dec. 13 with Christ Lutheran Church and The Life Link for $828,368: $388,176 to the church to install the pallet homes in the parking lot; and $440,192 to The Life Link to provide case management services, among others. The Interfaith Community Shelter, which runs the Pete’s Place shelter on Cerrillos Road in a city building, also applied to oversee operations. Executive Director Korina Lopez tells SFR she’s unsure why the city did not end up selecting the organization for the

pilot, but the choice allows her to focus on a new program that will set up mobile support units for case management, food delivery and showers at several locations around the city. “I think honestly initially I was like, ‘I wonder how we could have done that better,’ but at the same time, we’re rolling out a mobile services program. So it was one of those blessings in disguise,” Lopez says. For now, she says Interfaith Community Shelter will watch how the pilot program plays out. Other shelter leaders across Santa Fe tell SFR they probably won’t apply for future iterations. St. Elizabeth Shelter Executive Director Edward Archuleta says the city approached the 37-year-old organization in the early stages of planning for the pallet home project. But after discussion, he and the board of directors did not consider it a good fit. “We all agreed that that’s just not really our line of work. We have five permanent facilities around town already, two shelters and three apartment buildings, totaling 162 apartments, and we all agreed that we did not want to expand any more; at least for the time being, we needed to focus on those five properties,” Archuleta says. “To take on another project would have just been a little too much for us…[and] it’s not really our mission. Our mission is to get people into permanent housing, not temporary housing.” As 15 city-owned pallet homes are slated to sit in storage for the time being, Mayor Alan Webber tells SFR he still expects additional hosts to step up, though he says the city will focus on the pilot site’s launch for now. “My hope is that those interested parties

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will reemerge and we’ll be able to get these remaining pallets into use as housing previously homeless people,” Webber says. “So that door is far from shut.” Previously, former Community Health and Safety Department Director Kyra Ochoa proposed using the Midtown Campus as a sanctioned camping site after the city evaluated more than 100 city-owned areas, but neighborhood residents said it would have been too close to public spaces and posed danger to children. Ochoa began a new job as one of three deputy secretaries with the state Human Services Department this month. Webber says that proposal isn’t on the table again. “I think, from what I know about this kind of housing option, it works best with a third-party partner or two, rather than having it be a city owned and operated facility,” Webber says.

Bernalillo County opened its Tiny Home Village in February 2021 under a similar model consisting of 30 tiny homes for people who face challenges with congregate shelter situations. Michele Williams, shelter manager at Consuelo’s Place on the Midtown campus, worked at the Bernalillo County site before taking on her current role. Williams tells SFR the models all aid in the ultimate goal of longterm housing. “If you don’t have people living on the street as you’re trying to get them an ID and a job and housing assistance or whatever it is, it’s much easier to provide services and track people down if they’re not moving and are in one location,” Williams says. “It’s Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Basically, you’re suiting that [housing] need first as you start going into intensive case management, so that’s why that model is so effective in that way.”

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Mortality Shift

As migration routes shift toward New Mexico, so does death

A group of migrants are apprehended by Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents near Yuma, Arizona in 2019. Increased enforcement at common urban crossing points has funneled migrants toward harsher, more remote areas. This year, there were at least 109 migrant deaths in New Mexico.

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uring Captain Abraham Garcia’s first two decades at the Sunland Park, New Mexico, fire department, most of the calls he received were relatively simple to resolve. We sat in a fire station truck on a chilly October evening, waiting for a freight train to pass. About 400 feet of desert lay between the railroad tracks and the US-Mexico border wall. A softspoken man in his late thirties, Garcia described wrangling rattlesnakes and removing beehives. On one occasion, Garcia recalled reassuring a concerned resident that the creature in her yard was not a mountain lion—it was a raccoon. But around 2017, the year New Mexico’s border wall was built, things started to change. Garcia and the other firefighters found themselves responding to gruesome car crashes, the result of high-speed chases. People fell from the border wall and died from exposure. Sunland Park’s 24 firefighters grew accustomed to seeing open fractures and calling for helicopters to transport victims to hospitals in Las Cruces. 10

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According to US Customs and Border Protection data, 8,050 migrants perished in the Borderlands between 1998 and 2020, though researchers believe the real figure to be much higher, since many remains are never recovered or reported to authorities. Few of those deaths took place in New Mexico: in 2015, for instance, the state’s Office of the Medical Investigator counted just two migrant deaths, according to data shared with HCN by a researcher. But in 2021, that number jumped to 36, and in 2022 to 58. This year, there were at least 109 deaths, most of them around Sunland Park, a town of 16,000 amid the creosote and saltbush just 9 miles from El Paso, Texas. First responders and medical investigators are adapting, but they desperately need more federal and state support. In 1994, the Border Patrol inaugurated a strategy called Prevention Through Deterrence, which increased enforcement at common urban crossing points in order to funnel migrants toward harsher, more remote areas. Many researchers blame this tactic for the rise in deaths. Border

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enforcement eventually pushed migration routes from southern Arizona to the vast ranchlands of Texas, and relatively few people passed through New Mexico. But in recent years, Texas has deployed its National Guard to increase enforcement on its segment of the border, and that in turn appears to have forced migrants over the state line. In early 2023, Border Patrol stated that the El Paso sector—which includes all of New Mexico—was its busiest. “With this increased enforcement… we are seeing more and more people getting pushed into that area,” said Daniel Martínez, director of the University of Arizona’s Binational Migration Institute, adding that “it probably is an extension of this (situation of ) smugglers trying to stay one step ahead of authorities.” People from all over the world cross through Sunland Park, but first responders said they mainly come from Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela and Central America. Many have endured a long journey, crossing the treacherous Darién Gap on the Panama-Colombia border and trekking through Central America and

across Mexico. Some struggle to acclimate to the high desert climate with its extreme heat and cold; El Paso saw a record-breaking 68 days over 100 degrees Fahrenheit this summer. Though just a few miles—or less—lie between the border and the roads where migrants can be picked up, the terrain is rough. Its openness is disorienting, the sandy soil is hard to walk through, and the topography varies. Those who want to avoid the border wall must traverse Mount Cristo Rey, where there is a gap. “I didn’t understand why they were dying until I started going out there on the [ATV]. I was getting lost,” said García, who has lived in Sunland Park his whole life. Others die after falling from the wall, or from a combination of injuries and exposure. CT scans conducted by OMI reveal fibula and foot fractures in remains recovered from within a mile of the wall. “Maybe the dehydration is survivable. Maybe the lack of food is survivable. Maybe the broken ankle is survivable,” said Heather Edgar, OMI’s forensic anthropologist. “But when you put them all together and you’re disoriented and you’re lost…It’s not survivable.” Even if people manage to reach their pickup point, they remain at risk. Between 2017 and 2022, 13 people died in Border Patrol car chases in southern New Mexico. Watchdog organizations such as the Southern Border Communities Coalition and the Washington Office on Latin America have criticized these vehicle pursuits, and after a 2022 fatality in neighboring Santa Teresa, New Mexico, six members of Congress asked the agency to revise its pursuit policy. (Subsequent agency policy changes have not prohibited the chases.) In response, the Sunland Park Fire Department has retrofitted two all-terrain vehicles, a Polaris Ranger and a Humvee, with body stretchers and doubled the number of firefighters on duty at a time. But all this comes out of the department’s operating budget, and though Chief Daniel Medrano would like to do more and provide his staff formal training in search and rescue, he said he lacks the resources. Even when the fire department assists the Border Patrol, a federal agency, it receives no additional funding. “I’m throwing my hands up and giving up on federal help,” Medrano said. “We’re told constantly to apply for grants…Larger cities have grant writers on staff that can help with that. I do not.” At OMI, the office’s autopsy and anthropology workload has grown, according to Edgar, the forensic anthropologist.

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On the way back to the station, the truck radio alerted García to a fire in the Rio Grande’s dry riverbed. The smoke plume was blowing toward the nearby El Paso Electric plant. This wasn’t normal, he said. He turned on the truck’s lights and raced down the highway. When we arrived, García quickly let me out. From a nearby road, I watched as the eight firefighters on duty that evening sprayed the orange flames with water and foam from the department’s two trucks. After the fire was contained, another member of the department explained that they had found clothing nearby. A cold front had arrived suddenly that day, and migrants most likely started a fire, trying to get warm while waiting to be picked up. Responding to the fire, like responding to migrant deaths, used yet more resources and manpower. Many Republicans and some Democrats argue that US tax dollars shouldn’t be spent saving undocumented non-citizens. Edgar sees it differently. “Our country steps into humanitarian crises all over the world,” she said. “Why would we not do it inside our own boundaries?” Caroline Tracey is a journalist who covers the Southwestern US, Mexico and their Borderlands. In 2022-2023, she was High Country News’ Climate Justice Fellow. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Follow her on X @ce_tracey.

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OMI has received federal grants for some migrant-death related work, but its operations have been strained by the number of deaths, and it needs additional funding from the state to hire more local field investigators, increase storage space and pay for DNA analysis. Edgar is also working to improve the identification process, using research that started with missing and murdered Indigenous people. From 2016 until this October, New Mexico had a task force dedicated to developing protocols to better respond to Indigenous deaths. Contemporary forensic databases have not prioritized collecting data regarding Indigenous, Hispanic and mixed-race people from the US and Latin America. Because forensic anthropology develops biological profiles by comparing remains to reference samples, this has hampered efforts to resolve cases in the region. Still, the work continues thanks to grant funding. Edgar hopes to encourage other anthropologists to rethink their understanding of population affinity— the features shared by cultural groups— and to incorporate not only biological, but also ethnographic and historical information, in developing forensic profiles for unidentified people. “If we can improve identification for Native Americans,” Edgar said, “at the same time, we will improve it for Hispanic Americans in the Southwest and for migrants.”

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KEEPING SCORE

Local schools have low reading and math marks, but messy state data on a new assessment tool sends unclear messages

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rincipal Justin Hunter walks the halls of Francis X. Nava Elementary School, spreading cheer to students as they start their days. “There’s not a single student that walks by in the morning and they’re not greeted first thing by myself with a smile, handshake or what-have-you,” he tells SFR. “I’m on a first name basis with the kids—though some of them are surprised to learn I have a first name— but it’s a very good relationship.” Nava Elementary has one of the smallest populations in Santa Fe Public Schools, with 186 students enrolled at the Bellamah neighborhood school for the 2023-2024 school year. Hunter, now in his third year as principal, describes the school as a tight-knit community where “everybody knows everybody, in a very positive way.” This convivial environment, however, does not translate in the Public Education Department’s student achievement data. Test scores issued in the fall ranked Nava unusually low compared to the state averages. Only 17% of its students received proficient reading results, and just 11% obtained similarly qualifying math results. “I think that we’re always looking to improve,” Hunter says. “My thoughts on test scores are that test scores are a simple snapshot in time, and they 12

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don’t always necessarily tell the whole story.” State education officials feel differently. PED Secretary Arsenio Romero says statewide reading and math proficiency rates for the 2022-2023 school year—38% and 24%, respectively—are “way too low.” He told school districts this and more in a critical letter on Nov. 16. While math competency statewide declined 1% since last year, reading increased by 4%. But even this gain hasn’t stopped New Mexico from landing last on the state education report card issued by the National Center of Education Statistics. “We don’t have enough students graduating, we don’t have enough students proficient in math or reading and we don’t have enough students coming to school on a regular basis,” Romero tells SFR. “Our Legislature, our governor has given over $1 billion over the last year in new monies for education, and there has been little to no return of investment.” Romero believes the only way to see “dramatic, positive improvement” anytime soon is with equally dramatic changes, which include a controversial policy proposal requiring 180-day minimum school years and increased

We don’t have enough students proficient in math or reading and we don’t have enough students coming to school on a regular basis. -Public Education Secretary Arsenio Romero

SFPS serves as an example of a school district plagued by inequality across neighborhood lines. The majority of schools in the downtown and northeastern areas of Santa Fe earned positive designations from the state Public Education Department based on standardized test results while schools in the Southside and Midtown districts are targeted for improvement. Find each school’s rate of proficiency for reading and math below, along with its overall score as rated by the state at NMvistas.org.

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accountability for schools failing to produce better results, to name a few. When it comes to evaluating public schools, the state is still ironing out the kinks to recent changes. Beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, the state switched to a different testing tool. The annual New Mexico Measures of Student Success and Achievement replaced the previously-administered PARCC for grades three through eight in English language arts and math. Students in fifth, eighth and 11th grades now also take a science test and 11th graders also take the SAT. Results from those tests weren’t released to the public until last June— nearly a year later than expected. The newest year’s results from spring exams also came out months later than promised, and left some educators with more questions than answers. Romero acknowledges the state’s failure to publicly release the data by its usual due date between August and September and says he’s working toward a Sept. 1 release for next year. Multiple problems caused the delay this year, he says: the state had to play catch-up by releasing two years’ worth of data sets within one year following the pandemic’s shutdown of state assessments; and it also navigated a big transition in PED leadership, including Romero himself stepping into the secretary position this March. But NewMexicoKidsCAN Executive Director Amanda Aragon, who studies statewide education issues as part of her daily work with policy organization, found the new presentation of data confusing and unreliable. “If New Mexico is going to make improvements in education, the data has to be clear, it has to be easy to find, it has to be easy to understand and it needs to come out before the beginning of the school year,” she tells SFR. “The department really missed the mark on every one of those aspects this year.” Even after the PED began to release data in late October, district officials didn’t have the whole picture. For instance, SFPS Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez praised gains in a Nov. 2 announcement reporting 38% and 23% proficiency rates for math and reading in the 2022-2023 test results, expressing in a statement pride in students and educators “for accomplishing strong growth in proficiency. These data reflect student performance one

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Excellence Traditional Traditional Excellence Traditional Excellence Traditional Traditional Comprehensive Support & Improvement Traditional Traditional Additional Targeted Support & Improvement Excellence Traditional Traditional Spotlight Traditional Traditional Targeted Support & Improvement Traditional Excellence Traditional Additional Targeted Support & Improvement Additional Targeted Support & Improvement Comprehensive Support & Improvement Spotlight Excellence

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KEEPING SCORE there are challenges in the department that made it tough for them to get the data out, and it needs to be fixed.” While lauding PED’s effort to increase accountability measures in the department, she says the website for viewing state assessment results is neither easy to navigate nor understand. Furthermore, it does not include district-level scores. Aragon says the former method of measuring school success, grading schools on an A-F scale, was much more accessible.

“Now, there’s no letter grade, just federal designations. Those are terms I think don’t make sense to families,” she says. “Santa Fe High’s NM Vistas Score is 61. What does that mean? If I know for sure it’s out of 100, I see 61 and say, ‘That’s failing,’ because I’m converting it to a grade. But then, you learn the average score for New Mexico is [53]. You only know that if I tell you what the median is. And then you see the designation: ATSI. That doesn’t mean anything

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year after our new leadership team began drilling into our new initiatives. It’s exciting that after one year we’re consistently showing upward progress.” But by Nov. 9, when the SFPS Board of Education was set to hear a presentation on the scores, the PED had embargoed district-wide data over concerns about potential errors. The presentation has yet to be rescheduled. PED spokesman Nate Williams tells SFR the department stands behind the 2023 individual school data (posted on NMvistas.org and in the chart on the previous page), but district-wide numbers are “undergoing a final review” due to issues with test participation rates, and he expects the embargo to end before February begins. The district’s reported rates for math might be at issue: A raw average of each school’s math rates posted online by the PED comes to 24.1, while SFPS District spokesman Cody Dynarksi says the district information shows the average is 23. Those factors add to Aragon’s doubts about statewide reporting accuracy this year. The statewide improvement in reading, for example, does not present a meaningful comparison because the data does not include the same tests for both years. The 2022 assessment data includes reading scores for 11th-grade students taking the SAT that year, but the 2023 data only measures K-8 student scores. “The growth is probably less than the 4%, because we really struggle on the 11th-grade SAT. Had we included that group of students, it would have brought down the average a little bit,” Aragon says. “But I still think we improved; I just don’t think the 4% being reported is accurate. I think [PED] made it clear that

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to anyone.” NewMexicoKidsCAN created a onepage explainer for NM Vista’s seven school designations. Three designations range from good to neutral: “excellence” and “spotlight” schools highlighting the state’s top-performing 10% and 25% of schools and “traditional support schools” for schools that have not been identified as needing extra support or improvement. The remaining four designations (Targeted Support & Improvement; Additional Targeted Support & Improvement; Comprehensive Support & Improvement; and More Rigorous Interventions) describe increasing degrees of needed support or improvement for lower-performing schools. But lower proficiency rates and low NM Vistas scores don’t necessarily correlate to the state’s designations. Despite receiving some of the lowest rates in SFPS and receiving an NM Vistas score of 31 this year and 19 last year, Nava Elementary has been designated as a traditional support school both years, with no need for additional funds or targeted improvement. Santa Fe High School, with a score of 61, was designated an ATSI school. Sweeney Elementary School, the lowest-performing elementary school in Santa Fe, received a “comprehensive support and improvement” designation (the second-lowest possible) with an NM Vistas score of 26. When comparing Sweeney to other elementary schools in the district, a trend emerges: the majority of schools in the downtown and northeastern areas of Santa Fe consistently earn sky-high test scores on standardized tests, while schools in the Southside and Midtown districts show low performance. Aragon

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notes she worries a statewide lack of accountability allows these gaps to grow. “I think it’s a bigger problem in places like Santa Fe, and I think Albuquerque falls into this category too, where you see big disparities in wealth,” Aragon says. “We have a system of education that says you attend school based on where you live. So, the dynamics of concentrated poverty play out in our schools, and I think some people see that as a reason that our scores are bad.” Wood-Gormley Elementary School, as an example, stands at the complete opposite end of the state-test spectrum of schools like Nava and Sweeney, boasting 81% reading and 57% math proficiency rates. Wood-Gormley Principal Karen Lindeen tells SFR the rates for the school in the South Capitol neighborhood strikes her as “pretty significant compared to the rest of the state and the district,” noting 16 SFPS schools failed to clear the state average reading scores. “I really attribute it to our teachers,” Lindeen says. She notes the school’s “inclusive and student-centered” learning environment, with a low turnover of mostly experienced Level 2 or 3 teachers staffing the school as potential reasons for higher student achievement. Regardless of stark differences in test scores, Wood-Gormley’s reading program and specialists who help struggling students are the same as the rest of the district’s schools. “I don’t think there’s one reading program that keeps our scores where they are,” Lindeen says. “It’s a whole-school effort, with the teachers at the center, the support the administration gives them and our parent community’s support as well.” To Aragon, a high percentage of low-income students within a school does not equal chronically low test results, and she notes schools in the state that defy this idea: Anthony Elementary from Gadsden Independent School District and the Albuquerque School of Excellence received above-average rates, and both have high numbers of disadvantaged students. “We know, because there are examples across the country and even within our state that we can still get tremendous outcomes for kids living in poverty, English learners and special education students,” Aragon says. “It’s just that we need to hold schools and districts accountable for those results, and that’s the part that’s been missing.” In the upcoming school years, Romero says he plans to do just that, citing the

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state’s commitment to increase funding and support for disadvantaged students following the Yazzie-Martinez lawsuit, including low-income, Hispanic, Black and Indigenous students. “We need to be able to adequately fund underperforming student groups,

student groups that struggle with inequality,” Romero says. “It’s not just what happens in school. All of that can be a big part of the factor, but we’re all responsible for the success of our students. That includes families, our city, our county, our state.” Other improvements to public education Romero wants to focus on include: structured literacy programs to improve reading outcomes; teaching career pipelines at universities; revamping special education outcomes; stronger STEM and career and technical education programs and higher student attendance rates. Structured literacy, he says, is one of his top priorities, and one that worked for other states. “Mississippi went from last place to 32nd [in the US]. They had a very structured plan; it took them about a decade to get there. One of the tools they used was structured literacy,” Romero says. “But, I don’t want to take a decade, because every year it takes us to be able to get there, that’s another cohort of students that are going to continue to be behind when it comes to being proficient readers.” Romero has asked legislators for $4.4 billion on behalf of PED for next fiscal year’s general fund, including to support a plan to use $30 million for statewide student reading interventions, with half of those funds going to professional development focused on the science of reading

and instructional materials in elementary schools. Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham’s FY25 budget recommendations include $58.1 million in education funding dedicated specifically to structured literacy. Aragon plans to advocate for improved literacy programs as well. At the state’s most recent Legislative Education Study Meeting on Dec. 14, she proposed plans to help improve student reading outcomes, including: personalized reading plans; auditing and publicly publishing literacy teaching materials; and holding back third-grade students who don’t obtain the reading scores needed. Education administrators’ responses to state assessment results travel all the way down to the school level. Hunter, for example, has begun a motivational system in his school’s reading program, Nava Kwondo, awarding students with different-colored belts akin to tae kwon do for learning the Fry Word List of the 1,000 most-common English words. “If you teach students these words by third grade, they should be able to read the tests with fluency and comprehension,” Hunter explains. “I came on board at Nava after the pandemic, so I don’t have the same institutional knowledge the principals that had been with this school prior to the pandemic had. I only know what I inherited, and what I’m looking to do with what I’ve been given.”

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FOOD THU/11 ITADAKIMASU! Local chef Brent Jung has been making a bit of a name for himself as the master of the sushi pop-up, and he keeps the thrill alive with his regular Tumbleroot jam this Thursday. Now, before anyone starts composing a sanctimonious rant about the freshness of fish or whatever, know two things: Just about all fish winds up frozen before it ever reaches consumers, and Jung sources his stuff from the boats themselves. That means overnight shipping for some of the freshest or at least most recently caught fish available in town. The menu rotates, the rolls are next-level and every last local foodie who thinks they invented dining out has a chance for something special. Let’s eat! (ADV) Sushi Pop-Up with Chef Brent Jung: 5 pm, Thursday, Jan. 11. Free (but pay for the food, duh). Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 303-3808

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ART OPENING FRI/12 WOVEN REALITIES Though Albuquerque-based multimedia artist Petra Brown says she loathed the length of her commute to a former year-long job in Santa Fe, it ultimately led to her first-ever solo show at No Name Cinema, Photos From My Neighborhood. It’s not what you’d expect, however. Rather than simply showcasing photos of details she’d observe on her walk to and from her Barelas neighborhood home in Albuquerque each day, Brown created woven pieces based on the pics she took over time. “I’d walk up and down Fourth Street and it was that golden hour...and I was just captivated by how beautiful the neighborhood is,” she says. “I definitely would have missed those details if I wasn’t walking up and down the street every day.” Rather than broad pieces based on specific buildings, however, Brown explores the interplay of shadows, broken windows and the multi-colored nature of stucco patchwork. “I think being a...fiber artist, it was a natural outcome,” she adds. “It was bound to happen.” (ADV) Petra Brown: Photos From My Neighborhood: 6-8 pm, Friday, Jan. 12. Free. No Name Cinema 2013 Piñon St., nonamecinema.org

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Best-selling author Kate Christensen’s eighth novel grapples with existential questions Acclaimed novelist Kate Christensen’s life has been “peripatetic,” she tells SFR, and it usually takes seven years of living somewhere before she can render it in fiction. In the case of her new novel, Christensen set Welcome Home, Stranger in Maine where she and her husband formerly lived for 10 years. But she was unable to finish the book until they relocated to Taos about two and a half years ago. “The book wasn’t working,” she says. “I came here with a draft that I was beating my head against. I stripped it down to the studs and did another draft…I feel like coming to New Mexico absolutely allowed this book to breathe.” Her new home, then, provided the environment for a novel very much about the concept of home. The story’s protagonist, Rachel Calloway, a Pulitzer-Prize winning science journalist, returns home to Portland, Maine, in the wake of her mother’s death, where she confronts painful memories, painful present-day logistics and painful future truths about the fate of the planet. The latter—Calloway’s professional preoccupation and personal grief regarding climate change—reflects Christensen’s own lifelong awareness and concern about environmental devastation. “Silent Spring kind of kicked it off,” she says, referring to Rachel Carson’s seminal 1962 book about pesticides. “There was a

lot of education in the schools…about pollution, about saving the whales, about…the fact that the planet was in danger. And this was 50 years ago.” The novel, she says, “came out as a lifelong preoccupation that deepened in the darkness of the Trump years leading up to the pandemic.” While the book tackles a variety of “existential” questions, it also showcases Christensen’s trademark wit and propulsive style. Author of the PEN-Faulkner-award winning novel The Great Man, Christensen also incorporates food—another lifelong preoccupation found in her fiction and two food-centered memoirs—into her latest book. Spoiler alert: There will be lobster rolls. As for the cuisine of her new home, she’s a fan. And she’s hoping to have found a permanent home here: “I really want to settle here, put down roots and never leave and die here,” she says. Read SFR’s complete interview online and hear the author in person at Collected Works. (Julia Goldberg) WELCOME HOME STRANGER BY KATE CHRISTENSEN READING AND BOOK SIGNING 6 pm, Tuesday, Jan. 16 Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (and online via Zoom) (505) 988-4226

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James O’Connell’s “What the Light Hides” is one of nine artworks in ELECTR∆ Gallery’s Illumination: The Sacred Aspect of Light exhibition exploring the power of light.

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WED/10 DANCE POMEGRANATE SEEDS YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Pomegranate Studio 535 Cerrillos Road, (505) 501-2142 An after-school program hosted twice per week for young women aged 13-18, founded by dancer Myra Krien. 5-7 pm

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Beer Creek Brewing Co. 3810 Hwy. 14, (505) 471-9271 If you’re an expert on the stuff most folks don’t know or if you get geeked out by nerdy stuff, our weekly trivia night is for you. Have some fun and earn bragging rights. Come hungry, come thirsty, come smart. 5:30-7 pm

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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 SKIMO BUENO EVENING SERIES Ski Santa Fe 1455 NM-475, (505) 982-4429 Race to the top of the quad and back down. Recreational Division one lap, Competitive Division two laps. All participants must complete the Special Events Waiver at skisantafe. com/events-waiver. 4:30-6 pm, $20 SNOWMAN PAINT PARTY Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 Want to paint a snowman? Do it! Tickets include canvas, paints with guided instruction, a drink and $5 off your meal at Boxcar. 6-8 pm, $50

WARHAMMER WEDNESDAY WZKD Comic & Games 7 Avenida Vista Grande, Ste. B4, (617) 838-5149 Open Warhammer RPG play! Bring your army, meet new people and roll some dice! All Day

MUSIC JOHN FRANCIS AND THE POOR CLARES WITH SPECIAL GUEST GINA LESLIE El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931 A night of live music featuring John Francis and The Poor Clares, along with New Orleansbased special guest Gina Leslie. 8-10 pm WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOLKS: HELLO DARLIN’ Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068 A trio playing mostly original Americana, no cover. 6-9 pm

ECSTATIC DANCE WITH DJ GABRIEL ANGELO & BETSY BOOTS Paradiso 903 Early St., (505) 577-5248 Dance! All you need is a water bottle, an open mind and a welcoming heart. Angelo’s set will take you on a journey. 7 pm, $15

WORKSHOP IAIA EVENING READING SERIES: PAM HOUSTON, RAQUEL GUTIERREZ, AND BOJAN LOUIS Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, (505) 424-2300 The Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing program presents in the CLE Commons: novelist and memoir author Pam Houston, arts critic and poet Raquel Gutiérrez and short story/nonfiction writer Bojan Louis (Diné). (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 6:30-7:30 pm

JULIA CAMERON: LIVING THE ARTIST’S WAY Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226 Bring a notebook and pens for an interactive evening full of writing prompts with Julia Cameron, author of Living the Artist’s Way: An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity. 6 pm WINTERY SCENES COLLAGE ART WITH MICKEY Artful Soul 227 Don Gasper Ave., (505) 919-8888 Explore the magic of winter through this colorful layered textured and patterned media, using hand-made tree fiber papers and high quality acrylic paint. Reserve your spot now for a cozy and creative experience. Hurry, space is limited to six. Contact for pricing. 6-9 pm

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THU/11 EVENTS ANIMAL MEET & GREET Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359 Meet the museum pets and see them eat their lunch! Say “hi” to Cornelius the corn snake, Bisquick the tortoise and Fafnir the lizard. Noon-1 pm GEEKS WHO DRINK Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952 Challenging trivia with prizes. Show ‘em what you got. 7-9 pm JUSTINOSMALLZ AND FAM Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 Breaking it down at the Boxcar’s biweekly House Music Thursdays. $5 cover. 10:30 pm-1:30 am SEEDS & SPROUTS Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359 Kids explore hands-on gardening and nature-themed activities year-round with the Seeds & Sprouts Program. Enjoy a nature-based project. 10:30-11:30 am SECOND THURSDAY SOCIAL RIDE Railyard Water Tower, 1608 Alcaldesa St., facebook.com/ Secondthursdaycyclesquad Bike through the city to a different brewery the second Thursday of every month! All riders will get a raffle ticket for a gift card or swag, and REI bike tune-ups. Rides are between 5 and 8 miles at a social pace. 7-9 pm VETERANS RETREAT Ghost Ranch 280 Private Drive 1708, Abiquiu, (505) 685-1000 This free experiential weekend retreat will bring human-centered strategies such as mindfulness, creative practice and restorative circles to United States Veterans. 8 am-4:30 pm

FILM FILM + CONVERSATION: FIFTIES FAMILY SATIRE GOOD MORNING Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338 A one-night-only screening and discussion of Yasujiro Ozu’s 1959 satire Good Morning as part of CCA’s Closer Looks series on the art form of cinema. Justin Clifford Rhody, who chose this film, describes it as a lighthearted take on the challenges of intergenerational relationships. 6 pm, $13

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WINTER SELECTIONS 2024 (RECEPTION) Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road, (505) 988-3888 Nüart Gallery’s annual exhibit returns to showcase a diverse collection of abstract and figurative works inspired by the elemental qualities of winter. The featured artworks embrace a hushed palette echoing the quiet allure found in the season’s hibernating landscapes. 5-7 pm

PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., (505) 989-1166 Listen to the pure energy of Pat Malone’s jazz guitar. 6-8 pm THOMAS “BLUES” UHDE AND JOE DADDY WARNER The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Bluuuuuuuuuues, baby! 6 pm

BLUE RAVEN THEATRE PRESENTS METAMORPHOSIS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601 Aerial performer Talia Pura presents a one-woman show, Metamorphosis, based on the life cycle of the butterfly: Four stages, with four distinct characters. 7:30 pm, $15-$25

SUSHI POP UP WITH BRENT JUNG Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 Chef Jung rolls the freshest sushi in Santa Fe to order, sourced from the fishing boat. Served until sold out. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 5 pm

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LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet presents the world’s foremost all-male comic drag ballet troupe. The Trocks are back with another uproariously funny program spoofing some of your favorite works, both en travesti and en pointe. 7:30 pm, $36-$114

WORKSHOP CREATE WITH O’KEEFFE La Farge Library 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292 An open art workshop for kids with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. 3:30-4:30 pm IAIA EVENING READING SERIES: LESLIE JAMISON, LAYLI LONG SOLDIER, AND MONA SUSAN POWER Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, (505) 424-2300 The Institute of American Indian Arts’ Creative Writing program presents acclaimed essayists in the CLE Commons. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 6:30-7:30 pm

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FRI/12 ART OPENINGS PETRA BROWN: PHOTOS FROM MY NEIGHBORHOOD No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Photos from My Neighborhood is an alternative archive of the colors, textures and shapes of ABQ’s Barelas neighborhood and how the light dances across its surfaces. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 6-8 pm

FINE ART FRIDAY Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359 A weekly exploration into the arts with special guests and hands-on activities for children. This week, guest artist Michael Tomlinson (aka “Crash Romeo”) and Jeanne Griffin lead all in a paint-pouring project. 2-4 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 in the Rainbow Rainbow room at Meow Wolf Santa Fe’s House of Eternal Return. 10 am WZKD PRESENTS: WEEKLY YUGIOH TOURNAMENT WZKD Comic & Games 7 Avenida Vista Grande Ste. B4, (617) 838-5149 It’s time to duel! Take out all the cards you’ve collected and join in on a casual but constructed YuGioh tournament (and don’t forget to activate your trap card). 5pm, $10

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Winter Lecture Series Jayne Aubele New Mexico’s Geological Landscape and Its Effect on Our Culture and Social History January 30 | 6pm Dr. Stephen Lekson Of Noble Kings Descended: Colonial Documents and the Ancient Southwest February 27 | 6pm Dr. Thomas Chavez The Diplomacy of Independence: Benjamin Franklin and Spain March 26 | 6pm St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art Tickets $10, Free for Members of Las Golondrinas and MNMF Reserve your tickets online at golondrinas.org!

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THE CALENDAR MUSIC FAMOUS ON THE WEEKEND: RED VELVET FRIDAYS Cake’s Cafe 227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880 A club night in Santa Fe every Friday, bringing you the best DJs in Santa Fe and the best dance night on the Plaza. Open decks every night between 8 and 9. Event is for ages 21 and up. 8 pm- 1 am, $15 JSB2 San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 983-3974 An all-star bluegrass group with beautiful harmonies capturing the sound of American roots music. 7:30 pm, $35 JER KILLINGER The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Singer/songwriter Killinger opens up the evening with his tunes. 5 pm JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Memphis-born singer-songwriter brings his satchel of songs to play you on guitar (and harmonica)! 4 pm LEO KOTTKE The Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St Watch celebrated and Grammynominated acoustic guitarist Kottke create rich melodies, intricate chord progressions and unique compositions with his distinct fingerpicking style. Kottke’s influences include the country-blues of Mississippi and Preston Epps. 7:30 pm, $39-$49 LOW DOWN REVIVAL The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Check out this bluegrass band from Chattanooga, Tennessee, and they might be the only TenU-See. 8 pm LUKE MCMURRAY NUTTING & THE MUSTERED, FEAT. TROY KUSZ Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068 A night of roots music and rock’n’roll. 8 pm RAVEN CHACON: DISPATCH SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199 A score by Pulitzer-Prize winning composer and artist Raven Chacon (Diné) and internationally renowned curator and writer Candice Hopkins (Carcross/ Tagish), drawing reflections on the fight for cultural preservation and defense of Indigenous sovereignty at the Standing Rock Reservation Water Protector encampment. 5:30 pm, $5

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SCOTT AND JOHANNA HONGELL-DARSEE’S MEDIEVAL AND TRADITIONAL FOLK BALLADS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., (505) 982-8544 Early traditional Scandinavian and Celtic ballads and tales as part of Presbyterian’s TGIF Concert series. 5:30 pm

WORKSHOP FRIDAY AFTERNOON ART: MONOTYPE PRINTMAKING Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820 Create monotype prints. All ages and abilities. 2:30-4:30 pm IAIA EVENING READING SERIES: KIM BLAESER AND DEBORAH TAFFA IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, (505) 983-8900 IAIA’s Creative Writing program presents two writers: poet and scholar Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Nation) and Director of IAIA’s Creative Writing Program Deborah Jackson Taffa (Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo). (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 4:30-6 pm

SAT/13 ART OPENINGS JUDITH RODERICK: THE CRANE (RECEPTION) Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Hwy. 165, Placitas, (505) 867-2450 Artist Judith Roderick’s exhibit has been open for a minute, but there will be reception to this tribute to the sandhills and endangered whooping crane, featuring silk art quilts, watercolors and a newly revised book of poems and artwork depicting their grace and beauty. 1-3 pm SECOND SATURDAYS AT SILER YARD Siler Yard: Arts and Creativity Center 1218 Siler Road, (505) 557-8449 The creators of Siler Yard Arts and Creativity Center invite you to visit their studios and see the creative process first hand. 4-8 pm

BOOKS/LECTURES HERE, NOW AND ALWAYS: NATIVE NARRATIVE SPEAKER SERIES Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269 Associate Professor of Indigenous Liberal Studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts Porter Swentzell (Santa Clara) presents Pueblo Revolts in the Kathryn O’Keeffe Theater. 1-3 pm, $7-$12

THEATER BLUE RAVEN THEATRE PRESENTS METAMORPHOSIS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601 Aerial performer Talia Pura presents a one-woman show, Metamorphosis, based on the life cycle of the butterfly: Four stages, with four distinct characters. 7:30 pm, $15-$25

EVENTS CHESS CLUB: INTRO TO CHESS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226 Learn chess from square one! An afternoon for all ages, no experience needed. The class will include group instruction on a demo board covering the basic rules. Instruction will be provided by Justin Skliar, a rated tournament player since 1992 and an expert. 2-4 pm GOLDEN BREATHWORK Santa Fe Salt Cave 1424 Second St., (505) 365-2875 105 minutes of transformational breathing. As you breathe to beautiful music in a safe container, receive gentle accupressure to help you open to the fullness of your breath. Feel cleansed, clear and empowered to embody your higher self. Event can accomodate up to 10 people. 2:15-4 pm, $105 plus tax TRAM CAR TAP TAKEOVER WITH BOSQUE BREWING Totemoff’s Bar 1477 NM-475, (505) 982-4429 Head up to the Tram Car Bar at Totemoff’s for a tap takeover with Bosque Brewing. Pouring special offerings from Bosque Brewing until all kegs are emptied! 10 am-3 pm

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MUSIC 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 ERIK SAWYER, LORI OTTINO & FRIENDS The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Ottino and Sawyer sing classic Americana together. 2 pm JJ & THE HOOLIGANS Totemoff’s Bar 1477 NM-475, (505) 982-4429 Classic dance band tunes with reimagined surprises that make JJ & the Hooligans’ shows fun, high-energy and irresistibly danceable. 11 am-3 pm LOOSE CABOOSE: SECOND SATURDAYS Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 House music all night long with The Rev, DMONIC and different guests each month. 10:15 pm-1:45 am, $10 NOSOTROS HOSTS EL SHOW FEATURING FRONTERA BUGALU Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 One of the most recognizable Latin bands in the Southwest returns for their monthly El Show dance night, combining Latin rhythms with elements of rock, salsa, jazz and Cumbia. 8 pm, $15 STANLIE KEE & STEP IN TRIO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Diné guitarist Kee heads a blistering trio of seasoned electric blues musicians. They’ll be all like, “Bow-wah-wow-wowwang!” 1-3 pm

SUGAR MOUNTAIN BAND The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Even younger Neil Youngs cover his songs. At least, we think they’re younger. 8 pm

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HALF PINT & THE GROWLERS Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068 A tasty mash of genres dubbed “Swing Gumbo”: rousing vintage jazz, saucy beats and Latin boleros, jump blues, Western Swing and more! 1 pm SANTA FE SYMPHONY PRESENTS: PHILIPPE QUINT IN CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S SMILE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234 Hear the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and violinist Philippe Quint present a multimedia tribute honoring the iconic Charlie Chaplin’s musical legacy. 4 pm, $25-$90

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VICTOR NELSON AND YOUTH AUTHORS/ILLUSTRATORS PRESENT: MY GRANDFATHER LIVED IN A TREE Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820 Be inspired to create and collaborate on your own ideas for storybooks when you see Victor Nelson and youth collaborators read their bilingual picture book My Grandfather Lived in a Tree / Mi Abuelo Vivia en un Arbol, followed by an art activity. Illustrator Eloisa White and youth who worked on the book share the experience of illustrating and writing a book. 3-4:30 pm WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU TURN 65 Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, (505) 466-7323 A Medicare information session. 10-11:30 am

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ZIRCUS EROTIQUE BURLESQUE & VARIETY SHPW Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333 Zircus Erotique brings their burlesque and variety show back to Santa Fe Brewing Company! Catch these lovelies shake, shimmy, tease and tantalize in this show featuring burlesque, drag, bellydance and more. 7:30 pm, $25-$30

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WORKSHOP HOW TO WRITE A MYSTERY NOVEL WITH AUTHOR JAMES C. WILSON Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-6780 A writing workshop with author James C. Wilson, who taught creative writing and journalism for 35 years at the University of New Mexico and the University of Cincinnati. 10:30 am TAROT UNVEILED: JOURNEYING BEYOND THE SENSES Prana Blessings 1925 Rosina St., Ste. C, (505) 772-0171 Learn to access information beyond the limitations of the five senses. This class will guide you through the essential steps of preparing yourself to give tarot readings. Noon-1:30 pm, $35

DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, (505) 690-4165 A weekly swing dance in Santa Fe with rotating teachers and DJs. Lessons start at 7, and the dance kicks off at 8. Please bring clean, non-marking shoes. 7-10 pm, $5-$10

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SUN/14 EVENTS SANTA FE FREE THINKERS’ FORUM: A UU HUMANIST DISCUSSION GROUP Art on Barcelona (Unitarian Universalist Church) 107 W Barcelona, 917-566-0708 Debra Oliver, founder of Common Ground Mediation Services, and Mary Ellen Gonzales will explore how peace and social justice both benefit greatly from restorative justice. RSVP on the website or call (505) 438-6265 for more information. Noon GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222 It’s free to play and there are prizes. Seven rounds of quiz in the café room at Boxcar. Come hungry, come thirsty, come smart. 7:30 pm

“Sandhill Sunset” by Judith Roderick tributes her work to the sandhills and the endangered whooping crane at her exhibition, The Crane, at Wild Hearts Gallery.

MUSIC BLUEGRASS AND BAGELS JAM Railyard Park Community Room 701 Callejon St., (505) 316-3596 A monthly bluegrass jam led by Greg Neal. Participants take turns calling and leading songs in a circle. Open to all. COLE BEE WILSON El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road,, (505) 982-1931 A night of country music from a long-time Meow Wolf artist! (See 3 Questions, page 22.) 7-9 pm

DISCOVERY SERIES—WHY HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS? St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave, (505) 476-5072 The Diderot Quartet shows off historical string instruments. Coffee and pastries included. 10-11 am DK & THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 DK & The Affordables kick out a jiving, jumping variety of roots music to get you moving. Noon-3 pm

J.S. BACH’S LEGACY— DIDEROT QUARTET St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave, (505) 476-5072 The legacy of Bach permeates this concert, both subtly and overtly across continents and centuries. 3-4:30 pm, $22-$92 STEPHEN PITTS AND FRIENDS The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Chill to some folk jams in the early afternoon. 2 pm

JOHNNY LLOYD Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 A country favorite. 4-6 pm KARAOKE WITH CRASH! Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Get the first night of the week started with some karaoke! 7-10 pm 911 POP EMERGENCY PRESENTS: ALL ABOUT THE CHOREO El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road,, (505) 982-1931 A monthly themed music video party during Queer Night, this time featuring iconic dance breaks and routines all night. 8-10:30 pm

TUE/16 BOOKS/LECTURES KATE CHRISTENSEN: WELCOME HOME, STRANGER Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226 PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man Kate Christensen brings Collected Works her new novel about a fifty-something woman who reluctantly returns home to Maine after her mother’s death. (See SFR Picks, page 17.) 6 pm CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

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BRANDON SODER

with Musician Cole Bee Wilson

If the name Cole Bee Wilson rings a bell for Santa Feans who have been around a minute, it’s almost certainly because they got down with the musician’s massive and collaborative Apple Miner Colony that operated back during the heyday of the College of Santa Fe and Warehouse 21. A sprawling group that rose almost in response to the likes of Neutral Milk Hotel and Sufjan Stevens, the indie band had too many members to count—they came, they saw, they conquered. These days, though, Wilson says, he’s a little more interested in stripped-down songwriting, even as he works with other projects. Wilson takes over the El Rey Court’s La Reina bar with his countrified tunes this week (7 pm Sunday, Jan. 14. Free. 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931), and he’s legit, too, both as a dude who works a ranch in the summers to this day and who cut his teeth working on trains for the Santa Fe Southern Railway. We caught up with Wilson to learn more. This interview edited for length and clarity. (Alex De Vore) You’ve worked in numerous styles over the years. What best describes what you’re doing these days? As an aside, I play in a three-piece prog/ post-rock/shoegaze band called Holy Garden District…and I write orchestral music, too; plus a bunch of music for the exhibits at [all of the] Meow Wolf [locations]. But the short answer is that I’m ready to play an acoustic guitar by myself. What you’ll hear at La Reina is extremely sparse and sad, but also corny and humorous. There have been several country musicians who have claimed to coin the phrase that ‘country music is just three chords and the truth,’ and that is really what I’ve been trying to get after the last couple years with my songwriting. In 2022, I released an album called Jukebox Chapel, and I went full minimalist. The next body of work—and I recorded this album in March of last year but decided I really wanted to take a different approach—is like a sister album to Jukebox Chapel.

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I think for some Santa Fe people, your name conjures images of a large band. What was it like scaling down into more intimate creative avenues? I think a lot of it has to do with age. When I was running Apple Miner Colony, I was in my early 20s, and I was a child shepherding a bunch of other children. But I had an enormous, fiery, youthful voice about the world, and my feelings in it and my place in it. So did all of my peers. Post-Apple Miner Colony, I played in a bunch of different bands in Austin, Texas, and eventually came back around to doubling down with Meow Wolf in 2013…and then that became my life, and that is also a pretty consistent state of maximalism. So in my private practice, it felt like a really natural progression for me to land in a place that was stridently minimal, sort of trying to get at the exact poetry of something with as few brush strokes as possible. Not long after Apple Miner Colony, I started writing country music out of the blue. I wasn’t expecting it, but…I started writing these indie cowboy songwriter pieces about losing the band, the college, being broke… The Meow Wolf artist community has experienced lots of loss, including the deaths of co-founder Matt King and artist Mikey Rae. Have these events inspired you in any way? One of the very first things I did after Matt King died was to reach for my guitar, and I wrote this song that is literally just three chords and the truth called ‘Love Does it All,’ and that actually is the title track of this album I’m working on that’s about all the beautiful things that love does for us. It enriches us, fills us up, lifts us up; gives us our highest highs. But it’s also about how love is so much broader and deeper than that. Love also destroys you. Love completely devastates you. And on the other side of all that devastation, you find these terrible gifts—this deepening of experiencing what it is to be alive. We’ve all heard folks older than us repeat these sort of universal truths that we take for granted, but before you actually experience things like true love and true loss, and ecstatic bliss and devastating grief, you don’t actually know. They’re just words. I’ve got this new song, and it’s probably the most raw of all the songs on the new album, called ‘King Cobra,’ and the chorus goes, ‘Everybody tries to tell you how it is/But they can’t until you understand/That’s just the bitch of it/You don’t know the truth til it’s got you by the wrist/Shaking you like a pitbull, kid.” The whole album is really a sort of hard sit-in with all of the grief of last year and the half-year before that. It’s not just about Matt, it’s not just about Mikey. It’s about anybody who has lost somebody.

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THE CALENDAR VIRTUAL VIVACE BOOK CLUB Online The Santa Fe Opera Guild holds online book club featuring the selection Maria Callas Remembered: An Intimate Portrait of the Private Callas by Nadia Stancioff via Zoom. Register at lp.constantcontactpages.com/ ev/reg/299q5e9. 6-7 pm

EVENTS SANTA FE GUITAR ENSEMBLE La Farge Library 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292 Do you play guitar and read music? If so, the Santa Fe Guitar Ensemble welcomes you to share your love of music with them every Tuesday! 10 am-Noon WAGS & WORDS Santa Fe Public Library 145 Washington Avenue Early school-aged children can practice their reading skills by sharing their stories with a well-behaved puppy from the Santa Fe Animal Shelter Pet Outreach Program. 6-7 pm

MUSIC DR HALL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 A singer/songwriter plays electric, acoustic and slide guitar during happy hour, inspired by early blues legends, country, Americana, folk and rock & roll artists. 4 pm THE LONE BELLOW TRIO Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234 The Lone Bellow casts a spell with finespun songs of hard truth and unexpected beauty, delivered in hypnotic threepart harmony with sounds encompassing arena-ready rock anthems to gorgeously sprawling Americana tunes. 7:30 pm, $25-$130

WORKSHOP HIGH DESERT DULCIMER GROUP La Farge Library 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292 The High Desert Dulcimer Group members meet once a week to play mountain dulcimer tunes recreationally and educationally, welcoming all who play or are interested in learning to play the mountain dulcimer. 3:30-5 pm YOGA & MEDITATION Santa Fe Public Library 145 Washington Ave., Come join in a yoga and meditation class at the Main Library. All skill levels welcome. Please bring your own yoga mat and props. 11:15 am-noon

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ONGOING ART OPENINGS 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. ANDRÉ RAMOS-WOODARD: BLACK SNAFU Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 470-2582 Ramos-Woodard depicts realities of his Black experience while exposing and subverting tropes of anti-Blackness embedded in American pop culture. ARON WIESENFELD: PAST LIVES Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St., (505) 995-9902 Tenderly painted portraits of children living a beautiful seaside life. Wiesenfeld’s compositions remind the viewer of fairy and folk tales, recalling stories of enchantment told at bedtime played out in modern settings. BEYOND THE INTERFACE Thoma Foundation Art Vault 540 S Guadalupe St., (505) 428-0681 A show where you’ll find pieces rapidly changing LEDs that represent the cosmos by light artist Leo Villareal; a reality-bending photo collage by Sohei Nishino; generative imagery, film and more. Pieces change as you view them, or practically or literally pull you into the art itself. BILLIE ZANGEWA: FIELD OF DREAMS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199 Zangewa creates intricate collages composed of handstitched fragments of raw silk. Her use of silk accompanied by vintage mirrors as the material speaks to the transformative nature of the work itself. CABINET OF CURIOSITIES Gerald Peters Gallery 1005 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700 A diverse group show with sculpture to tin-type prints and mixed media images that prompt the viewer to reflect on the small wonders of the world. DANNY LYON: PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS 1963-2023 Obscura Gallery 225 Delgado St., (505) 577-6708 A seminal documentary photographer’s 60-year career exploring people, places and land through photos and montages. DARRELL WILKS: DEATH IN A CORNFIELD 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700, (505) 257-8417 Check out colorful and hip collages by New York artist Wilks.

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GABE LEONARD: SHADOWS OF THE WEST-A CINEMATIC EXHIBITION Chuck Jones Studio Gallery 126 W Water St., (505) 983-5999 Delve into the inspirations behind Gabe Leonard's mesmerizing Western Film Noir artworks, gaining insights into the meticulous craftsmanship defining each of his masterpieces. GENERATIONS OF IMAGINATION: WHAT LIES BEHIND THE VISION OF CHIMAYO WEAVERS Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-2226 Curated by eighth generation Chimayo weaver Emily Trujillo, this exhibit explores the shifting tradition of Chimayo/Rio Grande weaving in New Mexico through four generations of the Trujillo family's work. rsvp@ spanishcolonial.org GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: MAKING A LIFE Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., (505) 946-1000 Art and objects from the Museum’s collections that exemplify O’Keeffe’s way of living and creating. GLASSEN WONDERS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250 LewAllen Galleries presents an exhibition of more than 60 world-class contemporary glass art pieces by 23 internationally recognized glass artists. A broad variety of techniques such as blown, cast, fused, carved and borosilicate glass. ILLUMINATION: THE SACRED ASPECT OF LIGHT ELECTR∆ Gallery 825 Early St., Ste. D, (505) 231-0354 Photography, painting and sculpture by New Mexico and California artists working directly with light as medium and subject. The nine artworks in the exhibition explore the power of light to protect, transcend, communicate, heal and inspire.

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MILTON'S BAR No Man's Land Gallery 4870 Agua Fria, (307) 399-5665 Four artists had 24 hours to gather materials and respond to a prompt: “The year 2050.” It’s 2050, the 25th anniversary of artist Milton Faver’s breakthrough. Tragically, Milton passed away last year at 82 years old. The artists present Milton’s bar, where he made art, friends and the occasional enemy. N. DASH: AND WATER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199 Find yourself somewhere between painting and sculpture, water and land with these ecologically driven paintings. Works in and Water exemplify Dash’s most significant practices: harnessing the interaction of earth and water to create topographical fields of desiccated mud, and arranging manufactured objects alongside organic materials. NOTICE OF DISQUIET CURRENTS 826 Gallery 826 Canyon Road, (505) 772-0953 Artist Ranran Fan constructs a typeface maker which produces two personal typefaces. The peculiar appearance of characters and words disarms and disrupts language’s capacity to deliver and enforce entrenched power structures. PATRICK MCGRATH MUÑIZ: RETABLOS Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St., (505) 995-9902 Muñiz pays homage to the tarot and its archetypal imagery in a selection of paintings based on the 22 major arcana cards of the tarot. SALT PILLARS form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256 The show features four series each with a central motif that serves as a surreal container for human experience. Televisions, motel rooms, light boxes and a makeshift photography studio become vessels for grief, anger, intimacy and growth.

SELFHOOD Strata Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave., Ste. 105, (505) 780-5403 A juried exhibition by Rosemary Meza-DesPlas. Selected artworks are centered upon the concept of selfhood; the works consider how selfhood is constructed, altered, and reimagined. THIS FRAGILE EARTH Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave., (505) 992-0800 Grandeur landscape photography alongside devastation caused by environmental neglect and the efftecs of a changing climate. TIA X CHATTER: THE B/W SHOW Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338 Curator Sarah Greenwood presents works in black and white from a collection of artists including Tony Abeyta, Rosemarie Castoro, Torkwase Dyson, Eric-Paul Riege, David Simpson, Tony Smith and Judy Tuwaletstiwa. WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE ME: YOUTH PUSH PIN EXHIBIT Poeh Cultural Center 78 Cities Of Gold Road, (505) 455-5041 A youth push-pin exhibit that showcases the creativity and perspective of young artists. You can even make your own art on-site at this unique event. WILLIAM FREJ: BLURRED BOUNDARIES Peyton Wright Gallery 237 E Palace Ave., (505) 989-9888 A photo exhibition for Photographer William Frej's new book, Blurred Boundaries: Perspectives on Rock Art of the Greater Southwest. WINTER SELECTIONS 2024 Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road, (505) 988-3888 This annual exhibit showcases a diverse collection of abstract and figurative winter-inspired works. The featured artworks embrace a hushed palette echoing the quiet allure of the season's hibernating landscapes.

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JEREMY DEPEREZ: GLYPHS Best Western 4328 Airport Road, (713) 530-7066 Through block printing and mixed-media works Deperez examines the relationship between art and debris found upon circumstance. JOSÉ SIERRA: CHOLLA GALÁCTICA Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700 Colorful twisted vessels resembling dramatic landscapes by ABQ-based artist Sierra. His work captures the memory, emotion and physicality of the natural world. MILKA LOLO AND FRAN DE ANDA: BESTIARY Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave., (505) 557-9574 Lolo showcases surreal and contemporary reinterpretations of Mexican folk characters and myths, and de Anda's self-made pigments add bold color to his Renaissance- and Baroqueinspired works.

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NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200 The Santos of New Mexico. Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. Miguel Trujillo and the Pursuit of Native Voting Rights. EnchantOrama! New Mexico Magazine Celebrates 100. 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am-7 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 What Lies Behind the Vision of Chimayo Weavers. 1 -4 pm, Wed-Fri, $10, children free NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5063 Selections from the 20th Century Collection. The Nature of Glass. To Make, Unmake, and Make Again. A necklace gifted from Grace Bowman of Santo Domingo Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists Pueblo (c. 1930-1940) is part of the exhibition Here, Now and of the Southwest. Always at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am-7 Anthropology. pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm every Fri May-Oct. POEH CULTURAL CENTER GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS 78 Cities of Gold Road, 217 Johnson St., AND CULTURE (505) 455-5041 (505) 946-1000 710 Camino Lejo, Di Wae Powa. Seeing Red: an Making a Life. Radical (505) 476-1269 Indigenous Film Exhibit. Youth Push Abstraction. Selections from the Down Home. Here, Now and Pin Exhibit. Collection. Rooted in Place. Always. Horizons: Weaving 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, $7-$10 10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20 Between the Lines with Diné (under 18 free) VLADEM CONTEMPORARY Textiles. IAIA MUSEUM OF 10 am-5 pm, $7-$12, NM residents 404 Montezuma Ave., (505) 476-5602 CONTEMPORARY free first Sun of the month Shadow and Light NATIVE ARTS MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am-7 108 Cathedral Place, FOLK ART pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free (505) 983-8900 706 Camino Lejo, 5-7 pm every Fri May-Oct. The Stories We Carry. The Art of (505) 476-1204 Jean LaMarr. 2023 WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF Between the Lines. Yokai: 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon THE AMERICAN INDIAN Ghosts & Demons of Japan. 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 704 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-4636 Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep Always in Relation. California MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART Them Warm: The Alaska Native Stars. From Converse to Native 18 County Road 55A, Parka. La Cartonería Mexicana Canvas. Native Artists Make (505) 424-6487 / The Mexican Art of Paper and Toys. ‘All Together. Making our Permanent collection. Global Paste. Protection: Adaptation Way. Every Day. Medicine.’ by Warming is REAL. and Resistance. 11 am-5 pm, Fri-Sun, $10 10 am-5 pm, $3-$12, NM residents Eliza Naranjo Morse. . 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $10, free (18 and under free) free first Sun of the month first Sunday of the month

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Resurrected We went as a three-top just before the dinner rush, and after a couple of well-mixed rum and Cokes ($11), we felt brave enough to peruse the large menu. Some items are familiar, like the Galisteo grilled cheese ($11.50), which Bob touted as, “probably the best grilled cheese you’ll ever have.” We ordered it, more on that in a sec. Other items were new, at least to us, such as the lemon chicken asado—a half roasted chicken served with sides of fries and Greek salad, plus a mushroom marsala sauce ($18). The specials were enticing across the board as well, and the final member of our party couldn’t resist the pork scallopini dish with fresh pasta, broccoli and pork medallions ($17). We started with coconut shrimp, a sextet of brilliantly fried little shrimpies that covered all the best texture bases: crispy, crunchy, tender—and flavorful, too. As amuses go, this one amused us big time, and by the time our entrees arrived, everyone was ravenous. That grilled cheese? Absolutely the best we’ve had anyplace. Served on black bread, it’s a triumph of different cheeses with a bright pesto explosion. The pork scallopini wowed in the pas-

San Francisco Street Bar & Grill is back, thank goodness

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

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any readers out there will know precisely whom I mean when I say my party received killer service from legendary Santa Fe server Bob—aka Ernie Bob— during a recent visit to the reopened San Francisco Street Bar & Grill. No one knows the man’s last name for sure; no one has ever seen him outside of a restaurant; I’m pretty sure he just emerged from the mist one day many years ago. Regardless, seeing his beaming face at the newly-resurrected Plaza restaurant the other night was auspicious—we knew whatever else happened, he would take good care of us. And so he did. But let’s backtrack just a little bit: Yes, friends, San Francisco Street Bar & Grill (50 E San Francisco St., (505)982-2644) has reopened after shuttering in March 2020 thanks to the stupid pandemic. Founder Rob Day (also of the former Santa Fe Bar & Grill at the De Vargas Center, which has since, of course, become Dr. Field Goods) had always been a stalwart purveyor of affordable food, so the deal was tragic; especially so after the upstairs eatery became another link in the Lone Spur Café chain, which also counts locations in Arizona and Colorado. Santa Fe diners never really warmed to that place, though, so it closed last year to little, if any, concern from the townsfolk. As of late-October, however, former multi-decade San Francisco Street Bar & Grill employees Victor Medina, Carlos Rivas and Sergio Sanchez have taken over and reopened the good ol’ San Francisco Street Bar & Grill, and it’s actually worth climbing all those stairs again.

ta department, though the pork itself was a little greasy and short on flavor. Oh, it was by no means bad, but perhaps a little bit of garlic would have done the trick. Even so, it was cooked well and that’s not nothing. The lemon chicken asado easily impressed us the most with its fall-off-the-bone tenderness and complex melange of flavors. The mushroom marsala added a rich flavor against the citrusy zest of the chicken. Not only that, but fries and salad in one dish? Phenomenal! I wound up sated with carbs but also felt like I deserved a little treat for finishing the medley of cucumbers, onions, lettuce and feta. We closed with desserts including the adobe mud pie—coffee ice cream with an Oreo crust and chocolate throughout ($8), the Mexican flan ($8) and a pair of housemade cannoli ($9). The cannoli looked the most beautiful, but the dough was a little too thick. Cannoli should be flaky; this was not that. The flan was tasty though, according to its taste tester: not too yolky, not too slimy. The adobe mud pie won the night, because Oreos mortared together are an awesome thing any way you slice it. Just think, too—the new San Francisco Street Bar & Grill has only been open for a couple months, and our first trip back was a pound-forpound winner. Here’s hoping the doors stay open for years and the food gets better and better. Here’s hoping Bob Siebert understands how much the town loves him.

Never underestimate the power of a well-made grilled cheese sandwich like the one at San Francisco Street Bar & Grill. It’s a simple pleasure, but then, isn’t that what makes up a life?

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People ask me all the time what’s up with the CHOMP food hall inside Luna, the adorable little center at 505 Cerrillos Road that also houses places like the New Mexico Hard Cider Taproom, Ohori’s, Radish & Rye and such. Full disclosure? I’ve talked as much shit as anybody about the place: When were they going to have more than a restaurant or two? Why did chef Randy Tapia’s Poki Tako have to leave when his citrus salmon bowl was so good? When can I get a really dope-ass pizza? Well, it turns out proprietor Ken Joseph understands all those concerns—but give the guy a break because he opened during freaking COVID-19. Besides, have you been by CHOMP lately? It’s now packed with all kinds of things, from the pan-Asian excellence of the steadfast and popular Nath’s Inspired Khmer Cuisine; to the growing and evolving cheese, charcuterie and sandwiches of Picnic NM; and newly-minted offerings from businesses including Santa Fe BBQ, Yapopup, Oshia’s Pizza and Wild Leaven Bakery. CHOMP is finally becoming what Joseph envisioned all along. “Obviously we struggled to get there in terms of consistency and atmosphere, but now it’s going really, really well,” he tells SFR. “I feel like we’re finally approaching the quality that has been the dream, and I just want to credit my wife Lisa Tomaro, who has completely transformed the place.” Hard agree. CHOMP has a pool table now and often feels bustling with life (not least of which thanks to the full bar). Food-wise, a recent 10-inch caprese pizza from Oshia’s, for example, was not only a delight of fresh mozzarella, vinaigrette glaze and perfectly ripened tomatoes, it was a scant $17 and fed two people with ease. Could my experience at Santa Fe BBQ have been better? Absolutely. After hoping that the business’ many years of experience in the truck would transfer to the food hall, I can say they’re not quite there yet, but I’ll give them another chance for sure once they’re a little more settled. Patrons basically bombard Nath anytime she’s open and I must give a shoutout to Lauren Stutzman at Picnic NM for being the hardest working woman in local cheese. CHOMP also hosts live music, holds wine workshops with the Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta Production Director Greg O’Byrne each month and is one of the few places downtown where it’s not always a nightmare to find parking. In summation, consider me fully onboard at this point. Give it another shot if you haven’t in a while. “We’re always thinking forward,” Joseph adds. “We just want to be known for good food and good atmosphere.”

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RATINGS

Night Swim Review

BEST MOVIE EVER

Ghost pool!

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

Horror buff and writer/director Bryce McGuire gets in the full-length feature game with Night Swim, another in a long line of movies where families move to some unassuming house only to find out it’s on the corner of Ghost Street and Creepy Lane. You know the type—like 2012’s Sinister with Ethan Hawke— the ones where the mom or the dad or the kids start to experience evil shit, only they hang around for too long because: have you looked at the real estate market lately? Wyatt Russell, from most excellent projects like Overlord and Lodge 49, plays the dad Ray Waller here, only he’s kind of too good for the role because Night Swim is so stupid. Waller, a former pro baseballer diagnosed with MS, buys a house with his family for its pool on doctor’s orders. The water therapy starts to work, too. As in, it starts to work a little too well, and even his kids (played by a couple of no-name goobers) and his wife (Kerry Condon of the also most excellent Banshees of Inisherin) are like, “It’s cool we bought this house!”

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By the time the 20th or so tragedy befalls the Von Erich family of wrestlers in The Iron Claw from director/writer Sean Durkin (The Nest), the law of diminishing returns kicks in and the whole thing starts to feel almost silly. Make no mistake—Durkin’s A24-produced film is based on the real events surrounding one of the families with the greatest dynasties in professional wrestling history, and all these events totally happened. It’s just that someplace between the melodramatic music flaring over yet another death and Zac Efron’s robotic performance as eldest son Kevin Von Erich, it becomes harder and harder to grasp at empathy or sympathy. Does that sound heartless? If it does, that’s only because the movie made me that way. To hear Durkin tell it, the Von Erichs, spurred by a self-fulfilling prophetic belief in a family curse, rarely experienced even the slightest shred of happiness or, if they did, it was only in segue to the next terrible thing. In short, it’s a film about fatherly and brotherly pressures wherein Efron leads a cast of forgettable actors through the motions of life. See, way back in the 1980s, the Von Erichs were huge in the wrestling world, but Durkin posits that hard-headed patriarch Fritz (Holt McCallany) doled out so much pressure on his four kids that depression and death were always soon to follow. Not even Jeremy Allen White (The Bear, 28

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Then they start seeing ghosts all up in that pool. Then dear old dad starts acting weird and doing embarrassing things like trying to drown some kid at a pool party or thinking he can get back into baseball at some point despite his illness. What’s behind this weird pool-based behavior change? No spoilers, but it’s actually kind of inventive, or at least a semi-fun twist on an old kid’s story. Even so, Russell and Condon feel wasted here—what with all of Night Swim’s shallow dialogue (pun intended) and not-soscary trappings. As always, jump scares might offer fleeting cheap thrills, but there’s being startled and there’s being scared. Night Swim doesn’t do either particularly well.

Shameless) can save this film from its own heavy-handedness, particularly since it all but confirms he’s got about one acting trick up his sleeve—barely restrained pissed-offedness. Against Efron’s caveman-style wig and barely-there turns from lesser-known actors like Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) and Stanley Simons (also in bad wigs), the bigger-name actors flail; Durkin’s stilted yet endless dialogue about winning and being the best doesn’t help, nor does his insistence on underusing Baby Driver’s Lily James as Kevin’s wife and the tragically under-appreciated Maura Tierney (News Radio) as the Von Erich’s God-fearing mama who really doesn’t want to get involved with any of it. The Iron Claw isn’t all bad, though. Foe cinematographer Mátyás Erdély shoots a beautiful film and the writing impresses in some smaller moments—the fallout from Jimmy Carter boycotting the Olympics, for example, which led Von Erich sibling Kerry (White) to lose out on his big discus dreams; or a clever explanation of pro wrestling that diffuses concerns over its scripted nature by explaining how rising in the ranks works similarly to performance-based promotions in any business. But events happen too quickly for an audience to properly digest them. If you’re processing one character’s death for mere moments before another faces his end, when do you have time to care? As it turns out, you never have the time. Maybe this one’s for the wrestling fans, but even those who love dramatic films might struggle to understand the point of it all. (ADV)

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Pity that, as horror has so regularly proven an inventive and accessible genre. Cheese works, too, if it’s intended or if a filmmaker winds up in an Evil Dead 1 situation wherein they earnestly tried and still ended up with camp. Some films, though, like Night Swim, don’t feel scary enough or silly enough to have much of an identity at all. If we remember this one even a month or two from now, that will be the truly shocking outcome.

WONKA

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- FATPHOBIA AND ADDICTION JOKES

Paddington director Paul King continues to draw from his own particular pastel Harry Potter-esque aesthetic in Wonka, a prequel of sorts to the 1971 Gene Wilder-led Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that embraces new songs, familiar coats and way more whimsy than seems humanly possible. King pulls from at least some of Roald Dahl’s original novel for kids, merges it with musical and material nods to the ’71 film and blends it together in a silly little story about how capitalism is OK if the people doing the capitalism are kinda cute and will give you candy. Here former video game controller mod aficionado Timothée Chalamet plays the titular young Willy Wonka, who has arrived in an unnamed city built from amalgamated European concepts after a seven-year, worldwide boat trip helped him discover all kinds of wacky things to put into candy—like yeti sweat and literal thunderstorms and bugs that, when incorporated into chocolate, make you fly briefly (you fart the bugs out later, he announces). All Wonka wants is to build a chocolate brand to impress his dead mom (Sally Hawkins, who gets about two minutes in the film). Oh, drag, though, because a triad of mafioso confectioners named Slugworth (Aeon Flux alum Paterson Joseph), Ficklegruber (Ghosts’ Matthew Baynton) and Prodnose (Little Britain’s Matt Lucas) fear Wonka’s innovations, and thus enlist the chief of police (Keegan-Michael Key) to bring him down; they pay him in chocolate. Because he’s illiterate for some reason, Wonka, meanwhile,

NIGHT SWIM Directed by McGuire With Russell and Condon Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 98 min.

unwittingly enters into indentured servitude under hoteliers/washhouse proprietors Mrs. Scrubbit and Mr. Bleacher (a reverse Madame/Monsieur Thénadier from Les Miz), whereupon he meets a cadre of folks in a similar predicament. Wonka is especially enamored with young Noodle (Calah Lane), an orphan who— spoiler—might have a deeper story than “is orphan.” They all help each other. Oh, also, Hugh Grant plays an Oompa-Loompa, and he majorly phones in his performance—though he’s been very public in the press about only taking the job for the money, so... Anyway, spoiler alert? Wonka and his pals win. Duh. But it’s a mild ride full of flamingos and balloons and chocolate serving as deus ex machina and Chalamet actually comes close to one of the more nuanced performances of his career if only it didn’t seem so forced and cutesy. King fumbles in numerous ways, not least of which being the casting of comedy genius Rowan Atkinson for roughly 10 lines. The songs, too, are forgettable and bland and it’s tough to see a genuine treasure like Key play a role so quickly reduced to jokes about addiction and fatphobia. Beyond that, it’s hard to shake the thought that, if this is indeed a prequel as Wonka’s hat and jacket would lead us to believe, homeboy’s gonna open a factory one day through which he’ll run a golden ticket contest so he can murder a bunch of kids. And yes, this movie is essentially for kids, but in a release window that includes Hayao Miyazaki’s most recent stunner, Wonka just feels like another reminder that the big-ass movie houses don’t have anything original to say just now. (ADV)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Why do birds sing? They must be expressing their joy at being alive, right? And in some cases, they are trying to impress and attract potential mates. Ornithologists tell us that birds are also staking out their turf by chirping their melodies. Flaunting their vigor is a sign to other birds of how strong and commanding they are. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you Aries humans to sing more than ever before in 2024. Like birds, you have a mandate to boost your joie de vivre and wield more authority. Here are 10 reasons why singing is good for your health: tinyurl.com/HealthySinging

though. Heracles had to clean the stables where over a thousand divine cattle lived. The place hadn’t been scrubbed in 30 years! As I meditated on your hero’s journey in the coming months, Libra, I concluded that you’d be wise to begin with a less grandiose version of Heracles’ work in the stables. Have fun as you cheerfully tidy up everything in your life! By doing so, you will earn the power to experience many deep and colorful adventures in the coming months. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I will name two taboos I think you should break in 2024. The first is the theory that you must hurt or suppress yourself to help others. The second is that you must hurt or suppress others to benefit yourself. Please scour away any delusion you might have that those two strategies could genuinely serve you. In their place, substitute these hypotheses: 1. Being good to yourself is the best way to prepare for helping others. 2. Being good to others is the best way to benefit yourself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Which zodiac sign is most likely to have a green thumb? Who would most astrologers regard as the best gardener? Who would I call on if I wanted advice on when to harvest peaches, how to love and care for roses as they grow, or how to discern which weeds might be helpful and useful? The answer, according to my survey, is Taurus. And I believe you Bulls will be even more fecund than usual around plants in 2024. Even further, I expect you to be extra SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Doubt has killed fertile and creative in every area of your life. I hereby dub more dreams than failure ever will,” says Sagittarian you Maestro of the Magic of Germination and Growth. author Suzy Kassem. Many of us have had the experience of avoiding a quest for success because we GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Research I’ve found are too afraid of being defeated or demoralized. “Loss suggests that 70 percent of us have experienced at aversion” is a well-known psychological concept that least one traumatic event in our lives. But I suspect the applies when we are so anxious about potential loss percentage is higher. For starters, everyone has that we don’t pursue the possible gain. In my experienced the dicey expulsion from the warm, astrological estimation, you Centaurs should be nurturing womb. That’s usually not a low-stress event. especially on guard against this inhibiting factor in The good news, Gemini, is that now and then there 2024. I am confident you can rise above it, but to do come phases when we have more power than usual to so, you must be alert for its temptation—and eager to heal from our traumas. According to my analysis of the summon new reserves of courage. astrological omens, the coming months will be one of CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2024, I predict you those curative times for you. will be blessed with elegant and educational expansion— CANCER (June 21-July 22): At their best, Libras foster but also challenged by the possibility of excessive, vibrant harmony that energizes social situations. At messy expansion. Soulful magnificence could vie for their best, Scorpios stimulate the talents and beauty of your attention with exorbitant extravagance. Even as those they engage with. Generous Leos and Sagittarians you are offered valuable novelties that enhance your inspire enthusiasm in others by expressing their innate sacred and practical quests, you may be tempted with radiance. Many of us may get contact highs from lesser inducements you don’t really need. For optimal visionary, deep-feeling Pisceans. In 2024, Cancerian, I results, Capricorn, I urge you to avoid getting distracted believe you can call on all these modes as you brighten and nurture the people in your sphere—even if you have by irrelevant goodies. Usher your fate away from pretty no Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Leo, or Pisces influences in baubles and towards felicitous beauty. your astrological chart.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are my wishes for you in 2024. 1. I hope you will rigorously study historical patterns in your life story. I hope you will gather robust insights into the rhythms and themes of your amazing journey. 2. You will see clearly what parts of your past are worth keeping and which are better outgrown and left behind. 3. You will come to a new appreciation of the heroic quest you have been on. You will feel excited about how much further your quest can go. 4. You will feel gratitude for the deep inner sources that have been guiding you all these years. 5. You will be pleased to realize how much you have grown and ripened.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some people feel that “wealth” refers primarily to financial resources. If you’re wealthy, it means you have a lot of money, luxurious possessions, and lavish opportunities to travel. But wealth can also be measured in other ways. Do you have an abundance of love in your life? Have you enjoyed many soulful adventures? Does your emotional intelligence provide rich support for your heady intelligence? I bring this up, Aquarius, because I believe 2024 will be a time when your wealth will increase. The question for you to ruminate on: How do you define wealth?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Here’s my response to that bold declaration: It’s utterly WRONG! No one in the history of the world has ever built anything solely by their own efforts, let alone a bridge to cross the river of life. Even if you are holed up in your studio working on a novel, painting, or invention, you are absolutely dependent on the efforts of many people to provide you with food, water, electricity, clothes, furniture, and all the other goodies that keep you functioning. It’s also unlikely that anyone could create anything of value without having received a whole lot of love and support from other humans. Sorry for the rant, Pisces. It’s a preface for my very positive prediction: In LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to ancient Greek 2024, you will have substantial help in building your myth, the half-divine hero Heracles consulted the bridge across the river of life. Oracle of Delphi for guidance. He was assigned to perform 12 daunting feats, most of which modern Homework: I invite you to redefine what it would look people would regard as unethical, like killing and and feel like to be your best self. Newsletter. stealing. There was one labor that encouraged integrity, FreeWillAstrology.com VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo author Eduardo Galeano mourned how our institutions condition us to divorce our minds from our hearts and our bodies from our souls. Even sadder, many of us deal with these daunting schisms by becoming numb to them. The good news, Virgo, is that I expect 2024 to be one of the best times ever for you to foster reconciliation between the split-off parts of yourself. Let’s call this the Year of Unification. May you be inspired to create both subtle and spectacular fusions of your fragmented parts. Visualize your thoughts and feelings weaving together in elegant harmony. Imagine your material and spiritual needs finding common sources of nourishment.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Case No. D-101-PB-2023-00339 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID A. CREMERS, deceased. NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF DAVID A. CREMERS, DECEASED, AND ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO HAVE OR CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF DAVID A. CREMERS, DECEASED, OR IN THE MATTER BEING LITIGATED IN THE HEREINAFTER MENTIONED HEARING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following: 1. DAVID A. CREMERS, Deceased, died on June 29, 2023; 2. TERESA CREMERS filed a Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirship, and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative in the above-styled and numbered matter on December 21, 2023, and a hearing on the above-referenced Petition has been set for February 1, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. at the Judge Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, First Judicial District Court (3rd Floor), 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, before The Honorable J. Francis Mathew. 3. Pursuant to Section 45-1-401 (A) (3), N.M.S.A.,

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